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The BulletinUniversity of Manitoba

October 25, 2012 Vol. 46 No. 11 umanitoba.ca/bulletin

Visionary (Re)GenerationSouthwood Lands ideas from staff, students and faculty

Writers! books!Sally Ito, Esyllt Jones on their latest projects

A day dedicated to a heroU of M celebrates Desiree Scott Day

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Desiree Scott brings her

bronze medal home

U of M Events

‘The Winter’s Tale’ Seminar and Distinguished Visiting Lecture, Oct. 25

Film screening: Finding Dawn, Oct. 26

Film screening: Flooding Hope: The Lake St. Martin Story, Oct. 26

We Day, Oct. 30

Writing horror fiction workshop, Oct. 30

Feminist researchers wine & cheese, Nov. 6

Address by Justice Murray Sinclair, Nov. 7

>>See page 10 for more

BY CHRIS REIDThe Bulletin

Hundreds of students, faculty, staff and members of the community joined a sunny, outdoor celebration on October 11 to witness a jackhammer groundbreaking of the new Active Living Centre.

On hand were David Barnard, president and vice-chancellor, Premier Greg Selinger, MP Steven Fletcher, Mayor Sam Katz, Jane Watkinson, dean, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, Bilan Arte, UMSU president and special guest NFL player Israel Idonije, a former Bison.

John Kearsey, VP (external) served as master of ceremonies, and — in the spirit of active living — conducted his role from atop a moving treadmill.

Also in attendance were David and Ruth Asper, long-time supporters of the U of M and Bison Sports. A number of the speakers, including President Barnard, acknowledged the crucial role David Asper played in first envisioning the partnerships that could bring this project to fruition.

“The Active Living Centre builds on the transformative change at the University of Manitoba in the spaces where we live, work, study, discover and play,” said President

David Barnard. “Not only will the centre become a primary gateway to the heart of campus, but it will also enhance significantly the university’s commitment to a culture of active, sustainable living.”

The four-storey, open-concept facility, with its luminous glass exterior, will house a high-performance training facility for elite athletes, a state-of-the-art indoor running track, a 12-meter climbing wall, an applied research centre, a gathering area for students, strength and conditioning facilities and three group workout studios. The 100,000-square-foot facility will support an active lifestyle for students, staff, and community and will replace the current facility (dubbed the “Gritty Grotto”).

“We’re pleased to help fund this new centre, which will not only benefit students and staff on campus, but will also offer a variety of fitness opportunities for people of all ages in the community,” said Premier Selinger. “Investing in facilities that promote active lifestyles is a government priority because it will have lasting benefits for Manitoba families well into the future.”

The building will also have space devoted to bringing together service providers from multiple disciplines (exercise physiologists, exercise psychologists, registered dietitians, athletic therapists, etc.) with researchers and

graduate students to support people striving to begin or sustain an active lifestyle.

“Our government is proud to support construction of this world-class amateur sport and fitness centre, one of the largest of its kind in Manitoba,” said MP Fletcher. “When complete in 2015, it will help build a strong, sustainable and healthy community.”

When completed, the modern, eco-friendly building will accommodate upwards of 2,000 patrons per day, making it the largest active living facility in Manitoba.

“The City of Winnipeg is pleased to support the Active Living Centre with $2.5 million obtained from the sale of the Polo Park stadium site,” said Mayor Sam Katz. “Students and staff at the University of Manitoba campus will have the opportunity to build active living into their academic day, with a modern, bright fitness facility.”

Each year, more than 7,800 students and 1,000 staff and community members use the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management’s facility at the U of M. The faculty promotes sport and active living through various university and community programs for people of all ages and will be home to the new Active Living Centre.>>See: umanitoba.ca/activelivingcentre

President David Barnard, former Bison and NFL player Israel Idonije, UMSU president Bilan Arte and David Asper use jackhammers to break ground for the Active Living Centre.

BREAKING NEW GROUNDFOR ACTIVE LIVING

See story below and on back page

Desiree Scott

Work begins on new, world-class Active Living Centre

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Tory shrugs off Rand October 9, 2012

Ottawa CitizenLaw professor Debra Parkes had her research highlighted in a recent article. The article is about a Conservative MP who pledged to get Tory colleagues to back his campaign to make union dues optional for members of the federal public service. In short: This would end “union security” and eliminate the Rand Formula, a long-standing practice that requires employers to deduct union dues from

workers’ pay whether they belong to a union or not. The legality of the Rand Formula has been tested in the courts over the years and survived, but legal experts like Parkes warn the formula is vulnerable and could easily be undone by new legislation. “The Rand Formula is by no means sacrosanct in the political realm,” Parkes said. She has studied the formula since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was introduced in the early 1980s. “While union security provisions have been upheld in the courts, they have not been constitutionalized. The Charter has not been the undoing of union security but the Rand Formula remains vulnerable to legislative repeal or weakening.”

Still overlookedOctober 14, 2012 Toronto Star

Children of the mentally ill are recognized by the mental-health community as being at increased risk of developing mental-health issues themselves, both through genetics and the consequences of being raised in difficult family environments. Elaine Mordoch, assistant professor, Faculty of Nursing, believes the system does not pay enough attention to whether adult patients are parents and what that means for their children. Years ago, she was working as a nurse in the acute psychiatry ward when the police brought in a woman who was in the midst of a mental-health crisis. Mordoch discovered the woman had three children and asked the police officer what had happened to them. “They’re as nuts as she is,” was the reply. Nearly two decades later, the memory helps drive her research into how children of the mentally ill perceive and cope with their challenging situation in life. “I think that the system is largely still organized around the biomedical model,” says Mordoch. “The system and the people who are in the system have often been educated to look at the illness and not really look at the whole person.”

Nothing to see hereOctober 16, 2012 Winnipeg Sun

New political studies assistant professor Royce Koop supplied comment for a story on MLA spending. Six MLAs charged taxpayers more than $100,000 last fiscal year to cover such things as housing and travel costs, according to Public Accounts figures. The highest spender overall was Frank Whitehead, the MLA for The Pas, who spent $130,051.48 to cover temporary residence and living, travel, constituency and printing and mailing costs. Koop, said Whitehead and other MLAs of remote ridings are justified in filing high travel costs. “It’s so difficult to travel between the capital and those remote ridings,” said Koop. “This is the only way for an MLA of a rural area to provide the same quality of representation as those in urban ridings.” Koop said detailed MLA expense reports have led politicians to police their own behaviour. “There’s an incentive for elected officials to worry about stepping on land mines, so they become more careful,” said Koop.

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“Asper opens doors to more native students,” Globe and Mail, Oct. 12, story about a new initiative in the Asper School of Business which, as of September, 2013, will offer a new admissions category (as has been done in nursing and education) for up to 10 aboriginal students who meet the basic entrance requirement.

Nahlah Ayed delivers welcome

Nahlah Ayed speaks with U of M WUSC sponsored refugee student Mach Daniel Riak after her address at the inaugural welcome dinner for international students, hosted by the International Centre for Students.

To encourage environmentally friendly transportation practices, U of M Parking Services, in collaboration with the university’s Sustainability Committee, has created 24 carpool-only parking spots on its Fort Garry campus.

This new program will begin in the largest student parking lots: Q Lot and U Lot. Students who have parking permits for these lots, and who have at least one passenger, can park in the designated carpooling section in the lot they have a permit for. There is no extra fee to park in these spots, which are in prime locations. Q Lot will have 12 carpool parking stalls and U Lot will have 12. More of these stalls will be added to these and other parking lots as the program expands.

“This new parking category supports the University of Manitoba’s commitment to campus sustainability, which is a priority of the President and the University,” says Cameron Neufeld, manager of parking services and transportation demand management at the university. “By encouraging carpooling we hope to reduce vehicle emissions and reduce road congestion.”

To get people thinking about alternative ways to commute to campus, including active transportation, the U of M provides accessible bike racks (there are currently 500 bike parking spots on the Fort Garry campus). It has also created extra-wide bike lanes along University Crescent and is a member of carpool.ca.

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CBC JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR NAHLAH AYED was on campus on October 10 to speak at the inaugural welcome dinner for international students. The alumna and former “urchin” of University Centre,” as she referred to herself, spoke about the challenges and the benefits of “Coming from Away,” also the title of her talk. She urged students to take advantage of their many opportunities and to embrace their roles as students, as well as teachers and ambassadors. Her own undergraduate and graduate experiences at the U of M served as the backdrop for her address and Ayed spoke eloquently and passionately about how her own personal journey started through her campus engagement campus and by actively cultivating the best possible experience she could.

The inaugural welcome dinner for international students was hosted by the International Centre for Students (I.C.S.) and sponsored by the Alumni Association Inc. and the province of Manitoba, and was ably assisted by Mr. Nemo of UMFM. With 144 guests, the event welcomed new international students to the broader university community by connecting them to members of student groups, to faculty and to key resource people on campus and in Winnipeg.

This event was also intended to increase the profile of international students at the U of M, says Joel Trenaman, coordinator for international student programs at I.C.S. “It is important that we recognize what international students contribute to our community — intellectually, culturally, and financially. We support them not only by providing programs and services, but by celebrating their contributions with events such as this one,” he added. – Tony Rogge>>umanitoba.ca/student/ics/


Prof first in Canada to receive AACC International agricultural awardMartin Scanlon, food sciences professor and acting associate dean in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, was presented with the George Scott Blair Award by the AACC International, rheology division. Scanlon is the first Canadian to receive the award, presented to a scientist who has shown exceptional ability in research areas involving rheology and texture as related to cereal-based products.

School of Art faculty member features innovative work at the WAGSchool of Art faculty member Dominique Rey’s work is featured in the banner exhibition entitled Winnipeg Now, launching the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s centennial celebrations. Her installation includes a constructed full-scale replica of a greenhouse that was located in the now abandoned Sisters of the Cross convent in St. Boniface. Rey is a graduate of the School of Art and is a multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited her work across Canada and internationally. Winnipeg Now runs until December 30 at the WAG.

U of M’s Team ‘Edugators’ raises hefty sum for CIBC Run For The CureThe Faculty of Education’s Team ‘Edugators’ suited up in their team t-shirts and handmade, pink cone hats on Sunday, September 30 for the CIBC Run for the Cure. Twenty students from the Faculty of Education ran or walked five or one kilometers along with over 5,000 Winnipeggers to raise funds for breast cancer research, education and health promotion initiatives. The Edugators raised over $3,800, coming in 3rd place in the School Group division.

Prof becomes fellow of the Canadian Organization of Medical PhysicistsStephen Pistorius, physics and astronomy and senior research scientist at CancerCare Manitoba was conferred the award on 13 July 2012 of “Fellow of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP)” in recognition of his significant contributions to the organization and to the field of medical physics. This is the inaugural year for the award. All 2012 recipients are either COMP gold medalists and/or former presidents of COMP.

Developing Human textbook commendedIn September 2012, the textbook The Developing Human, 9th edition, was highly commended by the British Medical Association as a medical textbook. Translated into 14 languages, it is widely used in the health sciences. The authors are Keith Moore, former professor and head, department of anatomy, U of M, and professor emeritus, U of T, Vid Persaud, professor emeritus and former head, department of human anatomy & cell science, and Mark Torchia, director, university teaching services, and associate professor of surgery and human anatomy.

U of M composer’s :spin goes internationalCanadian composer media artist and professor at Marcel Desaultels Faculty of Music Gordon Fitzell is attending ISCM’s World Music Days in Bruges, Belgium from October 25 to November 4, where he has been invited to oversee two performances of his mobile sound installation :spin. Wandering performers play prepared weather balloons and create a compelling kinetic soundscape which pulls the listener along through an ever-changing spatial perspective. This is a major international festival with representatives from around the world and Fitzell is one of four Canadians selected to present works.

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For Peter Jones, a grocery store can feel like a giant medicine cabinet. The U of M professor is a leading expert on functional foods, which are those ordinary items on our shopping list that have extraordinary powers when it comes to preventing chronic disease. The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (science and technology) recently announced the renewal of Jones’ Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Nutrition and Functional Foods, an award of $1.4 million over seven years. Jones, who is director of the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, became a CRC in 2005.

“Our government’s top priority is creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” said Minister of State Goodyear. “By investing in talented people through programs such as the Canada Research Chairs, our government is supporting cutting-edge research in Canadian post-secondary institutions. This fosters innovation by helping researchers bring their ideas to the marketplace, where they can touch the lives of Canadians.”

This continued investment will allow him to continue his groundbreaking investigations into which bioactive materials make for good ingredients in functional foods. Much of his research involves plant sterols, which are natural components found in plants and known to lower cholesterol. His efforts have led to the international marketing of edible spreads containing plant sterols that reduce heart disease risk by up to 20 per cent. Jones is also studying lipid-lowering actions related to nutrition before and after giving birth and to weight loss. The government established the CRC program in institutions across the country more than a decade ago as part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world’s top countries for research and development. The U of M is home to 44 CRCs who do research in the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, social sciences, and engineering.

Innovative fi eld leader changing how we think about food

BY MARIIANNE MAYS WIEBEThe Bulletin

After the university’s Strategic Planning Framework outlined an “outstanding workplace” as one of its goals, members of the university community were put to work on a committee to outline a guiding strategy and a plan. Now that plan is ready to be put into action.

The “outstanding workplace initiative” (OWI), as it was called, conducted a multitude of assessment and survey processes to find out what is valued by staff and faculty in the university work environment.

The overall commitmentPart of the commitment to being an outstanding employer has been defined by the university, as “offering and expecting respect for all staff and faculty, providing opportunities for leadership, growth and development, and recognizing the contributions made at all levels of the organization.”

“We are committed to ensuring plans and supports are in place that contribute to being an outstanding workplace, and I am proud this plan has been created by our community, for our community,” said President and Vice-Chancellor David Barnard. “I am excited to come to work each day because both the cause and the company at the University of Manitoba are great. We build bigger futures and we work with outstanding people.”

In the introduction to the strategy and plan, the university laid out the goals of OWI this way: “To remain vital and productive, we must recruit, retain and develop committed and engaged faculty and staff. They are our most valuable assets. We want people to enjoy coming to work, to appreciate their colleagues, to achieve success, to contribute in a meaningful way, and to know that those contributions are valued.

“The Outstanding Workplace Initiative strategy and plan will help make our commitments a reality. The six university-wide commitments outlined in the strategy address areas with the greatest opportunity for enhancement, while also identifying ways to build on our strengths.”

The strategy commitmentsThe strategy document presents a university-wide OWI strategy to “help us achieve greatness.” And that’s what you want from a university, isn’t it?

Informed by U of M community consultations, review of best practices, feedback on a draft ‘Outstanding Workplace Framework’ and responses from the 2011 “It’s About Us” Employee Experience Survey, the strategy has been named, “It’s Up to Us,” to draw attention to the fact that all U of M employees share responsibility for creating an outstanding workplace.

In addressing areas with the greatest opportunity for enhancement while identifying ways to build on our strengths, six areas were targeted: To increase our connectedness as a community; to foster exemplary leadership and management practices; to enhance a respectful, equitable and inclusive work environment; to enhance career and professional development supports; to increase organizational efficiencies by reducing red tape and bureaucracy; and to build on and celebrate strengths.

‘It’s up to us’The OWI plan, released a couple of months ago, includes specific actions to be taken over the next three years in order to ensure that the strategic commitments are met.

For the first strategy point, connectedness as community, for instance, five actions have been

identified for the next year (2012-2013): An attention to service commitment and service behaviours; a continuation of service excellence learning sessions; the forming of alliances and leadership network programs to identify and address shared goals and issues; and a ontinued sharing of budget submissions.

In year two (2013-2014) of the action plan, the actions in the first commitment area are: To identify current collaborative efforts between faculties; to inventory cross-faculty and department groups and suggestions regarding ways to build cooperation; to establish a cross-campus team to identify and act on specific ways to enable greater synergies between campuses; to link activities with other U of M initiatives that are geared toward enhancing student experience and enrolment; and to continue sharing of budget submissions.

In the third year (2014-2015) of the plan, actions include: Continued delivery of leadership programs and peer mentoring programs; development of just in-time support resource for common but unpredictable high-risk situations; development of a high potential leadership development program; a review/refinement system for executive coaching for VPs and deans.

Each of the six strategy items is developed in a similar way over the three-year period.>>umanitoba.ca/admin/human_resources/lds/out-standing_workplace/framework/3601.html

The Outstanding Workplace plan: Start your engines

Outstanding Workplace Intiative (OWI): A strategy and a planTargets six areas (a three-year plan has been outlined under each target area):1. To increase our connectedness as a community;2. To foster exemplary leadership and management practices;3. To enhance a respectful, equitable and inclusive work environment;4. To enhance career and professional development supports;5. To increase organizational efficiencies by reducing red tape and bureaucracy; and6. To build on and celebrate strengths.

For five decades, President Emeritus Arnold Naimark has played a major role in building health education and research in Canada through the institutes he has led and the programs he has been key in developing.

The Winnipeg-born-and-raised doctor, professor of physiology and medicine and also dean emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine, will be inducted into the prestigious Canadian Medical Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Halifax in May of 2013. He is the seventh U of M scientist so honored and follows laureates from previous years, such as Bruce Chown, Henry Friesen and Allan Ronald. Naimark, who is also director of the Centre for the Advancement of Medicine at the U of M, was selected in the builder (innovative leadership) category. The hall recognizes individuals whose contributions to medicine and health sciences have led to extraordinary improvements in human health.

Naimark to be inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame



Alphonso Lingis isn’t your average philosopher. In her introduction to his Distinguished Visiting Lecture on October 2, Dawne McCance, a distinguished professor in the department of religion, described him as multi-talented: A writer, translator, performer and photographer who regularly travels to remote locations across the globe and who, in addition to many philosophical texts, has published a book of photos of the people he has encountered.

She continued, “We won’t hear from him for months and we know, ‘Ah, Lingis is off again.’”

Speaking on “One’s Own Voice,” Lingis soon demonstrated his unique approach to philosophy. Prefaced by a recorded segment of sounds that ranged from guttural words (perhaps in another language)

to gurgling to moans and shrieks, it was as much a performance as a lecture. Lingis spoke over a recorded soundtrack of piped music, tossing completed pages aside as he read his text.

The professor emeritus of philosophy at Penn State University is known for his work spanning phenomenology and existentialism on the themes of art, architecture, sculpture, animality and embodiment.

His passion has recently led him to explore the nature of communication and community. As well as the many texts he has published, Lingis is interested in direct, hands-on research, an unusual tack for philosophy. Travel and interchange with people from other cultures intimately inform his work and thinking.

His lecture performance included ruminations on the nature of language through various perspectives, including classic philosophy — Wittgenstein’s idea that there is no private language, speech acts (utterances that also perform an act, such as a command or a request), and different orders of language within particular groups (that is to say, expected or accepted ways of speaking within those groups). According to Lingis, the orders of language are pressured on the one hand by internal drives and on the other hand are repressed by judgment from others, constituted both by individual and group or institutional judgment.

Internal life drives, said Lingis, generate energies in excess of what’s needed and can be a source of

inward awakening to the pleasure of being alive. The energy of outward movement, however, is often fixed on objects in “passionate attachment,” causing the object to hold precedence over others.

His lecture then turned again to the question of one’s own voice, examining the effects of passionate inner monologue or “secret words” upon identity or the possibility of singular identity as a way of liberation from a textually authorized identity. Lingis suggested that “one who speaks with their own voice recognizes another who speaks with their own voice.”

The final segment of his five-part lecture was entitled “Silence.” Comparing the commitment evinced by “putting into words” and the reticence of “silence that effaces all trivializing” in the “moment of facing,” Lingis ended his lecture with a story about a “moment that wants silence.” That story was about his encounter with a woman that took place more than 40 years ago. “Murmuring” her inner reality to Lingis, the woman conveyed a tale of living in an enchanted Medieval epic, he said. The effect it had was that he became completely absorbed in what she was saying. He sat silent, and listened.

Lingis’s lecture was hosted by Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature located at the U of M and edited by McCance.

>>umanitoba.ca/mosaic/

‘Lingis is off again’: Renowned philsopher speaks on campus

Lingis at the Distinguished Lecture event on October 2.

As well as the many texts he has published, Lingis is interested in direct, hands-on research, an unusual tack for philosophy

BY JAN HORNERFor The Bulletin

Faculty and graduate students now have access to an “Open Access Authors’ Fund,” intended to increase the visibility and accessibility of U of M research. The new fund will provide financial support to U of M researchers by covering open-access author fees.

Open-access publishing is becoming an increasingly viable alternative to publishing in traditional, subscription-based journals; as of July 2012, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) reported over 8,000 titles worldwide, an increase of 2,837 journals from 2005. Proponents argue that open-access journals provide the benefits of wide and often faster distribution of research findings, enhanced author visibility, author copyright retention, and compliance with some funder mandates for publicly-funded research.

The new publishing model often requires that authors pay fees that help cover the costs of publication. With the launch of the libraries’ new fund, U of M faculty and graduate students now have local financial support, which will help them decide whether to publish in an open-access or a subscription-based journal.

“The Libraries’ Open Access Authors’ Fund provides an important service to our faculty and graduate students,” said Joanne Keselman, VP (academic) & provost. “Open-access publishing will expose University of Manitoba’s research more broadly to the scholarly community and the general public, and the fund will support our researchers who choose an open-access journal when seeking publication. The libraries are in the forefront in Canada with Calgary, Simon Fraser and York University libraries in taking this exciting initiative.”

Libraries had previously funded U of M authors’ fees for just two open-access publishers, Biomed Central and Public Library of Science, but with the launch of this fund coverage is extended to open-access journals in all disciplines. While the libraries will broaden its funding coverage to more journals, it will impose some restrictions on support and will require authors to apply to the libraries for funding. Authors are encouraged to apply for support when they submit their articles for publication.>>See the libraries’ information pages at umanitoba.ca/libraries/services/open_access/ or contact Jan Horner, libraries, at [email protected]

Libraries launch open-access authors’ fund

“Innovation” was the focus of the latest instalment in the Visionary Conversation series took, which place on October 9. This time, featured panelists were: Janice Lederman, chair, Board of Governors and executive chair, Manitoba Innovation Council; Zhenyu Wu, Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, I.H. Asper School of Business; James Blatz, associate vice-president (partnerships); and Gerry Price, alumnus and chairman and CEO, Price Group. Panelists discussed how innovation fuels our economy and is critical for industry in Canada. The expert panel explored how to create a successful innovation hub in Manitoba.

>>For information about upcoming panels or to watch previous Visionary Conversations, go to: umanitoba.ca/admin/vp_external/government_community/visionaryconversations/index.html or bit.ly/S8FGZv

VISIONARY CONVERSATIONS: INNOVATION

Above right: Panelist Zhenyu Wu, Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innova-tion, I.H. Asper School of Business, before the event. Left: President David Barnard ad-dresses the audience before the panelists present.

Photos by Mike Latschislaw

Photos by Jackie Pantel

Philosopher Alphonso Lingis conducts a workshop on October 3 as part of his Distinguished Lecture visit.


SPOTLIGHT: VISIONARY (RE)GENERATION OPEN HOUSE

Our We Day pledge and pledge wall

>>Related event: Hear inspiring speaker Spencer West on “The Power of We: Overcoming Obstacles to Make a Difference” on November 1 in EITC Atrium, Engineering Building, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Doors 6:30 p.m.

The U of M is sponsoring We Day Manitoba 2012 and to show our support on campus, we’ll be installing a Pledge Wall in University Centre on We Day —Tuesday, Oct. 30 — and on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

The wall will give the U of M community an opportunity to join in the spirit of We Day by posting a pledge describing how they are going to change the world. Staff, faculty and students are invited to share their ideas, dreams and visions for the future.

>>For more information, see: umanitoba.ca/student/studentlife/leadership/speakers/

ON OCTOBER 30,18,000 STUDENTS and teachers from 380 schools across the province will fill Winnipeg’s MTS Centre to celebrate We Day, the youth empowerment movement that focuses on commitment to social action, both locally and globally.

The U of M believes strongly in We Day’s trailblazing spirit and will sponsor this year’s event that will include a host of world-renowned speakers, including Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Hannah Taylor of the Ladybug Foundation and a performance by pop rock group Allstar Weekend. One of our own students, Tito Daodu, a fourth-year medicine student and recent winner of the Nahlah Ayed Prize for Student Leadership and Global Citizenship, will also present at the event. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to meet and get a signed autograph from Olympic bronze medalist and proud Bison, Desiree Scott.

Making a difference in other waysAs a U of M student, you can access leadership, volunteer and service learning programs that will connect you with local and international communities. You can get involved in everything from leadership development workshops and mentorship programs, to exchanges and international community development programs. The U of M has also created the co-curricular record (CCR) to formally recognize students involved in university approved and facilitated activities outside the classroom. Alongside your official transcript, the co-curricular record acknowledges your participation in not-for-academic credit programs. Free The Children is the world’s largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in 45 countries. Last year, youth volunteered 1.7 million hours of their time and raised $5.4 million in donations to support local and global organizations.


THE RECENT INFORMATIONAL OPEN HOUSE for the Visionary (re)Generation Open International Design Competition drew a lot of interest, with attendees through the day-long event from across the university community spectrum, including faculty, staff and students. The event featured campus maps and information boards outlining competition principles, and invited visitors to put their own ideas for design considerations to paper on the easel boards provided.

The Bulletin spoke to several attendees about their thoughts. A group of civil engineering students with the student chapter of ITE plans to participate by gathering students’ perspectives to submit as part of a report they will present to the design committee. They will also run their own industry event to brainstorm and design ideas for efficient transportation for the Southlands Precinct project.

For architect and faculty member Shauna Mallory-Hill, the key is sustainability. She would like to see the design push the boundaries of sustainability and incorporate new regenerative design ideas currently being explored in the field. She noted that it would also be great to see a local process committed to community, rather than a “star-chitect” approach. The architecture student in attendance

with her, who lived on campus for five years, said that the campus and this area of the city are “an important part of my daily life,” and that revitalization is critical.

Agriculture students Jennifer Temmer and Julianna Klippenstein suggested that a more “walkable” neighbourhood and higher-density, mixed-income and subsidized housing and commercial development would meet the needs of students and better integrate students into the larger community as well. Temmer was also glad to see the university opening the input process for a variety of expertise and perspectives, rather than only industry or pure-profit bias.

Cory Fielding, Ilona Ring and Mike Pratt from the architectural division of physical plant were impressed with the amount of information available at the open house. Pratt suggested that a local process was perhaps most important, “one that takes account of our climate and culture.” His concerns were that river bank green space would be kept and bike traffic options would be improved, while Fielding hoped that any development would be respectful to the surrounding residential neighbourhood.

Student residences facility coordinator Bruce Mahaffy found that the development “exciting” and was very enthusiastic that design process was being opened as a competition. He was also impressed by the “amount of thought that has already gone into the process.”

Michelle Richard, director, campus planning, and Rejeanne Dupuis, competition project director both from the campus planning office.

Bruce Mahaffy, facilities coordinator, student residences.

Architectural technicians Cory Fielding and Ilona Ring with Mike Pratt, project coordinator, all with physical plant.

Jennifer Temmer and Julianna Klippenstein, both first year students in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences.

WE DAY: An event — and a movement for change!

Shauna Mallory-Hill, faculty member, Faculty of Architecture, with a graduate student of the program.

Photos by Mariianne Mays Wiebe

Students from civil engineering’s Institute of Transport Engineering (ITE) student chapter, Rebecca Peterniak, Maryam Moshiri, Adam Budowski and Rob Poapst.

IN 2008 THE U OF M PURCHASED the Southwood Golf and Country Club, a 48 hectare (120 acre) site located adjacent to Fort Garry Campus. The Southwood Lands offer a unique opportunity to transform our campus into a destination community through the development of a new, sustainable, multi-use neighbourhood that provides a 24/7 live/work/learn/play environment.

PLANNING PROCESS - THREE PHASES: 1. Collection of ideas from all stakeholders to create the visioning framework for the competition brief; 2. the competition (begins January and ends October 2013); 3. the contract award to the winning design team. A multi-disciplinary team will develop the master plan with the university and community stakeholders. Stakeholder engagement will continue throughout each phase of the integrated master planning process.

FIVE GUIDING PRINCIPLES: 1.Connected; 2. Destination; 3. Sustainable; 4. Community; and 5. Transformative. Three areas of interest have been also been identified by stakeholder groups that are significant development opportunities, which are public riverbank access, redefinition of the Pembina Highway boundary and transit-oriented development as a catalyst for change.

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An exhibition that presents the Inuit experience of residential schools through the voices of 8 courageous Survivors.

WE WERE SO FAR AWAYTHE INUIT EXPERIENCE OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

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EXECUTIVE LEAD FOR INDIGENOUS ACHIEVEMENT, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT INVITES YOU TO ATTEND

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Produced by the Legacy of Hope Foundation, Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and Library and Archives Canada with fi nancial support from the Government of Canada.

EXHIBITION OPENING Wednesday, October 31, 11:00am

Brodie Mezzanine (2nd Floor), 727 McDermot Ave, Bannatyne CampusLight Lunch to follow

OPENING REMARKSDavid Barnard, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Manitoba

Justice Murray SinclairHonoured Inuit Survivors

OPEN FOR VIEWING FREE-OF-CHARGE October 31 – November 16

Mon-Fri 7am - 6pm, Sat & Sun 9am – 6pm

For more information, contact: Andrea Bilash 204-480-1473 or [email protected]

umanitoba.ca

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE

THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS20I2 – 20I3 ACADEMIC YEAR

Janice Lederman

Chair

Patricia Bovey

Vice-Chair

Harvey SecterChancellor

David BarnardPresident and Vice-Chancellor

Bilan Arte

Aaron Berg

Jennifer Black

Ted Bock

Evan Bowness

Alexandra Dansen

Romel Dhalla

Joanne Embree

Norman Halden

Gwen Hatch

Sharon Jasper

Shelley Jesseau

Meaghan Labine

Rotimi Ojo

Bev Passey

Michael Robertson

David Sauer

Mark Whitmore

Rennie Zegalski

For more information, contact: Andrea Bilash 204-480-1473 or [email protected]

The exhibit is a project of the LEGACY OF HOPE FOUNDATION.

This bilingual exhibit is designed to raise awareness about the history and legacy

of Residential Schools in Canada. 100 Years of Loss strives to sensitize and educate

Canadians, while challenging stereotypes and fostering a dialogue between people.

Executive Lead for Indigenous Achievement, Office of the President & Dean, Faculty of Social Work

100 YEARS O F L O S S

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E X H I B I T O P E N I N G :M O N DAY N OV E M B E R 5 , 1 1 A M

William Norrie Centre, Inner City Social Work Program, 485 Selkirk Ave.

O P E N F O R V I E W I N G N OV E M B E R 5 - 9 , 8 : 3 0 A M - 4 : 3 0 P M

FREE-OF-CHARGE. EVERYONE IS WELCOME.Appointment Viewing - To view the exhibit outside of regular hours,

please contact: Maureen 204-790-7201

umanitoba.ca

THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT (RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL) IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING APPOINTMENT

DARREN FAST, PhD, AS DIRECTOR OF THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OFFICE (TTO)

The TTO oversees intellectual property and helps

researchers form alliances with local and global

business partners.

Dr. Fast comes to the University of Manitoba

from the Public Health Agency of Canada,

where he was the Senior Intellectual Property

Advisor, responsible for ensuring intellectual

property protection for new technologies as

well as moving technologies into the private

sector. He is also the President of Solalta Advisors

Ltd., where he provides market and business development services for early

stage technologies. Prior to Solalta, Darren was Chief Technology Officer for

Lombard Life Sciences, where he was intimately involved in identifying and

licensing technologies, creating companies for investment, and in helping lead

portfolio company development and commercialization activities. Previously,

Darren was Manager, Product Planning and Development at Viventia Biotech

where he was responsible for the development of several human therapeutic

antibody projects. Darren led the project teams that moved these products

from research into clinical trials. Darren has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the

University of Alberta and a M.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Manitoba.


HONORARY DEGREES ARE AWARDED FOR DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOLARSHIP, THE ARTS, OR PUBLIC SERVICE.

CANDIDATES FOR HONORARY DEGREES ARE NOMINATED BY MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC.

HONORARY DEGREES

Darlene Coward Wight

BA(Hons), MA (Carleton University)

An honorary Doctorate of Letters is bestowed upon Ms. Darlene Coward Wight in recognition of her tireless dedication to preserve, promote, and celebrate art by Canada’s Inuit.Ms. Wight arrived in Winnipeg in 1986 to assume the position of associate curator, Inuit Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG). Immediately after taking the helm, Ms. Wight enacted visionary innovations, exploring new ways to expand the collection and communicate its importance. Since 1986 she has mounted an astonishing 76 exhibitions, roughly as many as the rest of her Inuit art colleagues combined. She

has courted important collectors and organized major solo exhibitions of trailblazing artists. Her ability to engage with Inuit artists has been one of her main strengths. In 1998, she became curator of Inuit Art at the WAG.Ms. Wight has published 20 illustrated catalogues and many shorter brochures. She was a regular contributor to Inuit Art Quarterly and has authored 47 articles, papers and invited lectures. She has lectured at the University of Manitoba and at universities and art centres across Canada, the United States, and Europe.Ms. Wight possesses a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of Inuit art and an inexhaustible passion for the subject. For decades her efforts have put Inuit culture, an integral part of our national identity, in the Canadian spotlight. Her curatorial excellence has helped us understand the full extent of our national character.But her working life did not begin in the realm of art; she began her career in teaching. After graduating from Peterborough Teacher’s College in 1968, Ms. Wight taught Grades 4 and 5 in

1975 she began studying art history at Carleton University and in 1980 she earned her Master’s

Canadian Arctic Producers, a wholesale art marketing arm of Arctic Co-operatives Limited. From 1984 to 1986, Ms. Wight worked as an independent curator and researcher in Ottawa before coming to Winnipeg.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 3:30 PM

Paul E. Garfinkel

OC, FRCPC; MD (University of

Manitoba); MSc (University of Toronto)

in recognition of his determination to challenge preconceived notions of mental disorders and to pioneer new ways of thinking about, and treating, disease.

Faculty of Medicine in 1969. After completing his residency

entered practice as well as teaching duties in 1974. His career is characterized by the honours bestowed upon him by prestigious

institutions and governing bodies, such as the Queen’s Gold and Diamond Jubilee Medals.His research focuses on eating disorders, pernicious illnesses that hijack minds and starve bodies. His main focus is anorexia nervosa, a notorious disorder that affects primarily young women across Canada and the globe, robbing them of the vigor and vitality that should

regain control of their minds and bodies. His passion and courage propelled him to challenge his colleagues to think about eating disorders in new ways. His scholarship is well regarded and recognized around the world. He has published 155 refereed journal articles, 10 books, 82 book chapters, and many other publications over the course of his trendsetting career.

the University of Toronto’s department of psychiatry, as psychiatrist-in-chief at the Toronto General Hospital, and president and CEO of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, also in Toronto. From 1998 to 2009, he served as the founding president and CEO of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). This centre was created after four independent facilities merged together to form the largest mental illness and addictions treatment facility in Canada. Dr.

and addiction treatment. Through his innovative approach, CAMH has transformed into an urban village that has de-institutionalized patient care.

and vision to pursue and share an improved understanding of contemporary society’s most serious mental disorders.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 AT 3:30 PM

CREATED IN 1873 TO ENCOURAGE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE ACROSS THE NATION, THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ACADEMIC MEDALS HAVE BECOME THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS THAT CANADIAN STUDENTS CAN RECEIVE.

SILVER

Riley B. McGuire

Faculty of Arts

AWARDED FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL

GOVERNOR GENERAL’S MEDAL

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 3:30 PM

Kelley Main

BA(Hons)(University of Winnipeg);

MA (University of Manitoba);

PhD (University of British Columbia)

As the recipient of the seven-year F. Ross Johnson Fellowship,

Dr. Kelley Main engages in trailblazing marketing research. She

began this fellowship in 2007, the same year she began teaching

in the I.H. Asper School of Business; prior to this she was

teaching at York University’s Schulich School of Business. Dr.

Main has lectured in both social psychology at the University

of Winnipeg and in consumer behavior at the University of

British Columbia. Now she is an associate professor at the Asper

School, and a visiting professor at HEC Montreal. Her students appreciate her complementary

styles: she is a warm and approachable teacher who delivers stimulating lectures in the

classroom, but come exam time, reputedly creates some of the Asper School’s most challenging

tests. She is, some may say, the professorial incarnation of tough love. For her dedication to

quality, for demanding excellence and helping students achieve it, she is awarded the Graduate

Students’ Association Teaching Award.


TEACHING AWARDJuliette (Archie) Cooper

Dip. PT/OT (University of Toronto);

BOT, MSc, PhD (University of Manitoba)

For her outstanding contributions to the development and governance of the University of Manitoba, Dr. Juliette (Archie) Cooper is awarded the Peter D. Curry Chancellor’s Award.Dr. Cooper has been devoted to the betterment of the University of Manitoba since 1973, when she began her academic career as a part-time lecturer in the division of occupational therapy

Her exceptional record of governance is too lengthy to fully chronicle here but, in short, since 1976 she has served as a

member or chair of an astounding 61 committees in the Faculty of Medicine and the School of

Dr. Cooper’s administrative work has not been limited to the Faculty of Medicine. From 2005 to 2007 the university tapped into her impressive administrative capabilities by asking her to serve as interim dean of the Faculty of Music. Dr. Cooper began contributing to the governance of the university as a whole in 1988 by becoming a member of the curriculum and course change committee of Senate. She became a member of Senate in 1991 and served continuously for 16 years. She has sat on numerous Senate committees including the Senate executive committee; she also chaired the Senate planning committee and priorities committee. She was elected by Senate to the board of governors in 1995 and again in 2004. She served on eight committees of the board of governors, including the university planning committee and the academic affairs committee, which she later chaired. In 2002 she offered her expertise to the president’s committee on strategic planning. Dr. Cooper has also helped raise funds for the university. In 2002 she was co-chair of the university staff campaign Building on Strengths and from 2006 until 2010 she was chair of the Health Information Place campaign to raise funds for the expansion of the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library. Dr. Cooper has mentored new deans over the years, and, most recently, she was chair of the ad hoc committee of senate executive to review policies and practices related to accommodation of students with disabilities and governance procedures related to academic requirements. This small page cannot justly report all the extraordinary contributions Dr. Cooper has made

she provides a splendid example of a gifted teacher, collaborative researcher, and visionary administrator.


CHANCELLOR’S AWARD

FALL CONVOCATION 20I2


WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT, you’ve probably seen the photographs of Lewis Benjamin (L.B.) Foote. The prolific photographer spent more than four decades capturing Winnipeg moments on film, from royal visits, to cityscapes, to the 1919 General Strike, to ordinary families in their living rooms.

Many of his images have become iconic representations of Winnipeg’s spirit and evolution in the first half of the last century.

Drawing from a vast treasure trove of Foote photographs at the Manitoba Archives, historian and U of M professor Esyllt Jones has compiled a collection of Foote photos entitled Imagining Winnipeg: history through the photographs of L.B. Foote, published in September 2012.

A well-known commercial photographer between 1905 and 1950, Foote worked for a variety of customers including families, community groups and municipal and provincial governments. Jones was drawn to his work because of the uniquely honest perspective they provide on a city struggling with its own identity.

“Foote’s subjects have a kind of beauty and energy, and the photographs speak to the viewer about the

physical, social, cultural and emotional work that goes into making a city,” Jones says. “Foote does not judge with his camera. He is able to capture humans shaping their history — building and creating.”

Jones says Foote’s work is an important tool in mending the historical ‘underdog’ perception of a city that is perceived to have not lived up to its potential. “His images suggest that the city remained an evolving, socially complex community well after its ‘peak’ or boom years, which have received so much notice in scholarly and popular histories,” she explains.

In addition to the value of the photos themselves, Jones says one of the most meaningful experiences she drew from the project was interacting with people who contacted her “about individual and family connections with his work. A wife in a photo of a women’s cycling club; a woman who is a little girl in a photograph of ‘21 nationalities’ at Aberdeen School in the 1930s.”

“It is a reminder that history is a personal, living thing,” Jones adds. “We create and re-create understandings of our past.” – Sandy Klowak

BY U OF M STAFF AND FACULTYBOOKS

BY SANDY KLOWAKThe Bulletin

A desire to explore her identity through her family history drew writer Sally Ito to her most recent project, the translation of her maternal grandfather’s memoir.

“I think there’s a time in your life when you are, as a writer, preoccupied with identity,” says Ito, who is the fall 2012 writer-in-residence at Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (CCWOC).

“My children were getting old enough to ask about things. I felt this compulsion to try to make them aware of their Japanese identity and then I realized that it had to do with my own history and I really wanted to know as much as I could about it.”

Working on her grandfather’s memoir has been a big change from her usual fare of poetry, essays and short stories. In her other writing, Ito pulls inspiration from a variety of sources, including the beauty of the natural world.

“It’s an art in and of itself,” she says, reflecting on translating the work from Japanese into English, for which she relied on family members in Japan for help.

Ito’s grandfather wrote the memoir as a retirement project. The rich life it recounts includes Toshiro Saito’s separation from his young family as he worked on the losing side of the Second World War, and the emotional reunion afterward.

“It’s a discovery of a whole world, of a whole

culture, a new understanding,” she explains of the process of translating and shaping the memoir. “You want to carry a sense of what you discovered to the reader.”

Ito is now looking for a publisher for the memoir as she works on a variety of other projects, including poetry, short stories and a novel about Japanese paper making.

The former Monbukagakusho Scholar who holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MA from the University of Alberta has done a past writer-in-residence stint at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton and is happy to be back in a university setting.

“I’m enjoying it because I have access to all the university resources,” says Ito of the literary resources, the U of M’s Special Collections and the university community in general. “Just being here has been the cat’s pajamas.”

Part of Ito’s role is to host creative writing workshops, as well as to work individually with students, faculty and staff.

One-on-one time with individual writers, as opposed to group class settings, is something she appreciates about the position. “It’s more like a mentorship relationship that you can develop,” she says. Ito notes that the process of mentoring others enriches own work as well.

Imagining Winnipeg: History through the photographs of L.B. Foote, by Esyllt W. Jones, is published by University of Manitoba Press.

Discovery centres: Writer-in-residence explores identity

Q+A with Sally Ito: On writingYou mention the importance of exploring identity as the reason you began working on your family history project. How have you explored identity in your own writing? For the early part of my writing career, I was intent on exploring my cultural identity as a Japanese Canadian. My early poetry — in particular, in my first book, Frogs in the Rain Barrel — was about exploring that identity. My short fiction collection, Floating Shore, contained stories that ‘wavered’ between the two worlds of Canada and Japan. Floating Shore was a title that was meant to evoke the idea of a ‘floating’ border between identities.

You say a sense of discovery accompanied the translation process of your grandfather’s memoir for you. Does this apply to other writing, and can you recount an instance of discovery that occurred through some of your other writing? Absolutely does it apply to other writing for me! Writing is always a process of discovery for me. There’s a great story told by Flannery O’Connor about being surprised by an event that occurred in one of her short stories where a Bible seller makes off with the wooden leg of a character near the end of the story. O’Connor had no idea that this was going to happen until she was in the middle of writing the scene. Characters and situations really do take on a life of their own and discovering what characters will do or how situations will turn out is half the fun of writing, really.

What do you most enjoy about the writing process? Discovery! And that it connects — is it E.M. Forster who said, Only connect? Writing connects me to myself, me to the reader, me to the world.

Writer-in-residence Sally Ito.

Esyllt Jones

What do you hope people will take away from this compilation of his photographs?At least since World War II, the dominant historical narrative in Winnipeg has been about a city that long ago had its glory days (or, days of infamy, depending on your perspective), a narrative of lost opportunity and a sealed fate. Select Foote photographs have often been used to ‘illustrate’ such a view of the city, which has become a sort of orthodoxy, a dominant interpretation that deserves some picking apart. There are a number of problems with it, including the way it is employed to blur any historical consciousness of sites of power and agency, and to perpetuate a view of ourselves as ‘underdogs,’ as Malcolm Gladwell put it on his recent visit to the city. I encourage viewers to take a broader view, to explore the diversity of the Foote collection, as a sort of metaphor for the kind of historical re-evaluation I think we need.

How did you choose which photographs to include in the book? The Foote collection itself (in the public archives) includes over two thousand photographs. We reproduced only about 150. There are also Foote photographs in other private and public collections. The choices we made were meant to convey something of the diversity of his work. If I went down to the archives tomorrow, I might end up with a very different set of choices.

Ito has already hosted poetry and memoir writing workshops at the university, and will host a second poetry workshop with poet Jennifer Still on Wednesday November 21 at 1:00 p.m. in 627 Fletcher Argue Building.To arrange a meeting with Ito, email her at [email protected] or call 204-480-1067.


Two U of M graduate students are recipients of fellowships that will enable their studies of oral traditions and the documentation of oral history of First Nations residents. The C. D. Howe Memorial Foundation Fellowships in Creative Writing and Oral Culture fund g radua te s tudent s working in the areas of creative writing or oral culture. The recipients are chosen based on their record of academic achievement, plan of research and letters of reference. Co-funded

by the C. D. Howe Memorial Foundation and the U of M, and overseen by the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (CCWOC), the fellowships are worth $9,975.00 apiece this year and may be held in addition to other scholarships. The recipients for the 2012-2013 academic year are: Ryan Duplassie, a Ph.D. student in the department of Native studies. Through in-person interviews, Duplassie will study the oral narratives of Grassy Narrows’ resistance leaders, elders, women and youth as they articulate the history of the Grassy Narrows Anishinaabek First Nation community. Agnieszka (Agnes) Pawlowska, also a Ph.D. student in the department of Native studies. Through interviews and recorded discussions, Pawlowska will study the oral narratives of the individuals of Poplar River First Nation including elders, trappers and fishermen regarding the importance of land and land use in their Manitoba fly-in community.

Renate Eigenbrod, acting director of CCWOC, says, “The research by Duplassie and Pawlowska will make a strong contribution to the documentation of the continuous significance of orality in Indigenous societies, especially as it pertains to connections with land and language.” >>cdhowe.org/

◊ JONATHAN BALL: An overlooked but outstanding book is Natalee Caple’s short story collection How I Came to Haunt My Parents, which first appeared online on the Joyland, then was published as an e-book by ECW. Since no print version exists, the book received no reviews, even though Caple is an established and celebrated author and it gained attention as a publishing experiment. The tales range from fables to ghost stories to a fictional letter to Hitler from his mother. Caple’s prose is beautiful and ornate but remains lucid. This is simply one of the best short story collections in recent years.

I also just reread The Humbugs Diet (Mercury, 2007) by Robert Majzels, a stunning work. A crime novel in which the “investigation” models itself on the style of Talmudic inquiry, the book’s detective vainly attempts to “solve” the philosophical problem of how to live after the Shoah. Although on the surface a murder mystery, the novel circles the question of what possible meaning the investigated death could have in the wake of such mass death. Majzels manages to craft a meta-fiction with great pathos and intelligence while staying true to the spirit of his genre even as he subverts its conventions. Few authors are as accomplished and brilliant as the underappreciated Majzels.

Jonathan Ball is a contract faculty member in the department of English, film and theatre and a research administrative assistant in the Faculty of Education. He is the author of Ex Machina, Clockfire and, most recently, The Politics of Knives. He is also completing the critical monograph John Paizs’ “Crime Wave” for the University of Toronto Press’s Canadian Cinema series.

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Oral history researchers awarded fellowships

Lecture focuses on Irish peaceBY SANDY KLOWAK

The BulletinThe long and drawn-out Northern Ireland conflict took thousands of lives before coming to an end in 1998. On October 10, Martin Mansergh, a man with intimate knowledge of how the nearly three decades of violence was finally brought to an end, gave the Sol Kanee Lecture, an annual event organized by The Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace & Justice at the U of M.

As the Irish government’s point person, Mansergh was a key player in the negotiation process that led to the formation of the 1998 “Good Friday” Agreement, ending the war between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the British government.

Mansergh, an author and politician, spoke to a nearly full house about the peace process that finally put an end to the bloody conflict between the minority Roman Catholic Irish nationalists who wished to reunite with the Republic of Ireland, and the Protestant unionists with loyalties to Britain.

Mansergh said that by the mid 1980s, 80 to100 killings a year was common in Northern Ireland.

He spoke about the Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to Northern Ireland as a symbolic moment of change and understanding between the two warring sides, as the boycott of British royalty that went back to the 1900s was ended.

Mansergh ended his lecture with a realistic analysis of the current state of affairs in Northern Ireland. “Where we are now is not the end of history, still less a guarantee that everyone will live happily ever after,” Mansergh said. However, he qualifies the statement: “There is reason for satisfaction that peace with a considerable measure of justice has been achieved.”

In honour of Mansergh’s visit, the Mauro Centre has created a Dr. Martin Mansergh Fellowship in Peace and Justice. The Arthur V. Mauro Centre at U of M’s St. Paul’s College is dedicated to the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution, global citizenship, peace and social justice through research, education and outreach.

The lecture series is named in honour of a prominent Canadian citizen — Sol Kanee (1909 - 2007), who was devoted to the cause of peace and justice. Sol Kanee had an unparalleled record of service to Winnipeg, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1977.

UPCOMING ART AND MUSIC EVENTSAll music events at Eva Clare Hall (Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music, 65 Dafoe Road) unless otherwise noted. For more music events: >>umanitoba.ca/music (click on “events”)

Friday, October 26 | 10:00 a.m.| Viola Master Class with Rennie Regehr as a clinician and guest artistFriday, October 26 | 12:30 p.m. | MidDay Recital by Rennie Regehr.

October 30 | 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. | Vocal Masterclass with Deen Larsen, founder and director of the Franz-Schubert–Institut (Austria)

October 30 | 7:00 p.m. | UM Jazz Orchestra Concert, under leadership of Derrick Gardner

November 3 | 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. | Wind Ensemble with Manitoba Senior Honour Band, guest conductor Dale Lonis. At Jubilee Place, Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute. Tickets $10/$5 at the door.

November 7 | 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. | XIE Midday Recital: Double recital: Part 1 at 11:30 and Part 2 at 12:30. Part concert and part public MasterClass. Free admission.

Friday, November 9 | 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. | Guitar Master Class. Public welcome to join a classical guitar Master Class given by Thibault Cauvin of France.

November 9 |7:00 to 8:30 p.m. | Jazz Master Class with Cyrille Aimee.

Thursday, November 15 | 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. | Azure String Quartet. An evening of chamber music, featuring popular selections by Glazunov, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Borodin, Hendrix and more in an informal setting. Hosted by Faye Sierhuis and Rose Neufeld at 570 South Drive. $30.00 per ticket includes an opening wine reception prior to the performance, and coffee afterwards. Performance begins at 7:30 p.m. For tickets, contact [email protected] or phone 204.232.6565. Please reserve your ticket by November 7.

Thursday, November 15 | 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. | dig! Rent Party and CD Release. The centerpiece of the Rent Party is the release of “Stepchild,” the brand new CD by the Northern Prairie Jazz Ensemble, a group made up of past and present members of the U of M Jazz Studies faculty. Tickets for the dig! magazine Rent Party are $25 in advance and are available at jazzwinnipeg.com, by phone at 989-4656 or in person the Jazz Winnipeg office and at the door at the Park Theatre.

ARCH2 GALLERY EXHIBITIONOctober 22 to November 16Exhibit by Tel Aviv-based sculptor Alona Rodeh. In Architecture 2 Building.

Photo by Mike Latschislaw

Martin Mansergh gave a workshop at Mauro Centre on October 10.

Taking the gun out of Irish politicsSean Byrne, director of the Mauro Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, on the peace process: “The Northern Ireland peace process indicates the importance of talented and committed leadership at all levels taking risks for peace – and working together through tough obstacles to co-create a formula for peace. In this case, it is so that the Protestant Unionist and Catholic Nationalist communities can coexist with each other. The 1998 Belfast or Good Friday Agreement voted in by a majority of people living on the island of Ireland brought a constructive end to the long war between the British government and the Provisional Irish Republican Army, effectively taking the gun out of Irish politics.”

Ryan Duplassie and (below) Agnes Pawlowska.


ASPER SCHOOL OF BUSINESSPosition: Guy Carpenter Professorship in Agricultural Risk Management and InsurancePosition number: 15227 and 15229Deadline: November 5, 2012Start Date: January 1, 2013For Information: Dr. Nick Turner, Chair, Guy Carpenter Professorship Selection Committee, Asper School of Business, U of M, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 5V4, email [email protected]

FACULTY OF ARTSDepartment of AnthropologyPosition: Assistant ProfessorPosition number: 15374Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: July 1, 2013For Information: Prof. Greg Monks, Acting Head, c/o Andrea Klymasz, Department of Anthropology, U of M, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2

Department of ClassicsPosition: Instructor I or IIPosition number: 15210Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: July 1, 2013For Information: Dr. Mark Joyal, Chair, Department of Classics Search Committee, U of M, 220 Dysart Road, Room 364, Winnipeg, MB Canada R3T 2M8, tel: 204-474-9502, fax: 204-474-7658, email: [email protected]

Department of English, Film and TheatrePosition: Senior InstructorPosition number: 15246Deadline: November 23, 2012Start Date: July 1, 2013For Information: Professor Arlene Young, Chair, Search Advisory Committee, Department of English, Film, and Theatre, 626 Fletcher Argue Building, U of M, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 5V5

Department of English, Film and TheatrePosition: Assistant Professor with specialization in British Literature from 1640-1750Position number: 15314Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: July 1, 2013For Information: Professor Arlene Young, Chair, Search Advisory Committee, Department of English, Film, and Theatre, 626 Fletcher Argue Building, U of M, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 5V5

Department of LinguisticsPosition: ful l - t ime tenure-track appointment in Algonquian linguistics, preferably specializing in Cree and/or Ojibwe, at the rank of Assistant ProfessorPosition number: 15335Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: July 1, 2013For Information: Dr. Terry Janzen, Search Committee Chair, Department of Linguistics, 534 Fletcher Argue, U of M, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 5V5

Department of PsychologyPosition: Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology Training ProgramPosition number: 15248Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: On or after July 1, 2013For Information: Dr. Todd A. Mondor, Head, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, P405 Duff Roblin Building, 190 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, tel. 204-474-6378, email: [email protected]

Department of PsychologyPosition: Assistant Professor in Applied Behaviour AnalysisPosition number: 15250Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: On or after July 1, 2013For Information: Dr. Todd A. Mondor, Head, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, P405 Duff Roblin Building, 190 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, tel. 204-474-6378, email [email protected]

Department of PsychologyPosition: Instructor I/IIPosition number: 15251Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: On or after July 1, 2013For Information: Dr. Todd A. Mondor, Head, Department of Psychology, U of M, P405 Duff Roblin Building, 190 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, tel. 204-474-6378, email [email protected]

Department of PsychologyPosition: Assistant Professor in the area Personality PsychologyPosition number: 15242 Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: On or after July 1, 2013For Information: Dr. Todd A. Mondor, Head, Department of Psychology, U of M, P405 Duff Roblin Building, 190 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, tel. 204-474-6378, email [email protected]

FACULTY OF KINESIOLOGY AND RECREATION MANAGEMENT Bison SportsPosition: Head coach, women’s soccer Deadline: November 30, 2012Dates: January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014For Information: Dr. Jane Watkinson ([email protected]), Dean, or Ms. Coleen Dufresne ([email protected]), Athletic Director, tel: 204-474-9509

FACULTY OF LAWPosition: Director of Clinical Legal EducationPosition number: 15657Deadline: November 18, 2012Start Date: July 1, 2013 or earlierFor Information: Dean Lorna A. Turnbull c/o Marcia Kort, Confidential Assistant to the Dean, U of M, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2, fax: 204-474-7663, email: [email protected]

FACULTY OF MEDICINEPosition: Assistant or Associate Professor (two positions) in NeurosciencePosition number: 10634/10635Deadline: January 10, 2013Start Date: June 1, 2013For Information: Dr. Kevin Coombs, co-Chair, Traumatic Brain Injury Program search committee ([email protected]), Faculty of Medicine, U of M, Room A108 Chown Bldg, 753 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3E 0T6, tel: 204-789-3375 fax: 204-789-3942

FACULTY OF SCIENCEDepartment of Computer SciencePosition: Assistant Professor (two positions)Position number: 13073/15588Deadline: November 30, 2012Start Date: July 1, 2013For Information: Search Committee Chair, Department of Computer Science, U of M, Winnipeg MB R3T 2N2, tel. 204-474-8313

STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES Thursday, Oct. 25 | 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.“Copula-Based Regression Estimation and Inference” by Taoufik Bouezmarni, Département de Mathématiques, Université de Sherbrooke. In 316 Machray Hall.

IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH SEMINARThursday, Oct. 25 | 12:00 to 1:15 p.m.“Host-Pathogen Interactions Impacting Pulmonary Immune Tolerance and Inflammation” by Anuradha Ray, professor of medicine & immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 477 Apotex Centre, Bannatyne Campus.

‘THE WINTER’S TALE’ SEMINAR + DISTINGUISHED VISITING LECTUREThursday, Oct. 25 | 3:30 + 4:00 p.m.“Mind, Nature, Heterodoxy, and Iconoclasm in The Winter’s Tale” by Richard Strier. Seminar followed by a lecture at 4:00 p.m. All welcome. In 409 Tier.

FILM SCREENING: FINDING DAWNOctober 26 | 9 a.m. to 12:00 noonChristine Welsh’s documentary “Finding Dawn,” with a discussion to follow. The film raises awareness about violence against street sex workers with a focus on the intersection of colonialism and sexism in Canada. In William Norrie Centre, U of M, Inner City Social Work Campus, 485 Selkirk Avenue, Rm 122.

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUMFriday, October 26 | 3:30 pm“Modelling the Long Term Stability of High Density Magnetic Recording Media” by John P. Whitehead, department of physics and physical cceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 330 Allen Building.

FILM SCREENING: FLOODING HOPE: THE LAKE ST. MARTIN STORYFriday, October 26 | 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.Showing of film “Flooding Hope: the Lake St. Martin Story” with film-makers Myrle Ballard, Ryan Klatt and Shirley Thompson. In Rm 218 Wallace Building.

HLHPRI SEMINAR SERIESFriday, October 26 |2:30 pm‘Outcomes and real world impacts of the Physical Activity Counseling (PAC) trial’ by Dr. Michelle Fortier, University of Ottawa. In Investors Group Athletic Centre, Room 228.

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS LECTURESunday, October 28 | 3:00 p.m.“The 2,000 Excavations of Zeugman, Turkey” by Jennifer Tobin, classics and Mediterranean studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. In 237 University College.

WRITING HORROR FICTION WORKSHOPTuesday, Oct. 30 | 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.U of M instructor and author David Annandale hosts a workshop exploring different approaches to writing horror. In Haney Reading Room, 627 Fletcher Argue.

STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES Thursday, Nov. 1 | 2:35 to 3:45 p.m.“Statistical Inference in Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis” by Dr. Vahid Partovi Nia, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal. In 316 Machray Hall.

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUMFriday, November 2 | 3:30 p.m.“X-ray view of Magnetars, the strongest magnet in the universe?” by Teruaki Enoto, of the Institute of Physics and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan. In 330 Allen Bldg.

CHS COLLOQUIUM SERIESFriday, Nov. 2 | 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.“H1N1 Vaccine Risk Communication: Lessons Learned (so far)” by Michelle Driedger, BA (Hon), MA, PhD, associate professor, department of community health sciences, Tier II CRC, environment and health risk communication, U of M. In R060 Medical Rehab Building, 771 McDermot Ave.

NURSING SEMINARMonday, Nov. 5 | 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.“Barriers to Frontline Surgical Nurse Detection of Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult” by Vera Duncan. In 370 Helen Glass Centre. To participate via Telehealth, contact 975-7714 option 2.

FEMINIST RESEARCHERS WINE & CHEESETuesday, Nov. 6 | 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Informal get-together for feminist researchers to share ideas about research and future plans. All welcome. In Faculty Lounge, 2nd Floor, Faculty of Law.

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SEMINARWednesday, Nov. 7 | 1:30 to 2:25 p.m.“HPC Driving New Discoveries in Fluid Dynamics” by Falk Herwig, associate professor, astronomy and physics, University of Victoria. RSVP to [email protected]. In E2-528 EITC.

ADDRESS BY JUSTICE MURRAY SINCLAIRWednesday, Nov. 7 | 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. “Strength in Identity,” a public address to students. Refreshments provided. Open to all! In Migizii Agamik Foyer.

2012-2013 STU CLARK SPEAKER SERIESFriday, Nov. 9 | 10:30 to 12:00 noon “Extended self in digital world” by Russell Belk, Kraft Foods Canada Research Chair in Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University, who will be visiting the Asper School of Business as part of the 2012-2013 Stu Clark Speaker Series. Light refreshments. In 530 Drake Centre.

FILM WORLDS READING GROUPFriday, November 9 | 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.A forum for researchers and artists from across the disciplines whose work explores and employs the moving image. Film Worlds welcomes new members and we strongly encourage student participation in the research cluster. In 409 Tier Building. For information: [email protected].

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October 31: “Is it too much of a good thing? Indigenous communities and control in action research downstream from the Tar Sands” by Stephane McLachlan, associate professor, environment and geography, U of M.

November 7: “Indigenous Business giving back to Indigenous Communities” by Warren Weir, dean of academic programs, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, Merritt, B.C.

NATIVE STUDIES COLLOQUIUM: INITIATIVES FOR VIBRANT CHANGEWednesdays | 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.In 223 Migizii Agamik (Aboriginal Students Centre).

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teachers in the North, especially among those coming from the South. Nunavut Arctic College is trying to graduate more Inuit teachers; McMillan will be working with some of them over the next three years, along with interviewing Elders about when they felt successful or unsuccessful in school, providing support for teachers in the classrooms, and gauging how the students are responding.

McMillan says their efforts are in sync with the goals of the greater education system in Nunavut to return to a holistic approach, one that’s based on the premise that “a wise person is not just someone who is cognitively intelligent.” Their philosophy—both ancient and forward-thinking—recognizes that other aspects need to be developed as well, including an understanding that you don’t act just for yourself but rather for the betterment of the greater community.

“We’re hoping that working with the kids up until Grade 8 will give them the confidence about believing in themselves as learners, that they’ll be successful in high school.”

And from there continue on to university so they are prepared to secure the top jobs in the region as the Arctic opens up to more industry. A warming planet has meant less ice and more open water for ships to navigate.

But for now, McMillan will continue to teach—and be taught—by Nunavut’s youngest citizens. She returns from every visit with greater insight.

“Being there I see how resilient these people are, who live with so little compared to what we have here and yet have such rich lives. It makes you realize that you don’t need many of the things that you think you need.”

Bringing Research to LIFE

BY KATIE CHALMERS-BROOKSFor The Bulletin

Barbara McMillan knows it’s the smallest moment that can make the biggest impact.

A champion for Nunavut’s children, the education professor remembers vividly a Grade 3 student she met in a remote school in Canada’s far North, a boy who at first appeared quiet and hard to reach.

McMillan was in the country’s northernmost territory to develop more relevant science curriculum for Inuit students and was teaching his class about how light and sound travel. To do so she explained how, while seal hunting on the ice, their ancestors stood on caribou skins so the prey beneath wouldn’t see the shadows of their bodies or hear their footsteps through the water and decide not to emerge through an air hole.

The boy had something to say about that. Excitedly, he relayed to McMillan his experiences while hunting on the ice with his father.

“It was absolute exuberance. It just became clear that he knew so much and he was really interested in sharing with someone else, especially someone from the South who hadn’t had those experiences,” says McMillan.

The roles of teacher and student quickly reversed.

“He was teaching me,” she says. The Social Sciences and Humanities

Research Council announced in April funding for a three-year project led by McMillan to further improve what students are being taught in science in Nunavut, focusing on elementary and middle-school aged kids in Igloolik and Arviat.

She and her colleagues Brian Lewthwaite and Robert Renaud, fellow

Faculty of Education professors, will build on the previous work they’ve done over the last five years with the NSERC-funded Centre for Research in Youth, Science Teaching and Learning, known as CRYSTAL. But this time, they will be joined by curriculum, teaching and learning professor Frank Deer.

Their ultimate goal is to increase graduate rates among Inuit youth. According to a report two years ago by the Auditor General of Canada, 70 per cent of Nunavut students don’t graduate from high school. Some drop out even before completing elementary school.

McMillan’s strategy to reverse this trend? Teach the teachers and provide them with the tools to offer lessons that reflect the unique place where these students call home and the equally unique traditions born out of this environment, ones that span generations and are in danger of being lost forever. Before teaching students in Nunavut about tigers and forests, teach them about belugas and tundra.

“A lot of the material they have really isn’t suited for the area in which they live. We’re trying to help change that, make more relevant resources. It’s more engaging for children when it’s things that they have experience with,” McMillan says.

Not only is it more engaging it encourages a sustainable way of thinking, which can benefit the larger Arctic community.

“If you know your place well, you appreciate it better and all that’s been written on sustainability suggests that you have to really inhabit a place to care for a place, you can’t just live in it,” she says.

One of the biggest challenges for this research team is the high turnover rate of

Inuit children learn about light and shadows with a lesson that incorporates traditional seal hunting.

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Curriculum with cultureResearchers hope to boost high school graduation rates in Nunavut by making classroom lessons more relevant

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Join our panelists in a discussion of the issues that impact Canada’s

North: resource development, climate change and sovereignty,

as well as the interests and effects on Indigenous populations.

Featured Speakers:

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Dean, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and

Resources

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Native Studies, Faculty of Arts; Warden and Vice-Chancellor,

St. John’s College

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law

Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012 Robert B. Schultz Theatre

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Prof. Barbara McMillan and her team are helping to bring Inuit culture and traditions into Nunavut classrooms.

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October 25, 2012The Bulletin

SPOTLIGHT: A NEW ERA OF ACTIVE LIVING

Our hero: Desiree Scott brings home an Olympic medal

DESIREE SCOTT WAS “BLOWN AWAY” BY THE SUPPORT she received on returning home to Winnipeg with her bronze medal after the team’s winning game at the London 2012 Olympics. On October 12, Scott was again “ovewhelmed” by hometown support after her alma mater, the U of M, designated the day “Desiree Scott Day.” University officials made a special presentation to the Olympian, congratulating her on her outstanding performance. Scott is a Bison soccer team assistant coach and a Bison soccer alumna. Later in the day, Scott played soccer with youths aged 12-18 in a fun, free game.

The Bulletin spoke to Scott about her favourite Olympic moment, that cringe-inducing moment when her knee bent back in a way knees shouldn’t bend — and what she’s looking forward to in her position as assistant coach with the Bison Women’s Soccer team.


Left: Olympic bronze medalist Desiree Scott is presented with a plaque commemorating her medal by President David Barnard and Bison Sports coach Coleen Dufresne. There have been two copies made; one will hang in the new stadium and the other in Frank Kennedy Centre. Above: Scott and her mother at the presentation, who also received a tribute for her part in Scott’s success. Beside them is Héctor O. Vergara, executive director of the Manitoba Soccer Association.


Far left: Isreal Idonije, Above: A large crowd gathered for the ground-breaking of the new Active Living Centre. Lower left: In the spirit of active living, John Kearsey, vice-president (external), addressed the crowd while walking on a treadmill.

FORMER U OF M BISON AND CURRENT NFL PLAYER ISRAEL IDONIJE was a special guest at the ground breaking ceremony of the new Active Living Centre on October 11. “The Active Living Centre is going to be a wonderful new facility for the U of M. Having state-of-the-art equipment for students, staff and the community to enjoy is an integral part leading a healthy lifestyle,” said Idonije.

The new four-storey, open-concept facility, with its luminous glass exterior, will house a high-performance training facility for elite athletes and an applied research centre and more. This 100,000-square-foot facility will support an active lifestyle for students, staff, and the community alike.

Favourite Olympic moment? After the final whistle blew, it began to sink in that we had won. I was shocked to be on the team in the first place, and so it was pretty great to be able to stand on the podium to receive a medal.

What was it like to come home to a crowd of fans? The support has been phenomenal. I thought that there might be a few people waiting to congratulate us, but there were a few hundred!

How is your knee? Well, my knee is fine, fortunately. I haven’t watched the replay yet — people told me not to. I walked it off the hit after, and it turned out to be just a really bad bone bruise. But I’m pretty happy it’s okay.

What do you enjoy about coaching? It’s great to be able to give back from my knowledge and experience, helping young players develop and enjoy their game. I followed my brother into soccer, so I’m glad that now I get to teach others.

What do you like about soccer? It’s a beautiful game. I like that it’s a team sport, and that all of you are working together for a single goal. It’s very competitive. But you also make close friends.

To what do you attribute your success? The excellent quality of the soccer programs I’ve been involved with, and the coaches. My new coach has instilled a lot of confidence in me. I’ve also have a huge support system, from family to team to friends and the larger community.

Advice for a young player who wants to compete in elite sports? Work hard. Love what you do. Be prepared to make sacrifices.

Best Bison moment? The university having a soccer team (it formed in 2005 when Scott was graduating from high school) meant that I was able to play at home, and have family and friends be part of my success.

New Active Living Centre is Isreal Idonije-approved!

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