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January 6, 2011 Vol. 47 No. 1 The University of Western Ontario’s newspaper of record www.westernnews.ca

INSIDE: Academe 11 | Coming Events 10 | Classified 11 | Student Services Bulletin 10

B y H e a t h e r Tr a v i s

Michael Milde, associate vice-provost (academic program review), has been

appointed as acting dean of the Fac-ulty of Arts and Humanities for a term ending June 30, 2012.

Milde has previously served as acting associate vice-provost (grad-uate & postdoctoral studies) from 2009-2010. He has also served the Faculty of Arts & Humanities as associate dean (academic) from 2003-09.

Milde is replacing Donna Pen-nee, who stepped down to begin a period of leave on Jan. 1 after serv-ing as dean since September 2008.

Pennee remains a tenured faculty member within the Department of English and will focus on research and scholarship.

“I know Donna’s resignation from her role as dean came as a surprise and saddened many, as she has played important roles in advancing several initiatives dur-ing her tenure as dean,” says Janice Deakin, provost and vice-president (academic). “During my short time at Western, many of her colleagues have commented to me about the high value they place in Donna’s advice, encouragement, support and leadership in areas of impor-tance to them individually and to the faculty as a whole. Personally, I

have come to know Donna as a pas-sionate and tireless champion for liberal arts education.”

Pennee has worked to ensure disciplinary specialization is sup-ported, while at the same time act-ing as a strong advocate for more cross-pollination in teaching and research between faculties, Deakin adds.

“Michael makes an excellent choice as acting dean at this time due in large part to his experience in senior roles within the faculty, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, and several Senate and university committees,” Deakin says.

He has been a member of Sen-ate; chair of the Senate Committee

on Academic Policy and Awards; chair of the Subcommittee on Undergraduate Program Review; and has served on a variety of uni-versity committees. Milde joined the Department of Philosophy as a full-time faculty member in 1994, and is currently an associate pro-fessor. His research area is social and political philosophy, with a par-ticular interest in justice, multi-culturalism and the intersection of constitutional law, democracy and social contract theory.

He has co-edited two books: Bringing Power to Justice: The Prospects of the International Crim-inal Court and A Question of Values: New Canadian Perspectives in Eth-

ics and Political Philosophy. He is currently a consulting editor for the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence.

“I am very grateful for the impor-tant contributions both Donna and Michael have made and will con-tinue to make to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and to the broader campus community,” Deakin says.

As Milde will serve in the acting role for the next 18 months, the decanal selection process for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities will begin in due course, Deakin notes. Four decanal searches are currently underway in the facul-ties of Law, Education, Science and Music.

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A DREAM UNFOLDS

Milde tapped as Arts and Humanities acting dean

WHY A UNIVERSITY HALF A GLOBE AWAY COULD MEAN THE WORLD TO WESTERN

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CAMPUS DIGEST

MCCLATCHIE NAMED NEW PRINCIPAL

Stephen McClatchie, Mount Allison University provost and vice-president, academic and research, has been appointed principal of Huron Univer-sity College, effective July 1, 2011.

During his time at Mount Allison, he led the development of a student recruitment and retention plan that helped to increase student numbers and resulted in the creation of the new

position of vice-president, student affairs; oversaw the development of an Academic Renewal Plan that is cur-rently being implemented; and spearheaded the estab-lishment of the Ron Joyce Centre for Business Studies.

“I am both excited and honoured to have been cho-sen as Huron University College’s next principal. Ever since I was an undergraduate student at The University of Western Ontario, I have been aware of Huron’s repu-tation for academic excellence and I look forward to working with faculty, staff and students to ensure that it continues to embody the best of liberal arts and theo-logical post-secondary education,” says McClatchie, a native Londoner.

McClatchie received his PhD in systematic musi-cology from Western in 1994. He is an active scholar in the fields of musicology and music history and has published two books: The Mahler Family Letters and Analyzing Wagner’s Operas: Alfred Lorenz and Ger-man Nationalist Ideology as well as numerous journal articles, reviews and presentations.

McClatchie succeeds Ramona Lumpkin who left Huron in September to assume the position of president and vice-chancellor for Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Trish Fulton has served as interim principal since Oct. 1.

ENGINEERING ‘LEEDS’ THE WAY

The Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion in the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Western Ontario has officially been designated LEED (Leader-ship in Energy & Environmental Design) Gold by the Canadian Green Building Council.

The 45,000 square-foot, $20-million facility, known as the “Green Building,” features advanced environmen-tally sustainable construction technologies and method-ologies. The structure houses research geared toward green technologies, processes and materials. It is the second building in London to achieve LEED Gold status, the first being the Sisters of St. Joseph’s new residence.

Unique areas of the building include a green roof covered with flats of drought-resistant sedum, a hardy garden plant. The soil and plants insulate the building for sound, along with increasing the heating and cool-ing efficiency. A wind turbine and solar panels are also located on the roof to help generate electricity.

Other green features of the building include: a cis-tern and greywater system, geothermal heating/cool-

ing, designated spots for carpoolers, use of local and recycled materials, and is roughly 40 per cent energy efficiency over similar standard constructions.

“The Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion pro-vides our faculty members and graduate students an opportunity to conduct environmentally sustainable engineering research and educational initiatives in a state-of-the-art facility,” says Andrew Hrymak, West-ern Engineering dean. “The pavilion is enabling and expanding our established and emerging researchers to become internationally recognized for their research in the field of green technologies and products for a sustainable future.”

WESTERN EARNS TOP HONOURS IN THE BUILDING CATEGORY

The University of Western Ontario has won a 2010 Urban Design Award from the City of London. Top honours in the Building Category are shared by a Fanshawe College entry and Western’s Support Services Building.

The Urban Design Awards program seeks to raise the bar on urban design in London by awarding projects that represent excellence, innovation and visionary thinking. Such awards are intended to inspire building owners, architects, landscape architects, planners and designers to advance excellence in their own projects in pursuit of community recognition and appreciation.

ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK OFF AND RUNNING

Islamic Awareness Week, hosted by the Muslim Stu-dents Association at The University of Western Ontario, continues until Jan. 11.

The week, operating under the theme “Voices of Muslims around the Globe,” provides learning oppor-tunities and a friendly environment to those curi-ous about the religion, its customs, practices, beliefs and people. Free to the public, the events include:

• 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 6, Brescia Day, information booths at Brescia’s Auditorium Foyer;

• 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 7, Huron Day, information booths at Huron’s SAC;

• Jan. 7, “Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think,” Western Film;

• 6:30-8:30 p.m. Jan. 8, “Should Canada Ban the Veil?” Katherine Bullock, 3M, Room 3250;

• 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 10, “Walk into my Hijab” Day (free hijabs to wear) and art exhibition, Brescia’s Merici Lounge;

• 7-9 p.m. Jan. 10, “Images of Muslims in the Media” Tayyibah Taylor;

• 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 11, King’s Day, information booths at King’s.

For more information, contact Homaira Siddiqui at [email protected] or Nader Elhayek at [email protected].

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With more than 30 years policing experience, John Carson hopes to further

improve what is already a safe cam-pus at The University of Western Ontario.

With Bill 168 in effect now for six months, the latest amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act require Ontario workplaces with more than five workers to develop written policies addressing work-place harassment/violence as well as review those policies at least once a year.

Carson, who was hired as West-ern’s Safe Capus Co-ordinator, says Bill 168 formalizes into law what were already solid practices under-taken at the university. His new role will seek to further Western’s com-pliance with the new requirements, including assisting in training ses-sions. Faculty members are sched-uled to begin training on Bill 168 later this month.

“If there is any matter that involves safety, regardless of it being student, faculty or staff related, then the safe campus initiative kicks in,” says Carson, who retired in 2008 as deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police before taking on this part-time role three months ago.

“Whenever officers investigate anything that meets safe campus criteria I am made aware of it. And my role is to engage and make sure all the proper details have been addressed in the investigation, he continues. “But not only the investi-

gations, there could be a workplace safety issue between two employees or a domestic dispute involving an employees off campus, but could be retaliation on campus. Do we have safety plans in place?”

Carson adds another part of his job is to assess and understand potential risks on campus and find ways to mitigate such risks. “If we see things we can do we will act upon it. If there are issues, whether it be support for a student, issues in residence, mental health issues, if there are things we can do to assist or mitigate the situation or if we see some possible trends, we will address them as a group.”

Carson is referring to the Safe Campus Advisory Partners group, led by Campus Community Police Service Director Elgin Austen. The group addresses a wide variety of issues affecting students, staff and faculty in creating a safe campus community.

Austen says Carson’s new role is part of a safe campus project in which he will assist in not only edu-cational sessions, but in support-ing academic counselors and the Registrar’s Office in dealing with students and co-ordinating investi-gation reports with campus police.

Under Bill 168, for example, off-campus domestic violence with a potential to impact those on campus is the responsibility of the organiza-tion to deal with, he explains.

“Making reference that it is a safe campus, with 40,000 people there will be instances and odd things that will happen,” Austen says. “It’s those

things that we want to make sure don’t fall between the cracks. John is a real asset to the university. It’s a leadership position that will lend greater support to safety on cam-pus.”

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Carson says campus police – and the university as a whole – is very responsible and pro-active when it comes to dealing with safety issues.

“I am quite pleased and impressed of the responsive co-operation that I’ve seen from all entities, whether

it’s faculty, staff or management,” Carson says. “There are signifi-cant efforts to address issues and a strong desire to have a positive outcome. All of the managers and leaders that I have dealt with have been so supportive.”

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Western well represented among Order of Canada

University of Western Ontario Board of Governors and Senate member Hanny Hassan along with five other Western community members were recently named to the Order of Canada.

On Dec. 30, David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, announced 54 new appointments to the Order of Canada. The new appointees include 12 Officers and 42 Members. These appoint-ments were made on the recommendation of the Advisory Council for the Order of Canada.

Recipients will accept their insignia at a ceremony to be held at a later date.

After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Western in 1964, Hassan received his master’s degree of engi-neering from Dalhousie University in 1971. He has been an active professional, advancing within a major professional engineering consulting firm, where he served as a director and a partner of the firm until his retirement in 2002. He now manages an independent consulting engineering practice, Alef Consulting Inc., in London.

Hassan presently serves on Western’s Board of Governors and Senate. He is a member of the National Executive and vice chair of the Ontario Panel of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. He is the past co-chair of the National Muslim Christian Liaison Committee. He served as president of the Ontario Advisory Coun-cil on Multiculturalism and Citizenship from 1991-5. He has been, for many years, a member of the advisory committee of OMNI Television.

In addition to Hassan, Robert D. Hare, who earned a PhD in psy-chology from Western in 1963, and Ellis Jacob, a Western parent and donor to Jewish Studies, were named Members of The Order of Canada.

Among the Officers of The Order of Canada named were Nicole Brossard, honorary degree in 1991; Linda Hutcheon, honorary degree in 2002; and Shelagh Rogers, honorary degree in 2002.

The Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian hon-ours, was established in 1967, during Canada’s centennial year, to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to community and service to the nation. Over the last 40 years, more than 5,000 people from all sectors of society have been invested into the Order.

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MAKING HEADLINES

“Golf and the law seem to have been made for each other. On every fairway, in every stretch of rough, in every clubhouse, in every golf bag, at every swing at the ball, in every set of plans for a new course, in every application for club membership, there lurks a potential lawsuit.”

- Craig Brown, Law, on golf courses and gold mines

New York Times, Dec. 22

“The issues were clear. For the government, it was ‘Harper or Chaos.’ For the Liberals, it was ‘Ignatieff or Chaos.’ For the NDP, it was ‘Chaos everywhere.’ For the Bloc Québécois, it was ‘Chaos sans barrières.’ For the Greens, it was ‘A plague on chaos.’

No one was winning. No one was losing. The public yawned.On April 1, the people spoke. Stephen Harper won

110 seats. Michael Ignatieff won 110 seats. Jack Layton won 35 seats. Gilles Duceppe won 53 seats. Elizabeth May won 0 seats (her best showing yet, foiled by first past the post). Mr. Harper and Mr. Ignatieff declared decisive vic-tories. Mr. Layton called for a coalition government.”

- Dennis Smith, political science, on the political landscape of 2011

The Globe and Mail, Jan. 3

“If you have a project where you want to think innovatively, or you have a problem to carefully consider, being in a positive mood can help you to do that.”

-Ruby Nadler, graduate student, on viral videos enhancing creative thinking

Time Magazine, Dec. 24

“By and large, the appeal of agnosticism is to the spiritually timid. Its attraction is that it gives the illusion of a safe harbour in a roiling sea when, in fact, it offers no harbour, only more sea-sickness. It leaves the voyager without a compass (for Christians, the Bible); without a guide (for Christians, Jesus Christ); without a destination (for Christians, heaven); and without a hope (for Christians, resurrection). Other religions, too, have their holy writ, guide, and destiny, but I contrast agnosticism with Christian-ity because Christianity is the religion I profess.”

- Ian Hunter, Law,

on the timid appeal of agnosticism National Post, Dec. 21

Contributed by Alan Noon ([email protected]) J.J. Talman Collection/Western Archives

Like many of its contemporaries, the Putherbough Construction Company made extensive use of horse power during the 1920s and construc-tion of University Bridge was no exception. This view looking east towards Richmond Street illustrates ‘teamsters’ with their wagons hauling sand and gravel to build the cofferdams needed to hold back the river water allowing footings to be laid. John Putherbough, mastermind behind the whole operation, can be seen standing in the centre foreground wearing a hat, white shirt and with hands behind his back.

The Way We Were: 1922

Paul Mayne, Western News

Classes have been back just four days, but students are already getting a jumpstart on the new semester with the D.B. Weldon Library already full. Third-year Medical Sciences (Honors Specialization) student Grace Ye was one of the many students to start of the semester on a good note.

Stewart ChafeeStewart Chafee, a staff member in the Physi-cal Plant department for 44 years before his retirement in May 1997, passed away on Dec. 6, 2010 at the age of 78.

Sadie BrooksSadie Brooks, a staff member in the Board Senate/Secretariat office for five years, passed away on Dec. 15, 2010 at the age of 83.

Donald HuntenDonald Hunten, a Western alumnus and long-time professor at the Department ofPlanetary Sciences, University of Arizona, passed away on Dec. 14, 2010 at the age of 85. A memoriam is posted at http://plan-etarypolicy.org/hunten.html.

IN MEMORIAM

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B yJ a s o n Wi n d e r s

Associate Director, Editorial Services

I see great opportunity in this so-called ‘Common Sense Revolution’ sweeping the globe.

Not in the tenets of the revolution itself, mind you. Those are doomed. Like ‘pretty,’ ‘smart’ or ‘fun to be around,’ ‘common sense’ is a trait most accurately bestowed upon you by others and rarely fulfills its promise when bestowed on oneself by oneself. So pardon me if I fear these self-appointed ‘common sense’ revolutionaries as I would wager they will prove to possess nothing in common with sense at all.

No, the opportunity in this revolution comes for those of us blessed to pick up the pieces of their poor judgment.

Originating in the 1990s, the ‘Common Sense Revolu-tion’ was the brainchild of über-Republican strategist Mike Murphy during a New Jersey gubernatorial cam-paign. Former Ontario Premier Mike Harris elevated the slogan to policy during his time in office. And now, it has been co-opted across the globe to provide cover for politi-cians seeking to slash budgets in the name of ‘responsibil-ity’ and ‘austerity.’

A ‘Common Sense Revolution’ has taken hold in Ireland, France, Spain, even Greece.

In my homeland, one house of Congress has swung and another narrowed mainly due to the influence of the Tea Party, a band of hyper-conservatives grown out of a stated response to runaway government spending, and an unstated response to a black president. They guarantee, starting this week, a ‘Common Sense Revolution’ in the United States.

For all its historic failings, this time, they promise, it will be different.

That fact remains to be seen. However, we have seen – right here on Western’s campus – the fallout from these revolutions and the wonderful opportunities they provide those of us who keep our heads in troubled times.

Witness Adrian Owen, who starts his work on Western’s campus as we speak.

Last year, Owen left the funding chaos of the United Kingdom to join Western. And we couldn’t be happier. Landing one of neuroscience’s brightest stars will cement this university’s reputation for decades to come.

But Owen represents another legacy, one that is just beginning worldwide.

“U.K. science is going through a period of uncertainty, and many of my more senior colleagues said this might not be a bad time to be leaving,” Owen told The Guardian (U.K.) newspaper in May. “There’s nobody in the U.K. put-ting down $20 million saying, ‘We think what you’re doing is really cool, come and do it here.’”

And it has only gotten worse since.In October, the BBC reported U.K. science funding

bodies will absorb cuts of 41 per cent to their capital expenditure. That figure comes on top of a 10 per cent real terms cut announced earlier. And researchers fear more are to some.

To Canada alone in the last year, the U.K. lost four top scientists to Western, University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta as British researchers won four $20 million awards created by the Canadian government. That funding total is the most by any country outside the United States, which will lose nine scientists to the program.

You wonder, how many other Adrian Owens are out there getting nervous? Not just in the U.K. and United States, but beyond. And wouldn’t Canada, even Western, be a nice new home for them?

Austerity in the name of austerity, with nary a hint of strategy behind it, does zero good. It is a short-term, albeit momentarily politically popular, solution that cannot be considered as a long-term strategy. And it has nothing to do with common sense. It sounds good out on the stump, but its application is doomed to failure. It is akin to tear-ing out your kitchen after you put on a couple of pounds after the holidays.

The current global political climate highlights the need for continued smart investment. Commitment to research, especially in the sciences, is a commitment to the future.

That fact is just common sense. So far, Canada seems to get that.

Making sense of common sense

I’m standing in front of a room full of CBC radio producers and researchers in Toronto, and they’re all nodding their heads, agreeing with the words I’ve just spoken. You’d

think this would make me happy.Instead, I’m furious.I’d thought the story I was relating was outdated and irrel-

evant. But it turns out my little historical anecdote is surpris-ingly contemporary. Apparently, 15 years after I discovered first-hand how hard it was to recruit expert women to agree to be listed in a resource guide for reporters seeking to expand their roster of reliable sources beyond the usual (mostly male) suspects, women are still declining interviews in droves.

As the president of the non-profit organization Media Action in the 1990s, I’d personally invited dozens of female scholars, business executives and NGO leaders to participate in a project that would help correct the gender imbalance among newsmakers and commentators in Canadian newspapers. Sadly, dozens of those women responded by saying, ‘Well, I’m flattered to be asked, but I’m really not the best person.’ The nodding CBC producers confirmed that, even in 2010, this response is a familiar one.

That’s a problem: The unfortunate tendency of many women experts to defer to others means even though women constitute more than half of the workforce and university graduates, and are making significant gains in many previ-ously male-dominated professions, our perspectives are still often missing in action from the public discourse.

Recent Canadian research documents on the op-ed pages of major market daily newspapers and on prominent broadcast programs dealing with public affairs, female pundits and pontificators are outnumbered by their male counterparts by about five to one.

This is bad news for women and men. As a growing body of research makes clear, incorporating a diversity of per-spectives into decision-making results in better decisions. Corporations and countries that make the best use of women’s contributions are more competitive and enjoy a higher qual-ity of life.

Simply put, Canada can’t afford for knowledgeable women to confine their expert analysis to scholarly journals and con-ferences. Given the unprecedented economic, environmental, and social challenges we face, we need to be drawing on the expertise of the best and the brightest, many of whom are

women. It’s never made sense to access the intelligence and ideas of only half the population; it makes even less sense now.

Although academic publications and conferences remain important vehicles for the dissemination of new research, public discourse also plays a critical role. The voices that inform public debate through prominent news media have an enormous impact on shaping public opinion and influenc-ing government policies and priorities on everything from climate change and health care to technology and education.

Informed Opinions – a project of Media Action – is working to enhance the diversity and quality of that discourse by sup-porting more women in sharing their knowledge and insights. We’re partnering with universities across Canada to encour-age female scholars from all disciplines to speak up more often, and to recognize the benefits that result when they offer their expertise beyond the halls of academe.

Women who take our workshops walk out at the end of the day better equipped to translate their scholarly knowledge into accessible analysis that enhances public understanding of the issues they know more about than most others.

They’re given practical tips in writing and submitting op-eds, and they’re discouraged from believing that ‘I’m not the best person?’ is an acceptable response to most interview requests.

CBC producers – as eager as their colleagues at other news organizations to make use of women’s insights – await.

Shari Graydon, an award-winning author and the catalyst of Informed Opinions, leads Informed Opinions, a project that supports experts in making their ideas and knowledge more accessible to print, broadcast and online information media. Informed Opinions’ goals are to bridge the gender gap in public commentary and enhance the quality of public discourse by expanding the diversity of perspectives that inform Canada’s policies and priorities.

Bringing knowledgeable women into the conversation

Learn moreShari Graydon will hold a public lecture on the under-represen-tation of women’s perspectives in the media 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13 in Western’s London Hall. She is also hosting a one-day workshop on Saturday, Jan. 15 for 25 of Western’s female fac-ulty members to provide them with the tools to conduct media interviews and write opinion pieces. The lecture and workshop are sponsored by the Department of Women’s Studies & Femi-nist Research, the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, the Department of Communica-tions & Public Affairs, and the Office of the Provost.

B yS h a r i G r a y d o n

Award-winning author, and the catalyst of Informed Opinions

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Why a university half a globe away could mean the world to Western

B y J a s o n Wi n d e r s

Amit Chakma isn’t going home.Speaking during the waning days of the fall semester, in the grips of a strangling

cold, The University of Western Ontario president made it clear his upcoming trip to Bangladesh would be no homecoming. In fact, even though his journey halfway around the globe drops him less than 100 kms from his boyhood home, he has no plans to visit.

This mission, he intimates, is not about the past.Later this month, Chakma joins dozens of international leaders in a landmark visit to the

Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The highlight will be a three-day symposium held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 20-22. Entitled “Imagining Another Future for Asia,” the symposium brings together students, scholars and global leaders to focus on four key themes confronting Asia: governance, poverty, environment and security. Among his duties, Chakma will sit as an expert panelist for a session, “In Pursuit of Excellence with Equity: Another Pathway for Higher Education.”

Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and Cherie Blair, a leading human rights lawyer and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, serve as co-chairs for the event.

The trip marks a watershed moment in Chakma’s presidency. He travels not as Western’s CEO or Fundraiser in Chief, but as an invited guest who embodies the opportunity offered to the students by AUW.

Even though he’ll lightly protest to the contrary, listening to him speak of his destination, you sense this isn’t a regular trip for the president.

“I get inspired at this. This is a dream that is unfolding before my eyes that I myself would not have believed it,” Chakma says. “The notion is that one day they’ll become change agents, go into their communities and transform them. I find the power of that dream to be so attrac-tive personally.”

While Chakma may not feel he’s going home, in the end, where he comes from shaped every step of where he has gone. And it’s that journey event organizers see as offering hope and an unseen-until-now inspiration to the students of AUW.

* * *

Kamal Ahmad knows how to bring people together.Part academic, part evangelist, part salesman, the AUW founder and acting vice chancellor

has circled the globe generating support for his vision. Those who meet with him speak of his willingness to go the extra mile – literally – to lay the groundwork for a stronger university.

“A university’s success is in its ability to attract the best people – students, faculty, admin-istrators,” Ahmad says. “When you get the word out that helps capture the attention of those who are talented. No knowledge centre isolated in itself can succeed.”

AUW’s genesis grew out of a World Bank/UNESCO task force on education. To Ahmad, the report, issued in 2000, was “a wake-up call about ignoring higher education in developing countries.”

Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise did not offer universal, step-by-step instructions for reforming higher education. It sought only to create a dialogue and spur innovation around the central thesis that higher education was no longer a luxury; it was essential to national social and economic development.

Ahmad not only understood that message, he lived it. He grew up in Bangladesh, but was educated at Harvard University and the University of Michigan Law School. He parlayed his opportunity into success. Now he wants to bring that same opportunity home to the strug-gling region.

“If you are to bring about changes in the societies, one of the most critical factors is leader-ship. So we are concerned with how to grow leaders,” he says.

Thanks to his efforts, the Parliament of Bangladesh ratified the AUW Charter, the first docu-ment of its kind in the region, in September 2006. For the 2010-2011 academic year, AUW’s students represent 13 countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Iran, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

“By bringing women from 13 counties, we are hoping to grow a network of extraordinarily powerful women well-positioned to bring about necessary change,” he says.

The university, comprised mainly of first-generation university students, sits at the epicen-ter of the problems it attempts to solve. “We are located where the challenges speak more loudly than anywhere else. You cannot live in a place like Chittagong and not be conscious of the challenges around us,” Ahmad says.

Poverty. Environment. Public health. The challenges he lists seem almost insurmountable. But Ahmad sees the steepness of the climb as part of the attraction. “For a smart people com-mitted to change, these are exciting problems to be solved,” he continues. “Part of the tragedy of the developing world is that much of the knowledge of the world globally has been devoted to a small minority of the world. The issues of poor people require the attention of the best minds.”

AUW leases facilities in downtown Chittagong for academic spaces, administrative offices and student residences. However, the Parliament of Bangladesh has donated 130 acres of land to AUW for a permanent campus. Construction began in September 2010. As part of his visit, Chakma will tour the new facility.

“I can see the difference, not only did I see it in my family but in villages, the kind of dif-ference women make. From that point of view, I know this institution is going to make a difference. I can just see the impact,” Chakma says. “Take 100 women graduating from the university going back to 100 different communities. What a power that will be.”

This effort has not been a one-man job.Ahmad has managed to capture the imagination of globally prominent individuals and

institutions. These people have then helped further the success of the institution. His reach crosses all ideologies. For example, sitting on his Council of Patrons are both Italian politician Emma Bonino, a member of that country’s Radical Party, and Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secre-tary of State under George W. Bush. Not normal bedfellows unified under the AUW cause. All because, as Ahmad argues, there are larger issues than politics at play.

“Women’s education in places like Afghanistan will lead more to the success of those nations than the battalions being sent,” he says.

* * *

Chakma knows this story well.Like the young students who will hear him speak later this month, he has lived their chal-

lenges, seen their concerns.“Women in many, many developing countries play important roles. You can see it in villages,

in households. When you have women with some level of education, good things happen,” he stresses.

At this point, Chakma cannot help but reflect on his own upbringing by a schoolteacher mother. He speaks about her efforts to make good things happen in his home, and how she made sure her children embraced education. She was serious and strict, but supportive in every possible way.

“She followed our movement every step of the way. When needed, she would be tough. She would make sure we would fall in line, but at the same time, I never felt I lacked any-

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thing because of that power of her love and affective and caring nature,” he says. “That made up for the toughness she may have demonstrated in making sure we did what we needed to do.”

Chakma didn’t necessarily enjoy it at the time. Upon finishing examinations, he would often come home to more questions than he faced in the classroom. “I would be subject to a series of interrogations,” he laughs, almost nervously, at the thought.

Even as the subject matter went beyond her own education, his mother didn’t stop pushing. “It was a challenge for her, but nevertheless the questioning didn’t stop.”

But it was that constant push Chakma cred-its with his passion for learning today.

In AUW, Chakma sees just the ‘push’ the region needs.

“Some of the challenges those commu-nities face, women take the brunt of those challenges related to poverty, related to dis-crimination, related to strong, conservative beliefs. Women are discriminated against, if not directly, then indirectly, and they are challenged every step of the way,” he says. “Therefore strong leadership from women becomes critical for these communities to succeed. The best way of dealing is through educational opportunities.”

* * *

It’s hard to explain the trip in terms of

direct, immediate impact for Western. In fact, Chakma doesn’t try.

This trip represents something far differ-ent for this university, a major appearance for its president on the international stage as an embodiment of Western and the possiblities of higher education.

“He is a symbol of many things, in essence our core idea that talent is everywhere,” Ahmad says of Chakma. “He is a source of inspiration to us and our students. He shows our students the world of higher education is borderless, talents more from one place to another. Amit is the perfect friend to join us in these celebrations. I hope there is a bit of a sense of homecoming as well.”

Ahmad also sees benefits in hosting the president of a major Canadian university.

“When we think of Canada perhaps more than any society, we think of them as hugely engaged in the problems of the developing world,” Ahmad says. “We are hoping Canada will take a leadership role in women’s educa-tion across the globe.”

As the lone Canadian academic in atten-dance, this group offers Chamka a unique opportunity and audience, one perhaps not entirely familiar with Western. “I doubt that

Cherie Blair knows about Western now. But I’ll make sure that she knows about Western after this trip,” he laughs reflecting on his “flag-waving activity” for the university. But you get the feeling he is serious. As part of Chalma’s reason for accepting the invitation, raising the profile of Western in minds of global academic and social leaders is key.

But it’s also about building long-term rela-tionships.

Chakma first heard of AUW while hosting a tour of Dutch university presidents at the University of Waterloo. “I was very excited about it,” Chakma says. “But I just left it there, parked it there. And then when my appoint-ment here (Western) was announced, because of the publicity it received, the founder of the university (AUW) contacted me. He said this is where we are, can I come and meet with you and share our dreams for this university.”

Only at Waterloo for a few months more, Chakma promised to contact Ahmad after he discovered what he was working with at Western.

“I found a Faculty of Education that has interest in outreach activities. I found our Women’s Studies program to be a progressive program. And a few other pieces,” he says. “So I said maybe, just maybe, we have some interest here.”

Chamka invited Ahmad for a visit. That meeting, like so many others Ahmad has

taken before and after it, planted the seeds of a partnership.

“I really like Western to be a part of this because after all we’re in the business of education. And we know education makes a difference in the lives of many,” Chakma says. “The notion of helping the rest of the world through education is just such an attractive notion, such a powerful notion. I cannot think of any other activity that one can contemplate that would have more impact.”

But going into this trip, he doesn’t quite know what that partnership would look like. However, both he and Ahmad speak of Stan-ford University’s alliance with AUW as a perfect blueprint.

Richard Saller, Humanities and Sciences dean, spearheads the program for Stanford University and sits on the AUW International Council of Advisors.

He was introduced to AUW through Thomas and Janet Montag, Stanford donors. Janet, who serves on the AUW Support Foundation board of directors, passed AUW materials to Saller the first time they met. Soon afterward, Ahmad visited and spent an hour selling Saller and his Stanford colleagues on AUW. And it worked.

“It struck me that they don’t want this to be a ‘School for Poor Girls.’ This gives it a kind of patina that makes it more attractive,” Saller says. “By the time they graduate, these

women will have a network that is useful to them.”

Now one year into the partnership, Stanford annually sponsors two postdoc fellowships for their scholars to work and teach on the AUW campus. One has gone and returned; a second is still there; a third is being advertised for currently.

In addition to the teaching agreement, Stan-ford has invited 25 AUW rising juniors to attend a month-long summer school on the California campus. The program features coursework, a lecture series on women and leadership as well as writing workshops. It is this opportunity to expose AUW students directly to Stanford and North American higher education that excites Saller.

“I am looking forward to this opportunity this summer,” he says. “Having a conversa-tion with these students about a very different cultural experience is particularly exciting to me.”

If these are the types of opportunities Chakma will seek, or if he wants to get cre-ative in another direction, he’ll have a willing partner in AUW.

“The need,” Ahmad reminds us of the insti-tution still in its infancy, “is in virtually every area.”

* * *

When he spoke in late December, Chakma

had yet to put pen to paper.Still a month away from his visit, he

expected to sit down and think through his remarks after weather cancellations and holi-days were in his rearview mirror. During that point of eventual reflection, where he would put down his message to the students of AUW, Chakma couldn’t help but anticipate some emotions to rise up.

He just didn’t know when they would come.“Maybe when I’m writing that, maybe then

emotions come through,” he says. “But I am pretty sure when I deliver it. I can just close my eyes and see the potential of this place. So when that excitement shows up I am pretty sure there’ll be some emotions.”

But for a man who insists no homecoming awaits him in Bangladesh, viewing this trip not as a visit to the past, but a glimpse into his – and Western’s – future, Chakma isn’t sure from where those emotions will generate.

“Yes, there’ll be some emotions. So whether it is related to going to my native country, I am not quite sure,” he says. “I have broken through that national boundary many years back. So there will be more emotion with respect to the power of what this idea can be.

“Seeing those students will, hearing their stories, I think that will be definitely an emo-tional journey to visualize their hopes.”

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Kamal Ahmad, right, knows how to bring people together. Part academic, part evangelist, part salesman, the AUW founder and acting vice chancel-lor has circled the globe generating support for his vision.

Photos by Asian University for Women


For those familiar with the many passions of Paul Dav-enport, they will know that

one of his great loves is Impres-sionist art.

During his tenure as The Univer-sity of Western Ontario’s president, and continuing into his retirement, Davenport has shared his passion with the local community through his Continuing Studies’ course, In the Footsteps of the Impressionists, and, beginning last summer, his follow-up Continuing Studies’ trip to Paris. The 2011 trip will be held July 9-21.

Davenport’s interest in Impres-sionist painting dates back to 1967, when he spent six months as a Stan-ford sophomore at that universi-ty’s campus in Tours, France. “We would take the train to Paris on the weekends, and I was fascinated by the Impressionist paintings in the Musée du Jeu de Paume,” he remembers.

Over the years, Davenport has studied the work of the Impression-ists and begun to capture digital images that mirror the locations and vantage points of the original paintings. In his course, he reviews a number of paintings and then he uses his own pictures to lead the students through the neighbour-hoods and suburbs of Paris where the Impressionists painted. He dis-cusses the lives of the artists and examines the social and economic context of the paintings.

Since the course’s inception in 2004, there has been a growing interest amongst students to walk

– literally – in the footsteps of the Impressionists by travelling to Paris and taking a guided tour of the sites of the original paintings. So, in June 2010, 32 people set off on an adventure of a lifetime organized by Continuing Studies and led by Davenport. Among the group were, of course, many past class regis-trants, including Western staff and alumni and even a current Western student.

Joyce Garnett, Western’s librar-ian, was attracted to the trip because it was a natural segue to the Impressionists course the pre-vious fall.

“His knowledge of French art, culture and history is truly impres-sive, coupled with his boundless energy and infectious enthusiasm,” Garnett says. “He had friends, or made friends, wherever we went. Without him we would have seen only the surface and the obvious; with him we discovered the behind-the-scenes stories of the artists who challenged the status quo and left an enduring legacy of life and light.”

While the trip is art-focused, Cathy Metelnick, a Western alum-nus and 2010 trip participant, points out that the trip “takes in so many of the other things that Paris has to offer.”

Gerry Killan, the former Prin-cipal at King’s University College, agrees. “Even though it was billed as an art tour, we had a wide-rang-ing variety of experiences which would appeal to anyone,” he says.

Indeed, for Garnett one of the

trip highlights wasn’t at all related to the Impressionists, but rather was the opportunity to visit Vimy Ridge and the Memorial there on Canada Day.

As was the case in 2010, partici-pants on the 2011 tour will enjoy seeing Impressionist paintings and other 19th century art displayed in the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, and the Musée du Petit Palais, undoubt-edly some of the world`s greatest art museums. The trip itinerary takes participants outside the city, including a visit to Giverny, the home and gardens of Impressionist great, Monet.

For Metelnick, the trip to Mon-et’s gardens was a trip highlight. “Standing in the very places where painters stood when they painted and being able to see what they saw really is an appealing and gratify-ing experience,” she says.

For Garnett, one of the high points of traveling to the suburbs was dining on the terrace of the Café Fournaise. Located on the

banks of the Seine, the spot “where Renoir’s The Luncheon of the Boat-ing Party was set transported me back to an earlier era.”

To learn more about the In the Footsteps of the Impressionists trip, including a proposed itinerary, visit www.uwo.ca/cstudies/paris.

Sharing the footsteps of presidents and painters

Contributed

Former University of Western Ontario President Paul Davenport, centre, leads his group n the footsteps of the Impressionists during a Continuing Studies’ trip to Paris last year. The 2011 trip will be held July 9-21.

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January 6Museum of Ontario Archaeology – Gathering of the Clans: Art Exhibition featuring three First Nations Artists. Moses Lunham, Jeremiah Mason and Clayton Samuel King. Runs through to January 30, 2011. For more information visit: uwo.ca/museum.

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - Chandra Sekhar Manda, INRS-EMT, Université de Québec and visiting instructor – Physics & Astronomy Dept, Western. “Novel synthesis and studies on structural, thermophysical properties of various Nano materials and their application-prospective” Chemistry, Rm. 9. 1:30 p.m.

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January 8Women’s Basketball – McMaster at Western. 1 p.m.

Men’s Basketball – McMaster at Western. 3 p.m.

2nd Annual Western Family Hockey Festival – Dr. Chakma and his family invite all faculty and staff and their families to join in cheering on the Mustang Women’s and Men’s hockey teams. Free admission and complimentary refreshments, door prizes, and children’s activities available between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Women’s game vs. Windsor at 4 p.m. Men’s game vs. Laurier at 7:30 p.m. Order your free tickets by January

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January 11Senior Alumni Program – Deb Matthews, Minis-ter of Health, Member of Provincial. “Check Up. The future of Health Care in Ontario” McKellar Room, University Community Centre. 9:30 a.m.

January 12Don Wright Faculty of Music – Beethoven Cycle performed in three concerts by Thomas Wiebe, cello and Peter Longworth, piano. The first of two Op.5 sonatas. Von Kuster Hall. 8 p.m.

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Full-Time Academic Appointments Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Department of Film Studies — Faculty of Arts and Humani-ties – Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Chair of the Depart-ment of Modern Languages and Literatures. The applicant should have an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor with tenure at The University of Western Ontario. The position will be effective July 1, 2011 for a five-year term, renewable. The Committee will commence its review of nominations and applications after January 30, 2011 and continue until the position is filled.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Department of Film Studies — Nominations and applica-tions are invited for the position of Chair of the Department of Film Studies. The applicant should have an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor with tenure at The University of Western Ontario. The position will be effective July 1, 2011 for a five-year term, renewable. The committee will commence its review of nominations and applications after January 21, 2011 and continue until the position is filled.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Department of English — The Department of English, The Uni-versity of Western Ontario (http://www.uwo.ca/english/) invites applications for a probationary (tenure-track) position at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 1 July 2011, in Renaissance/Early Modern Non-Dramatic literature. Applica-tions must be received by February 4, 2011.

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry - Associate Dean, Windsor Program — Applica-tions, nominations and expressions of inter-est are invited for the position of Associate Dean, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

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Peruvian artist Yim Rodriguez brings Latin American history to life on the walls of the Cardinal Carter Library at King’s University College. His painting is featured on the second floor of the library.

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If the walls in King’s Univer-sity College Cardinal Carter Library could talk, they would

tell the story of Latin America.Peruvian artist Yim Rodriguez

has turned Cardinal Carter Library into his canvas, spending 10 hours a day for the past three weeks to cre-ate a mural in the northeast corner on the second floor of the library. The painting follows the evolution of pre-Hispanic Latin America to the modern day.

A presentation and artist talk will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 7 in The Annex, Room 151 to for-

mally open the mural.The painting at King’s is the

latest edition in a series of seven murals created by Rodriguez depicting the pre-Hispanic artistic style of Latin America, focusing on the dualities of life and the creative process using thought provoking and subversive images. This is the first such mural in Canada.

“The main idea is to start paint-ing Latin America in a set of murals that can tell the story of what we don’t like of our history,” says Rodriguez, noting by bring-ing his work to King’s he hopes to initiate a conversation about Latin American history in Canada.

Rodriguez was asked by the Stu-dents United in Representation of Latin America (SUR LA) to paint the mural. SUR LA is a University of Western Ontario student orga-nization dedicated to promoting Latin American identity and vision of the world through advocacy, education and social justice.

While Rodriguez is not getting paid for the painting, King’s is cov-ering his costs and supplies.

“I want to paint something peo-ple don’t expect, therefore some-thing they might reject,” says Rodriguez, who is currently study-ing neurosurgery at Earlham Col-lege in Indiana.

The vibrant and colourful images also show a darker side of Latin American history, which Rodriguez hopes will force view-ers to address questions raised by the images.

He also raises questions about how art is taught in schools and the promotion of modern artists. “You should use your art to impact and influence society,” he says.

The mural includes various symbols, from simple lines and circles to human beings, includ-ing a woman who is “bearing a revolution,” Rodriguez explains. It also shows revolution attempts by indigenous people and dichotomies

of life - life and death, happiness and sadness.

SUR LA commissioned Rodri-guez to complete the mural that would challenge students to think critically about the ideas presented in the artwork.

“What Yim is trying to do is what SUR LA stands for,” says Juan Diego Castro, who works in the Social Justice and Peace Studies program at King’s and founded SUR LA. “It is something from students, for students.”

Check out a video of the art-ist at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPM-XvbGuSc.

Mural at King’s tells Latin America’s story

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