Tag Archives: Concordia University

| Business

Look who’s plagiarizing from me now

Looks like I’m not the only one who thinks corporate boards are incestuous.

Peggy Curran in today’s Gazette (no link, someone was sleeping at CanWest Interactive and forgot to upload the story):

It is a truth universal (sic) acknowledged – at least by those of us who will never make the cut – that corporate boards are incestuous affairs, peopled by well-tailored movers and shakers who go to the same functions, shop at the same fromagerie and get their best gossip in the VIP lounge at the airport.

Heather Munroe-Blum’s Alcan appointment isn’t the first time a university president from this town has had questionable appointments to other boards. Concordia’s ex-rector Frederick Lowy was on the boards of Dundee Bancorp (a “wealth management” company) and Neurochem (a pharmaceutical company). In exchange Dundee’s chairman Ned Goodman had an MBA program named after him and an honorary degree. Neurochem’s Francesco Bellini single-handedly created Concordia’s genomics research facility (Conflict of interest? Nah.) and also got an honorary doctorate.

Oh the tangled web they weave…

| Uncategorized

He’s all yours, Ed

The Gazette is reporting today that Dr. Ed Enos, former athletics director for Concordia University, died this week.

What the glowing obituary doesn’t mention is a scandal (PDF: Pages 2-3) which painted a rather large stain on Enos and the department after Link reporters (and Kurt Cobain conspiracy therologists) Ian Halperin and Max Wallace discovered that the athletics department was using its budget to pay athletes. The case escalated to the point of an alleged fistfight between Halperin and Enos’s son, which witnesses said Enos Sr. encouraged.

| Media, Montreal

Journalist, diss thyself (now with video)

So Concordia journalism prof Ross Perigoe was all like “hey Gazoo, you be all racist, mofo!”

And Gazette editor-in-chief Andrew Phillips was all like “oh no you didn’t!”

And Ross was like “yuh-uh, I looked at 362 articles you done published just after 9/11 and you be all negative ‘gainst Muslims, biatch!”

And Andrew was like “why you be all up in our journalists’ face man?”

And Ross was like “hey man, hate the game, not the playah, yous peeps be cool, yo, they’s just part of the oppressive system.”

Ross be all done write a thesis ’bout this cuz he got no life.

And so Ross was like “you didn’t do enough to fight back against racist tendencies, you white-ass crackah”

And Andrew was like “dude, it was right after frickin’ 9/11! What are you, brain damaged or somethin’?”

And then this guy Rachad was like “Ross dude, you need to review your methodology.”

And Andrew was like “oh snap! Pwned!”

And there was a Gazette journalist right there and he wrote about the whole thing. Dude.

UPDATE: YouTube has video of the question period. Perigoe’s speech and Phillips’s rebuttal are on Google Video.

The Concordian covers it here.

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Landry gets special treatment

So says The Gazette’s Peggy Curran:

“Only a fraction of the $35,000 Concordia University will pay former premier Bernard Landry this semester is for teaching, with the rest covering “other tasks,” like networking and forging links with business leaders and government, Concordia officials said last night.” more…

Why spend all that money on education when you can hire people to schmooze?

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The Left

During the Feb. 7 Day of Action protest, it seems some students were protesting against other students. The leftist group Our Concordia screamed that the Concordia Student Union wasn’t doing enough, even signing a petition to that effect.

Also this week, The Link profiles student groups who get their own taxes on students, to try to steer the debate on whether student-funded organizations should have to defend their fees every three years.