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THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL. 7. NO. 2

FEBRUARY 1990

1965

This Registrar recruits them young.
Pentti Paularinne looks amazingly at home with the five Neilson quintuplets. With universities struggling with enrolment
and funding issues, it was comforting to know that by the time Regan, Spencer, Nicole, Mitchell and Lucas get to
university, their Silver Jubilee Entrance Scholarships will be a welcome relief for their parents Karen and Tom.

�Report
From the
President
Dr. Bob Rosehart

Commonwealth Games Gold
Congratulations go to Mary De Piero
for her gold medal in diving at the Commonwealth Games. Mary is a Year 1,
B.A. Geography student at Lakehead
University and is a member of the
Thunder Bay Diving Club.
.-----==----:-:,
White Pine
Award
Doug Maki of
Year 4, H.B.Sc.
Forestry program has been
selected this
year's winner of
the prestigious
White Pine
Award.

Engineering Logo
Putting all the debate aside, the
current E.S.S. logo debate has, hopefully, run its course. The logo is unacceptable by today's societal values, rules
and legislation.
The committee process established
by L.U.S.U. needs to be given every
opportunity to deal with this matter,
and I trust that the Engineering Students' Society, through their consultative process, realize that they need to be
assuming a leadership role in this area.
I will be closely monitoring these
activities for signs of progress.
L.UJConfederation College Fitness
Experiment
The "fitness" experiment is underway, and all full-time faculty and staff
should have received an Athletic
Facility Pass in the mail. I encourage
your participation and look forward to
enhanced co-operation between the two
institutions.
B.C. Visitors
The Honourable Bruce Strachan,
British Columbia Minister of Advanced
Education, Training and Technology
and Minister Responsible for Universities, visited Lakehead University on
Wednesday, January 31 with two of his
senior officials.

With all the serious academic business that goes on at a university,
it was great fun to see five darling babies, their parents, assistants,
car seats and snowsuits take over the President's office. Some of the
babies ended up on the unlikely shoulders of John Russell, Greg
Beckford and Chancellor Weiler (who told the parents it took him
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As you may know, British Columbia
has announced an intention to establish
a fourth provincial university in the
north (most likely Prince George).
Minister Strachan is paying his second
visit to Lakehead University in order to
gain insight into the opportunities
that exist for a university to develop in a
northern environment.

Quintuplets Visit Lakehead
University
As part of our Silver Jubilee activities, the board of Governors has granted
entrance scholarships for the Neilson
quintuplets. A brief ceremony with the
five potential BIU's was held in the
President's office on February 1, 1990.

and his wife 7 years to have 5). The 9-month olds also wore their
caps with great distinction, ate their certificates, cried when the registrar tried to enroll them all in forestry and basically made it a
very special day for Lakehead University.

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February 1990

�Around Campus
SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERY
Professor Scott Hamilton, Department of Anthropology, was recently
awarded two Ontario Heritage Foundation research grants. The first one involves dating radiocarbon prehistoric
human remains from the Wapekeka
Indian Reserve. His research will
determine the age of human burials
encountered on the reserve during the
construction of an airstrip. Two human
skeletons were first discovered in 1988
directly adjacent to the airstrip during
the process of clearing the runoff edges.
While they were trying to stabilize the
area, three more were uncovered. The
reserve is 15 kilometres east of Big
Trout Lake. The recoveries are of great
scientific interest since they represent
the first archaeological data from that
region of Northwestern Ontario.
Professor Hamilton says, "the band is to
be commended for recognizing the significance of the find and allowing
Lakehead University to investigate it
further on their behalf".
The second grant is for a pilot field
study on the Black Sturgeon River system.
It involves follow-up on the work of the
Smacks, amateur archeologists from
Minnesota, who have devoted more than
20 years collecting artifacts in the Black
Sturgeon system. According to Professor
Hamilton some artifacts imply non-local
influences. Some of the stone artifacts are
made from raw materials which originate
as far away as Wyoming, North Dakota
and Southern Wisconsin. "Some of the
ceramics stylistically look Iroquoian from
southern Ontario. They are definitely not
what we would expect in this region and
we want to know whyys Hamilton. "I
suspect the Black Sturgeon is far more
important transportation link than previous! y believed".
LUFA PENSION COMMITTEE
Members of the new LUFA Pension
Committee are: Agha Akram, Robert
Archibald, John Griffith, William
Melnyk, Rao Puttagunta and Jim
Stafford.
UNIVERSITY BOARD CHAIRMEN
DEPLORE FUNDING LEVELS
Ontario university board chairmen
expressed their deep and growing
concern with the level of university
funding in Ontario when they met with
the Hon. Sean Conway, Minister of
Colleges and Universities. The chair-

men were most upset with what they
see as the inconsistencies between the
government's priorities for research, development and world-class industrial
competitiveness and its financial
policies on higher education.The
chairmen used as an example the
government's announcement in November of an 8% increase in operating
grants for 1990-91 and the harsh reality
that the increase is less than 2%, when
the costs of recent enrolment growth
and of other government initiatives,
such as the employer health tax, are
met.
Prior to the next provincial budget,
members of the Council of Chairmen of
Ontario Universities will work vigorously within their own boards to
demonstrate: the government's failure
to deliver on what the chairmen felt
were earlier commitments; the misstatement of real funding increases; the
damage being done to the province by
the current funding practices
JAPANESE STUDENTS
The Department of Continuing
Education and Department of Languages conducted a very successful
English Immersion Program last
summer for thirty Japanese students
from Gifu College of Education, Japan.
The program ran from July 31 to August
31 and consisted of morning classes,
afternoon field trips and weekend
"homestays" with Thunder Bay families. A number of Lakehead University
faculty and staff participated in the
homestay program by hosting two
students for one or more weekends. The
"homestays" were rated by the Japanese
students as "the best part of their stay in
Thunder Bay".
Because of the program's effectiveness Gifu College will be sending
another thirty students to Lakehead
University this summer. The students
will be on campus from July 25 to
August 25, 1990. The Department of
Continuing Education has commenced
planning for their arrival. Once again,
the hospitality of Lakehead University
faculty and staff is required. Anyone
interested in hosting two Japanese
students for one or more weekends in
August is asked to contact Jane Livingston, Department of Continuing Education at 8068.
FORESTRY SYMPOSIUM
Recently a symposium entitled "Resource Rich/Development Poor" was
held at Lakehead University. Organized by the forestry students, the

weekend lecture series addressed
current forestry issues. The theme of
discussions reflected the concern of
foresters that secondary forest products
industries are not being developed to
full potential in Canada. Lectures also
addressed the issues of recycling in the
pulp and paper industry and pollution
in the forest products industries - two
issues vitally important to Northwestern Ontario.
Doug Maki, a fourth year forestry
student and the student chairman of the
symposium committee, says that the
issues of recycling paper and pollution
created by the pulp and paper industry
were well-addressed during the weekend symposium. The key theme of the
symposium was to find out why secondary forest products industries are not
being developed as they should in Canada. "What we were trying to get at
was the importance of "value-added" in
forestry products industries. Pulp is a
commodity subject to market demands
but if you produce a speciality product
the demand increases dramatically".
There was an excellent tum-out for the
symposium and lectures were successful in bringing forestry issues into the
public view.
NATIVE LANGUAGE TRAINING
Native education instructors from
Minneapolis, Duluth and Grand Marais
met with native education representatives from Lakehead University and
Northwestern Ontario at Lakehead
University on January 17, 18, and 19.
The Minnesotans' key purpose was to
get an indepth look at the university's
Native Language Programs. There are
approximately 700 native children in
Minneapolis public schools and during
the past several years major funding has
been allocated for research and curriculum development in Ojibwe as a second
language. In December, legislation was
approved in Minneapolis that sets out a
program to teach all children in the
city's school system Ojibwe. The educators behind this are trying to develop a
solid curriculum to introduce into the
schools by September 1, 1990.
The unique program in Minneapolis
parallels similiar native language
programs on reserves in Northwestern
Ontario such as the one at Pie Mobert.
Lakehead University's Native Language
Programs, held in the summer, in part
train native educators to develop
effective native language teaching curricula. The purpose of these programs is
to enhance the study of culture and
language for all native children. The

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February 1990

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�New Faces
Quebec lifts freeze on tuition fees

Anne Fiorenza
Anne Fiorenza has been appointed
Research Officer in the Department
of Research and Graduate Studies.
The 1989 graduate of the Business
Administration program, is no
stranger to the university having
worked as the marketing researcher
for Innovation North for a year and
a half. Anne was born in the
Bahamas but has lived in Thunder
Bay most of her life. "I still yearn
for the sun and palm trees though".
Her academic interests include
econoics and entrepreneurship. "I
do plan to return to school for my MBA eventually. I' intrigued about the entrepenurial process - researchers go
through experiences similiar to entrepeneurs. Finding funds
for research is like findings funds to start a business. I might
even do research on that topic".

Norma Jean Newbold
Norma Jean Newbold is a new
clerk in the Registrar's Office.
Known to her fellow co-workers as
the ''lady in black", Norma Jean
worked at York University for a
number of years in various departments on the campus. Norma
Jean's interests include picture
framing and curling and although
she was reluctant to admit it, island
hopping through the Caribbean
(she has been to seven!).
Norma Jean is also beginning a
course in Ojibway. "So far I can say ..___ _ _ _ _ _ ____,
"Hi! How are you? Where do you live?" Good luck with
your lessons Norma Jean.

Debbie Poulin
Debbie came to the university
through a unique program sponsored by the provincial government and is working in the
Registrar's Office. As Debbie says,
''It's a program that helps people
re-enter the workforce by training
them in the classroom and on the
pl&gt;". The re-entry program
through Employment and Immi~tion includes five months of in~ss training and eight weeks of
OZ1--the-job training. Debbie says
~t working at the university has
qefinitely filled a void. " Five years ago, I would never think
of-myself working. Now I could never think of anything
else".

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For the first time in more than 20 years, the Government
of Quebec has decided to raise tuition fees. Frozen at 1969
levels, an average of $540 a year, tuition fees will rise beginning in September 1990, by an average of $350 a year in each
of two academic years, 1990-1991 and 1991-1992. Even with
the increase just announced, Quebec will still have the lowest
tuition fees in Canada.

Funding Announced for Ontario Universities
Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities Sean
Conway has announced that his government will increase
operating grants to Ontario's postsecondary educational
institutions by eight percent. The province will allocate $1.8
billion in operating grants to university-level institutions.
Tuition fees will also rise by eight percent. According to the
Minister, the increase should enable universities to properly
respond to expected increases in enrolment, promote access
for the disabled and increase the number of French-language
and bilingual programs. However, in a press release issued
shortly after Mr. Conway's announcement, the Ontario
Council of Universities stated that the province's universities
need an 11.7 percent increase just to maintain services at
current levels.

Appointment
Dr. Geraldine Kenney-Wallace, current chairman of the
Science Council of Canada, will become president of McMaster University on 1 July 1990. Dr. Kenney-Wallace is the first
woman to be appointed president of an Ontario University.

Cold climates: a hot topic for universitiesThe Science Council of Canada has called on governments
in universities and industry to begin Harnessing Science and
Technology for Cold Regions, in a recent statement. By
making recommendations designed to help Canada become
an international leader, in the field, the council add that
Canada should take up the challenge and special responsibility provided by its geography. Canadians can use their
science and technology to serve global interests," the council
says. Some of the council's major recommendations would
have an immediate impact on the university research community. The council recommends, for example, that the
National Committee of Deans of Engineering and Applied
Science review existing courses and programs to strengthen
their northern content. It also recommends that the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council, in partnership
with industrial or government sponsors, establish five professorial chairs in cold climate engineering.
For information: Science Council of Canada, 100 Metcalfe
Street, Ottawa, Ontario KlP 5Ml. Tel.: (613) 992.1142.

A G O R A - - - - - - - - - - - - - February 1990

�Celebration 1990 Update:
Alumni Reunion Weekend
June 28 - July 1, 1990

Volunteers Needed
The Alumni Association will need
volunteers to help out during Celebration 1990, Alumni Reunion Weekend,
June 28 - July 1, 1990.
If you are interested in working on any
of the committees listed below, please
contact Alumni House at 343-8155.
Registration

Co-chairs: Jeff Crocco and Bruce Sauder
Hospitality

Chair: Bob Thompson
Communications

Chair: Carmela Foresta
Gala Evening

Co-chairs: Allan and Linda Bauld
Golf Tournament

Chair: Eric Wilson
President's Luncheon/Farewell Brunch

Chair: Anita Muncaster
Don Sutton,
Treasurer
of the Alumni
Association and
Co-Chair of the Reunion
Planning Committee

Dwight Gessie,
2nd Vice President
of the Alumni
Association and
Co-Chair of the Reunion
Planning Committee

For more than a year, alumni volunCupples will be the keynote speaker at
teers have been working behind the
the Gala Dinner/Dance at the Valhalla
scenes to organize the culminating event Inn on Saturday night. The 1967 graduof Silver Jubilee festivities - Celebration
ate has been all over the world with the
1990, the Alumni Reunion Weekend
Department of External Affairs, and is
planned for this summer. It's a great op- now based in Ottawa in charge of Latin
portunity to invite friends for the weekAmerican and Caribbean affairs.
end, to play golf, to share memories, and
Other special events include a Golf
to see the changes going on at L.U.
Tournament on Friday (can anyone beat
According to Dwight Gessie close to
Claude Liman?), a President's Lunch400 responses have been received.
eon, Campus Tours and Open Houses
"We're had responses from most
on Saturday, and an Ecumenical Service
provinces in Canada, a few from the US
and "send-off" Brunch on Sunday
and even one from France! Basically, the morning.
response has been really good. Alumni
Don stressed the need for Alumni to
want to come and see old friends. The
register early to help the Reunion
university has been very supportive and Planning Committee to get a handle on
individuals have already come forward
numbers and facilities required. Applito help with registration and tours." He cations forms were published in the
hastily added, "but we need more".
winter issue of the Nor'Wester MagaDon Sutton highlighted events that
zine and are available from the Informaare already planned. The Opening
tion Office and the Alumni House. Call
Ceremonies and B.B.Q. on Friday night
Frances Harding at 343-8193 for further
will include performances by Tom Kelly, information.
Ian Tamblyn, and the Ramblers. Colleen

Ecumenical Service

Chair: Brother Glenn Doughty
Opening Ceremonies/B.B.Q.

Chair: Pat O'Brien
Homecoming Reception/Open Houses

Chair: Sheralee Beebe

Celebrate!

l.akehc-Jd t.:nivcrsity"s 2;th Annh·crsary
Alumni Reunion Weekend June 28 •July 1, 1990

Be an Early Bird ...
Register today for Celebration 1990
Faculty, Staff and Alumni are all invited to attend.
February 1990

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�HARASSMENT
IT IS OFFENSIVE!
IT IS UNACCEPTABLE!

Survey says ...
In 1986, the Board of Governors adopted a Personal Harassment Policy Statement which prohibited harassment based on the grounds covered in the Ontario
Human Rights Code (which includes sexual harassment). A survey, funded by •
the Secretary of State, was conducted last spring by the Status of Women Com- ·-,
mittee. The survey was intended to determine the extent of sexual harassment
on campus, how people deal with it and if they have confidence in the policy and
procedures,. A positive side effect would be to raise the awareness level of staff,
faculty and students and to encourage them to take a stand on the issue. The
survey used was designed by the University of Manitoba and the Committee
gratefully acknowledge permission to use the survey without a copyright fee.

'

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women consider sexist comments to be
a form of sexual harassment.
Valid responses to the question
asking the authority level of the harasser indicate that 48% of the offenders
have "greater'' authority than the
victims, 35% have "similar'' and 12%
have "lesser'' authority. 25% of the offenders at Lakehead University are between the ages of 31 and 50. 11 % are
under 21 years of age. 49% of the offenders identified in the survey are
male and 25% are female (valid responses).
Comments from the respondents
helped identify the reticence to report
incidents of harassment. "Asked "If
someone were to complain about sexual
harassment, what would happen", the
biggest majority of people answering
this question indicated that they believed "the complainant would suffer in
some way". The next most popular
response was the, "Complainant would
be embarrassed/humiliated". Many of
the female respondents indicate that reports of sexual harassment incidents
"would be ignored".
In response to the question, "What
would encourage more people to report
sexual harassment?" the largest percentage of people indicated "Won't be
tolerated". This indicates that there is
work to be done before people will
believe that their complaint will be
taken seriously. The University has
commited itself to education and awareness initiatives in order to get the
message across that harassment will not
be tolerated.

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I

I

THE SURVEY
Of the 3610 surveys which were
randomly distributed, there was a 32%
response rate (1147 were returned). The
respondents were 27% faculty, 32%
students. 23% staff and 18% unknown.
13% of the respondents reported that
they had been sexually harassed on
campus (134 people). The majority did
not officially report the incident to
anyone who might address the issue in
an official capacity. Of the 134 victims,
only 10% indicated that if harassed
again they would report the incident.
Eighty-seven percent of the victims
were female and 13% were male.
Another 27% of the respondents (287
people) knew of someone who had been
sexually harassed (71 % were women)
on campus and 75% of these victims
had never reported the incident.
The perception of what constitutes
harassment varied between men and
women. Only 28% of the male respondents considered sexist comments from
a person of "greater'' authority, sexual
harassment. This compares to 48% of
the females who felt that this type of behaviour did constitute harassment. The
wide gap between male and female perceptions of harassment narrows markedly with the increased blatancy of the
behaviour.
The survey determined what types
of behaviour would most likely be
reported. Far more women than men
would report "verbalsexual advances",
"explicit sexual propositions" and
"sexual bribery''. Only 6% of both male
and female respondents would report
"sexist comments", even though 48% of

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•

ARE YOU?

for confidential help call:
Myrna Holman
Human Resourcu Officer
)4.).8556

Conclusions
According to Myrna Holman, The
Personal Harassment Contact Person,
the survey results reveal that at
Lakehead University, like any other
workplace, people may be subject to
sexual harassment. In the past, the issue
was largely a silent one because the
majority of people did not officially
report it. Many believed that they
would expect to be embarrassed or humiliated as a result of reporting. During
the last year the number of reported
complaints has drastically increased, indicating faith in the new reporting
structure. The educational program on
campus has increased awareness of of
the policy, reporting structure and an
administrative commitment to address
issues sof harassment.Educational efforts have been stepped up. Presentations to student, faculty and senate
committees have been undertaken. New
posters and brochures are being designed. Ms. Holman reports that a
centralized approach to complaint resolution and education has increased the
effectiveness of the policy. Anyone
wishing to discuss a concern about
harassment should contact Myrna
Holman at extension 8356. She is also
available to do presentations and workshops for any interested groups.

AGORA-------------

February 1990

�''ROADIES'' with a Message
Perhaps Willie Nelson's song,"On
the road again" should be proclaimed
the theme song of the Secondary School
Liaison Officers. H you're wandering
through the halls near the Liaison Office
you might have heard that tune from
the "L" Team - Lakehead University's
"roadies with a message". The team
consists of Andrea Duckert, Sarena
Knapik and Donna Piovesana: three
energetic individuals with "packsacks
on their backs" and strong arms to carry
the load of publications they must tote
to high schools across Canada. Liaison
officers are the flesh and blood of the
University and often the only contact
with the university that high school
students have before making their
choice about which university to attend.
LU' s new officers have varied backgrounds. Donna Piovesana is a
1989Lakehead graduate with an
honours degree in English. She worked
summers at Ontario Place honing her
public relations skills. Donna's job
focuses on travel co-ordination for the
team. "I enjoy travelling, meeting
different people. It's a fast paced - an
adventure". Travel is a large part of the
job and includes reaching students at
high schools colleges and through career
fairs. The team has travelled as far east
as New Brunswick and as far west as
Alberta. According to Donna, ''Western
recruits in Bermuda. We're working on
that one", she laughs. All three liaison
officers enjoy the camraderie of life with
the "travelling road show", also known
as the University Information Program.
Each year 10 weeks are blocked out and
university UIP teams visit high schools

Athletes of the Month
were congratulated by
Presentor Jack Moro
of J.B. Evans Ltd.
February 1990

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The Willie Nelson Trio gets ready for the road. Left to right, Andrea Duckert, Donna
Piovesana and Sarena Knapik. They are on the road more than 4 months of the year.

across Ontario. They travel in a pack
from school to school, city to city.
Donna fondly remembers an incident a
few months ago when a convoy of cars
carrying members of UPI was travelling
on the highway. ''The leader of the pack
realized she was heading in the wrong
direction and did a ''U" turn. Seven
cars followed!"
Andrea Duckert is a graduate (and
survivor) of the Graduate Business Diploma Program. Originally from
Kenora, Andrea worked as supervisor of
the Canada Employment Centre for
Students. She finds the liaison officer
position "very rewarding". She marvels
at the questions students ask: ''Where
are you? Isn't it really cold there? Do
you guys have a pub?" Andrea enjoys

Athlete of the Month for
Women's Volleyball
isRobyn Plett. Jack Moro
of J.B. Evans Ltd. Plett's
season has been very
successful so far, scoring
299 kills to this point.
This breaks her old
personal record of 280
that she hit last season.

Men's Basketball Athlete
of the Month is Ray
Foster. Foster, in his
second season at Lakehead,
has shown steady improvement this season. He
average 13 points and
eight boards a game
during January and
reached a career high of 25
points against Western.

talking with students and believes that
the one-to-one contact is the most important aspect of presenting the university to the students.
Sarena Knapik is also an alumna of
Lakehead University with a degree in
geography. Sarena comes to Lakehead
from Hogarth-Westmount hospital
where she was the Community Relations Director. Most of her work experience has been community service
oriented. Sarena focuses on publications as well as meeting with students
for academic counselling. She believes
that the liaison officers are a solid team.
''We all pull together in a crunch and
try to help each other."

Sharon Knowles, Athlete
of the Month for Women's
Basketball leads the LU
team in scoring, rebounds
and assists and is
currently ranked seventh
in scoring nationally.
According to Stu Julius,
Lady Nor'Wester coach,
Knowles deserves AllCanadian honours.

Wrestling Athlete of the
Month, Steve Roslinsky,
had an impressive showing this month. He had a
big win over fourth
ranked Frank Wurr of
Manitoba and that could
put him in medal
contention at the college
nationals.

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�Papers/Publications
&amp; Special Projects
Dr. I. Nirdosh, Professor

D "' ---- of Chemical Engineering
. _ O has published the following
c
• refereed journal papers:
-~~~ "Ferric chloride leaching of
Saskatchewan uranium
ores" Chemical Engineering
Research and Design, Vol.
•e~iir' 67, 1989 (co-authors Dr. S.
1
V. Muthuswami and Mr_
Chundang A. K. Achong);
=S;].:,i;p "Simultaneous leaching of
uranium, 230Th and 226Ra
from Saskatchewan ores by
nitric and hydrochloric
acids" Minerals and
Metallurgical Processing,
Vol. 6 (4), 1989. (coauthors Dr. S. V.
Muthuswami and Mr. M. Selamat);
"Adsorption-desorption studies on the
radium-hydrated metal oxide systems"
Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 24, 1989 (coauthors Mr. w_ R Tremblay and Mr. C.R.
Johnson); "Coextraction of uranium,
thorium and radium with ferric nitratenitric acid solutions" Metall, Vol. 43 (5),
1989. (co-authors Dr. S. V. Muthuswami
and Mr. N. S. Man).
Dr. Alan Bowd, School of Education
had his paper entitled "A decade of
debate on animal research in psychology: Room for consensus" published in
Canadian Psychology, 1990, 31, 74-82.
Dr. H. T. Saliba, Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
has had the following papers in the field
of plate vibration reviewed and accepted for publication: ''Transverse free
vibration of simply supported right
triangular thin plates: a highly accurate
simplified solution", which is provisionally scheduled for Volume 138,
Number 3, Journal of Sound and
Vibration, 8 May 1990; "A modified
Levy type solution for the free vibration
analysis of simply supported isosceles
triangular plates", which will be presented in the 10th Symposium on
Engineering Applications of Mechanics
which will take place at Queen's
University in May of 1990. The paper is
to be published in the conference
proceedings.
Dr. B. Kronberg, Geology attended
the International Meeting of the Society
of Environmental Toxicology &amp; Chemistry and presented a paper entitled
"Moose as Indicators of Cadmium BioAvailibility in NW Ontario".
Dr. Yves H. Prevost, Forestry
Department, presented the following:
"Are black spruce cone and seed insects

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threatening forest regeneration?"
Forestry Marketplace presentation Nov.
23, 1989, Toronto; "Dealing with organisms feeding on cones and seeds in
spruce seed orchards?" Forestry
Marketplace poster Nov. 21-23, 1989,
Toronto; "How pests affect crown
architecture of black spruce which may
decrease the viable seeds per cone."
Northern Pest Review presentation
Nov. 4, Thunder Bay.

INTO THE NEW CENTURY: Thunder
Bay 1900-1914, recently published by the

Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society,
has a definite Lakehead University flavour to it. The project was co-ordinated
by the chairman of the Society's Publications Committee, David Kemp, of the
Department of Geography. Members of
the committee included Bruce Muirhead
of the Department of History and Tory
Dr. Thomas M. =-.,,...-==----==--= Tronrud, Curator at the Museum and
currently sessional lecturer in the DepartK Song, Professor
ment of History. Elinor Barr, noted local
of the School of
author, and lain Hastie, formerly cartogPhysical Education
and Athletics, Corapher in the Department of Geography,
ordinator of
both graduates of L.U. also served on the
Human Performcommittee. Partial funding for the publiance Laboratory,
cation was provided in a grant from the
was made a
~ University's ''Vast and Magnificent Land'
research Fellow of
research fund.The book consists of a sethe American
ries of photo-essays which show what
College of Sports
Medicine (FACSM) on December, 1989. conditions were like at the head of Lake
Superior in the first decade of the 20th
The Fellow was made in recognition of
century, a time of great growth and change
professional achievement, a high level
of competence and ethical conduct with in the region. They can provide no more
acceptable knowledge of principles and than a glimpse into the past, but a glimpse
practices in the related discipline on
which the Thunder Bay Historical Musports medicine.
seum hopes will educate, inform and
entertain, and encourage the reader to
find out more about the history of the
Dr.John
region. Cost: $9.95, available at the
Jamieson, DepartLakehead University Bookstore or from
ment of Psychology
the Thunder Bay Museum.
was selected as
CALL FOR PAPERS
recipient of the 1990
on the theme
SOSIP (Section on
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND
Students in PsyNORTHERN RESEARCH
chology) Stein
for the
award. Each year
FIRST
ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
OF THE
the Stein Award is
LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE
presented to an
STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Ontario psycholoMarch 17, 1990
gist who makes an outstanding contriLakehead University
bution to the advancement and concerns
of graduate psychology students in this The Graduate Student Association has chosen the theme of Regional Development and
province. The recipient is both nomiNorthern Research for the first graduate
nated and selected by students.
In particular, Dr. Jamieson's work as conference. We are hoping that graduate
students who are involved in course or thean enthusiastic research supervisor
sis-related research that pertains to regional
(both of his students, others and
development and northern research will
Lakehead graduates at other universisubmit an abstract. The following topics
ties), his initiation of a study group to
giveanideaoftherangeofresearchinterests
prepare students to write graduate
that can be included in the conference:
record exams, his assistance in informReforestation, Resource Sustainability,
ing students about various graduate
Health Delivery, Environmental Assessschools, and his social and emotional
ments, Pulp and Paper Research, Distance
support of students were cited as
Education, Human Service Needs
reflective of his contribution.
University Role in Regional Development,
Autonomy
in Regional Development,
Dr. James T. Angus was recently
Impact of Free Trade
appointed as a Community Board
Member of the National Parole Board in Contact Kris DeLorey in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Phone 343the Ontario Region for a period of two
8785. Submitanabstractof300wordsorless
years effective immediately.
by February 13, 1990.

Appointments

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�chemicals on estuarine marine environments, terrestrial
species, and ecosystems, including the Arctic; effects of pulp
mill effluents and pesticides; comparative toxicology examining the effects of toxic chemicals on a wide range of organisms; and inter-university studies. Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Research News
FROM THE OFFICE OF
GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH

Research Officer: Anne Fiorenza
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
For further information on any of these Research Programs,
please contact Anne Fiorenza, Research Officer, at ext. 8223.
NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH
COUNCIL
University-Industry Cooperative R&amp;D Programs
NSERC's University-Industry Programs are designed to
encourage industry to take advantage of the special knowledge and expertise resident in Canadian universities for the
benefit of the Canadian economy. The broad mandate of the
program enables support for a variety of research initiatives.
Proposals for cooperative R&amp;D activities under the University-Industry program generally fall into one of three categories, Collaborative Research and Development (CRD), Industrially Oriented Research (IOR), or Shared Equipment and
Facilities (SEF). NSERC will equally match Industry investments in research and development conducted at a university.
Proposals can be submitted at any time. If you have an
innovative research project, which would be of interest to the
industrial community, the Office of Research can be of
assistance in putting you in contact with potential industrial
partners.
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA
Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)
Innovation North has information available on the National
Research Council's "Industrial Research Assistance Program"
(IRAP). The IRAP-H program is of particular interest to small
and medium size firms employing science or engineering
students. On short term projects for product or process
development, assistance of 60% of salary is available for 18
weeks. Support for project counsellors is also available.
Interested faculty or students should contact Doug Stone, CB
4106 (ext. 8124) for further information.
WORLD wnDLIFE FUND
The World Wildlife Fund is currently administering two grant
programs in cooperation with Environment Canada.
The Endangered Species Recovery Fund is designed to
sponsor high-priority conservation projects to assist the
recovery of endangered wildlife and their natural habitats in
Canada. Wildlife is considered by the program to be any nondomestic, plant or animal native to Canada. They are particularly encouraging proposals to conserve the fish and plants on
the Endangered Species list (available at the Office of Research). The program supports proposals to a maximum of
two-thirds of the cost of the project; the initial one-third of the
project may be sponsored by any source, private or public.
Deadline for submitting proposals: April 1, July 1, October
1, and January 1.

The Wildlife Toxicology Fund supports high-calibre
research on the effects of toxic chemicals on Canadian
wildlife. This fund is particularly interested in receiving applications for research in the following areas: effects of toxic
February 1990

SOUTH ASIA ONTARIO
Research Grants
South Asia Ontario is a consortium of scholars in the area of
South Asian Studies teaching in Ontario Universities. The
programme's research mandate concerns Canada-South Asia
Relations. The area is broadly interpreted to include political,
strategic, economic, social and cultural aspects, as well as
issues concerning the South Asia Diaspora in Canada.
Applications for research grants must be relevant to this
mandate. The programme is scheduled to end on July 1, 1990.
However, grant applications will be considered at any time
during the next four months.
SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF TORONTO
Research Fellowship in Gerontology
The Soroptimist International of Toronto is a service club of
business and professional women who raise funds to assist
wherever there is a special need. This group is offering a
fellowship with a maximum value of $7,500 to persons
enrolled as full-time students in a post graduate degree
program (Masters, Ph.D) or in a program of study related to
gerontology (eg. health care, social services, housing, legal
services, psychological services, recreational services).
Deadline for applications: March 31, 1990.
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF HIGHER
EDUCATION
Research Award
As part of its objective to encourage and promote high
standards in the study and delivery of post-secondary education, the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education
(CSSHE) is awarding a research award to recognize distinguished contributions to research in Canadian post-secondary
education. One award will be given each year. The award is
meant to be conferred on a practising scholar in mid-career
with an established reputation for publishing outstanding
research on any aspect of Canadian post-secondary education.
Nominations must be forwarded by March 1, 1990.
LAIDLAW FOUNDATION PROGRAMS
Children and Families at Risk Programme
Through this programme, the Foundation intends to focus
resources on experimental and pilot research projects, studies
and activities which contribute to a better understanding of
the structure of life quality and life outcomes for children.
The programme focuses on children as the central figures,
from pre-natal conditions through childhood and adolescence
to transition to adulthood. The programme supports research
projects, demonstration projects/primary prevention projects,
intervention projects, and impact generating projects.
Deadline: March 1, May 1, September 1, and November 1.
Laidlaw Scholar Programme
The Laidlaw Scholar Programme was established to support
distinguished scholars and practitioners who have made
significant contributions to the advancement of child and
family studies and social welfare policy in Canada or abroad.
As well, the scholar, by virtue of the interdisciplinary nature

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�of his/her work and general critical perspectives will
stimulate innovative research and advanced c~ncepts of
professional practice. Proposals may be submitted at any
time.
Laidlaw Conservation Programme
There is an enormous gap between what is known about
environmental problems affecting the Great Lakes and the
efficacy of regulating policy to address those problems at the
provincial and federal levels. There is a progression towards
an ecosystem perspective, consistent with the theme of sustainable development. In consideration of the overwhelming
importance of the Great Lakes to current and future generations, the Laidlaw Foundation's Conservation Programme
will support the following activities which would decontaminate and rehabilitate the Great Lakes ecosystem: 1. Seed
Funding, 2. Innovative Basic Scientific Research of a transdisciplinary nature, 3. Cooperative Ventures protecting
ecologically valuable near shore/coastal areas, and 4. Educational Projects and initiatives.
Deadlines: January 1 and July 1.
THE BANTING RESEARCH FOUNDATION

The Banting Research Foundation provides grants to individuals for the support of specific medical research. The term
"medical research" is interpreted broadly to include research
in the biological sciences which may have potential importance for medicine. The foundation's programs have been
known to help initiate the research careers of new investigators who have not yet developed the necessary track record to
apply successfully to senior funding agencies or established
investigators who wish to initiate research in new areas. The
maximum value of these grants is $20,000.
Deadline: March 1, 1990.
CANADIAN PROGRAM OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORT OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT

The objective of this program is to ensure timely, yet comprehensive equipment research, development, testing, evaluation
and standards development in response to identified needs
from the Canadian police community. In the past, proposals
have been primarily submitted by members of the Canadian
police community, with some collaboration with universities.
The National Research Council is anticipating that there will
be more projects allocated to the university community as the
program becomes better known. The categories used to
prioritize projects are: 1) projects that are universally applicable to the Canadian Law enforcement community and that
impacts life/health threatening matters. Proposals may be
submitted at any time.
UPCOMING DEADLINE DATES
NSERC International Collaborative Research Grants

- March 1, 1990
NSERC International Scientific Exchange Awards
- March 1, 1990
Noranda/Bradfield Graduate Fellowship Program
-March 1, 1990
SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Conferences- March 30, 1990.
Canada: Industry, Science and Technology - Strategic Technologies Program-March 31, 1990
Ontario Ministry of Health Research Program -April 1, 1990
The G. Allan Roeher Institute Research Programs
- April 30, 1990
University Research Incentive Fund (URIF) - May 31, 1990

Forum
Tax Dollars and
Linguistic Rights
by Andre Cloutier,
Chairman, Department of Languages
For many years, francophones had no visibility in Thunder Bay or in the area. They were not organized; they had no
institutions to represent them or to serve their interests. Today, they have slightly more, but so little. But the little recognition obtained appears to be too much for an resentful
few.
The experience seems to show that rights are spelled out
in years of generosity. When there is abundance, minds and
hearts open up and flourish in a willingness to recognize
others the rights to be different from the crowd and the majority. Minorities flourish in the years of good fortune. They
are dangerously menaced in days of misery and greed, when
the almighty criteria of $$$ is used to evaluate their feasibility. For then, even constitutional protection seems to fall
short of protecting minoorities."Tax money'' is one of the
criteria invoked by the Thunder Bay Public School Board to
deny access to French parents who claim the right to a
French education for their 17 children from this Board.
According to the Ontario Education Act, the Board is
required to respond positively to such a req:,1est. yYh~t
brings the parents to make such a move besides wishing to
have their children educated in French is irrelevant to the
matter. It must be noted here that if Francophones had the
governance of their own schools, as their Anglophone
counter parts have had for over a century in Quebec, no
permission or begging would be required. They would
simply create their own school of the "official minority".
By requesting a positive response, the Education Act only
acts in conformity with the rights of the "official minority
language group" in this province, as they are defined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms - of Canada, 1981, which
states that: "Citizens of Canada a) whose first language
learned and still understood is that of the English or French
linguistic minority of the province in which they reside [... ]
have the right to have their children receive primary and
secondary school instruction in that language in that
province."(Art. 23, la). This right applies "where numbers
justify"; also, "minority language instruction" is to be
provided "out of public funds" and this right of parents also
"includes[ ... ] the right to have [their children] receive that
instruction in minority language educational facilities
provided out of public funds."(Art. 23, 3).It might be worth
noting that this article which was primarily devised as a
reply to the Quebec Bill 101 and was meant to "remedy'' an
unwanted situation in Quebec, has been already invoked
several time by the Supreme Court of Canada to force
Quebec to modify it rules of acceptance of English Speaking
children into its school system. Quebec has had to abide and
live by this new criteria.
This same "criteria" of justice seem to create much
displeasure with the members of the Thunder Bay Public
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�FORUM continued from page 10
School Board. But the rule was established through many
prior negotiations of which, unfortunately, they were not
part. But should the social contract be respelled out every
decade. Our present Canadian constitution, like all other
constitutional endeavour in the past have derived from a
perpetual, painful need to bargain and compromise. From the
Quebec Act of 1774, through the Constitutional Agreement of
1791, the Union Act of 1840, the BNA Act of 1867, and the
Canada Act of 1981, not to mention the present Meech Lake
attempt ... agreements have always come about from a .
necessary give and take which has hardly eve7~eft pa~es .
involved fully happy. From the first day of British rule m this
land, the French were there and, for many different reasons,
had to be dealt with, bargained with, negotiated with, and
included as a necessary contitutive part of the Canada deal.
There has always been tremendous frustrations, and still
are, but the need to govern our huge country and keep it
together have been the determining f?rce in sh~ping our
social contract. This present pact, which found its latest
official expression in the Canada Act of 1981, and_ also ~onfers
to Canada its fragile harmony, is based on the affirmatio1:' of a
rapport of reciprocity: do unto me what I do unto you. En 9lish
Canada, on one side, French Quebec on the other agreeing to
treat their "official language minority'' on equal footing.
But what now? The present Language crisis in Thunder .
Bay has far reaching implications: the intention of the Pubhc
Board of Education to have the Ontario Education Act
modified to accommodate its views implies a complete reevaluation of the social contract upon which the very foundation of this nation has been based. And whether the city of
Thunder Bay decides to shun out its multilingual character
and symbolically, or symptomatically, opt for monolingualism is of little help. The game which is being played, for
public of personal interests, implies 1:1ore than the reformulation of a law. It actually reqmres a new deal. And the
risk of such a deal is that any new substantial modification
brought to the agreement, as major as the one sought here, is
not readily conceivable within the frame of our present
Canadian social understanding.
AROUND CAMPUS continued from page 3
native education programs in Minnesota are not working as
effectively as those at Lakehead University. The vist~rs' key
purpose according to Barbara Toye-Welsh, the CO?,rdi1:1ator of
the Native Language Instructors Program, was to review
curriculum documents that we have here and to seek assistance with developmentprograms in Ojibwe". At the present
time Minneapolis native educators do not have a training
program for their teachers or for curriculum development.
''Ultimately," dsays Ms. Toye-Welsh, "they want to plan an
Ojibwe immersion program with ~eh_e~d University. Th~y
are considering whether to set up a similiar program to LU s
or to send teachers to our university in the summer". ToyeWelsh is pleased that educators have recognized the success
of lakehead's Native language Programs and looks forward
to a greater information exchange that is certain to come in
the future.

Last Writes

Katherine Shedden, Editor
In one 7-hour period in the Information Office we may
receive 30, 40 or 50 calls.. a stack of mail 6 inches high, a dozen
"drop ins" in addition to an assortment of on-going projects
and events that are part of our daily routine.
In the past one week period, I enjoyed Cambrian's fine
production of Jubilulu, a musical review of LU history
through the comic view of satirist Evadne Benson, shared
news of the five year re-appointment of President Bob
Rosehart (more details next issue), experienced a deeper
understanding of the culture of Native Canadians through
Native Awareness Day, smiled when the quints took over the
President's office, caught a couple of those fabulous volleyball
and basketball games, sent a strongly-~orded letter !o Ingolf
Richter ahout his insensitive and fallaoous remarks m the
Chronicle Journal, discovered that ECHO is very much aliye
and active thanks in part to the superhuman effo~ts of Luce
Lavoie (tin-can re-cycling bins now out and plastic cups ordered) listened to Colin Isaacs on environmental issues, gave
Norm Lavoie hearty congratulations for his Corps d'Elite
Award and watched in dumbfounded horror as elected
members of our city council voted on the uni-language issue
without so much as a thought about what more than 100,000
citizens think and feel. The litany is not intended to evoke
sympathy for our busy schedule but to let people know what
an amazing lifeforce is present on this university campus.
Some days I want to run wh;n the ph~&gt;ne rings_or ~hen I
see the mail lady coming. I don t. She might be brmgmg an
envelope with new findings from Scott Hamilton's research.
And I was born curious.

All part of
the lifeforce
at Lakehead
Algonquin elder
William Commanda
displayed his
collection of rare
wampum belts,
some dating to the
15th century. The
heart and soul of
]ubilulu, Evadne
Benson, played a
few excerpts from
the show during
LUSU's Birthday
Party No. 4.

Dinner and Theatre? The Silver Jubilee Committee is
sponsoring opening night of the next Magnus play, Tally's
Folly, on February 23. We would like to see friends of LU
attend that night (10% discount for early ticket requests). If
interested in dinner and theatre, we have reserved 24 spots at
Giorg's restaurant, then off to the play and meet the cast
reception to follow. Call 8631 if interested.
February 1990

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activity in the Campus Calendar, please
call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the
March Agora is Febraary 15, 1990.

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FREE CORNWALL CONCERTS
Recital Hall -12:30 pm
Feb. 20 Bruce Vogt, piano (Victoria)
-$3.00
March 6 Chloe Harrison, soprano (New
York) Heather Morrison, piano
AT THE FIELDHOUSE
Feb. 16/17 Men's Basketball vs
Waterloo
Feb. 23/24 Men's Basketball vs
McMaster - 8:30 pm
INTERNATIONAL FILMS
Braun Bldg. 1021 - 8 pm
For information call 343-8260
Free- Everyone Welcome
Feb.18 - Russian, Come and See
Feb.23 - La Voie Lactee
Feb.25 -The Lonely Passion of Judith
Hearne

MONDAY 12 - SATURDAY 17
STUDYWEEK
(Except Education and February Session
Students)

MONDAY,12
CONFERENCE &amp; SEMINAR CENTRE
"PLANNING YOUR CONFERENCE"
Speaker: RON SPINA
Director, Residence &amp;
Conference Services
A step by step guide on how to organize
your conference. The program will also
include information on how to prepare
your proposal for hosting a conference.
FREE OF CHARGE

TUESDAY,20
CSME STUDENT LECTURE 1990
The Canadian Society for Mechanical
Engineering
Speaker: MR. JAMES C. SMITH
Manager, Nuclear Products Marketing
Babcock &amp; Wilcox Canada
Topic NUCLEAR COMPONENT DESIGN AND FABRICATION FOR CA
NADIAN AND FOREIGN REACTORS
UC 2011 - 2:30 pm
CONFERENCE &amp; SEMINAR CENTR
"POSITIVE THINKING SEMINAR"
Speaker: IRBY STEWART
Positive Communications Inc.
We will offer some techniques to assist

your personal development in order to
attain a strong positive attitude in your
personal and career dealings.
$20 per person

WEDNESDAY, 21
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: DR. RICHARD WES1WOOD
Chief of Forest Protection and Dutch
Elm Disease in Manitoba
Topic DUTCH ELM DISEASE IN
MANITOBA
Room BB-1021 lpm

THURSDAY, 22
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: DR. MARGARET HAWTON
Department of Physics, LU
Topic: FRACTAL MODELS OF
IMPEDANCE
Room RB 2025 - 3pm

MONDAY,26
CONFERENCE &amp; SEMINAR CENTRE
"DEALING WITH DIFFICULT
CHILDREN"
Speaker: DR. DAN KLASSEN
Counsellor and Professor, LU
An opportunity to acquire methods of
parenting children who are quite
challenging.
$20 per person
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: DR. J.M. RICHARDSON
Topic: "Groping, Groaning, Grasping:
Courtly Love Peters Out''
B 1022 - 7:30 pm

TUESDAY,27
THUNDER BAY 1WINS HOCKEY
CLUB vs THUNDER BAY POLICE
ASSOCIATION HOCKEY CLUB
"FAMILY NIGHT"
Fort William Gardens
7:30 pm Free Prizes
General Admission

WEDNESDAY, 28
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: DR. RICHARD WES1WOOD
Chief of Forest Protection and Dutch
Elm Disease in Manitoba
Topic: DUTCH ELM DISEASE IN
MANITOBA
Room BB-1021 lpm

MARCH

I

THURSDAY,8
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: PROFESSOR BRIAN
LUCKMAN
Co-Chair Canadian Global Change
Committee
Title:"GWBAL CHANGE AND THE
RECORD OF THE PAST"
RB 1042 - 4:30 pm
CONFERENCE &amp; SEMINAR CENTRE
"WE'LL MAKE YOU FEEL INCREDIBLE"
Ministry of Tourism and Recreation
This workshop is designed for all front
line staff or staff from smaller establishments. As the Tourist season is around
the comer, this one day workshop will
provide you with the skills to give the
best service to regular and visiting customers in your establishment. The
workshop is limited to 20 participants.
8:30 - 5:30 pm
FREE OF CHARGE
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VOL.5 NO.10

NOVEMBER

1988

Early Carl Ray originals donated to University by Jordon family
A generous gift by Marjorie and Justin
Jordon of Iroquois Falls was made public
in early October. Three original paintings by the late Sandy Lake artist Carl Ray
have found a permanent and welcome
home at Lakehead University.
The family said "Lakehead University
was chosen because of family ties." Six
family members are alumni and Justin
Jordon served on the Board of Governorsfrom 1969 to 1972 and helped establish the paper technology course.
Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services, received the collection on behalf of
the students ofLakehead University from
Pat Saltarelli, daughter of the Jordon's.

The three early works of Ray's include
"Guy-an-way", which is reported to have
been the artist's favourite. "The Lonely
Man" illustrates for children the fate of a
man who committed evil in life and could
not ascend to heaven. It clearly portrays
the man's agony. "Iyas and the Serpent" is
one of Ray's earliest works, and completes
the collection.
Carl Ray's work was "full with imagination and natural power." That description
came from James Stevens, who collaborated with Ray on a book titled Sacred
Legends of the Sandy Lake Cree, published in 1971. Ray translated the legends
of his people and illustrated the stories.

His illustrations and paintings accurately
captured the mood or theme of the legends.
The appeal of his work was tremendous. "The colourful paintings I saw
emanated a mystic, supernatural quality
that tried to possess the beholder,"
wrote Stevens in the introduction to the
book of legends.
John Russell, Director of Community
Relations, said the art pieces will be on
display in the Chancellor Patterson library but may rotate locations to ensure
that the university community and the
public has easy access to viewing.

Students march

The power of Carl Ray's work is evident in the painting "Iyas and the Serpent", being held in the
photograph above by Pat Saltarelli, left, and Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services. The piece
to the left is "Lonely Man" and the dramatic scence on the right was the favoured "Guy-an-way".

On Monday, October 31, the
Ontario Federation of Students
marched on Queen's Park to
protest what they termed
"chronic underfunding of the
post secondary education system in Ontario".
Lakehead University students
staged a concurrent march from
the Minister ofColleges and Universities' office at Victoriaville to
Mini Queen's park. Students
packed four buses and an estimated 300, people, including
President Rosehart, LUFA Presi- •
dent Ernst Zimmermann, mem- ,
bcrs of faculty, and administra- •
tion expressed concern over
possible deregulation of tuition '
fees next spring and underfunding issues in general. The
students' press release mentioned leaking buildings, portables, old equipment, lack of
teaching assistants and lack oflibrary acquisitions. President
Rose hart said, "this is tl1e wrong
time to start talking about tuition
fee increases for Northern stu•
dents."

�Report

From the
President
Dr. Bob Rosehart
New Agora Fonnat Survey
Comments to date favour the new format. So much for my opinion!
Election •ss
(a) Federal

Approximately 95 cents of every dollar
of government support to Lakehead University comes from the Federal Government via Ontario by means of the EPF (Established Program Funding) transfer payments for post-secondary education and
health. In recent years, the federal payments have been capped in their ability to
meet the total cost of inflation, and this,
along with the ultimate use of the EPF
funds by the Province, have been longterm contributors to underfunding. The
Treasurer of Ontario, Mr. Nixon, has already indicated concern over the level of
next year's EPF transfer to Ontario.
In the 1984 election campaign, the
Prime Minister indicated that he would
double, on a per capita basis, Canada's
Research and Development expenditures. This has not happened, and the
granting councils important to Lakehead
University, N.S.E.RC. and S.S.H.RC.,
continue to operate under very constraining budgets. The end result is lower
success rates for applicants in peer reviewed competitions.
During the coming weeks of the federal
campaign, if you get the opportunity, ask
the candidates for their views on post•
secondary funding.
On the local scene, one of the federalcandidates is supporting the establishment of an ecology orientated science
centre for Thunder Bay.

Tuition Fees
Pressure continues to mount on both
the magnitude and the mechanism of determining tuition fees in Ontario. Two distinct issues currently under discussion
include:
a) Deregulation of Fees
This is the U.S. model in that universities
would be allowed to charge what the
market could bear. This would be a major
blow of equal access to publicly funded
universities of quality in this Province.
This "rich get richer" approach is argued
by some institutions as the only way to
generate the revenue necessary to deliver
the "world class" quality of education
experience which these particular institutions strive for. I don't buy the argument.
(b)Level of Fees In a Regulated System
Currently, our students pay about 18%
of the cost of their post-secondary education. In 1965, the percentage was about
24%. Opinions exist in the University
i.-ystem that would argue for a one-time
adjustment back to the 24% level. For the
average Lakehead University student, this
would mean an increase of about $400 per
year. Because of our interest in improving
accessibility for Northwestern Ontario
students, to date, Lakehead University has
favoured leaving the tuition fees at their
currer.•-elative levels (other very progressive industrial nations have, in fact, zero
tuition fees).

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Universities, and Dr. Colquhoun, Chair•
man of the Board of Governors, at the
site of the clearing for the new resl•
dences.

Tidbits
Unkages
Recently, Lakehead University signed a
protocol of co-operation with the University of Minnesota in Duluth. This formalizes many interactions that have and
continue to take place with the University
of Minnesota in Duluth. Once again this
year, the jointly funded research grants
program will be sponsored by Lakehead
University and UMD. Shortly, Vice-President Weller will be providing information
to the academic units.
Near the end of November, a group of
senior Soviet officials (including the Deputy Minister of Advanced Education)
interested in northern post-secondary
education will pay a formal visit to
Lakehead University.

(b) Municipal Elections

Lakehead University is big business
for the City of Thunder Bay with a payroll
of the orderofS25 million. What more can
theCitydotoenhancetheworkoftheUniversity and the "experiences" that our
students have when they choose to live in
Thunder Bay for their post-secondary
education? What about special student
"term long" bus passes?

Lyn Mcleod, Minister of Colleges and

Residence Sod Turning
After an absence of some 17 years, a
major construction project is underway
on the Lakehead University campus • our
new townhouse residences. Hopefully by
next Spring, Lakehead University will have
made progress on the Regional Education
Centre Project as classrooms are increasingly in short supply.

Archbishop Scott of the Scott,
McBain, McKay Health Inquiry Panel
told me that the presentation to the
panel by our Native Nursing students
was one of the best presentations to
date. He was very pleased by the initiative undertaken by the Lakehead University students.
. M.C.U. sponsored confc.1ence on the
College/University Interface was quite
good and demonstrated the need to enhance "cross over" and "ladder" programs between the colleges and univer•
sities. In today's world of lifelong learning, the original college mandate of
"terminal education" is a no sale.
. Received an interesting letter from
Derek Apple (L. U. '88) who is undertaking graduate studies at the University of
Oregon in Eugene. He notes that a
parking sticker at the University of Oregon does not guarantee you a parking
place but rather is more like a licence to
hunt for one.
. I thought I smelled smoke on the
second floor the other day.

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November 1988

�President continued from page 2

President Rosehart and a senior student at
Hammarskjold High School discuss Issues
raised at the October 13 forum on post-secondary education. University and College representatives met with students to discuss their
concerns about tuition fees, accessibility,
grades, program options and university life in
general.

Positive Input
,Increasingly, I feel that the Lakehead
University community should take pride in
the accomplishments of the institution's
programs and graduates. In Windsor recently for the C.O. U. tour(theM.P.P.'swife
is an L. U. grad.), in Toronto for the M.C. U.
conference, and in some direct interactions with high school students at Hammarskjold, the comments are extremely
positive.

HOST FAMILY PROGRAM FOR
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Students who leave home to attend university often feel lost and confused. The
problem is compounded when students come from other countries. International students must not only adapt to university life, they must also adjust to
living in a different culture.
Lakehead University is taking part in a new program to help international students adjust to their new lives in Canada. The Host Family Program is being run
under the auspices of Student Services and the International Christi:m Fellowship Group.
Hedi Kogel, program co-ordinator, said "our hope is to link up (international)
students with a number of Canadian families in Thunder Bay in order to build up
cross-cultural friendships between international students studying here and
families in Thunder Bay." During a typical get-together the family and student
could have dinner, go to a movie or just sit and talk.
Kogel believes the program will benefit both students and host families.
'' Families could help with adjustment to a new culture," she said. For the families
who become involved, close contact with an international student would
promote an understanding how people live in other cultures.
The program is new at Lakehead University, although it has been operating at
other campuses for a few years. So far, about 65 families have expressed an interest in the program. Kogel said the challenge is to make contact with the students
who could benefit most from the Host Family Program.
Through contact with a family, the students would have someone to tum to
if they are confused about different aspects of living in their new environment.
Things we take for granted, such as going to pubs, shopping malls or slang
expressions, could be confusing to some people. Kogel noted that the definition
of family has changed and includes single parents or an individual.
For more information, or to become involved in the program, please contact
Hedi Kogel, 344-9172.

· Faculty Club Study
I have looked over the preliminary study
co-ordinated by JohnJamieson on the feasibility ofa faculty club at Lakehead University, and I have been encouraged by the
response to date. Although much work has
yet to be done, an excellent start has been
made.
A.U.C.C. Meeting
Recently, the Canadian university presidents met in Winnipeg for a one-day session on the topic of"Teaching and Learning". A considerable focus was placed on
the learner and the need to create an environment that maximizes the creative and
intellectual abilities of our students.

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Presidential Trivia
What Ontario university president drives
a vehicle the same age as the university?
Telephone your answer to Linda Phillips at
Ext. 8200. L. U. glasses will be awarded as
prizes for the first correct answer.

M
I would like to speak with any regular
readers of the cartoon "For Better, For
Worse."

November 1988

Holly Mathias, 2nd year Outdoor Recreation student, solos on Lake Tamblyn as part of a
practical elective which includes six weeks each of canoe and kayak instruction. Scant but
recent snow flurries remind us that this tranquil late October scene will soon be replaced with
the crunchy sound of skates on ice.
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�LU Site of CASIT
Conference
Lakehead
University 1
was selected
by the Canadian Association of Single
Industry
Towns as the
site for one of
their national
regional con- L---Dr.-._C_o_n_n..::t=e=M=e:..._ls.:....o-=n=-.,
ferences to
discuss economic and social policy
changes in resource-based communities. Last spring, a similar conference
was held in Saskatoon and this September in Vancouver.
Several faculty participated in the
three day conference held October 14,
15, and 16. Fifty-four students currently
enrolled in Social Work 3313, a course
that focuses on community development issues in resource-based towns,
were also in attendence. Dr. Robert
Rosehart, President, welcomed all those
in attendance and provided some background on how Lakehead University is

currently instituting its Northern mandate. Invited conference papers were
presented by Dr. Connie Nelson on
"Leadership, Understanding, and Commitment in Northern Communities" and
Dr. Chris Southcott on "Northern Development: An International Perspective".
Visibility for the new Centre for Northem
Studies was provided through the active
participation ofthe Centre's Director, Dr.
Paul Watts, and by his chairing the Sunday morning session entitled, "The Community Role in Resource Development Issues".
Dr. Nelson commented that the students were very pleased with their active
role in the conference and with the opportunitytotakelearningoutoftheclassroom and into a very dynamic real world
setting.
The conference focused on exploring
potential roles for the federal and provincial governments as well as communities
in securing sustaining and stable futures
for resource-based areas. The interdependence and the linkages between all
the players was emphasized. Policies
must be contextual in nature so that they
meet the real needs of communities;
while government bodies can provide
supportive and facilitative roles.

Silver Jubilee
Countdown

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Preparations for the 25th Anniversary
Year are taking shape and the countdown to the Silver Jubilee has begun.
Our Silver Jubilee will be launched
with a special ceremony on Convocation
Day, May 29, 1989. Activities and celebrations will culminate with the Alumni
ReunionJuly 1-2, 1990. One highlight of
the Jubilee will be a special section in the
April/May edition of Thunder Bay Magazine featuring Lakehead University and a
calendar of Silver Jubilee events.
Watch this column for details about
special events such as the distinguished
public lecture series in the Fall and Wmter terms and an open house as part of
National Universities Week in October
1989. Details will also be made available
about the sponsorship of a Thunder Bay
Symphony Orchestra series and co-production with the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium of a series of programs.
We need help to bring all our plans to
fruition. Call George Merrill, John
Whitlfield or Linda Phillips with department or school histories, photographs or
ideas for activities. This is our Silver
Anniversary •· please get involved.

Continuing Education: Growth in Numbers and Options
The personal touch Is an Important
component In the succes.sful operation of
off-campus courses. Dan Pakulak provides Information about courses to a
group In Atlkokan. All centres have offcampus representatives to maintain a vital
link between students and the University.

Enrolment at Lakehead University is
growing •· and not just in full-time day
courses on Campus. Dan Pakulak, Director of Continuing Education, said there is
"a record number of courses in continuing education."
Although final figures are not available,
Pakulak said it looks as if enrolment will
surpass last year's total of602 students. At
present there are about 226 enroled in the
Distance Education programs alone. This
year Distance Education offers 12.5 credits, compared with seven credits available
last year.
Pakulak said Continuing Education is
operating off-campus in 21 centres in the
fall/winter session. This means 56 full
course equivalents are available in the
region. The largest centre is Kenora,
which has 11 off-campus courses. "There
has been tremendous support from the
community," he said.
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Continuing Education operates from
Sociology to Fine Arts.
Sault Ste. Marie to the southeast, and as
Thunder Bay also has off-campus
far as Kenora to the west. The courses are
courses. This year Lakehead University is
offering Administrative Principles I and
also available on such Northern reserves
as Pikangikum, Weagamon, and Sandy
II, Gerontology and Acting I.
Last year there were 53.5 continuing
Lake. Apilot project is underway in Sandy
education courses offered, but this year
Lake with Introduction to Anthropology,
taught by Dr. Paul Driben, as part of a BA
there are 61. "It's been an increase right
general program. Atikokan has five
across the board," Pakulak said.
courses ranging from Introduction to
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�NEW DIRECTOR &amp; EQUIPMENT FOR SPORTS MEDICINE CLINIC
Lakehead University's Sports Medicine
Clinic will be operating under the guidance of Dr. John Porter.
Porter, who signed a three-year agreement with the University, will be working
to "elevate the awareness of sports medicine across the community and at the
university."
Porter works out of the Intercity Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Clinic. The
University's Clinic will not be a part of the
Intercity Clinic, but the University will
benefit from access to both equipment
and personnel at Intercity.
Although Porter will be the chief physician, the day-to-day operations of the
Clinic will be run by physiotherapist
Markus Walser. The Clinic will operate on
a walk-in basis for anyone with a sports
related injury. A total of five physicians ••
including three orthopedic surgeons ••
will work in the Sports Medicine Clinic.
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Student Mike Dolcetti is tested on new equipment in the Sports Medicine Clinic by
kinesiologist TarjaAla-Korpi as Dr. John Porter looks on.

AUTOMATED CATALOGUE SYSTEM
INCREASES LIBRARY'S CAPABILI1Y
The Chancellor Paterson library has
taken another step on the road to automation. A ribbon and cake cutting ceremony
marked the official opening of the newonline catalog system.
Fred McIntosh, Chief librarian, is optimistic about the system and its acceptance
on campus. "Once they've had it (the
system) shown to them the response is
quite good," he said. "On the whole,
they're away to the races."
The new system means anyone looking
fora particular item would use a computer

terminal rather than the old-fashioned
card catalog. The system has the potential
to do a lot more than it does now, he said.
However, it will probably take up to two
years before the system is operating at full
capacity. For example, library users could
check their circulation records and see
what materials have been signed out without having to go through the circulation
desk.
"The heart of the system is the data
base," McIntosh said. "Circulation is in
the same data base. Eventually people

(searching for a book) will be able to put
a reserve on that book."
McIntosh said some people have questioned spending money on a new computer system for the library. He has
heard comments that money would be
better spent on obtaining more materials for the library.
"That's a false economy," he said.
''Unlessyoucan control and access what
you've got, there's no point getting any
additional material." Having an automated system "allows us to make better
use of what we already have."
One other aspect of the new on-line
system is that the data base can be divided into two parts. One section would
list all the main library holdings, while
the other section would list everything
relating to Northern and Regional studies. This would increase the sharing of
resources between the main campus
and the programs offered in the region.
McIntosh said there are plans to expand the Northern and Regional Studies
collection in the library. John Neilson,
head of that collection, and new technician,Jane Reeves, will see increased promotion of the collection with the opening of the Centre for Northern Studies.
(Photo left) The new on-line catalogue
system is up and running•· with a lot of
help from our friends at the Computer
Centre. Left to right, Paul Inkila, Phil
Kempe and Geoff Hill, make sure everything is working properly.

November 1988

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The Clinic, which sees an average of 45
people per day, will be involved in such
projects as muscle strengthening, rehabilitation of injured muscles and pre-season screening of athletes.
To help with both treatment and study,
the Clinic has obtained the Genucom, a
computerized machine for assessing the
stability of knee ligaments and knee
joints.
"Thunder Bay has facilities that are
second to none," Porter said. "We are
the second clinic in Canada to have this
piece of equipment (the Genucom)."
Although research will be a large part
of the Clinic's operations, the priority remains "giving care to musculoskeletal
injuries sustained by athletes," he said.
The Sports Medicine Clinic is located
in the basement of the C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse and operates 12:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Co-author of "Frozen in
Time" on campus
Owen Beatty, co-author of the amazing book that attempts to unravel the
mysteries surrounding the Franklin
Arctic Expedition will give a public
lecture at Lakehead University on
Thursday, November 10, at 8 pm in the
Ryan Building. The book, Frozen in
Time, and Beatty's talk, shed light on
the mysterious fate of the expedition.
In light of recent findin~ on bacteriology and immunology, this address,
sponsored by the Anthropology Club,
should be most interesting

Ask Dr. Weir

Q

The plastic webbing on my lawn chairs
deteriorated during the summer.
What happened?

A

the "plastic" material is made principally from polypropylene fibres. Polypropylene, as produced in the plant, is not in
the form offibres, and it must therefore be
melted and then extracted through small
holes (spinarettes) to produce the fibres.
This process has to take place at about 150
degrees celcius, and since oxygen is inevitably present, a small amount of oxidation
occurs; i.e. polypropylene, which is really
a hydrocarbon, reacts with oxygen at the
relatively high temperature, producing
eventually, a hydroperoxide.
The extent of oxidation is very small and
barely detectable. If we represent the
polymer as a string of beads, we would find
a hydroperoxide joined to one bead in
about one thousand. The hydroperoxide
' is harmless until the fiber is exposed to
sunlight. Absorption of the small ultra-violet component (which, incidentally causes
sun-tanning) of sunlight causes decomposition of the hydroperoxide and this rapidly leads to a breaking of the chain; i.e. the
long string of beads is broken at random
into smaller pieces. Since the strength of a
fiber is strongly dependent on this length
of the chain, the light induced chain break-

ing leads to a naked absence in strength,
the effect being out of all proportion to
the concentration of hydroperoxide.
Thus when a stress is subsequently
applied (e.g. one sitting on the chair)
the polypropylene disintegrates, the
small strin~ of beads separating from
each other.
The deterioration rate is not greatly
reduced in winter in a place like Thunder Bay, where a high intensity of ultraviolet radiation is still present, even
when the temperature is very low; so
don't leave the lawn chairs out in the
winter.

Update: Centre for Northern Studies
by Dr. Paul Watts
As an initial introduction to the academic activities on campus I have met with most
of the department heads and directors of professional schools. These discussions have
given me a basic understanding of Lakehead's scope of activity and it is now time to
develop a directory of Northern efforts, ideas and researchers. Sara Burke is now in the
Centre's office 9343-83 79) and will be assisting me in this task.
Sara was hired to take over from our interim secretary, Marion Karam, who has gone
back to school to train as a chef. Marion played a significant role in establishing the office
and we wish her the best ofluck in her new endeavour. We would also like to thank Mr.
DaleAshbeewho was the interim Director, on secondment from the Ministry ofN orthem
Development and Mines. Mr. Ashbee was to return to his full time work earlier in the
year but agreed to continue as Acting Director during the startup phase. It is difficult to
imagine where we would be without his efforts, and he continues to play a significant
role through the Advisory Committee.
I am pleased to say that I have now been invited to several department and professional
school faculty meetin~ to outline the developing role of the Centre. Our mandate is
clearly across campus, within the region and throughout the North. It is an exciting time
to be involved in the Centre. The input that we receive now will do much to determine
both the activities of the Centre and Lakehead's future role in the North.

United Way is an umbrella organization that provides funding for 14 Member agencies in the City of Thunder Bay.
These agencies include Big Brothers/
Big Sisters. The Red Cross Society and
the Volunteer Action Centre, just to
name a few. The agencies cover a wide
variety of organizations. In fact the
Member agencies are so diverse that one
in three individuals in Thunder Bay use
their services.
In today's society, it is difficult to decide what organization needs your
money the most. The greatest thing
about the United Way, is that you do not
have to decide on one because you are
not just giving once, but rather fourteen
times. Remember, United Way is the way
to help the most.
This year's goal is $700,000, and with
of Middletown and any County
your help, we can do it.
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�Wh.o?

Last month's pair of mystery
• people were recognized immediately by Jolene Bohonis, secretary in
the School of Forestry. We don't know
how much money they offered, but according to Jolene, Professor Dick MacGillivray and Linda Phillips "haven't changed
a bit". This month's pair were apparently
not shipped off to the war together but
they have both done "considerable time"
at Lakehead University.
a) Rita Hayworth and a jet pilot ready
for his first mission
b) Lana Turner and a drill sergeant waiting for his first recruit
c) LU's 1965 wrestling champ with his first brush cut and Miss HMCS Griffin
d) I have no idea who that beauty is but the guy's definitely not Bill Melnyk

Wh.y?

Baby Faces

Miriam Waddington thrilled a large audience at a poetry reading and then participated at the Friday evening and Saturday events. Reading her early works and
new pieces she worked on this past
summer in the Rockies, Waddington
defined her poetry as "a way of life, or
perhaps, my response to being alive".
Ms. Waddington has read her
poetry in most universities across
Canada and enjoys speaking with
the students about her work and
often their work. Ms. Waddington
received an honorary degree
from Lakehead University in
1975.
Professor Waddington recently
retired from the English Department at York University. Her
poetry has expressed itself in 11
volumes. Some of her scholarly
and teaching activities have included editing, a critical study of
A.M. Klein and performing the
duties of writer-in-residence at
city libraries and universities.
Co-ordinator Bill Heath, said
the symposium is a gathering of
English professors from the Laurentian system who are able to
meet with their colleagues to
share papers and ideas in a formal
and informal setting. Three LU
professors presented papers: J.
M. Richardson, Joan Dolphin,
and Frederick Holmes. "Discovery/The Discoverer In Literature"
was the theme of papers pre'--- - - -- - - - - - - -- -- - - - - sented by Laurence Steven, Shannon Hengen and Roger Nash, all of Laurentian, Joyce Forbes also prepared an exhibit in the library on the theme.
A "great lady" and well-respected poet
All reports indicate the Sixth Northern
was at Lakehead University in mid-OctoLiterary Symposium was considered to be
ber as the keynote speaker at the Sixth
a success.
Northern Literary Symposium sponsored by the English Department.
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Bursting at the seams and loaded down
with photos and smiles, pretty well describes how Mark Nisenholt feels about
having a new son. Isaac Maguire Nlsenholt bounced in at 6 pounds 10 ounces on
October 3, 1988. Equally proud mom is
Mariana.

Visitors on campus

What better way to celebrate National Students' Day than to stuff
hamburgers and chocolate pudding
down the hatch, break balloons with
body hugs, dance the light fantastic up
and down stairs, make tin can castles
and dress up in garbage bags. To show
their basically good nature, the team
from administration did it all and
smiled all the way to last place. Try to
spot Rhonda Kelly, Ute Hickins or John
Russell.
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BARBARA TOYE-WELSH
Barbara Toye-Welsh is the new
Co-ordinator of Native language Programs. She has come
to LU from Nassau in the Bahamas •· and is re-adjusting to
Canada quite well. Barbara is
excited about her position at LU.
"The challenge is to have as
many teachers as possible taking
a Native language," she said.
Barbara understands Cree and is
learning Ojibwe. She also speaks Norwegian, Chinese,
French, German and Spanish.Barbara has a BA/B.Ed. from
the University of Saskatchewan, a masters degree from
Dalhousie University. Barabara has a Ph.Din progress at the
University of Alberta. Her area of study has been curriculum
development and multicultural education.

Dr. Brian O'Connor is not
only new to Lakehead University, he is new to Thunder Bay.
O'Connorhasbeenhiredbythe
psychology department as an
assistant professor. He comes
to LU from the University of
Quebec in Montreal where he
was a Post Doctoral Fellow.
O'Connor has a B.Sc. from St.
Francis Xavier University and a
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M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University ofVictoria. His three main areas of scholastic interest
are interpersonal communication, personality and social
aspects of aging and he is pursuing research in all areas.
O'Connor enjoys the outdoors and hopes to find some spare
time to get out and enjoy Thunder Bay's wide open spaces.

'

JEFF DOCKERAY
JeffDockeray, known as 'Doc', is
the new Manager and Program
Supervisor of the Study. His home
town is Wmdsor, but LUSU drafted
(pardon the pun) the energetic
new manager from Brock University, where he was supervisor in
liquor services. Dockeray has a
background in recreational ad..,. ministration by virtue ofhis Bachelor of Recreation and Leisure Studies. Jeff says he likes the
vibrant atmosphere at Lakehead. Many changes have already
taken place in the Study with new furniture, a new sound
system, paint job and new dance floor. But this self-confessed
armchair quarterback, camper, golfer and curler has a lot of
ideas for the future. Drop in and say hi to the new Study
Manager.

Linda Siczkar, the newest addition
to the graphics department, is a
busy person. Aside from putting in
full days working with computers,
typesetters and cameras, Linda is
an avid dog-person. She is heavily
involved in showing and training
dogs--she even has five ofherown.
One geriatric collie, three Pekinese
and a rare Belgian Tervuren puppy
~~~~~~~~~ grace her home. Contending with
five 4-footed friends on a daily basis means she can cope with
any situation and remain reasonably calm. Linda is also a
traveller and has been as far away as Australia. "I like to travel,"
she said. "I hope to do more of that." In the meantime, Linda
will travel the halls of Lakehead University in search of challenges.

RANDY HOLMER

IJNDA MICKELSON
Linda Mickelson is the latest addition to the audio-visual department. She is the one who takes bookings for equipment
and then provides friendly pick-up and delivery service.
Linda is convinced that, since joining the A-V department,
she has found every nook and cranny on campus. Linda is
enjoying her work because it keeps her busy. "I like being
busy," she said. Since the A-V deparment makes an average
of 1,700 pickups and deliveries per month, Linda logs quite
a few miles in the LU halls. By the way, Linda is a published
writer. Her work can be seen in Novermber's Reader's
Digest in the Life's Like That section. To protect Linda's
privacy, (Barbara Walters phoned four times), we have been
cautioned by her lawyers not to publish her photograph.
Anyone who recognizes her, should call out, "Are you Linda,
the famous writer?".
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Most days one can find Randy in
the machine shop (CB1015) but
when he's not there, you may find
him running his own framing and
art gallery business. A 1988 graduate ofthe engineering tech course,
Randy plans to continue his education part-time heading toward a
degree in mechanical engineering. Randy likes the variety in the
lab and says he likes being busy.
Originally from Cornwall, Both
Randy and his wife came to Thunder Bay to go to Lakehead. The
new business is a year old partnership and "so far, so good"
accordingly to Randy.

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November 1988

�Papers /Publications
&amp; Special Projects
Dr. Ann Osbom-Seyffert presented papers
concerning her computer-aided analysis of
children's traditional songs at the Folklore
Studies Association of Canada Conference at
Windsor, May 29-30, 1988, and at the International Conference on Ballads and Folksongs
of the SIEF (Soclete International
d'ethnologle et de folklore) at Laval University, August 15-20, 1988.
Dr. Blrbal Singh, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering presented a paper titled
"A Generalized Viscosity Correlation for Alberta Heavy Oil and Bitumens" at the UNITAR
International Conference on Heavy Crudes
and Tar Sands held in Edmonton,August 7-12,
1988. The paper was co-authored by Dr. V. R.
Puttagunta, Professor of Chemical EngineerIng and Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper, Research
Associate, Chemical Engineering Department.
Dr. Stephen A. Klssln, Department of Geology, presented a paper "Nickel-Cobalt-Native
Silver (Five-Element) Veins: A Rift-Related
Ore Type" at the NorthAmerlcanConference
on Tectonic Control of Ore Deposits and the
Vertical and Horizontal Extent of Ore Systems, at the University of Missouri - Rolla,
October (HJ, 1987. The paper was published
in full in the Proceedings Volume (Geza Kisivarsanyl and Sheldon K. Grant, editors, University of Missouri -Rolla, 1988). A paper on a
related topic "The Five-Element Suite: An
Indicolorof non-Magmatic Ore Types Related
to Rifting and Basin Development" was presented at the V.M. Goldshmidt Conference,
Baltimore, Maryland, May 11-13. The paper
has been accepted for publication in Explore,
a newsletter of the Association of Exploration
GeochemistsThese papers are the outgrowth
of many years of research on silver deposits in
the Thunder Bay area. Research has been
funded by the Ontario Geological Research
Fund (Ministry of Northern Development and
Mines).
Dr. J. E. Molto, professor and Chainnan of the
Department of Anthropology, gave the keynote address to the 1st annual Spina Bifida
Association of Canada Conference held in
Edmonton Alberta, September 15-18. His
address was titled, "The Natural Ilistory of
Spina Bifida and Related Neural Tube Defects". On September 23 Dr. Molto gave an invitational lecture in the SSEA Public Lecture
Scarles, Royal Ontario Museum, "Palaeoepidcmiology of the Ancient Egyptians in the
Dakhleh Oasis".

Professors Cynthia Loos, Nursing, and Alan
Dowd, Education, had their paper "Nursing
students' knowledge and opinions concerning AIDS" published in Nursing Papers 1987,
November 1988

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River Basin", "Northeast Pond River IHD
Bench Mark Research Basin''.
From May 29 -June 3, 1988, Professor Panu
attended the 6th World Congress on Water Resources held in Ottawa, Canada and presented
the following paper: "Estimating Flood Flows
at Ungauged sites In Newfoudland" and from
A year long study on Issues related to being June6-10, 1988 he attended the International
a single mom has now been released by Dr. Symposium on the Hydrology of Wetlands in
C.H. Nelson and Is available from the Temperate and Cold Regions, held atJoensuu,
l.akehead Social Planning Council as a two Finland and presented the following paper:
part series. Part I Is entitled Single Mom "Environmental Assessment of Peatland DeFamilies: A Participant Obseroatton Study velopment Projects on Receiving Waters." Dr.
and Part II Single Mom Families: A Survey of Panu was an Invited participant in the NATO
Moms and Human Serolce Programs.
Advanced Study Institute on Modeling of
Hydrologic Systems, held at Sintra, Portugal
Dr. Said M. llasa, Professor, Department of from July 10 - July 24, 1988 His paper was
Civil Engineering, presented the paper entitled, "Storm Runoff Investigations Related
"Earthmoving Logistics With Unear Unit
to Effects in Urban Watersheds".
Costs" at the International Conference on
Operational Research, Management Science
Susan Cole, Co-ordinator of Distance Educaand New Technologies, held In Paris, France,
tion, recently represented l.akehead univerJuly (HJ, 1988. He also attended the Leadersity and the provincial Contact North project
ship Conference of the Urban Transportation
Division (UID) of the American Society of at the First International Forum on Computer
Mediated Communications. Universities in
Civil Engineers, held in Toronto, August 1-2,
1988. The goals of the conference, which was
Denmark, Norway, France, Australia, United
attended by members of the division's comStates and Canada have been involved in testmittees, were to develop a better understanding conferencing systems for the delivery of
Ing of the UID's mission and activities and to distance education courses. The CoSy conferidentify future issues of major concern. Reencing system, developed by the University of
cently, Dr. Easa was appointed a member of
Guelph is currently In use at l.akehead in the
the executive committee of the Transportaadministration of the Signal North program.
tion Division of the Canadian Society for Civil
Applications
in course delivery are proposed
Engineering and a Uaison Officer (for Egypt)
for the coming academic year.
of its International Affairs Committee.

C.H. Nelson and D.H. McPherson presented a paper entitled "The Provision of
Indian Child Welfare Services In the Province
of Ontario: A Missed Opportunity for the Realization oflndian Self-Government" In Detroit
on October (HJ at the Midwest Association for
Canadian Studies.

Dr. K. D. Elgenbrod, Professor of Civil Engineering, attended the 3rd Canadian Symposium on geosynthetics associated with the 4th
Canadian Geotechnical Conference that
took place in Waterloo from 4 to 7 October of
1988. Dr. Eigenbrod was an active participant.
He presented a paper entitled "Differential
Shear Movements at Soil Geosynthetic Interfaces." The paper was co-authored with Mr.J.
P. Burak and Dr. J. G. Locker.
Dr. Douglas Thom, Associate Professor,
School of Education recently had his book
(with Dr. Daniel Klassen) "Education and Its
Management: Science, Arts, and Spirit" published by Ginn Press (Simon and Schuster
Publishing), Needham Heights, Mass., 1988,
3 73 pages. The book is presently on sale in the
l.akehead University Bookstore.
Dr. U. S. Pama, Associate Professor of Civil
Engineering, attended the Canadian Hydrology Symposium held at Banff, Alberta, May 9 May 11, 1988, and presented the following
papers: "Waterford River Basin as an Urban Hydrology Research Basin", "Urbanization effcts
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Appointments
Dr. J. G. Locker was made a Fellow of the
Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC) at a
Canadian Society for Geotechnical Engineering Meeting Banquet on Wednesday,
October 5, 1988. The award follows 30 years
of EiC activity and contributions to Engineering Education. Dr. Locker was recently
appointed a member of a Council of Ontario
Universities Committee on the Relationships
Between Universities and Community Colleges and a member of the Advisory Board for
the Marine Institute in St.John's, Newfoundland. He is also serving as Secretary and ViceChairman to the National Committee of
Deans of Engineering and Applied Science
for 1988/89. At the local level he Is Chairman
of the Utkehead Chapter of the Association
of Professional Engineers and the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Pcnul Paularinne has been appointed to
the Ontario Universities' Application Centre
Board ofManagaement for a further one-year
term.
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�Research
News
FROM THE
OFFICE OF
GRADUATE
STUDIESAND
RESEARCH
Research Offecer:

Trish
McGowan

Introduction by Dr. Murray Lank.ester
In the areas of research and graduate
studies, do you know who represents
your interests outside the University? Do
you regularly express to them your views
on issues? Do you make an effort to find
out what information and experiences
they bring back from their meetings? Do
you think on occasion to thank them for
the many hours of work and travelling
time they volunteer on our behalf? I'd like
to remind you who some of these individuals are.
Dr. John Jamieson, Psychology, has
beguq a 3-year term as a member of the
Appraisals Committee of the Ontario
Council of Graduate Studies. The Committee is comprised of 3 groups or panels
which are randomly assigned graduate
disciplines up for review on a 7-year cycle.
Dr. Bill Melnyk and Prof. Norman Bonsor
have served previously on the Appraisals
Committee and know very well the
mounds of reports that have to be read by
John before carting them off to Toronto
for monthly meetings.
Dr. Alan Day, Mathematics, is in the
2nd of a 3-year term serving on NSERC's
Grant Selection Committee for the Mathematical Sciences. The Committee will
soon be conducting site visits at selected
universities across the country, and in
February will adjudicate research operating grant and equipment grant applications in the field.
Dr. Connie Nelson, Social Work, continues for the 3rd year on the Board of the
University Research Incentive Fund.
Appointed for a 3-year term by the
Premier's Council, Connie reviews applications submitted in 3 competitions per
year and awards up to 25 million dollars
over the three year period. Two Lakehead
faculty have received awards totalling
about $20,000 since the inception of the
URIF program.
Dr.Jane Crossman was appointed last
year by the Minister of Colleges and Universities to the Board_ of the Ontario
Graduate Scholarship program.
The
Board sets policy governing award criteria
and allocation mechanisms for the 1200
OGS awards given annually across the
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Province. Students considering graduate
studies at Lakehead compete successfully
in the "open" competition for OGSs. But
those who may narrowly miss getting a
scholarship valued at about $10,000 are
later considered for one of 10 "Institutional" OGSs of the same value available
only to students registered at LU. Dr.
Crossman is in a position to" remind the
Board, when necessary, of the importance
of the Institutional awards to the five
smaller Universities in the Ontario system.
Several Lakehead faculty volunteer
each year to adjudicate the several thousand OGS applications submitted. The
difficult task of each panelist in judging
over 100 applications is usually done over
the "Christmas break". There are few
perks with this job and we shouldn't forget to extend our thanks regularly. I can
publicize the names of those serving for
1988-89 after the competition is concluded and the winners are announced in
March.
Professor Rick Anderson, Economics, has served for the past two years on
the blue ribbon Polanyi Prize Committee.
The Committee selects up to 6 winners of
Sl5,000prizes given to recent Ph.D.s who
have distinguished themselves in any of
the traditional Nobel Prize disciplines.
Ms. Julia Walsh, President of the
Lakehead University Graduate Student
Association, will accompany me to Ottawa
in early November where she will represent the concerns of members at the
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Graduate Schools.
To all of these individuals I extend
personal thanks. I'm sure the rest of the
University community joins me and will
take the opportunity to discuss issues with
them so they may more accurately and
completely represent us on these very
important Provincial and National bodies..
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

AWARDED
Dr. Inderjit
Nirdosh
(Chemical Engineering) has
been awarded a
second consecutive NSERC
Strategic Grant.
This grant, valued at $38,600
for each of two
years, is a prestigious one and recognizes Dr. Nirdosh's
considerable contribution to his field.
NSERC's Strategic Grants Program is
highly competitive; this year, only 26.4%

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of applications were successful.His research will centre on reducing the radioactive species present in the mill tailings
from processing Saskatchewan uranium
ores. The research proposal is aimed at
optimizing the leaching conditions for the
Saskatchewan uranium ores, thus rrunimizing the presence of radioactive byproducts through leaching while maintaining high uranium recovery.
Dr. Jeremy Rayner (Political Studies) was awarded a SSHRC Strategic
Theme grant for a two-year research project entitled "Power, Knowledge and Communication: Environmental Constraints
on Public Involvement in Canadian Forest
Management." The research will seek to
test the hypothesis that, the greater the
scientific and technical complexity of a
planning decision in resource management, the less opportunity is available for
public involvement.
Dr. Robert Sweet (Education) was
awarded a SSHRC Strategic Theme Seed
Grant for a project entitled "Canadian
Private Sector Distance Education: An
Analysis of Trends". SSHRC's Strategic
Seed grants allow researchers to test the
feasibility of their hypotheses, for such
research usually occurs in new fields of
research endeavour.
Professor Richard Clarke (Forestry)
has been awarded a University Research
Incentive Fund (URIF) grant for a research project that he will be undertaking
with KBM Forestry Consultants and the
Forest Engineering Research Institute of
Canada. The URIF grant matches dollarfor-dollar the contribution to the research
made by the private sector collaborators.
Professor Clarke and his graduate research assistant, John McNutt, will be
studying the influence ofground speed on
direct seeding with the Bracke Scarifier, in
order to determine the relationship of site
difficulty and ground speed to the successful deposit of seeds on the prepared
microsite. The research project will make
a major contribution in the area of regeneration by enabling industry to improve
their success rates.

NEWS ABOUT SSHRC
I am pleased to announce that there
was a marked increase in the number of
applications submitted to SSHRC's Research Grants Program. Nine applications
were submitted (this represents an 80%
increase over previous years), requesting
a total of $182,300 over 3 years. While this
increase is encouraging, it nevertheless
represents a participation rate of only 6%
of SSHRC - eligible faculty. We are very
November 1988

�concerned about increasing our participation and success rates in SSHRC's research programs for, as you know, our
General Research Grant is calculated on
the basis of our success over the preceding three years.The next SSHRC competition is the Strategic Themes Research
Grants Program, held in the Spring.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
UTHOPROBE: Phase 2
The administrators of LITIIOPROBE,
Canada's National Geoscience Project,
have issued a call for applications for
1989/90 Geoscience Studies. Approximately $650,000 will be available this year
for geoscientific investigations that will
complement the Project's seismic programs and contribute in a significant way
to the scientific objectives of the following
transect corridors:
Kapuskasing,
Llthoprobe East, Southern Cordillera and
Abitibi - Grenville.
The deadline for applications:
December 16, 1988.
The Ontario Mental Health
Foundation • Fellowships Program
The Foundation offers a number of
fellowships to enable health care practitioners and researchers to dedicate more
time to original research. The Senior
Research Fellowship and the New Faculty
Research Fellowship provide release time
for research. The Travelling Fellowships
assist researchers to acquire new skills
and learn techniques which are not available in Ontario. At our suggestion, the
Travelling Fellowship has recently been
modified to allow people from Northern
Ontario to take certain types of training in
other parts of Ontario, if such training is
not available locally.
The deadline for all Fellowship applications is November 30, 1988.
Canadian Fitness and Ufestyle
Research Institute - Research
Contributions Program 1989/90
The Institute supports basic and applied research which furthers the understanding of the inter-relationships between physical activity, fitness, lifestyle
and health in order to enhance the wellbeing of Canadians.
The deadline for submissions:
December 31. 1988.
Ontario Geological Survey • Ontario
Geoscience Research Grant Program
The Geoscience Research Grant Program helps to finance research that will
improve and stimulate mineral explora-

tion in Ontario. Such research complements the activities of the Ontario Geological Survey by such means as: defining
the characteristics of potentially significant geological environments and devising ways to predict areas of valuable mineral resources; and providing geological
information to assist the Ministry's earth
resources initiatives. deadline:
November lS. 1988.
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
• Science Subvention Program
The Science Subvention Program supports research and graduate studies in
fisheries, marine and aquatic research.
Priority will be.given to research in these
areas: the husbandry and development of
fisheries resources in the preservation
and improvement of fish habitats; the
understanding of the ocean environment
and all aquatic eco-systems; the social and
economic conditions and prospects of
those people and communities dependent on the fishing resources.
Deadline for applications:
December 31. 1988.
Squibb Canada - Biomedical
Research Program
Squibb has announced a new program
to support biomedical research at Canadian universities. Research priorities include the fields of molecular genetics, developmental biology ch'1mmunology.
Proposals are due:
December 31. 1988.
Ontario Ministry of Health: Health
System • Unked Research Units Pro-

gram
The Ontario Ministry of Health recently
announced a new grants program to support health services research in Ontario.
The program will facilitate research leading to changes in the provision of health
care services, particularly those aimed at
improving the health status of target
populations. Grants will be provided to
multidisciplinary teams of investigators
engaged in a focused research program,
studying aspects of the organization and
performance of the health care system, in
cooperation with a partner agency that is
active in the delivery of health services.
The first competition deadline:
December 1, 1988.
Health and Welfare Canada National Health Research and
Development Program
This program provides support for health
service research, public health research
and health care delivery research. Current priorities are: organization and deliv

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ery of health care, risk assessment,
health promo~n, habilitation and rehabilitation, pqpulation immune status
and communicable disease control, and
native health. The deadline for submissions is
December 1, 1988.
The National Research Council:
Canada/France Science and
Technology Cooperation Program
The objective of this program is to promote, through collaborative projects or
exploratory missions, activities intended to result in scientific and technological advances of potential industrial
or economic benefit to Canada. Priority
sectors include marine sciences, biotechnology, new materials, information
technologies, environment, transportation, and research related to problems
of cold regions. The grant provides
travel and subsistence costs. The application deadline is November 30, 1988.
Canadian Northern Studies Trust
Awards
The Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS)
offers a number of special awards for
Northern Studies. The Special Awards
for Northern Residents enables individuals from the Canadian North who
have broad northern experience to devote a period of study in academic fields
relevant to their concerns.
The Studentships in Northern
Studies, valued at $10,000 each, are
designed to support students enrolled
in educational programs having special
relevance to Canada's northern territories and adjacent regions. All subject
areas will be considered, providing that
the proposed inquiry is applicable to
northern themes, problems or issues.
The Research Support Opportunity in Arctic Environmental Studies
Program offers high arctic accommodation, facilities and services to support
graduate students who are undertaking
environmental research in the physical
and/or biological sciences for which
location at the High Arctic Weather Stations (Eureka/Mould Bay) would be
advantageous.Applications for all these
Awards are due January lS, 1989.
In the 1988/89 Research Grants competition, the 14 disciplinary committees considered 1,455 projects with a total dollar demand
of $42.6 million. Of these applications 726
were funded, for an overall success rate of
alrn~ 50% for projects and 3796 for funds. As
a result of the visit of Louise McDonald, Research Grants Officer, a brief guideline for
preparing successful research applications
will be send to each d artment.

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FREE PUBUC LECTURE

Speaker: Mrs. Pat Barclay
Topic: "The Great Canadian Diary and
How Charles Ritchie Wrote It"
7:30 pm RB 1021

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"11le Working People's Picture Show"
7 :30 pm Bora Laskin Theatre
SB adults, S5 students/seniors
WEDNESDAY, 23
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FREE PUBUC LECTURE
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Topic: The Canadian Arctic: On the
Threshold of the 21st Century
8:00 pm RB 2024
Co-sponsored by Canadian Institute of
International Affairs, Thunder Bay Branch

THURSDAY, 17
BOARD OF GOVERNORS

4:00pm
FRIDAY, 18
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Presenter: Dr. David Nock

TUESDAY, 8
FREE PUBUC LECTURE

Speaker: Kevin McNamee
Conservation Director of Canadian Parks
and Wilderness Society
Slide presentation - question period
BpmRB 2047

Professor of Sociology
Topic: E. F. Wilson of Algoma: A Victorian Missionary's look at Canadian
Indian Polley
3-4pm

WEDNESDAY, 9

RB 1044

Reception to follow in the Faculty Lounge
Dr. Nock's book on E.F. Wilson has recently been released and will be on display

FREE PUBUC LECTURE

Speaker: Dr. John Jamieson
Topic: "The Law of Initial Values"
2:30 pm Room SN 1015

SATURDAY, 19 &amp; SUNDAY, 20
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Three Men &amp; A Baby

FRIDAY, 11

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8:00 pm RB 1042
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                    <text>Inside:
Rosehart re-appointed ............ 3
Kehlenbeck- Distinguished
Instructor .................................. 3
High school students
say "yes'r"to LU ...................... 4
RAP conference ........................ 5
Can crushing campus ............ 11

�Report
From the
President
Dr. Bob Rosehart

FEDERAL BUDGET
The recent federal budget of Mr.
Wilson is just a further reflection of the
desperate financial shape of Canada.
For years, governments have lived .
beyond their means, and now Canadians must face the music. What is more
disturbing than this bad planning by
previous governments are the "targets"
of the Mulroney machine. Health care
and post-,secondary education are very
significant programs that will feel the
brunt of the transfer payment cuts. It
has been estimated by Treasurer Nixon
that, for next year, this represents about
$500 million for Ontario alone. Approximately 70% of the transfers are
directed at health care, and it is clear
that the public will not tolerate reduced
access. On the college and university
fronts, any reductions here would
seriously cripple the future of the
country in the coming decade when we
are going to see fewer and fewer people
enter our work force. The budget has
financial vision, but it is sadly lacking in
an overall long-term strategy for the
nation.
Initial comments from the Ontario
government seem to indicate that they
will maintain their commitments and
support to post-secondary education
and its importance to the future development of this Province. It is clear, once
again, that accessibility will become an
issue. It may be in the future that
university entrance is limited and more
students will involuntarily be directed
to a renewed college system. As well,
the university system will have to deal
collectively with significant tuition fee
increases.
Obviously, the fallout from the
transfer payments reduction will have
some imnacts on Lakehead University.
It is far too early to predict what specific
impacts these will be, but the approval
of the 1990/~1 Operating Budget is
being delayed until May ~ that we will
knm·1 the impact of the Ontario budget
expected in early May. In the interim
the Vice-President will be reviewing all
planned budgeting expenditures for the
1990/91 year.
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APPLICATIONS FOR 1990/91
In whatever type of future funding
scenarios that Lakehead University may
face, student enrolment and student
retention will be critical parameters. It
looks as if, provincially, the system is
close to peaking next year with only a
modest 0.6% increase in high school
applicants for the Fall of 1990. However, Lakehead is, at this stage, showing a 10.7% increase in applications, the
highest of any provincial university.
Several of our programs are continuing
to show very significant increases in
student interest. Particularly encouraging are Arts, Co-op Computer Science,
Education, Physical Education, Engineering and ursing. A recent study of
the Lakehead Board of Education has
shown that 63% of their graduates who
pursue a university degree do so at
Lakehead University.
LAKEHEAD GRAD HIRED BY NASA
I just heard about how a professor's
interest in keeping track of his students
paid big dividends. Ulf Runesson,
School of Forestry, went to a conference
in Georgia last year and got on a
mailing list for the Stennis Space Centre
in Mississippi. When he discovered
they were looking for a forester with
remote sensing background he immediately thought of Robert Zakulak an '89
grad from Winnipeg. Ulf contacted the
parents, put the parties in touch with
each other and the result was a successful match. Robert's background in
forestry with CARIS experience was
unique and perfect for the position of
developing the forestry application side
of the operation. Stennis is an affiliate
of NASA mandated to commercialize
space and maintain the major software
package for remote sensing. Looks like
we are now an established contact with
NASA thanks to Ulf's efforts.

Ulf Runnesson

Robert Zakulak

SILVER JUBILEE ACTIVITIES
A special celebration was held in
Atikokan on Friday, February 23, to
recognize the contributions made to
Atikokan by Lakehead University

during the first 25 years of L.U.'s
existence. Presentations were made to
Lakehead University on behalf of the
local member of government, the school
boards, and the Township of Atikokan.
A display of Visual Arts was complimented by a series of selections by the
Music Program's vocal ensemble. A
good time was had by the approximately 150 participants including a
special guest of the Atikokan students,
Dr. E. Zimmermann of the History
Department. Other guests included
home-town faculty member, Professor
Margaret Boone.
NOR'WESTERS WIND-UP
As the season ends, I must congratulate our student athletes, coaches, and
programs for their excellent showing in
the Ontario Leagues. Without wanting
to single out particular students, special
attention is deserved by John Laplante,
Sharon Knowles and Kelly Breutigam as
well as the first place finish by our
Ladies' Nor'Wester Basketball Team. I
have been very impressed by the sportsmanship demonstrated by our teams
often under very difficult circumstances. Students, faculty and community participation at the C. J. Sanders
building is on the increase, and L.U.
crowds are becoming notorious in the
rest of the leagues. On recent weekends,
the Field House has hosted approximately 1,000 participants per game.
L.U./CONFEDERATION COLLEGE
FITNESS EXPERIMENT
Have you taken advantage of the experimental access to t~e Colle~e's facilities yet? If not, you still have time. At
the end of the project, I would be
interested in your input as to what your
experiences were.
SHARON MCKAY APPOINTED
DEAN AT U. OF REGINA
I would like to
congratulate Professor Sharon
McKay who has
accepted the
position of Dean of
the Faculty of
Social Work at the
University of
Regina beginning
July 1990. This
speaks well of
Sharon personally and professionally
and the experience she has gained
during her 15 years at Lakehead University.

AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - March 1990

�Around Campus
DR. BOB ROSEHART
RE-APPOINTED FOR 5-YEAR TERM

The recommendation of the Presidential Review Committee to re-appoint
Dr. Rosehart was unanimously approved by the Board of Governors.
Chairman of the Board, Dr. James
Colqugoun, said, "the Presidential
Review revealed overwhelming support
of Dr. Roseharfs administration".
Rosehart has been on faculty at LU since
1970.
DISTINGUISHED INSTRUCTOR DR. MANFRED KEHLENBECK

Dr. Manfred
Kehlenbeck,
Professor of
Geology, has been
awarded the
prestigious Distinguished Instructor
Award for 1989-90.
Professor Kehlenbeck has been
teaching at LU since
1971.

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC ON TOUR

Student and faculty ensembles from
the Department of Music recently
completed a four-day tour of Northwestern Ontario. Funding for the tour
was provided by the Centre for Northern Studies and the co-ordinator was
Jeff Gibson, a sessional lecturer in the
Department of Music. The tour, which
took place February 15 to 18, consisted
of six concerts - two each in Fort
Frances, Dryden and Kenora.
Daytime performances by student
and faculty instrumental ensembles
took place at Fort Frances and Dryden
High Schools and at Beaverbrae High
School in Kenora. A total of 1500 high
school students attended the performances. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings (Feb.16 to 18) the
Lakehead University Vocal Ensemble,
Faculty Woodwind Quintet and Student
Ensembles gave evening concerts at Fort
Frances High School, Knox United
Church (Kenora) and Dryden High
School. Repertoire ranged from works
by Bach, Mendelssohn and VaughnWilliams to jazz standards by Duke
Ellington and George Gershwin. Media
coverage of several of these events was

extensive and the Department of Music
wishes to thank the Dryden High School
Drama Club and the Lake of the Woods
Concert Group for their assistance in organizing the tour. A run-out to Marathon by faculty and student instrumental ensembles is planned or the end of
March.
ADRIENNE CLARKSON'S PLEA TO
CITY COUNCIL

In May 1989 I accepted_ an honorary
doctorate from Lakehead University.
Part of the pleasure of my acceptance
was the knowledge that the Lakehead
was a historic community with links to
the opening of the west and with its key
position in the centre of our beloved
country.
I am now deeply distressed to learn
of the motion before your city council,
giving vent to ignorance, mean-mindness and lack of understanding of the
historic deal which forged our country
and which has made it unique.
I strongly urge you as a Canadian
whom your community has honoured
to embrace the spirit of moderation and
decency upon which this country was
built and reject this motion.

EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS
Alumni Annual Fund close to reaching $100,000 Goal

Opening the mail at Alumni House is one of the more
Phonathon that raised $30,000 toward the Association's sixpleasant task because every cheque received puts the staff a
figure goal. In February the Alumni Association will have
little closer to reaching its goal. By March 1 the Alumni
tried something new - using paid student callers to telephone
Association had raised $92,652 from 1578 donors and saw the alumni living in Northwestern Ontario.The efforts of six
average gift increase to $58.
energetic students (most of whom live in LU residence) will
Money is used to fund scholarships and bursaries, to
very likely push the Association over the top. If you have not
purchase books and journals for the library, and to fund a
already contributed to the Alumni Annual Fund, why not
variety of department and faculty projects. The need for more take a moment now to do so? Your generosity will benefit
endowed scholarships is particularly acute because Lakehead everyone connected with LU --especially its future students.
University is a comparatively young University. We
need to attract students to our northern campus and
scholarships are a major incentive. During the past
year alone, the Alumni Association established three
endowed scholarships valued at $10,000 each - all
from money raised through its Alumni Annual Fund.
Designating money to library acquisitions is
another popular choice among the alumni.Last year
the Alumni Association directed over $3,000 to the
Chancellor Paterson Library which was used in the
purchase of two new subscriptions to CD ROM data
bases that the Library would not otherwise have been
able to afford. Chief Librarian Fred McIntosh estimates that the average cost of a book for the University collection is $46 and says that the support provided by the Annual Fund is important in helping the
library purchase the materials needed to meet the
many demands of its users. This year, close to $8,000
has already been designated to the Library and is sure
to be a welcome addition to the Library's budget.
None of these projects could be possible without
the generosity of our 14,000 alumni living in all parts
of Canada, the United States and overseas. Last fall,
Anne Deighton, Jo Baratta and Fred McIntosh look on as Leila Wallenius demover 90 alumni volunteers participated in a
onstrates the CD ROM data base in the Chancellor Paterson Library.
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�IS SMALL
FINALLY BIG?
LAKEHEAD TOPS THE CHARTS!!

NEW CAMERA INSTALLED

Graphics manager Ben Kaminiski oversees the operation
of the new graphics camera with operator Debbie Tew. "The
computerized programming component will reduce operator time but the big advantage is the elimination of many
steps for the high volume, repetitive jobs" says the manager.
The old camera was donated to the Visual Arts Department.
Approximately 900 requests for graphic support are
received annually (including camera work for half-tones,
PMT's and negatives). Categories of work include research,
teaching aids, student promotion, administration, and offcampus requests.
POWER OUTAGE

The entire university campus was without power for an
extended period when the main feeder line shut down. According to the Director of Campus Development Jim Podd,
"It took 6 hours to isolate the problem and we were able to
restore power to the residence area first. The crew worked
from 4 pm on Sunday, February 25 until nearly noon on
Monday when the Bora Laskin building was finally brought
on line".
TWO GREAT CONCERTS

RUDOLF NUREYEV and Friends will dance at the
Thunder Bay Community Auditorium on Monday, April
9at8pm.
Tickets arc $100, $45, $37.50. Call the Box Office.
The Lakehead University Vocal Ensemble will perform
Choral Music of the 20th Century under Director Allan
Beavan on Monday, April 9. The concern will be at St.
Paul's United Church at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at
the door ($5.00/$7.00).

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Application figures recently received from the Ontario
Universities. Application Centre in Guelph suggest an
increase of .6% in applications for admission to Ontario
universities from Ontario high school students for 19901991. Applications to Lakehead University have increased
by a 10.7% percentage, well above the provincial average.
Lakehead University has experienced the largest increase
in applications of the provinces 17 universities. The
increase may reflect a trend wherein larger numbers of
students are applying to the province's smaller universities. According to Registrar Pentti Paularinne, "students
say they want to attend a smaller university-a place where
they can experience that personal touch. To date,
Lakehead University has received a total of 2,319 applications compared to 2,094 at this time last year. Lakehead
has in fact already received 100 more applications than
were received to the end of the admission cycle last year
and the University will continue to accept applications
until September for the 1990/91 fall term. The 2,319 applications is the largest number of applications which
Lakehead University has received from high school applicants in the past five years. Here are some highlights and
trends concerning applications from the high school
sector:
- Applications to Arts programs have increased by
over 20% (563 this year and 466 last year).
- Applications to Science Programs have increased
2.8% largely due to the introduction of a new computer science co-op program.
.
- Applications to the concurrent 4-year Education
degree program have increased by 41 % (564 this
year and 399 last).
- Applications to the Physical Education degree program are also up by 19% (231 this year and 193 last
year).
.
- Engineering applications are up by 21 % (117 this
year and 96 last year).
.
. ..
- Nursing experienced a 6% mcrease, s1gmf1cant
because nursing applications were down 20% last
year over the previous year.
.
.
The only areas which have experienced declines~ application are Business, Forestry and Outd?or_Recreation.
The decline in business and forestry applications parallels
a provincial trend wherein applications to business
programs are down -5% and to forestry by -23%. This is
despite the fact that employers indicate there is a big
demand for graduates of both business and forestry.
Lakehead continues to attract more students from northwestern Ontario (55% in the current year). This is reflected
in the recent survey 'Where do They Go' conducted by the
Lakehead Board of Education indicating that 63% of the
students pursuing university studies are enrolled at
Lakehead University. We have no reason to believe
statistics would not be similar for the Lakehead Catholic
Board.

AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - March 1990

�~
Northern Studies
~ i i i A Pre-feasibility Investigation
•

·-___~ of the Quetico Research Centre

In early December, a contract between the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines and the Centre for Northern Studies was signed awarding the
Centre $12,000 to conduct a pre-feasibility study on the viability of a research
centre associated with Quetico Park. Quetico Provincial Park is a rich storehouse of archaeological, historical, and biological resources. It already has a
reputation as a world-class wilderness resource. The objectives of the study are
to determine the most likely fields of research that would occur; to make a
preliminary determination of market demands for research support; to prepare
a general outline of the facilities that could be included in the research centre; to
discuss management options for the facility; and ultimately, to make recommendations on the optimal approach and future considerations for a feasibilty
study. The goal of the study is to determine if the concept of a wilderness
research centre has enough merit to be pursued at this time.This service contract
is important to the Centre because it has direct application to the development
of the community of Atikokan and because it has an interdisciplinary focus.
The Centre's linkages with the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
are an integral function of the Centre's mandate. It is expected that the study
will be completed in early May.

The Lakehead University Norwesters are victorious in more ways
than one. All varsity teams have done
well so far this season and they are
expected to do even better as they move
into the crunch for top spot.
The Lady Norwester Basketball
squad has earned a trip to Ottawa for
the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate
Athletic Association championship,
March 3 and 4. The Lady Norwesters
clinched top spot to win the West
Division of the OWIAA after defeating
the University of Waterloo 61-46. The
team finished the season with an
unbeatable 12-2 record and are currently ranked 8th nationwide.
The Lakehead Norwesters Men's
Basketball team locked in a playoff spot
after a 86-74 victory over the McMaster
Marauders. The win earned the team

sixth place in the Ontario Universities
Athletic rankings and a berth in the
Ontario Universities Athletic Association playoffs. The Norwesters headed
to St. Catherines to play Brock in one of
two sudden death games. There they
lost to Brock 78-66. The winner there
will play in the final four at Western.
The Lakehead University Women's
Volleyball team defeated Waterloo to
sweep their final regular-season
OWIAA series and advance to the
provincial championship. The Norwesters finished the season with a 10-4
record and third place in the West
Division of the Ontario Women's
Intercollegiated Athletic Association.
The championship tournament was held
February 23 to 25 in Waterloo and
Lakehead University defeated Windsor
for the consolation title and fifth place
overall.
Lakehead University wrestlers Mike
Kirlew and Tony Gallo finished in the
top three at the Ontario Universities
Athletic Association championship.
Kirlew, competing in the heavyweight
division, finished second in his category
and Gallo won a bronze in the 61 kg.
class. They compete at the national
championship held March 2 - 3 at
Mount Allison University in Sackville,
New Brunswick.

MAKIN GA ... _
GREAT LAKE SUPERIOR:
Remedial Action Plarts ln The Basin
March 22-24 1990

Lakehead Centre fcfrNorthem -Studies at Lakehead University and
The Canada and United States Lake
Superior RAP teams are. hosts for
thisconference to be held at Valhalla
Inn, Thunder Bay. Remedial Action
Plans, or RAPs, are part of a joint U$./
Canada initiative to clean up water
pollution in the Great Lakes. The task
can only be accomplished through cooperation at many community levels.
This conference is our opportunity to
work together to make a Great Lake
Superior! Be an active contributor to
the discussion. Meet others in government, business and environmental
groups who are interested in solving
international water pollution problems. For more information, please
contactBetty Salo, Conference Coordinator, Centre for Northern Studies,
Lakehead Uriiversity:at~3-8377.
Spotlight On Cross -Country Skier
Mark Puumala

Mark Puumala, a Geology graduate
student, is not only a scholar but a
successful athlete. Mark graduated in
May 1989 with a BSc. from LU and
received a NSERC scholarship to come
back and do his Masters degree.
This is Mark's third season as a
member of the Lakehead University ski
team and his most successful. "The
season has been going well. I've been
improving all the way through. I skied
in Sudbury a few weekends ago and
made 11th place with 80 skiers in the
race".
He has been training especially hard
this year because this is his next to last
season skiing for the university and he
wants to do the best he can for the team.
"I've been racing since I was 8 years old.
It's my 15th or 16th year of racing."
Mark recently returned from Ottawa
and the Ontario University Championships where he came 15th in the race. "I
hoped to finish in the top 10 in this race
but I skied my best. I was very pleased
with my performance". Mark has set
goals for himself. 'This year I want to
finish in the top 10 in Ontario. It's
within reach. This summer I'll devote
myself to training as well as working on
my thesis at the university. I hope to be
in the top 5 or even top 3 next season
because it will be my last year with the
university".

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�Northern Insights
At spring training camp for the New
York Mets, a reporter once asked Casey
Stengel what the prospects were for two
twenty year old try-outs. "In ten years,
one guy has a chance of being a star. In
ten years the other guy has a chance to
be thirty.''
The laconic Stengel was well placed
to make his prediction come true.
Academics, on the other hand, usually
lack Stengel's ability to pull strings, yet
they often gaze into a crystal ball.
Making predictions is now one of the
academic's everyday responsibilities as
an intellectual resource for society.
At an economic developer's conference held recently in Thunder Bay,
forecasts by academics took centre
stage, even though crystal balls were
long ago cut out of academic budgets.
Instead, the academics relied on analyzing the past and present, then projected
those trends into the future.
The conference, called "Preparing for
the 90's,'' presented the academics with
a rare opportunity to influence the
future direction of northern Ontario.
The academics did not have Casey
Stengel's authority to choose future
players, but the academics did have the
opportunity to inspire the thinking of
other managers.
The conference was organized by the
"Northwestern Ontario Economic
Development Association" - a looselywoven coalition of municipal economic
development officers, industrial training
specialists, economists, and civil
servants.
The Association has spent years
breaking down "my town first" parochialism in the field of economic development. Ideas and business opportunities
are shared, except where commercial
confidentiality may be violated. Scarce
resources, both human and financial, are
pooled rather than jealously guarded.
The Association also recognized the
need to break down the parochialism of
being only "the northwest'', and
extended invitations to the conference to
their counterparts in the northeast. The
combined effect of all these initiatives
brought nearly 200 delegates to the
Airlane Hotel January 10-12, and created
a framework to make the conference an
annual evc:-.t.
The academics given centre stage
included Dr. Willia~ Fyfe, the Dean of
Science at the University of Western
Ontario, Dr. David Foot, a demographer
from the economics department at the
University of Toronto, and economics
Pages

by Larry Sanders
Professor Norman Bonsor from
Lakehcad. They were each asked to
apply their expertise to paint their own
portrait of the 90's, to equip the economic development workers with
ammunition to "make it" in the turbulent times ahead.
Dr. Fyfe, an internationally respected
environmental expert, frightened and
challenged delegates with his graphic
pictures of global pollution and overpopulation. He said the combined
effects of soil depletion and global
warming would transform northern
Ontario into a "semi-arctic desert''
within 20 to 30 years. He bluntly told
the delegates, "Canada has no moral
right to talk to anyone about the environment. We are now the biggest
energy users in the world, and also hold
the record for per capita methane gas

•'Demographics is the
fundamental basis on
which you must build
your economic development strategies. Yes, you
have to worry about lots
of other things. But if
you get the demographics
wrong, you've got a very,
very cracked foundation
on which everything else
is to be built".
production. We are, per capita, the
dirtiest people in the world."He
encouraged the economic developers to
recognize the new "green" context for
their work. 'There is a new word in the
vocabulary of world management. It's
that word 'sustainable'. Is what we are
doing sustainable, even if we are
making occasionally some money?"
Dr. Foot added demography to the
economic devclopers'toolbox. "Demographics is the fundamental basis on
which you must build your economic
development strategies. Yes, you have
to worry about lots of other things. But
if you get the demographics wrong,
you've got a very, very cracked foundation on which everything else is to be
built." Like Casey Stengel, he based his
analysis on the assumption "every year,
we all get one year older," and showed
how Canada's population is expected to
peak within the next two to three
decades, then start to decline, unless

Ottawa changes the nation's immigration policies, or there's an unexpected
reversal in the declining fertility rate of
Canadian women.
Northern Ontario, according to Foot,
will have an even greater concentration
of older people, and a further decline in
the 16-25 age group. ''The percentage of
younger people is declining dramatically. That's why schools have had to be
dosed ." For those planning economic
development, that's distressing news,
because "if you're looking for young,
inexperienced workers, or young cheap
workers to plan your economic development patterns around, they simply
are not going to be there."
Professor Bonsor spoke the morning
after Fyfe and Foot. Bonsor upset many
delegates with his statement "When you
look at development and diversification, I think anybody who believes that
that is easy, or that every community
represented in this room is going to do
it, has been eating funny mushrooms.
Not all small, or even some of the larger
communities, will succeed in attracting
new ventures to replace existing declining employment bases. We have spent,
as a society, a lot of money, and a lot of
time, attempting to attract ventures,
firms, to northwestern Ontario. The
success of that over the years has been
very limited. And I don't think this is at
all surprising."
Delegates such as the executive
director of Thunder Bay's Economic
Development Corporation, Dick
Charbonneau, challenged Bonsor.
Charbonneau said that communities
could diversify, if they took advantage
of the Free Trade Agreement with the
United States, and redefined their
market as the North American midwest.
Reluctantly, Bonsor agreed.
If the predictions of Fyfe, Foot and
Bonsor are accurate, northern Ontario's
future is one where the integrity of the
environment is supreme, the market orientations are north-south rather than
cast-west, the labour force is smaller,
older, and highly specialized, and only
some communities now on the map will
be there in 30 years. On top of that, the
north, like the rest of Canada, will be
under pressure from an overpopulated
globe to fill in some of our "wide open
spaces" with new immigrants.
That may not be a team that can win
the World Series, but at least we'll all be
ten years older, and we might have a
good shot at making the playoffs.

AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - March 1990

�New Faces

Doug Stone has been appointed
industrial technology advisor at
Innovation North. He has a BSc and
is a registered professional mechanical engineer. Doug brings to
the university 18 years experience
with the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.
"I hope to bring a good connection
between the university and industry". Doug seems to enjoy wearing
many hats at once. He is a lecturer
in the first year technology program
in the school of engineering which
he refers to as "lots of work and a lot
of fun". He also manages to continue work on his Graduate
Business Diploma Program, hack away on his computer and
fit in the odd camping, canoing or skiing excursions with his
family. You can meet this buzy man in his office on the fourth
floor of the Centennial Building or by calling 343-8124.

Tracy O'Neill works in Photocopy Services in the Library. Most
of her work experience has been in
the hotel industry but finds her job
in the Library "totally different,
definitely enjoyable". Tracy likes
the pace on the second floor. "It's
always busy. I like working with
lots of people. Everyone is really
friendly and I like the environment". Born and raised in Thunder
Bay, Tracy spends some of her
spare time doing crosstitch and
various crafts. With the spirit of a
true Northerner often she can be found "roughing it" in the
great outdoors. Tracy's favourite fishing hole is Kab Lake
where she and fellow outdoorspersons pitch their tents in the
most isolated spot they can find.

Meeting Dr. Dan Weeks in his
The minute Emily Scott speaks,
sparkle and enthusiasm are evident.
office is a memorable experience.
Mrs. Scott was hired as the Special
While the newly-appointed
asistant professor in the School of
needs assistant in the Leaming
Centre. She is currently going dePhysical Education discusses
partment by department talking
cognitive psychology and how that
about the Centre's services. She
relates to athletics one cannot help
feels strongly that it is critical to
but notice the drums, weight lifting
work together to ensure a unified
poster, an album with Charlie
approach to meeting the needs of
Watts and a kilt.
students. She discusses problems in
Originally from Sault Ste. Marie,
the classrooms and resources availDan began his education at Humable to faculty and students. Anber College in music but quickly
~~~~~=!!= :::::!~d other component of her job is to be a
decided that the life of a musician
liaison for the students and outside agencies that may be rewas not for him. He earned a BA from the University of
quired. Emily describes herself as "one of the unfortunates
Windsor and his MSc from McMaster in 1985. A PhD at
who lives and sleeps her job. I admit the job becomes quite
Auburn followed and a post-doctoral fellowship with the
consuming." It's her passion for justice and equaltiy, comUnited States Air Force. Dan was at Purdue University in
bined with her teaching background and a 12-year interest in
Wisconsin for over a year doing research and some teaching
and looks forward to his future at Lakehead. 'The potential is reading and reading disorders that gives her insight into the
special problems that some students face. "It surprises many
great. This university seems to be on the upswing compared
people to discover that there are so many students who know
to other Canadian universities. That was one of the reasons
that they have a learning problem and don't know where to
why I came here".
Music is still a big part of Dan's life and he's already joined tum for help." Scott believes that we always face the unknown factor but really the sky's the limit for all learners.
the Thunder Bay Police Pipe Band. "I started in a pipe band
"We cannot foresee what we are capable of. I believe that in
at the age of 10 but at that time I wanted to be a rock star the past, people just dropped out. That's why I'm so conmaybe I'm just returning to my roots" he laughed.
cerned that people come forward and seek help. It behoves the
university to take a leadership role. and use our creativity to
make it more possible for people with special needs to succeed."

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�People, Papers/Publications
&amp; Special Projects
Dr. Doug Thom, School
of Education, is currently
~~=~ researching aspects of
public education financing
in Ontario. He will be
presenting a major paper on
his research findings at the
Learned Societies Canadian
Association for the Study of
~=t;!;~[!iir'
1 Educational Administration
(CASEA) Conference in
June in Victoria.

:Si;t:.t;Q

Dr. A. H. Mamoojee,

Department of Lans~====~ guages, presented a paper
t~{!~~J:iY entitled "The Asian proconsulship of Q. Cicero: an
appraisal" at the annual meeting of the
Classical Association of the Canadian
West, held at the University of Winnipeg on the 16th and 17th of February
1990.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Students, Faculty, and Alumni are encouraged to respond to the call for
nominations for the Distinguished
Instructor Award for 1990-91. The
$3,500 award is to be used to further the
academic development of the faculty
member. The award was given last year
for the first time to Dr. Penny Petrone,
School of Education. Nominations may
be made by faculty members, Department Heads or Chairs, Deans, groups of
at least five students or Alumni, with
each group submitting a supporting
letter. The nominating letter must be
submitted to the Senate Committee on
Teaching and Learning by May 30, 1990.
A list of supporting documentation and
the criteria for selection will be published by April 30, 1990. Candidates are
expected to submit a full dossier by
September 30, 1990. A faculty member
may receive only one award every ten
years.

Awards
In recognition of scholarly activity,
research and publications, or service
and outstanding contribution to their
university and Department /School, the
Deans of Arts and Science and professional Studies announce the
1989/90 MERIT AWARDS
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Dr. K. Brown, Forestry;
Dr. M. C. Courtland, Education;
Dr. T. Song, Physical Education;
Professor C. Loos, Nursing;
Dr. S. A. Mirza, Engineering;
Dr. V. R. Puttagunta, Engineering;
Prof. R. Nelson, Business;
Prof. M. Boone, Nursing;
Dr. R. Lappage, Physical Education.
1989/90 MERIT AWARDS
ARTS AND SCIENCE

Dr. J.E. Molto, Anthropology;
Dr. M. Knowles, Biology;
Dr. N. Weir, Chemistry;
Dr. S. R. MacGillivray, English;
Dr. J.M. Richardson, English;
Dr. H. Rasid, Geography;
Dr. G. Borradailc, Geology;
Dr. R. Mitchell, Geology;
Dr. J. D. Rabb, Philosophy;
Dr. R. Delaney, Social Work;
Dr. D. Nock, Sociology.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEACHING
AWARDS

The Senate Committee on Teaching
and Learning is pleased to announce
that the following have been voted
recipients of the Contributions to
Teaching Awards for 1989-90:
Faculty of Arts and Science
- Dr. B. O'Connor
- Dr. M. Sellick
-Mrs. P. Warywoda
Faculty of Professional Studies
- Mr. D. H. Alexander
- Dr. M. H. Khan
- Mr. M. Zettek
Three Faculty members, Dr. S. R.
Goldstein, from the Arts and Sciences,
and Mrs. M. Maclean and Dr. D.
Klassen from Professional Studies were
nominated but since they received the
award two years ago were ineligible for
this competition (the award can only be
given to a Faculty member once in three
years). Nominations were also received
for Mrs. D. Wawia and Mr. S. Chase
from Professional Studies. All are to be
congratulated for the fine support they
received from their students. The time
and effort given by the students to write
the letters and obtain signatures is very
much appreciated by the Committee.

TBSO IMPLEMENTS RUSH
SEATING FOR STUDENTS

In order to make concerts more
accessible to students, the Thunder Bay
Symphony Orchestra has implemented
Rush Seats for it's Auditorium concerts.
The rush seating policy takes effect
immediately and will continue into next
season.
At any Symphony concert held at the
Thunder Bay Community Auditorium,
students can purchase rush scats at a
cost of $9.00 each. The tickets must be
bought in person between 6:30 and 7 pm
on the evening of the concert.
Pages

John Russell, Director of External Relations, happily recei.ves the last installment of a five
year $20,000 pledge from Labatt's Ontario Breweries. District Manager Gord Kyle
presents the cheque.
AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - March 1990

�Research News
FROM THE OFFICE OF
GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH

Research Officer: Anne Fiorenza
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

For further information on any of these Research Programs,
please contact Anne Fiorenza, Research Officer, at ext. 8223
GRANTS AWARDED
Dr. Alan Gilbert (Chemical Engineering) in conjunction

with Canadian Pacific Forest Products Ltd., has been awarded
a research grant through the Ministry of Colleges and Universities' University Research Incentive Fund (URIF). This
research will use a new high consistency mixer/ reactor to
bleach kraft pulp with chlorine dioxide in a search for
conditions which minimize the formation of chlorate. The
URIF program encourages university-industry research
partnerships by matching dollar for dollar, eligible investmen ts by the private sector in university-based contract
research.
Dr. Moira McPherson (Physical Education) in collaboration

with Digi-Laser Inc. has been awarded a URIF research grant
to study the "Feasibility of a Customized Approach to
Computer Assisted Leaming.'' The proposed feasibility
study is designed to evaluate the user acceptability and costs
associated with the implementation of a dynamic interactive
course medium using a combination of hypertext, graphics,
animation and artificial intelligence software techniques.
Dr. Muzibul H. Khan (Electrical Engineering) has been
awarded a Science and Technology Agency Fellowship by
NSERC and the Japan International Science and Technology
Exchange Center (JISTEC). Dr. Khan will spend 6 months in
Japan working with the Communications Research Laboratory on a research project entitled, "Hand-off Control for
Microcellular Communication Systems."
NEWS FROM SSHRC
1990 Strategic Grants

Many changes have occurred in the SSHRC Strategic Grants
program this year. These changes were made in accordance
with recommendations made by the Paquet Task Force. The
principal conclusions from this review were that greater
attention be given to promoting interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches to pressing research issues. Therefore,
support will be given in the following areas: (a) Strategic
Research Grants ($100,000 per year up to $250,000 over three
years); (b) Research Networks ($40,000 maximum per year);
(c) Research Workshops ($15,000 maximum per year); and (d)
Partnership Development Grants (up to $5,000).
The new themes introduced by SSHRC will provide Lakehead
University researchers the opportunity of participating in
exciting areas of research of national importance. The new
themes for 1990 are: Women and Work; Education and Work
in a Changing Society; Managing for Global Competitiveness;
Science and Technology Policy in Canada; and Applied
Ethics.
Deadlines: April 17, 1990 and October 15, 1990.
Canadian Studies Research Tools (CSRT) Program

The purpose of the CSRT program is to further the develop-

ment of Canadian studies by making accessible primary and
secondary print and non-print, documentary materials of
importance for advanced research in Canadian studies areas.
The program supports bibliographic projects and archival
projects, with awards reaching a maximum of $75,000.
This program particularly encourages the preparation and
dissemination of research tools which will ensure broadly
based intellectual access to materials in areas inadequately
covered by existing research tools.
Deadline: April 1, 1990.
Learned Society Conference

For all SSHRC Eligible faculty attending the Learned Societies
Conference, SSHRC invites all researchers to attend information sessions concerning changes in the Council's research
grants and strategic grants resulting from the report of the
second task force on priorities (Paquet Report) and the report
of the research grants review committee (Courtney Report).
For dates and times please refer to the Conference Agenda.
SOCIAL SCIENCE FEDERATION OF CANADA
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme

The program is designed to assist the publication of works of
advanced scholarship which make an important contribution
to the advancement of knowledge, but which are unlikely to
be self-supporting. The programme helps defray the publisher's deficit on the production and marketing of the book.
Deadline: Open.
NEWS FROM NSERC
1990 Strategic Grants

For the past few years, the Strategic Grants Program has been
subject to evaluation, review and analysis by NSERC. The
result has been the establishment of mission statements for
each of the following ten strategic themes: (a) Advanced
Technologies (Information Systems; Biotechnology; Industrial
Materials, Products, and Processes; Manufacturing Systems;
Energy), (b) Natural Resources (Food, Agriculture and Aquaculture; Forestry; Mineral Resources; Oceans and Inland
Waters), (c) Environmental Quality, and (d) Open.
NSERC Strategic Grant Representatives will be on campus on
March 29, 1990 to discuss the strategic themes and changes.
Deadline: May 1, 1990.
THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH
Request for Proposals

The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
invites researchers to submit a pre,application Letter of
Intent for projects in biomedical, humanistic, and social
sciences research relevant to AIDS. This RFP is issued for
their Research Grants Program ($50,000 per year) and Small
Grants Program ($5,000 for travel). Deadline: April 10, 1990
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY MINES AND RESOURCES
Environmental Studies Revolving Funds

The Environmental Studies Revolving Funds are intended to
address only issues directly related to oil and gas exploration
and development needs. Issues associated with offshore
activities in southern Canada are funded by the EMR. Issues
associated with offshore activities in Canada's north are
funded by Indian and Northern Affairs In Northern Development. Deadline: Open.
CANADA: DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS
International Cooperation Assistance Fund on New Information Technologies

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�The International Cooperation Assistance Fund's purpose is
to encourage the private and public sectors to acquire from
aborad the know-how necessary to strengthen the
development of competitive Canadian Industry in new
information technologies. The fund is intended to increase
participation by Canadian organizations in cooperative
international research projects. The maximum value of the
award is $200,000 per year. Deadline: Open.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Research Grants
The purpose of the National Geographic Society Research
Grants is to support research projects relevant to the field of
geography as interpreted broadly. Grants normally are made
only for field research. The areas of study supported are
Anthropology, Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Botany,
Ecology, Geography, Geology, Oceanography, Paleontology
and Zoology. Deadline: Open.
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO)
Advanced Research Workshops
The purpose of the Advanced Research Workshops programme is to contribute to the critical assessment of existing
knowledge on new, important topics, to identify directions for
future research and to promotes close working relations
between scientists from different countries and different
professional experiences. The areas of study supported are
Applied Sciences, Social Sciences, Chemistry, Geosciences,
Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Mathematics.
Deadline: Open.
RESEARCH CORPORATION
Cottrell Grants
Cottrell Research Grants are given to assist scientists to
conduct basic research in the natural sciences. Research
Corporation seeks to place Cottrell Research Grants in
situations of genuine opportunity where well-timed support
can lead to significant contributions to scientific knowledge
and to the development of the investigator, his students and
institution. Deadline: Open.
UPCOMING DEADLINE DATES
World Wildlife Fund - Endangered Species Recovery Fund
(April 1, July 1, October 1, January 1), Wildlife Toxicology
Fund (anytime).
Laidlaw Foundation Program - Children and Families at Risk
Program (May 1, September 1, November 1), Laidlaw Scholar
Program (anytime), Laidlaw Conservation Program (July 1).
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies - Research Grants
(April 1), Doctoral Thesis Fellowship in Ukrainian History
(May 1, 1990).
Ontario Ministry of Health - Research Program (April 1,
1990)
The G. Alan Roeber Institute - Research programs (April 30,

1990)
University Research Incentive Fund (URIF)- May 31, 1990
Association of Universities and Colleges (AUCC) - Microfunds (May 1, 1990)

We've been cut!!!
Michael Wilson's budget has created a crisis for Native
commmunications societies. Rumours of impending slashes
and, in some cases, total cuts to these government-funded
programs in the February 20 budget have become a reality.
No longer will Native newspapers be supported through
the federal government. All money flowing to the Native Communications Program (NCP) has been cut as of April 1. The
Northern Native Broadcast Access Program (NNBAP) has been
cut by 16 per cent.
Twenty-one Native communication societies are in trouble!
Budget cuts to these programs will create severe financial
problems for most of these societies, which will ultimately
reflect in the programming and delivery of communication
services to Native people Using Wawatay as an example, a total
cut of the NCP may mean no more community radio maintenance, higher rental fees for trail radios and no translation in
Wawatay News.
Cuts to NNBAP will result in lower quality Native-language
television and radio programming, as well as fewer on-air
hours for both media.
As many as 20 jobs held mostly by Native people may be
cut in Wawatay's Sioux Lookout and Moose Factory offices.
Our readers and listeners in the North will suffer great
losses, including a major thrust in language retention, literacy,
cultural preservation and the right to be informed through
Native-language media.
So what can be done to fight these cuts? First of all, we need
as many supporters of Native communications programs as
possible to make lots of noise. Supporters have to yell loud
enough for the Secretary of State to hear a united chorus of "no
cuts" to these programs. It is important that people write
letters to their members of parliament, the Secretary of State,
and anyone else who will listen. If we don't start shouting
now, we may be too late. We must prevent the presses from
being stopped, the airways from being silenced, and a valuable
tool in preserving and retaining Native language and culture
from being lost.
Native communication services are too important to be
thrown away so wantonly. We must fight, and fight hard, to
survive. We need your help, now. Please write the Secretary of
State and your member of parliament today.

Native communication programs affected

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16% cut to the Northern Native Broadcast
Access Program
which funds:
• Native radio and televlslon programming

100% cut to the Native Communications
Program
which funds:
• Native newspapers
•
• Translation services
• Community radio maintenance
• HF and trail radio maintenance and rental

Reprinted with permission from Megan Williams, Editor Wawatay

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�DESPITE GAINS, WOMEN STILL
UNDER-REPRESENTED IN
ENGINEERING AND APPLIED
SCIENCES - AUCC
Women still account for only one in
eight full-time students in engineering
and applied sciences in Canada, according to statistics published today by the
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)."Obviously,
there are serious barriers to equitable
representation of women in engineering," said AUCC President Claude
Lajeunesse."
In fields like education and the humanities, our figures show that half or
more of the students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are
women. A rate of only one in eight in
engineering raises questions that need
to be answered."The AUCC is among
five participants in an 18-month study,
announced today by federal Science
and Technology Minister William
~inegard, to propose ways of attractmg and keeping women in engineering.
Other participants are the Canadian
Council of Professional Engineers, the
Congress of Canadian Engineering
Students, Employment and Immigration Canada, and Industry, Science and
Technology Canada.
"A Shipwrecked Miami Couple
Owe Their Lives To A Clever Gadget
That Makes Seawater Drinkable" says
a catchy title. According to shipwreck
survivors who endured 66 days adrift in
the Pacific Ocean, they would have died
where it not for a seven pound device
with an appropriate name Survivor. The
couple subsisted for more than two
months on raw fish and the precious
three litres of potable water squeezed
out of the Survivor each day. The
inventor is Dick Hembree an LU
Engineering graduate. He is a design
engineer at Recovery Engineering in
Minneapolis. Lets hope he brings his
amazing invention to Homecoming '90.

Last Writes

Katherine Shedden, Editor

Ingolf Richter, my fellow editor at the Chronicle Journal, pressed a nerve
when he recently made comments about sexism, university students and our
stud~nt newspaper. It is paternalistic and condescending to dismiss the engineenng students' efforts to investigate the appropriateness of their Godiva logo
as "silly". I believe strongly that university students are full members of the
"th_inking adult community'' and just as adults must take responsibility for their
actions, so ~ust ~tuden~s, whethe~ 18, 28 or 48. His statement that university
students thmk with their crotches 1s totally offensive.
I am constantly impressed with the calibre of student at Lakehead, whether
it's the one who turned in a reporter's lost lens, the grad student who devotes
countless (unpaid) hours to environmental concerns (see photo below), the head
of a student club who organizes events for the community or one of the many
who hold down part-time jobs in addition to full-time studies. We have 3,500
full-time students and another 2,500 part-time: does he really believe his comments apply to the majority. I do not.
. I am infori:ned ~hat the Argus is the only weekly student newpaper published by a umvers1ty the size of Lakehead. The staff does not deserve the
whitewashing Richter offered. They cope well with limited resources, both
human and financial. They tum out a weekly product that informs, challenges,
educates_an~ supports s_tudents. I'm trying to imagine the campus without this
commumcahon tool. Mistakes and weaknesses? Sure. I also see them in my
publication and in the local newspapers.
. Come on, Ingolf. What if your cynicism rubs off on the next generation of
Journalists or environmentalists?
Projects like this tin-can recycling project and the plastic mug
program exist because of caring
and dedicated students like ECHO
President Lucie Lavoie. There are
more 50 clubs on campus that serve
to improve the quality of student
life on campus and have a positive
impact on the greater Thunder Bay
community.

ANOTHER SALTY STORY
Lisa Riseling, a member of the
Mackenzie expedition and 1989
Honours Bachelor of Outdoor Recreation graduate, will spend the next six
months sailing around the world.
Riseling was hired as a midshipmen
aboard the Pogoria, a 47-metre tall ship
from Poland that will serve as a floating
classroom for about 20 students from
West Island College in Pointe Claire
Quebec. Her journey will include
travelling up the Amazon River, up the
western coast of Africa and into Polands
Gdansk. Dream come true? Call Jim
Smithers who made the trip himself and
recommended Riseling.
March 1990

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�Campus
Calendar
To include your Department's event or
activity in the Campus Calendar, please
call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the
April Agora is March 15, 1990.

MARCH
FREE CORNWALL CONCERTS

Recital Hall - 12:30 pm
Mar. 20 - Denis Brott, Cello (Toronto)
Heather Morrison, piano - $3.00
Mar. 25 - Lakehead University Wind
Ensemble, Bora Laskin Auditorium
- 8 p.m. $3.50
April 9 -Lakehead University Vocal
Ensemble - St. Paul's United Church
8 p.m. -$5.00/$7.00
INTERNATIONAL FILMS

Braun Bldg. 1021- 8 pm
For information call 343-8260
Free- Everyone Welcome

CAMBRIAN PLAYERS PRESENTS
SAILING ON THE AGE WAVE"
Life Doesn't Stop - till you let it"

University Centre Theatre -8 PM

TUESDAY, 13 &amp; THURSDAY, 15
SILVER JUBILEE
SLIDE PRESENTATION"

The Beauty and Magnificence of the
Mediaeval Churches in Europe
Dr. Walter Crowe, Bus. Administration
Ryan Building 20247 - 9 PM
FREE ADMISSION

FRIDAY,9
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

Speaker: MIKE KAULBARS
Founder of "Friends of the Rainforest''
(Canadian Chapter)
Topic: TROPICAL RAINFOREST
SUSTAINABLE USE AND TOURISM
Hosted by the Outdoor Recreation
Student's Society and ECHO
SN-1015 - 7 PM

SATURDAY, 10
Ninth Annual Women's Celebration
Potluck Supper and Entertainment

Jennifer Garrett, the Women's Choir
The Raging Grannies &amp; International
Dances - Strathcona Golf Course
BRING A DISH 6:30 PM - 1 AM

MONDAY,12

University of Manitoba
Topic: DETERMINATION OF CATION
ORDER IN ROCK-FORMING MINERALS BY RIETVELDT ANALYSIS
CB-3031 - 4 PM

FRIDAY,30
End of Classes Social

Main Cafeteria - 3:30 - 6:30 pm

APRIL

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

Speaker: DR. ROB KERRICH
University of Saskatchewan
Topic: THE GEODYNAMIC SETTING
OF GOLD DEPOSITS
CB-3031-4 PM
Hosted by the Geology Department
ST. PATRICK'S DAY SOCIAL

MAIN CAFETERIA
LU Spring Invitational Ski Series

Place: Big Thunder
Event: Slalom and Giant Slalom Races
10 am-4pm
Everyone Welcome!!

TUESDAY,20
CORNWALL CONCERT SERIES

Denis Brott, cello (Toronto)
_
Heather Morrison, piano - $3.00

WEDNESDAY, 21
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR
CENTRE

Speaker: FRANK SCARCELLO
Royal Trust
Topic: MUTUAL FUND INVESTING
7-9pm
FREE OF CHARGE

THURSDAY, 22
SILVER JUBILEE

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

BIRTHDAYPARTY#6

Speaker: DR. JOHN PERCIVAL
Geological Survey of Canada
Topic: ARCHEAN EVOLUTION FROM
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CRUST AL
EXPOSURES OF THE SUPERIOR
PROVINCE
CB-3031- 4 PM

AGORA -11:30-1:30 PM

SUNDAY,25
Lakehead University Wind Ensemble
Bora Laskin Auditorium 8 p.m. $3.50

·ruESDAY, 13

TUESDAY,3
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR
CENTRE

Speaker: GINO L. ARNONE, Lawyer
When developing a Business concept,
this seminar will assist in your decisions
on how to approach the ideas of
whether to incorporate, develop a
Partnership, or decide on Sole Propietorship - 7 - 9 PM - $10 per person
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Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
It is published monthly (except August),
and is distributed free of charge to the
University's faculty and staff, local government, media, business and friends of the
University. Credit is appreciated when
material is reproduced or quoted.
Director of External Relations:
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Assistant: Denise Bruley
Calendar: Ao Sherren
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Graphics: Ben Kaminski, Linda Siczkar,
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VISUAL ARTS IN THE NORTH

Speaker: Roger H. &amp;ulet
Topic: Walter J. Phillips at Lake-of-theWoods
Cornwall School - 7:30 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: DR. MATTI RAUDSEPP

FRIDAY, 16

SATURDAY, 17 &amp; SUNDAY 18
March 9 - Three Men And a Cradle
March 11 - The Assault

TUESDAY,27

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                    <text>Inside:
Chancellor stays on .................. 2
Temagami ........................ 3 &amp; 10
New Faces ................................ 4
R.A.P. Wrap Up ........................ 6
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL. 7. NO. 4

APRIL 1990

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Jean Chretien,
our 1988 honorary degree recipient,
dropped by the final Silver Jubilee
Birthday Party on March 22 and was
delighted with his "red" LU gifts. Greg
"Louis Armstrong" Beckford belts out
his rendition of "A Wonderful World"
to a cheering crowd (guitarist Gus
Pappas may leave his fourth year
Outdoor Recreation studies to go on the
road with him). Party organizer
Lorraine Harris and Denise Bruley,
Information Office, chat with Chretien
prior to his speech on Canadian nationalism and the French-English language
issues.

�The local economic impact is estimated
Chancellor Selection
to be three to five million dollars. Some
I am pleased to announce that the
months ago, Lakehead University
Electoral Board has invited Chancellor
officially inquired of the Royal Society
Report
B. Weiler to remain in his position for a
the possibility that Thunder Bay (and
further
term
of
one
From the
Lakehead
University) might host a
year and that a
future
conference.
A positive response
President
Chancellor-elect has
has been shown to that request and, on
been designated. A
March 26 and 27, a two-person
public
delegation inspected Thunder Bay as a
announcement on
possible contender for the 1993
Dr. Bob Rosehart
the Chancellor-elect
conference. With the support from the
will be made in midCity, the Chamber of Commerce, and
Ontario University Funding Levels
1990 to be effective
Confederation
College, Lakehead
Concern continues to be expressed
in 1991. I
University was able to present a strong
around the system with respect to the
congratulate and
case for Thunder Bay. One negative
level of funding to be provided to the
thank Chancellor
factor
raised by the visiting delegation
Ontario university system for next year. Weiler for agreeing to serve Lakehead
It is felt that if the province is reasonable University in this role for this year and I was the recent City resolution.
A decision on the 1993 site will be
and truly interested in the future
look forward to Convocation '90.
made by this fall, and I will keep you
development of the youth of this
Building Projects Update
posted. Having Thunder Bay and
province, additional considerations will
At long (and late) last, it appears as if Lakehead host this prestigious event
be forthcoming in the spring provincial
the detailed design drawings for the
would be a significant milestone in our
budget. I would encourage each and
Student Centre and the Regional
future
development as a major corridor
every one of you to use every
Education Project are to be completed
post-secondary
institution.
opportunity to present the case of the
by April 15, 1990 at which time the
needs of the university system.
Silver
Jubilee
Ball
project will be tendered. The tender
The Silver Jubilee Ball will be held
Concern with Campus Safety
price will be known three to four weeks
on Friday, May 11 at the Airlane Motor
Over the past few years on this
after that date, and about all we can do
Hotel. Tickets may be reserved by
campus (as at almost all Ontario
at this stage is pray! Both projects look
contacting
my Secretary, Linda Phillips,
university campuses), concerns have
very promising, and we will have to
at 343-8200. Response to date has been
been raised with respect to campus safety wait and see what May brings.
good, and participants are encouraged
and possible crime and assaults. Over
Learned Societies' Meeting
to bring friends.
the years, a number of very deliberate
Each year, over approximately a oneand concrete steps have been taken to
End
of Classes
month period, the Learned Societies
minimize the opportunity for such
With
the end of classes comes the
Conference is held in Canada. This
incidents. Special lighting and the
conference brings to a community some annual examination ritual. I must cut
Beverly-Balmoral entrance construction
this article short, as I am under threat to
6,000 to 8,000 delegates in total and
were projects significantly considered for
get
my examination submitted!
approximately 1,800 at any one time.
safety considerations.
The current concerns with respect to
campus safety are valid, and further
progressive action needs to be taken in
Archie Colosimo
concert with L.U.S.U. to establish
programs and policies to ensure
Appointed Ombudsperson
maximum safety for our students on
campus. I am particularly encouraged
that serious consideration is being given
Armand "Archie" Colosimo has been apto an escort-type model.
pointed Lakehead University's second OmbudTo place the issue of Lakehead
sperson. Archie brings a wealth of experience
campus safety in relative context, from
to the position. For a number of years he was
what I know of incidents at several other
Attendance Counsellor at the Lakehead
Ontario university campuses, Lakehead
District Separate School Board and until
is about as safe a campus as you can get
recently, was the Executive Director working
in today's society. This does not mean
with young offenders at the Creighton Centre.
that we should not continue to improve
Archie has been involved with community
our position, and this is a position that I
organizations such as the VON and Big
strongly support.
Brothers as well as volunteer activities like
little league baseball, hockey and youth emRegional Science Fair
===========:.. ployment. "I have always been involved with
In early April, Lakehead University
youth, their families and community based programs. The experience has given
held the Northwestern Ontario Regional
me a broad range in almost all areas of community service and wide experience
Science Fair in the C. J. Sanders Fieldin knowing how community programs operate". Archie looks forward to
house. Over the years, many of our
meeting and advising the members of the university community. For office
faculty have participated as judges. This
hours and further information contact Archie at 343-8061.
year's Chief Judge was Dr. Alastair
Macdonald of the Department of Biology.
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�Around Campus

calls "outrageous ignorance from forest
rangers", referring to the Ministry of
The Horrors In El Salvador
Natural Resources, and the systematic
Lutheran missionary Brian Rude,
process of "land taken by design from
spoke to an audience of students, staff
us by an alien government". The Temeand faculty about his experiences in El
Augama Anishnabai, according to Potts,
Salvador in the Agora on March 14.
has been struggling for 113 years to
Rude served as a pastor at Fe y
resolve the issue of ownership of the
Esperanza (Faith and Hope) orphanage
land with the government of Ontario.
in San Salvador. According to Rude,
"We have to explain to an uninformed
threats to church workers by the El
public that its our land, when the
Salvadoran police were common. In
government has no document to say it
November, following a rebel offensive in owns it either''. The solution for Potts
the capital, at great risk to themselves,
would be an offer of a treaty and a
orphanage workers went into the streets reserve in the Temagami area. Potts
to help the injured. On November 17
and the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have
soldiers entered the orphanage and
spent the past 16 years with their case in
arrested Rude along with I 1 others the courts. The band which has inhabdoctors, a nurse, pastor and lay workers. ited the area for 6000 years, lays claim to
In a world where attending university
about 10,000 square kilometres of land.
and studying Marxist doctrines are
This land includes all disputed parconsidered subversive actions, Rude is
klands and most of the forestry areas as
lucky. He was not beaten or tortured
well. Their case is now before the
during his night in prison - rather
Supreme Court of Canada.
interrogated and deprived of sleep. "We
were treated royally in comparison".
According to Rude, torture at the
government's hand is sophisticated.
''They do not visibly injure or mark the
body. They try to destroy internal
organs which are not as obvious". A
technique commonly used is called "la
capucha" (the hood). A rubber hood
filled with lime is placed over the head
of the victim who eventually must
inhale the lime until he loses
consciousness. He is then revived and
the process is repeated continuously.
Rude is travelling across Canada to
make people aware of the terror El
Chief Gary Potts
Salvadorans must face each day and he
In December 1989 Gary Potts was
is asking for help. He hopes that Canada
one
of I 7 people arrested and charged
will strengthen its foreign policy
with
mischief for setting up a blockade
regarding El Salvador. Food and
of the Red Squirrel logging road. The
monetary aid from Canada has been .
suspended since November and Rude 1s new road accesses a stand of centuryold White Pine, one of few of its kind in
asking that new aid be rechannelled via
Ontario,
and will connect with existing
non-political agencies like Oxfam and
lumber
roads.
Although the TemeCUSO or churches.
Augama is not opposed to logging per
The Native View of Temagami
se, Potts believes that the Ontario
On Wednesday, March 7, Gary Potts, government has opened too many areas
Chief of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai,
to logging companies, and in fact
presented two lectures. His presentation sustainable development is no longer
drew attention to Native concerns about feasible. ''Major areas of land need to
land use in the Temagami area. The
be left alone - to steady the soil, the
lectures were part of the School of
elements of nature". Directing
Forestry's seminar series. Greeting the
statements to forestry students Chief
audience in the languages of various
Potts asked them to be aware of the
native bands, Chief Potts mapped out
impact of clear cutting and to not see
the boundaries of his presentation. "I'm the tree merely in terms of dollars. "We
here to explain what clear cutting and
need foresters and biologists to teach
roads being built have done to our
society that there is an interdependence
lands. I'm not a forestry technician - you of life and land". The opportunity for
could explain a tree scientifically. I want change lies with the youth, according to
to explain what that tree means to my
Potts and he hopes that some will take
people". Potts is angry about what he
up the challenge.

LUSU Elections
On March 6 and 7 Lakehead University students went to the polls to vote
for their Student Union executive. The
election signified a new era of student
politics at Lakehead. In previous years
there were 5 executive positions. The
current board of directors voted earlier
this year to modify the number of
executive positions to only three President, Vice-President Finance and
Vice-President Student Issu~s - and
these positions will be full-time for the
year. Congratulations to Ian Middleton
LUSU's new President, Dwayne Hunking, the new VP Student Issues, and
Tony LeBlanc, VP Finance.
The election of the Student Union's
Board of Directors took place on March
20. 16 students were elected to the
1990/91 Board. They are: Paul Caccamo and George Pardalis for the
Faculty of Science, Greg Beckford,
Victor Brandonisio, Doug Plumb,
Michael Miller, Lisa Sinnicks, Wendy
Snelgrove and Robin Squires representing University Schools, and Liana
Decorso, Cassandra Koenen, Roland
Laybolt, Roch Letourneau, Dianne Mills,
Paul Moniz and Tara Salavich for the
Faculty of Arts. Fall by-elections will be
held for student representation from the
Faculty of Education and Graduate
Studies.
Brian Walmark -Best Delegate
Lakehead University student Brian
Walmark was chosen best delegate at
the North American Model United
Nations Assembly (NAMUN) held
February 23 to 27 in Toronto. Approximately 450 students from North America and Europe participated in the event.
Lakehead's participation has been
growing each year and this year the
team boasted a record number of
delegation members. The team, representing Denmark, included head
delegate Anne Fisher, Kyle Brink, Sean
Penney, Brian Walmark, Bill Salminen,
Nancy Ewachow and advisor Dr. Ernst
Zimmerman.Brian says, "I look upon
the award as a team award. We did a
lot of research. The Danish embassy
was really helpful. They sent us
speeches and press releases and explained how they voted on particular .
issues".
Convocation Marshalls Needed
The Alumni Association needs 21
volunteers to act as Marshalls for
Convocation on Saturday, May 26, 1990
at the Thunder Bay Community
Auditorium. You must be an LU
graduate to perform this task. For
information contact the Office of
Alumni Services at 343-8155.

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�New Faces
John Petherick is an Industrial
Hygienist and can be found at the
new home of the Resource Centre
for Occupational Health and
Safety, the previous site of the
Thunder Bay Symphony. Originally from London, Ontario, John
received an honours degree in
Human Biology from the University of Guelph in 1985. John is also
a graduate Qanuary 1990) of
Sarnia' s Lambton College in the
Industrial Technology Program.
Lakehead University is not new to
John however. He spent his co-op placement here during the
summer of '89. Part of the reason why he returned to
Lakehead is because of special projects the centre is undertaking such as the development of health and safety training
programs for Northern Ontario. John is presently working
towards receiving professional accreditation as an Industrial
Hygienist. Away from the workplace John keeps busy
hunting, fishing and weight training.

Llnda Moffat, a new addition to
the Security Office, moved with her
husband and five children to
Thunder Bay in July and hasn't
stopped to catch her breath since.
When she came to Thunder Bay
Llnda enrolled in the Law and
Security course through Confederation College which she continues to
study as a Distance Education
program. She has lived in every
region in Ontario and the provinces
of Manitoba, Alberta and British
========---' Columbia. The reason for all the
travel? Linda's husband works for the Canadian Coast
Guard. His present post is the Samuel Risley where he is
chief cook. "He cooks and I guard", she laughs. Llnda's
hobbies include writing "humorous pieces mostly'' and
playing broomball.

Marlene Orr

Edward Lyons, a new security
attendant at the university, worked
in security with the City of Thunder
Bay for a number of years before
taking a position here. He finds his
present position slightly less
unnerving. "Working in those huge
grain elevators at night could
sometimes be frightening". Edward
has travelled across Canada and has
been to many of the native reserves
where he is treated with great
respect. Edward is a traditional
=-_;_;=:.i native healer and has helped people
across Canada upon the request of native leaders and sometimes the clergy. "The Great Spirit directs me to herbs that are
used to help people with sickness and disease". Edward's 12
year old son Mark has taken an interest in his father's heritage
and is now training as an apprentice. When Edward retires,
his goal is to travel to all the reserves across Canada.

Marlene Orr is the secretary in
Native Support Services. Although
working for a large organization
was a big change for Marlene, she
has found that she "enjoys meeting
the students and they've accepted
me quite well. They're what keeps
me going". Besides the time she
spends with her husband and
daughter, Marlene has taken a few
basic computer courses and
continues to learn more about
computers. "In the future I would
like to be able to show and teach
others instead of having people teach me". Marlene is very
sports active. In the summer she can be found on the baseball
diamond and in the colder months she plays ringette out at
Stanley for the NorWest Women's League. Marlene takes
part in the Royal LePage Run for Women every year and is
especially looking forward to running with the Lakehead
University women this year.
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Edward Lyons

Bill Maki
Bill Maki is the new electical
technologist in the Engineering Department. Bill completed his
electrical engineering degree in May
1989, Bill rejoined the department in
January 1990. He says, "I would
like to get a solid background in
engineering and besides, it's good
experience to work at LU". When
Bill is not at work he likes to tinker
with his own electronics projects
and his home computer. Llke a true
northerner, Bill likes skiing and
========= skidooing in the winter and camping and fishing in the summer.

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�Wrestling
MVP: Mark Tarantini and Mike I&lt;irlew
Rookie: Tony Gallo
Most Improved: Steve Roslinsky

wrap-UP
The varsity competitive season has
concluded and by all standards the
season was a successful and rewarding
one. For the athletes, coaches and
supporters of the Nor'Westers, the
season of ''The Climb to Excellence" will
be one for the history books. The four
major varsity programs, men's basketball, women's basketball, volleyball and
wrestling, did well during the competitive season with the three team sports
(basketball and volleyball) advancing to
the playoffs. The wrestling team qualified two athletes for the national CIAU
final. The men's basketball team finished
the season with a record of 18 and 13 and
hooked a berth in the OUAA West
playoffs. In the quarter-finals they lost to
the University of Brock. The team won
tournaments in Winnipeg and Saskatoon
and made the national rankings twice.
The phenomenal guarding duo of Jeff
Byerley and John Laplante were named
to the OUAA All-Star team. Player for
the month of February was starting
centre Mike Lalonde. He averaged 12.5
points and 7.5 rebounds a game.
Women's basketball completed their
outstanding season in top place in the
OWIAA West Division with a record of
12-2. With the first place berth they hit
the Ontario championships reaching the
semi-finals where the team lost to
Toronto. Sharon Knowles finished the
season as the leader in scoring in the
Ontario league and gained a place on the
All Star team. Kathy Harrison led the
league in assists and was named to the
All Star team in the West. Ontario Coach
of the Year honours went to Stu Julius.
Player for the month of February was
Kelly Fitzgerald who finished the season
on a high note. She scored 15 points and
made 10 rebounds against the University
of Toronto.
The Lady Nor'wester Volleyball
team's exciting season was capped by
taking 5th place in Ontario at the
OWIAA championships. The team had
a record of 35 and 9. Player of the month

honours went to Kelly Breutigam who
concluded her season with a dominating performance at the OWIAA championships (46% of team kills). Kelly's
entire season had similar successes and
resulted in well-deserved recognition.
She received Ontario's Rookie of the
Year honours and was the only player
from the West Division to make the All
Ontario team. The LU wrestling team
also had a successful season. Mike
Kirlew was 2nd at the OUAA's (All
Star) and 4th in the CIAU's while
freshman Tony Gallo placed 3rd at the
OUAA's and 5th at the CIAU's. Overall
the team placed 6th at the OUAA and
11th at the CIAU championships.
Player of the month for wrestling is
Tony Gallo. His finishes at the two
championships were a direct reflection
of his hard training and effort throughout the year. Lakehead University
Athletes of the year were named at the
athletic banquet held on March 25.
Men's basketball player Jeff Byerley and
women's basketball player Sharon
Knowles were selected the 1989-90 male
and female athletes of the year. Both
were instrumental factors in the success
of their varsity teams and were selected
to the league's all-star team. The
following is a list of recipients of
awards:
Varsity Teams
Men's basketball
MVP: Jeff Byerley
Best defensive player: Leslie Ragguette
Most improved: Ray Foster
Rookie of the year: Chris Grace
Women's basketball
MVP: Sharon Knowles
Defensive: Sharon Knowles
Rookie: Jenny Burgess
Most improved: Kelly Fitzgerald
Women's volleyball
MVP: Kelly Breutigam
Defensive: Deanne Geisler
Rookie: Kelly Breutigam
Corinne Kollman received a plaque for
outstanding contribution to the team.

CLUB TEAMS
ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
Indoor soccer: Colleen Deboer
Indoor track: Steve McKague
Cross-country running: Manuel Salvati
Nordic skiing: Mark Puuinala
Rugby: Kathryn Boyd
Alpine skiing: Jodi Powell

Mark Puumala
Sibley Ski Tour
The Sibley Ski Tour, held March 3,
saw the birth of a new era in crosscoun try skiing-one with Lakehead
University's name on it. Lakehead
University skied away with the crown
for the organization with the greatest
number of kilometres collected during
the tour, thus pushing the Lappe team
into second for the first time in the
history of the event. The category was
open to ski clubs, corporations and
schools. Top finishers for Lakehead
University include 1st place winner in
the men's SOK, Mark Puumala and 7th
place winner Dennis Paradine. In the
women's 40K the 1st place winner was
Terri Gibbons and 2nd place winner,
Moira McPherson. LU's Kevin Paradis
placed 3rd in the men's 20K. Other
successful finishers from Lakehead
included Claude Liman, Fred McIntosh
and John Whitfield.

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�Health Symposium Develops Network Between University Health
Researchers And Community Agencies Who Provide Health Services
The recent Health Research symposium was considered
useful and successful by the 60-70 people who attended.
Organizer Anne Fiorenza said "there was an excellent
response from faculty, community health providers and
health policy makers". Dr. Connie Nelson, Director of
Research and Graduate Studies, described highlights: "Participants felt they had a much better understanding of the
capacity of the university to undertake health research
projects. It also provided them with the opportunity to learn
about interdisciplinary health research. They could see from
the presentations we're not just about individual research
projects. We all benefit from partnership research". Nelson
felt that the opportunity for delegates to make contacts was
another important purpose for the symposium.

The Department of Research and Graduate Studies has
been asked to organize an extensive workshop highlighting
university health research on an annual basis.
Faculty presenters: A. Bowd and C. Loos (Alzheimers); J.
Jamieson and N. Lavoie (Type A Personality and Fitness); J.
Crossman and R. Kirk-Gardner (Mortality Rates in TB due to
Heart Disease); B. Minore and M. Katt (Nishnawbe-Aski
Nation Health Director) (Native Suicide Prevention).

3-Year Commitment from MNDM
To School Of Science And Technology
The School of Science and Technology for Northern Ontario secondary
school students will continue for
another three years at Lakehead and
Laurentian Universities, Taras Kozyra,
Port Arthur MPP and Parliamentary
Assistant to Minister of Northern
Development Rene Fontaine announced at a media conference at
Lakehead University.
Over the past three years, the
school has proven popular with
students, parents and educators",
Kozyra said. "It has helped students
become aware of career opportunities
in science and technology that exist in
Northern Ontario."This year, the
program will be expanded by 50
percent to accommodate 270 students.
The school will also be changed to a
four-week format.The Ministry of
Northern Development and Mines will
provide approximately $1 million to
fund the school at the two Northern
Ontario universities. Each student who
completes the four-week course of
study will receive a $1,000 stipend."
The summer studies provide
enriched learning for secondary school
students from across the North who
show special aptitude in science and
technology," noted Fort William MPP
and Minister of Natural Resources Lyn
McLeod. "The classroom activity is
combined with field trips designed to
demonstrate industrial applications of
science in the northern economy.
Lakehead University will accept 90
students for this innovative program

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which helps stimulate our young
people's desire to enhance skills which
will be in great demand in the 21st
century," Kozyra added.
Sudbury's Laurentian University
will run two programs of 90 students
each, one in English and the other in
French.
Application forms will be forwarded
from the universities to all secondary
schools in Northern Ontario. To be
eligible, students must intend to enroll
in grades 12 or 13 in September, 1990,

have parental consent, and be recommended by their principal as having
demonstrated ability and aptitude in
science. Room and board will be
provided for students participating in
the program.
For further information contact:
Doug Melville, MNDM
Thunder Bay, (807) 475-1585; or
Dr. John Whitfield
Dean of Arts and Science
Lakehead University

Roger Zavagnin, an engineering student at LU,said that his experiences with the 1987
Science and Technology Program had helped him look at science in a new way, "to see
how everything was interdependent". MPP Taras Kozyras, centre, and Dr. Alisatair
MacDonald, biology professor, fielded other questions about the program.
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�R.A.P.
Making A Great Lake Superior
(Complete conference proceedings will be available through the Centre for
Northern Studies which hosted and co-sponsored the conference. With the
assistance of conference journalist Larry Saunders and Dr. Harunur Rasid, who
provided the Conference Summary, a few conference highlights are noted.)
When a university is situated on the largest fresh water lake in the world, there appears
to be an inherent responsibility to be part of the decision-making process about its future.
An international conference called ''MAKING A GREAT LAKE SUPERIOR brought
together more than 150 delegates representing government, business, environmental
groups and university researchers providing the opportunity to share ideas and strategies
on solving international water pollution problems. One journalist commented that the
delegate mixture could have been volatile and divisive, but cooperation and consensus
prevailed.
The focus of the gathering was on the seven so-called "pollution hot spots" around lake
Superior which were identified by the International Joint Commission (IJC) five years ago.
Four of the seven are on the north shore of the Lake, including Thunder Bay harbour. Jake
Vander Wal, with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, and one of the conference organizers, says that the IJC has identified 42 "hot spots" known as Areas of Concern,
around the Great Lake Lakes and public advisory committees have been established to
draw up what are called Remedial Action Plans (RAPs). These public advisory committees include representatives from municipalities, industry and the general public.
The conference heard distressing news about how difficult it will be to dean up Lake
Superior. Even if all seven hot spots were cleaned up, there would still be a big pollution
problem - one that is well beyond the scope of local dean-up plans. William Strachan, a
research scientist with Environment Canada, told the conference about a computer model
he's developing with other scientists about air pollution. Although under development,
their model indicates that up to 90% of toxic chemicals like PCB's come from the atmosphere - falling into Lake Superior in the form of toxic rain and snow.
The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, signed by Canada and the United States,
calls for "zero discharges" of toxic substances into the Great Lakes. The concept of zero
discharge, however, has always been tempered by economic realities, as governments at
all levels have set limits which allow pulp and paper mills, mines, or municipalities to
continue sending toxic substances into the lake. Gordon Durnhill, the American CoChairman of the IJC announced that the Commission will soon know about the fate of their
recommendation to designate Lake Superior as "pollution free" - a model for the rest of
the Great Lakes. Bruce Hyer, an environmental activist from Thunder Bay, first suggested
the idea to the IJC last October. "Lake Superior, as an entity, should become a model for
seeing whether we can achieve zero discharge". Hyer says it won't be cheap to inplement
the recommendation even though Lake Superior is the cleanest of the Great Lakes but he
believes it will be money well spent. "It's the top of the watershed, and we send water
downstream, so its a good test study as well as philosophically being a good place to do it.
Also, the retention time in Lake Superior is a couple of hundred years - meaning that if we
pollute Lake Superior heavily, it will not dean itself up in a decade ... if we mess it up, it's
messed up relatively permanently''.

Bruce Hyer

Joan Skelton, a Thunder Bay author, is a member of the Thunder Bay Public Advisory
Committee, which is helping the Ontario government prepare a Remedial Action Plan
(RAP) to clean up Thunder Bay habour. In an interview after the conference, Skelton
pointed out that as far as she is concerned there is no great polarity between industry and
the public demanding a dean up. Everyone on the committee wants to find solutions,
through consensus, because of the urgent need for environmental action. ''The nuclear
bomb [of environmental destruction] is hanging over the heads of everybody, industry and
public. And if industry polluter doesn't realize this, and if we the public don't change our
lifestyle and demand less, then we might as well forget it. I'm optimistic. The industry
people are human too, and want their genes to survive, their families to survive."
The conference was the first of its kind for RAPs on Lake Superior. Say organizers,
"This year we talked about what we're going to do. Next year, we'll talk about what we've
done."
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�People, Papers/Publications
Dr. I. Nirdosh, Professor of
&amp; Special Projects
Chemical Engineering, has published a
Alain Nabarra,
Associate Professor,
~□ Languages Department,
@iiiii~f'=!i~· contributed a chapter to the
~!!15~!iii' book "La Revolution du
journal", 1788-1794, edited
by Pierre Retat, Professor at
the University of Lyon,
France, and published by
.-==e~~,r' the CNRS (France National
Council for Scientific
Research). Entitled "La
Presse coloniale devant la
Revolution", it deals with
the nature and the role of
the press in the French
Colonial Territories during
the Revolution of 1789. Prof. Nabarra
also presented a paper entitled ''Un
enseignant de francais aux Etats-Unis en
1789: Joseph Nancrede", to the annual
meeting of the American Association of
Teachers of French which was held in
Paris in conjunction with the celebration
of the bicentenary of the French
Revolution.
The research for both projects was
funded in part by grants from the
SSHRC fund through the Senate
Research Committee.

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paper entitled "Free Convection Mass
Transfer in Hemispherical Cavities", in
the journal of Chemical Engineering
Research and Design. Dr. G. H.
Sedahmed of the University of
Alexandria, Egypt, is the co-author of
this paper.
Professor de Cangas has been
elected chairperson of a committee to
incorporate consumers in the board of
the Canadian Mental Health
Association, Thunder Bay. This is the
first time that such a step is being taken
by a Mental Health Association. Prof. de
Cangas published "Exploring Expressed
Emotion: Does It Contribute To Chronic
Mental Illness? in the referee journal:
Journal Of Psychosocial Nursing 2nd
Mental Health Services, 28 (2) 31-34,
1990.
Ken Hartviksen delivered a paper,
March 29 at the Heritage &amp; Tourism ICOMOS European Conference
Canterbury- University of Kent (United
Kingdom) entitled, "Tourism
Development of Heritage Sites through
Cooperating Associations".
Dr. V. V. Paranjape, Department of
Physics, announced that Solid state
physicists from the North American
continent meet every year in the month

of March to discuss their work. The
meeting, arranged by the American
Physical Society, took place this year in
Anaheim, California and was attended
by approximately 5000 physicists.
Four members of the Department of
Physics presented papers at this
meeting. The titles of the papers and
their authorships were as follows:
Dr. M. W. Hawton, Dr. W. J. Keeler
and Mr. X. Le, "Fractal Models of
Charge Transport on Low-dimensional
Water Layers in Phospholipids and
Proteins; Dr. W. J. Keeler, Dr. M.
Hawton and Dr. J. J. Dubowski (NRC,
Ottawa), "Resonant Raman Scattering in
Epitaxial Cd 1-x MnxTe Films"; Dr. V.
V. Paranjape, "Quantum Bound States
in a Classically Unbound System of
Wires"; Dr. W. Sears, "Fractal
Formation of Silver Aggregates on Tin
Oxide Surfaces. Dr. Sears was also
elected to chair one session at the
conference.
Donation
The Map Library in the Department
of Geography is pleased to announce a
donation of thirty-nine topographic
maps of this region to its collection from
former student and now private environmental consultant, Mr. Terry Noble,
of Thunder Bay, whom we would like to
thank publicly.

In the photo below, Doug Bruce from Marathon
gets ready for a teleconference for his Environmental Assessment course.

Distance Education Program Co-ordinator, Susan Cole, hosted Silver Jubilee
Birthday parties with a difference. In February and March, members of the "Distance Education Road Team" travelled to Nipigon, Marathon, Fort Frances,
Dryden and Ignace. Cole said it was "great to get out into the region and talk to
people, to listen to what they have to say about our programs and services and how
we can help them meet their educational goals". Team members talked about what
it's like to take university classes in a school without walls, and the type of commitment necessary to succeed. In Marathon, team members are ready to share cake and
information. One new piece of information is that the term Signal North will be
dropped and replaced by Distance Education. From left to right, Vonnie Cheng,
Susan Burton, Phyllis Bosnick, Susan Cole and Eva Couchie, Marathon Site Coordinator.
Pages

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�Boundary Conditions and Complicating Factors"

Research News
FROM THE OFFICE OF
GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH

Research Officer: Anne Fiorenza
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

For further information on any of these Research
Programs, please contact Anne Fiorenza, Research Officer, at
ext. 8223.
NSERC RESEARCH AWARDS

The recipients of the 1990 Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada Operating and
Equipment Research Grants Competition have been
announced. In total Lakehead University's 1990 NSERC
awards amounted to $816,897, as compared to $705,093 in
1989 (excludes strategic grants). This is an increase of 16%
over last year. In spite of this increase, due to the increasing
competition for limited federal research dollars, many
deserving research proposals were not funded. I would like
to take this opportunity to commend all researchers for their
efforts in this year's competition.
In the operating grants competition, 31 % of all NSERC
eligible faculty applied with a success rate of 36%. Several of
Lakehead University's new researchers were successful in
obtaining operating grants. They are: Dr. C.C. Graham
(Mathematics), Dr. C.A.G. Hayman (Psychology) and Dr. S.D.
Kinrade (Chemistry).
As a result of NSERC's decision to increase the allocation
for equipment and the high calibre of proposals, several of
Lakehead University faculty were successful in receiving
equipment grants. The average equipment grant was $21,193
with a success rate of 25%.
The successful candidates and research topics in this year's
operating and equipment grants competition include:
BIOLOGY
Dr. P.H. Knowles - "Effects of Environmental Stress as a

Selective Force on Genetic Structure of
Forest Trees"
Dr. L. Malek - Superspeed Refrigerated
Centrifuge with Rotors (Equipment)
CHEMISTRY
Dr. S.D. Kinrade - "Nuclear Magnetic

Resonance Study of the Chemistry of
Aluminosilicate Solutions"
ENGINEERING
Dr. L.J. Garred (Chemical)- "Hardware

and Software Development and
Dr s D Kinrade
Simulation Studies to Exploit Spent Dialysate • • •
for Urea Kinetic Modelling in Hemodialysis"
Dr. M.H. Khan (Electrical) ''Hand-off control for
Microcellular Communication System"
Dr. M.H. Khan (Electrical) - Workstation (Equipment)
Dr. J.B. Kiszka (Electrical) - "Fuzzy Logic Knowledge-Based
Systems. The Pulp and Paper Industry, Computers and
Controls of the Pulp and Paper Industry''
Dr. U.S. Panu (Civil) - "Development of
Pattern Recognition Based Procedures for Streamflow Data
Augmentation and Streamflow Forecasting"
Dr. H.T. Saliba (Mechanical)- "Experimental and Theoretical
Free Vibration Analysis of Thin Plates with Various Shapes,

GEOLOGY
Dr. P.W. Fralick - "Paleogeographical

Interpretation of Archean Sedimentary
Sequences in Northwestern Ontario"
Dr. R.G. Platt - "Petrogenesis of Alkaline
and Carbonatitic Magmas"
Dr. G.J. Borradaile - Demagnetiser
(Equipment)
MATHEMATICS
Dr. C.C. Graham - ''Topics in Harmonic

and Functional Analysis"
Dr. C.C. Graham - Computer
(Equipment)
Dr. G.J. Borradaile
Dr. M.W. Benson - "Parallel Iterative Methods"
PHYSICS
Dr. M.H. Hawton - "Physics of Membranes and Absorbed

Water"
PSYCHOLOGY
Dr. C.A.G. Hayman - ''Modality Effects in Human

Performance"
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
Dr. Fentey Scott (School of Education) has been awarded a

Micro-Fund (Planning Mission) by the Association of
Universities and Colleges Canada (AUCC) to determine the
feasibility of an institutional linkage between Lakehead
University and the University of the West Indies, Barbados.
The proposed project is entitled, "School Management and
Supervision for Head Teachers and Senior Personnel in the
Eastern Carribean States."
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH
COUNCIL OF CANADA
Travel Grants for International Representation

Grants under this program are to assist Canadian scholars
who hold office in international scholarly organizations in the
social sciences and humanities to attend business meetings of
these organizations. (Please note: The presentation of papers
at international meetings held abroad falls under the General
Research Grants (GRG) Program administered by the Senate
Research Committee).
Deadlines: June 30, and October 30.
Aid to Occasional Scholarly Conferences in Canada

Conference grants are awarded to encourage and facilitate the
communication of research results among Canadian scholars,
through scholarly conferences, workshops, symposia and
colloquia held in Canada. The SSHRC offers limited support
to conference organizers to help defray travel and subsistence
costs of presenters and formal respondents at a conference, as
well as some administrative expenses.
Deadlines: June 30 and October 30.
JAMES MCKEEN CATIELL FUND
Sabbatical Awards for Psychologists

The James McKeen Cattell Fund is offering one or more
supplemental sabbatical awards in psychology. These awards
designed to supplement sabbatical allowances provided by
universities, so that each awardee may be able to take enough
time to complete the objectives of the sabbatical period (1
year). The objective of the awards is to encourage research
and scholarly endeavour on the part of psychol?gists at
universities. The maximum value of the award 1s $22,000.
Deadline: December 1, prior to the September in which
sabbatical is to commence.

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�LS.B. LEAKEY FOUNDATION
The foundation was formed to further research into human
origins, behaviour, and survival. Recent priorities have
included research into the environments, archaeology, and
human paleontology of the Miocene, Pliocene and
Pleistocene; into the behaviour of the Great Apes and other
Old World primate species; and into the ecology and
adaptation of living hunter-gatherer peoples. The foundation
is offering the following two fellowships: The Fellowship for
Great Ape Research and Conservation ($20,000) and the
Fellowship for the Study of Foraging Peoples ($20,000).
Deadline: May 1, 1990.

UPCOMING DEADLINE DATES
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
-Strategic Grants (April 17, 1990).
World Wildlife Fund - Endangered Species Recovery Fund
(April 1, July 1, October 1, January 1), Wildlife Toxicology
Fund (anytime).
Laidlaw Foundation Program - Children and Families at Risk
Program (May 1, September 1, November 1), Laidlaw Scholar
Progr~ (any~me), Laidla~ &lt;;onserva?on Program (July 1).
Canadian Institute of Ukrairuan Studies - Doctoral Thesis
Fellowship in Ukrainian History (May 1, 1990).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada -Strategic Grants (May 1, 1990).
The G. Alan Roeher Institute - Research programs (April 30,
1990)
University Research Incentive Fund (URIF) -May 31, 1990
Association of Universities and Colleges (AUCC) -Microfunds (May 1, 1990)
Social Science Federation of Canada -Aid to Scholarly
Publications Program (Open).
The American Foundation for Aids Research - Research
Grants Program and Small Grants Program (April 10, 1990).
Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Environmental Studies Revolving Funds (Anytime).
Canadian Department of Communications - International
Cooperation Assistance Fund on New Information
Technologies (Open).
National Geographic Society - Research Grants (Open).
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Advanced
Research Workshops (Open).

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FIRST CONFERENCE
The Department of Research and Graduate Studies and
the Graduate Students of Lakehead University jointly presented their first annual conference on March 16. Approximately 75 people attended.
A main focus of the conference was regional development and northern research. Graduate students were
invited to present papers at the conference and 11 submissions were received. Topic areas included Psychology,
Biology, Physical Education and Athletics, Forestry, Sociology and History.
A major purpose of the conference according to VicePresident Internal of the Graduate Student Association,
Gary Warwick, was "to raise the profile of the Graduate
Student Association at the university and within the
community. It was a fantastic success for our first year and
we hope it will continue as a grad student tradition".

Forum
Dr. Bob Day
School of Forestry

''If all the world
were apple pie"
Dr. Bob Day, School of Forestry, presented his paper Old
Growth Forests Toronto in January, 1990. In the paper's
conclusion, he borrows from a previously published article
which he wrote in 1971 and is shared now with a more
general audience.
''What balance has there been since glaciation? Ten
thousand years ago the ice rolled back a curtain on
unparalleled re-invasion and ecological change.
Catastrophe of fire, flood and windstorms on every hand
induced and maintained forests of quasi-even-age and fitted
them into a mosaic of time and space and species. Against
this backdrop stone age man, a creature of 200 millenia
gone by, struggled from aboriginal to civilized stage. First
firing forest to drive his game, he found his quarry
multiplied in the clearings so created. Finding edible plants
he burned again, and later planted in crude shifting
cultivation until at last he balanced nature and brought
order, patterning the landscape with his chequered fields.
Copse and hedgerow, field and farm testified to his
harmonious order. Here, Charles Elton says, is found true
balance between man and life enabling him, the master of
his modem world, to live free from the fear of invasion,
epidemic plagues and pests like those that forced Pharaoh's
hand and freed the Israelites from bondage.
What balance is there now with phosphate, pesticide and
pollution's pall? Must we return to harder days of supposed
natural balance? I think not, for Homo has always been as
much a gambler as a sapient sage more likely to stake his
fortune on the wheel of chance and trust that he will strive
for better balance still, than
grunt and cringe and club
as did his skin clad
forebears. We shall go on,
we must with faith, hope,
skill and reason,
challenging the mass media
doom seers as others did
before us. If man, as Malthu :~
said, will overcrowd the
earth ... If man filthies all the _
water fit to drink. .. If ...
If all the world were apple
pie,
And all the sea was ink,
And all the trees were
bread and cheese,
What should we do for
drink?
(from Witt's Recreations
1641)

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�FORUM continued from page 10
A FINAL POEM - FOOD FOR ARGUMENT AND
THOUGHT
Verses 1 and 2 of this epic poem were written by Boulding in
'Man's role in changing the face of the earth' (Thomas et al.
1955,) Verse 3 was written by the author, with sincere
apologies to Boulding.
A Conservationist's Lament
The world is finite, resources are scarce,
Things are bad and will be worse.
Coal is burned and gas exploded,
Forests are cut and soil eroded.
Wells are dry and air's polluted,
Dust is blowing, trees uprooted.
Oil is going, ores depleted,
Drains receive what is excreted.
Land is sinking, seas are rising,
Man is far too enterprising.
Fire will rage with Man to fan it,
Soon we'll have a plundered planet.
People breed like fertile rabbits,
People have disgusting habits.
Moral: The evolutionary plan,
Went astray by evolving Man.
The Technologist's Reply
Man's potential is quite terrific,
You can't go back to the Neolithic.
The cream is there for us to skim it,
Knowledge is power and the sky's the limit.
Every mouth has hands to feed it,
Food is found when people need it.
All we need is found in granite,
Once we have the men to plan it.
Yeast and algae give us meat,
Soil is almost obsolete.
Man can grow to pastures greener,
Till all the earth is Pasadena.
Moral: Man's a nuisance, Man's a crackpot,
But only man can hit the jack pot.
A Foresters Plea for Silviculture
Forests are composed of trees;
That grow then bum and shed their seeds.
Fires are started by lightning and men,
And bum large patches now and again.
Ecologists write poems and wax prosaic
On the diversity of this fire 'mosaic'.
Thus 'young' and 'old-growth' are mixed
With many-aged stands in betwixt.
Tottering 'old-growth' is diverse, so its said,
A 'mosaic' is more so, and the trees aren't dead.
Fire protection since 1910.
Has completely stopped the new regen.'
Moral: Silvicultural work is now urgently needed,
So future forests get planted and seeded.

Professor Day was quoted on the topic of Temagami in an
excellent article entitled "Loggerheads" by David Lees in the
December '89 issue of Toronto Life (copies available in the
Information Office)

Last Writes

Katherine Shedden, Editor

"Did I ever tell you my Theory of Universities? Like most
institutions, each one is similar to a vat of molasses - slow
and sluggish. If something goes wrong in one part, it
spreads out and covers it up; if you try to make a dent in it, it
oozes into the mark you think you've made. If you try to
wade through it too quickly, you collapse from exhaustion;
and if you try to beat it by plunging in and flailing away, you
drown. But if you heat molasses it gets thin and moves
quickly."
That wonderful description was written by Jqdith Krantz
in her book Deceptions. It felt like an appropriate lead in to
this month's column about two vitally important parts of this
institution - Senate and the Board of Governors.
Slow and sluggish? Well, we often hear the comment that
something "is before Senate" or "at a Senate sub-committee".
But is it not the Senate committee where the real trench
work, the careful and methodical investigations and scrutinies are carried out? Is is not Senate who bears the responsibility for ensuring that our institution maintains quality
programs and ultimately offers a post-secondary education
with high standards?
Do not be slighted with the molasses reference dear
members of senate. Your work is critical and appreciated
and you always have the option to turn up the heat in the
Senate Chambers.
Hi-Lites from the last Senate meeting:
Dwayne Hunking, Bill Salminen and Katja Huitikka were
approved as student senators from April 1, '90 - March 31, '91
The Masters of Social Work program and MA (Political
Studies) were approved by Senate to be sent on to OCGS for
appraisal. The Graduate Diploma in Business Administration was suspended for study. (Full report next month)
The Nominations Committee is looking for tenured
faculty interested in serving on the Judicial Panel for 1990-91
(3 positions). The panel is the appeal body for students
sanctioned under the Code of Student Behavior of Disciplinary Procedures. If interested call Dr. Brian Lorch at 8514.
Hi-Lites from The Board of Governors' Meeting
The Board accepted in principle the recommendation of
the Labour Management Committee that an Employee
Assistance Program be established at Lakehead University.
In recognition of long and outstanding service to the
University, Mr. David Jones, Technician in the Department
of Chemistry, is to be honoured by having one of the Board
of Governors Silver Jubilee Scholarships renamed the David
Jones Scholarship.
The Board accepted revised By-Laws which designate a
scat on the Board of Governors for a member of the nonteaching staff. Elections will be conducted within the next
few months.
As a result of the resignation of Ron Nelson as the
Director of Business Administration there were two new
appointments to the Board. On March 1, 90 M1rgaret Boone
was appointed to the Board Executive Committee and
Duncan Bradly was appointed to the Financial Planning
Committee.
The great news in the fund-raising area is the announcement that with the sponsorship of Confederation College we
now have 49 Silver Jubilee Scholarships! The Chairman of
the Board thanked the City of Thunder Bay for their $25,000
donation to scholarships and bursaries.
How's that for hot molasses?

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�Campus

Calendar
To include your Department's event or
activity in the Campus Calendar, please
call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the
May Agora is April 15, 1990.

Howard Cable, Conductor
Diane Garrett, T.B.S.Y.O. Conductor
Selected winners of the Lakehead Music
Festivalperforrn, along with the T.B.S.O.
Youth Orchestra, with the T.B.S.O.

FRIDAY, 13 &amp; MONDAY, 16
EASTER WEEKEND
LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY CLOSED

FRIDAY,20

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LIBRARY EXTENDED HOURS

Monday to Friday 8 am - 11 :30 pm
Saturday 9 am - 11:30 pm
Sunday 11 am -11:30 pm
LIBRARY HOURS FOR EASTER
WEEKEND

Final date for late registration in Spring
term Distance Education course

SATURDAY,21
Final Examinations end

THURSDAY, 26
SENATE

INTERNATIONAL FILMS

9:30A.M.
Final date for submission of all marks/
grades for courses, projects, theses, and
practica scheduled over the full year or
in the second term - due 4:30 PM

Braun Bldg. 1021- 8 pm
For information call 343-8260
Free - Everyone Welcome

February Session classes end

GOOD FRIDAY, 13 - CLOSED
SATURDAY, 14 -9am-11:30pm
EASTER SUNDAY, 15 -11 am -11:30 pm
EASTER MONDAY, 16 - 9 am -11:30 pm

FRIDAY,27
SATURDAY, 28 &amp; MONDAY 30
February Session Examinations

MAY
TUESDAY, 1
THURSDAY,5
THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY and
the VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT

cordially invite you to attend
the opening of the
LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY
JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION

8 - 10 PM Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Exhibition continues through April 25
Final Examinations Begin

FRIDAY,6
Final date to register for Spring Term
Distance Education courses without late
fee
Final Examinations Begin
Final date for applications for the Spring
Session

Spring Session full-courses and halfcourses commence

FRIDAY,4
Silver Jubilee Computer Contest
N.W.O. High Schools
Agora
Silver Jubilee Math Awards Presentation
1-3PM
Final date for registration and changes in
Spring Session full courses and halfcourses which commenced May 1
Final date for withdrawal without
academic penalty from Spring Session
half-courses which commenced May 1,
except Distance Education
Final date for refunds on withdrawal
from Spring Session full-courses and
half-courses which commenced May 1
except Distance Education

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                    <text>Inside:
Worms are nutritious .............. 3
New Faces .................................. 7
Convocation ............ Centrefold
Beethoven in town ................ 10
Publishing profs .................... 11
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL. 7. NO. 5

MAY 1990

The year was 1971 . Smiling in the back row from left to right are Allan Smith, Peter Dick, Jack Lavender, Doug
Meyers and Dave Weldon, members of the first graduating class in chemical engineering technology. Reliable sources
have identified faculty in the front row as Peter Levis, Albert Bruley and Bob Rosehart. If it's true that Dr. Gary
Locker has invited every LU engineering grad to come to Homecoming '90, you can be certain that many more wonderful photographs will surface as alumni return to campus and start "remembering when".

A most prestigious group of Canadians will receive honorary
degrees from Lakehead University on Saturday, May 26, 1990.
The group is comprised of a learned mathematician listed in
the Who's Who of American Women, a foreign service officer
who became Ambassador to the United States, the man
referred to as "Canada's greatest design talent'', the first
North American Indian to become a symphonic conductor
and composer and a geology professor, currently the Dean of

Arts and Science at Western, but primarily renowned for his passionate concern for
environmental issues. Especially noteworthy is
the fact that three of the five honorary recipients
and both nominees for Fellow of the University were
born and raised in Thunder Bay! To learn a little more
about this year's distinguished Convocation guests turn to
pages 8 and 9.

�Report
From the
President
Dr. Bob Rosehart
OPERATING BUDGET

With so much good news emanating
from the Provincial Government these
days, it is hard to believe why so many
colleges and universities continue to
struggle with budgets. It boils down to
arithmetic. We still can't seem to make
real grant increases of 2-3% deal with a
real world inflationary economy.
However, the University's budget is
now nearly completed, and it will be a
balanced budget. Necessary budget
savings will be secured mainly by
leaving open or deferring several
approved positions. Until the Province
tells the universities where we are going
with respect to the corridor adjustment
process, this seems the most prudent
course of action. All areas will feel the
pinch, and I have been impressed, to
date, with the co-operative approach
taken by the various budget centres.
BUILDING UPDATE

After some delays, the Regional
Education/Student Centre project has
been publicly tendered, and the project
cost will be known on May 29, 1990
(fingers crossed!).
CHINA 1990

Last year a six-person delegation
from Lakehead University embarked on
a visit to China. The re-scheduled trip
(now down to four members) has just
been successfully completed. The group
included myself, Dr. R. Sweet, Education, Dr. D. Kemp, Geography, and Dr.
G. Kondor of Economics. As we were
being hosted and accommodated by our
Chinese university counterparts, we got
a very good look at what life in China
today is all about, the good and the bad,
and I think that all of the Lakehead
University group found the experience
to be fascinating. We spent two in
Beijing. H you every get a
chance to visit Beijing, you
will find it very interesting and worthwhile, but
it is not particularly rep.:...
resentative of China. It
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with a one-day stop in Hong Kong
where I visited with the Government of
Ontario office. It was this office last
year that provided us with a lot of
logistical support. While there, I had an
opportunity to talk with Benny Ng who
is the Manager of China for Ontario.
Benny had some interesting insights
into the current situation in China
which I found to be very accurate. The
Government of Ontario office in Hong
Kong has volunteered to let Lakehead
University use their conference room to
host a Lakehead University Alumni
Reception during the coming year.
While in Hong Kong, I vistied the office
of the Thunder Bay Economic
Development Corporation. Hong Kong
has become a focal point for local
economic development initiatives.
Unfortunately, in listening to some of
the discussions dealing with investment, education, and immigration
policies, Australia seems to be far more
aggressive than Canada. Although I
would not say that our image is as
negative as England's with respect to
immigration policy, it seems to be
moving in that direction very quickly.
Hong Kong, in spite of 1997, seems to
continue to boom. It has to be the most
extreme example of the free market
competitive system anywhere in the
world.
After meeting Dr. Kemp and Dr.
Sweet at the Hong Kong Airport, we
proceeded to travel to Shanghai. Well,
almost! They gave away our tickets.
After much noise, Robert Sweet got on
standby and the airline put Dave Kemp
and I up for the night at the Airport
Hotel. Twenty four hours later, we
made it to Shanghai. We were greeted
by our hosts from Nanjing, taken to a
local hotel, slept for one hour, taken to
the train station, slept for a further one
hour on a bench, then departed at 2:00
a.m. for a five and one-half hour multistop train ride to Nanjing.
This was an experience that I could
write more about but, suffice it to say,
upon arrival in Nanjing, I had already
succumbed to the Shanghai ''bug".
After a one and one-half hour rest, we
formally started our two-day visit to
Nanjing, a city of two million people
with over a million bicycles - not many
cars, but those that do exist seem to be
constantly blowing their horns at
bicycles. All during our ten days in
China, we constantly expected to be
involved in an accident.
We visited Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing Normal University, and
Southeast University. Our Lakehead
University promotional video dubbed
in Chinese made our presentation easy.

The Chinese were very impressed with
Bob Angeli's effort. All of these institutions are comprehensive universities (of
sorts) and were quite impressive.
Lakehead University has an exchange
agreement with Nanjing Forestry University, and they have had several Lakehead
University professors visit. In fact, later
this month, Rick Rollins from Outdoor
Recreation is to visit to give guest
lectures. Nanjing Normal University
was very interesting and an institution
that would be open to developing tics
with Lakehead University. Dr. Sweet
could hardly believe that they have some
5,000 education students (at 2 Bill's, this
would be considered a university
president's utopia in Ontario). The
Province of Ontario is formally twinned
with Jiangsu Province of China (which
includes Nanjing), and the Ontario/
Jiangsu Educational program has offered
Lakehead University the possibility of a
three-year block funding program to
further encourage our interactions with
Nanjing universities.
While in Nanjing, we also visited the
Jiangsu/Ontario Science and Technology
Centre. This group of about 15 staff is
jointly funded by Ontario and the
Province of Jiangsu to promote links
between the provinces. The Director,
Ms. Yang Rui, suggested that future
Lakehead University visitors to Nanjing
might make use of their (fine) office
facilities. Well, we have been here two
days (of ten), it is Friday night, more
good Chinese food on the University
campus, and my cold is getting worse.
Saturday morning we are up at some
ridiculous hour to go back to the train
station to travel back to Shanghai where,
on Sunday morning early, we catch a
non-stop (at least we prayed that would
be the case) China Air flight to Harbin.
Harbin is 1,300 km. north of Beijing and
might be considered the Thunder Bay of
China, although it has about four million
people.
Up to this point, as well as having a
fairly open and unrestricted look at
Chinese life (Shanghai, for example, has
12 million people - half of the popula!il~r,
of Canada), we also had the oppnti:ni~y
to observe the very ev.:ter.sive (~.1d
impressive) farmit;g in foe rural area.
Although it war, very rr,uch labour dnd
water buffalo c,rient;,tcd, it was verv .,,ell
managed. As well, the cnuntrysi,!£'
seems to be ~he favoured locathr, for
some of tr.- new factories scttins up in
China. It 1 ~ very dear that Ciuna is a
world oft\\ D cultures, the city and the
rural. Hous.u.g in tl.l': cities and population control in the rural areas are two of
the country's most pressing problems.
As well, in the cooling of investment
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�Around Campus
Civil Engineering Theses Win
National Awards
The Canadian Society of Civil
Engineers has recognized the efforts of
two Civil Engineering students of
Lakehcad University by awarding them
prizes in a Canada wide Undergraduate
Research Award. The undergraduate
engineering project report entitled:" A
Hexagon Grid Method Determining
Runoff Hydrographs" prepared by
Perry Peterson under the faculty supervision of Dr. U. Panu was awarded first
prize in the Computer Applications
Division of the CSCE. Another engineering project report entitled: "Black River
Project Proposal for Water Power
Rights" prepared by Louie Recd under
the faculty supervision of Dr. M. Oostcrvcld was awarded third prize in the
Hydrotcchnical Division of the CSCE.
This is the first time that two
Lakchcad Engineering students have
been honoured in the National Competition. The ability of Lakchcad Engineering students to attract National
recognition and acclaim reflect on the
quality of teaching and research at the
school of engineering at Lakehcad
University.
THE ONTARIO HISTORICAL
SOCIETY HERITAGE GROUPS AND
LACAC MEETING AND WORKSHOP
On Saturday, April 7, 1990, The
Ontario Historical Society and the
Thunder Bay LACAC presented a
workshop for heritage groups and Local
Architectural Conservation Advisory
Committees (LACACs) in the district of
Thunder Bay. At Cornwall Campus, the
one-day workshop included sessions on
"Built Heritage: Architecture in Northern Ontario", "Laying a Good Foundation: Researching Fundamentals",
"Getting Council on Your Side"," An
Overview of Ministry of Culture and
Communications Heritage Grants", and
a session on "Everything You Wanted
to Know But Were Afraid To Ask!". The
workshop, supported by the Ministry of
Culture and Communications, (the
Honourable Christine E. Hart, Minister),
is one of a series of more than 20 programs taking place throughout the
province designed to provide an opportunity for interaction between heritage
organizations and LACACs, and to
bring together experts in the field of
preservation.
HEART TO HEART
The Heart to Heart program has
ended its fall and spring sessions thanks
May 1990

Professor Yves Prevost, School of Forestry, was interviewed by Canada AM on the subject "Earthworms as
a source of human food" which was broadcast live / ;
on Wednesday April 4, 1990. The interest for
this subject was sparked by controversy
/
around Ottawa region kindergarten
/.a
where students learning about nutrition /
were fed earthworms. The first some /
parents heard about this project was
through a "certificate of congratula- '
tions for eating worms" given to some
accomplished children. Parents were sent a
note by the school, but obviously some notes did
not make it home and parents who were
unaware of the activity were upset. Dr. Prevost
was asked to comment on the value of consuming earthworms, where to get them and
how to prepare them. (Yes, I consumed an
earthworm for the nation to see that earthworms arc OK to eat," he confessed.

to volunteers from the University. Heart
to Heart is an educational and support
program for individuals and their
families who are recovering from heart
disease. Professors R. Kirk-Gardner
(Nursing), N. Lavoie (Physical Education), K. Allen (Psychology), and L.
Kennelly (Nursing) volunteered their
time and expertise to fill this need in the
community.
HOW ABOUT SIBERIA?
Tyumcn University in the USSR has
agreed to accept two Lakehead students
at the undergraduate or graduate level
for the fall term 1990 (September to
December).
The students participating in the
exchange will pay their regular'tuition
at Lakchcad. No tuition fees will be
required by Tyumen. Tyumen will
provide ground transportation from the
point of entry, a room in a student
residence or other suitable accommodation, meals and a modest living allowance.
Students could be in virtually any
area of study. The precise details of the
area and nature of study will bearranged between Tyumcn and the students' Department and Dean. A knowledge of Russian would not be necessary
for some areas but would be for others.
Tyumen University has about 5000
students and a wide range of disciplines. The Rector of the University has
spent a few years in the United States
and has visited Lakehcad. A large
number of the faculty members and
students speak English.
Tyumen is located in western Siberia
about 300 km east of Sverdlovsk and the

Ural mountains. It has a population of
over 350,000. It was the first Russian
city in Siberia and was founded in 1586
on the location of the Tartar city of
Chingi-Tur. It was the centre of the
early Russian colonization of Siberia.
Tyumen's climate is very similar to that
of Thunder Bay. The region has a
significant oil industry and there arc
wood processing plants, chemical
plants, engineering works and food and
other light industries in Tyumen.
Any student who is interested
should contact Dr. Paul Watts, Director
of the Centre for Northern Studies, as
soon as possible. Each student should
be prepared to provide a brief resume
and statement of area of interest for
transmittal to Tyumen. Mr. Dan
Pakulak, Director of Continuing
Education has recently visited Tyumen
and would be happy to speak with any
interested student about the university
and the city.
OFF TO CHINA
David Epp, a graduate student in
Forestry, will be the first student to
participate in the exchange between
Lakchcad University and China. He will
attend North East University in Harbin
for six months. Epp will continue his
research on young conifer
plantations at China's third largest university,
which is devoted
entirely to the study of
forestry.
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�HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING
ACROSS CANADA

Chairs of Boards of Canadian
Universities strongly urged that Federal
and Provincial Governments live up to
their obligations to provide proper
financial support to higher education.
Political rhetoric from first ministers
and ministers of finance across Canada
does not satisfy the needs of universities
as they attempt to offer qualified
students in Canada the best possible
higher education.
This statement was endorsed at the
annual meeting of board chairs and
secretaries from all ten provinces held
in Victoria from April 8 to 10.
Canadian university chairs agreed
that in response to government underfunding, universities will have to
continue tough expense control measures which jeopardize the quality of
higher education in Canada. There was
consensus that boards should consider
such revenue generating measures as
enhanced fund raising efforts, auxilliary
fees within individual institutions and
tuition fee increases.
However, provincial government
funding and federal governments,
through transfer payments, must not be
allowed to shrink the budgets of Canadian universities. The consequences will

include our more promising students
leaving Canada for their education and,
more dangerously, our institutions of
higher education will fail to recruit and
keep the most talented teachers, scholars and researchers. This is most critical
,at a time of faculty renewal programs
that will occur across Canada during
the 1990s. For all Canadians, higher
education leads to a higher standard of
living and is of direct benefit to Canada's economic competitiveness.
Higher education is extremely
competitive. In order for Canada to
attract and graduate the best intellectual
talents available in the world to ensure
a prosperous future, our universities
require greater financial support. Board
chairs and their boards accept their
obligation to develop public appreciation of the significance of higher
education and will endeavour to make
this communication activity a greater
priority. Chief executives of Canada's
universities need and deserve this
support from their boards.All canadians, including students, must meet the
increasing challenge of properly financing post-secondary education. Governments of the day must face up to the
political reality of the consequence of
not investing in higher education.

AUCC
NRC links Canadian researchers
The National Research Council of
Canada (NRC) has accepted a joint
offer by the University of Toronto,
IBM Canada and Integrated Network
Services Inc. (INSINC) to develop a
nation-wide computer communications network for Canadian researchers (NRNet). The high-speed date
transmission network will incorporate
the provincial research networks of
British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec
and Nova Scotia. The national
network is expected to incorporate
other provincial networks as they arc
formed. NRNet will also be linked
with research projects in the United
States. The NRC, which initiated the
project, will provide $2 million in
venture capital over the next three
years; over the same period, the
regional networks are to contribute
$1.5 million. The University of
Toronto will supply staff time worth
$300,000 and INSINC will give
discounts on communications lines.
Finally, IBM will provide $230,000 in
hardware and operating system
software. NRNet should start service
in 1990.

Forestry Students and Professors Recognized
The Canadian Institute of Forestry presented 28
graduating degree students with silver rings on Saturday, March 10, 1990 at the Landmark Inn. The dinner/
dance was organized by LUFA and was attended by 130
people, including parents and friends of the graduates,
faculty and staff of the school and CIF members. Mr. Ray
Riley, Assistant Deputy Minister of Natural Resources
for Northern Ontario gave an encouraging after dinner
talk to the graduates.On March 17, 1990 nine Diploma
graduates were presented with CIF lapel pins and the
book entitled' A Vast and Magnificent Land'. Professor
Donald Richardson was made honorary member of the
1990 graduating diploma class Brian Moore presented
him with a copy of the book 'A Vast and Magnificent
Land'.
Dr. Yves Prevost made a special presentation to
George Krupa for achieving the highest mark in Forest
Entomology.
The Northwestern Ontario section of the CIF annually
presents a leadership award to a graduating
student from both the diploma and degree
programs. It is awarded to the student who has
been voted by his/her peers as having contributed the most to promoting the school, the
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Donna Myketa from the degree
program and Brian Gauthier
from the diploma program were
the 1990 leadership redpients.
The awards were presented to the
students by Sarah Gooding,
section treasurer of the CIF.

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�Native Nurses Entry Program Receives Boost
The Native Nurses Entry Program
has received a grant of $70,000 from the
new Nursing Innovation Fund through
the Ministry of Health in Ontario.
Health and Welfare Canada matched
the grant with an additional $70,000.
The program was initiated four
years ago and since then has helped
prepare Native students for the fouryear nursing degree program at
Lakehead . The program was set up to
help Native people make the transition
into a university setting. Out of the 36
students that have enrolled during the
program's first three years, 27 have
entered the four-year Bachelor of
Nursing program. Since it's inception
the program has been funded by Health
and Welfare Canada but for some time
additional funding for the Native
Nurses Entry Program had been in
jeopardy.

250 geologists meet in
Thunder Bay
The 36th annual meeting of the
Institute on Lake Superior Geology
I.L.S.G. will be held in Thunder Bay
on May 9 -12.
The inaugural meeting was held in
1955 in Minneapolis, MN. The Institutes
are exemplary in their continuing objectives of dealing with those aspects of
geology that arc related geographically
to Lake Superior. The Institutes e~courage the discussion of research sub1ects
and sponsor field trips bringing together geologists from the academic
sector, government surveys, and
industry.
Thunder Bay was the site for the
meeting in 1961, 1970 and 1977. About
250 geologists from Canada and the
United States are expected to attend the
1990 meeting. More than 60 papers will
be presented, some by graduate students.
Field excursions include:
1) Lac des Illes area led by Richard
Sutcliffe of the Ontario Geological
Survey, Toronto.
2)Shebandowan area led by Maurice
Lavigne and John Scott of the
Ministry of Northern Development
and Mines T.B.
3)Atikokan and vicinity led by Graham Borradaile, Department of
Geology, Lakehead University_. .
4)Nipigon region led by Steve K1ssm,
Department of Geology, Lakehead
University.
May 1990

Mark Wigmore, left, Medical Services Branch of Health an4 Welfare Canada, Nao_m_i
Abotossaway, first-year nursing student (who says she aspires to ~e the future Minister
of Health), and MPP Taras Kozyra, discuss the benefits of the Native Nurses Entry
Program at the media conference.

UMD Announces Canadian Studies Chair
The University of Minnesota,
Duluth (UMD), has received a $50,000
grant from the Canadian gove~ment,
the first step toward the establishment
of a $2 million endowed professorship
in Canadian Studies.
The announcement was made
jointly by Douglas Nord, director of
UMD's Royal D. Al worth, Jr. Institute
for International Studies, and Brian
Buckley, Canadian consul ge~eral:"
The Canadian professorship will
focus on contemporary issues concerning U.S.-Canadian relations," Nord
said. ''These will deal with problems of
the environment, economic development in the regions of Northern Minnesota and Northwest Ontario, and issues
related to the Great Lakes, along with
collaborative work between institutions
of higher education--primarily UMD
and Lakehead University in Thunder
Bay," he added.Iain Angus, MP for
Thunder Bay-Atikokan, and Geoffrey
Weller, the Vice-President (Academic)
at Lakehead University, were present at
the ceremony at which the announcement of Canadian government support
was made. Previously they had given
their support to UMD's efforts and
spoken of the value of the chair to
Canada, to northwestern Ontario and
to Lakehead University. They both
stated that the chair will significantly
enhance the links between the two

universities (Lakehead and UMD) the
two regions (northwestern Ontario and
northern Minnesota) and the two cities
of Thunder Bay and Duluth.
The professorship, scheduled to be
filled in the 1991 academic year, will be
in the Institute for International Studies,
and work in cooperation with the
existing visiting professorship in
Northern Circle Studies.
Nord said the Canadian grant was
an important first step, and is in part
recognition for UMD's long-time commitment in promoting Canadian
studies.
The initial commitment toward the
$2 million chair in Canadian studies
will be followed by private donations,
Nord said, and will be matched by $1
million from the University's annual
fund.

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�Lakehead University Juried Student Exhibition
61 pieces in a variety of media selected
Clint Kraft won the Munto Family
Award for best in show during the
Lakehead University Juried Student
Exhibition currently on display at the
Thunder Bay Art Gallery. His painting
is entitled, Flight of the Mannequin. The
award is valued at $450.
Fifty-eight students submitted 169
works for the three-member jury to
consider. The exhibition is organized
jointly by the LU visual arts department
and the gallery. Sixty-one of the best
pieces in a variety of media, produced
in 1989-90 by 41 visual arts students
were selected for viewing. Jurors
included Henry Hajdinjak, Alison
Kendal and Tatiana, all from outside the
LU community.
Other award winners selected by the jurors included:
- Thunder Bay Society of Architects Awards ($200 each) - Isabelle Guillamette
(Penchant Pour Degas) and Rick Tiihonen (unsculpture).
- Ontario Crafts Council Award ($150) - Barbara Baird (Wash Day)
- LU Student Union Award ($150) - Margaret Bilbrough (Edible Book).
- LU Visual Arts Association Award ($100 each) - Michael Kowbuz (Attic
Interior), Eric Berkan (Laena), Nancy Bjorgo (Yellow Sofa) and Barbara Kushak
(Still Life).
- Pert's Framing Award ($100) - Erin M. May (Transparency).
- Framing Post Award ($50) - Jenifer Chicoine (Figure Collage #4).
- Dean's Award, Drawing ($75) - Barbara Baird (Mary and Olga).
- Dean's Award Painting ($75) - Stacey Saukko (Geology #6).
- Dean's Award, Printmaking ($75) - Pat Eisenback (Hight).
- Dean's Award, Sculpture ($75) - Linda Santa (The Encounter).
- Dean's Award, Ceramics ($75) - Sharon R. Reid (Hangover).
- Fusion Award (one year membership) - Shirley Dolph (Black Rose).
Winners selected by representatives of local businesses included:
- The Framing Experience Award ($100) gift certificate) - Carol Kirkpatrick
(Breath of Spring).
- Gallery of Fine Arts Award ($100 gift certificate) - Frances Friesen (Palm II).
- Atwood, Shaw, Labine Award ($100) - Frances Friesen (Jamaican Sunrise).
- Painted Turtle Art Shop Award ($100 and book) - Maureen Doyle (EggscapeEggsistential).
- Henderson and Associates Marketting and Advertising Award ($250) - Jennifer
Chicoine (Figure Collage #4).
- Winner of People's Choice Award - Frances Friesen (Jamaican Sunrise)

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Shirley Dolph with the
Fusion Award

Clint Kraft receiving the Munro Family
Award

Margaret Bilbrough accepts LU Student
Union Award from LUSU President Greg
Beckford
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�New Faces

Patrick Cholin

Ling Liu

Patrick Cholin is a new Computer Programmer/ Analyst in the
Computer Service Department.
Patrick graduated in 1988 from
Lakehead University with a
Bachelor of Science Degree (4 year
program) majoring in Computer
Science. A soccer enthusiast,
Patrick is presently looking to join
a new team playing in the local
league and is about to take a
refresher course in soccer refereeing. After work he says, "the only
computer I'll touch is Nintendo".
His favorite game? "Dragon Warrior". Patrick hopes to take
a class or two in the near future and looks forward to meeting
the people of the university community.

Ling Liu has joined Printing
Services as a clerk. Originally from
the ancient city of Nanjing in
China, Ling, her husband Xining Li
(a Mathematical Sciences professor
here), and her young son Ming-Fei
moved to Canada 5 years ago.
They settled in Calgary, relocating
when Xining had a job offer at
Lakehead University. "I like the
environment here and dealing with
people face to face" . Ling holds a
Computer Science degree from the
..___ _ _ _ _ _ _ __.University of Najing. She enjoys
swimming and an occasional bout of table tennis. To adapt
to Canadian life, Ling would "someday like to learn how to
ski and go fishing". Presently she is trying her hand at the
art of Canadian cuisine - muffins and cakes. She is an expert
chef and talents lie with old-style authentic Chinese food.

Hugh Briggs

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Development as the Construction
Supervisor. He will be supervising
the new construction on campus as
well as any renovations. Before
moving to Lakehead University,
Hugh was an estimator with BayWalsh General Contractors. Hugh
attended Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program . He
says, "most of my jobs have been in
the ci vii engineering field though".
Hugh, his wife Karen and their
three children, live in Kakabeka. They have 11 acres of
rolling hills and room enough to plant their own apple
orchard. In his spare time, Hugh coaches little league
baseball and enjoys snowmobiling and cross-country skiing
on his property in the winter.

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Denise Bruley has survived the
"orientation phase" in the Information Office and just recently her
colleagues discovered her secret. If
her quick transition to reporter,
public relations officer, special
events coordinator, computer whiz,
queen of fax and files is not due to
her recent degree in political studies
from LU, nor her experience at
Parks and Rec, nor her travels in
Europe, nor her extra curricular
activities singing at weddings, or
=====---_:::=== working on her French, then, what?
Well, ifs simple. Although born in Thunder Bay and a
graduate of Hammarskjold, Denise has been able to stay afloat
in the often busy and always crazy Information Office because
of her 6 year stint in Newfoundland! That is undoubtedly
where she developed stamina, humour, a love of jigs and a
flare for tall tales.

Non-Teaching Staff To
The Board Of Governors
Pursuant to the Provision of the Revised By-Laws adopted
by the Board of Governors on March 29, 1990, elections will
be held in May 1990 to elect to the Board Member of the
NON-TEACHING STAFF serve from the Annual Meeting in
September 1990 to the Annual Meeting in 1993.
Who is Eligible? Any full-time employee of Lakehead
University who has been on staff for at least three years, not
holding a faculty appointment, and not senior management
reporting directly to a Vice-President or the President.
Who may Nominate and Vote? Any full-time employee of
Lakehead University, not holding a faculty appointment.
The Nomination period will be from May 14, 1990, to May
28, 1990.
Ballots will be mailed to NON-TEACHING STAFF on
May 31, 1990, and the deadline for receipt by secret ballot
process is 4 p.m ., Thursday, June 14, 1990, in the office of the
Secretary of the Board of Governors (UC 2007) who will be
the Chief Electoral Officer. Requests for further information
can be directed to the Chief Electoral Officer, Mrs. Beverley
Stefureak, 8614.
May 1990

Denise Bruley

Appointment
Norma Jean Newbold, formerly of the Registrar's Office
has been appointed the new Residence Life/Conference
Officer. The new position replaces the marketing co-ordinator position and adds the duties of residence supervision.
Norma Jean worked in the York University residence for
four years as a Residence Assistant and in the office. "Basically", says Norma Jean, "under my portfolio I
am responsible for residence operations,
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under the supervision of the Director of
Residence". Included with her new job is a
new place to live. Norma Jean has taken up
"residence" (pun intended!) in the Gordon
G. Macleod house. Norma Jean can be
reached at 8622 and looks forward to
meeting the students and staff.

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�Special Canadians Hon&lt;J

JOHN KIM BELL is the first

JEANNE LECAINE AGNEW

North American Indian to
become a symphonic composer
and conductor. He is a Mohawk Indian who was born on
the Kahnawake Reserve near
Montreal. He began piano
lessons at the age of eight and
violin at the age of ten and was
soon appearing on local television in Columbus, Ohio, where
the family had moved. At the
age of eighteen, Bell was the
youngest professional conductor in the United States. He
continued to study piano after
receiving his Bachelor of Music
from Ohio State and conducted
more than thirty national tours
and Broadway musicals.
Other career highlights:
founder and president of the
Canadian Native Arts Foundation, a national organization
which provides educational and
professional development
opportunities for Native youth
in the arts; production of the
first full scale Native contemporary ballet entitled, In the Land
of Spirits , and writing original
musical scores for film.
John Kim Bell, 36, will
receive his first Canadian
honorary degree,
Doctor of Music,
at the morning
convocation
ceremony.

was born in Port Arthur and
educated at Central School,
Port Arthur Collegiate Institute
and the Port Arthur Technical
and Commercial High School.
A graduate of Queen's University (B.A. '37, M.A. '38) and
Harvard (Ph.D. 1941), Dr.
Agnew says her professional
goal "was always to be an
educator". Three years during
World War II, as part of the Canadian branch of the atomic
research effort, gave her good
experience in the practical
application of mathematics and
thus began her distinguished
career. From 1956-1984 she was
a professor at Oklahoma State
University. Her work with
graduate students in number
theory led to the publication of
Explorations in Number
Theory (Brooks/Cole, 1972).
Ouimet Can yon is on the book
cover which Dr. Agnew says
"is symbolic of unsolved problems". Dr. Agnew co-authored
another book in 1978 and is
currently working on nine
learning modules intended for
use in high schools in Canada
and the United States.
Dr. Agnew will return to
her birthplace to be honoured
at the morning Convocation
with a Doctor of Laws. Perhaps
she will also have the opportunity to visit her summer home
on Lake Superior which she
refers to as "a small piece of
Canadian land to which I can
return for revitalization".

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DEREK BURNEY was born in
Fort William, Ontario. He
attended Queen's University in
Kingston where he received an
Honours B.A. and M.A. in
Political Science. He joined
External Affairs as a Foreign
Service Officer in 1963.
After holding posts at
Embassies in New Zealand and
Tokyo from 1965 to 1972,
Burney returned to headquarters where in 1978 he was
accredited as Ambassador to
the Republic of Korea.
In 1985, Burney was
appointed Associate Under
Secretary of State for External
Affairs until 1987 when he
served as Chief of Staff to the
Prime Minister.
In 1989, Mr. Burney became
Canada's fifteenth Ambassador
to the United States.
Recently Ambassador
Burney has assumed additional
responsibility as the Prime
Minister's personal representative for the Economic Summit
which will be held in the
United States this year.
Derek Burney will receive
the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws and will address the
graduating class of 1990 at the
morning ceremonies.

FRASER DOUGALL, JR. will

be made a Fellow of the
University for his long and
distinguished service to the
University and community.
Born in Port Arthur in 1942, he
attended elementary schools
here before moving to Manitoba. Mr. Dougall received his
Bachelor of Arts degree from
St. John's College of the
University of Manitoba.
He has subsequently taken
special courses at the University of Western Ontario, York
University, and Harvard
University.A broadcaster by
profession, Mr. Dougall has
had a successful media career
extending over thirty years. In
addition to many radio and
television holdings, he has bee1
a successful entrepreneur in
restaurant operations as well.
Mr. Dougall has served as a
member of the Board of
Governors of Lakehead Univer
sity from 1967 through 1983
and as Chairman of the Board
from 1981 through 1983. His
volunteer associations are
numerous and include active
participation in the Salvation
Army Red Shield Appeal, the
Ontario Economic Council, the
Board of Minaki Lodge, the
Port Arthur Rotary Club, the
Gyro Club, the Lakehead
University Health, as well as
others. He has been the winner
of many local, provincial and
national awards including
being named as one of five
Outstanding Young Canadians
Awards in 1972.

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WILLIAM S. FYFE will address
the afternoon graduands and
receive an honorary degree in
Doctor of Laws in recognition
)f his international contributions to research on global environmental problems.
He began his education and
:areer in New Zealand and has
:,een professor of Earth Sci~nces at the University of
:::alifornia (Berkeley), Univer;ity of Manchester and is
:urrently Dean of Sciences at
:he University of Western
Jntario.
At the forefront of earth
,ciences for more than 40
vears, Dr. Fyfe has been the
recipient of numerous awards
:ncluding membership as a
Fellow of the Royal Society of
London (UK) and twice
,eceving a Guggenheim Felowship.
In the 1980's 0.. Fyfe was
m initiator of the International
Global Change Program de;igned to explore the unique
:onditions for life on our
:&gt;lanet as well as the human
:nfluence on the interactions
naintaining these condition.
[n 1989 he was awarded the
::::ompanion of the Order of
::::anada for his efforts on behalf
)f this international environncntal program. He is noted
=or his style and enthusiasm in
:ommunicating scientific
&lt;nowledge and his legacy is
~vident in the scores of interna:ional scientists who are former
:;raduate students.

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AR1HUR ERICKSON will

G. SYDNEY HALTER will be

JOAN (Dusty) MILLER will be

receive an honorary Doctor of
Laws during the afternoon
Convocation on Saturday, May
26, 1990. Perhaps the citation
for the 1986 Gold Medal from
the Amercian Institute of
Architects best summarizes this
phenomenal Canadian: "Global
architect, passionate advocate
of cultural awareness, and
fervent explorer of human and
natural environments, whose
buildings, though remarkably
di verse, share deep respect for
context, incomparable freshness and grace, and the dramatic use of space and light."
Arthur Erickson was born in
1924 in Vancouver and was
educated at the University of
British Columbia and McGill.
He first became enthralled with
architecture after reading an
article in FORTUNE magazine
on Frank LLoyd Wright's
Taliesin West.
Erickson has designed many
outstanding projects including
the Courthouse and Provincial
Offices in Vancouver, the
Canadian Pavilion at Expo 70
in Osaka, Simon Fraser University, University of Lethbridge.
the Canadian Embassy in
Washington and to our utter
amazement, the Ministry of
Colleges and Universities
building under construction in
Th under Bay!

honoured as a Fellow for his
outstanding contribution to
university and community.
Born and educated in Thunder
Bay, he received his Electrical
Engineering degree from the
University of Manitoba in 1946.
Mr. Halter joined the C. D.
Howe Company as design
engineer and eventually
became President and Chief
Engineer and Senior VicePresident and Director of all of
the C. D. Howe Group of
Companies including its
overseas branches. His main
fields of expertise involve dock
and harbour installations and
bulk material handling in
virtually every port in Canada
as well as some overseas.
Mr. Halter was Past-Chairman of the Board of Governors
of Lakehead University where
he served for fifteen years;
Past-President of the Board of
Governors of McKellar General
Hospital; Past President of the
Consulting Engineers of
Ontario; and Past-Director of
the Thunder Bay Chamber of
Commerce and also PastDirector of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Halter has been twice
honoured by the Association of
Professional Engineers of
Ontario for outstanding service
to his profession. He received
the distinction of Fellow of the
Engineering Institute of Canada
in 1987 in recognition of his
excellence in engineering and
for services rendered to his
profession and society.

honoured with the 1989
Lakehead University Alumni
Award. Mrs. Miller graduated
from Lakehead University in
1969, with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Philosophy) and was the
recipient of the Chancellor's
Medal. She is a dedicated patron
of the arts, particularly theatre gifted as a Director, actress and
member of the Ontario Arts
Council. Always concerned
with the well being of the
individual and the community,
the name Dusty Miller has
become synonymous with social
justice, whether at the helm as
Mayor of the City of Thunder
Bay (1978-1980) or active Alderwoman from 1974-78, and 1984present or concerned citizen
through her many memberships.
Mrs. Miller provided much
of the leadership and energy to
develop the Alumni Association
into an active and productive
organization. She currently represents the City onthe Lakehead
University Board of Governors.
Dusty Miller, described as a
woman "radiating warmth and
understanding of people" is a
most worthy alumna
for this award.

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Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra at the Community Auditorium on Pius with his performance. From left to right, Dolores Sanchez, Lisa
May 1. The abrasive Beethoven, looking very much like our own Frigeri, Shannon Bonazzo,Andy Lee, Kevin Kelner,and Tyler Wilen.

Lakehead University and The TBSO - - Making beautiful music together

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Lakehead University and the Thunder Bay Symphony
Orchestra continue their tradition of working together by
presenting a composition by Dr. Aris Carastathis for the 199091 Symphony season. The piece, based on northern themes, is
slated for it's premiere in March of 1991 and has been cocommissioned by Lakehead University's Centre for Northern
Studies and the TBSO.
Dr. Carastathis, Assistant Professor of Music, has an
extensive background in composition and instruction with the
Saskatoon Conservatory of Music, Louisiana State University,
the University of Northern Iowa and Wartburg College. He
lists nearly 40 compositions to his credit. In addition, Dr.
Carastathis has had conducting engagements with several
orchestras, including the Waterloo Symphony Chamber
Orchestra, the University of Northern Iowa Orchestra, the
Nova Symphonia Ensemble and the Louisiana State University New Music Ensemble. Dr. Carastathis is only one of
many links Lakehead University has with the Thunder Bay
Symphony Orchestra. The TBSO kicked off it's 30th Anniversary Season in April as" A Season to Celebrate". Music Director and Conductor, Glenn Mossop, referred to those ties as
"close" and "beneficial to both" Sessional lecturers in
Lakehead University's Music Department often
wear two hats, teaching courses by day and performing with the symphony at night. These
include Penelope Clarke, flute; Doris Dungan,
flute and piccolo; Joy Fahrenbruck, sym,.:..
6 phony chorus; Jeff Gibson, french horn;
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Gayle Raulston, Violin; and Harold Weevers,
Bassoon.
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�Publishing Profs get hooked during their student days
''Too bad he takes after Uncle Crawford''
"All the time I was growing up, no one ever mentioned
to me my great-uncle, the philosopher, theologian and
amateur inventor, William Albert Crawford Frost. It was not until my second
year at university, when I decided
to major in philosophy, that I
even heard about him. Then I
overheard various aunts and
uncles whispering in sympathetic tones to my parents,
saying such things about me
as: "He seems to be turning
out like uncle Crawford" or
"isn't it too bad that he takes
after uncle Crawford".
Volume Two of the The
Frye Library of Canadian Philosophy was recently published, under the general editorship of Dr. Douglas Rabb, professor of philosophy at Lakehead.
Entitled "The Christian Cosmology of
Crawford-Frost" the book deals with early Canadian philosopher William Crawford-Frost, a subject close to
Dr. Rabb's heart.
When Dr. Rabb originally approached the publishers,
his idea was to write a book on Crawford-Frost. The
publisher felt the book may not sell on its own, but as part

of a series on Canadian philosophers, it would be marketable. Out of this sprang the Frye Library of Canadian
Philosophy.
"Perhaps philosophy is part of a
genetic inheritance", he mused.
Rabb became interested in
Crawford-Frost when he discovered one of his books in
an attic in a family home. He
was instantly intrigued with
the eccentricities of the man.
Crawford-Frost published
two major books, "Old
Dogma and New Light"
and ''The Philosophy of Integration". Both attempt to
reconcile Christian belief in
creation with the theory of
evolution which Rabb critiques in his book. CrawfordFrost was also an amateur inventor who claimed to have invented
the first bag-suspended military gas mask.
The patent was purchased by the British military and used
in WWI.
"The Christian Cosmology of Crawford-Frost" and
volume one of the Frye series, "Religion and Science in
Early Canada" are available in the LU Bookstore.

Book began as PhD thesis

The book by Dr. Mike Richardson,
professor of English, "Astrological
Symbolism in Spenser's The
Shepheardes Calender: The Cultural
Background of a Literary Text" has
been published by The Edwin Mellen
Press and is available in the Bookstore.
The book, which deals exclusively with
Edmund Spenser's work "The
Shepheardes Calender", is largely
intended for university libraries, said
Dr. Richardson.
Dr. Richardson began the work on
his book in 1975. "Originally it was
my PhD thesis but I changed and
added to it, eventually incorporating it
into a book". Richardson did virtually
all of his research for the book at the
Lakehead University library. "They
have an excellent series of microfilm
on Early English books from 1470-1640.
I went through 1600 reels of microfilm". He also used extensively
another series of facsimile reprints
called the English Experience which
numbers 900 volumes. The library has
all of them.
According to Dr. Richardson, "the
book tests the hypothesis that Edmund
Spenser (1522-1599), without devising
birth charts for his characters, fashioned the twelve eclogues that com-

May 1990

prise his poem, The Shepheardes
Calender, in accordance with the motifs,
character types, and destinies that
astrologers have traditionally attributed
to the people born under the sign and
plant governing each eclogue's month".
Richardson is in the early stages with
two other books, the first a handbook of

Renaissance Astrology
and the second, a book
on British children's
author Rosemary
Sutcliff.

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�People /Papers /Publications
Special Projects/Awards
David Kemp of the
~~=~ Department of Geography

has had a book entitled
Global Environmental
Issues: A Climatological
Approach, published by
Routledge. The book
provides an introduction to
large scale environmental
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1 issues, such as drought,
famine and desertification,
--'si~],:,i~~ acid rain, the greenhouse
effect, ozone depletion and
nuclear winter, all of which
include a strong climatological element in their
make-up.

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Dr. A. Sedov, Professor, Department
of Mechanical Engineering is the author
of two papers, "A unified constrained
inversion model for ultrasonic flaw
sizing" and "The flat-bottom hole. An
ultrasonic scattering model." that have
recently been published in Research in
Nondestructive Evaluation 1(1990) pp.
77-97 and pp. 181-196 respectively. Both
papers were co-authored with Dr. L. W.
Schmerr of Iowa State University,
Ames,lowa.
Dr. Yves Prevost, School of Forestry
gave a presentation on cone and seed
insects at a workshop of the Ministry of
Natural Resources March 20 and 21,
1990 in Dryden.
Ms. Shelley A. Vescio, Professor
Prevost's graduate student in forest
entomology, was awarded an NSERC
post-graduate scholarship over the next
two years to study "Indigestible fibres
in host tree foliage as defences against
feeding by spruce budworm". Ms.
Vescio most recently studied at University of New Brunswick where she
obtained her B.Sc.F. (1985). She obtained
her diploma as a For. Tech. from
Lakehead.

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Dr. Laurie Garred, Professor and
Chairman, Department of Chemical
Engineering has had the following
refereed article published recently: Garr e d LJ et al. "Effect of Reuse on
Dialyzer Efficacy. Artificial
Organs" 14(3): 1-5, 1990.
Prof. Garred attended 2
international conferences in April, present,.:..
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Artificial Organs in Washington, D.C.
The latter paper will be published in the
conference proceedings.
Dr. Garred has also been awarded a
grant for 1990-91 research work in
France under the Canada/France
Science and Technology Cooperation
Program.
Dr. Bill Parker, School of Forestry
was appointed to the Ontario Renewable Resources Review Board.
PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

Dr. Sher Ali
Mirza, a professor of
civil engineering at
Lakehead University, has received the
prestigious Raymond C. Reese
Structural Research
Award from the
American Concrete
Institute. Dr. Mirza,
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Richard W. Furlong, professor of
engineering at the University of Texas
in Austin, and John S. Ma, structural
engineer with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C.,
received the award the ACl's 1990
Spring Convention in March at the
Royal York Hotel.
The award winning paper entitled
"Flexural Shear and Ledge Reinforcement in Reinforced Concrete Inverted
T-Girders" provides significant design

guidance in the proportioning of web
reinforcement and calculation of the
strength for ledges. The final paper was
the result of a number of years research
and work.
Dr. Mirza has been on faculty at
Lakehead University since 1980. He is a
fellow of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and serves on committees of
the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. He has been a member of the
American Concrete Institute since 1975.
Before joining Lakehead University, Dr.
Mirza was a research associate at the
University of Alberta and was with an
Edmonton consulting firm for a number
of years. He holds a PhD in engineering
from the University of Texas in Austin,
Texas.

LAPRE AND TEAM CHALLENGE
NATIONALS

Although
the regular
season is over
for theNorwesters, some
of the LU
varsity players
and coach
Claude Lapre
are not at a loss
to fill up their
days. For the
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appointed the coach of the provincial
volleyball team. His major duty will
to coach the team to the next Canada
Summer Games (1993) in Kamloops,
B.C. Lapre will be busy in the spring
and early summer with tryouts for th«
team.
An Lakehead University affiliated
club team, the Junior Lady Norwester
coached by Claude Lapre, will be bus:
in competition in the next few weeks.
The team includes LU varsity players
Kelly Breutigam, Kelly Williams, Sue
Craig, Tania Mash and Angie Aiken it
addition to city high school students
Sandra Bade of Hammarskjold, Shelle
Martin of Westgate and Alyson Nicol
and Elaine Cullen from St. Ignatius.
Kelly Breutigam, the power-hitter whc
stormed through an excellent season l,
been invited to Regina to the National
team tryout camp during mid-May.
Myrna Holman, Human Resources
Officer, was one of five Canadians
invited to make a presentation at the
international conference on Sexual
Harassment, Abusive Management an,
Workplace Abuse at the University of
Washington in May.
Unique Research Opportunities fo:
students of animal biology are availabl
through the Lakehead Centre for
Northern Studies. Centre Director, Dr.
Paul Watts, is interested in interviewin
graduate and undergraduate students i
animal biology who are interested in
working as summer research assistants
in the North through the Institute of
Arctic Ecophysiology. Students will
have access to a wide variety of equipment and facilities including field
stations on the Hudson Bay Lowlands,
animal holding facilities and respiratioi
chambers for bears.
For further information contact: Dr.
Paul Watts, Director, 343-8360.

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�Research News
FROM THE OFFICE OF
GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH

Research Officer: Anne Fiorenza
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

For further information on any of these Research Programs,
please contact the Office of Research and Graduate Studies. I
am very pleased that Mrs. Connie Hartvikscn will be the
Interim Research Officer during my secondment (April September 1990) to the Research Branch, Ministry of Colleges
and Universities.
SSHRC RESEARCH AWARDS
SSHRC has recently announced the results of the 1990
Research Grants competition. In total, the Grants Selection
Committees recommended to SSHRC that four Lakehcad
University researchers be funded. However, due to insufficient funds, three of these candidates were put on a revcrsionary list. All candidates on a rcversionary list will be reconsidered for funding should funding be made available within the
same year. I would like to take this opportunity to commend
all researchers for their efforts in this years competition.
Those candidates receiving new SSHRC grants, as well as
those candidates which were placed on the reversionary list
arc:
New SSHRC Grant Recipient
Dr. Robert J. Payne, School of Outdoor Recreation, Project
Title "Social Profiles of Wildlife - Related Recreation Activity
in Canada, 1981 -1988".
SSHRC Proposals on Reversionary List

Dr. Peter Crocker, School of Physical Education, Project Title
"Consistency cues in coaching feedback: Effects on perceptions of sincerity and motivation".
Dr. T. W. Dunk, Centre for Northern Studies, Project Title
"Native Labour in the Early Industrial Economy of Northwestern Ontario 1850 -1950".
Prof. Patricia Vervoort, Department of Visual Arts, Project
Title "C. D. Howe, The Engineer: 1916 -1935".
SSHRC RENEWABLE GRANTS

Education:
J. O'Meara
Psychology:
Dr. K. Rotenberg
Political Studies: G.R. Weller
J. Rayner
History:
P. Jasen, Canada Research Fellowship
NSERC RESEARCH AWARDS
In the April issue of the Agora, I announced the new NSERC
award holders. NSERC eligible faculty who currently hold
two- or three-year grants include the following:
Dr. G. Borradaile, Department of Geology
Dr. R. Day, Department of Mathematical Science
Dr. S. Easa, Department of Civil Engineering
Dr. R. Freitag, Department of Biology
Dr. A. Hughes, Department of Chemistry
Dr. C. Kent, Department of Mathematical Science
Dr. B. Kronberg, Department of Geology
Dr. M. Lankester, Department of Biology
Dr. P. Lee, Department of Biology

May 1990

Dr. P.M. Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. A. Macdonald, Department of Biology
Dr. L. Malek, Department of Biology
Dr. A. Mirza, Department of Civil Engineering
Dr. R. Mitchell, Department of Geology
Dr. W. Momot, Department of Biology
Dr. S. Naimpally, Department of Mathematical Science
Dr. K. Natarajan, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr. I. Nirdosh, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. V.V. Paranjape, Department of Physics
Dr. W.H. Parker, School of Forestry
Dr. V.R. Puttagunta, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. J. Ryder, Department of Biology
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Dr. A. Sedov, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. B. Singh, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. N. Weir, Department of Chemistry
Dr. J. Whitfield, Department of Mathematical Science
CANADA/FRANCE RESEARCH AWARDS
Dr. Laurie Garred, Department of Chemical Engineering,

has been awarded a Canada/France Science and Technology
Cooperation Award. In 1988/89, Dr. Garred spent his
sabbatical leave at the University of Montpellier, France
during which several collaborative projects in the area of urea
kinetic modelling were pursued. Dr. Garred, states that the
purpose of this years one month visit will be to consult with
his fellow French researchers on their continuing work,
particularly with respect to the development and testing of a
prototype urea monitor, a project initiated during his sabbatical.
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE NEWS
Dr. Robert Rosehart has been appointed as a member of the
Board of Directors for the Mechanical and Chemimechanical
Pulps Federal Network of Centres of Excellence.
MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
New Environmental Technologies Program

Ontario will spend $30 million over the next five years to
stimulate development of new products and processes that
protect the environment. The environmental technologies
program will fund up to 50 percent of projects proposed by
Canadian universities, companies, research organizations,
municipalities, etc., to a maximum of $500,000 per year for a
maximum of three years. The funding is to help cover costs
of researching, developing and testing the product or process
and for full scale field trials and technical demonstrations.
Eligible products and processes include technologies that:
1. will eliminate or reduce emissions to air or discharge to
water
2. reduce municipal, commercial and industrial waste by
reducing, reusing and recycling
3. develop spills containment and cleanup technologies
4. develop improved monitoring and analytical methods
and techniques
Deadline: June 15, 1990
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL
HEALTH
Research on Mental Disorders in Rural
Populations

The purpose of this program is to stimulate
research on mental disorders as they occur
in Americans living in rural areas Research
to be supported under this program is expected to:

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increase understanding of the major mental health
problems and risks that may be associated with the stress
of rural life
2. ways that the incidence and prevalence of mental disorders can be assessed and perhaps lowered;
3. ways that effective services can be made more accessible,
organized into an integrated system, and delivered
economically in rural areas.
For interested faculty the following grants are available:
- general research grants
- demonstration grants
- grants to establish a research centre.
Preference will be given to applications that involve collaboration between academic researchers and public sector
agencies.
Deadline: June 1, 1990
AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY
Research Grants 1990

One year research grants are available to support basic and
clinical research in the biological, behavioural and social
sciences which will advance the understanding, treatment
and prevention of epilepsy. Priority is given to beginning investigators just entering the field of epilepsy research, to new
innovative projects and to investigators whose research is
relevant to developmental or paediatric aspects of epilepsy.
Deadline: August 31, 1990
Research Fellowships 1990

Various fellowships valued at $25,000 offer qualified individuals the opportunity to develop expertise in epilepsy
research. Application is open to physicians, or individuals
who have received their doctoral degree in a field of the
behavioural sciences. For further information, please contact
the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, ext. 8223.
Deadline: August 31, 1990
CIDAAWARDS
Long-Term Awards

This program encourages proposals of 7-24 months in
duration that will lead to the growth of Canadian international development expertise in the following fields of specialization: fisheries, energy, transportation, intercultural
management, human resource development, education,
women in development, rural development, health, nutrition,
population, environment, marketing, mining, telecommunications and small enterprises.
Deadline September 4, 1990. Awards are for a maximum of
$25,000.
SCIENCE CULTURE CANADA

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The purpose of this program is to provide project funding
and core funding for activities that promote increased general
public awareness of scientific and technological achievements
and to develop and sustain interest in science and technology
among Canadian youth. Proposals of Project Funding are
considered twice annually with deadlines of April
5 and October 15. Proposals for Core Funding
are considered once annually at the April 15
deadline. This program should be of particular interest to the School of Education, School
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UPCOMING DEADLINE DATES

World Wildlife Fund - Endangered Species
Recovery Fund (July 1, October 1, January 1,

April 1), Wildlife Toxicology Fund (anytime).
Laidlaw Foundation Program - Children and Families at Ri.
Program (may 1, September 1, November 1), Laidlaw Scholi
Program (anytime), Laidlaw Conservation Program (July 1)
University Research Incentive Fund - May 31, 1990.
Social Science Federation of Canada - Aid to Scholarly Pul:
cations Program (open).
Department of Energy, Mines and Resources - Environmental Studies Revolving Funds (Anytime).
National Geographic Society - Research Grants (Open).
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Advanced
Research Workshops (Open).
SSHRC -Travel Grants for International Representation ani
Aid to Occasional Scholarly Conferences in Canada Prograr
(March 30, June 30, and October 30).
GRADUATE STUDIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS UPDATE

The 1990-91 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship recipients we
recently announced. Successful applicants from Lakehead
University who will receive a $14,000 award are:
BOEGH, John (Mechanical Engineering)
DURALIA, Thomas (Outdoor Rec/Nat.Sci)
ECCLES, Barb (Physics)
MOLLY, Karen (Psychology)
STRANGIER, Stephanie (Mechanical Engineering)
MCLAUGHLIN, John (Forestry)
NICOL, Derek (Geology)
PUUMULA, Mark (Geology)
SEEMAYER, Barb (Geology)
MCARTHUR, John (Geology)

Winners of the 1990-91 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Oper
Competition) have also been announced by the Ministry of
Colleges and Universities. Successful applicants who will
receive a $3,400 award per term are:
ADAIR, James (ElectricalEngineering)
BOEGH, John (Mechanical Engineering)
ECCLES, Barb (Physics)

FATA, Mirella (Psychology)
JONES, Maria (Psychology)
LYLYK, Marilyn (Psychology)
MOLLY, Karen (Psychology)
STRANGIER, Stephanie (Mechanical Engineering)
STEPHENSON, Samuel (Biology)
To match the names &amp; faces of the distinguished members of the
quarter century club:
p.2. Donald Orr, Professor of Chemistry
p.3. George Ozburn, Professor of Biology
p.4. John Whitfield, Dean of Arts and Science
p.5. Bill Allaway, Associate Professor of Mathematical Studies
p.6. Richard MacGillivray, Associate Professor of English
p.7. Murray Patterson, Professor of Engineering
p.8. George Merrill, Professor of English
p.9. Moe Ktytor, Director of Student Placement
p.10 Douglas Lindsay, Professor Emeritus of Biology
p.11 Eric Green, Assoc. Professor of Mathematical Sciences
p.12 Linda Phi/tips, Secretary to the President
p.13 Anita Chen, Professor of Sociology
p.14 Margaret McMurtry, Retired Library Assistant, Chancellor
Paterson Library
p.15 Pradip Sarbadhikari, Professor of Political Studies
Members of the club not able to attend the recent dinner are:Harol,
Braun, Principal Emeritus, Harry Elmslie, Professor of Business
Administration, Don Mackinnon, Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Gordon Mott, Professor Emeritus of Engineering.

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�Forum
Cultivating Our Wits
Reprinted with permission of author
Leila Lutsis, Brock University
"Canada has not managed its resources very well, nor its credit. What's
left is our wits." Thus visiting speaker
Janet Halliwell justified the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research
Council's current initiatives to create a
better environment for scientific research
personnel. Executive Director of the
Grants Program, Halliwell administers
two thirds of NSERC's money.
Despite a persistent prejudice that
technology is the author of our problems
rather than the solution, Ottawa has
recently come to recognize how far
behind Canada is in terms of research
and development, Ms Halliwell said, and
it faces many problems in catching up.
She provided statistics to show how
career prospects in R&amp;D are shrinking;
how professors in the natural sciences
and engineering are aging, and positions
opened by retirements are not being
filled; how Canada lags behind Japan in
the percentage of R&amp;D personnel in its
labour force (by a factor of 13 to 8); how
male enrolments in the sciences are
declining, while female enrolments are
not increasing enough to make up the
loss. "Four hundred and seventy-six high
school graduates are needed to produce
one PhD," she said, and NSERC is trying
to encourage potential scholars by increasing the number of Undergraduate
Student Research Awards (USRAs), and
by increasing stipends for post-graduate
scholars.
"Since the fertility rate in Canada is
currently below the reproductive level,"
she argued, "we may need to reconsider
our attitudes" toward the needs of
women of child-bearing age who wish to
pursue scientific careers. NSERC is responding to this pressure by creating 200
new USRAs for women, tenable in the
first year of study; by instituting a new
faculty recruitment program for women;
by checking its guidelines for gender
bias; and by allowing for deferred
holding of scholarships for women of
child-bearing age.
Ms. Halliwell said NSERC is worried
about the brain-drain - not just to the
U.S.: "We've already seen Japan do some
very active recruiting in Canada." And
the U .K. has reversed its brain-drain,
now that people are anxious to enter the
new European Community. She quoted
Northern Telecom's John Roth: "We need
people who do not have a limited skill
set, but have learned how to learn."
May 1990

PRESIDENT'S REPORT continued from page 2
with the rest of the world post June 4, 1989, youth employment opp tuni .
have become a serious concern.
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ties
. Well, back to Harbin. yve were given a very enthusiastic greeting at the
airport by our hosts who included Mr. Pang, a former visitor to Lakehead
University's English Department. As well as having three visiting professors
from Harbin spend six months at Lakehead University, we have had graduate
students from Northeast Forestry University and, this spring, one of our
graduate students is going to Harbin for further graduate studies. At Harbin,
they are very interested in furthering their connections with Lakehead University, but is clear that this will only be possible with significant financial support
from CIDA. At this point in time, CIDA's China program seems somewhat in a
state of limbo.
•
After four days in Harbin, we travelled by an impressive Russian-built
China Air flight to Beijing and spent the final two days of our visit in the
capital. The entire country is on a massive "greening" project and nowhere is
this more evident than in Beijing where massive tree planting projects have
been initiated.
It is hard not to get caught up in the emotion of China, particularly when
standing in Tiananmen Square, but it is far too easy to try and impose one's
own values on others. Chia has major challenges in front of it. The benefits of
industrialization are being negated to some extent by significant environmental
problems. The challenges of a nation with 1.2 billion people are mind-boggling.
However, change is in the air. "Free" markets are flourishing, and we ate in
several private (vs. state) restaurants. Although China will never become a
Hong Kong, serious efforts are being made to stimulate free enterprise and individual initiative. In time, I suspect that this will rapidly accelerate the social,
economic and political reforms in this nation which are inevitable.
It has now been about ten days of good Chinese food. I still have a bad cold
(have even tried Chinese medicine), and we are all getting somewhat better at
using chopsticks. Dr. Kondor is on food withdrawal and we break down and
go for breakfast at an American hotel in Beijing. The food was probably not
that good, but it was familiar. We took along our two translators and, after
many days of hearing comments made about our use of chopsticks, it was
indeed justice to see them handle a knife and fork.
While in China, I met with some of our future graduate students and
become a mail boy for the Registrar. These students are very excited about the
possibility of studying in the west. A major problem will continue to be
adequate funding. With foreign fees so high, the Canadian Embassy in China is
getting very tough on giving students visas unless the students can
demonstrate adequate financial support. It is somewhat staggering to realize
that over 3/ 4 of the applications to all of our graduate programs are from
China. I met some very impressive potential students in China who feel that a
country as rich as Canada should help them. When you are in China and see
the conditions and the challenges facing the people it is hard not to agree with
them. On a personal basis, this trip has opened up my focus, and it is hard not
to support further Canadian initiatives to help the underdeveloped
countries of the world.
For all of our problems
at home, they seem
somewhat pale in
comparison.

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Calendar
To include your Department's event or
activity in the Campus Calendar, please
call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the
June Agora is May 15, 1990.

CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY
HOURS - SPRING SESSION
MAY 1 - JUNE 15, 1990
Mon - Thurs - 8 AM - 10:30 PM
Friday-8 AM -9 PM
Saturday - 11 AM - 5 PM
Sunday - 1 PM - 9 PM
THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY
Tracks in the Sky April 27 - June 3
The Glass Box is Back
- Saturday, May 5 2PM
For information call 577-6427

THURSDAY 10 to SATURDAY 12
TRADE SHOW
Come visit our Booth!
Ontario Building

FRIDAY, 11
SENATE
Approval of Graduands
PRESIDENT'S SILVER JUBILEE BALL
Tiberio Room, Airlane Motor Hotel
6:30 PM
Call Linda Phillips, 343-8200

MONDAY, 14
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF THUNDER
BAY
Guest Speaker: ARTHUR BLACK
Symposium, Dinner, Meeting
5:30 pm - Valhalla Inn, Scandia Room
$20 per person (in advance)
Call 345-9556

WEDNESDAY, 16
1990 Shell Fuelthon Car Unveiling
11:00 am
Agora Circle
Come out and see this year's car design

THURSDAY, 17

THE CHANCELLOR PATERSON
LIBRARY HOURS
VICTORIA DAY WEEKEND
MAY 19 - 21, 1990
Saturday, May 19 - 11 AM - 5 PM
Sunday, May 20 - 1 PM - 9 PM
Monday, May 21 - 9 AM - 5 PM

MONDAY,21
COMMONWEALTH DAY
UNIVERSITY CLOSED
Legion/LU 10-Mile Road Race
Start Line: Comer of May &amp; Arthur Sts.
Finish Line: Branch #6 Legion Hall
Start Time: 10 AM

TUESDAY, 22
Half-courses terminate

WEDNESDAY, 23
Half-course examinations

THURSDAY, 24

TUESDAY,5
BLOOD DONOR CLINIC
Noon to 8:30 pm
St. Mary's Church
85 North Algoma Street

TUESDAY 5, WEDNESDAY 6
BLOOD DONOR CLINIC
St. Pat's Cathedral Auditorium
Noon to 8:30 pm

WEDNESDAY, 6
ALUMNI VOLUNTEER SUPPER &amp;
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Faculty Lounge
Supper 5:30 pm
General Meeting - 7:30 pm

SATURDAY, 16
LU Community Council
Silver Jubilee Picnic

Grounds adjacent to C.J. Sanders Field
House

Spring Session hall-courses commence
Spring Session full-courses which
commenced May resume

FRIDAY,25
Silver Jubilee Convocation Eve

Faculty Lounge
The Alumni Association hosts a reception to welcome new grads
8:30 - 10:30 pm
Final date for withdrawal without
academic penaltyfrom Spring Session
Distance Education half-courses

SATURDAY,26
SILVER JUBILEE CONVOCATION
Thunder Bay Community AuditoriumMorning Convocation -10 AM
Afternoon Convocation - 2:30 PM

TUESDAY, 29
Final date for refunds on withdrawals
from Spring Session half-courses which
commenced May 24

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FRIDAY, 1 to SUNDAY, 3
Thunder Bay /Duluth Friendship Games

Board of Governors
4PM

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Office, Department of External Relations,
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
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The Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra

Guest Conductor: Peter McCoppin
Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
8:00p.m.

FRIDAY, 18
Silver Jubilee Math Awards
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Dennis Wallace

yesterday's AMS Presidential
election, taking 71 % of the
vote.
Art Looye and Derek Curtis
received 22% and 7% respectively.
Both Wallace and Looye
were pleased with the large
voter turnout (46%). Wallace
commented.
"What I most appreciated
was the rapid politicization of
the student body. I think that
the knowledge shown by the
student body was stimulated
by the views of the candidates
and mainly the issue of CUS.
Student support of CUS in the
referendum has shown a desire
on the part of the student body
for outside information and
exchange of knowledge.
"Now we have given CUS
an affirmative vote, I am going

Executive election results
Science President

AMS President
62
205
645

Derek Curtis
Arthur Looye
Dennis Wallace

6.7%
22.4%
70.9%

V. P. of Academics
Robert Gibson
Syd Pettit

651
251

72.2%
27-.8%

V. P. of Programming
Kaz Miyata

yes 731
no
193

David Curtis
David Layman

89
43

67.4%
32.6%

Science V. P.
Tony Allard
Peter Degiacomo

59
62

48.B%
51.2%

Science Secretary
Miss Lampo

79.1%
20.9%

yes 105
no
17

86.1%
13.9%

Director of Finance
Michael Pawlowski
Steven Zagozewski

663
175

79.1%
20.9%

University Schools President
Bill Esiark

yes 731
no
193

Kaz Miyata

79.1%
20.9%

CUS Referendum
yes 507
no
408

55.4%
44.6%

Arts President
Kevin Jesseau
Paul Paularinne

132
326

yes

255
47

84.4%
15.6%

University Schools v.P.
David Kerr
247
Jack Tallon
58

80.9%
19.2%

110

V. P. of Programming

29
71

%

%

U. S. Secretary
Angela Hockley

yes
no

250
42

94.7%
5.3%

U. S. Treasurer
Damon Merredew yes
no

242
53

82
18

%
%

with the tacit approval of Don
Kossick, prairie fieldworker,
Martin Loney, CUS pr-esidentelect and Missi Powell, °CUS
National Councillor.
"I feel we have a very
good chance of getting the
congress here this year."

CUS vvins
referendum
Lakehead University students voted 507-408 to remain
in the Canadian Union of
Students yesterday. The referendum followed a hard
fought campaign between pro
and anti- CU S forces on campus.
One of the major boosts for
the pro-CUS forces was the
appearance of CUS Prec;identElect Martin Loney on Friday
Feb. 14. Don Kossick, CUS
fieldworker, also spent three
days on campus co-ordinating
discussions on CUS.
The a •1-CUS forces were
largely s ent until only a few
days before the vote, when
they launched a strong campaign based mainly on misrep•
resentation of some CUS
resolutions.

Councillors
elected soon
The AMS Councillors elections have been shifted to
March 7 due to study week
which starts thi.; Friday after
classes and lasts for a wPek.
The Council seats open are
six Arts, four University
Schools aild one Science.
Nominations close seven days
before polling day. Candidates: please bring photos and
write-ups to the ARGUS office.

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apathy

cares

VOLUME 11, No. V /

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY, PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO.

October 26, 1967

TWELVE PAGES

Canadians protest
Vietnam vvar

cus chairman resigns
•

•
ID

protest
October 20, 1967

Mr.P. A. Young,
President,
Alma Mater Society,
Lakehead University.

Sir:

Kindly consider this my official, written , resignation from my position as member of the
Alma Mater Society Council.
I should like at this time to clarify several points concerning my resignation.
First, I should like to emphasize that my decision to resign was consequent not solely
upon the defeat of my motion at the October 18 Council meeting; on the contrary, it was the
culmination of my dissatisfaction with many recent Council actions. I shall mention a number
of these.
•
1. There has been a tendency tecently towards secretcy within the A.M.S. Council; twice
in eight days the Council has met in camera. Both times, the question discussed was one
which involved the whole student body. Meetings in camera are completely contrary to the
principle of open decision-making.
2. There is evidence of aphathy on the part of A.M.S. Councillors towards the student
body. During the recent election "campaign" few candidates bothered to put up posters or in
any other way announce , platforms and only six candidates bothered to appear at the "town
hall" meeting. Does Council intend to represent student apathy with Council apathy?
3. The A.M.S. has mismanaged the current "confrontation" to a point of disaster. It is unwilling to take positive action where the rights of a small number of students have been
directly infringed upon, and is willing to accept a settlement which was at best ambiguous,
at worst an attempt to deceive.
4. The A.M.S. co·uncil has shown that it has already lost contact with the student body,
and is therefore not truly representative of the student body.
These points -- there are more -- are manifestations of a basic factor; the A.M.S. Council
just does not know what student government is all about. At present, Council appears to see
itself as a sort J:Jf social-finance committee. Matters· such as details of dances, petty expenditures, and so on. should be left to special subcommittees.

Demonstrations across Can- President of the University
ada Saturday against the of Ottawa Student Council
Vietnam war reflected a implored the people to go
growing concern over Cana- out a n d convince their
dian complicity in the war.
n~ghbors, "Noi only those
In Halifax, Nova Scoti!l,
who believe like you do . . .
Mayor Allan O'Brien was
but the skeptics"
among 350 anti-war demon"Life is sacred," he said.
strators. A mile-long trek to
Yonge Street for three
Victoria Park was organized
hours Saturday afternoon saw
by the Halifax Citizens Comthe biggest anti Viet Nam
mittee to end the war in
protest march ever held in
Viet Nam.
Toronto.
It was the first mass Viet
The marchers mobilized
Nam war demonstration ever
at Queens Park and paraded
in the Maritimes.
in double file along the sideMayor O'Brien told the
walks down the main street
marchers he was proud to
to city hall. At one point
act as master of ceremonies
the line stretched for two
. . . as a concerned Canamiles.
dian, not as a mayor . . .
The demonstrators were
I jealously guard my rights
forced to use the sidewalks
as a citizen of the world, he
because the police departsaid.
ment refused a parade perIn Montreal 500 French
mit aJ,ong the main street.
and English demonstrators
Police were evrywhere but
gathered in downtown Philcooperation between protestlips Square aJ!d marched
ors and the law prevented
through the rain to the U.S.
_any serious incidents.
Embassy.
Students totalled on 1 y
In Ottawa, T C. Douglas,
about one half of the demonLeader of the New DP.mostration. Women, children,
cratic Party of Canad~ told
and old men made up a
500 people demonstrating in
large contingent and whole
front of the Parliament
families joined the march.
Buildings "War in Viet Nam
Draft resistors marched as
is one of the greatest moral
·a body carrying yellow
issues of our times."
placards reading "we refuse
"It is also one of the
to go."
greatest threats to world
Meanwhile, the Lakehead
peace existing today," he
demonstration, taking the
said.
form of a 20-car autocade,
"If this slaughter of Vietdrove through downtown,
namese civilians continues
Port· Arthur. They had a
it will amount to genocide."
police escort and signs deA 1 p h o n e s Morrissette,
nouncing the war.

The Council's task should be to represent students in their fight for academic equality
It should represent the student faction in the fight towards an academic community -- a
"community of scholars".
In these senses, the A.M.S. Council should be a policy-making and decision-making assembly. Instead of appointing a course-guide editor, Council should first discuss the desiribility
of a course-guide -- it should hear representations from persons competent in relevant disciplines, such as psychology.
In brief, the A.M.S. council is taking carefully considered (-lengthily considered) means to
an-undefined end. An impossible situation.
1 am quite confident that this year's Council will continue to organize dances, argue points
of order, back down when a stand has to be made, sell-out, vote five dollars here and ten dollars there .......... this is a tradition to which it a~parently must adhere.
I cannot identify with such a body. Less can I be an. integral part of such a body. Hence
my resignation.
Sincerely,
Roderick G. Phillips

•
Senate hears student grievances
The Senate has officially cleared the
programme of one third year student.
At a specially called Senate meeting
Friday, October 20, students were ·invited
to present their grievances to Lakehead's
academic Supreme Court. Reportedly, behind
the doors of the closed meeting, only one
such petition to the Senate was received at
that time.
A notice on the bulletin board outside
the President's office stated that students
should have their petitions in to the Secretary
of the Senate before 3:00 Friday afternoon.
When Senate met, at 4:00 they had received
only one s~ch petition, and this was presented
by the Secretary:

However, at the AMS meeting Wednesday, October 18, a resolution was passed
stating that students should present their
petitions to the Senate personally.
Another facet of the resolution passed
by the AMS Council, that of a guarantee
that registration in the fall of 1968 would
be more organized than that of this year,
has not as yet been acted on. A sub-committee of the University Committee was
formed to look into this specific question.
And the most important aspect of the
past three weeks is still a dream in the minds
of students.
Students were not allowed into the
Senate meeting to present their own cases.
Nor were reporters allowed into the meeting.

Mr. T. w. Page

Professor Trevor Page
died October 22 as the
result of a fire in his
home.
Born October · 15, 1914,
in Victoria, B.C., J?rofessor
Page graduated from the
University of Idaho with
his Bachelor of Science in
Geology and Engineering
in 1940.
Mr. Page joined the
faculty of the Lakehead
College of Arts, Science
and Technology in 1950,

after 10 years experience
in Canadian industry as
a Mining and Consulting
Engineer.
A member of the Association o f Professional
Engineers of Ontario, and
the Canadian Institute of
Mining and Metalwrgy,
Mr. Page received a research grant in 1961 from
the Geological Survey of
_Canada and submitted a
paper on "Pro - Glacial
Lakeshores North of Lake
Superior." He later submitted a paper on "Deglaciation of Northern
·Lake Superior'' in 1964.
Professor P a g e also
served with the Civilian
Branch of the RCAF as
a surveyorfrom 1941-42.
He later· worked with de
Havilland Aircraft of Canada as a Tool Design
Supervisor.
The ARGUS joins the
rest of Lakehead University in sympath!Zh!g with
the bereaved family and
mourning the loss of a
lecturer and friend.

•~

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October 26, 1967

THE ARGUS

Committees formed

Club
Notes
Anth - Soc ·club
The Anthropolgy - SocioloClub has just been
formed.
It has a slate of officers,
good faculty advisors, a
substantial budget, and the
intention of presenting an
interesting programme for
the year.
If you are interested in
the academic endeavours of
Anthropology, Sociology, or
both, we urge you to attend
the meetings.
There are posters up in
the University. Consult these
for times and places of the
Club's meetings.
gy

Carnival chairman
Applications are being received in the AMS office
for the position of Chairman
of the Winter Carnival Committee.
The duties of this position,
while many and time-consuming, are not without
their return -to the appointed
Chairman: The honorarian
committee is considering the
eligibility of this position
for monetary return. And the
personal satisfaction received
more than makes up for the
time devoted to the job.
Applications should be in
writing, but Wendy won't
complain if you mention it
to her in the halls. She'll
write it down for you.

.l!'manc1al Committee Don Lees, Wendy Ticknor,
Sharon Matchett, Peter McCormack, Fred Poulter, Fred
Wilmot, John Howard, Kathy
Buie, Lome Gander and
Gerald Mosa.
Food Committee - John
Sihvonen (chairman), Dave
Parsons, Greg Cox, Rick
Middaugh, and -two other
members selected by the
chairman - one in first year,
one in second year.
University Committee Don Cordingley, Don Lees,
Peter McCormack.
Athletic Board Dave
Parsons.
Special Events Committee
D on Patton, Roman
Petryshyn.
Bookstore Committee Bert Baumann, Don Cordingley, Ian Thompson.
• Librar.y Committee-Vicki
Smith.
Conference Committee Bert Baumann, George Paddington, Julie Wierzbicki.
Information Bure a u Responsibility of each society
to name one person each-Dave Roden - U.S., G. McLeod - Sc.
Petition Committee - Don

Cordingley, Gerald Mosa,
Julie Wierzbicki.
Honorari~ Committee Rick Middaugh, Don Patton,
Fred Poulter.
Frosh Week - Rick Middaugh, Fred Poulter.
Social Committee - Rene
Larson, Bill Weiler, Rod
Phillips.
Housing Committee-Tom
Goodman, Rene Larson.
Posters - Randy Wilkie,
Gary Kinishita.

Arts council
Arts Society Council was
elected Friday, October 20.
Ten representatives for the
five years of Arts were
elected.
First year representatives
are Beth Hagglund, Tracey
Hanna, Pat O'Brien, and
P a u I Paularinne. Second
year reps. are Khalid Ali,
Penny Connor, and Ken
Robinson. Third year students elected are Harvey
Clue and Gary Kunnas.
Fourth year student Bill
Gartrell represents the upper years.

Grad Class. Elects Executive
The Graduating Class Executive has been elected.
Or should it be said that they were chosen by default.
The last meeting was held October 19, at which 35
students showed up. However this was the third meeting
that was calJed. Rumour has it that the first meeting boasted
six people while the second meeting was attended by about
10.
Pentti Paularinne was elected President of the Grad
Class. First Vice President is Gary Kunnas, second Vice is
Sandra Knight. Treasurer is Dave Frederickson. First Secretary
is Joan Stewart; second Secretary, Fiorine Guzzi. Social
conveners are Sharon Woods, Mary Renszinski, and Chuck
Grieve.
There are still Members at Large to be elected by tht.
different faculties. Unfortunately most of the people at the
meeting were Arts, few Science, but . no University School!!
students.

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This Week ....

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26th
Circle K Meeting •- Rm. 1058 - 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Thursday Discussion Group - Rm. 1100 - 12:30 p.m.
Dean Kerr on "What a University Is."
Circle K Decorating - GH - day, evening
AMS Ukrainian Club - Rm. 1025 - 12:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27th
Lakehead Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal - Rm. 1006 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
West Indies Ass'n. - Rm. 1022 - 7:00 p.m.
Circle K Decorating - GH - day, evening
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28th
Circle K Hallowe'en Dance - GH - 9:00 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCTbBER 29th
Folk Festival Rehearsal - Aud. - day, evening
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30th
Monique Yeyrac - Aud. - 8:15 p.m.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31st
University Liberals Meeting - Rm. 123 NL - 12 noon
Folk Festival - Aud. - 8:00 p.m.
Municipal'. Gov't. Course Speaker: J. E. Stockdale, Finance Commissioner, P.A.
Topic: Finance
Speaker: Andy Morpurgo, Regional Officer,
Dept. of Municipal Affairs
Topic: Planning - Rm. 1029 - 7:00 p.m. •
Inter-varsity Fellowship Meeting - Rm. 1025 - 12:30 p,m.
Violin Recital - Aud. - 12 noon
Sponsored by CUS, for student relaxation.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1st
Faculty Ass'n Old Comedies - Aud. - 8:30 p~.
"The Pharmacist" (1933)
"Some Like It Hot" (1959) Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
AMS Meeting - BR -· 7:00 pm.
Fencing - GH - 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.

TWO STORES TO SERVE YOU

Positions available

•• •

Applications for the positions of Car Draw Chairman
of the Winter Carnival, and
Associate Chief Justice are
being received by the AMS executive.
Applicants should reply in
writing before November 4.

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Page 3

AMS Council Meeting

Symposium plans introduced
"University Today - What
Does It Mean To Students?"
This is the theme suggested
for a proposed symposium
to be held at Lakehead the
first weekend in January.
Vice President Bill Weiler
introduced this topic to
Council at its regular meeting, October 18.
The idea for the syposium
was suggested to the AMS
by a Sociology professor,
Dr. Asimi. The professor
also indicated that he would
be interested in helping to
set the symposium up.
The format of the syposium would be similar in many
respects to the seminar held
at UBC this past summer.
However, it is hoped that

powers restored to it. said
Mr. Phillips, it is unable to
vote on any matters. This
would negate all of this
year's resolutions.
President Peter Young replied to the point of order
by stating that precedent had
been set in previous years
allowing Council to assume
power as soon as it is elected.
TREASURER'S REPORT

The Treasurer's Report
was to have been presented
at this meeting, however
Don Lees was unable to do
so. Council was assw:ed that
the report would be ready
for distribution by Wednesday, October 24.
Mr. Lees also noted that
the auditor's statement from
last year will finally be released to students after the
weekend. Last year's Treasurer, Ron Hider, asked that
the statement be held back
until he had had time to
gather comments of it from
lru.t year's Council.
The remaining AMS committees were appointed at
this meeting. The complete
list of committees appears
on Page 2 of this issue.

AMS S£MIHAR

President Young announced
to Council the agenda for
the AMS seminar to be held
October 21 at the University.
The primary purpose fol·
the seminar is to acquaint
AMS councillors with their
University's structure and
Owen Marks

it would not be a restatement of that conference.
Proposed plans include invitations to Ontario and
Manitoba Universities. Various government bodies will
be approached for grants to
help finance this symposium.
LEGITIMACY
QUESTIONED
Before the meeting was
underway, the Council's legitimacy was challenged by
CUS Chairman Rod Phillips.
Mr. Phillips contended that
the preceedings this year so
far have been unconstitu-·
tional, since the executive
did not vote powers back
to the Council.
The motion giving the
Council power originated
from Julie Wierzbicki, Arts
representative.
Until the Council has any

A WOMAN'S

student government operation. Discussions are to be
led by present and past
AMS executive me,nbers.
Board of Trustees members
will be also be in attendance.
It is hoped that the Council will be able to operate more smoothly and efficiently after this seminar.
Unfortunately: neither time
nor space allow the seminar
to be opened to all students.
It was suggested that plans
be put in operation to sponsor a ..similar seminar for the
student body. But nothing
further was said concerning
this matter.
Peter Young, Pres.

Council meetings

approached by students with
regard to Dinner Dances.
There is a rather long lapse
between the last Dinner
Dance and the Science Dinner Dance slated for the end
of November. It was therefore proposed that the AMS
sponsor a dance 1n between
these two dates.
Council gave its approval
to this idea, since the Science
Society felt their function
would not suffer from an
added dance.

are open to all
students.

VIOLINIST TO APPEAR
A celebrated concert
violinist from the faculty of
Music at the University 9f
Toronto will perform on
campus October 31, _in a
noon-hour concert sponsored
by the AMS. Financial backing was requested of Council.
The question of tickets for
students and for the Lakehead community was raised,
but Vice President Bill Weiler stated that this concert
was one of the few cultural
events to reach the campus,
and as such should be free
to students. Mr. Weiler
added that the noon hour
con'--ert would not attract the
public because of its time.
BANK ACCOUNT
TRANSFERRED
Treasurer Lees received
Council's permission to transfer the AMS bank account
from Royal Trust to the
Bank of Montreal. The account now stands at $1200.
Mr. Lees pointed out that no
loss in interest rates will be
incurred.
DINNER DANCE
President Y o u n g
Council that he had

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October 26, 1967

THE ARGUS

Simon says

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Happiness is long, ugly tunnels painted in such exciting
colours as white-white.
Happiness is watching a reconstruction of WWI trenching
operation on the roadway.
Happiness is running up four flights of stairs with a busted
elevator and thirty seconds to go for a class.
Happiness is cafeteria potato chips, using reject potatoes from
Irish potato famine of 1848.
Happiness is dying of exposure, hunger and exhaustion treking
to your car in parking lot 'Z'.
Happiness is paying $500,000 for a plug in that's on 50%
of the time.
Happiness is watching the Administration run 'round in litt!le
circles, mumbling funny old Anglo-Saxon phrases to
cover incompetance.
Sadness is watching the AMS be sucked in by a snow job.

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Mao Again

Represent vvhat?
When is a representative not a representative? Bert
Bauman, Chief Justice of the AMS provided one answer at a
council meeting last Wed. night.
Fearless future leader Bauman cri~d painfully, "We
are the representatives of the students and you are students.
Tell us what to do."
He was addressing a group of students who had sat in on
the meeting in the hope of forcing council to re-evaluate their
l)osition on Pres. Tamblyh's speech.
He has raised, (probably without realizing it, because
council members don't realize very much,) a very important
problem. What is a representative?
It would be very easy to say that a representative is
not a representative if he sits on AMS council but that would
be simplifying an all too complicated issue. It would also
be slurring the few members on council who are capable
of individual thought and action.
We are of course speaking of elected reprsentatives
and our elected representatives in particular.
To bgin with, a representative should never find it
necessary to make the plea that Mr. Bauman did the other
night. If a rep. finds himself in that position he has obviously
lost all contact with his constituents and should properly
resign. Members to .any elected body are generally chosen
because the voters feel confident in their ability to do the job
at hand. They except a rep. to put their interests forward
whenever necessary and to always put them before his own.
•
A representative must be able to judge the demands of
his electors and evaluate their pertin~ncy. He must then judge
the demands of his electors and evaluate their pertinency. He
must then judge whether these demands-are valid and if they
are he is bound to act upon them or resign unless he can
convince the people he represents that they are on the wrong
track. This -is the trust placed in a representative and one
which he takes as hls own when he is elected. When a rep.
:fmds that he is completely out of touch with the thinking of
his electors he ceases to function as a worthwhile spokesman
and should in all good conscience stand down.
The members of the present AMS council cannot honestly
deny that they are now in this position. As yet their integrity
. is not at question and it can still be assumed that they acted
in what they felt was the proper way. That they were wrong
is something they have yet to learn. They must also learn that
elecion does not endow the elected with any supernatural
insight. The AMS is apparently incapable of understanding.
'the persistence of their electors in pressing for a solution.
They are also incapable of discerning the principal involved
in the present difficulty with the AMS and the Admin. They
have, in fact, lost touch with the student body and therefore
no longer have any right to speak for them. This council by
its actions on Monday last and by its refusal to remedy those
actions Wed. night has relinquished any claim to the legitimacy
that such a remedy could nave given them.
The job of any representative is often a thankless one
and more often than not one of sheer hard work. Did this
council believe anything else when it stood for election?
Did this council feel that they could keep the plebs happy
with the bread and circuses of dances and social activities. If
so then this council must be reminded that it didn't work for
Rome either.

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Dear Sir:
In reply to Mr. Yuan's
reply to my reply to his
article The Sun is Set
(ARGUS, September 18) may
I ask Mr. Yuan if he is in
the pay of the propaganda
division of some western
power or if he is grossly
misinformed?
My first point was that
Mao spent eight years in
p o s t secondary institutes
studying so much that he
had little time to write letters
of dubious validity.
Secondly, Mr. Yuhan characteristically flies in tne
face of fact when he claims
that Mao was no poet. If he
had ever entered a good book
store he would have seen
Mao's "non-existent" poetry
translated and criticized by
such noted scholars as White
and Payne.
Thirdly, if Mr. Yuan ever
compared the progressiveness
and puritanism of Red China
to the filth, degradation,
poverty and starvation which
bolsters up the rich of Hong
Kong, Formosa or Taiwan, I
think he might adapt some
of his opinions to truth.
Patrick O'Neill

AMS Farce
Dear Sir:
I..ast night, Oct. 18, I attended my first A.M.S. Council Meeting at Lakehead
University. I must say I was
amazed at the maturity of
the counsellors. They discussed at great length such
important matters as where
they will obtain a combination double - reverse - bottle holder; dripper - and - jiggerfixer; yet when it came to
a trivial item, e.g. students
problems arising from the
registration mix-up, our illus•
trious treasurer, Mr. Lees,
moved that the discussion be
limited to only one-half hour.
Our council members behaved as responsible representatives of the students,
They did not sweat, ridicule
or question the intelligence
of one another "very much."
They all have read Robert's
Rules of Order (which) they
follow to the "t") from
cover to cover and did not
have to waste valuable time
arguing over whether or not
a person was speaking ou.t
of ordel', making a motion
out of order, or voting out
of order. It was great to s~

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that the executive could
conduct an orderly mt!eting.
The council members all
showed themselves to be
men and women of conviction
and principles. They were
not afraid to stand up for
what they believed as long
as they could vote on a
secret ballot so that the
students present would nc,t
know how they voted. I am
very proud of them. They
try very hard to understand.
Now I know why the A.M.S.
council meetings are not
advertised to the general student body. By the way, did
vou know that all students
~an attend the meetings?
Although I was greatly disillusioned and disappointed, I
feel that the sad state of
our A.M.S. cannot be entirely blamed on the council
members. We, the student
body, must realize that if
we do~ not make known to
our representatives, either
before the meeting or during
the meeting, any problems
we may feel need attention,

they will continue to spend
their time discussing dances,
parties, dinners, etc. What
else do they have to discuss? If you have a complaint bring it to the A.M.S.
executive or members and
pressure them to do something about it. But you cannot leave it at that. You, too,
must show you interest and
concern. ·fhis you can do by
attending the meetings, requesting the minutes from
the A.M.S. offices, and asking questions. We all know
that any government wol'ks
best when under pressure and
opposition. Although
we
must not think of ourselves
as opposers of the A.M.S.
council we must still oppose
and question any actions or
non-actions that we do not
agree with. It is about time
the student body got off their
fat derrieres, rid themselves·
of the apathetic attitude and
took an interest in their
world.
In faith,
Eleanor Pentick.
VOLUME 11, No. VI
October 26, 1967

The ARGUS is published weekly by the Alma Mater
Society of Lakehead University. The opinions expressed
are those of the editorial board and not necessarily those
of the AMS or the Administration. The ARGUS is authorized
second class mail by the Post Office, Ottawa, for payment
in cash. All correspondence to the ARGUS main office,
wherever it may happen to be at that particular time; mail
c/o Lakehead University, Port Arthur. Subscription ...
$3.00; advertising rates upon request.
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features • ...•. • • •• • • . • • • • • • • • Boyd Hussey
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circulation.. • • • . • • . • • • • • . • • • • • •Gord Fukushima
lastweekontheranch at Wawa: those god-damned sheep were back
down on the grasslands again, eating the cattle out of hoof and
mouth, but bob, chad, chuck, brazen and jack all saddled-up on
Old Paint and beat the snot out of 'em, for, as you all know, it's
cattle what butters our bread. Besides, sheep stink like hell anyway.
Otherwise, twelve female trout were all hooked at Waterloo with
the same bait. Yes, boy and girls, the Chevron has a fine upstanding staff, although the seeing is still in·tbe believing. At large,
this past week found; jed and dietmar in negotiations with the sexsurvey people in the psychology department for darkroom facilities,
bobbie and wendy mumbling veiled threats at chad and rod, ken
wanderingaroundonthe week-end looking for a wawa goose, barkwell demanding hourly bus service to the L. C. B. o. , bonnie and
tracey sneering at the files and the typewriters, editor grieve blowing-his-cool at the Walper saturday night, simon staging a sit-in
over coffee on wednesday, sheridan giving us all another eighteen
months, jim and joe buying space in the paper, suzi selling ads to
the president, ward writing dirty limericks on the lay-out sheets,
karl reading them, phyllis asking what phallic symbols are, glenn
andamiefightingitoutover drawer space, and above all, Prudence
Goodbody (the Argus Censor) telling us all to get the hell out.

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THE ARGUS

comment

Hider comments
on AMS audit

alternative to exams
by khalid ali Arts 11
The article written by Rod Phillips "Examinations
Don't," I think is a very good article. However, I believe that
he dealt with the subject in too general a manner.
In this article I would like to try to elaborate on some
of the points h·e made and also to give my views as to why
I am a firm believer that examinations, in some courses,
offered at the university level should be scrapped.
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Here I wi:U try to deal primarily with examinations
at the University level.
While I think that the educational systems in Public
School and High School level need to be revised, I don't
believe that written examinations should be eliminated
altogether. It is the only criterion to judge one's ability at
an early age.
Some of the people that are attending universities will
be the leaders of tomorrow. Don't you think that university
life should prepare one for such leadership? If the answer
is yes, then the next logical question will be: Is the present
educational system, as set up by universities, geared toward
such preparation?
I will not answer that question as yet. I will present
my argwnent and hope that you will come to the same
conclusion as I do at the end.
Since I know nothing about the Sciences courses, I
want to state emphatically that I will be deciling with the
Arts courses.
When I use the word examinations I want it to be
noted that I mean "the Christmas Examinations" and "the
Final Examinations."
The foreign languages, will have to be tested in a
written manner. However subjects as English, History, Political Science, Sociology, - to mention a few - should be
.approached in a different manner.·
The idea of Professors giving lectures and students
copying down is too old fashioned, in my way of thinking.
The students at the university level, should participate more
in the courses in which they enrolled.
This participation can be achieve&lt;! more forcefully by
replacing the written examinations with written research
papers or essays.
Ths is my method. Take a history cla~ of one hundred
students. The cJass could be divided into four groups of 25
students. Each group is given a specific topic to w.i'ite on,
The length of- the essay should be left to the discretion of
the professor concerned. If a student does not like the topic
he has to write, he can always interchange mutually with
another student. When the essays have been corrected, Group
A can exchange essays with Group B. Group C and D can do
likewise. Seminars and discussions can then be followed with
the professor giving constructive comments from time to
time.
In this way students would be able to learn more,
because the four topics will be read by each student. This
method I feel can be applied successfully to the other subjects,
with a few alterations here or there.
My reason for condeming written examinations are
these: a person may be a very brilliant student in class, but
on the day of the examination, he may be a bit ill. If he
writes the paper and makes a po:&gt;r mark, is it fair that he
should be judged by that mark? Then again some of us
with the fear that the examination is the end of it all, becomes
psychologically upset and do badly in our tests,
Again, some of us study by the process of elimination,
we may study c:;nscientiously most of our work and just scan
through a few things we may think unimportant, These very
unimportant things .may come on the tests. Some other people
may study just a few topics and leave out the majority of
the work. They may be very lucky, for exactly what they
studied may appear on the examination.
Eliminate the written examinations, and automatically
the fear and apathy among university students will be
eliminaed. Most students nowadays are only concerned with
coming to school for the sole purpose of passing an examination. This to my mind is a wrong attitude.
My concept of university life, is that it is a place
where one should be able to participate in all the different
activities, as joining the various clubs and associations, and
also the social and sporting fields. By so doing we will be
able to develop our personality to such an extent, that when
we leave the university, we will be better able to face the
outside world.

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"The auditor's report is an
important document to an organization. It is the basis upon
which one can evaluate past
Don
performance, and make sound
decisions for future spending,"
Colbome
"Unfortunately, it appears
to me that this council doesn't
care to make this evaluation
and seek clarification of the
report. You are here to have
presented to you the first
auditor's report that has been
prepared for this organization.
It is an eight page report costing roughly $100.00 per page.
The state of the calendar issue at this time last week
This is •a heavy expense to
incur and then not to have all points out how easily a poiitical battle can distort the prinicplei
of the council present here to- which precipitated it.
day. Your President, Univer&amp;ity Schools president, and
It was recognzed weeks ago that the specifics of tile
Science president as well as issue, (i.e. the relatively few who would be affected by the
many councillors have more late regulations) were of less importance than the principle
important things to do than which allowed them to be abused. Certainly the answ-er
this.
"You have a certain re- could not be individual review of cases within the context
sponsibility to the students of the new regulations because the regulations themselve!
who elected you to handle were inflexible. The central quarrel had to be against thE
about $40,000.00 of their apparent principle that the Administration could arbitrarily
money.
Your responsibility demand that all students must forthwih adapt to a new set
is to know where all their of orders - orders which the studeQ,ts had no opportunit)
money is being spent. You, as to shape,
councillors, must answer to the
student body for your actiolilS. I
believe this will be impossible
That principle seems to have been lost in the politi1
if you do not have a clear shuffle
understanding yourself. From
Jt became more convenient to request clarification of
my conversations yesterday
with several of the councillors, who had what powers than to explore who should have
it is apparent to me that you do them, or better, whether anyone should have the power
not have this pasic knowledge. strictly to define . from some remote office what should
"The job which you have con~titute an education for a very broad group of people
been elected to carry out is an Questions of this sor-t cannot be discussed without a grea1
important one. It is exasperating. challenging, yet rewarding. deal. of prior thought, and university students are peculiarly
Its value to you can not be disinterested in thought of this ltind.
estimated in terms of dollars
and cents. It will not be until
·By demanding that all power and authority be strictly
you get outside that you will defined we have not only reaffirmed that the functionary of
realize its value. you have the the institution is the private freedom of the Administration,
chance to express yourself, the but also forced a solidiciaton of a structure whch might have
chance to debate, and the been effectively irevamped. The implication is that what we
chance to l ead. To . ~ee t~at want is a monolithic oligarchy which will function smoothly.
some of your key acfm1mstrative
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people are not here fulfilling ~a~ ~e will lose 1s t_he loosely-knit hierai:chy which, ~owever
their job is discouraging ... ,. meff1c1ent, could at tunes be human. A hierarchy which, yes,
"I feel that the auditors even got the calendar out late, but whose doors were alway!
have done a thorough and com- open.
plete job. As a result of their
It is unfortunate that personalities (kill Rothney, savE
audit, they have made several
recommendations to improve Ayre) and emotions allowed. the real issue to die. Many people
our financial management. To reading this (and, incidentally, the one writing it) are hen
date, some of these have been precisely because in the past rules could be bent, prerequisiteE
carried out. Others have· yet wa1ved, and individual cases considered.
to be implemented. If these reIf we now force the Admin. to tell us in precise terme
commendations are not followed
to the "T" then I wasted my who shall do what and how they shall do it, we will bE
time, Don Lees is wasting his destroying the flexibility which students here always
time, and you wasted a thou- cherished.
sand dollars in preparing this
There is little doubt that the more stringent regulationE
audit report.
as outlined in he new calendar reflect a rend toward the data"One general point • that I
cannot over-emphasize is that processed multiversity which most true educators fear. Lei
clubs and societies did not us not hun,y this trend by forcing the powers that be tc
spend the money which they retrench themselves. They will have their hands full camE
budgeted for. Last year they revolution time.
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26, 1967

Professor's poll predicts election results
Lakehead University's research poll correctly forecast
the recent election results a week in advance of the election.
The public opinion survey relating to the past provincial
election was conducted Tuesday and Wednesday before the
election throughout Port Arthur and Fort William ridings
by Lakehead University Political Science Department lecturer
Alan Alexander with the help of Professor Alan T. McEwen,
Director of the Computor Centre.
The poll was taken in a manner similar to the opinion
polls which have become such an important part of modern
elections all over the world,
Mr. Alexander said that student volunteers took a
scientific sampling of the new electoral roll. Four questions
were asked relating to previous and future voting. Response
sheets required no names and all responses were treated
with the closest confidence. Mr. Alexander and Mr. McEwen
studied the data and then interpreted the trend of opinion at
that time.
The results of the survey showed that the Liberals
would take the Port Arthur riding, but that the Conservatives would retain a majority in the provincial
parliament.
Mr. Alexander said "The role of the university is
to help the community in which it is situated understand
itself better."
In commenting further, he said that "We hope that
the people of the Lakehead will accept the study as being
purely academk. Lt is not connected with any outside bodies
such as political parties, news media, other polling organizations or groups of any kind."
Mr. Alexander intends to do further in-depth study
of the election results this fall. He will use the University's
new IBM 360 model 40 Computer which will be installed
later this month. Professor McEwen was formerly employed
by the National Opinion Poll in England, and is an expert
in this area of study.

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The Research Team .. Headed by A. Alexander(left) and T. McEwan (right)

Hong Kong students swell enrolment figures
An influx of students from a tiny riot-torn
corner of the world 8,000 miles from the Lakehead, highlights enrollment figures released
this week by Lakehead University registrar
Donald Ayre.
A total of 62 Chinese students from Hong
Kong are included in a record enrollment of
1,618 students, up 32% from last year's
figure of 1,221 full-time university and technology students. This fig1ue surpasses the
predicted enrollment of 1,577.
Another 716 students are taking part-time
classes at the University, and increase o
classes at the University, an increase of
33 1/3% from last year's figure of 537.
Also, more than 250 students are enrolled in
extension courses serving 17 communities in
Northwestern Ontario. This brings the overall

librarian E. Belton shows three Hong Kong
students rare books in the library.

total of degree or diploma students to more
than 2,700.
A marked increase is noted in the arts and
science programs. Total registration this year
is 1,061, up 41.5% from last year's figure of
750 students. The new figure includes the
university's first graduate students, five in
arts and two in science. The increase in the
diploma programs is 15%, with 541 students
registered against last year's figure of 471.
The increase in Chinese students was a
pleasant surprise for university officiais.
Last year only 14 Hong Kong students were
registered. It is, however, a typical story in
universities across the country due largely to
the recent riots in Hong Kong. The unstable
situation at home has caused more and more
students to study abroad.
One student representative at Lakehead,
Sze-Chung Yuan, estimated that more than 600
Hong Kong students would be studying in
Canada this year and another 1,000 in the
United States.
Approximately 30,000 students graduate
from the high school system in Hong Kong
every year according to Mr. Yuan. The two
universities in Hong Kong can take onla a
limited number of the graduates and the remainder must go abroad if they wish to con-

tinue their education. A select few, the very
well-to-do, go t9 England. The rest go to
Tiawan ln Nationalist China, Australia, the
" United States and Canada.
Why Canada and why Lakehead University?
According to Mr. Yuan the Chinese students receive excellent help from the Canadian
Immigration Office in Hong Kong. They obtain
their visas in a reasonable period of time
while students attempting to enter the United
States have a great deal more difficulty.
Also Canadian regulations make it much
easier for foreign students to remain in Canada after they have completed their studies.
Mr. Yuan said Chinese students believe
that in smaller universities they will receive
more individual attention tfrom he
more individual attention from the professors.
Also the admission requirements for Lakehead
are more reasonable than some of the larger
universities.
The majority of students are sons and
daughters of businessmen or administrative
officials.
Ironically they arrive i11 small groups of
four or five and few actually knew any of the
other Hong Kong students outside their own
group.
Only a handful were able to find accommodation in the small university residence. The
rest are boarding in Lakehead homes or bunking together in apartments. They all speak
English and, according to Mr. Yuan, had no
trouble in adjusting to life in the Lakehead.
The students are all members of the
Chinese Students Association which was formed at Lakehead unlversity last year to help
make the newcomers feel more at home. Their
first outing was last saturday when more than
60 students were guests of the University
President, Dr. w. G. Tamblyn at his summer
residence at Lambert Island.

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A celebrated Israeli violinist, Lorand Fenyves, will
present a noon-hour concert
at Lakehead University Tuesday, October 31.
A professor of music at
the University of Toronto,
Mr. Fenyves boasts many
first performances of contemporary works and is
therefore equally at home in
both the standard and contemporary violin repertoire.
After studying in Budapest, Mr. Fenyves started his
concert career at the age of
13 in Budapest and Vienna.
After numerous concert appearances throughout Ewrope, he joinecl the Israeli
Philharmonic Orchestra as
concert-master, founded the
Israeli String Quartet and
was co-founder of the Israeli
Academy of Music in Tel
Aviv.
During this period, Mr.
Fenyves appeared. as soloist
with the Israeli Philharmonic
in over one hundred concerts in Israel and throughout the Middle East.

Concert

Ftom 1957 to 1965, Mr.

Fenyves performed with orchestras and in recital continually in Switzerland, Italy
France, Germany, and England. Heavy as this schedule
may appear to a lessor
artist, Mr. Fenyves managed
to combine it with his duties
as concert-master of L'Orcestre da la Suisse Romande,
and Professor of Master
Classes at the Geneva Conservatory of Music where his
pupils included European,
American, Canadian, Japanese, and Israeli violinists.
A violinist's violinist, a
pioneer in the musical life of
Israel and one of Europe's
leading violin teachers and
performers, his distinguished
European reputation preceded his North American
debut in Toronto recently
where he received unanimous
acclaim from public and
press alike.
Lakehead University students will have the opportunity to hear this great artist
Tuesday, October 31, in the
noon-hour concert in the
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Page 7

THE ARGUS

A question of democracy
by boyd hussey
Democratic propoganda tells us that
police states are the products of warped
tyrannical minds and can happen only where
the people are apathetic enough to allow
them to assume control.
They can never happen, it goes on,
where the people are actively engaged in
defending their rights and participating in
the process of government. This participation includes making their wishes known to
the elected leaders of their government. One
of the cornerstones of a democratic country
we are told is the right to free assembly.
Here endeth the fairy tale, kiddies.
ln Oakland, California on Oct. 18, clubswinging police broke up the kindergarten
class in a testament to their own efficiency..
PROTEST AT B·ERKELEY
Upwards of 500 people gathered on
the Berkeley campus to demonstrate against
draft policies and later assembled in front
of the Northern California Induction Center
to take the protest to the front lines. No
doubt it was a noisy, boistrous crowd, and
probably many were more than a little
looped. This cannot in any way be used
as an excuse for what followed.
They were first warned that they were
assembled illegally and were then ordered
to disperse. How is it possible in the "Land
of the Free" to be assembled illegally? How
is it possible in a country which is supposedly the bullwark of democracy to be ordered
to disperse?
Listen to District Attorney Cecil Poole
and he'll tell you:
"The law is not going to lie down and
not do its job because 3000 or 4000 people
are opposed to war."
LAW STOOD UP
The law didn't lie down for very long
as it took only 10 minutes of clubbing, kicking and beating to clear the area. Maybe
then they all went home, had a beer, and
watched Combat for kicks after a hard day's
work.

Well kiddies, maybe this sort of thing
doesn't bother you any more. After all, it
happens every day somewhere. The problem
is that until recently it was happening only
in those nasty Cammie countries and you
can't expect them to know any better anyway.
Make no mistake about it. This is no
usual case of police brutality. These are
the methods used by all the folk heros who
have been periodically bothering the world
since this species began. The bright lights of
Germany, Spain and Italy used them in the
thirties and the Russians improved on them.
We sit here and lament the depths to
which South American units sink in an
effort to remain in power and sigh that
we're glad we live here. California is only
a few hours away.
INSECURITY - THE CAUSE?
The action of the police themselves is
really not an issue although it is to be
condemned. Such action is only the sigh of
a deeper evil that is all too .prevalent in
North America. When a State is so insecure
as to find it necessary to resort to such tactics
to support its authority and policies, that
State is no longer representative of the
people for whom it is set up. The fact that
the anti-draft movement is a vociferous one
is of little consequence either. If you have
been reading your "Child's Garden of Democratic Verse" you will have noticed that
it is always referred to as the "right" of
free assembly. Right means something that
cannot legally be taken away.
Perhaps the Superior Court should
deliver a paper to the International Court
-of Justice explaining why the freedom of
assembly is no longer right but a privilege
whose use rests on the whims of the group
in power.
They might also explain what other outmoded concepts the democracies should rid
themselves of in order to better adjust to
the way things really a-re.

Greater sophistication the goal
"Many points have been
tions at the conference. But
brought out this afternoon- • if they are not then is the
valid points. We should reuniversiy, as a member, oblimember them and introduce
gated to comply with the
them at future dates so as
resolutions passed?
to gain the maximwn benefit
Stemming from these basic
from our discussions."
problems, the group resolved
Joe St. Amand, Chaieman
that a re-evaluation and exof the Board of Trustees,
amination of CUS should
made this remark following
take place.
the AMS Seminar on stuDISCUSS END GOALS
dent government held last
A second resolution of a
Saturday at the University.
philosophic nature stated
The purpose of the seminthat the AMS Council should
are was to acquaint memreview its alternative goals
bers of the AMS Council
concerning programming, anwith problems facing stunually. This would help to
dent governments and the alconsolidate in the minds of
ternaitve solutions to be ofcouncillors just exactly what
fered by former student
the council's policies on difgovernment leaders at Lakeferent issues are.
head.
The main aim of the AMS
ACCEPTED RESOLUTIONS
Council is to democratize the
Resolutions of importance
university. Whether or not
to all students were accepted
the Council has the right to
by the group of councillors
do so is open to questioning.
and Board of Trustees memAs elected representatives of
bers at a plenary session
the Society, the students, it
held Saturday night.
would appear that Council is
The repersentative nature
in a good position to do so.
of CUS was raised. CouncilBut a related question of
lors wondered whether CUS's responsibility crops up. Who
pronouncements spoke for all
is to decide how far the
students, for the average
average student is to be comstudent, or for a small mi- mitted by his representative?
nority of students at memDoes the student have a
ber universities. Not every- responsibility to approach
one who is supposedly a
his reps., or does the process
member of CUS is aware of begin from the rep.?
what comes out of the con- PARTY GOVERNMENT
ferences. Some delegat~s are SUGGESTED
not even aware of what they
The group which dealt
vote for. However, if a reso- with student politics relution is accepted by a uni- solved that the AMS should
versity's delegation, the uni- consider the adoption of
versity is obligated to follow party government. An alterthat resolution until the next .native to this resolution;
conference.
mentioned in passing, was
Delegates are presumably creation of anti - Council.
mandated by their universi- This committee, a sub-organties to vote on the ques- ization of the AMS, would

have as its sole purpose the
criticism of the AMS Council
in hopes that more effective
government would be achieved.
In explanation of this resolution, Board of Trustees
member Wayne Tocheri said
"The main reason why I introduced party politics in
our AMS government is for
g r e a t e r sophistication in
governing."
In rebutal of this resdlution, Gerry Hees, Board of
Trustees member, said "As
I see it, parties are to speed
up political process. But in
our situation, it would boil
down to political parties and
we always voted against
support for political parties
in Council."
"We could continually suffer under a party system,"
said Vice President Bill
Weiler. "When the government changed hands between
parties, new policies would
undoubtedly follow. T h i s
would nogate continuity in
student government." ·
SELF RE-EXAMINATJON
As a post mortem, the
seminar accepted John Pentick's resolution that the
AMS Council examine wa,ys
and means of making itself
more effective as a governing
body.·
Most councillors stated
that they were very happy
happy with the results of
the seminar. Bu tRon Hider,
last year's AMS Treasurer,
said "It is not what you
think you learned now that
counts; it is how you work
in the next few months that
will show whether or not
this seminar was a success."

Claude Smith, Director of Planning and Physical Plant

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We look after mechanics"
by ward olsan

"The role of a university is to turn out the best educated
$tudent possible, and everyone in the organization must be
tuned to this function."
The Director of Planning and Physical Plant, Mr. Claude
Smith, described his function in this manner.
"The Physical Plant consists of all the physical aspects
of the univer~ity, the land, the buildings, the equipment,
furniture, etc. The function of this department is to look after
the operation of these assets. We look after maintenance,
cleaning and the acquisition of new equipment. We do not,
however: buy new equipment which is peculiar to teaching.':,.
"This department," Mr. Smith went on to say, . 1s
divided into two major areas - Planning, and the PhyS1cal
Plant In the area of planning, I work in conjunction with
the President, Dr. Tamblyn, to deal with the architects, and
in general work towards the implimentation of the model,
which I imagine you all have seen.''
.
"In the area of the physical plant, I am largely m _charge
of seeing that the whole operation runs smoothly. This area
is divided into several departments. Grounds, that is, all care
and maintenance of things outside is the responsibility of Mr.
Sitch. Maintenance, that is, care of machnery !,nside, is the
responsibility of Mr. Maier."
"The security department belongs to Mr Broughton.
Power Plant operation, that is, heat, electricity, water, etc.,
is under the care of Mr. Andrews. Housekeeping, keeping the
inside of the buildings of clean, is Mr. McQueen's responsibility.''
When asked about the gravel promenade around the
lawn, Mr. Smith replied that "the turn-around was put there
to permit passengers and equipment to b~ unloaded &lt;;1ose to
the University Centre, rather than over m the parking lot.
It is only a temporary measure, as another road will be put
in to the University Centre next year.''
Mr. Smith commenting on the general atmosphere of
the University s;id "The airchitecture of the University is not
as good as it· ~ould have been, especially in the main teaching
area. This is due largely to the fact that we grew too fast.
The· 1ong term plans have been carefully thought out, and the
atmosphere should be much better.''

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October 26, 1967

THE ARGUS

The Melindra Singers - Good Guy Entertainers
by john sculthorpe

Entertainers are more thah
invulnerable demi-gods, spot
lighted on the stage. Behind
the makeup and the fancy
costumes are very real and
sometimes lonely people.
I found that out when I
spoke to the Melindra singers, who recently did a three
week show at the Shoreline
Motor }{otel and a Ml evening performance at the Last
Spike.
When I was invited to
come to the coffee house, I
was somewhat skeptical as
to what I could expect. Any
doubts I had about the
c a 1 ib r e of entertainment
were thoroughly dispelled.
The Melindra Singers, far•
exceeded · my expectations.
Their performance was extremely professional a n d
very enjoyable.
The Melindra Singers, Bill
and Ben Bogaardt, were
born and raised in the Dutch
East Indies (Java). They left
several years ago just -before
most Dutch citizens were deported by the Indonesian
GovernmenL They then went
to Holland for two years.
Bill came to Canada in 1957
while Ben, who bad been
serving in the Dutch Navy,
followed him in 1961. They
both consider that they are
truly Canadian, as if they
had been born here, (an attitude that should be more
prevalent amQJlg new Canadians).
They have been profess-.

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by william sheridan
Infidelity simply involves
a question of time - enough
time; this time?
When a typical suburbanite goes to a budding
psychologist to get advice on
unfaithfulness, the fun begins. Over thirty advisors,
including Jayne Mansfield,
and Terry Thomas (above)
give tips.
Its a series of riotous,
short scenes on the many
methods of monkey business.
We won't ruin it by giving
any of the advice away, but
its a fun movie.

ional entertainers for about
six months now. They appeared on a few radio and
television shows in Edmonton and Calgary.
When interviewed after
the show, the Singers had
more than comments on
their professional work to
offer:..
Bill-on Canada, "Canada
is regarded around the world
as an country where there
is an opportunity, if' you
want to work for it. Canada
may not be a major powerbut it is regarded. as a leader
of the small countries in
world politicis."
Ben - on entertaining "Chances for entertainers in
Canada are fair - not as
good as in the States, but
they have more people and
thus a greater market. Canada however, must and is expanding culturally. People
such as those in the CBC
are beginning to give entertainers a chance."
"People on committees and
subcommittees often have
the wrong idea about entertainers. They expect people
to entertain for little or
nothing and entertain beside
big name groups that have
terrific fees. Our performance takes a lot of preparation and effort so why should
we play for free?"
Both - on the good
life-"the hippies have
a good philosophy - make
love, not war, but we
don't dJ.g what seems to

go with it. All tbe filth
and dope and drink just
aren't our style. We
don't even drink, not
that we aren't tempted.
When we come down off
the stage there is little
else but the hotel room
and another l o n e 1 y
night."
The Melindra Singers - a
little much with all that
'good guy' jazz? Maybe, but
its nice to know that there
are still some of them
around. I'd rather have them
for friends.

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26, 1967

DiE ARGUS

DATELINE CANADA
Acadia students drop CUS

WOLFVILLE, N.S. (CUP) - Acadia has dropped out
of the Canadian Union of Students.
Students voted more than 3 to 1 against continuing
membership in the union in a referendum Monday. Just over
54 percent of the students voted.
The referendum followed a council resolution three
weeks earlier advocating immediate withdrawal
In a dining hall speech at noon Monday student council
president Bob Levy said "I feel that we have gained little
in our association with CUS over the years and the fact that
many of you ask what it is, is more than eloquent testimony
to its irrelevance."
CUS president-elect Peter Warrian, who -travelled to
Acadia October 14 for the vote, said "One of the reasons the
vote may have gone the way it did is people simply did not
have information or familiarity with CUS."
He said the council had made up its mind on CUS and
seemed to be looking for a ratification of that decision.
Of a total enrollment of 1,6~2 students, 905 cast ballots
in the referendum. Of these, 287 voted for CUS, 618 against.
Acadia is the first CUS member to withdraw since
the London Congress last month.
Friday Oct. 13 - University of Windsor students voted
576-552 in favour of the union.
The University of British Columbia will hdld a similar
referendum Nov. 1.

Dictator High Schools blasted
VANCOUVER {CUP) - The struggle for secondary
school autonomy was given full support by the British Columbia
Assembly of Students last week.
"We condemn the present system of close censorship
of high school newspapers and unill1teral attempts to shield
students from ideas judged as detrimental to their character,"
the congress stated.
The Assembly passed a resoluion seeking legal counsel
about violations of the Federal Mails Act after it heard reports
of school administrators who open student council mail and
do not pass it on to students.
A monthly newsletter to secondary schools and an
education corps are both planned.
The corps will encourage high school students to further
their studies and assimilate and analyze secondary school
problems.
January was proclaimed BCAS Education Action Month,
during which a brief outlining the assembly's priorities in
education will be presented to B.C. Ml.As.

Glendon gets five student reps
TORO.l\1TO (CUP) - Students at York University's
Glendon College will have five members on the faculty council
of the oollege.
The faculty council voted 25 - 3 to include students in
their meeting of October 10. The decision must now be
ratified by the York senate.
Fonner Glendon student council vice-president Rick
Schultz saw the decision as "a major step in involving the
students in their own education," althought the students would
not be allowed to take part in the council's committees.
Schultz is the auihor c,f a b1'ef on student participation
in university government.
Student council will choose the representatives for this
year only. A committee has been struck to investigate methods
of choosing students in future.
"Once the students have been chosen they will be completely independent", said student council president Alan
Whitely,----------------

CUS emphasizes field work
OTTAWA (CUP) - Every CUS campus will be visited
by a field worker this year.
CUS President High Armstrong said Tuesday this policy
will help student government do more effectiv~ work on the
problems of education.
He said at least four of the eight members of the
secretariat will be working on campu_c;es throughout the year.
This new emphasis on field work reflects a demand by
members for concentration by CUS on programs which are
more relevant to campus problems.
CUS field work will concentrate on the priotjties set
down by the London Congress of CUS this September:
Student awareness of their rights and responsibilities
Quality of education at all levels
Universal acc.-essibility to education
Democratization of university government
Other priorities such as CUS services, human rights
(which includes international affairs), relations with other
student and youth organizations, and taxation receive lower
priority.
.
Armstrong said field will help cbmbat student council
lethargy on many campuses. It will also mean every campus
will receive aid to suit its particular and most vital needs.
He said some campuses have the basic resources to
carry out educational reform but others, mainly the smaller
institutions, do not. This is where the field worker will help.
So far members of the secretariat have visited student
governments in the Maritimes, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and
British Columbia.

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Is Straight bust legal?
- Justice Dohm ponders
by Charlotte Haire, Vancouver (CUP)
Mr. Justice Thomas Dohn of the B.C. supreme
court Wednesday deferred judgment on an appllcation by the publishers of the Georgl.a Straight
to have the suspension of their business licence
declared unlawful.
The newspaper's licence iwas suspended
Thursday by city licence inspector Milt Harrell
acting on the recommendation of Mayor Tom
Campbell.
John Laxton, lawyer for publishers Dan McLeod and Peter Hlookoff, sai4 the main Issue
of the hearing was the power of municipal authorities to put people out of business, determine
public morality and determine- freedom of the
press.
"Surely it cannot be possible that our laws
allow businesses to be closed down without
warning or an opportunity for the plaintiff to
come before court and explain his case," said
Laxton.
"A trial could not be held until April or May
of next year," he said. "In the meantime the
Straight would ibe unable to publish."
Laxton's argument in support of the injunction was that section 277 (c) of the city charter
was invalid.
"It is only the federal government which can
legislate morality under criminal law," he said.
Even granting that the province had the
authority, he said, the arbitarary fashion of the
licencing inspector was contrary to natural law.
Laxton told the court the publishers of the
newspaper had not been told why their licence
was suspended and had not been given an op.
portunity to state their case.
Corporation counsel Russell Baker said If the
newspaper's appeal was upheld it would mean
every licence inspector in B.C. would not be
sure what his powers were.
Vancouver city council Tuesday endorsed
seven to three the suspension of the Georgia
Straight newspaper's business licence.
Campbell claimed the paper was a ''filthy
rag" and had seen sold to school children.
Under city by-law, the licence inspector baa
the right to suspend a business Ucence, but only
city council may revoke lt.
Alderman Harry Rankin, Ernie Broome and
Peter Graham voted against the suspension.
Endorsing it were Aid. Halford Wilson, Marl-

Halliday said that although Campbell's program for snipping off the ears of rats ,was not
too productive, he hoped the mayor succeeded
in snipping the ears from "those tw~legged
rats."
."I do not want my children to become filthy
stinkin_g hippies," he said. ''These flower children
turn flowers into stinkweed.
"We must war against all .that is indecent."
Campbell interjected that it is horrifying
that there can be dissemination of vicious trash,
which glorifies drug adiction and homosexuality.
"And then we have other papers, like The
Ubyssey, which states in its editorial of Sept.
29, 'Anyone who doubts the obscenity of this
society need only watch its leaders in action any
Tuesday in city hall's council chambers," said
Campbell.
Mrs. 0. V. Spaetgens of the Vancouver
paretn-teachers' association and Mrs. Helen
Boyce of the :Vancouver local council of women
congratulated the mayor on the suspension.
"Yes," said Rankin, "it is no longer safe to
walk in Kitsilano: It might have ·something to
do ·wtth the miserable housing conditions and
slums, and the landlords who are making a fat
profit by packing 20 people into a house.
"This is the kind of issue council should be
debating. Leave obscenity to the crlmlnal
courts."
Alderman Ernie Broome asked Campbell
why the obscenity charge was not dealt within
criminal court.
"We didn't feel there was enough ground for
an obscenity charge," said Campbell.

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October 26, 1967

THE ARGUS

Farewell Friar, Welcome Jovial Jack
I

After several fine years in which he
was connected with sports in the Lakehead,
Ken "Friar" Nicholson has left and has
gone to work in London, Ontario. Ken has
taken a job with radio station CJOE in
London where he will be Sports director and
public relations officer for the station,
His wife, Margaret, has taken a job
at the N.E.S. office in London after being
transferred from the local branch. One of
the reasons that Ken was hesitant about
leaving the Lakehead was that he and his
wife both being local residents, had several
relatives in the area.
Ken has had a long and varied casting
background. He began by doing play-by-play
accounts of Selkirk High School football
games back in 1961. Next he became a parttime broadcaster for CJLX working with
the Sports Director Jack Thompson. When
Jack left, Ken became sports director where
he remained until transferring to CKPR
where he was sports director for radio and
television.
Ken's biggest thrill in broadcasting was
the presentation to him of the Guy Perciante
Memorial Trophy award annually to the
local sports media personel who gives outstanding service in promoting youth athletics.
Also through broadcasting, Ken has managed
to see much of the country while travelling
with local teams. Many local organizations
have presented bim with plaques for his
service in helping to promote thei'l"' sport.
On his final day in the Lakehead, a giant
stag was given in his honour. Ken hopes
that by going down east, he will have a
better chance of landing a job in pro-hockey,

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either as a public rela-tions man or a broadcaster.
As sports editor -of the Argus I feel that
'the Friar' has done more for the promotion
of sports in the Lakehead than any other
man. Ken was always willing to promote
minor league sports such as little league
baseball in which I had my closest contact
with him. He gave new organizations such
as the two local senior fastball leagues
needed publicity while they were .in the
growing stages.
On the other hand, Ken was not afraid
to speak out against the establishment. His
many critical editorials, occasionally reprimanded athletes for unsportsmanlike conduct
or criticized league officials for their lack
of initiative such as the absence of lights
at the Fort William Stadium.
Yes friends, the "Friar" was a tru~
sportsman throughout. I wish him the best
of luck in future endeavors.
While Ken leaves us, "Jovial" Jack
Sandberg appears on the scene to take his
place. Jack cotnes to the Lakehead, after
spending several years out w~t. He was
rah,-ed in Saskatchewan but began his broadcasting career in Winnipeg in 1964. Since
then he had moved to Fort Frances, CJOB
and from there he C'ame to the Twin Cities.
Although Jaclc has been an active sportsman all his life, his radio experience has
only been in newcasting. He has taken over
as CKPR's sports director and although he
really has little sportcasting experience, I'm
sure he will learn the tricks of the trade
and become another good one at the
".friendly 580."

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Jovial J$ck Sandberg

Hockey team

NOR'WESTERS HIT THE ICE
by glenn . rajala
Last Tuesday Nor'Westers
hockey team began to prepare to defend their ICHA
championship. The ice has
been in the arena for three
weeks but a league ruling
prohibited teams from starting practices until October
15.
Coach Henry Akervall has
29 hopefuls to pick :fu-om to
form this years team. The
1967-68 team will be the
strongest that has represented L.U. and should clean up
the league. The 'S' line
of Dwight Stirret, Murray
Smith, and Dave Siciliano,

who were the top three in
league scoring, are back and
will lead the team again.
Rookies D on Pellegrino,
Richard Tapak, and Dave
Nuttal, former area junior
stars, should fit into the
Nor'Wester's hustling style
of play. The defense will be
as strong as ever, losing only
Jim Pronger from last year.
Big Bud Crocker would be
an ideal replacement for the
position of club policeman
which was left vacant by
Pronger. The only position
that could be a weak spot
is in goal. but it is early
and this could change.

Science trounces Forestry
Forestry may have the
spirit but they lack the
athletic ability
to beat
Science.
This was proved last
Thursday when upper year
Science students pounded
Foresty Tech. I by the score
of 19-14 in rag-tag football.
Science gave Forestry two
easy touchdowns to keep the
game interesting. They were
trailing 14-13 with three
minutes to go. But this was
their game plan. Forestry
was ready to drive the nails
in the coffin but Science's
cool-headed play shook them

so that they threw a pass
to •Science's safety, John
Stevens (a former track
star) who ran it 90 yards
for a touchdown.
Forestry made a game attempt to come back but
Henry Kulik ended it all by
cutting their rum;1er in half
on the last play of tl).e game.
Next on Science's list is
another Forestry Tech. I
team, A team which it is
hoped will provide 'as much
competition' for the Science
stars as did their counterparts.

For Hunting or Skidooing
Melton Pants

Brand New Air Force 24 oz . 5. 9 5

Army Parka
Bfand new, knee length. Fur
lined hood, Clip out nylon
pile lining
29.95

LAKEHEAD

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~e Friar, Ken Nicolson

132 May Street, North

Fort William

�October 26, 1967

THE ARGUS

Page 11

Lakehead's. Championship Golf Team

Basketball
Scene
From all reports, the first
few practises of the Basketball team have been the
toughest one that players
have ever encountered.
It was rumoured that
Coach Birger· told prospectr
ive team members that they
wouldn't leave the court at
the first practise until they
were physically sick at their
stomachs. No wonder he has
such a good record of wins
on his life-time coaching
record.
"nut things could be worse.
Coach Birger's rules of no
smoking or drinking, and no
dating the night before a
game will at least make our
basketball team free of
- those evils to which may
succumb.

SELECT
PRESIDENT

Lakehead 1s golf team, winners of Ontario Intercollegiate Athletic
Association Golf tournament, held recently in Hamihon. (counterclockwise) Tony Marsonet, Bill Hodgson, Dave Kerr, Dick Battis ton, Bill Shannon (Athletic dept.), Rod Ferguson.

Waterloo (CUP)-Students
will have a voice in selecting a new president for
Waterloo Lutheran University, officials announced October 10.
Acting on a request from
the student council, the executive committee of the board
of -governors decided to seat
a student on the selection
committee to pick a successor
to president William Villaume, who resigned last
June.
Acting President, Dr. H~nry Endress, said the decision
was taken on its merits and
reflects the university's rec- ogn~tion of the special interest and concern of the litudents and faculty in the
selection of a president.

by larry hebert
The university relay team finished fifth this year in
the annual 10 mile road relay. Considering the amount of
practice time they had this was a iood effort. In the future
I think the Athletic Department should consicier choosing a
relay team and training it properly for the even much earlier.
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Thanks go out to Pentti Lund of the l'imes Journal who
gave our athletic teams a well deserved nod of approval. It's
about time sorn,eone outside the university acknowledged our
achievements in athletics.

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Too many students come to university just to play
.cards, while "Joe-Intellect" never turns out to watch his
teams play let alone participate in any athletic endeavors.
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I watchd wrestling again on television the other night.
It must rank as one of the five top comedy shows of the
year and in their portrayal of dumbies the wrestlers could
certainly with Academy Awards.
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The word is short haircuts for the basketballl team.
Several sophmores and rookies are feeling the wrath of
coach Birger's hort hair rule (number five, section M).
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The SAS has been moving slowly this year (not at
all actually) because of the lack of student support and
participation. The election for members of the council had
to be cancelled when all members were chosen by acclamation. The position of vice-president was the only one requiring
an election while the treasury post was simply a yes - no vote.
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Cooch gets a jump on the world
As a weekly section of my column, ''The Great Mystic,"
will predict the outcome of different contests in various sports.
This week the widely known syndicated columnist will fore- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - cast the outcome of Sunday's NFL games.
Bartmore over Washington
Cleveland over New York
Philadelphia over Dallas
San Francisco over Detroit
Los Angeles over Chicago
Minnesota over Atlanta
Pittsburg over New Orleans
St. Louis over Green Bay
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Girl's intercollegiate basketball will be beginning soon.
Any girls interested should enquire at the Athletic Office.

TINY'S SEEKING
ICBM CONTRACT!
Ottawa, Ont. - Diplo
matic circles are agog over
a Lakehead burger baron 1
plan to end the Cold War
overnight!
TINY, well-known publi
benefactor (h e practically
gives away his Beefy Boy
Burgers, for only 19¢)h
asked Parliament to award
him a $57,000,000 ICBM
contract.
''That's for Inter Continental Burger Mission, " ex plained TINY. "For only ~
million bucl&lt;S we will send
300 million Beefy Boys ac ross the Iron Curtain - one
for every man, woman and
child in Russia. 11
Science affirms a Beefy
Boy makes the eater happy
and contented immediately.
With 300 million happy, con
ented Russians no more Col

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MEMORIAL at ONTARIO

RED RIVER ROAD, PORT ARTHUR

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The Last Spike
The Last Spike - a place
of much laughter, smoke,
tuning of guitars, and constantly changing lights.
Dirty tablecloths and the
clash of dishes, the trademarks of so many coffee
houses, are happily missing
at The Last Spike. (There
are no tablecloths and drinks
are served in paper cups).
A performer remairked from
the sta e "I'm lad it's casu-

by phyllis wally
photos: frank shoemaker

the Lakehead Folk Guild's
radio programme on CJLX
at 7:45 Sunday evenings.
Future plans include a
'workshop' this winter for
folk singers (established, as
well as would-be), the Lakehead Folk Guild magazine,
to be released within a
month, and a series of tours
planned for a Thunder Bay
circuit.
The programmes appear
deceptively casual but they
are constantly changing, constantly undergoing revision,
improvement and experiment. Research revealed that

this, gave favourable repor\s
on 'the sound'.
"MADE OF TIES"
·'The Last Spike has the
most solid stage in Canada"
says George Gregorovich in
keeping with the motif, the
stage is made of railway ties.
The location prompted the
design and the name. Brian
Drex from Toronto designed
the basement interior, and
Tom Kelly came up with the
n~me.
.
THE ENTERTAINERS
Some of these folk singers
well known, some are

Andy Woishwill

al here - the entertainers
are more relaxed than the
audience." A noticeable feature is that everybody seems
to be enjoying themselvessurprise, ·surprise, there is
an appreciable increase in
volume on cue "everybody
sing." It is also obvious that
the singers are enjoying their
'work'.
There is communication,
commanly called joking, carried on between the entertainers and the audience.
From the stage you hear
"Frank, turn up the reverb
speaker" or "I love you too,
George, wait 'till Sat. when
it's my turn on the lights."
The Last Spike has been
laughingly called "Canada's
only psychedelic coffee house
by its originators. However, if you look at the
changing, flashing lights for
a while, the room disappears.
ABOUT THE GUILD
f 1 al

The Freemen

singers formed the Lakehead
Folk Guild to stimulate and
promote folk music in the
Lakehead area, Recognizing
the lack of an outlet for folk
music here, the Lakehead
Folk Guild with Dave Sherlock acting as liason with the
Fort William Parks and
Recreation Board, opened the
coffee house last July at
Chippewa Park. With winter
approaching the Last Spike
moved to its present location at the end of the bridge
over the railway tracks in
the East End of Fort William.
RADIO SHOW
Tom Kelly, a graduate of
Lakehead University. MC's

George &amp; Myrna plus group

So far, making regular appearances at The Last Spike
are Tom Kelly, Andy Woishwill, George Gregorovich
and Myrna Carniato, Frank
Sho~maker, The Freemen.
Chuck Tracy, David Gibb,
Mary McKimm and many
more.
The Melinda Singers had
such an impact Oct. 1st, that
they will be back Sun, Oct.
29th. George and Myrna are
appearing this week-end,
Fred McKenna on Oct. 21st,
and The Travellers on Nov.
5th.
According to one Lakehead . University s tu d en t,
"The Last Spike is the greatest thing going." It is a place
where you can relax and
listen and forget about the
people rushing around out- ,
side.

Tom Kelly

the 'sets' for an evening are
very much organized and rehearsed.
PERMANENCE HOPED
A good deal of careful
planing goes into the running
of the Lakehead's only coffee house. The co-managers,
F r an k Shoemaker and
Gregorovich, are so wrapped up in making The Last
Spike a permanent establishment ,they have little
time for anything else.
The Sunday night opening
has been so successfully received that The Last Spike
is now open Friday, Sawrday and Sunday nights ·on
a trial basis.
The Lakehead Folk Guild
has the best sound system
for their kind of music. They
have been experimenting
with rotating the speakers
and channelling sound in different directions to produce
some unusual sound effects
(also some un~xpected ones).
The audience, unaware of

Charlie Capstick

Frank Shoemaker

lLAKJEIHIJE.AJD) lUNilVJEJRSilTY

A~TS SQ)(Cill&amp;1rW

'67
5 Great Nights Featuring Canada'~
Ambassadors of Folk Song

THE
TRAVEI J.ERS
Plus
"" Tom Kelly, M.C.
* The Ramblers
• Andy Washwell
• Mary McKim
• Frank Shoemaker
• Charlie Capstick
* The Freemen
PLUS Other Outstanding Local Acts

TUESDAY, Oct. 31 to SATURDAY, Nov. 4
at

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY CENTRE THEATRE
8 p.m.
Tickets Available at:
l.akehead University Book Store Crook's Pharmacies
Bay City Mall
Perciante &amp; Laprade
Arthur and Court
Jerome's
Victoria and Syndicate
Marie McKim

Tickets
Lu. Students ......... 1. SO
High School Students ... 1. 75
(Price not effective Thursday,
Friday or Saturday)
Adults ................ 2. SO

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OCTOBER '28, 1966

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T'S hard to believe but the model •and it is assumed, swimming in the
you see above is Lakehead Uni- summer o
_
versity, 19700 Theuniversitytoday
Most impressive newbuildingwillbe
announced a phenomenal $23,000,000 • the Centennial Complex,a$12,000,000
expansion program with workexpect- structure which will house science,
ed to begin i~ January, 1967° Three technology and administrationo It will
stories will be added to the library-- be built adjacent to the University
(top-far right), a new field house wi_ll Centre building and the present Quadbe erected, (bottom left) and, it is rangle and can be seen above at top
hoped, a start will be made on ~he new Ieft An academic building is planned
300-bed residences (bottom right U- beside the present library, (top) and-a
shaped buildings)oooall with a comple- cafeteria and dining room addition
tion date of September next year. connecting the present University
Focal point of the new campus will Centre and the present residence
be a five-acre man-made lake )Vhich (centre, • right) will also be started
will be created by dammi_ng the Mc- next year.
Intyre River The lake will be used
for skating and curling in t~e winter
See page three for complete detai1Sc

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THE ARGUS

OCT. 28, 1966

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

THE ARGUS
ROD PHILLIPS

October 28, 1966, Vol. I, No. III, Lakehead, Ontario

One of themostdebatedaspectsofcurrent
Chinese society is that which is called the
"Proletarian Cultural Revolution".
To understand the reason for the Cultural
Revolution it is necessary to understand
the Chinese Communists' concept of revolution - what one might call the concept
of the "evolution of revolution". Briefly,
the main stages of this evolution are the
gaining of political power, the transformation of the economy, and the transformation of men's minds. The first two
stages have been completed, and the final
consolidation of the revolution depends on
the completion of the last stage - the
Cultural Revolution.
This takes the form of the virtual worship
of the writings of Mao Tse-Tung, and the
suppression of all thought, ideals, and
attitudes which are considered 'bourgeois',
'reactionary', or 'decadent'.
There is a widespread belief that that
which is called the 'Cultural Revolution'
is in actual fact a struggle far succession.
This does come into it, but not in the way
is a means of ensuring purity of thought
in the coming generation, so that the revolution will be perpetuated and society will
not fall back to pre-revolutionary ideals.

The ARCUS is published by the Alma Mater
Society of Lakehead University. The opinions expressed are those of the Editorial Board and are
not necessarily those of the A.M.S. or the administration. The ARGUS is authorized as second
class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa,
and for payment of postage in cash. Bring all
correspondence to the ARGUS main office behind
the downstairs cafete,ria. Subscription $3; advertising rates upon request.
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Features Editors
Sports Editor
Humour Editor
Advertising Managers

Owen Marks
Harvey Clue
Don Colborne
Peter Young
Dave Pugh
Larry Bryan
Joe Danis

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A NEW CAMPUS
A NEW FUTURE
Today a dream was consummated with the official
announcement of a dynamic expansion program at Lakehead University. ,
The entire campus will be constructed on a sprawling
design, not in terms of multi-story monstrosities. Buildings
will accomoc!ate climatic factors as well as landscape. Ushaped, construction will surround a 5-acre artificial lake,
to be formed by the darning of the McIntyre River. This
body of water will provide a focal point comparable to
the mountains of Simon Fraser University. The lake will
inevitably be used by students for skating and swimming,
and a sand beach might even be considered!

HUGE CENTENNIAL COMPLEX
The $13,000,000 Centennial Complex, will be the major
single edifice. This one building will cost 250% more than
the total cost of all present structures. Increased facilities
for students such as lounges, residences, and cafeterias
will be another feature.
Architects Fairfield and Dubois have designed such famous
sites as the Shakespearean Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, as
well as the Ontario pavilion at Expo '67. Although all final
plans are not as yet complete, some construction will
commence almost immediately; the field house is anticipated to be finished next September. Ground will be
broken early in the new year for the Science building.
_ Already there are rumors of a 3-storey addition to the
library.

PRESIDENT TAMBLYN LAUDED
Thrilling as these details may be, many individuals will
scoff at the plans, feeling that expenditures are mere frills.
But even these people will admit that increased facilities
will attract both students and faculty to Lakehead University.
Much credit must be bestowed on President W. G.
Tamblyn. In his year and a half here, he has converted
ours from a small college to a great university complex.
His thinking has been on a grand scale when such ideas
were very much needed. We thank you, sir, for giving
us a university.

THE ARGUS
NEEDS YOU
We have received many comments on the first edition
of the ARGUS, and fortunately most of them have been
complimentary. Thanks to the student body a great future
now seems assured.
To assume a position of respect in the small circle of
Canadian University newspapers, high literary and editorial standards must be maintained. So far, in our short
• term of existence as a unit, we have been very pleased
with the quality of material that has been forwarded to
us. Unfortunately, the quantity has been small. We need
material from you, the student body, and we assure any
writers that their .efforts will be received with appreciation.
You have no idea of the amount of work that was done in
the ARGUS office to attaln the present format. Last year's
paper was sadly lacking in scope and size. This year we
decided to set as our goal the bi-monthly publication of
an eight-page edition, on par with any campus paper in
Canada. The amount of work that had to be done in revamping the whole set-up was incredible. However, the
jobs all found willing workers--not many, mind you--but
willing. There is now talk of increasing the size to a
twelve-page edition.
But this is only a plan for the future. We hope that
the present will be successful enough to warrant a future.

■

In this way is the Cultural Revolution a
struggle for succession.
But what of the most obvious manifeStations of the Cultural Revolution? What
of the changes in the Communisthierarchy,
of the Red Guards, for example?
The changes in leadership circles can,
I think, be attributed to the general purposes
of the Cultural Revolution - that is to say
that those who can be guaranteed to carry
on the revolution most strongly will be
placed above the rest. This accounts for
the emergence of Lin Piao as second only
to Mao himself in the government.
The Red Guards are an unknownquantity.
They have been depicted by the Western
press as hooligans, and by the Chinese as
little more than enthusiastic Boy Scouts.
·Since the initial rash, horror stories of
the Red Guards' activities have all but
disappeared from the pages of our press,
and one must conclude the excesses were
due to early enthusiasm. This, of course,
is no excuse. In fact, the idea that anyone,
whatever his motive or ideal, can enter
and search at will the homes of citizens,
is repugnant to anyone who values thefreedom of the individual.
These are the conclusions I draw from
the facts available. The Cultural Revolution
is by no means in sight, and the world
will continue to watch carefully events in
China.

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS
1

YOUTH AND-PARTY POLITICS
JACK LEMMON

"Things have changed Someway,
Today is no longer yesterday,
Tomorrow is coming on
Like the rising wind that's strong."
(W .D., THE RISING WIND)
In the 1960' s youth plays an important
role in Canadian politics.
The effect of thousands of youthful voters,
born during the postwar baby boom, is
having its effect on the old image of the
political parties. These youngpeople, better
educated and in a more favourable position
to demand change, are making the old
parties review their principles. It is estimated that in 10 years the majority of
voters in Canada will be between 21 and
30. There is also a strong trend to lower
the voting age to 18, thus throwing thousands
more into the political arena. This onslaught has forced all the parties into
a transitional period since the late '50's.
"THINK YOUNG" has been the rallying
cry of the·· politicians as elderly members
are shuttled into the Old Folks'. Home
of politics, the Senate. There are a few
exceptions to this rule, evident to all,
in the persons of Mr. Diefenbaker and
Mr. Pearson, but there is a progressive
desire in the air to retire these two.
In the recent Liberal party convention
Mr. Pearson had his position confirmed,

but a motion was presented and ratified
by the younger members of the party to
the effect that, after every election, the
leaders be re\tiewed at a party convention.
This makes Mr. Pearson's role less static
than he realized. Mr. Diefenbaker has to
face a major conflict in the not too distant
future, and I would not be surprised if
there were a new leader of the P .C .' s
in six months.
The progressive increase of support for
smaller parties, particularly the NDP, can
also be traced in part to this youth trend.
The appeal of these parties is primarily
to the young voter fired with enthusiasm
for ideals slightly left or right of the
standard middle-of-the-road approach of
the pre-60's Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties. This, however, has been
a world trend and not entirely a Canadian
one. As an example, the major middle-ofthe-road party in the U.K., the Whigs or
Liberals, have been erased as a major
for~e in British politics. In contrast to
their big majority governments before the
Second World War, they now hold 6 seats
in a parliament of 650 seats.
Contrary to what older supporters think
of the young, there is no holding them
back now. The confused generation, as
the young are called, are not necessarily
so, but could be described as the confusing generation as they move into the
political scene with their newer ideals
and vibrant energy.
by Jack Lemmon

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
THE TUNNEL
Sex fiends arise and help
me fight the war on
barreness. Some brave artist step forward and volunteer for active duty. Those
barren tunnel walls should be
alive with the fruit of the
artist's brush. Can'tyoujust
hear the hurrying, trembling
footsteps towards the library if a 36-foot long Lady
Godiva--with hair flying in
the wind--was painted on the
far tunnel wall? Or how about
a sequence of Gypsy Rose
Lee in her various stages
of--how shall I say-undress?
But seriously, don't you
think that those tunnel walls
should be some other colour

than maiden white?
So here is what I propose,
and I hope you will all sup..
port me.
We will get many pails
of various colours of paint
and have a paint-the-tunnel
day where everyone brings
a brush and slaps some paint
on a part of the tunnel walls.
In no time' at all we could
have a modem mural which
we could all be :Qroud of and
say 'That's a part of me' -ugh!
So write to 'THE GZORP'
in care of the ARGUS and
tell me if you support me or
have any ideas.
Read the bulletin boards
in a week or two for further
information rep.rding a
'paint-the-tunnel meeting.
'THE GZORP'
.

THOSE FLIES
The Editor,
The Argus,
Lakehead University•
Port Arthur, Ont.
Dear Sir:

Re: The Flies

of Both Sexes are Upon You!

(The Argus, October 14th,
1966).
The overpopulation of flies
in the cafeteria should not
be so repulsive as to reduce the clientele. We must
remember that the cafeteria
is recommended by DRUNKEN HINES and why not eat
there--10,000 flies can't be
wrong. To Bugs Morgan,
Yankee go home I
Yours truly,
Fred Kelly.

�OCT. 28, 1966

THE ARGUS

Lakehead Universitypresident Dr. W. G. Tamblyn today announced a $23,000,000
expansion program which
will transform the present
complex into a modern,
'campus in the round' built
on the shores of a five-acre
man-made lake.
Work will begin this January. The majority of the
construction will be completed by 1968.
The announcement is the
culmination of more than a
year of intense study by university officials and planning
experts. The development
announced today is stage one
in a three-stage program of
university expansion up to
the year 2010. This first
stage covers the university's
needs up to the 3,000 enrolment level.
The development will involve the immediate addition of three storeys to the
present library, a new athletic field house and the start

on a 300-room residence. It
is hoped that all three projects can be completed by
September, 1967.
The major showpiece in the
new campus, a $12,000,000
Centennial Complex housing
science, technology and ad..
ministration will be started
next spring with a completion
date of 1968. A rambling
cafeteria and dining addition
to the present University
Centre and special alterations and changes for the
present Academic Quadrangle will be started at the
same time. A new academic
building to be situated between
the library and
Oliver Road will be the final
project in the first stage.
Cost of the library addition
is expected to be more than
$1,200,000. The Field House
will involve $750,000 for the
initial building and a further $300,000 for an addition within the next few
years. The residences will

Competition Tough
Rowers Impressive
Peter Yovng
The Lakehead University
Nor' westers Rowing Club
cut the first notch into their
1966-67 varsity athletic belt
Oct. 22 with a strong showing
in the Mid-American Collegiate Rowing Association
Regatta in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Competin~ under what was
quoted as the worst water
conditions in 20 years',
mainly due to a 45mile-perhour wind, the two foot swells
Lakehead oarsmen placed
2nd in the junior varsity
eight and fourth in the senior
varsity eight.
In the first event of the day,
the junior varsity, L.U. took
an early lead and held it up
until the 1500 metre mark.
But it was St. Thomas
College that crossed the finish line first with the Nor'wester shell half a boat
length behind. University of
Wisconsin placed third six lengths behind.
Then in the senior varsity
by

a wellconditionedandorganized crew from the University of Minnesota virtually
walked away from the rest
of the pack to cover the
2000 metre course in just
over six minutes. University
of Wisconsin edged out St.
Thomas College by an oar
for second with Lakehead

University right behind.
Head coach Bob Browne
stated his pride in the entire
Nor'Wester crew, but especially Joe Roy, Tim Comishin, Tom Petrie, Bill
Weller and cox Glen Miller,
the five L.U. oarsmen who
had to compete in both races.
Both the University of Wisconsin and the University of
Minnesota have student enrolments exceeding 35,0001
The entireNor'Westercontingent was made up of, coach
Browne, _ Sameluk, McGregor, Petrie, Miller, Roy,
Weller,
Comishin,
Ray
Simpson, Eric Colquhoun,
Jim Zatulsky, Roger Kowalchuk and Gordie Skinner.

involve more than$2,500,000
and the University Centre
addition will cost $1,200,000.
More than $2,000,000 in science and technology equipment and furnishings are
planned for the Centennial
Complex, bringing the buildings' worth to more than
$14,000,000. The remainder
of the costs involve property,
site development, equipment
and special facilities.
Governemtn grants cover
from 50 to 85% of the building costs, depending on the
type of projects. The university must supply the remainder.
Architects for the project
are the well-known Toronto
firm of FairfieldandDubois,
architects for such projects
as The Stratford Shakespearian Festival Playhouse
and the Ontario 'Expo' Pavilion for 1967. They are
•presently working on finished designs for_ the individual buildings.
Focal point of thenewcampus will be the large manmade lake which will be
created by the damming of
the McIntyre River. The lake
will be functional as well as
picturesque in that it will
be used for skating and curling in the winter and swimming in the summer. The
buildings form sheltered 'U'
shaped designs around the
lake with almost the entire
campus connected by underground tunnels, designs especially suited for the northern winters. The buildings
are mainly three and four
storey structures to take advantage of the landscape and
the spacious university property.
Dr. Tan;iblyn stressed the
university's concern for
functional, economical beauty in design.
'We were most conscious
of developing a functional
design without the frills of
some recent university projects across Canada,' he declared. 'But we were also
aware of the needforbeauty,
impression
and
lasting
design that would make the
people of Northwestern Ontario proud of their university today and in the years

PAGE THREE

to come. We have tried to develop both and I am pleased
to say that I think this has
been accomplished in this
model. The lake will be a
focal point allowing for dramatic and warming landscape development, functional recreational activity
and a central core for university development.'
The unprecedented enrolment in the past two years
has necessitated the change
in plans for the university
library which was just officially opened this week. Originally scheduled for 1970,
the addition has been moved
ahead as 'the fastest logical
way to provide essential
space for classes and new
faculty offices'. The addition
will make the library a
$2,700,000 six-storey building, the tallest on campus.
The architects for this building were the Lakeheadfirm
of Fraser, Mickelson and
Brown.

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PAGE FOUR

THE ARGUS

YOUNG

CAGERS AWAIT SCHEDULE
LOOK FOR GOOD SEASON

IDEAS
This year Bruce Bristowe,
1••••••••••••••••••••••1 take
a lecturer in biology, will
over the reins as coach

Bill Shannon. They meet
every Thursday evening at
Selkirk from 7-9 p.m.

by Larry Hebert

By Peter Young

WILL WE USE FIELD DOUSE?
During the last two weeks I have been in consultation
at different times with Athletic Coordinator Bill Shannon
and S.A.S. president Chuck Sameluk and I have come to
the conclusion that the students of ~Lakehead University
do NOT want a field house on campus.
Since the beginning of classes in September several
groups in the University have emphatically spoken out
in favour of a field house. In fact, one such group has
gone as far as to circulate a petition, which by the way
was signed by more than 500 students, stating that the
great size of student enrolment at L.U. demands that
we have a field house.
But would the students of Lakehead University support
the Athletic Department in their quest to find a •sport
for every student and a student for every sport•. Where
are the 500 people who signed that petition? Better still,
where are the 1,000-students who fought their way through
opening week dilemma all the way to the S.A.S. office to
pick up the Olympus? If YOU won't support the wide
variety of sports activities offered this year, how can you
ever expect our administration to continue withfieldhouse
plans.
SOME ST ATISTICS
For some of the skeptics who won'tbelievemy seemingly
unpatriotic jargon, here are some actual statistics compiled
qUite easily by the Athletic Department. Don't forget that
all quoted figures are out of a total of 1,800 registered
students. Thus far we have one person interested in volleyball, not enough for rugger, 14 who want to play intramural basketball which requires at least one team from
each faculty, and four make-shift rag tag teams. We have
also got 22 bowlers and at least 12 curlers. Everyone wants
a pool in the field house and yet the pool facilities that we
have access to at the YMCA are never utilized to even half
their intended extent. And the first day of cheerleading
practice looked impressive with about 20 girls attending
but since then the record attendance has been four.

SPORTS QUIZ
1) The year 1965 was the year of the rookie in the National
Football League. Name the rookie of the year and the
number of touchdowns he scored.
2) Name the diminutive halfback for the Ottawa Roughriders
who formerly played for Queen's University and holds the
schools career point record.
3) What are the spo~s with which the following terms are
associated?
a) scrum
b) corner kick
c) foul line
d) secondary
e) love
4) From what province do the following National League
Hockey players come?
a) Gordie Howe
b) Frank and Peter Mahovolich
c) Alec Faulkner
d) Bobby Hull
5) Match the teams with their 'nicknames'
1) Arkansas
a) badgers
2) Nebraska
b) huskies
3) Michigan Tech.
c) cornhuskers
4) Wisconsind) razorbacks

November 12-13: Laurentian
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December 7-8: Wisconsin
State (Superior)
January 28-29: Brandon College
February 4-5:
St. Cloud
State
February 11-12: Bemidji
State
BASKETBALL

of the men's basketball team.
Coach Bristowe is so pleased
with the enthusiasm shown
that he thinks he might form
a Varsity squad and a 'B'
squad. Approximately 24
players are trying out for
the 12 berths on the Varsity
squad.
Coach Bristowe feels that
the team, not overly endowed
with height, will develop into
a hustling, fast-breaking
unit. The team will compete
in an intercollegiate schedule as indicated in the athletic handbook, and also in
the Senior Men's Division
of the Thunder Bay Basketball Association.
Practising in conjunction
with the men's team is the
women's team under coach :

January 28-29: Brandon College
February 25: NorthlandCollege (Ashland)

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THE ARGUS

PAGE FIVE

SHADES OF NEWPORT . ..
O_u r Own Folk Festival
The closest that the Lakehead has ever come to the
Newport Polle Festival will
be presented on stage at
the
University
Centre,
November 2nd to 5th, in
what promises to be the
best programme of this type
to be undertaken locally.
Former Arts Society President and co-ordinator of
the festival, Tom Kelly,feels
confident that no one Will
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3 hour concerts will be a
vast assortment of ethnic
music, featuring bluegrass
style and the big band sound
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Three, follc, blues, and folkrock by George and Myrna,
plus very .pleasing, stylings
of folk and blues numbers by
Moe Mitchell, the Two,
Brenda and Judy, the Folk,
Maureen Joy, and Mr. Kelly
himself. European flavour
will be added by Mark
Mueller, who, being German
by birth, is polished and at
ease in that realm of music.
Featured in the Festival
will be a surprise performer
from Eastern Canada, a per-

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THE ARGUS

OCT. 28, 1966

PAPERBACK REVIEW

.DAWN
The smokestack lifts its heavy head
And yawning, throws back its blackened bed-clothes,
Driving the darkfrom the sky with hot and blue-grey breath.
The rude awakening catches the heavens in rumpled sheets,
While nocturnal remnants lurk down western walls.
Man goes hissing to the forge
And the silent night-lights blink

Off.

•

Cuyler Cotton

MADRIGAL

FOR THE CHILD
GWENDOLYN
when the mouth of the earth
is your body
I would seek you
and
my
kisses
would
be gentle as sweet grasses
when the breast of the earth
is your body
I would seek you
and my body would be warm
as the slow and warming
sun
and when the limbs of the
earth are your limbs
I would clasp you
and our bodies would be soft
with the green of shaded
fields
oh in time and through
in the rising and falling of
seasons
would I seek you
and from the mourning song
of the wind
until the press of the soil be
born again and again
would I love you
Joseph Fiorito

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microbe proportions, where you must dodge red corpuscles
just to survive. Race against time, toward a damaged
brain, in an attempt to free a clot with a laser gun. Move
to within moments of your destination, only to be diverted
at the last second, back through the heart. Know that
you have but an hour to complete your mission. before
you begin to return to normal size. Imagine those last,
few, precious seconds, running out with the terrifying
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Don't miss it.
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Why not obtain a copy of our Career Opportunities booklet from your Placement Office. It
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We would be pleased to discuss these careers
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PAGE SEVEN

THE ARGUS

The Hostage was

A FAIRY GOOD PLAY
by Brian Springgay

.REMEMBER THAT.HELICOPTER?
This recent aerial view, taken from a helicooter, will serve in the near future as a

nostalgic reminder of what the campus used
to look like, before men and machines moved

NURSES NEE'll A VOTE!
by Harvey Clue

In the 3 1/2 hours du..
ration of the A.M.S. meeting
on Monday, October 17th, two
points ofinterestarose. Firstly, the question of nurses'
representation on council,
and secondly, the councillors' lack of desire to
participate in the sharing of
responsibilities, according
to this reporter, deserve
attention and subsequent
comment.
Mr. Tocheri,A.M.S. President, stated that the executive.--probably during the
summer months--(my conjecture) entered into nego..
tiations with the different
nursing schools. The executive members proposed that

2 i/2 days per week, and ing of responsibilities. Is
participate in the social and Mr. Tocheriexpectedtocarathletic functions? The ma- .:ry the whole workloadonhis
jority of councillors suppor- shoulders? The students of
ted the stand that the nursing this University place !heir
students should obtain more trust in you, the councillors,
appropriate representation. by voting for those indiIn this respect, one must viduals whom they believe
congratulate them.
(notice the present case) are
The three nursing reps diligent,
provident, and
must decide among them- above all, responsible. Many
selves who will retain the of the councillors are
single vote. Councillors will novices, but when opportudeal further with the nursing nity to perform presents itquestion in due course. self, the basis for experience
Nurses, rest assured, re- evolves. Each councillor
presentation is on the way. must improve the quality
Where, oh where, is all the and efficiency of the A.M.S.
enthusiasm that councillors Lakehead
University is
are supposed to show? None young, and we as students
was represented during the ~e growing with it. A great
October 17th meeting; that future beckons.
is enthusiasm for the shar-

if the sursing _students paid
a $10.00 A.M.S. fee, then
quite possibly they could ob- .._
tain ex-officio membership
on the council, a move which
might provide the basis for
future voting privileges. As
the executive revealed, there
would be only one vote for
the three nursing representatives.
At this time, two opposing
views arise. Primarily, did
the A.M.S. executive have
the constitutional right to
decide on what the conditions
the nurses could obtain a vote
before fhe officials presented the facts for discussion to the A.M.S. Council?
Granted, the council did not
sit during the summer
months, but maybe, just
maybe, the executive members should have waited before proceeding with their
decision. As one councillor
succinctlr put it, isn't the
executive s proposal at this
time a form of blackmail?
But, this pointis neither here
nor there.
On the other hand, why
shoulctn• t the nurses be granted voting privileges? Do
thev not attend the University

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and the source of the action.
Behan's purpose, however,
was not to create a lengthy
or complicated plot. It was
simply to have a basis around which to develop the
theme.
Behan exploits two major
themes. The first is a condemnation of people, being
so possessed with an ideal
that, in pursuing this ideal,
they become oblivious to basic humanity. The second
is that people in their normal living are above any
abstractions imposed upon
them by ethnic, political,
chauvinistic, religious or
ethical conditions.
Along with all its complexities and humour this play
was presented on October
13, 14, 15. In most aspects
there were glimpses of real
acting, making it difficult
to see that it was performed
by an amateur group.
Pat, the caretaker (?) of
the house, portrayed by Dr.
Tom Miller, was acted with
gusto. It was evident that the
role was studied somewhat,
be~ause Pat's part -involved
more than just an uncouth
Irish drunk.

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This is only a sample of
the comedy and wit which
Behan has involved in the
story of The Hostage. This,
to the shocJc and amusement
of the audience, was delivered by three obvious homosexuals. These men were
only part of the residents
of a contemporary whorehouse, which included a
pimp, two prostitutes, a Russian sailor (client), a mad
Colonel plus assor):ed displaced people. Behan uses
circumstances to involve
this seemingly weird assortment of characters il).to a
tragi-comedy.
A young Irish Republican
soldier has been sentenced
to hang for the murder of a
Northern Irish policeman.
In reprisal the I.R.A. has
abducted a young Cockney
soldier from a dance as a
hostage. This lad is taken
to the only safe place in
Dublin, the whorehouse.
Hence, the name of the play

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THE ARGUS

PAGE EIGHT

Hot Air Is Highlight

'TRIVIA' TAKES TIME AT AMS MEETING
by Don Colbome

Adding machines and cash
registers geared for action,
the A.M.S. (Allotment of
Money Service) second regular council meeting was
called to order by Keeper
of the Cash, Wayne Tocheri.
From 8:00 p.m. BoardRoom
time (7:42 Library; 12 noon
Wing B; 8:12 Residence) until 11:20 Crest time various
blather was belaboured ad
nauseum.
Some highlights of the meeting include:
• Gross discussion resulted
in 'up to $180' being pryed
loose to send delegates from
the Precambrian Club to a
conference in Winnipeg.
• An entirely pointless discussion was pursued pertaining to matters delegated
(at length) to the residence
and cafeteria food committees at a previous meeting.
• The schools of nursing
will likely be given three
ex-officio voices on council
with a combined vote of one.
The uncharacteristic dispatch with which this item
was carried can probably
be explained by the unwritten
'nobody knocks nurses' hypothesis. Could the additional provision that each student nurse pay a $10.00
A.M.S. fee have had anything to do with the speed
of this decision? (Ho-hum,
another $1,200 in the surplus).
• A report from the delegation to the China TeachIn was postponed until the
next meeting. Back to form,
the council spent twenty minutes discussing the topic
just postponed, particularly
with regard to spending ALL

from council to join a joint President Tocher! and the
committee
planning . the newspaper was thrown a'Open House' programme of round with no conclusions
October 27-29. Mr. Penner, reached.
President of Science, finally • The business-like apsaved the day by offering proach to the topic of admission charges to social
his services.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • The offer of inclusion of functions was in refreshing
a Lakehead University team contrast to the proceeding
CUSBRIEFS
in a centennial debating tour- blather. The society prenament was cheerfully ac- sidents had prepared a mocepted when it was found that tion· in writing which could
it would only cost the A.M.S. be debated briefly and intelligently. The motion, as
Travel to the Bahamas at tee chairman, GwenSzychter $50.00
• Rod (the 'kiwt) Phillip's carried, granted power to
Christmas on special student today.
Available at the CUS office appointment as associate set admission prices to the
tour. Spend seven nights and
eight days at the beautiful are International Student justice was ratified unani- sponsoring organization in
Freeport Inn on Grand Cards for those going to mously, despite that Stalin conjunction with the A.M.S.
entertainment committee. In
Europe or the U.S. With moustache.
Bahama Island. It is the
ideal location to indulge in these cards, you can re-:- • A great hash of uninformed the event of dispute, the
ceive discounts up to 50% - comment regarding an un- A.M.S. president will have
a wide variety of sports
from golf and tennis to deep on various articles and op- fortunate incident involving the final decision.
portunities abroad. We also
sea fishing or scuba diving.
have up to date lists of
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$207 .oo. Reserve your space
your local CUS Committee
now.
has ready for you.
Or if you prefer skiing in
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We would like to apologize
the Swiss Alps, take advanfor our tardiness in distage o~ CUS s special tour
tributing the information reto Davos, Switzerland. Traquested by people here at
vel, lodging, and meals are
For al I your car needs
Lakehead. We are doing our
included for the special rate
Gas Oi I lube tires &amp; accessories
best and shall have it out
of only $424.00. Flight leaves
Motor tune up &amp; repairs
as soon as is humanly
Montreal on December 21 and
Next to university
possible.
returns January 1, 1967.
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Don't wait! See your CUS
chairman now.
Do you have your Expo
Students. visit the
passport? Che'a p rates now
available. Save $3.25 on a
seven-day passport for adults. Take an active part
in celebratingCanada'sCentennial and go to Montreal
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CUS travel-to-Expo commiTHAT MONEY!
• Council was informed that
students at Lakehead University have the dubious distinction of being the only
such group in Canada refused

the privilege of discounts at
retail stores. Apparently all
is not lost. The C .u .s. committee will keep trying.
• Somehow it took fifteen
minutes to get a volunteer

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                    <text>THE
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VOL 1,NO.111

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY, LAKEHEAD, ONT., NOV. 11, J.966

TWELVE PAGES

ARGUS GETS $6790

The A.M.S. budget hasbeen
setl Where did your $20.00
go?
The Argus, the university
newspaper, has received an
allottnent of $6790; total society expenses amount to
$2,665. This figure includes
an allotment of $1,740forthe
Arts Society Council. University Schools, including
Business, Engineering and

its other faculties tias received $860. Numerous clubs
received funds (allottnents
appear in brackets): Business Club ($35), Camera
Club ($557), Chess Club
($95), Chinese StudentAssociation ($230), Ukranian Club
($125), and W.u.s.c. ($55).
Space does not permit the
presentation of all club disbursements.

Other interesting items on
the budget include a reservation of $1500 for honoraria or wages, calendar
sales of $4,000 and $1200
expense allowance for unplanned events. Total estimated revenues amount to
$33,885 and total estimated
expenses amount to $33,492
leaving a net income of
$393.

Mr. Hider, A.M.S. Treasurer, hoped to be able to
show a surplus of $3000.
This surplus would be required to cover the costs
of a summer program
($1000), 1967 Welcome Week
($1000), and expenses incurred by delegates to the
C.U.S. Seminar, and two
other Conferences ($850).
One item noticeably absent from the proposed bud-

get for the six month period ending Feb. 28, 1966,
is the lack of funds allocated to political clubs on
campus. What are the possibilities of their eventually
receiving finances? The
Councillors have l&lt;::i':' the
response to the question t1..
Mr. Jack Lemmon (Arts II)
and his committee. They will
report to the A.M.S. Council in the near future.

SENATOR TO SPEAK-

SENATOR McGOVERN

POLL REPORT -

A Special Assistant to the
late President John F.
Kennedy and former Director of the United States Food
for Peace Plan, Senator
George McGovern of South
Dakota has a greed to take
part in the Lakehead University Lecture Series.
One of the brilliant young
men of Kennedy's New Frontier, Senator McGovern will
speak on • Perspectives on
American Foreign Policy•.
The lecture will be gtven on
Friday, November 18th in the
University Centre Auditorium.
University lecture series
chairman Dr. John Rideout
expressed great satisfaction
in attracting this important
international figure to Lakehead University. Dr. Rideout
pointed out that Senator

DRINK ANYONE?

8%D0NT
OVER THE AGE

UNDER AGE
Never
Seldom
Monthly
Weekly
More

8%
30%
14%
26%
22%

Never
Seldom
Monthly
Weekly
More

3%

9%

14%
30%
44%

nrinking Age
Drinking Age
Lowered
52%
Lowered
36%
Not Lowered
38%
Not Lowered
48%
No Comment
10%
No Comment
16%
Others agree to bash her back in quantities large and
small. Foresters even though less boyant than in the past
are still clutching to the volumetric lead. The remaining
sector of University Schools was surprisingly edged by
both Science and Arts.
.
SHOULD THE DRINKING AGE BE LOWERED?
Of the 60% who are under age of priviledge and drink
more than occasionally, only half wish to spoil the fun
by lowering the magic digits.
IF A NON-DRINKER WHAT DO YOU THINK OF DRINKERS? AND VICE-VERSA.
The social sippers along with the abstainers associated
the more thirsty with words, such as, crazy, ugh, rotten,
and corrupt. The inverse opinion was expressed with less
ferocity and even with admiration.
WHY DO YOU DRINK?
Many could not find reason or preferred not to give
one to explain their consumption. Others believe alcohol
assists enjoyment, relaxation and substitutes for a chance
missed. It also seems that there is this guy who makes
some girls drink.
Even without a large f acuity of engineers we are a pretty
swaying campus and to Eut it in the words of a seven- ·
teen year old forester, we help to keep the economy
going-. Hope you buy Canadian.

McGovern was one of the
late president's personal
choices for a top administrative post, heading the important Food for Peace plan.
In this post he travelled
widely
throughout South
America and Asia and is now
considered an expert and
sharp critic of his own party's foreign policy.
Senator McGovern was born
in Avon, South Dakota, on
July 19, 1922, the &amp;Qn of a

Meth()dist clergyman. After
graduation from Dakota
Wesleyan University, he
earned his M.A. and Ph.D.
in history and government
from Northwestern University.
McGovern flew 35 combat
missions as a B-24 bomber
pilot in World War II winning the Distinguished Flying
Cross.
A professor of history and
government at Dakota Wesleyan University, he was elected to the U. S. House of
Representatives in 1956 and
re-elected in 1958, serving
as a member of the Committee on Education and Labor
and the Committee on Agriculture. He was a u. S. delegate to the NA TO Parliamentarians Conference in
1958 and 1959.
He was named Food for
Peace Director and Special
A.ssistant
to
President
.(ennedy in January 1961. As
a United States delegate to
the United Nations Food and
Agricultural
Organization
(FAO) conference in 1961,
McGovern made - the U.S.
offer which led to the first
World Food Program making
Freedom from Hungeraninternational objective.
He was elected to the U.s.
Senate in 1962, the first
Democrat to win a Senate
post in South Dakota since
1936. He is a member of the
Committee on Agriculture
and ForestryandoftheCommittee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
He is the author of two
books: War Against Want
(Walker &amp; Co., N.Y., 1964)
and Agricultural Thought in
the
Twentieth
Century
(Bobbs-Merrill, N.Y., 1966),
as well as many articles.
The Senator and Mrs. McGovern have four daughters
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" And in that first moment of silence,
One feels the cold blade in the heart,
Sees the moon rise white upon the mound,
And knows that earth shall never bury
Those leaves the war-wind tore from home •.•. ,.

REMEMBRANCE DAY
A Remembrance Day Service will be held in the University Centre Theatre on Friday, November 11, commencing
at 10:45 and ending at 11:02 A.M.

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of the Editorial Board and are not necessarily those of
the A.M.S. or the administration. The ARGUS is authorized
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The dispute
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- Gibraltar

between Great Britain and Spain over the status of Gibraltar continues to

::: The basis of the dispute is not complex. The Spanish government feels that it is an in::: suit to Spain to have a British colony on the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, and therefore
::: claims sovereignty over Gibraltar (shades of Guantanamo?). The .British government, on
;:: the other hand, is understandably unwilling to allow the 25,000 Gibraltarians (whose back:;: ground is Maltese and Italian rather than Spanish) to come under the dictatorship of
:;: Generalissimo Franco. One can also sympathize with. the British desire to maintain
Co-editors-in-Chief
Owen Marks ::: possession of such a militarily strategically-placed base as Gibraltar.
Don Colborne ::: The latest round of Anglo-Spanish talks began several weeks ago to discuss further
Features Editor
Harvey Clue ::: Spain's intention to send the dispute to the United Nations' Committee on Colonialism, and
Sports Editor
Peter Young:=: also the lastest Spanish actions against Gibraltar--particularly the sealing of the frontier
Advertising Managers
Larry Bryan :;: between Spain and Gibraltar to all traffic except the 5,000 Spaniards who cross daily to
Joe Danis ::: work in the British naval dock-yards.
Humour Editor
Dave Pugh ❖
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• - Circulation Manager
Ted Walker;:: Britain's latest proposals--to take the case to the International Go~rt of Jus.tice at_the
;:: Hague, and to give Spain certain rights in Gibraltar--have, at the time of this writing,
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as the dispute rests on a political as much as a legal basis, and could not be solved by
the International Court.
Indeed, it will not be easy tofinda solution suitable to all parties concerned. Spain apparently intends to maintain the economic blockade against Gibraltar until a favourable
settlement is reached--a settlement which would have to give Spain a voice in the adminIt's not often that Dave Pugh, our Humour Editor, en- istration of the colony. But she can take no stronger action now except an armed invasion. This would be politically disastrous at the present time, with Spain's applications
joys a genuine, heart-felt chuckle.
It's even less frequent that a politician is able to pro- for membership of NA TO and the European Economic Community hanging in the balance.
Britain, realizing these considerations, is pursuing a firm line against Spain. This it
vide that type of wit which incapacitates Mr. Pugh. But
William Davis and his crew in Toronto, 1,000 miles to can afford to do, as while the economic blockade has drastically cut Gibraltar's trace, it
has had little effect on tourism, the colony's main industry.
the east, have succeeded admirably.
The immediate future looks gloomy for hopes of a solution to the dispute. The longMr. Pugh, who applied for a student loan this Septemterm
situation, however, provides interesting speculation. Generalissimo Franco, now 74,
ber, was :;:-ewarded with the staggering sum of •260
beans•, $50 of which was a gift of Mr. Davis. But Dave must soon relinquish control of Spain. Should a more liberal head of state succeed him,
was expecting a final realization of six hundred dollars. many of Britain's objections to Spanish control of Gibraltar will be groundless.
This is a very long-term view, however. In the mean time, the dispute drags on, with,
Thus the reason for much laughter and great feasting.
And this is not the only case at Lakehead University, nor at present, •no light at the end of the tunnel•.
is it peculiar to L.U. Universities throughout the province are full of students, frustrated and embittered by a II IIIII Ill IIll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Ill IIll IIll II Ill II lll Ill II Ill Ill Ill II Ill Ill II Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill 111111IIIllIIIllIll11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
distant government, which usually decides on an assessment tofally unacceptable.
But, fortunateJ.y, this student resentment has brought
about gov~raent second-guessing. A few weeks ago, a
sotll@'Wnat bullet-ridden Minister of Education, William
~ ls, announced that the university student might appeal
his final assessment. After so doing, the student would
have to wait perhaps four weeks for a re-assessment.
Dear Sirs:
Extensively, the program for appeal requires that the
I would like to make a few appropriate comments re the article •uncle Sam Wants
student contact Dean Kerr about his (or her) disputed
assessment by the Student Awards Office in Toronto. Mel" by Don Colborne. . To come straight ot the point, the article is biased, self-contralf there has been an obvious miscalculation or an un- dictory, and fallacious.
First of all, Mr. Colbome, identifying himself as a reporter, fails to fulfill his role.
expected event which has altered the student's financial
standing negatively, Dean Kerr is able to increase the As a reporter, he is supposed to report, and that's all, not to add his own biased NOP
loan immediately. lf the student wishes to gain an in- orientated opinions to the report. Where both the reporter and the subject express opincrease in the bursary section of the award, he must ions, it becomes increasingly difficult to attribute them to the proper source which in turn
appeal through the Dean of Students to Toronto.
leads to misinterpretations and misunderstandings amongst the reading audience. However,
in this article, Mr. Colborne has expressed his opinionated ideas so flagrantly that the
Admittedly, appealing may be considered a minor form
of protest. But the extra work created for the government problem mentioned above is not insurmountable even by the feeblest of minds. As an
might induce it to rectify matters next year. But again, example of the reporter's opinions, I will cite two phrases: • American aggression in
Vietnam• and •shades of South Africa•.
there is little likelihood of this, as a knowledgeable
I take it that the assimilation to South Africa is made on the basis that in that particular
source has mentioned that the government is considering
nation everyone must carry an I.D. card at all times just as the draftee must carry hi~
retaining the same format.
draft-card. 3ut is this not also true of the L. U. policy? Regulations state that I. D.
Dave Pugh may die laughing.
cards must be in student's possession at all times and presented at school functions
and at examinations. Then one could conclude, as the article did with respect to the U.S.,
that L.U. is becoming •a militaristic police state•.
Secondly, the article is self-contradictory, thanks both to the draft-dodger and Mr.
Colbome. The draft-dodger asserts that he has no freedom. But he does not realize, obviously, that he has more freedom than many people dream of. He had the freedom to
move out of his home state and study in Illinois; he had the freedom to defer his medical; he had the freedom to come to Canada, and in his own words, •encounter no trouble
in crossing the border•. Added to this small list of freedoms mentioned in the article
are hundreds of personal freedoms which make life enjoyable in a democratic society.
Mr. Colborne has tried to enlist our sympathy by heightening the individual tra11edy of
Every contemporary periodical cries out that a moral rethe case. He wrote that •he (draft-dodger) never expects to see his home again . Yet,
volution is sweeping modern youth. University campuses
later on the draft-dodger, in his careless, angry-young-man style suggests he does not
are constantly cited as hotbeds of radical thought. Univerwant to go home because then he would have to face the responsibilities of a democracy.
sity students are said to be crying for social change, proFinally, the article is fallacious. Mr. Colbome has referred, as previously mentioned,
testing outmoded mores, and a just, progressive society.
to • American aggression in Vietnam•. All of us could be a bit enlightened and better
The concept of • situation ethics• is reported to have requalified to discuss the Vietnam situation if we just read a bit of contemporary history.
placed the traditional principles of right and wrong.
The experience could be revealing; it might even show who crossed the 17th parallel
It must be abundantly clear that research on such comment
first.
could not have been done on the campus of Lakehead UniThe draft-dodger, a psychology graduate, objects to military service because of the
versity. The concept of original thought and its application
submission and h,umiliation it would bring. What kind of a sensitive snob is this guy?
in social protest is clearly lacking on this campus.
Is he exempt from duty just because of schooling? Anyway, his fears of subservience
It might be argued that what we read is baseless sensaare mostly hypothetical. A psychology graduate would not be the first to be on front lines
tionalism. Journalists blowing an obscure movement all
and I doubt strongly if there are any psychologists in the fox-holes. (If there are, Mr.
out of proportion purely for its shock value to middle class
Harding should volunteer. Rather, he would gain officer status, if that's any consolation,
readers. We do not believe this to be the case. There is
and supervise the placement of enlisted men. In fact, that would be a golden opportunity
really a moral revolution on the more cosmopolitan camto gain some practical experience.
•
puses. The students here are so cowed by the provincial
To quote a passage from the article: •Freshmen and sophomores tend to be more naive,
conservatism of our isolatedcommunitythatanymotivefor
more prepared to accept everything they hear•. Obviously this is true of Mr. Colborne.
revolutionary thought has been buried. The high school
The whole article sounds like a lot of crap to me -- and I strongly suspect it is a lot of
atmosphere of Lakehead University is a direct result of
crap.
our small size and backwoods location. Other factors tenIn the future, to clear the confusion caused by biased reporters, I suggest that Mr.
ding to narrow our outlook might be the large freshman
Colborne change his status to a columnist. Then he could freely discuss any topics with
enrollment and lack of a post-graduate school.
the totality of his opinions. However, if this is impossible for any reason, Mr. Colborne
lf we are to challenge other Universities in terms other should qualify his role as a reporter. For example, he could be •an opinionated and biased
than size and facilities, if we are to lose our reputation as
reporter• or •an NOP youth• rather than just a plain •reporter•.
Ontario's •Flunky u.•, we must at least make an attempt
PROMETHEUS
to join the wa,r on sacred cows, senseless puritanical
Mr. Colborne has changed his status. He is now Co-Editor in Chief. Must be part o~ the
yalues, and social injustice.
International Communist Conspiracy. ED.

P.O.S.A.P. Act I, Scene I

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

PROTEST?

-NEVER!

�NOV. 11, 1966

THE ARGUS

DAVIS' POSAP

PAGE THREE

- SCHMOSAP

BY ROBERT MAIN

I feel that Mr. Davis, the
minister of education for
Ontario, has made a farce of
the term •student aid". The
Province of Ontario Student
Award Plan (P.O.S.A.P.)can
only be termed a folly and
an insult by anyone who has
had the misfortune of dealing
With it.
•
MEANS TEST

To begin with, a student
must submit himself and his
parents to the embarrassment and ridicule of a
"means test9. This test is
an unjustifiable infringement
of personal freedom. No
matter how confidential the
applications are, government has no right to expect
answers to questions con..:
cerning the personal expenses and debts of an aPplicant. Questions referring to medical expenses,
bank accounts, pensions and
other forms of income such
as alimony are personal
matters, not to be thrown
open to the inspection of
some official in Toronto.
But in order for a student
to qualify for this type of
aid, the parents of the student must reveal their complete financial status •with
regards to income, loans,
medical expenses, estimated earnings, real estate,
investments, savings and
outstanding debts. This is
no business of the Government of Ontario,
"DA VIS FOLLY•
Under the old system of
type A and B bursaries, a
needy student with a B a-

verage could count on at
least $250 aid. While this
is obviously not enough for
a year at university, it is
by far better than the existing •Davis Folly9 P.o.S.A.P. Under this plan, a
student receiving $250 aid
would actually get only $40
in the form of a bursary.
That is, the first $150 is
loan while only 40% of the
remainder is clear for the
student.
$5000 PER STUDENT
Mr. Davis has been quoted
as saying that the government has spent a quarter of
a billion dollars in student
aid to some 55,000 applicants. This comes out to
about $5,000 per student.
I would like to ask Mr.
Davis what happened to the
$4,940 he still owes me?
As if P.O.S.A.P. isn't enough of a mockery of student aid, the applicant is
expected to wait anywhere
from six weeks to three
months to receive word about
his loan. What is a student
in need of financial aid expected to do during this period of investigation by P .0.S.A.P.? The conditions are
so bad at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, that the
Ryerson student council is
forced to make short term
loans to students awaiting
word on their awards. On
our own campus the situation is not quite as desperate, but many students will
indeed feel the lack of funds
if their loan applications are
delayed much longer. Many
are already finding it difficult to see where their rent

for November is going to
come from.
There is no need for a delay in these loans. As it
appears now, every application must go through one
desk in Toronto. Mr. Davis
has a billion dollar education budget and yet he can
apparently afford only one
man to process all the aPplications for loans.
REGIONAL AID BUREAUS
The Canadian Union of Students has stated that free
education is the only answer
to the manifold problems
brought about by any student
aid programme. While this
is undoubtedly going to come
about in the very near future, it does not solve the
present difficulties. Universities still depend on tuition fees for a large part
of their working budgets and
until this can be rectified
• with governmental aid to the
university rather than to the
student, the present problems will exist. It would
seem a logical solution to
the problem would be a decentralization of the present
system. The province should
be divided into sectors based on the number of students planning post-secondary school education. Each
one of these sectors could
then more effectively deal
with all the aid which must
now go through one office in
Toronto. These regionalaid
bureaus could deal on a personal basis with applicants
for financial support and
would effectively reduce the
present means test and wai-

ting period. The financial
support for this type of system would come from the
Federal Government, shifting a greater percentage of
government revenues to the
joint municipal and provincial
governments. This
would give each province the
finances necessary for such
a system. It would eliminate the present split of
responsibility between the
Federal and Provincial Governments in which each government claims the other is
at fault for any mishandling
of student aid.

STUDENT VIEWS
Much discussion and debating is presently going on
in Toronto and Ottawa as to
what is to become of postsecondary school education.·
It is the responsibility of all
students to express their
views. Student apathy in the
past has led to the situation
which exists today. POSAP
is clearly not the solution to
the problem, and it's about
time
the
students
of
Lakehead University forgot
about their usual apathetic
natures and expressed their
views.

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Port Arthur,

Some men take a bitter delight in being leaders of
• ANTI• crusades. And it is
common knowledge that any
worth-while venture will be
subjected unceasingly to petty criticism. Such is the
plight of EXPO '67.
Despite frantic assurances
by EXPO officials that Canada's world fair will be
Canada's, and not Quebec's,
and not Montreal's, sourgrape critics have consistently attempted to portray
a perverted impression that
Ex;Po is a municipal undertaking (of course, the municipality in question being
Montreal).
One is unable to truly comprehend the reasoning .of
these coneervat1ve, provincial and reactionary critics.
Canada has always been subject to a withering plague of
apathy. And usually the men
who complain about this disinterest, are the cause of it.
Locally, this same process
is apparent. EXPO has been
played down continuously by
men in so-called responsible
position. They scream to the
masses, "Montreal is EXPO! Since EXPO is in
French Canada, it is not a
Canadian venture!• Surely

these men realize that Montreal was the only Caoadian
city willing to take on the
burden of EXPO. If it were
not for Montreal, there would
be no EXPO for Canada in
1967.
But why should some of
our local factions persist in
condemning the one great
Canadian adventure of 1967?
The only reason I am able
to ascertain is that our business men are afraidoflosing
tourist support (Montreal is
2,000 miles away). These
men are willing to satisfy
their own pocketbooks at the
expense of the success of
EXPO.
A high ranking officer of
EXPO once condemned the
narrowness of the Fort William newspaper for its continuous, senseless harangue
against EXPO. This man
stated that 70% of Canada
knew of EXPO and that if
this local editor were to present the facts without bias,
this percentage f~ re would
surely be raised. Unfortunately, this Fort Williameditor has not heeded the request. EXPO will continue
to be subject to ridicule in
this area.
But unless these short-

sighted men begin to realize that •EXPO is worth all
the problems it has, and that
EXPO can be a beginning
of a Canadian, and not
American, orientated cul"ture, Canada will never be
Canadian.

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THE ARGUS

PAGE FOUR

AMS ABSTRACTIONS
BY HARVF.Y CLUE

After the secretary's preliminary reading
of the minutes, Treasurer Ron Hider more
or less outlined the results of the A.M.S.
Budget Meeting. Perhaps the most interesting fact gleaned is that a deficit of approximately $2,817. exists. But as Mr. Hider
pointed 01.1t there is no need to worry.
Although the Council has alloted certain
sums to clubs and organizations, experience
shows that all the money will not be spent.
Mr. Hider next presented a change in
treasury ~licy. His motion read approximately:
that the treasurer be instructed
that no funds be allotted ... until a list of
the executive members of the clubs and
the executive members of the clubs and
organizations is listed.•
President Tocheri brought up the controversial subject of political parties on campus.
Under his direction a Committee
chaired by Jack Lemmon (Arts II) was
established to investigate the feasibility
of fund disbursements to such organizations.

The Engineering and Technology Society
Constitution was next on the agenda.
Councillors decided that since they did
not have an opportunity to scrutinize
it and since they wanted the Chief Justice
to review it, tabling the item momentarily
would be most logical. Then Mr. Gerry
Hashiguchi, 1966/67 yearbook organizer
presented councillors with the pertinent
data concerning the publication of the
Nor•wester. This year, Mr. Hashiguchi
would like to expand the yearbook from
112 pages to 160 as well as to increase
the number of coloured photographs.
The discussion, howerver, was not conclusive. But at any rate preparations
for publication are underway.
There were a number of other items
on the agenda, but none that warrant
serious notice. Incidentally, this meeting
will undoubtedly go down in the A.M.S.
Annals as being one of the shortest meetings - a mere two hours (8 - 10:00 p.m.)I

Political Clubs Are
A Necessity

Expert
to Speak,

DIPLOMACY AWARD:
To Dean Kerr for his
APOLOGETIC way of asking four bridge players to
leave the cafeteria and play
elsewhere.
SELF-CONTROL AWARD:
To the professors of Wing
D where there are no washrooms.
VAUDEVILLE AWARD:
To Dean Hart for his performance on L.U. T. V.
SUCCESS AWARD:
To all those males who have
stormed the inner ramparts
of the women's residence.

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David Crook, a speaker at
the recent University of Toronto China Teach-In, will
lecture next Thusday evening, November IO, at 7:30
p.m. in the University Center Theatre.
His subject will be •inside
China Today•. Born in London, Mr. Crook was educated in Britain and at Columbia University in the
United S~tes. In 1947 he
went to Ctiina with his Canadian wife and lived through
the Chinese Revolution, both
rural and urban. During
World War II he served with
the R.A.F. in the Orient,
and for the past twenty years
he has been a writer and
teacher in China.
He speaks Chinese and has
made a thorough study of the
Chinese commune in his
works: The First Years of
Yangyl Commune and Revolution in a Chinese Village:
Ten Mile Inn. He ls currently on a cross-Canada
speaking tour following his
participation in the u. of T.
Teach-In. He is on leave
from his position as English
teacher at the Foreign Languages Institue of Peking.
The lecture is part of the
University Lecture Series.

GZORP WINNERS

BETTER LUCK AWARD:
To Lorne Everett for his
Oscar performance against
the Ontario Squash champ.

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•we do stand on the edge of a great new era filled with
both crisis and opportunity, an era to be characterized
by achievement and by challenge. It is an era which calls
for action and for the best efforts of all those who would
test the unknown and the uncertain in every phase of
human endeavour.•
(J. F. Kennedy)
It is a time for you, and it is a time for Lakehead
University to invade the ranks of the politically orientated and activated University World.
Political clubs on campus!
How many times do you criticize policies of the governments, provincial and federal,--and/or of political parties.
The truth, no doubt, is often, TOO often. Medicare, education, foreign affairs, Federal-Prov., French-English
relations! But what, you wonder, can you do--a University
student far distant from •the great political houses and
gatherings of debate•, here with no apparent voice in
party politics?
FIRST --face the future and the challenge. STOP -hovering beneath the heavenly bliss of idealism and optimism or the •Let someone else do it• or far worse,
the •why isn't someone doing something about it• cynicism. Begin by doing something NOW!
Join a political club on Campus--start or encourage some
crmore knowledgeable• person to start a political club
not already on Campus. Take an active part!
Why be a passive objector when you can be an active
critic.
University students have a place in party politics today
--an increasinly important one--observe the National
Policy debates of the Liberal, Conservative and New
Democratic Parties.
Look ahead!
•
.
When the tide of youth rushes onto the political shore-will you be one who takes the lead and stands firm on the
shore or will you be swept back to the sea of scepticism when the tide ebbs. The tide is in and the time has
come to • Ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country»
and University politics offers the MEANS to this END.

HUMAN SOCIETY AWARD:
To Mr. Brigham for his
unyielding war on the rats
of Wing D.

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THE ARGUS

PAGE FIVE

RED TAPE AND___THE NORTHERN INDIAN
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BY FRED KELLY

Much attention is focused
The foregoing will unupon the so-called •1ndian doubtedly be interpreted as
Problem• and very little is an exaggeration and thereknown about its nature. At fore ridiculous. Butthetruth
the expense of being repe- of the matter is that butitious, I must reiterate my reaucracy is ridiculous, and
conviction that it is a com- like any exaggeration it is
plex social problem requi- founded on a fact that rering study by every socially quires attention and remedy.
concious citizen, for it bears It is quite obvious how the
both Indian and a non-Indian tortoise-like movemeentand
aspect.
the clumsiness of governBrevity and conciseness ment action can cause Inare the essence of this ar- dJan frustration. If it is
ticle. Therefore, I can deal { and I submit it is ) exaswith only one facet of the perating 1:0 the non-Indian,
entire complexity.
consider its effect on the
Governmental bureaucracy isolated Indian settlement
based on a paternalistic and which cannot comprehend
colonialistic attitude is res- any of it.
ponsible for much damage
Let us now consider the
and for perpetration of po- staff of the various governverty. With particular re- ment departments and agenference to the present In- cies that frequently come in
dian situation, the frustra- contact with the Indian and
tion it has been responsible his problems. I am convinced
for is conceivable.
that very few of these worConsider
the situation kers have any insight into
wherein a local Superinten- the problems that they should
dent of Indian Affairs (for- resolve; and I am not immerly called the Indian pressed by those who give
Agent) is caught in a lava- the proverbial damn. Those
tory where the supply of who are sincere are thwartoilet paper has been de- ted in their endeavors by
pleted. He must requi- legislation which permits
sition for a new supply little time for •trivialities•.
through the proper and usFor many staff members
ual channels, i.e. through of Indian Affairs, Lands and
the regional office, the pro- Forests, Provincial Welfare
vincial headquarters, then to and Children's Aid, these
Ottawa, ad infinitum. By the agencies are a sourc~ of intime he receives the toi- come, period. I recollect
let paper, it is too late! that I had the distinguished

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THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY?
oaranoic perhaps, for many dian will regain indepenare foreigners who have ac- dence and respect.
quired their responsible offices by distinguished caMAKE
reers in the armed forces,
JEROME•s
but why in hell should the
Indian's sense of responsibility be continuously underYOUR HEAnQUARTERS
estimated. There are many
capable people of native anfor
cestry looking for the equality of opportunity!
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sociologists, and anthropos use their grants to better efforts than this?
logists, the sooner the lnIt cost the administration approximately $27 per square
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provincial funds. These grants come from taxes collecver" seemed to be the coined
5 ted from us, our parents and friends. The administra- 5 phrase in Liberal centres. ;
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Largest and most complete supply
the administration states that these pits are to be used are guaranteed for those who
of all types of
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students using Wing D., and the faculty of the ad- 5
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kleenex, brown apple cores, and other materials that
Without a plan for a career your university work might be likened to the Zen
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image of one hand clapping. What will provide the other hand? Think about
§ the pits will serve another function if there are faculty §
being a Chartered Accountant. That's a two-handed jdb. It takes dedication;
§ members unable to contend with the lack of toilets in §
clear thinking; a wish to be helpful to others and useful to society. It takes an
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ality. It takes leadership. Those are some of the things it takes. What does
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it give? Advanced education; income; stability; satisfaction. (Which doesn't
E ministration was forced to remove $22,000 worth of §
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leave very much out of the ideal career.) As a Chartered Accountant you will
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be at the centre of Canada's growing economy. You get on the management
5 not 2 years old and therefore only braved a few of the
team of your company much more quickly. Or run your own practice. Or teach.
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and you will want all the pertinent facts.
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while the basis of its development is established. I do 5
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not mind such little irritations as the cratered parking
5 lot, insufficient labs and lecture rooms, or the lack of
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how wellandhowmanyforms
field workers can complete.
It is the senior civil servants in Toronto and Ottawa
who must be kept infom1ed,
for they decide on policies
and have the ultimate say
as to how, when, where, and
why problems are to be dealt
with. On the odd occasion
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of responsibility •to take a
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THE ARGUS

NOV. 11, 1966

MAX IS OUR MAN
With all the publicity and student reaction being dir-

ected towards the varsity hockey and basketball teams
during the fi-rst few months of classes many people
fail to realize the importance of the "man behind the
scene•.
Here at L.U. our •number one• man behind the scene
is artsman Dave •Max• Magee. Dave is the man who,
unnoticed by most fans, will spend countless hours during the season taping sticks and players and repairing
equipment.
Magee was born in Port Arthur and raised in Atikokan. He attended high school in Atikokan and spent
his final year at P .A.C .I. •Max•, as he is called by
the hockey players, has always been interested in sports
but thought that he could benefit the team more in a
managerial post.
This season Dave is taking on an
assistant in John Dampier in his first year at L.U.
after taking two years of pre-medecine. Both these
men along with basketball trainer George Roy also
act as liaison between the players and coaches and are
in every part as much of the team as the players.
I must make a public apology to rowing veteran Rob
Gerry whose name I forgot to mention in my last edition
story on rowing... Gerry, a long time member of the Fort
William Rowing Club was looked upon this past season
as the unnamed team leader ... congratulations to the
Nor'Westers basketball team for their opening game
victory over Dinty' s ... individual star of the game would
have to be rookie Don Holmstrom who notched 23 points
...fan favorite Larry Herbert excited the crowd to an
uncontrollable degree with his twenty foot swish jump
shot and possibly the two points that won the game for
Lakehead ... Herbert' s fan club members almost rioted
and did actually go to the point of throwing things when
coach Bistowe removed their hero from the game after
his record performance ... after the game Herbert was
quoted as saying •1 like the upper deck of the players•
bench 'cause I can see more of the game•.

SPORTS QUIZ
Due to the lack of sr1tistics on Canadian unversity
sports, this sports quiz will cover all types of sports.
1. Who were the winners of the Calder Trophy in 194546 and 1048-49?
2. The youngest coach and the youngest player in the
N.H.L. this year are on the same team. Name the
team and the two members.
3. Name the rookie of the year in the National Basketball Association in 1965-66.
4. Match the school with its athletic team's name.
a) Michigan State
1. Trojans
b) u.c.L.A.
2. Bruins
c) Minnesota
3. Wolverines
d) Northwestern
4. Gophers
e) Southern Cal.1
5. Wildcats
5. For how many consecutive years did Jacques Plante
win the Vezina Trophy?
6. What are Bobby Hull's career totals for goals and
assists not including this year?
ANSWERS ON PAGE 10.

CAGERS OPEN SCHEDULE
By LARR\' HEBERT

Wednesday November 3rd,
saw the Lakehead University
basketball team open its
schedule with a 65-63 win
against Dinty' s Kentuckians,
last years Thunder Bay Senior Men's Champs.
Don Holmstrom a rookie,
with 23 points, Bob Elvin
with 12 and Myron Warywoda
with 11 paced the L.U. team.
Bob Love turned in a solid
performance for Dinty' s as
did Ted Norland. All players
in the starting lineup, Hol-

mstrom, Elvin, Warywoda,
George Kostyshyn and Moe
Semenuik played their high
school basketball at Fort
William Collegiate.
Coach Bruce Bristowe was
pleased with his team's first
outing. He stated that in
this game he wanted to establish the team's patterns
and get the many rookies
orientated.
In the game that followed
the L.U. girls team went
down to defeat 38-18 to C.K.
P.R. Golden Tones.

Rod Ferguson fired two
rounds of 74 at Fort William Municipal Golf Course,
and 77 at Strathcona in Port
Arthur, to capture the L.U.
low gross championship.
Barry McNamee took second
place with 154.
Low net honors went to Byron Brodie who netted 142.
The upper artsmen, that is
Arts II, III, IV, won the team
honors by beating the second
place team by 24 strokes
and proving the superiority
of the ARTS FACULTY
over all the other faculties

BY TOM MORTON

Of our hockey team coach
Akervall says, •we'll wait
and see.• -- that non- committal comment reserved for
good hockey coaches. Nuts.
The facts speak for themselves:
The size, speed, and experience of Battiston, Stefiszyn, and Lampshire. can
hardly fail to produce goals,
along with the rookie line of
Stirret, Smith, and Siciliano
(the lispers line). And the
presence of a few hard work-.
ing veterans like Dennis 011nik and Keith Prignitz, plus
some
promising rookies
amount to nearly unbeatable
forward lines.
The defense corps is relring mainly on last year s
most valuable player, Lorne
Gander,
and dependable
Manitoban,
J. Pronger •
Peter Young has been moved
back to the blue line from
centre and he, along with a
few steady rookies should
pick up the slack. So the
big question really lies in
2 VETERANS AND A ROOKIE
goal. Its a toss-up for the
slot between Miyata, Hendricken and Baxter, and this filled after this Sunday's exIt looks like a good year
position will probably be hibition game in Dryden.
for hockey.

HOCKEY

WHAT ABOUT

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY
vs.

LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY

GIRLS?

PORT ARTHUR ARENA

BY LARRY HEBERT

I'm sure the boys ofL.U.
have nothing personal against Bill Shannon's legs, but
it seems to us that a female
coach would be more appropriate for the girls' basketball team than Bill •Legs•
Shannon.
There is certainly no shortage of sports for the girls
to participate in. To name
a few there is badminton,
basketball, curling, bowling,
swimming, and modern dancing. There is also no shortage of girls. Even on the
athletic council we have Elspeth Craig, Chris Kierzkowslci and Mar. Hamalainen.
But no where can be found
a female Athletic Director.

LES JEUNES
FEMMES

The Sports Department
feels that the girls need
someone to aid and gaide
them because there are some
things about which you just
can't talk to Bill • Ann Landers• Shannon. We' re sure
that very few girls at Lakehead University had male
Physical Education teachers
in higb school. We would
like to make it clear that
we are not criticizing Bill
Shannon in any way, but we
feel that a female Athletic
Director is badly needed and
would be a welcomed addition with the new fieldhouse.

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BY LARRY HEBERT

After much deliberation,
the cheerleaders at Lakehead have
finally been
chosen. Eight girls were
picked in the tryouts with
two alternates also chosen.
The girls chosen are Judy
Francis, Elspeth Craig,
Donna Fletcher,
Florine
Guzzi,
Marjolein Neils,
Donna Piercy. Joan Stuarts
(in golf). Members of this and Pat Tracy. The two
winning team are Rod Fer- alternates are Mary Greer,
guson, Dick Battiston, Ran- and Marilyn Mauro.
The girls now practice
dy Stinson, Bob Backen, and
every Monday, Wednesday
Ge.orge Kurbatoff.
This competiton decided the and Friday from 3 p.m. till
eight men who will play off 5 p.m. Although their unifor the five positions on the forms have not yet arrived
L.U. Intercollegiate team. they hope to hold a dance
These five positions will be soon so that they can make
decided by a competition in enough money to travelaway
early spring. The eight men with the Lakehea-d University
qualifying for this tourna- athletic teams. The eight
ment are Ferguson, McNa- lasses will then perform at
mee, Battiston, Stinson, Ba- all home basketball games
cken, Glenn Miller, Fraser and •on skates• at all home
Jarvis, and George Kelly. liockey games.

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NOV. 11, 1966

PAGE SEVEN

GET TO KNOW YOUR ATHLETES

Lome Gander
Last years hockey captain and most valuable
player6 Gander is a native of Fort William.
The twenty-one year old second year Business student played his minor hockey in Fort
William and played junior for both the Fort
William Canadiens and Port Arthur North

Stars.

Jim Pronger
Pronger is a nineteen year old Arts I
student majoring in Economics. He was born
in Dryden and has played juvenile hockey in
Dryden, and junior hockey for the Winnipeg
Braves. Pronger who attended United Colle~e
last year is playing defence for this year s
Nor' Westers.

Dennis Olinik
Olinik is a twenty-three year old Business
student who was born in PortArthurandplayed
his minor hockey there. Dennis, who played
junior for the North Stars, is a classy centre
on the Nor'Wester team.

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(2) Ron Stewart
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b- soccer
C - basketball
d - football
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Myron Warywoda
Germany born Warywoda came to Canada
when he was 2 1/2 years old and is now in
his t;hird year Arts as an English major.
Myron was a basketball star at F .W .c.1.
and was also bigh scorer for Knox Knickerbockers. Myron has played for three years at
Lakehead.

T
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Bob Elvin
Elvin is a twenty-three year old Fort
Williamite who played at F. W.c .I. and also
for Westfort before comingto the Nor'Westers.
Bob is also a third year Arts student majoring
in English.
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Staples of LAKEHEAD U.who
has recently been appointed
Physical Education Director
of the Fort Will lam Y.M.C .A.
As a part-time student at
L.U. Harold is finishing up
his degree in biology. This
will give him a major in phy.sical education and biology'.'
While previously attending
the University of Alberta, for
two years, Staples part_icipated on the university~
team. This combined with
his long-time association
both as a student and instructor at the Y.M.C.A. will
make Harold a fine addition
to the staff of the Y.M.C.A.

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destitue derelict
deep dark and dungeon,
alleys that promise
obscurity's blot;
see them all suffer
the silver-stream rocket
flash and abandon
the dark docks to rot.
gigantic feet trample
where little feet plod
•sit still for salvation•
and the dusty heads nod.

Three birds for the bus
In super-skin blues
Thumbing at every young car,
Whirl night
Lights for my baby
A cave and a tune in a jar.
Nestle closer, jelly-belly,
Pea-coat hen for peacock eyes,
Hands that seek and mouths that know
Make better sense than lovers' sighs.

a moth was the image
it died in the harness,
iron ships carry
what wooden ones won't;
alley cats drinking
the rotten green gravy
and hollow shells living
where night-crawlers don't.

G.J.A.

on the black asphalt shore
flouish flowers of ash,
storms long forgotten
have burned their insides,
their hairs clipped and cluttered
their mouths greasy red
they sell their last gem
to the sweltering tides
of miners that cluster
like flies on dead meat
where long stairs and small rooms
see frail kingdoms meet;

THIS IS YOU
Book-blind parrots listening
To rules, to laws, to the teacher's books·
But not yours.
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Exploited simpletons accepting
The status quo, father's cash, the bighouse
on the hill;
But not yours.
Moral cowards condoning
Death and fear and war and god;
But not yours.

and each peeling paper
shows walls worse than before
and the same story goes
for the paint on the door,
but the iron bed's creaking' s
an angel harp's strain,
the music is lulling
as the board the train.

Frightened virgins rejecting
Life and lust and loins and love;
But not yours.
Standard automatons mouthing
Standard questions, standard

G.J.A.

But not yours.

Paperbaek Review

PAGE EIGHT

THE ARGUS

NOV. 11, 1966

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answers,
small talk;

Mommie' s darlings living,
Being cruel, acting on cue, thinking shallow;
This is you .

FUNERAL
IN BERLIN

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_ In these post-Fleming years another Englishman, Len
Deighton, has been dishing up a delectable menu of
master-spy novels, with a dash of cookery books thrown
in for variety... (it's the spice of life.)
But James Bond, the Knave, had absconded with most
of the British government's financial pie, leaving little
but crllll!rbs for his disgrlll!tled fellow-agents. Consequently, Funeral in Berlin lacks the moneyful spectaculars of •Thunderbau• and •From Russia, With Love•.
It does, however, combine that grey, obscure life of the
real secret agent with more than a touch of spine,-tingling
English mystery flavour.
Deighton starts off slowly. Routine job. Soviet scientist plans to defect. Needs safe passage into Western
world. Preliminary arrangements go rather well. But
then! Complication is compounded upon complication, as
everyone from homosexual Mr. Hallam at the Home
Office, to sometimes Jew, sometimes Nazi, Johnnie Vulcan
in West Berlin, proves untrustworthy. A whirlwind of
action and counteraction is stirred up in London, Berlin,
P:tague, with developments that baffle rather than enlighten the reader. Then, after a momentous climax
which seems to clarify the situation, new danger threaten;
on the home front, and the plot is concluded with a dynamic and highly orijinal twist.
•Funeral in Berlin is no classic, but, for the •cloakand-dagger• fan, it provides boundless excitement and
enjoyable reading.
BY KEN CONRAD

DON COLBORNE

Movie Review

AGONY
AND
ECSTACY
'In the Agony and the Ecstacy, Pope Julius II commissioned
Michelangelo to paint a fresco on the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel. The pay was poor, the work inordinately
difficult; the artist was a sculptor, not a painter--he
spent four begrudging years, interrupted by abandonment, sickness and local wars before finally completing
a work which was hailed, then and now, as a masterpiece. It's a pity the s.;,me can't be said for the movie.
The watching of the movie, of itself, became for me,
the Agony and the Ecstacy. Let me explain: from the
book by Irving Stone has come a screen play so bland
as to dismay even the most naive. there are scenes
which smirk of the trite (eg: a mountain top revelation to inspire the artist). In other words, the story
is just one big blow out. The characterization, on the
other hand, is magnificent. Heston and Harrison have
some of the best antagonistic scenes ever filmed. Here
are two giants, bringing to life a remarkable feeling of
involvement, as proud personalities clash and history
is made. This is the ecstacy, and for me, the film was
worth seeing for these two performances alone.
There is more, however. The colour is beautiful, and so
is Diane Cilento. There is a brief display of some of
Michelangelo's works at the beginning of the film, which
has been hailed by some to be the best part of the entire picture. You will have to judge for yourself.
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THE ARGUS

Who's F111t

No Student Oiscoonts

Bob Campbell, C.U.S. chairman, has reports stating that Victoria, London, Waterloo, Calgary, Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, and Fredericton , all have
stores giving student discounts ranging
from 5 to 40%.
•
In August 1966 the A.M.S. and C.U.S.
put the question to the Downtown Business
and Professional Association. The answer was NOi By giving such a concession, it would establish a precedent. The
same question was put to the Westfort
Development Board at the same time.
The answer was again negative.
Might we bring their attention to the
nurses who received a concession in the
form of a 10% discount at Delmars, The
Joy Shop, The Bata Shoe Store and The
Bootery. They also received a 10% discount at any dry cleaners if they picked
up their own items. Free roller skating and ice skating was another privilege obtained by proving that you were
a student nurse. • Was this a precedent?·
Mr. Robinson, president of the Downtown Business and Professional Association, stated in his letter to the A.M.S.
that maintaining personal contact with the
customer is important , yet in the immediate statement following. he said it would
be a regressive step to now offer Groups
no matter how worthy, concessions. Con-

PA(;E NINE

Students Beware

BY IRIS CONCHIE

tradlction, or what! I
We are not revolutionaries seeking to
overpower the merchants and render them
profitless. It is a matter of moving with
the times and opposing the old..fashioned
and out-moded concepts.
The concept of today, "the customer is
king"", is plainly seen in the fashion world
where competition has gone wild to please
the every whim of the customer. In Southern Ontario, stores must cater to the market to survive. At the Lakehead we are
isolated in the frozen northland; therefore the merchants have the upper hand.
In 1913 Henry Ford built a Model T Ford
which remained the same until 1926. His
famous statemnt was, "Ycu can paint my
cars any colour you want as long as its
black•. It is now the year 1966 and our
local concept seems to parallel this, that
we can deal at local stores anyway we want
as long as it is the way set by the merchants.
University students on a limited budget
would definitely be drawn to the stores
giving discounts, and as a result, these
stores my increase their overall profits.
The Ski Clubs of the Lakehead have offered the students a 20% discount for some- time now. Was this a rrecedent?
Stay tuned but don t bold your breath.

Let Sleeping Bags Liel

Students beware of the following cursed things:
-Of rodents running rife in the basement of Wing B.
Healthy rats are reported roaming unchallenged through
our new extension. Two young children apparently disappeared mysteriously during •open house . The S.A.S.
reports a run on steel-shafted squash racquets and
foresters are carrying their axes to class.
..
-Of a plot to bomb the cafeteria and bring in Hank and
his concession trucK.
-Of the P.A. Jaycees hockey "pool•. Apparently about
$450 is being pooled with 3600 one dollar tickets on sale.
-Of the cafeteria staff. They are no longer showing mercy
on cracker-snatching P .O.S.A.P. rejects. Those of us
who have been subsisting on coffee (double cream, quadruple sugar - it's free) and cracker-with-cats up (it's
free too) sandwiches must now pay 2 cents per cracker
package. Butter will now cost the plutocrats 2 cents per
pad.

CUS AND ALBERTA
BY BOB CAMP.BELL

The S.C .M. held its weekThe University of Alberta sions made as individuals
end retreat this fall at the
are more important than dewithdrew from C.U.S. in
cottage of Dan Wolframe on
September to the delight of cisions made as students who
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the public press. Following should be concentrating on
studies. We in c.u.s. feel
Lake October 21 - 23. The
Alberta's lead, Memorial
topic, the Technological So(Newfoundland). Loyola (Mo- that students should have an
ciety was discussed by Tom
ntreal) and Bishop's (Len- organization to present our
Miller, William Sheridan and
noxville) also withdrew their view.
Though we are primarily
Mr. Brigham. Aftereachadsupport.
Is Alberta challenging the concerned with the student
dress, a seminarwasconducted wherein the students
basic fundamentals of C. - comm unity, we cannot ignore
U.S.? If so, we cannotques- social problems in society.
(there were between 15 and
20) and the speaker, could
tion their decision to with- It is our duty and responinquire further into related
draw. Alberta's arguments: sibility to contribute to our
overextension, poor commu- culture as students and cipoints.
Professor M..ller reviewed
nication, and over sophisti- tizens. Can Alberta or any
cation for the average stu- other campus effectively
the development of the Techshoulder these responsibilident, are not fundamental.
nological Society, indicating
Alberta implies that deci- ties without a national orgathat man's opposable thumb
' is his first and finest tool.
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be polluted for man and not for other organisms? The
answer and other questions are currently the concern of
Dr. Ozburn of the biology department and his research
staff.
Late last spring Dr. Ozburn, Mr. Bruce Bristowe and
research assistant Don Dutchak conducted a preliminary study of the lower reaches of the McIntyre River.
The study bas since been expanded into a full scale
research project employing two graduate students,
Lorne Everett and Kyle Bishop.
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Evidence indicates that the invertebrate fauna of the
lower McIntyre has undergone a drastic change from
the expected norm. By establishing laboratory cultures
of some of these invertebrates and testing the effects
of various known pollutants Dr. Ozburn• s group hopes to
determir\e what changes have occurred and if they are
indicative of pollution.
Credit must go to Dr. Ozburn and the biology department for the lead in an area of such vital concern to
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PAGE TEN

THE ARGUS

Sports Quiz
FROM PAGE 6

These opposing op1n1ons are run simultaneously with the
intention that serious debate is in the best interest of the student

body. Russ Rothney and Bert Baumann have agreed to coordinat
the column. -Ed.

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BY PERRY SNOW

BY RUSS R0THNEY

Buttons, posters, and things are blooming on university
campuses across Canada. Conversation is shifting(slightly)
from booze, broads, and wheels to Texas cowboys and
napalm.
In September the UniversityofTorontoCEWV(Committee
to End the War in Viemam) designated November 11th
and 12th as the Canadian •student Days of protest" (SOP)
Many individuals who volunteered time and effort in
promoting the SOP have encountered the usual attempts
at intimidation by some bigoted elements in society.
Nonetheless, student groups in at least Montreal, Ottawa,
Kingston, St. Catherines, Toronto, London, Port Arthur,
Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton and
Vancouver have organized local actions to extend the
customary concept of remembrance Day.
PAST AND PRESENT
Our own student Vietnam Action Committee (independent) like the U. of T. CEWV), is asking us to •remember
those who dies in past wars, and to demand that the present slaughter in Vietnam be stopped•.
Apparently a few people claim to not understand why
committees of this type should be tolerated. They consider such a formation to be an unnecessary threat to
individual thought.
Do they think that university students are sheep who are
unable to resist any attitudes which are presented to them
in an organized way?
A VOIDING THE ISSUE
Surely any person who would attempt to make an issue
of the existence of a committee is simply unhappy about
its stand and is either unwilling or unable to offer criticism of this stand.
In the case of Viemam, pro-Johnson policy propaganda is
pumped out by multi-million dollar organizations in the
U.S. Should concerned student groups (with no funds) be
prohibited as a threat to freedom of thought? .•. On the
contrary, they represent freedom of thought.
CRUCIAL MATTER
The question of whether or not the Viemamese are entitled to the right of self-determination is not a mere
academic matter. At this moment the blood of civilians
and soldiers is running freely.
••. On the stage of the University Center Theater at
1:00 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, there will be students, professors, clergymen, politicians, peace activists, labour
leaders, folk-singers, buttons, posters and things.

Everywhere one looks in this university, he sees a
melodramatic display of posters and buttons of protest.
It seems that the Viet Nam Committee has got something to complain about--American involvmentin Viemam.
The followers of this committee have not only taken an
unrealistic approach to the situation, but have simply
amassed a general cry of protest. These fanatics (?)
have inadvertantly climbed on the current bandwagon,
they fail to assess and evaluate their own diverging personal opinions.

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6) 318 goals, 317 assists in
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information is available which deals with the things under
consideration, in this case the Viemam War; 2) to assess
and reassess this information and discard what is irrelevant and basically propagandist; 3) to question the
validity and reliability of their information; 4) to adapt
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Not so with Pete Politician. He· will adapt the same
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apparent; Pete will stop at the first step. He will assimilate the available information, batter it about in generalities, and on this will base his definite, unyielding judgment. He then forms a group because, after all, others
should benefit from his •judgment". This group takes
up the cross, organizes discussions, convenes ina •march"
in which the dedicated participants wear a look of intense
conviction, and delude themselves that they are accomplishing something.

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to consider a new, more urgent problem •.•and have not
even accomplished the most fundamental achievement the
mind can realize--the formation of a realistic, honest,
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THE ARGUS

PAGE ELEVEN

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Library Opening

Impressive Event
BY HARVEY CLUE

I..U.'s Newport Success
Contrary to popular belief, informed
sources state that Tom Kelly is not run..
ning off with Maureen Joy. Tom told capacity audiences this tidbit during the
festival in his freely impromptetory manUnfortunately. his plans fell through.
Our reliable sources also tell us that
Bill has two basses; that Dave D. tunes

his guitar so that it needs tuning after
every song; that there are no orange blossoms around; that Two is a real group;
that Dill Houston was a street singer
in Rome; that Curtis's calypso is wild;
that in reality Dave D. doesn't know how
to tune his guitar; that a salty dog is .•.
•.•. But it was a great show.

CHANCELLOR EXAMINES RARE BOOKS
A procession composed of members of the faculty,
administration, and A.M.S. Council who paraded from
the University Centre Building, initiated the official
opening of not only the new library building, but also
the additions to the main university structure and the
residence.
The members of the procession made their way along
the sidewalk, draped by numerous foreign flags (rePresenting the cosmopolitan atmosphere found in the residence), to the main floor of the library. Here the
guest of honour was Senator Norman McLeod Paterson,
Chancellor of the University. Prior to the senator's
official opening of the library, the audience, which was
of only moderate size, heard several speeches including
addresses from Dr. Bartley, chairman of the board of
Governors and Dr. Tamblyn, University President.
Perhaps the most interesting highlight of the afternoon was Senator Paterson's presentation of a 200year-old Bible to the chief librarian. This is another
addition to the already numerous rare books on display in the library.
The affair culminated in a guided tour of the library
for all visitors after which a reception was held in
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THE ARGUS

PMiE TWELVE

A- M11111111S Success

BlACK IS BLACK

BY JIM SANDERS

The Circle K Massacre
•Black is Black•which took
place on Saturday night,, October 29, was a monstrous
success. Everyone from babies to mummies and from
Roman soldiers to Arabian
girls attended the dance.
Everyone present was in true
Halloween spirit, (although
there were some that carried
the •spirits• a little too far).
With regards to the •posh·
office• leased to Circle K
for the evening, counesy of
the A.M.S., we thought it was
quite appropriate. We're not
proud. There were no grotesque business transactions
carried on inside •the office• as some joker took
off with the •mama• roll of
toilet tissue. The •office•
brought out a true atmosphere and accented the eyecatching spider web which
some daddy spider spun beside it. Or is it lady spiders
that spin webs?
The Circle K realizes that
the •oFFICE.,--or should I
say outhouse--was in a rather useless position because for most it was a long
trek from the cave to the
fathest extremities of the
hall.
The cave which housed the
band for the Massacre was
relatively empty of spooks
and horrors. The Circle K
realized that such would not
contribute to the performance given by the
Tierras.

7

Crestology 1a6
Crestology, although completely voluntary, has the
largest enrollment of any
course in the University.
It's popularity, in fact, is
so high that three or four
staff members must be at
hand-to provide students with
the necessary material.
This •applied sociology
course• is one of the few
functions that bring all faculties together in harmonious co-existence. Advantages and benefits are countless.
One can become proficient
in the an of public speaking
as many topics are •discussed•. Here one can obtain his degree in •a.s.",
his M.S. •more of the same•
and his Ph.D. •piled higher
and deeper•. One can also
demonstrate his skills at
shuffleboard, .while satiating his appetite on polish
sausages and quenching his
thirst with tbat famous fluid.
This course provides for
the •poor starving college
students•. Often throughout
the school year there are
those who find themselves
shon of glasses, chairs,
ashtrays, etc. By attending
a class all such problems
are solved. For all potential lawyers, there is the
bar.

Much credit and recognition should be given the
prime members of the Club
who put forth a great effon - • • - - - • • • • • •
and a lot of their time to
maintain a trend that was
initiated at last years •Eve
of Destruction•.

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Once again •Black is
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because of it's attendance
and a great effort put for- 1
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K. Will the future bring better dances?

BY JIM PURCELL

Political discussion predominates. Reactionaries,
with daddy's cash, and drinking bottled beer battle it
out with the poor proletarians of the N.D.P. (Nothing but Draught Please).
The student with the greatest number of hours in lab
work is presented with a
chrome plated draught glass
and automatically earns his
B.A. (basic alcoholism).
There is a very compresive post-graduate course,
however anyone wishing to
go on must be warned that
many students of higher education in this field have
been known to die by • degrees•.
Any student at least 18 years
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