CBC Radio in the
Market for
Commentators

CBC Radio (Edmonton) and the
Office of Public Affairs are on the
same wavelength. The corporation
needs reviewers and commentators
ff dVhas asked Public Affairs to see
sut some “likely prospects.”

Susan Freedman, Director of
Radio, has talked with programmers
and has come up with some specific
needs that “the University of
Alberta talent pool might help us
fulfill.” Here is her list: restaurant
reviews, movie reviews, trends
commentator, medicine/medical
research commentator,
ethics/philosophy/religion
contributors for “Open House”
(Sunday, 9 to 10 p.m. CBC Radio, 5
to 6 p.m. CBC Stereo), music
specialist to work with CBC
producer in developing on-campus
talent for CBC regional programs,
high tech specialist to work with
CBC producer in developing a
proposal for CBC High Tech
consumer program.

Freedman says CBC is also
interested in having University
people speak on air about advances
in areas that affect people’s lives.
And, of course, subjects that
generate sound will always be
regarded with a certain amount of
affection.

Another objective of Freedman’s

> broaden CBC’s range of experts
‘.. go to for comment in reaction to
events.

Faculty who would like to “break
into radio” are invited to
communicate with C.A. Squibb,
Director, Office of Public Affairs,
423 Athabasca Hall, 432-2325, or
Susan Freedman, Director of Radio,
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
P.O. Box 555, Edmonton, Alberta
T5) 2P4. Telephone: 469-2321. O

Contents

@ Training nurses
for the north

@ Boreal exhibit opens

@ ‘Activities’

@ Chemists win prestigious
awards

@ ‘Letters’

University of Alberta

FOLIO

University of Alberta

1 May 1986

Rutherford Award Recipients: Part II

Last week, Folio announced the four
recipients of the Rutherford Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Jeanette Boman (Nursing) and Henry
Kreisel (University Professor in
Comparative Literature) were profiled.
This week, attention is turned to Jim
Muldowney (Mathematics) and
Norman Yates (Art and Design). The
recipients will be honored at
University House on 6 May at 3:30
p.m. and at spring convocation in
early June.

Jim Muldowney

Nearly a decade after attending Jim
Muldowney’s classes, one
ex-student, asked to evaluate his
teacher, said, “Dr. Muldowney
knows what it’s like not to know.
He can see what kinds of troubles
students have with a subject (even
if he himself never had these
particular troubles when he was
learning).” Happy faculties,
indeed. Add such testimonials as
“...aknack for making his
material interesting and exciting ...
Muldowney’s lectures were always
packed and his sections were
quickly filled ... in one word—a
master” and you understand why
the Rutherford Award is being
presented to Dr. Muldowney and
why he earned the Faculty of
Science Teaching Award last year.

Muldowney’s classes are
characterized by the assigning of
challenging problems rather than
routine problems. Another former
student recalls that the only
complaints he ever heard from his
peers were simply frustrations
over the difficulty of his
(Muldowney’s) notorious
assignments and take-home exams.
“While they were admittedly very
difficult and occupied as much time
as perhaps three of my other
courses, I am afraid that there was
really no alternative. We certainly
did not want to be pampered, and
the only way to absorb the more
theoretical material is by doing lots
of hard problems.”

The marking of assignments
himself is a Muldowney

trademark. He has also been known
to supply a correct or simpler
solution rather than just a
numerical grade when a student
erred on a technicality or was
overly verbose. He maintains a
helpful marking system that
encourages students to try hard,
yet allows them to learn from
mistakes. The Rutherford Award
winner prepares lecture notes
which are intended to cut down
the amount of notetaking which
can occupy so much of a student's
time in class and allow him to
concentrate fully on what is being
said.

Two more encomiums from
those who learned from one of the
best. “He uses diagrams to cement
even the most abstract ideas in our
minds. His intricate pictures
helped convince me that in
mathematics, a well-drawn picture
can be an invaluable teaching aid.”
“He is excellent at explaining
proofs and logic sequences so that
you don’t get lost in the trees.
Also, he handles questions in a
good-hearted way, even when
they are a bit silly.”

A graduate of National
University of Ireland (BSc, MSc),
Muldowney took his PhD at our
University. His first year as a
teacher of mathematics was 1968.
At the undergraduate level, he has
taught Engineering Calculus,
Engineering Applied Math,
Honours Calculus, Linear Algebra,
Engineering Abstract Analysis,
Graduate Differential Equations,
and other subjects. Promoted to full
professor in 1976, Muldowney has,
in the words of Chairman Jack
Macki, “taught a wide range of
courses reflecting the demand for
his services and the diverse service
role of our department.”

Norman Yates

As far as Norman Yates is
concerned, every student in his
class has talent.

“Anyone who takes the initial
step of wanting to explore ideas
about art has at least an innate

curiosity about art—and that’s the
initial talent that’s needed,” he
says. “After that, it depends on the
approach of the teacher. The key is
to deal with each member of the
course as an individual. Art can’t
be taught by a universal system of
dealing with everybody as though
they’re all of the same standard.”

When there are 40 students in a
course, this approach is going to
take longer, Professor Yates agrees,
but he feels it’s still the best
system—although he also
describes it as “the hardest way in
the world to teach.”

At the start of every course, he
focusses on the individual by
asking each person what their
expectations are, and what they
hope to gain from being in the
course. “You get a variety of
responses,” he says. “Some give a
very elaborate reply and others
have hardly anything to say. But
this seems to set the mood in the
class right from the beginning, so
that everyone expects to make an
individual contribution. There is a
group issue, of course, but each
person is an individual within the
group.”

He establishes from the
beginning a connection with each
student as an individual. “That is
quite hard to do,” he admits, but
it’s important. However, seeing a
person as an individual, with a
particular range of talent and a
particular need, “doesn’t eliminate
the notion of offering a similar
problem to each individual. But I
frame the problems with the
expectation of purely individual
responses.”

Yates’s approach places
extraordinary demands on the
teacher. But he sees a relationship
between stress and reward. “One
seems to balance the other,” he
says. “and the reward comes when
you see what has happened to
each person, when you see the
individual development and
growth by the end of the course.”

Colleagues observe that students

Continued on page two

1 May 1986

J. Kmenta: Distinguished Visitor in Economics

With the support of the Endowment
Fund for the Future, the
Department of Economics has been
able to obtain Jan Kmenta of the
University of Michigan (Ann
Arbor) as a Distinguished Visitor
for the two-week period 11 through
23 May. Professor Kmenta will be
giving lectures, seminars and advice
in the field of econometrics, a
sub-discipline of economics that
concerns itself with the
formulation, statistical estimation
and evaluation of economic models.
While the purely numerical
aspects of economics pre-date Adam
Smith, the systematic application of
classical statistical methods to
economic modelling has taken place
only in the last 50 years. Since he
took his PhD at Stanford in the
early 1960s, Professor Kmenta has
been a major contributor to the
development of econometrics. His
work has dealt with important
problems in both the theory and
applications of econometrics
covering such diverse topics as
estimation of production functions,
seemingly unrelated regressions,
algorithms for maximum livelihood
estimation and criteria for the

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Number Thirty-six

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evaluation of macro-econometric
models. These contributions were
acknowledged in 1980 when he was
elected a Fellow of the Econometric
Society which is the premier
international organization in this
field and whose fellowships are
considered the ultimate accolade.
Other honors that have been
bestowed on Professor Kmenta
include a Fellowship in the
American Statistical Association, a
Humboldt Foundation Award and a
Fullbright Exchange Scholarship.
The breadth and depth of his
knowledge has led to editorial
positions on four journals,
including associate editorships of
the Journal of the American Statistical
Association and the Review of
Economics and Statistics.

Although econometrics is well
established as a separate field that is
included in most undergraduate
programs, there has been a
recurring debate as to whether the
advances in formal technique have
been matched by a corresponding
improvement in the predictive
power of econometrics models. In a
public lecture titled “Econometrics:
A Failed Science?” Professor

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Kmenta will address the question of
whether econometrics has fulfilled
its promise as a vehicle for
understanding the behavior of
economic structures. The lecture
will be held at 3 p.m. in Humanities
Lecture Theatre 2 on Tuesday, 13
May.

Professor Kmenta is also the
author of one of the most widely
cited and used textbooks of
econometrics. He has just completed

an extensive revision of this text
and in the preparation of this
revision he has been re-assessing
the technical advances that have
been made in the last decade. This
critical assessment of recent
research will be the basis of a tl
seminar series titled “Recent
Development in Econometrics.”
These seminars will be given in
8-22 H.M. Tory Building at 3 p.m.
on 15, 20 and 22 May. O

Delivering the Goods Safely

A training course has been arranged
for on-campus employees who
transport dangerous goods. The
course, to be held 10 to 12 June, is
designed to meet the training
requirements of the Transportation

of Dangerous Goods Control Act
and regulations.

Further information can be
obtained from Alan Knowles,
432-3585, before 13 May. Enrolment
is limited to 26 people. 0

Continued from page one

leave Yates’s courses with a sense
that they have learned, that they
have increased their understanding
of the discipline, that they have
gained confidence and developed
in their own personal way—and
that there is a long way to go, and
it is worth going. Students

confirm this. “Norman Yates does
not expect students to paint the
way he does... He has a real
sensitivity to each student’s
particular direction and encourages
it... Criticism is constructive .. .
He has increased my confidence
and given me a sound base to
found my studies upon,” are some
of the comments on recent student
evaluations.

Norman Yates has served the
Department of Art and Design for
30 years—longer than any other
instructor in studio disciplines. He
came to our University in 1954 asa
young artist with a first class
honours diploma from the Ontario
College of Art, to take up an
appointment as a leave
replacement in the Faculty of
Education. He next joined the then
Department of Fine Arts (again as a
leave replacement), and in 1956
became a member of the
department which at that time had
only five full-time teaching staff.

Yates is a master at balance:
balance between teaching and
freedom, balance betweeen basic
instruction and the individual
exploration that leads students to
produce at their very best level. As
one student put it, “There is a
great amount of freedom in the
course, but at the same time one
does not feel lost or misguided.”

But if students are motivated

and encouraged, it’s not without an
accurate perception of their own
weaknesses. To quote his colleague
and department chairman, “In a
discipline such as painting, and
particularly at the highest level,
where the person identifies
tremendously with their work and
is very sensitive to criticism—but at
the same time is desperate to
learn, Professor Yates has managed
to obtain students’ performance
that would be the pride of any
department in North America.”

Yates’s contribution to teaching
has not been limited to the
classroom or to the usual winter
offerings. He has taught evening
courses and special sessions and
most recently was appraiser for
the Art Department of the
University of Toronto (1981) and
of Alberta College of Art (1983). He
also helped set up the graduate
program at the University of
Calgary. He has been a major force
in the development of Art and
Design’s own graduate program
(the oldest in the country), and is
its almost permanent coordinator.
He has sat on many administrative
committees throughout the years.
At the same time, he has had an
intense artistic career as a painter.
Since 1950, his paintings have been
shown in 33 solo exhibitions and
63 group exhibitions. His works are
in a number of permanent
collections, including the National
Gallery of Canada, and he has
received a variety of scholarships
and awards, most recently a
McCalla Professorship (1985-86).

A special project that will
occupy much of Yates’s time ove:
the next year will be the creation
of a mural to brighten Education
North’s blank wall. 0

Training Nurses For the North: Which Nurses? What Program?

The nurses who acquired additional
clinical skills best and retained
them most after taking a specific
upgrading course were those witha
BScN, says a recently completed
study of nurses working in the
7

.owever, when these nurses
returned to practice in northern
nursing stations and found
themselves paired with
lesser-trained partners, new skills
began to deteriorate, and by the end
of six months had declined sharply.

This was learned when a study
was undertaken (under the
direction of Clarke Hazlett,
Chairman of Health Services
Administration and Community
Medicine at our University) to find
out whether the graduates of a
Clinical Training Program for
northern nurses received any
long-lasting benefits from the
course.

The Clinical Training Program
was specifically designed for nurses
in small, isolated communities who
have to make even the most serious
decisions on patient care without
consulting a resident doctor.
(Although doctors visit nursing
stations “regularly”, these visits may
be as infrequent as once a month,
and between visits the only means
of contact is by telephone.) Nurses
Daaged additional training in

al skills to handle their
responsibilities successfully. And
this need was met when, with the
support of federal funding, the
Clinical Training Program was set
up in 1970, to provide extra training
in specific clinical competencies.
The four-month course was
originally offered at several
universities, and both BScN and RN
nurses were eligible to take it.
However, only a small number of
educational slots were available
each year; and, at a total cost of
about $10,000 a student, the course
was expensive. Cutbacks in federal
expenditure successively reduced
the number of universities offering
the program, and the last program
was given at the University of
Alberta in 1985.

Evaluation of the program was a
lengthy process. Two questions
particularly needed to be answered.

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follows: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays;
7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. The
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Were nurses who graduated from
the program demonstrably more
competent than those who hadn’t
taken it? Was the program worth
the expense? Hazlett’s study has
some interesting findings that may
well have implications for nurses’
training in general.

Nurses who trained in the CTP
did, indeed, acquire a great deal
during the course; but after
returning to practice in the north,
newly-learned skills began to
deteriorate. By the time six months
had passed, skills had distinctly
declined—although some benefit
from the course was still retained.
Furthermore, when a CTP-trained
nurse was paired in a nursing
station with a lesser-skilled nurse,
this tactic did not succeed in raising
the skills of the less trained person.
Instead, lacking the stimulation of
working with an equal, skills of the
CTP nurse declined to meet her
partner's level. It was only when
two comparably well-trained nurses
worked together that they were able
to maintain their skill levels.

The best nurses, in fact, were
clearly those with a BScN who had
also taken the CTP training. Not
only did these baccaulaureate
nurses benefit most from the CTP
program, but they retained their
new competencies to a greater
degree than nurses with other types
of training.

Asa result of these findings,
recommendations have now been
made some of which have
implications for the BScN
curriculum.

It is noted, for instance, that the
high standard of performance
attained by BScN nurses with CTP
training justifies the formal
recognition of the CTP curriculum
by university regulatory bodies.
The suggestion is that, to
incorporate the CTP curriculum, an
honors year—or summer
practicums—be added to the BScN
program; and, as clinical skills were
acquired best when taught jointly
by medical and nursing faculty,
both the nursing and medical
professions should be involved in
teaching the program.

Since there is clearly a need in
isolated, underpopulated northern
communities for nurses with this
type of training, at least one, or
possibly two, universities should
formally approve, appropriately
fund and incorporate as part of their
on-going mission, the education
and training of CTP nurses.

A valuable spin-off from the
study was the production, in 1977,
of a teaching manual by Hazlett and
his team of Canadian health
professionals in medicine and

nursing. Primary Care Nursing: a
manual of clinical skills is a
curriculum of the 10,000 specific
skills—ranging from obstetrical
care to caries treatment, to
pediatrics, to internal
medicine—most needed in
northern nursing stations and other
isolated areas. The book has also
found its way into the American
nurse practitioner programs, and to
Australia, where it is used by nurses
in the Outback.

One hundred and fifty health
professionals—including internists,
pediatricians, dentists,
physiotherapists, family
practitioners and nurses—from

Setting the Stage

universities across Canada spent
more than five years working
together to decide, define and
precisely describe each skill
required. Those finally agreed on
were then reviewed in a series of
workshops composed of nursing
and medical representatives from
each university, before being
incorporated into the manual. This
curriculum formed the basis on
which CTP nurses’ competence was
judged.*0

* This article originally appeared in
Research Report (January/February
1986).

This behind-the-scenes work at Ring House Gallery preceded today’s opening of the
first of many events planned to celebrate the Boreal Institute for Northern Studies’
25th Anniversary. “Chisel and Brush”, an exhibit of stencils and stonecuts by Inuit
artists, features examples of the two methods of printmaking, along with displays of
equipment and explanations of the techniques. The collection offers an opportunity
to study variations in these techniques as they are applied in several northern
printshops. Prints from Cape Dorset, Holman Island, Baker Lake, Pangnirtung and
Povungnituk are displayed. The exhibit, which can be viewed until 25 May, was
organized by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. It is at
our University courtesy of the Boreal Institute and Ring House Gallery.

page three, Folio, 1 May 1986

Ainu Lecturer to Introduce Aboriginal Culture of Japan

An Ainu Anthropologist, Mr.
Kayano, and a group of Ainu
children from Hokkaido, Japan, will
soon visit campus to share their
cultural heritage with Canadian
students.

The Ainu are aborigines from
northern Japan. They have distinct
physical features, speak their own
language, and follow their own
customs and beliefs. Since 1868, a
process of assimilation into the
Japanese culture has been going on,
with the result that Ainu culture

Mr. Kayano, a leading figure in
this movement, has devoted his life
to collecting and preserving
cultural materials as well as
publishing books on the Ainu
culture and language.

On his first trip to Canada, Mr.
Kayano was impressed with our
multicultural society in which
different ethnic groups live
together, sharing their cultural
heritage, and he wanted to bring
Ainu children, “to see Canada and
learn how people with different

On 6 May, at 8 p.m., in L-1
Humanities Centre, Mr. Kayano
will speak on “The Ainu: Their Past
and Present.” The children will give
a presentation of dances, songs and
games. The lecture and performance

are open to the general public, who
are warmly invited to attend.* 0

* This article was adapted from a story
contributed by Masami Iwasaki, a
graduate student in Anthropology.

Institute of Law Research and
Reform Appoints New Director

and language are likely to vanish.

Although there are now few
full-blooded Ainu, the Ainu
themselves are making a continuing
effort to preserve and revitalize
their culture and language.

ethnicities live together.” Now he is
bringing 14 Ainu children, aged 11

to 16, to Edmonton on 3 May. After
sightseeing in Edmonton, they will
visit the Sucker Creek Reserve in
Grouard.

Alzheimer’s Disease Topic of Symposium

Research issues related to
Alzheimer’s Disease will be the
focus of a one-day symposium,
Thursday, 8 May, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The symposium is sponsored by the
Centre for Gerontology; all sessions
will take place in 2-117 Clinical
Sciences Building.

Speakers from Edmonton and
Calgary will address topics such as
clinical research on Alzheimer’s
Disease; support of dementia
patients and their caregivers; issues
in neurophysiological research;
morale in institutional caregivers;
and special units for Alzheimer’s
patients in extended care centres.

Featured speakers include Irma

Parhad, Director, Dementia
Research Clinic, University of
Calgary; Arthur Clark, Director,
University of Calgary Brain Bank;
Sharon Warren, Director, Education
and Research, Grandview Extended
Care Centre; Norah Keating,
Director, Centre for Gerontology;
and Brendan Rule, Professor of
Psychology, University of Alberta.

Registration costs $15 ($10 for
students). Interested persons should
get in touch with the Centre for
Gerontology, B-03 Cameron Library.
The likelihood exists that
registrations will also be taken at
the door from 8 to 9a.m. 0

Chemists Win Awards

Paul Kebarle and John Vederas,
both of Chemistry, have won
awards recently for their
contributions to science.

Dr. Kebarle is recipient of the
Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
for 1986, sponsored by Inco Ltd., for
his outstanding contribution to the
science of chemistry, in particular
for his pioneering work in high
pressure mass spectrometry. The
value of his research now extends
into other areas of chemistry,
aeronomy, and astrophysics, and his
contributions as a physical chemist
are fundamental and likely to be
long-lasting.

The prize for Dr. Vederas is the
1986 Merck, Sharp and Dohme
Award, and is a $1,500 honorarium
and a scroll. This award is presented

page four, Folio, 1 May 1986

to an under-40 scientist for
distinguished contributions to
organic chemistry or biochemistry.

Dr. Vederas is working on
cyclosporin A (which suppresses
the immune response in mammals)
and on mevinolin and compactin
(which lower the plasma cholesterol
levels in mammals). He is also
working on certain bacterial
enzymes which have potential as
new broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Drs. Kebarle and Vederas will
receive their awards at the 69th
Canadian Chemical Conference of
the Chemical Institute of Canada in
Saskatoon, 1 to 4 June.

The Medal Lecture will be
delivered by Dr. Kebarle. Dr.
Vederas will deliver the Award
Lecture. 0

W.H. Hurlburt, Q.C., has retired as
Director of the Institute as from 1
April 1986. The Board of the
Institute, and the University, have
confirmed the appointment of R.G.
Hammond as his successor.
Professor Hammond was for some
years a senior litigation partner ina
prominent New Zealand law firm.
He subsequently taught at the
University of Illinois and Dalhousie
University (where he was also
Director of Graduate Studies).

Professor Hammond is the author
of two dozen published works. His
most recent works have been
published by the Oxford Journal of
Legal Studies, the University of

California, the Law Quarterly Review
and the Canadian Bar Review.

Professor Hammond has been the
recipient of numerous academic and
professional awards, including the
New Zealand Law Society
Centennial Award for outstanding
service to the legal profession and
law reform in that country.

Mr. Hurlburt will continue to be
associated with the Institute in a
part-time position. His book on the
work of Law Commissions in
Canada, the United Kingdom and
Australia (which was undertaken on
his last study leave) has recently
gone to press. 0

Activities

Keith Denford is President-Elect of the Canadian

Botanical Association beginning July 1986. He will

assume the presidency of the 22-year-old organization
in July 1987 .. . Julie Cormack, Pam Willoughby and Franke
Kense (Anthropology) participated in a conference honoring J.
Desmond Clark in Berkeley, California. Dr. Willoughby gave a
paper on “The Distribution and Function of Spheroids and
Battered Stones” ... University of Alberta alumni groups in
Victoria, Vancouver and Toronto recently heard from Myer

Horowitz in person. The President also gave the keynote address
at a workshop (16 April) and the luncheon address at the Spring
Convention (18 April), both sponsored by the Quebec Association
of School Administrators .. . Educational Psychology’s David
Baine recently published the textbooks Memory and Instruction and
Selected Topics in Special Education ... H.R. Hutchings, President
and CEO of Chembiomed Ltd., has been elected Director of the
Association of Biotechnology Companies for 1986. ABC is an
international trade association composed of more than 125
member firms located in eight countries ... Christine Davies and
Leonard J. Pollack, Q.C., travelled to Saskatoon (4 April) and
Regina (5 April) to lecture to the Saskatchewan Bar on the new
Divorce Act.

Happy to share their good fortune with the children are the members of the
Marketing Group (background), Housing and Food Services.

Harden Judged Teacher Par Excellence

Boyd Harnden has been honored
with the 1986 J. Douglas Muir
Award for distinguished teaching
in the Faculty of Business. The
award is given annually; the
recipient consistently gives a
superior performance in the
classroom and has full command of
the subject matter as well as a
concern for students and an interest
in developing new courses and
improving content and
organization of existing courses. A

willingness to help colleagues
i.

improve their courses and methods
of teaching is also looked upon
favorably.

The award was created in honor
of Dr. Muir, Dean-Elect of the
Faculty at the time of his death in
1976.

Professor Harnden
(Organizational Analysis) is the
sixth recipient of the award, the
others being Brian Williams, Chris
Janssen, Terry Daniel, Colin
Hoskins and John Waterhouse. 0

Library, CITL Running Do-it-Yourself

Searching Workshop

The Library, in conjunction with
the Committee for the
Improvement of Teaching and
Learning (CITL), is reoffering its
Introduction to Do-it-Yourself
Searching Workshop. The
workshop is introductory and
multidisciplinary and offers a
lecture (5 May, 1 to 3 p.m.) and lab
(select one—6 May, 7 to 9 p.m.;

7 May, 7 to 9 p.m.; or 8 May, 7 to 9
p-m.).

The lecture introduces the
services currently available, how
researchers gain access to them, and
the mechanics of formulating and
executing searches. Participants are
invited to bring research problems
to the lecture session.

Further information may be
obtained from Bente Roed Cochran,
Coordinator, CITL, 432-2826.
Registration is limited to 30. 0

Ethiopian to Speak on African Food Crisis

“The African Food Crisis: an African
Perspective” is the topic of a public
meeting to be held Wednesday, 7
May, in 109 Business Building, 7:30
to 9:30 p.m.

The speaker will be Katema Yifru,
special adviser on Africa to the
itive director of the World
\ Program.

For more than 10 years Mr. Yifru
was minister of foreign affairs in
Ethiopia. He played a critical role in
the settlement of international

conflicts such as the Southern
Sudan question, the Nigerian civil
war, the Congo crisis, and the
Algeria-Morocco conflict of 1963.
He was instrumental in the
formation of the Organisation for
African Unity.

The meeting is sponsored by the
International Student Centre in
cooperation with the
Non-Governmental Liaison Service
of the United Nations. For more
information, call 432-5950. O

A Gift of Music

The Marketing Group of Food
Services, Department of Housing
and Food Services, recently was
awarded a Sony Watchman for
winning a National Coke
Promotion Contest.

Instead of claiming their prize,
the group decided to trade it in for
three portable cassette players plus
tapes which were later donated to

the Students’ Union and
Community Day Care Centre.
Members of the Marketing Group
include Ken Toong (Chairman),
Eric Morison, Darren Turik, Adrian
Ward, John Malyk and Jerry Daley.
The presentation of the Sony
cassette players was held at the Day
Care Centre in HUB Mall amidst 30
appreciative youngsters. O

Letters

University Standards

Jeffrey Osborn, in another of his thought-provoking essays,
presents a compelling case for the decline of university
standards (Folio, 17 April 1986). He indeed reaches “the heart of
the matter” in suggesting that degrees used to train people fora
job tend to attract students interested in practicing a job rather
than those more interested in the intellectual challenge of
investigation and understanding. I cannot agree more. Not only
are vocationally-oriented programs proliferating in universities,
but even some of the more traditionally academic programs
appear to be placing undue emphasis on training for jobs. All of
us within the University community would do well to reflect
upon Dr. Osborn’s message.

Nevertheless I take issue with Dr. Osborn’s statement: “The
more disciplines that have been studied, the more inferior is the
standard of the degree.” I would argue that neither extreme, a
smattering in many disciplines or complete concentration on
one, leads to a high degree of “culture”. Recently, however, the
greater danger appears to be untoward emphasis on
specialization. Programs tend to emphasize only courses within a
discipline and others with direct relevance to that discipline. I
see little evidence, for example, of students in Arts departments
being encouraged to gain some understanding of the basis for
biotechnological advances, or to learn the ecological principles
necessary for understanding problems of environmental
degradation and conservatoin. Nor are students in Science
encouraged to gain exposure to philosophy, to history, or to
political science. To be truly educated (in the traditional sense of
a university education) and to be prepared to cope with issues
in modern society, some breadth of knowledge seems essential.
Just as universities should not simply train people for jobs, they
should not educate only narrow specialists.

Along with Dr. Osborn, I too “mourn the days that are past”,
when most came to university seeking knowledge of the world. I
am refreshed by contact with those students who still have that
motivation, but I’m afraid they receive precious little
encouragement in contemporary academia. Let us not permit a
tyranny of specialization and applied relevance to overwhelm
the remaining shreds of the idealism upon which universities
originally thrived.

Jan O. Murie
Department of Zoology

Arts Building

With reference to the lead article of your 3 April issue, “Logistics
of Decanting of Arts Building . . .”, was your author suggesting
that the place is full of cant?

C. Park

R.S. McLaughlin Centre

page five, Folio, 1 May 1986

Katz Award Bestowed Upon Don Robinson

Donald Katz, University of
Michigan, was one of the world’s
leaders in natural gas, in gas
processing technology and the
educator of many of the industry’s
technological leaders. The Donald
L. Katz Award, established last year,
recognizes outstanding
accomplishments in gas processing
technology and excellence in
engineering education. The
recipient for 1986 is Don Robinson,
Professor Emeritus of Chemical
Engineering.

Bob Galloway, President of the
Gas Processors Association (GPA),
recently described the award as
“acknowledgement of the industry’s
considerable debt to the university
community in general, and toa
great university in particular.”

Mr. Galloway was speaking on
the occasion of the presentation of
the award to Professor Robinson,
one of Dr. Katz’s doctoral students.
Dr. Robinson came to our
University in 1949 and was a highly
competent instructor. He later
served as Head of the Department
of Chemical and Petroleum
Engineering.

The second recipient of the Katz
Award was regarded throughout his
professional career as “an industry
leader in research and development
of oil and gas behavior at reservoir
conditions and the design of
specialized equipment for
hydrocarbon processing.”

Dr. Robinson has conducted some
16 research projects for GPA and is
co-developer of one of the
industry’s most widely used
computer programs for prediction
of hydrocarbon phase behavior,
critical properties, hydrate
formation and other properties of
complex multicomponent
systems.(1J

Talks

Rehabilitation Medicine

1 May, 10 a.m. Roberta Trieschmann,
Editorial Board of Archives of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation and
President of RBT Associates Inc., “The
Impact of Aging on Those With Physical
Disability.” 203 Corbett Hall.

Writing Competence

Petitions

Notice to students who have not met the University’s writing
competence requirements and whose deadline for meeting those
requirements is April 30, May 1, July 1 or September 1, 1986: If
you plan to enrol in Summer session 1986 or in Fall session 1986
and you have not yet passed the writing competence test, you
may petition the GFC Writing Competence Petition Committee for
permission to continue your registration. The petition must be
made in time to continue your registration in the term
immediately following your deadline.

If you wish to petition in order to enrol in Summer session, you
must petition by May 5, 1986. If you wish to petition in order to
enrol in the Fall 1986 session, you must petition by May 5 or

August 1.*

Students who do not petition at the stated times will only be
permitted to register by passing the writing competence test.
Registrations of students who do not successfully petition or
pass the writing competence test will be cancelled prior to the

start of classes.

Advice on preparing and submitting petitions can be sought from
the Student Ombudsmen, Room 272 Students’ Union Building, or
the Student Advisors in the Office of the Dean of Student
Services, Room 300 Athabasca Hall. The regulations and
procedures used by the GFC Writing Competence Petition
Committee are available in either of these offices.

*Students granted a hearing by the GFC Writing Competence
Petition Committee will have their cases heard either May 20 to

23, 1986 or August 11 to 15, 1986.

page six, Folio, 1 May 1986

Medicine

2 May, 8 a.m. Allan Jacobs, University of
Wales, Cardiff, 1986 Gadeski Visiting
Professor, “Sideroblastic Anaemia . . . the
Minimal Malignancy.” 2-115 Clinical
Sciences Building.

3 May, 8 a.m. N. Walz and Dr. Mador,
“New Techniques in the Management of
Stone Diseases.” 5H202 Mackenzie
Health Sciences Centre.

Anatomy

2 May, noon. D.L. Brown, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Fourth
International Conference of Cell Biology,
“Reorganization of the Lymphocyte
Cytoskeleton During Mitogenic
Stimulation.” 6-28 Medical Sciences
Building.

Electrical Engineering

9 May, 2 p.m. G. Zimmer, Fraunhofer
Institute, Duisburg, West Germany,
“Chip Fabrication Technology.” 436
Electrical Engineering Building.

Medical Microbiology
and Infectious Diseases

12 May, 4 p.m. Widad Al-Nakib, MRC
Clinical Research Centre, Harrow,
Middlesex, England, “The Application of
cDNA Probes and Elisa Systems in the
Study of Human Rhinovirus Infections.”
Classroom D, Mackenzie Health Sciences
Centre.

13 May, 4 p.m. Dr. Al-Nakib,
“Antirhinovirus Compounds: Recent
Progress.” Classroom D, Mackenzie
Health Sciences Centre.

Economics

13 May, 3 p.m. Jan Kmenta, University of
Michigan, “Econometrics: A Failed
Science?” L-2 Humanities Centre.

15 May, 3 p.m. Dr. Kmenta, “Recent
Developments in Econometrics I.” 8-22
Tory Building.

20 May, 3 p.m. Dr. Kmenta, “Recent
Developments in Econometrics II.” 8-22
Tory Building.

22 May, 3 p.m. Dr. Kmenta, “Recent
Developments in Econometrics III.” 8-22
Tory Building.

The Arts

Théatre Francais
d’Edmonton

Until 4 May. “Albertine, En Cing Temps.”
Ana Power, 469-0829. Rice Theatre,
Citadel.

Ring House Gallery

Until 25 May. “Chisel and Brush” —an
exhibit of stonecut and stencil prints
created by Inuit artists. Co-sponsored by
the Boreal Institute for Northern Studies
in celebration of its 25th Anniversary.

Music

3 May, 8 p.m. Corinne Cherry,
piano—candidate for MMus degree in
Applied Music (Keyboard). Convocation
Hall.

Edmonton Film Society

5 May, 8 p.m. Great British Classics—“The
Titfield Thunderbolt” (1953).
12 May, 8 p.m. “49th Parallel” (1941).

Broadcasts
Radio

CKUA radio 580 AM and 94.9 FM.
3 May, 7 p.m. “University Concert Hall.”
10 May, 7 p.m. “University Concert Hall.”

Positions

The University of Aberta is committed to the
principle of equal opportunity in employment
and encourages applications from all qualified
people.

In accordance with Canadian Immigration
requirements, these advertisements are
directed to Canadian citizens and permanent
residents.

Non-Academic

To obtain further information on the
following positions, please contact Personnel
Services and Staff Relations, 2-40 Assiniboia
Hall, telephone 432-5201. These vacancies
cannot be guaranteed beyond the date of
publication.

Clerk Steno III, Botany, ($1,190-$1,478)

Clerk Steno IJ (Receptionist), Legal
Resource Centre, ($1,190-$1,478)

Clerk Typist III (Receptionist), Personnel
Services and Staff Relations,
($1,326-$1,666)

Clerk Typist III, Physical Plant,
($1,326-$1,666)

Clerk Typist III, Physical Therapy
($1,326-$1,666)

Clerk Steno III, Sociology, ($1,326-$1,666)

Clerk Steno III, Student Counselling
Services, ($1,326-$1,666)

Clerk Steno III, Office of the
Comptroller, ($1,326-$1,666)

Secretary, Alumni Affairs, ($1,478-$1,888)

Student Records Processing Clerk II,
Dean of Science, ($1,478-$1,888)

Student Records Processing Clerk II,
Library Science, ($1,478-$1,888)

Systems Control Clerk II, Personnel
Services and Staff Relations,
($1,478-$1,888)

Accounts Clerk, Personnel Services and
Staff Relations, ($1,478-$1,888)

Departmental / Executive Secretary
(Trust), Muttart Diabetes Research and
Training Centre, ($1,666-$2,144)

Technologist I (Part-Time Recurring),
Zoology, ($1,340-$1,730)

Electronics Technician II, Computing
Science, ($1,810-$2,237)

Biochemistry Technologist I (Trust),
McEachern Laboratory, ($1,888-$2,437)

Applications Analyst, Office of the
Comptroller, ($1,888-$2,437)

For vacant Library positions, please contact
the Library Personnel Office, Basement,
Cameron Library, 432-3339.

Surplus Equipment

The equipment appearing in this column is
available only to University departments with
University-administered funds. For more
information, telephone Jody Brookwell or Roy
Bennett, 432-3208.

For Sale: Rutis Hauser 901 Sheet Feeder
for DecMate Word Processor. Offers.
Sharon Schultz, Student Awards Office,
432-3221.

Advertisements
Accommodations available

Rent - House, 8932 116 St. Family only.
$750. Call evenings, 439-4207.

Sale - Condos. One, two bedrooms,
central location. Good mortgage.
Vendor anxious. Resi Richter, LePage
483-9432.

Sale - Laurier. Executive bungalow.
1,900’. Fully fireplaces, quiet location.
$159,900. Resi Richter, LePage,
483-9432.

Sale - Contemporary bungalow. 2,250’.
Valleyview, completely renovated,

gourmet kitchen, family room, jacuzzi,
rumpus, games room, pool. Resi
Richter, LePage, 483-9432.

Sale - Glenora. Renovated, upgraded.
Split. New kitchen, new bathroom,
Park-like garden. $98,500. Resi Richter,
LePage, 483-9432.

Sale - Valleyview. Large bungalow, like
new, fully developed, upgraded, three
bedrooms, gourmet kitchen, crescent
location. Resi Richter, 483-9432.
LePage.

Sale - Exclusive, best buy, Valleyview.

rr =wo-storey, four-bedroom, family
m (main), developed basement,
~cmal dining room. Resi Richter,
483-9432. LePage.

For rent - Large, furnished Garneau
house. 432-7845.

Sale - Log cottage with guesthouse, well,
fireplace, furnace. Seba Beach. $50,000
by owner. 432-9190.

Sale - Renovated three-bedroom semi,
minutes from campus. New furnace,
220, insulation, flooring. Asking
$74,900. Finance: $64,000, 10% to
September 1986. Robert Krully,
LePage’s, 437-7480.

Rent - July 1986-June 1987. Three
bedrooms, garage, fenced, furnished.
$590/ month. (403) 465-3740. 9011 92
St.

Rent - Belgravia. Large, furnished three
bedroom. 1 July. Long let preferred.
432-2942, 435-6876.

Sale - Parkallen homes. Excellent family
four-bedroom home, developed
basement. $81,900. Quiet location,
1,243’, den, patio doors, deck, spacious
kitchen. $72,900. Ask for Joyce Byrne,
435-6064, 436-5250. Spencer's.

Sale - Lendrum. Ideal starter,
three-bedroom bungalow. Quiet
location, good lot, double garage.
$85,000. Ask for Joyce Byrne, 435-6064,
436-5250. Spencer's.

Sale - Restored four-bedroom home.
University area. Hardwood floors,
original woodwork. Price reduced. Call
Pat von Borstel, 437-6540, 436-5250.
Spencer's.

Sgle - Grandview Heights. Five

‘rooms, two-storeys, family room

-h fireplace, upgraded kitchen and
bathrooms. Park-like surroundings.
Early possession, $149,500. Evan Potter,
428-1699, Pager 450-6553. Potter
Realty.

Rent - Elegant four-bedroom furnished
home, very near University, available
July, August. Non-smokers.
$1,000/month plus utilities. (403)
433-8322.

Sale - Windsor Park, 1,460 sq. ft.,
well-maintained home. Double garage.
Large enjoyable yard. For details, call
Chris Tenove, 433-5664, 436-5250.
Spencer's.

Sale - 160 acres. $25,900. Enjoy the
outdoors, close to good fishing. Offers?
Chris Tenove, 433-5664, 436-5250.
Spencer's.

Sale - City one-acre lots for your dream
home. $49,000 up. Chris Tenove,
433-5664, 436-5250. Spencer's.

Sale - Lakefront—Wabamun—north
shore. 100’ lake frontage. Split log
cabin, Quiet location. Chris Tenove,
433-5664, 436-5250. Spencer's.

Sale - Bungalow—close to University.
Extremely well-built, and maintained.
Immaculate. Double garage. Adaptable
for revenue suite if desired. Chris
Tenove, 433-5664, 436-5250. Spencer’s.

Sale - Open house—6304 132 Street.
Sunday, 4 May, 2-4 p.m. Custom-built
elegant home. Bright family kitchen.
Main floor family room. Must see
interior. Call Chris Tenove, 433-5664,
436-5250. Spencer's.

Expo accommodations available. New
home. $40 per couple. Children $5.
Phone (604) 463-4128.

Sale - Condo, one bedroom, five
appliances, fireplace, loft. Hampton
Village. 469-5241 after 5 p.m.

Sale - University area, five bedrooms,
two bathrooms, storey and half, 1,600
square feet. New double garage. Phone
436-0431.

House for rent - Three bedrooms, $450
for two people, $550 for three.
Available 1 June-31 December 1986.
Pleasant, well-furnished, convenient
to University (bus routes 9, 40, 42).
436-5222.

Accommodations wanted

Assistant Professor, family, arriving 1
July, wish to rent sabbatical home.
Contact Reg Norby, 432-4225.

Professional couple with family wish to
rent a four-bedroom executive house.
West end or southwest. Phone (306)
789-1364 Regina.

An Invitation...

author of

THE LAUGHTER OF LOVE

Whyte Avenue
Edmonton
433-7352

or

433-4949

A STUDY OF
ROBERT BURNS

Wednesday, May 7

1986

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Refreshments will be served

Incoming U of A professor and family
seeking four-bedroom home to rent in
Windsor Park for one year, starting
mid-August. Call collect: (617)
449-0284.

Automobiles and others

1982 Dodge window van, VG condition,
AC, cruise, trailer package. $2,582.
437-1391.

Automobile - air conditioning, spring
check-up. With Freon re-charge,
$24.95. Call 484-2644 after 4:30 p.m.

Goods for sale
Cash paid for used appliances, 432-0272.

Services

Donnic Word Processing. Specializing in
theses, manuscripts, etc. 8315A 105 St.
432-1419.

Backaches? Stress tension? Special
therapy at Back-Basics (supplementary
health care reimburses treatment
costs). Maria Krieg is a spine specialist,
university-trained in Diisseldorf. 11610
75 Avenue. 436-8059.

Professional typing. We do “rush stuff.”
461-1698.

Professional typist - Word processing.
Specializing in theses and
dissertations. Gwen, 467-9064.

Fast Lane word processing, 432-7845.

Typing services, French or English.
459-0234.

Journeyman carpenter. Renovations,
concrete, garages, skylights, lino, rugs,
drywall taping, painting, finishing,
sundecks, landscaping, plumbing,
electrical. References. David Richards,
437-0794.

Professional seamstress and tailors. Made
to order garments. General alterations.
469-6292, consultant Phil.

Experienced architect. Will do
renovation /new home designs. Call
973-3198 (local).

Sailing adventure - 55 ft. Ketch for
skipper charter, B.C. coast. Sleeps 4-6.
Choice of cuisine. Good rates.
Brochures. Contact: James Stevenson,
2300 Canoe Cove Road, RR3, Sidney,
B.C. V8L 2X9. (604) 656-9249.

MBA student will type your thesis on
University MTS. $10/hour plus
computing costs. 469-4784.

Word processing, typing. Competitive
rates, pick-up/deliver. Call Chris,
438-5550, 9-3:30. 481-4945
Sundays/evenings.

Word Processing: Thesis, dissertations,
books, reports, papers. French
bilingual. Reliable professional service.
Lois McMahon, 464-2351.

Word processing. Ten years’ experience.
Medical /scientific word processing.
Quality work. Excellent University
references. Proofreading services
offered to self-typists. Campus pick up
and delivery. Susan, 469-3570.

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rentals. hotels and tours — both
international and domestic We
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aspects of travel We offer you
— a separate office with full-time
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travel

— convenient on-campus
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— a company with 15 years in
the travel industry

— support of 14 Canadian offices
and one in London. England
Canadian Universities

Travel Service Ltd

Main Floor. SUB 432-2756

ARTS INSTRUCTORS

The Edmonton Parks and Recreation Department is
compiling a computer-based Instructor Registry of people
available to teach children and adult programs in the

visual and performing arts.

Basic information including name, phone number,
specialty, and location preference will be available to
community groups needing instructors for arts programming.

To have your name

included in this registry
phone 428-2827 to

obtain a registration form.

THE CITY OF

monton

PARKS AND
RECREATION

This Time — Make It Happen!
on May 8 Vote
GORDON WRIGHT

New Democrat
Edmonton - Strathcona

The New
Democrats

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Nhl

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Personnel Services and Staff Relations

Training and Development

Course Date
Stress Management May 16
“a LA
Hey Relax june 9
July 11

@ how to identify the stress factors in your life
@ techniques, practices and attitudes to overcome stress

The Following Courses are for
Secretarial /Clerical Staff Only

Interpersonal Effectiveness Date
July 8-9
@ the basics of interaction: perception; listening and
non-verbal communication
@ image and self-projection: appearance; delivery;
telephone communication
@ teamwork: flexible relating styles; gaining cooperation
@ handling people pressures: communication with
your boss; resolving conflict

The Effective Office Worker Date
Aug. 7-8

understanding your work environment

differences in perspectives between managers

and employees

coping with office politics

the right attitude: expectations that influence

job satisfaction

achieving recognition

working for more than one boss

discovering what motivates you

Managerial Skills for Senior Secretaries
and Administrative Assistants Date

informal strategies for getting things done
the administrative support role
organizing yourself

organizing the executive

being a multi-executive assistant

directing subordinates

working with boards and committees
managing your career

Courses Available to University of Alberta Staff Only.

Free Enrolment — Call 4660

Training & Development Programs
Personnel Services & Staff Relations
University of Alberta

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the management perspective Aug. 14-15

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Lister Hall
VIP Room
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VIP Room

Place
Lister Hall
VIP Room

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Lister Hall
VIP Room

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Lister Hall
VIP Room

Time
8:30-4:00

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