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Dawson College, News for the Community.
February 2009
Vol. 4 No. 2
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Continuing on after its two year mandate Action Conservation is now known
as Sustainable Dawson. The term ‘sustainable’ has been described as “A sustainable society is one which satisfies its needs without diminishing the prospects of future generations.” (Lester R. Brown, Founder and President, Worldwatch Institute). We should all be proud that Dawson is looking to become
a more environmentally responsible citizen and that the college is investing
manpower and funds into making that a priority.
The Sustainable Dawson team, Chris Adam (CRLT) and project manager
Cindy Elliott, is hard at work developing new goals for the Dawson community along with working out a sustainability assessment in which they will
set benchmarks for about 200 indicators in the categories of education and
research, operations, administrations and finance. They plan to have the latter
ready for May 2009.
So far they have compiled the following statistics:
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Photo: Jonathan Perlman
(left to right) Sarah De Sousa, Ashley Redman, Glenn Millar, recipient of the inaugural Anastasia De Sousa In-Course Scholarships, and
Director General Richard Filion.
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Every fall Dawson College celebrates some of its best and brightest students. This past semester
students, their friends and families,
and staff got together for the EnÌÀ>˜ViÊÜ>À`ÃÊ­ œÛi“LiÀʣήÊ>˜`Ê
Achievement Awards (November
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Purpose room was full and the
spirit of celebration was everywhere.
The Entrance Awards are given
to first semester students in recognition of the outstanding achievement
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overall average or higher from high
school. There are also three Sector
Awards given to the student with the
highest average entering each of the
sectors (Science, Careers and Arts).
Each year the number of high
calibre students choosing Dawson
has risen and this year we had 99
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schools. The awards were given
out by Graham Weeks (Awards &
Scholarships) and the Chair of Senate, Leslie Barker.
Next up were the Achievement
Awards which encompass First and
Second Year Achievement Awards,
Special Awards and In-Course
Scholarships. The evening started
off on a high note with Guy Charron, Executive Vice-President and
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Alexis Nihon, our Dawson Golf
Tournament title sponsor, confirming that they will be continuing
with their support of this fundraising event in 2009. Much of
the monies raised at the Dawson
Golf Tournament are used to fund
awards given at the Achievement
Awards ceremony, so this announcement was a welcomed one.
Amidst the usual Special
Awards - presented by Assistant
Deans Wolfgang Krotter and
Wilson Wong, such as Millennium
Scholarships, First Choice Science
Award, Religion Award, and the
Beryl and Willy Moser Award for
Drama, a new award was presented
for the first time.
The Anastasia De Sousa
In-Course Scholarship is given to
students who have overcome major
obstacles on the road to academic
success.
The inaugural award had two
winners, Sarah Acoca (Social Science) and Glenn Millar (Pure &
Applied Science), who received the
award from Sarah De Sousa, who
was representing her family.
To round out the evening, The
First and Second Year Achievement
Awards, which are given in recognition of outstanding achievement in
a program, based on a minimum
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load, were presented by Diane Gauvin, Dean of Social Science & Business Technologies and Sylvie Lord,
Assistant Dean of Social Science &
Business Technologies.
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Photo: Matthew Manor
Cup in Germany. That team also
won silver, losing the gold in
overtime to Sweden.
To see Lauriane or MariePhilip in action, another home
game (at Concordia’s Ed Meagher
Arena on the Loyola campus)
is scheduled for February 22.
Check out the Athletics page on
the Dawson website for more
information.
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Star Blues forward Marie-Philip Poulin in action.
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Not only is the Dawson College
Athletics department fielding a
wide variety of sports teams while
maintaining a high graduation rate
amongst its athletes, it is also turning out world calibre athletes.
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Marie-Philip Poulin from the
Women’s Hockey Team. Hailing from Beauceville, MariePhilip made the choice to come to
Dawson to improve her English
and play for our strong women’s
hockey team. This is a young
woman who could have played
on and starred for any team she
wanted to. The choice she made
says mountains about our academic and athletic reputation.
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season has been one to remember.
Not only did she make the Cana`ˆ>˜Ê1˜`iÀ‡£nÊ7œ“i˜½ÃʜVŽiÞÊ
team, but she played in last year’s
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won the silver medal (they lost in
the gold medal game to the United
States in overtime). As if that was
not enough, Marie-Philip co-led
the tournament in scoring and was
named its Top Forward.
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asked to take part in the Team
Canada Senior Women’s camp taking place at the end of January in
Calgary. It is quite an achievement
for her to be thought of as one of
the top 24 female hockey players
in all of Canada.
She is taking part in the camp
alongside such well-known players
as goaltender Kim St. Pierre, forward Gillian Apps and defencemen
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to be Marie-Philip’s favourite
player.
The invite for Marie-Philip
is doubly impressive as she is the
youngest player at the camp at
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on to make the team she would
then play for Team Canada at the
World Championships in Finland
in April and be eligible to play for
Canada in the 2010 Vancouver
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Dawson Blues players making
names for themselves include present player Lauriane Rougeau and
former players Catherine Ward
(now with the McGill Martlets),
Emmanuelle Blais and Ann-Sophie
Bettez (also with the Martlets)
who all recently played with the
Canadian U22 team at the MLP
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biodegradable
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or unrepairable computers are
recycled
The Sustainable Dawson team
is presently working on several
programs, including:
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will collect some of the garbage we
produce over a 24-hour period and
assess its contents
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Business Administration students
will be working on marketing sustainability within the College
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,/Ê«Àœgram are working on a series
of sustainability-related action
research projects
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is working with the MUHC to develop unique recycling opportunities and approaches for the health
care system
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working on proposals for the
efficient design of some College
areas in association with Plant and
Facilities
If you have any suggestions,
comments or questions please contact Sustainable Dawson at local
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An artist has that ability to see
the potential in and then change
an everyday article into a work
of art. The simplest of things can
become something very different.
This amazing transformation was
undertaken by some students in
the Illustration and Design program under the guidance of their
teacher, Pauline Fresco.
Last year, Parasuco, the
Montreal-based clothing company,
had donated white t-shirts to the
Illustration and Design department for students to transform by
painting on them. It went so well
that students and teacher wanted
to continue their association with
Parasuco.
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The students in her class were then
given the assignment of transforming these jeans into anything they
wanted, the only stipulation being
that the Parasuco logo and name
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With only two weeks to work
on this assignment, the students
really felt the pressure of a ‘real
world’ deadline. Despite the time
constraints, the finished products were impressive. The Parasuco jeans are now hats, scarves,
backpacks, vests, tops, and several
other items.
Pauline and the students
presented their work to a marketing representative from Parasuco. Each student presented the
finished product and explained
how it came about. Wanting the
high quality work to be seen and
appreciated by as many people as
possible, Pauline Fresco and Mary
Di Liello of Student Affairs came
up with the idea of presenting the
student work as an exhibit.
The Illustration and Design/
Parasuco Exhibit will take place
right after the March break on
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staged in Conrod’s with the vernisÃ>}iʜ˜Ê̅iÊÓÎÀ`°ÊÊ
At the vernissage, for which
tickets will be available, the pieces
will be exhibited, but can also be
purchased in a silent auction. In
addition, two or three items may
be won as raffle prizes. The website will have more details in the
second week of March.
Dawson’s first ever Social Science
Week will take place from Febru>ÀÞʙʇʣΰÊÌÊ܈Êˆ˜VÕ`iʏiVÌÕÀiÃ]Ê
panel discussions and film screenings
aimed at highlighting the role the
Social Sciences play in the process of
change on a global scale.
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CEGEPs such as Vanier and Montmorency have been organizing successful Social Science Week events
for a number of years. Last year, Ted
Irwin of the Geography Department
and Jo LaPierre of History spearheaded the idea of running a similar
event at Dawson. Pierre L’Heureux,
Coordinator of the Law, Justice and
Society profile, ran with the idea and
has worked diligently with Cornelia
Howell of Anthropology over the
last seven months, planning what
is shaping up to be an impressive
roster of expertise across several
disciplines.
While a number of facilitators
are guests from other institutions,
the majority of the presenters are
internal faculty members, adding
a Dawson flavour to a truly global
domain. The first of what might
become an annual event will feature
such lectures as “Global Climate
Change: Much Ado about Nothing
on a Planetary Scale” and “Intelligent Design Creationism and Biological Evolution”. The topics covered
over the course of the week will
cater to faculty, students and staff,
and are sure to be enlightening,
compelling and even controversial.
The keynote event will take
place on the final morning of Science
Week, as CBC radio host and author
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plight of child labourers working on
cocoa farms in Africa, in her work
titled “Bitter Chocolate”.
For a first-time event, Social
Science Week: “Making Sense of
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impression on the Dawson Community.
For a full schedule of the week’s
activities, please see the Social Science
Week button on the Dawson
homepage.
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Dawson staff gets together to celebrate the holidays and each other.
This year was no different with a
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members in attendance in Conrod’s.
It is rare during the hustle and
bustle of the semester that we have
the opportunity to socialize with
each other and many look forward
each year to this party as their one
opportunity.
The room had been magically
transformed into a winter wonderland by the Christmas party
committee. Conrod’s was not easily
recognizable as the place where
students gather everyday to eat and
chat. After a cocktail hour everyone
sat down to a meal catered by Bistro
Westminster and its co-owner Ed
Smith. There was a choice of either
baby back ribs or veal osso bucco or
pasta primavera or seafood stuffed
salmon. Everything was delicious!
After appetites were satisfied
the party moved on to music, prize
giveaways, the final half and half
draw (won by Nathaly Boisvert
from the Cafeteria) and dancing.
Live music was provided by the
7-piece band Roxfield Point who
were joined onstage for a couple
of numbers by surprise guest, the
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wonderful Dawn Tyler Watson. The
band had everyone up dancing the
rest of the night away.
The Holiday Party Committee
would also like to thank these
people/departments who contributed greatly to the party: Plant
& Facilities (Yves Morin, Savang
Fongsavanh, Farley Acosta, Rinaldo
Molina, Daniel Deschenes, Jim
Richards), Steve Schon (Theatre
department), Jean Nagy, Roula
Koutsoumbas, Mary Di Liello, Roz
Silver, David Bannout, Security,
Brian MacFarlane, Magda Cloutier,
Emery Lewis, Mary Wawrzetz, the
Cafeteria, Fred Pawsey, students
from the Blue Ring Society, and
Cindy Elliott.
It was an excellent way to
cap off the year and left all those
who came anticipating next year’s
holiday party.
Holiday Party Committee
Sarah De Guzman
Catherine Fusk
Alain Habib
Maha Haddad
Geoff Kloos
Michelle Lee
Suzanne Morzajew
Carey-Ann Pawsey
Jonathan Perlman
Paul Rastelli
Tina Romeo
Gianna Smith
When the College Foundations of
Montreal’s 12 on-island CEGEPs
met to discuss how best to mark
the 40 years of the CEGEP network,
the answer was simple:
Reward the students.
A new scholarship program
was established under the umbrella
40 ans, 40 bourses (40 years,
40 scholarships). Partnering with
Montreal businesses, 40 scholarships of $1,000 will be awarded to
40 students chosen among the 12
Montreal CEGEPs.
Award winners of the scholarships will be celebrated at an event
on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at
the Centre des congrès Renaissance,
in Montreal’s east end.
There are 12 on-island CEGEPs
(Ahuntsic, André-Laurendeau,
Bois-de-Boulogne, Dawson, GeraldGodin, John Abbott, Maisonneuve,
Marie-Victorin, Rosemont, St-Laurent, Vanier, and Vieux-Montréal)
with some 40,000 students enrolled
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continuing education programs in
the career and pre-university sectors.
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vast majority of whom have continued on to the workplace or to a
university education. The scholarship program draws attention to
the value CEGEP graduates bring
to society, as they become the next
generation of business and community leaders.
More information about the
program and the criteria for the
awards is available on the website
at www.fondationscollegiales.qc.ca.
The deadline for application is
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ing device that limits the peak energy consumption of the building.
This reduces costs because Hydro
Quebec bills customers at a specific
rate up to a maximum kilowatt/
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limit is breached (by having too
many heaters running at once, for
example), the extra consumption is
billed at a higher rate as a form of
penalty for excessive consumption.
In a building of this size, the cost
of such a penalty can be considerable. So, by ensuring that heaters in one area are automatically
switched off as others are switched
on, the system keeps the College
comfortable without pushing its
peak consumption into the higher
price range.
Even with such an advanced
heating system, not everyone will
be comfortable all of the time. So
the next time you feel a chill in the
College; imagine the original occupants of this building, the Sisters
of the Congrégation de Notre
Dame, enduring a cold February with an old oil furnace and
drafty windows. Folks, summer
is just around the corner. In the
meantime, put on a sweater, grab
a coffee and be nice to our P&F
building technicians; they get over
a dozen calls a day just to adjust
thermostats!
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The Dawson College Foundation is appealing to faculty, staff
and management during its first
annual giving campaign. You may
have read about the Foundation’s
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of Discover Dawson. Along with
the details regarding the work of
the Foundation you were notified
that you too might be solicited for
support. Then, late last year, pamphlets were distributed via internal
mail with an appeal to the Dawson
Community.
The Dawson Foundation
funds areas of the College that
otherwise struggle with little or no
government funding. These include
the Students in Need program, the
Scholarships and Awards program,
and the Para-Academic Initiatives
program. These programs would
likely cease to exist without the
generous donations from within
the greater Dawson Community.
If you would like to donate,
or learn more about the initiatives
supported by the Dawson Foun`>̈œ˜]Ê«i>ÃiÊV>Ê™Î£‡nÇΣ]ÊiÝÌ°Ê
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Be ready to don your skates for a
day at the Bell Centre in March
(date to be announced). The Skate
with Dawson event is returning for
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and family.
And for those who would
rather play hockey than skate, get
your teams together now because
the ice-time gets reserved early for
those who want to play on the
same ice as their Montreal Canadiens heroes!
For the past two years Dawson, in association with the Montreal Canadiens, has hosted the
fundraising event.
The monies raised through
the Bell Skate support the Catherine Ward Scholarship, which is
a scholarship open to graduating
members of the Dawson Women’s
Hockey team who are going on
to continue their academic and
hockey careers at the university
level. Previous winners of the
scholarship have been Ann-Sophie
Bettez and Stacie Tardif.
So far the joint venture between Dawson and the Montreal
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This year’s Bell Skate is most likely
to take place sometime during the
month of March. The Canadiens
organization can only release the
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How does Dawson keep its electricity costs in check? With the
cold winter we’ve been having,
everyone dreads receiving their
heating bill. Imagine your humble
abode measured one million
square feet, which is roughly the
space occupied by our fine institution. The electricity bills at Dawson are substantial, as you might
imagine. We do, however, have a
unique system that monitors and
regulates the distribution of electricity throughout the College.
The system works via a process
referred to as load shedding, in
which a computer acts as a switch-
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