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Welcome to the McLaughlin College Academic Orientation Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. Platform Guests. • Ian Greene, Master of McLaughlin College & Prof of Political Science, Public Administration & Law Terry Conlin , McLaughlin Academic Advisor
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Welcome to the McLaughlin College Academic Orientation Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008
Platform Guests • Ian Greene, Master of McLaughlin College & Prof of Political Science, Public Administration & Law • Terry Conlin, McLaughlin Academic Advisor • Anthony Antonacci, President, McLaughlin Student Council • Some McLaughlin Fellows, including Randall Pilson (McLaughlin Graduate & Trumpeter)
McLaughlin College Orientationwww.yorku.ca/mclaughlin • College: community of students and faculty dedicated to working together in the pursuit of knowledge and the development of the whole person • Based on the very successful Oxford-Cambridge tradition of 700 years. • Academic support -Interdisciplinary setting GeorgeTatham • Extracurricular activities -Sports, fitness, music, drama • Residences. (Tatham Hall is named after McLaughlin’s first Master) • Only three universities in Canada have colleges for all undergraduate students. We’re privileged at York to have the college system. Each college has its own history and traditions. McLaughlin – founded 1968
McLaughlin College Orientation • Gowns and hoods: why are some of us wearing them? • Remember college values of social justice, respect, development of the whole person, service to community. You’ll be reminded of your social obligations at convocation. • Please take advantage of college activities and other opportunities at the university. These will open an amazing number of doors. • Attend the Lunch Talk Series (mid-January to April) in Senior Common Room: 140 McLaughlin College • McLaughlin is a home both for residence and commuter students – use the Study Hall, Dynamacs, recreational facilities, student club offices, foyer area, courtyard
York’s Colleges • Complex I Colleges (where we are now) • McLaughlin: Public Policy • Political Science, Sociology, Criminology, Law & Society, Public Policy & Administration, Health & Society, Global Political Studies, Labour Studies. January admit students and residence students come from all faculties • Vanier: Humanities, Psychology, Philosophy, etc. • Founders: “Self, Culture and Society” -- History, Women’s Studies, Development Studies, etc. • Winters: all programs in Faculty of Fine Arts
York’s Colleges • Complex II Colleges: • Stong: English, Kinesiology, Health • Bethune: Science & Engineering • Calumet: “Technology and the Arts” – Business & Society, Communications Studies, Health • Glendon College: a liberal arts faculty & college combined at Bayview & Lawrence – bilingual, public affairs • Atkinson Faculty (currently a college & faculty combined) and the Faculty of Arts will be uniting into a combined new faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2009
Greetings from York Leaders • York University President Mamdouh Shoukri:
Video greeting from Robert Tiffin, Vice-President Students Video greeting from Dean of Faculty of Arts, Bob Drummond Greetings
Get to know your Program Coordinators! • Prof. James Sheptycki, Coordinator, Criminology Programme (034 McL, ext 53726) • Prof. Daniel Cohn, Undergraduate Program Director, School of Public • Policy & Administration⇢ (8th Floor North Ross, ext 77276)
Department of Sociology • Margaret Beare, Chair ► • Larry Lam, Undergraduate Program Director ▼(receiving award for outstanding service to students): Vari Hall 2098ext 77995
David McNally, ChairDepartment of Political Science • (Bruce Smardon is the Undergraduate Program Director, Ross S638, ext 88832)
Other Program Coordinators • Health & Society: Barbara Beardwood (Ross S704, Ext 77823)⇢ • Labour Studies: Carla Lipsig-Mummé (Ross S761A, ext 33751)⇢
Other Program Coordinators • Law & Society: Kimberley White (Ross S734, ext 20546) • Global Political Studies: Look up email Anna Agathangelou addresses in York (Ross S653, ext 88840) on-line directory(click on “current students, facultyand staff”)
Anthony AntonnaciMcLaughlin Student Council President • McLaughlin Student Council • Room 143 McLaughlin College • Sports and Rec: 143 McLaughlin • Council Activities for Students • “Dynamacs” • Ski trip Blue Mtn: Jan 17-19 • McLaughlin Formal Apr 4: Paramount • Student clubs in McLaughlin College • Political Science, Sociology, Public Policy & Administration, Model UN, Model NATO, Criminology, Law & Society, Aboriginal Students Association, Global Political Studies, Peace By Peace, Pre-law clubs, Health & Society, Labour Studies, Debating Society, Amnesty International, Shalom-Salaam, Save the Children, etc. (Sign-up table near this room) • In addition: MacMedia, Yearbook, Choir, Concert Band
Terry ConlinMcLaughlin Academic Advisor • Your key to academic success at York • 227 McLaughlin College ext 55128; tconlin@yorku.ca • Peer Advisors • Faculty Advisors • MALL (McLaughlin Academic Lifeline) • Natsaid
Other Events to Note • McLaughlin College Winter Term Lunch Talks: All talks will take place in the Senior Common Room (Room 140 McLaughlin), unless otherwise noted below. A light lunch is served at 12 noon(free), and the talks begin at about 12:15, followed by a question-and-answer session. We usually finish shortly after 1 p.m. It’s very informal. If you can’t come until 12:30, or need to leave early, that’s fine. Students who attend eight lunch talks in 2007-08 will receive a Certificate of Participation. • 1. Wednesday, January 9th: Will Postma is the Director of Programs for Save the Children Canada. (noon, 140 McL) Mr. Postma has been working, studying and carrying out research in the international development sector for over twenty years. He has fifteen years of senior management and leadership experience in Canada, Africa and Asia with various foreign-aid organizations, including Save the Children, World Vision, CARE Canada and USAID. Mr. Postma will be speaking about some of his personal experiences in the field. • 2. Conference on Rwanda Genocide, January 14-17, 2008, Founders Assembly Hall. For detailed program information, see www.yorku.ca/mcl. There are many events at different times.
Other Events • 3. Thursday Jan. 10th from 4-5 PM Senior Common Room (Rm. 140 McL), McLaughlin College: A Concert of Elizabethan and Jacobean Lute Music: Music of John Dowland, Anthony Holborne and their contemporaries. John Edwards - Renaissance Lute. Free admission. • 4. Friday, January 18: “The Price of Freedom of Expression.” Nikahang (Nik) Kowsar is an Iranian cartoonist and journalist currently living in Toronto. Kowsar was also a reformist candidate for city council in Tehran in 2003. After studying Geology at the University of Tehran, he became a cartoonist for an Iranian political satire magazine in 1991. Prior to coming to Toronto in 2004, he worked as a cartoonist for a number of leading Iranian papers. Most of these papers have been banned by the current Iranian regime. The cartoon at the side, which depicts a leading Ayatollah denouncing freedom of expression, earned Mr. Kowsar 7 days in prison.
Other Events • 5. Wednesday, January 23 (noon): The Fabulous Future of Downsview Park. Tony Genco, President and CEO of Parc Downsview Park, will present a lunch talk on the continued development of this unique national park corporation,located just south of York University. • 6. Tuesday, January 29: (noon) Gail Vanstone, author of D is for Daring, the first published history of Canada's only feminist filmmaking studio. From its founding in 1974 to its closing in 1996, Studio D produced over 150 documentaries and won more than 100 international awards, including three Academy Awards. Its documentaries tackled hotly debated issues that ranged from sexuality and pornography to women's work and feminist identity to nuclear war and environmental destruction. Through personal interviews and drawing on the Studio's archival records, Vanstone introduces us to the key players behind the Studio.
Events • Wednesday, February 6 (noon, 140 McL): Media Ethics. Suanne Kieman worked for seven years as the arts producer on the CBC radio show Sunday Morning. She has also worked on the CBC news show The Journal, and has written for Toronto Life, Chatelaine, Shape and other magazines and newspapers. She once wrote a gossip column for The Globe and Mail, and quit in a fit of disgust. This experience kindled her interest in media ethics. • Last term’s speakers included Philip Slayton, author of the controversial book Lawyers Gone Bad, and former Prime Minister Joe Clark. Many of the past talks are videostreamed onto the McLaughlin web page. • Students who attend at least 4 times, plus participate in other college activities, will receive a Cerficate of Participation – important for letters of reference later on. • McLaughlin College Web Page: • www.yorku.ca/mcl • Please complete the evaluation – tear off the schedule at the end of your handout and return to a McLaughlin peer advisor or staff at the end of the day.
Schedule • 12:30: Welcome to York & McLaughlin College • 1 pm: Managing Time & Money • 2 pm: Peers & Careers • 3 pm: Getting A's At York • 4 pm: End of Day
