Concordia University Magazine - December 1992 (Volume 15, Number 4)

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CONCORDIA
M G A
DECEMBER 1992 Two Concordians, One Concern
1: II ,~ 1: II HI I I A Vol.15 No.4 s
ARTHUR CAMPEAU: Canada's guru of green
lryjulia Malusky
is published four times a
year by an editorial board
for alumni and friends of 9 DESIREE McGRAW: Report from our World
the University. Opinions
Youth Ambassador to the UN Earth Summit
expressed herein do not
necessarily reflect the views
of the alumni associations
nor of the University.
ISSN 0706-1005.
Depot legal: Bibliotheque
nationale du Quebec.
© 1992. Printed in Canada.
Please address editorial COVER: Loyola grad
correspondence to the
uate Arthur Campeau
editor, Kathleen Hugessen,
and Concordia student
Office of Alumni Affairs,
Desiree McGraw shared
Concordia University, 145S
de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., their thoughts as Cana
BC 101, Montreal, Quebec dian Ambassador and
H3G 1 MS; telephone (514) World Youth Ambas
848-3826. For advertising sador, respectively, to 11 LIVING ON IN OUR MEMORIES
information, contact Maria the United Nations Concordians remember the four men who died.
Ponte at [phone]. June 1992 Conference compiled try Kathleen Hugessen
EDITORIAL BOARD: on the Environment
Ann Vroom, chair; and Development in
Kathleen Hugessen, editor. Rio cle Janeiro.
Members: Linda Armitage,
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Kate McDonnell 2 MY WORD
The mixed emotions of Homecoming '92
3 LETTERS
Complex concerns; thoughts about policing thought
17 ADVANCEMENT .
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery opens
18 SPORTS
Women's soccer gets a talented new coach
19 HOMECOMING 1992
The many faces of this annual fall event
22 ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni Recognition Awards 1992; Association
news; Loyola Corner; Cha/Jter news; Class Acts
Half-time at the Homecoming Football Game saw players from the championship 31 COLUMNIST
teams - Loyola Warriors '62 and '72, and Stingers '82 - run the gauntlet of this
Graeme Decarie: a lesson learned in the hardest way
year's players. Here Peter Connolly (L BA 63) charges onto the field. For more on
Homecoming, see pages 19 to 21.
■ ■
Peace of mind
Homemming 1992:
shared memories, shared grief
T here were so many things for of my teachers [Douglass and Saber].
Concordia to celebrate this I said, 'I wonder what they're doing
Imported from fall - a new building, a new now - some new research or some
library, a new art gallery, the thing.' Then I turned the page and
Europe third annual Homecoming, our first it said 'In Memoriam.' I couldn't
Open House - until, that is, the believe it. I was planning on going to
$85.00* unimaginable happened. Until four see them just two or three days later."
Only
members of the community were
She was so distressed she almost can
taken from us in the senseless act
celled her trip. She was inconsolable.
of a lone gunman.
But, after some thought, she and Ken
This is one hotel that
The Office of Alumni Affairs consid decided to stick to their plans and
understands the most powerful
tool in the modern business ered cancelling Homecoming in the attend Homecoming. "I went to the
arsenal is still peace of mind. wake of the murders. Homecoming Hall Building to show my husband
implies joy, and joyful the University where I had studied and I saw the
While they readily provide certainly was not. Btit those on cam memorial in the lobby. I just lost it.
all of today's technology -at your
pus are not the only members of this The whole time I was in Montreal I
request -they still realize
the secret to success is comniunity. There are 60,000 Con was very close to crying."
a good night's rest. cordia, Sir George Williams and
She took Ken to Concordia's new
Loyola alumni. Some had studied
Webster Library. They found a hard
And the best preparation for
with the dead men. All deserved an
bound copy of her thesis. On the page
soothing slumber is smooth
opportunity to return and share in
and seamless service of official signatures was that of the
during the day. the grief. With some trepidation and chair of her thesis review committee,
no lightness of heart, the decision
Matt Douglass. "It was pretty emotion
Amidst an atmosphere that was made to go ahead with Home
al," she says. "I took a picture of the
exudes professional proficiency,
coming 1992.
Montreal's most potent business page."
weapon is Chiileau Versailles. Jackie Leclair-Patterson, BEng 82,
Jackie and Ken stayed only a few days
MEng 83, lives in California. She
before returning to California. "I went
*Alumni rate moved to a job 1ight after she defended
for too short a time, but just being
her master's thesis. She has not been
there, it helped me in more ways than
Reservations: 1-800-361-7199 back since. In the spring, she decided one,"Jackie says. She's grateful she
to come to Homecoming for her 10th
had the opportunity to come back, to
reunion and to show Montreal to her
visit a few old haunts and to say good
husband, Ken. She especially wanted
bye to some very special and sorely
C'HIATErAU to introduce Ken to a couple of her missed friends.
VERSAILLES favourite professors:Jaan Saber and
Homecoming had proved more
Matthew Douglass. With each day, she
important than ever.
became more excited at the prospect.
She'd heard on the news about the
HOTEL & TOWER shootings at Concordia, but no
details, no names.Just days before
1659 Sherbrooke SL. West,
they were to leave, she received the
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1E3
September issue of Conrordia U11ive1°
~h,\rRl \L's O\L\ mt L\ Et ROPE\\ HonL sity Magazine. "I saw a picture of two KATHLEEN M. HUGESSEN, EDITOR
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L E T T E R S
Where was Loyola gress." It would be nice to seems that what we see today Is new complex
in Montreal tour? know, perhaps as a follow-up is notl1ing less than a a wise idea today?
to the 350th anniversary, tremendously expensive In these days of political
I read with interest your what ever happened to the design compromise. uncertainty in Quebec and
June 1992 Concordia series
Jesuits in Montreal and their Sadly, Concordia continues a constantly shrinking anglo
of articles on the settling of
commitment to education. to display only token respect phone population, I wonder
350-year-old Montreal, as the
By comparison, I note that to the rich architectural his if Concordia was justified in
alumni magazine is one of
in the San Francisco area tory of Montreal. Remember building a $65-million com
the few items that reminds
where I now reside, there are tliat, in 1975, the University plex.
me of growing up in Quebec.
two vibrant Jesuit schools
bestowed an honorary doc The political reality of the
vVhile I enjoyed the half with much the same excel torate upon the developer many closures of English
dozen pages of perspectives lent reputation that Loyola remembered for levelling elementary and post-sec
on old Montreal, I was sur had in 1963. Indeed, there is the Cornelius Van Horne ondary schools is depleting
prised to see no mention of also a very well-respected mansion at the corner of the student base for which
le College Ste-Marie, from Loyola in southern California, Stanley and Sherbrooke, anglophone universities are
which Loyola originated at near Los Angeles airport. destroying a legacy of the going to compete in the
the turn of the century. I was PAUL VILANDRE, BCOMM 63 building of the Canadian next decade. The commu
fortunate to attend both Ste MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA Pacific Railway. He erected nity might not be able to
Marie and Loyola, although a tower of glass and steel support two big universities
both are now history in the Royal George fa~ade in its place. in the future. Concordia
annals of Quebec. The
a tough survivor Maybe then, in a small way, seems to be acting in a con
beginning of the end of Ste
that feisty chunk of the Royal tradictory fashion by adding
Marie came when Dorchester I read with great interest
Boulevard was extended the presentation of the new George Apartments stands a 10-storey complex afte1-
east, thereby truncating the library building, "A complex today for the Van Horne expanding the Vanier
mansion and all the landmark Library and opening a new
schoolyard which, till then, of many functions," in the
buildings that have bowed to concert hall.
still had six-feet-thick walls September issue. After see
to protect it from Indian ing the building on a visit to the name of progress. Anglophone institutions are
attacks. It is a strange feeling Montreal this past summer, DAVID F. HANEY, BFA 76 already dealing with tl1is sit
to lose both one's high I was taken aback by the (GRAPHIC DESIGN) uation. Hospitals, for exam
school and college to the visual jostling that's going WILTON, CONNECTICUT ple, are planning to merge,
march of progress. on between the remains of - the proposed "Super Hos
the seemingly insignificant pital" for example - to mini-
I left Montreal after graduat
Royal George Apartments
ing in 1963 (BComm), so I
and the dominant Lego-like
tend to lose track of "pro-
blocks surrounding it.
Is tl1is how the University has 1W~~~
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chosen to present its respect
Note of thanks and acknowledgement of w~~--rs ~ffof
Our heartfelt thanks to past architectural form and l~t- ~'IAL G~~ --
members of the Concor - design? Or is this new com
dia alumni who shared plex (a good word to use)
our sorrow and expressed the result of a begrudging
their sympathy through compliance with the wishes
flowers, cards, letters and of local preservationists and
donations to both the hos the bylaws of the City of
pital fund and the endow Montreal?
ment fund.
Well, as your article points
We always knew that Matt out, the architects' plans did
was a very special man, win a major design award
but how wonderful it was for the building. But those
to find out that so many of award-winning plans did not
you thought so too. His include tl1e Royal George
memory will live forever fa,;:ade. And tl1e City of
in the hearts of those who Mon treat insisted (sine qua
knew him. non) that the "bathroom
building" be included in the
JOYCE DOUGLASS & FAMILY
MONTREAL, QUEBEC final design. From this, it D
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LETTERS
mize costs in serving a Folk should be free I'd like to ask Mr. Lewis acceptable than rescinding
declining anglophone popu- to air different views what he proposes to do with a degree for expressing an
lation. Churches are facing people who cannot accept opinion.
the same dilemma and are I'd like to ask Mr. Lewis to homosexuality because of
think very carefully before CHRISTINE SWANEVELT, BSC 91
thinking along the same religious beliefs? Will they
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
expressing sentiments such
lines. Universities seem to not be allowed to register?
as he did in your September
be ignoring this fact and car- I myself am neither religious
issue. It seems to me that he
rying on business as usual. nor homophobic, but I do
is unaware of the concept of Concordia University Magazine
have a number of extremely
I know Concordia's down- free speech. Even though welcomes readers' comments.
religious friends. We do not
town campus desperately the movement of political Letters should include the
bother each other about our
needed a decent library, but correctness advocates accep- respective beliefs and opin- writer's full name. address.
why not a joint venture with tance of alternative opinions; ions, but I'd hate to think school(s), degree(s) and year(s)
McGill? Concordia Univer- ideas and lifestyles, it is all
how their lives could be of graduation for alumni.
sity seems to have become a too eager to punish people
little too extravagant in hav- for voicing certain opinions. derailed by the wheels of Letters may be edited for
Mr. Lewis's morality police.
ing two huge modern I did not read the letter Mr. length and clarity.
I suggest that, if he feels so
libraries in the midst of the Lewis referred to, but the Correspondence should be
offended by the opinions
political upheaval occurring fact that this magazine sent to the Editor, Office of
expressed in the letters in
in the community. printed it suggests that it was question, he get in touch Alumni Affairs, Concordia
LUIS CORDEIRO, BA 85 at the very least within the with their authors and dis- University, 1455 de Maison-
ST. HUBERT, QUEBEC legal boundaries of Canada's
cuss the subject with them. neuve Blvd. West, Montreal,
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Canada's green ambassador:
ARTHU R CAMPEAU:
PUTTING T HE PLANET FIRST
by Julia Matusky
So mething happened in Rio
in June. Canada escaped the
United States' shadow and
assumed a leadership role at
the United Nations Confer
ence on Environment and Develop
ment (UNCED). The prime minister
Canadians love to hate became the
hero of the Earth Summit.
Three days before the conference
began, George Bush announced he
wouldn't sign the international agree
ment to protect the biological diver
sity of animal and plant life. Twenty
four hours later, Brian Mulroney
broke rank, boldly stating Canada
would sign. Other industrialized
nations soon followed Canada's lead
and isolated the U.S. in its opposition.
Canadian delegates to the confer
ence say Arthur Campeau, a Loyola
graduate, successful lawyer and one
ofMulroney's best friends was the
man responsible for convincing the
prime minister to take a tough stance.
"Ifit hadn't been for Arthur's
determination and personal influence
with the prime minister, l doubt other
countries would have supported what
turned out to be the only agreement
with any teeth in it," says Desiree
McGraw, a Concordia student and
one of the conference's two world
;~ youth ambassadors.
N One of Canada's leading environ
w
~ mentalists, Elizabeth May, agrees.
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"' "A lot of heavy-hitting departments in
.~0
__, i the Canadian government sided with
Bush," she says. "If Arthur Campeau
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hadn't known the bio-diversity issue resifting information and refining his "Arthur's purity of vision inspires
inside out and didn't share a personal environmental principles. others," McGraw says of the man who
history with the prime minister, I Once Campeau believes in some has become one of her role models.
doubt Canada would have done the thing, he won't compromise his sup She intends to emulate Campeau's
right thing." port of it. This was the spirit he took style, using logical training to support
Campeau and Mulroney have been to UNCED. new, intuitive approaches to initiate
buddies since they started practising May credits Campeau with bring global change. "Lawyers, architects,
law at the same firm in the mid-60s. ing non-governmental organizations economi,sts and other professionals
For years, they were neighbours. (NGOs) into the conference's negoti listen to Arthur because he comes
Their children played together. ating process. The issue was to have from the same kind of background as
In the spring of '89, Mulroney asked been resolved at the first of four them," she says. "When he starts
Campeau, a bilingual Montrealer, to month-long meetings leading up to telling them about right-brain versus
become his personal representative the Summit, but it kept being pushed left-brain thinking, it blows their
to the world's largest environmen socks off."
tal conference. Campeau knew he Campeau was forced to begin
would have to overcome the exploring the right hemisphere of
stigma of being Mulroney's his own brain when the left, logical
appointed crony. side stopped delivering satisfactory
"It was a challenge," Campeau answers.
says, as he so often does in response He had a life most would envy.
to a question. Challenge seems to He earned $300,000 a year as a
govern Campeau's existence. high-powered corporate attorney
After law school, he passed up with Montreal's largest law firm.
cholarships because he couldn't He lived in a Westmount mansion
wait to face the challenge of with his wife and three children.
pleading cases in court-even Yet, he was depressed. The
though the prospect made him depression worsened as he ques
physically ill. He obtained a pilot's tioned the meaning of life and his
licence as part of the challenge of own significance. He bought 20
overcoming vertigo. This approach books on how the brain operates
stems from his childhood. His dad to try to determine whether he was
used to put a ladder up the side of going crazy. Campeau says he still
the house and offer him money to doesn't understand what provoked
retrieve tennis balls from the roof. his crise de conscience, but it coin
Campeau, 49, met the Rio chal cided with the entry of a new
lenge by saturating his mind with woman into his life.
information on all the environ He first met Cynthia Drum
mental issues. Whether discussing the aside. A few countries openly opposed mond, then a 23-year-old television
NGO involvement, others paid lip
pulp-and-paper industry, the seal reporter, in 1976. He asked her out,
service to it. On Friday night, with
hunt or the threat of human over but she refused. "He projected the
delegates anxious to leave for the
population, he automatically supports image of a sleazy, big-shot lawyer who
weekend, Campeau dug in his heels.
his arguments with specific scientific just wanted to fool around. I wasn't
"Arthur insisted the business of the
research and hard statistics. He's interested," says Drummond. She still
committee couldn't be continued
rumoured to be the only person in believes Campeau wouldn't have held
government who reads everything until a process for the full participa her interest back then. It took another
tion of the NGOs was established,"
that crosses his desk. five years before she accepted his invi
May says. It took several hours, but a
Yet, even as he speaks on a subject, tation. She sought his legal advice on
structure was created for handling
he is analysing whether what he's say incorporating her own business. He
the NGO question first thing on
ing still holds true. He credits his legal told her he was booked for the next
Monday.
training with helping him to keep six months, but free for lunch the
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next day. They arrived at the Beaver didn't alleviate his need to search purpose. The next step came when
Club around noon and didn't leave within himself-· he says she inspired the prime minister offered him the
till almost 5:30. more of it. He continued to pursue job of leading Canada's preparations
They couldn't stay apart. On her changes he thought would finally for the Earth Summit.
birthday in May 1982, he told her they make him content. He left Ogilvy Campeau views the challenge of
had to get married. They moved in Renault to join a smaller law firm. economic development as one of
together. Several months later, they Soon after, he started his own firm. eliminating, or at least minimizing
flew to Bermuda for their wedding. Each move was successful, but his dis the negative impact of human activity
Campeau speaks eagerly of how illusionment with the legal system on the environment. He insists this
much he remains in love with his grew. "I stopped believing that the responsibility falls to every individual.
wife. He regards her as his biggest only way to obtain justice and truth "All I'm asking is for people to think
challenge. "If one of my ideas doesn't was to produce winners and losers. about what they can do to help the
survive a discussion with Cynthia, I There had to be alternative solutions." environment in the course of their
know there's something wrong with Drummond introduced Campeau own lives. It doesn't have to be
the idea or the way I'm trying to to Michael Bloomfield, a wildlife bio dramatic."
explain it." logist who wanted to encourage envi He believes friendships forged
Drummond says their relationship ronmentalists and corporations to during the two years of preparation
feeds off mental energy. "Arthur gets work together. In 1985, Campeau and for the Summit will produce better
it. I can talk to him in shorthand and Bloomfield launched the Harmony co-operation between and within
he understands." Foundation in Ottawa. The project countries. He already sees a less
While Drummond brought new inspired Campeau but, once it was set adversarial stance between govern
meaning into Campeau's life, she up, he fell back into questioning his ment and NGOs in Canada. But he
Arthur Campeau and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in consultation during the Earth Summit proceedings.
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stresses the responsibility of Rio's become prime minister and solve the starting his studies at Loyola in engi
30,000 participants to keep up the constitutional crisis. "I know what neering and later pre-medicine. "I
momentum by educating and moti Arthur is doing for the environment finally found something I liked and
vating the citizens of their own is important," Habib says, "but I still was good at," Campeau says. Under
countries. feel he has a larger role to play in the Habib's tutelage, Campeau gradu
His own post-Rio scheme focuses history of Canada." ated with honours and several awards.
on community empowerment - bring He and Campeau have.maintained Habib eagerly lists the reasons he'd
ing community members together to a close friendship since 1962, when vote for Campeau as prime minister:
identify projects they can initiate to Campeau his understanding of constitutional
make their community and, thereby, law and of Canada's two founding
the world a better place. "If I were cultures; his devotion to his country;
going to do this, I would bring to his charisma; his energetic vision
gether people who aren't afraid to of what could be.
think the unthinkable - professors, But another close friend,
students, business people and pro Yves Fortier, doesn't see it.
fessionals - put them in a room "He certainly has the
and let them discuss how they qualifications," the
can work together as agents for former Canadian ambas
change." He elaborates until sador to the United
he's sure his listener is con Nation says, "but I don't
vinced his plan can work and think Arthur has the
should be started patience to become
immediately. the leader of a polit
"That's one of his ical party." Fortier
few flaws," McGraw sees Campeau as a
says, "he tends to future environment
keep preaching to the minister or in another
converted. And he role that allows him to
stays stuck in the vision continue as Canada's
ary mode without dealing "environmental guru."
with the nuts and bolts." Campeau doesn't know
"I plant a lot of seeds," whether he'll enter the main
Campeau acknowledges. "Some political arena. "I want to do
of them start to grow quickly, whatever I can to effect change,"
others need more nourishing." he says.
He becomes visibly agitated when He is aware of the sacrifices that
discussing the constitutional debate would be involved. He's seen his
and how it has pre-empted Canada's friend Mulroney take enough blows.
environmental efforts. "The environ Earth Summit Logo He also realizes it would mean even
ment issue is Canada's chance to less time with his wife. He now sees
become a leader in the new world obtained the highest mark - 95 per her only on weekends as his job is in
order," he says. "Ifwe don't put this cent - ever granted by Habib on an Hull, hers in Montreal.
constitution thing behind us, we risk exam. "I couldn't believe the bril In the final analysis, however,
losing out on that chance. Canada liance of his responses," Habib says. being prime minister may not be
should be one of the countries to "I didn't know who this Campeau was. enough of a challenge for Campeau.
produce measurable results by the I told some students to find him and Saving the planet is.
first anniversary of the Summit." tell him to come to my office. I had
Dr. Henry Habib, chair of Concor to meet him."
dia's political science department, The meeting prompted Campeau
believes his former student should to specialize in political science after Julia Malusky ( BA 89) is a Montreal freelance ,miler.
She has served as a dfrector of the Concardia University
Alu11mi Association.
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