Headlines/March 12, 1 998

Faculty file

Dart attends meeting with premier
Political science/religious studies —
instructor Ron Dart was part of Premier
Glen Clark’s recent meeting with
religious leaders. The purpose of the
February 23 meeting was to find ways to
fight poverty. “Clark realizes that :
religious groups can play a significant: .
part in fighting poverty,” ‘says Dart.
“Politicians and religious groups share
common ground i in this area.” Forty

inter-faith groups from across the
province attended the meeting, which °
produced 14 resolutions that. were
presented to government. Calling the ©
three-hour in-camera session Clark’s.
“provincial perestroika”, Dart said that.
the premier is clearly moving away | from
the politics of polarism toc one of:
dialogue.

Fenwick adjudicates

Theatre department head Ian Fenwick
adjudicated the Langley | School District °
Theatre Festival from Feb. 23 to 27, and
the Surrey School District from Mar. 2
to 4. One production from each of these
festivals will go onto the B.C. Festival ©
of the Arts in May. Fenwick has *
extensive adjudicating experience in
both secondary school and community
theatre throughout British Columbia;
from Fort St. John to Nelson to”

~ Vancouver Island. rare

delegates representing a broad range of ~~

History jottings.
By Bonnie Huskins
We in the History department would like

to share some of our recent research and:

publications with our colleagues at
UCFV. We challenge other departments

. to feature some of their recent projects
‘with a view to creating more of an.
- awareness of the fascinating scholarly

activities currently being undertaken i at

‘UCFV:

». Daniel Kwan recently published his ©
monograph Marxist Intellectuals and the

Chinese Labour Movement (University -
of ‘Washington Press).
Sylvie Murray is currently working »
_on her manuscript Suburban Citizens: ;
~ Domesticity and Community Politics in
. Queen’s, New York, 1945-60, to be,

_ published shortly by. Comell University. ci
Press.
“<. Eric Davis is also working on a book

entitled Sexuality, Commerce, and

Modernism. Eric is also involved in
writing and producing a documentary
film on the Canadian Seamen’s Union -

; strike of 1949,

Jack Gaston i is currently engaged i in

‘research on Gladstone and the women in

his life.

Robin Anderson has recently
published an article in the Canadian

-. Historical Review, Vol. 77, no.4 >.
- (December, 1996) entitled “On the Edge.
"Historians and Historical Writing ©

of the Baseball Map with the 1908
Vancouver Beavers”. ’

Bonnie Huskins has also published

“From Haute Cuisine to Ox Roasts: |

= ‘Public Feasting and the Negotiation
-of Class in Mid-Nineteenth Century.
-Saint John and Halifax” in Labour/le

travail Vol. 37 (Spring 1996), and has a
. forthcoming article appearing in the .. -
~ Urban History Review entitled ““A Tale

_ of Two Cities’: Boosterism and the

Imagination of Conimunity during the
-” Visit of the Prince of Wales to Saint
John and Halifax in 1860"...

Myra Rutherdale has written a
paper entitled ‘I. Wish the Men were
Half as Good’: Gender Construction in
the Northern Canadian Mission Field,

1860-1940", which is to appear in the.

upcoming anthology Essays on Women
and Canadian Colonization and.

Settlement (UBC Press, 1998). -

Robert Rutherdale has two articles -
to be. published shortly: “Fatherhood in
Memory and the Popular Media During _

Canada’s Baby. Boom, 1946-65”, which .

- will appear in an upcoming issue of the.

_. Journal of Family History, and
. History: Andre Gide and the Genesis of.

“Generations, Narration and ~
Periodization: Epochs and Application
in Historical Practice” which will
appear in the Canadian Review of

- American Studies. He also has an entry

in Gender and History in Canada (Copp
Clark 1996) entitled “Fatherhood and
Social Construction of Memory:

-. Breadwinning and Male Parenting on a

Job Frontier, 1945-66”:
_ Chad Reimer has published two
entries in The Encyclopedia of.

(London 1997), on “Canada” and
“Margaret Ormsby”. mk

Streifel gets flak on freeze. from unexpected source

One student complained that as a aresult of tighter -_

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It’s not easy being.a politician, even when you’ ve got good news -
to announce. That’s what Mission-Kent MLA Dennis Streifel
discovered when he visited the Abby campus on March 5.
Announcing an extension to the two-year long tuition freeze,
’ Streifel was taken aback by criticism of the freeze - —by ©
students.
Several students in the crowd of 30 attacked Streifel for lack
: of education funding, arguing that the freeze has reduced.
UCFV’s financial flexibility. They suggested that as a result of
the freeze, additional fees were imposed to offset tuition revenue .
decreases. — :

post-secondary funding, he was not able to get the ¢ course he -
‘needed. Streifel noted that the government will announce -
increases to to post-secondary education funding in in its S upcoming :
budget. : oe