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¦ 2007 WINNER CCNA BETTER NEWSPAPERS COMPETITION - mu——— TUP' ————¦ RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Come test drive one todayl Suprem Automobile 819-821-9272 www.supraroautomobHa.oom WEEKEND EDITION 95 CENTS + TAXES PM#0040007682 Friday.February 8.2008 No appeal for Hugo Bernier Murder conviction stands Tile Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday morning it had rejected the appeal Tequest of Townshipper Hugo Bernier, charged with the murder of Julie Boisvenu.A panel of three j udges rendered a Please see Last Chance on Page 9 ‘Accustomed to their conditions’ Anglo complacency?By Sarah Rogers Sherbrooke Townshippers have so far missed the bus on Quebec’s new minority rights party, says its leader.But it’s not too late to climb aboard, said Allen Nutik, leader of Affiliation Quebec, which received its official party status last month.The party, calling itself an alternative to the Liberals for anglophone Quebecers and loyal Canadians, has Please see AQon Page 2 Your Garbage PERRY BEATON A chunk of the junk that ends up at the Est rie recycling centre doesn’t belong there — and it’s costing taxpapers money and might lead to a devastating injury.See page 3. page 2 Friday, February 8, 2008 Volunteer Hank Bury CLC seeks volunteers y i| ^he CLC (Community Learning Centre) in Bury is urgently seeking volunteer coordinators to oversee the weekly Internet Café on Tuesday evenings JL.from 6:30 to 9 p.m.Experience with Mac computers is required.For more information or to volunteer, contact Nancy Beattie at 819-570-7255 or beattien@etsb.qc.ca.On Volunteering “Volunteering creates a national character in which the community and the nation take on a spirit of compassion, comradeship and confidence.” — Brian O’Connell About the Volunteer Bank The Volunteer Bank is an initiative of Townshippers’ Association and was created as a result of a need expressed by English speakers to become more involved in their community, as well as to provide English-speaking volunteer support to community groups and organizations.Townshippers’ Association is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization serving the English-speaking community in the Eastern Townships.Do YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT, SKILL, OR SERVICE YOU WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE ON A VOLUNTEER BASIS?Is YOUR GROUP OR ORGANIZATION LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD VOLUNTEERS?If so, contact Evelina Smith, Coordinator of Townshippers’ Association’s Volunteer Bank at 819-566-2182 (TOLL FREE 1-877-566-2182), INFO@TOWNSHIPPERS.QC.CA, or George Courville, Coordinator of Partners for Health & Social Services - Townships-Montérëgie Network AT 450-263-4422 (TOLL FREE 1-866-263-4422), GC@TOWNSHIPPERS.QC.CA.Record Giveaway The Record has two tickets to give away to see the two Bishop’s University Gaiters basketball teams play against the McGill Redmen on Saturday, Feb.9.That’s at the Bishop’s University Sports Centre, 2600 College Street, in the Sherbrooke borough of Lennoxville.The women will play at 6 p.m.while the men will tip-off at 8 p.m.The first caller to The Record newsroom at 819-569-6345 today at 11 a.m.will win both passes.Good luck! RECORD AQ; Cont’d from Page 1 forged few relationships with the Eastern Townships to date.“Local leadership is going to have to spring up and get on the bus — it’s up to people to join us,” Nutik said.“I sense a complacency in the Townships from people accustomed to their conditions.” Nutik admits that, because the party is yet to receive public funds, its budget for outreach is slim and appearances in local media are few and far between.These days.Affiliation Quebec is doing what it can to come across loud and clear to potential supporters, the website laden with potently-worded press releases and upcoming rally dates.Nutik is intent on filling a void he sees being left by the Liberal party and the Action démocratique du Québec, in a province where he says the courts have been slow to protect Quebec’s minorities.In addition to anglophones, Nutik counts al-lophones and aboriginal communities among the province’s minorities.“If we’re not Quebec de souche, we’re second class,” Nutik said in a phone interview from Montreal.“Freedom of the individual is not respected in Quebec.” He is quick to mention the party supports the use of the French language and agrees to the rights of Québécois to protect and promote it - except when they strive to separate Quebec from the rest of Canada and abrogate the rights of individuals.On Jan.15, Affiliation Quebec (AQ) became the 16th official political party in the province.Put together by a fledgling few Montrealers, Nutik now counts over 500 members, a handful of whom he said are francophones or baséd outside Montreal.Nutik, 63, is a businessman from Westmount with a background in journalism and public relations.Beyond a few unsuccessful bids for mayor and alderman in Westmount in the 1980s, his life on the political scene remained fairly quiet until Affiliation Quebec was born.“It takes years to understand the implication of things,” he said.“Who knew in the early 1980s what the implications of the charter would be?” Nutik posed.“It’s changed Canada and Quebec, and now we’re unsure what our rights are.” “Over 600,000 people have picked up and left,” he added, of Quebec expats like his siblings and grown children.“Life for those of us that stayed is bittersweet.” Considering the party’s initials, it’s not hard to imagine whose torch they may be carrying, years after an increasingly activist Alliance Quebec fizzled out."The initials AQ rings a bell for Quebecers, and they work in both languages,” Nutik said.“But we didn’t want to be a pressure group, we wanted to be a political party.” He is not shy to remark that other anglophone groups, Whether deemed lobby groups or not, simply act as mouthpieces for the federal government, a significant sourcë of their funding.While Nutik is not one to mince words, he is sure to garner both friends and enemies in the ebb and flow of provincial debate.It will be up to Townshippers then to decide which category they will fall into, if either.Affiliation Quebec takes a stand • On school boards: Affiliation Quebec has called for the abolishment of the current Quebec school board system, along with the termination of property taxes as the basis for financing primary and secondary education.English school boards in Quebec spend hundreds of millions of dollars with little public scrutiny, according to Nutik, who said the usefulness of these boards to the English community is now long past.• On language laws in Quebec: Nutik refers to a continued push to strengthen language laws in Quebec as racist and threatening to Quebec’s minority communities.“The push to strengthen language laws in Quebec is driving foreigners out,” Nutik said, “and must be fought at every instance.” • On the Bouchard-Taylor Commission: “The commission clearly demonstrated the xenophobia of a percentage of Quebec’s population that should not have been let out of their Pandora’s box,” Nutik said.Those feelings weren’t expressed by a majority of Quebecers, but just enough to send the message that hateful feelings are tolerated here, he added.• On a Jan.14 article that ran in the Journal de Montreal, where a journalist posed as a unilingual anglophone looking for work in Montreal.As a leading daily newspaper, Journal de Montreal has acted in an irresponsible and reckless manner by featuring an article of questionable news value, placed in a position where the editors knew a maelstrom would ensue, says a party statement.Nutik, on behalf of the party, has filed a complaint with the Quebec Press Council, claiming the article was poorly reported, and he plans to follow up with the newspaper this week.• On Quebec sovereignty: Affiliation Quebec supports partition, if necessary, they say.In the event of the separation of Quebec from the rest of Canada, “(Quebec) will not get it all,” Nutik said.COURTESY MARTIN C.BERRY.WESTMOUNT Allen Nutick.Weather Ben by Daniel Shelton Today: Cloudy with 60 per cent chance of flurries.High minus 4.Low minus 8.Saturday: Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries.Low minus 11.High plus 1.Sunday: Snow.Low minus 4.High minus 2.Monday: Periods of snow.Low minus 10.High minus 9.7my\ 'favorite ¦> 51(2+1 c 1W0NPER WHY.LETTER IN THE WHOLE WORLPIS .V *M7 J - RECORD Friday, February 8, 2008 page Professors never know who said what I:' O' No names in evaluation ***** process By Jen Young Sherbrooke An anonymous letter sent to The Record will not be published, but some places approve of anonymity.Like Bishop’s University, for example.“We do have an active evaluation process,” said university spokesman David McBride.“Students are given the evaluation to complete during class time.Through experience we find that when filling out any kind of survey people are more comfortable — and not worried about any form of recourse [from an angry professor] — when they can remain anonymous.People are as honest as possible when they don’t have to sign their name and we strive for honesty.” Principal Jonathan Ritten-house agrees that it’s important to keep students’ names away from those they’re evaluating.“Essentially students are asked to sign their comments when they are evaluating a certain professor,” he said.“This maintains a certain level of accountability.But that name is never shown to the professor.If a remark or comment is deemed inappropriate it is removed and it is not documented.Feedback such as this can be useful to professors and demonstrate whether new techniques or materials are successful.” Some comments are ignored in the evaluation process, added Rittenhouse — .like those pertaining to a professor’s looks, profanities, or statements about eccentricity- "All university professors have an appropriate level of eccentricity and most appreciate that.Only one learning method would be unexciting.” Evaluations take about 10 minutes to complete, and are handed out in every course but those with only three or fewer students.The questionnaire has a space for comments and asks students to rate specific aspects of the course by number.Once collected, the results are publicly posted in the library, and on the school website.According to McBride, professors do have the right to ask that written remarks not be displayed for all to see, but for the most part faculty take it all quite seriously.“I would imagine it could be quite intimidating for a professor to be evaluated by a class full of 18- to 24-year-olds,” he said.“I would argue that we have some of the best professors in Canada.With speaking to different professors about the evaluation I can say that they use these evaluations and have adjusted their methods according to results.Our profs want to be the best.” McBride said an easy marker does not receive the highest evaluation.“Our students come here for a challenge.An easy professor does not translate into a challenge.” Evaluation results are considered when promotions are Please see Profs on Page 4 PERRY BEATON Never toss old extension cords, clotheslines or garden hoses into recycle bins, or someone else might get their hand crushed.Program is just too popular Residents confuse garbage with recyclables By Rita Legault Sherbrooke More and more residents of the Estrie region are recycling.While that’s good news for the environment, the added volume has created some headaches at the local sorting centre.A recent survey of some 400 regional residents shows 89 per cent take part in municipal recycling programs.In fact, recycling is so popular around here that half of those who are recycling say they often don’t have enough room in their rollout bins for all their recyclables.The problem is that while the sorting centre is receiving more quantity, the quality leaves a lot to be desired, said Sherbrooke councillor Jean-François Rouleau, president of the intermunicipal board that runs the Centre de tri et de récupération de la région sherbrookoise.And Guy Labbé, coordinator of that sorting centre, said that 7.5 per cent of the waste that ends up at the sorting centre — some 2,500 metric tonnes annually — is garbage and recyclables that should not be tossed into recycling bins.Some of that waste is causing nuisances at the sorting centre and at least one serious accident.Last March, an employee was seriously injured when she got caught on a discarded metal cable.The woman, whose hand was badly cut and crushed, was dragged the conveyor belt and dropped down a chute and into the separator before a colleague managed to shut down the machine.Please see Garbage on Page 4 (Commission scolaire EASTERN TOWNSHIPS School Board The Plan by_____ Investors Group llliPMWERY To benefit our special needs students (intellectual or physical handicap) TRAVEL VOUCHER of $3f000 *600 spending money LIMITED TO 300 TICKETS *120 each Drawn February 15,2008 ON PRESENTATION OF THIS COUPON CLAUDE FAVREAU, B.B.A.Consultant Financial Security Advisor Mutual Funds Representative 11 years at your service granite counter tops any contract signed and completed between January 14th and March 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bins.“All of those things should be taken to an ecocentre.” “It’s good to do something good for the environment, but we also have to think of our employees,” he said, noting later that dangerous waste like batteries should also be taken to the ecocentre, which also accepts large items like appliances; hazardous waste like old paint cans and solvents; textiles like old clothes; as well as old construction materials like wood and bricks.Rouleau said that citizens should also put all of their plastic bags inside one bag and knot the top.That prevents the lightweight bags from flying around and getting stuck in the machinery — a major headache thât has been somewhat resolved by a recent campaign to encourage citizens to bundle their bags.Shredded paper should be put in a clear bag so that it doesn’t fly around and end up with other materials like glass and plastic, diminishing the quality and value of the recyclable materials that are sold, he added.All that advice and more will be part of a 10-week public awareness campaign throughout the region that will include the door to door delivery of a pamphlet for homeowners.The pamphlet will be available in English in Lennoxville, Richmond and some areas of the Memphremagog MRC where there are pockets of English-speaking residents, Rouleau said.The campaign will also include daily newspaper and radio ads as well as a radio and Internet “Recyquizz” contest with 45 radio newsflashes on Rock Detente and d’Énergie performed by Québécois comic Jean-Michel Anctil playing a nutty professor.Participants in the corresponding Internet quiz can prizes, including a two-year lease on a car.The 10-weelc information campaign will cost $135,000—about $1 per family in the region served by the sorting centre.Labbé said recycling activities at the centre have increased exponentially since the City of Sherbrooke started the region’s first curbside recycling program in 1991.In 1998, an intermunicipal waste management board was formed with the regional municipalities of Sherbrooke, Coaticook the Haut St-François.They were joined by Memphremagog MRC, the Val St-François MRC, and MRC des Sources (Asbestos) in May of 2004.When the sorting center was inaugurated in 1996, Sherbrooke residents sorted their recyclables into plastic, metal and THE CANADIAN FORCES ARMY RESERVE & ¦ d&'S PART-TIME CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Be part of our team and take pride in your career.In the Canadian Forces Army Reserve, we: • Are dedicated to serving Canada at home and abroad • Work in a challenging environment • Learn leadership skills Take up the challenge of working in today’s Army Reserve.Just look at what we offer you! • A wide range of career opportunities • Practical hands-on experience • Help with paying for your education • Voluntary overseas missions Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke Information sessions Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.Armoury, 64 Belvédère Street South FIGHT WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES • www.forces.ca 1-800-856-8488 Canada paper in small bins at the curb.But since May 2005, municipal partners opted for 360-litre rollout bins where recyclables are tossed in together and then sorted at the sorting centre which now employs 28 people —14 staffers on each of two eight-hour shifts.Between 2004 and 2007, the volume of recyclables sorted at the regional center increased by 135 per cent, going from 11,000 to 26,000 metric tonnes, said Labbé.Add the 8,000 tonnes of waste from the commercial and industrial sectors, and the sorting centre deals with some 34,000 tonnes annually.Fibers from paper (57 per cent) and cardboard (22 per cent) make up the lion’s share of materials treated at the sorting centre, which is run by Cascades.A little more than five per cent of the sorted materials is glass, three per cent is metal, 3 per cent is hard plastic, and 1.2 per cent is soft plastic — that is plastic bags.The final 7.6 per cent is garbage that should not end up there at all.In the board’s survey, almost three out of four of respondents said that when in doubt, people toss questionable items into the recycling bin.That was the bad news.The good news was that more than two-thirds of respondents (78 per cent) bundled their plastic bags together and 76 per cent kept the information distributed by municipalities on what goes in the recycling bins and what doesn’t.The telephone survey by Extract Marketing also revealed that: • 97 per cent of respondents under 55 say they recycle.That percentage drops to 77 per cent for those aged 55 and older; • Families with children recycle more than those without, and home dwellers do so more than those living in apartments; • Almost three quarters had heard of ecocentres and 76 per cent of them knew where they were located; • More than half the population (57 per cent) had visited an ecocentre to get rid of domestic waste items that could not be tossed in the garbage or recycle bin.One quarter of the population had been there more than once.• More than three-quarters of residents know where to get rid of some waste, like dead leaves, old clothes, light bulbs and plastic bags.But fewer than one third knew how to dispose of items like metal hangers, old toys and pool hoses.Profs: Cont’d from Page 3 being discussed.“This is not the only deciding factor, but it is considered.” On the other end of the Lennoxville campus, Champlain College is in the process of implementing a program that will see all of the institution’s 90-some professionals evaluated.“Ours are done mainly for new faculty members,” said college director Paul Kaeser.“We are in the process of implementing an evaluation for all faculty.This semester we will evaluate a few permanent faculty members.The only difference is ours is not available to the public.” According to Kaeser, once the evaluations — which are anonymous — are complete, the professor meets with their dean to discuss the results.Though it will not lead to a promotion, it could very well lead to a termination.“At the Cégep level there is no such thing as promotion in the ranks.However, if a teacher is not performing it could lead to not hiring the next year.Our goal is to improve teaching and this evaluation is not designed to be a punitive measure.The evaluations are to make sure that courses are being delivered to the benefit of the student.” According to Kaeser, the school is not worried about students being dishonest.Though some personality conflicts may arise, Kaeser says truth and honesty win out with the majority.“In our experience we have never had cause to doubt a student.In each class there is always a low and high and we look at the majority.These evaluations show you what is going on in that class.It is pretty hard to imagine that 30 students could all be vindictive.” Champlain students range from 17 to much older, mature students.According to Eastern townships School Board spokeswoman Sharon Priest, none of its schools practice such evaluations.“We do not have teachers evaluated by students,” she said.“Unlike Bishop’s, the vast majority of our students are minors.” Administrators evaluate teachers.“The board evaluates all staff and students are given a survey to fill out upon leaving high school.” Permanent, fulltime teachers are evaluated every three years and a non-tenured employee is evaluated every year.Career Champlain Regional College Champlain - Lennoxville Pedagogical Counsellor (Education Advisor) Fluently bilingual in English and French, and demonstrating a thorough knowledge in the areas of teaching and learning, preferably at the post-secondary level, you welcome this opportunity to provide specialized support to faculty, specifically in individual and group faculty development and pedagogical support.You will also participate in program development, implementation, revision and evaluation.In addition to a relevant bachelor’s degree, you have a good grasp of teaching in the Quebec college education system, strong analytical and math skills and proficiency in a Microsoft environment.For full position details, and how to apply (with your cover letter and resume in English), please visit us online.The application deadline is Wednesday, February 20, 2008.Champlain Regional College is an equal opportunity employer and invites candidates to signify their belonging to groups targeted by the Act respecting equal access to employment in public bodies.(Lhamplain roi i FGF-i FNNny COLLEGE — LEN NOX VILLE www.champlaincollege.qc.ca RECORD Friday, February 8, 2008 page 5 Briefs Another criminal caught The Sherbrooke Police tactical Shermag purchase offer Sherbrooke’s Shermag furniture manufacturing company may be taken private.The publicly traded business has been hard-hit in recent years, regularly dismissing employees in the Townships while it attempts to recover from annual multi-million-dollar deficits.Independent Shermag directors “have received a letter from Clarke Inc.expressing an interest in privatizing the company at a price to be negotiated by Clarke and the independent members of the Shermag board,” states a release sent out Thursday.Clarke is a Halifax-based transportation company.“Clarke has indicated that the price it is willing to pay is below Shermag’s current trading price, and that it intends to approach other major shareholders to invite them to participate in the privatization.” A committee is studying the proposal “and to negotiate the terms of any such offer in the best interests of Shermag and its shareholders.“Additional information relating to the Clarke proposal will be made public at such time as there is agreement on the final terms.There can be no assurance however that a transaction with Clarke or any other party will be entered into.” Shermag currently employs some 1,050 people; following plant closures this month, it will have 730 employees.Artopex expansion Granby jobs Granby office furniture manufacturer Artopex is getting ready to take over some new space, adding 25 to 30 new jobs to its roster by the end of the year.This week Artopex announced that it has purchased the former Knight Armature building in Granby’s industrial park.The 80,000 square feet of space, nearly double what it had before, will be used in the manufacture of acoustic panelling and made-to-measure office furniture.The new facilities will also be home to Pro Systèmes APX’s research and design studios.“This investment confirms Artopex as a leader in a very competitive industry,” said Artopex president and founder Daniel Pelletier in a press release.Pro Systèmes APX is presently located on Cowie St., and is one of five Artopex factories.The 70 workers will start moving into the new plant in March.squad got a little exercise Wednesday evening, capturing a criminal who had been on the lam since September.Serge Dennbile, 39, was found at an apartment on 10th Avenue.He surrendered without incident and was taken back to his prison cell.“He was wanted on a warrant from the Montreal Police and Corrections Canada,” said Sherbrooke Police spokesman Const.Martin Carrier.Dennbile had been serving a 22-year sentence for a number of violent crimes.While out on a day pass on Sept.15, Dennbile never came back.Carrier said Dennbile was handed back to corrections officials.It has been a good week for catching escaped convicts in the Sherbrooke region.On Sunday afternoon the Sûreté du Québec captured murderers Kevin Smith and Patrick James Wallace at a Rock Forest residence.The pair had been on the run since October.What police call a weekend crime spree finally led to their capture.Rapid-fire raid A Waterloo man will face a number of charges that will include the possession of a submachine gun.Wednesday afternoon the Sûreté du Québec raided an apartment on Leclerc Street.Inside they say they found an unloaded 9 millimetre submachine gun, several ammunition magazines and 223 bullets.A rifle was also seized.A search of the apartment also turned up 1,500 allegedly contraband cigarettes and bulk tobacco.The weapon will be analyzed to see if it has been used in other crimes.A 43-year-old man will appear in court on April 21 to be formally charged.it i'* KEEP ON ENJOYING LIFE QUÉBEC STEP-UP BONDS BONUS OF 1% the first year on new RRSP funds, YEAR RATE + Attractive rates guaranteed for 10 years.+ Redeemable without penalty each year on the anniversary date.+ No management or administration fees.1« 2" 3“ 4* 5" 6" 7" 3.50 3.65 3.80 4.00 4.15 455 4,35 4.50* ’Including the bonus of 1% the first year on new RRSP funds Posted rates may vary with market conditions.ÉPARGNE Yoyn PLACEMENTS SSrantbed QUEBEC 100% 1 800 463-5229 I www.epq.gouv.qc.ca Épargne Placements Québec uu page 6 Friday, February 8, 2008 ; ¦ini:».RECORD Community Forum Students must want to attend BU mm 9m ; pfec W* Building Bishop’s rî < • In terdisciplinary education PERRY BEATON and support of our close-knit community and without the fear of failure.To create this type of dynamic, complex environment, we cannot be afraid to get our hands dirty.We need to create more interdisciplinary programs which are messy to administer but teach students how to draw clear connections through differences.We need to pit seemingly opposing departments against one another in monthly contentious debates, but then require those students to work together on a joint policy paper.We need to empower both academics and student services to work cross-departmentally, despite whatever Please see Bishop’s on Page 12 for the future m m |he future of Bishop’s University lies in our ability to package and market a quality service and product — liberal-arts education — that is not only applicable but empowering for students in the 21 st century.Like it or not, today’s students view an undergraduate degree as a commodity, albeit an expensive, time consuming one.When selecting a university, potential students evaluate and compare the value-added aspect that any given university can offer their degree and, hence, their future.Psychology teaches of “self-fulfilling prophecies” — the idea that “if you think you can, you can.If you think you can’t, you can’t.” Perhaps it’s due to the lack of leadership we experienced these past few years, perhaps it’s because of our financial concerns.Whatever the reason.Bishop’s needs to stop thinking of itself as disadvantaged, deteriorating, dysfunctional and simply buying time until the provincial government will bail us out.The fact is that the government is not going to offer us any relief until we can prove that students want to attend Bishop’s.We need to kick ourselves out of this self-pitying funk into which we seem to have fallen and start collectively thinking, and acting, as the exceptional institution we already are.We’re exceptional in many ways — exceptionally small, exceptionally located.We have exceptionally good teaching faculty, an exceptionally close-knit community and a myriad of exceptional student opportunities.These are our strengths and, rather than embarrassingly downplay them as we sometimes do now, they need to be leveraged to create value-added components of a Bishop’s University education.For example, our location allows for French immersion programs; why not pair Bishop’s students up with Université de Sherbrooke students for weekly culture and language exchanges?Why Jocelyn Molyneux is a student at Bishop's, graduating this term.Viewpoint Jocelyn Molyneux couldn’t we guarantee to potential students that anyone who wants to go on exchange, will go on exchange.Our close-knit community would allow for the bridging of academics and student services, which currently operate in silos, to create holistic support _____ systems for special needs students, or to award students with academic credit for their leadership roles within student life.A frustrating difficulty embedded within any institution steeped in tradition such as ours is an inherent fear of change.We need to recognize that change is both necessary and good — every institution, no matter how 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and the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) in 1908.The Record is published by Alta Newspaper Group Limited Partnership.PM#0040007682 Return undehverable Canadian addresses to The Record, 1195 Galt East.Sherbrooke.QC JIG 1Y7 Member ABC, CARD, CNA, QCNA cessful, needs to evolve.I’m not suggesting a change in values — I believe wholeheartedly that a sound and liberal education strengthens the mind — but instead we need to find new and innovative ways of instilling our values in practice.Prospective students today expect change and innovation — in our rapidly advancing world it’s all we’ve ever known.Students want educations that will be applicable for the next 20 years, not the last 50.If we cannot demonstrate to prospective students that Bishop’s is an evolving, innovative entity, then they are going to assume that Bishop’s is stale, boring and behind the times.And they will be right.Bishop’s is perfectly poised to redefine the meaning and importance of a liberal-arts education in the 21st century.How is a non-technical degree viable?What are the benefits?Where’s the value-added?If the value of a Bishop’s degree is derived from the teaching of a broad, educational foundation from which students learn how to critically analyze an ever-changing and increasingly complex world, we absolutely need to recreate this complex, changing world within our classroom walls.We need to offer students the opportunity to practice and apply that which they learn, within the safety RECORD Friday, February 8, 2008 page 7 On bullying Anonymity and and Alcan Old education mag is all new jm| ii ^he Université de Sherbrooke has revamped its alumni magazine to the extent of changing its name from Sommets to U de S.And while this new publication JL.maintains its primary focus of being a house organ for the university, it is aiming for a broader reading public.The magazine has hired well known figures to write a column in each issue, most notably Jacques Parizeau, well known separatist.I actually found Parizeau’s column to be the most interesting.His topic is the province’s Caisse de depot et placement.It controls $250 million, which is a little more than $30,000 per inhabitant.Parizeau is not enamored with their investments and he questions why the provincial government still gives handouts to multinationals.He questions why the province of Quebec granted Alcan the sumptuous gift of an extension of 30 years (which is until 2058) of the control of the Peribonka River, from which the company produces electricity at the cost of less than one cent a kilowatt, when there was still 20 years to go on the old contract.Alcan also received a loan of $400 million without interest for 30 years.Shortly after this transaction Alcan sold everything to Rio Tinto at a spectacular price.Whether it is gas stations (see last week’s column questioning the subsidizing of highway rest stops) or Alcan, I maintain that the government would be better investing its money in education and health than giving it to multinationals.The new U de S magazine also features a number of full-length articles on various subjects.The cover story, “Violences passées sous silence”, explores the topic of bullying in schools within an Eastern Townships environment, though there is no reference to English schools in the article.The article mainly deals with the unreported incidents of discreet bullying that happen in schools.The article points out how boys bully primarily through physical aggression while girls are more likely to use indirect aggressions such as humiliation, scorn, insults, gossip, ostracism, and most recently, cyber-bullying.In the latter case the victim may receive insults or threats via the Internet, or embarrassing photos and commentary about the victim may be placed on a website.The article states that this indirect aggression is more difficult for teachers to identify.It states that teachers intervene in only one out of five cases of indirect aggression, one out of two cases of physical aggression and one out of three cases for verbal aggression.It also points out that only 4 per cent of a teacher’s university training deals with how to manage aggressive student behaviour even though classroom management is a main concern for teachers.The Commission scolaire des Sommets has instituted a mentoring program for new teachers to help them with this I Beg To Differ Ronald Ewing the Internet The coward’s hiding place According to the Encarta dictionary that my Word software is happy to allow me to use, anonymity is “the state of not being known or identified by name.” Anonymity allows us freedom to do things that we might not do if we could be identified.On one of the American television stations that I watch, Vermont’s Most Wanted reassures me that if I phone in with information on a particular criminal, I can feel Somebody’s Mother Ellen Goldfinch confident that they want my information not my identity.The Watergate story would never have been broken if Deep Throat couldn’t trust Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward to keep his identity secret.All those anonymous tips that are the stuff of mystery movies and TV shows — would the mystery ever be solved if it weren’t for those anonymous tipsters who lurk in the dark?On the other hand, anonymity gives people the freedom to do wrong, to lie about others and to deliberately hurt others with ease because the perpetrator knows that he or she will never get caught.The Internet is a particular breeding ground for such vicious acts.A recent edition of The New Yorker presented an exposé of a 13-year-old girl in a suburban neighbourhood in Missouri who committed suicide a year ago because she was bullied on the Internet.by an adult neighbour, posing as a teenaged boy who professed his romantic interest in her and then viciously dumped her.This neighbour was no male sexual predator; she was a suburban housewife.On the Internet, you can become whoever you want to be, go on Myspace with someone else’s photo and become older, younger, single, married, straight, gay, male or female.It’s quite simple.With a few clicks of the mouse and taps of the keyboard, you can be generous and kind or criminally libelous and no one will be able to pin it on you.You can wreak revenge on anyone you choose: your best friend, the principal of your high school, even your doctor.Once no one knows who you are, you are free to be as creative in your lies as you want to be.On the other hand, if you are a child pornographer, the police are gunning for you and they have the support of Microsoft’s software weaponry to track you down.This has been one of the most encouraging signs that criminal activity on the Internet will not continue to be tolerated.The sexual abuse of children really crosses the line of what most people can stomach.Last month, investigators around the world tracked down child pornography suspects, 98 of whom lived in Canada.This is an example that the Internet may not be as anonymous as people think it is and that people who break the law on the Internet can be caught.The other day, one of a firmly felt opinion: if you have something to say, whether it’s positive or negative, you should say it to the person’s face or not say it at all.Most of us find it very difficult to live by that standard and now with the Internet, we need not even bother with face-to-face communication.We can hide behind cutesy email addresses and phony identities and feel very courageous as we tell what we believe to be the truth or what we would like to believe is the truth.Cyber-revenge may be sweet but it doesn’t build character.or perhaps real character is something that we don’t value anymore.For more on anonymity, see page 3.Ellen Goldfinch may be REACHED AT RADIOMOTH-ER@HOTMAIL.COM.my colleagues reiterated '.wiîJJ ¦ www,3uUon.com DARA JANE LOOMIS Aip-nt oiMm Com #**»>* Wttîn - o* r**i?>* 823-7474 Do you want your house SOLD ?Call : Dara Jane Loomis Aff.Real Estate Agent Sutton de TEstrie, Magog Cell: 819 574-7804 Off: 819 847-5400 www.townshiphomes.ca Desjardins Caisse Desjardins de l’Ardoise : Mrs.Nathalie Préfontaine / Mr.Daniel Nadeau, executive director of the Caisse Desjardins de I’Ajnoise is proud to announce the nomination of Mrs.Nathalie Prefontaide as Financial Planner./ Qualified with a Personal Financial Planner certificate from the University of Laval, she has also successfully obtained a certificate as Mutual Fund Representative.Mrs.Prefontaine has more than 15 years experience with the Desjardins Group.Expert in Financial Wealth Management, she belongs to the team of Asset Management for 2 years now.The Caisse Desjardins de l’Ardoise has 6547 members, manages savings totalling $113 million as well as business volume from $221 million.50196 / / / / Please see Bullies on Page 10 page 8 Friday, February 8, 2008 RECORD, How it all started 111 years ago Happy birthday to us! The first Sherbrooke Daily Record was published on Feb.9, 1897.Here is the welcome note published for readers and an explanation of what the publication was all about.With this issue we commence the publication of a daily paper in the city of Sherbrooke.It is the only English daily in the Province of Quebec, outside the cities of Montreal and Quebec, but the size of Sherbrooke and the large number of people within a radium of a few miles, we believe warrant support to a paper issued every day.For some time past we have given considerable attention to the study of daily papers, carried on in different cities and towns, some even smaller than Sherbrooke.The result has been that we are firmly convinced of the feasibility of successfully publishing a daily paper in Sherbrooke.A personal canvas of the business men of the city, soliciting contracts for the Daily Record increased our confidence, and with this issue we have commenced the publication of a daily paper that is bound to prove a success.With fourteen years practical experience in the newspaper and printing business, we believe we realize all the difficulties in store when we say that the Sherbrooke Daily Record has come to stay.There is no doubt about it, and in the future it can be reckoned on as one of the established industries of the city.We have adopted two new features, different from other journals of a similar character.The first is a daily paper at the low subscription price of only $1.50 a year.The second is that we shall not publish so called editorials, our whole time, and that of the writers connected with this paper will de devoted to the gathering of local news in Sherbrooke and throughout the Eastern Townships.After several years study of the question of editorials in weekly and small daily papers, we are convinced it is a waste of time and space.The people of the country have grown beyond such, and do their own thinking.If the ablest writers and thinkers in the country can be secured to write on subjects in which they are recognized as specialists, then, only do we approve.Unfortunately the revenue of the Record will not now warrant us in going to that expense, consequently we shall devote the money that could be paid of second-class editorial writers, to the gathering of readable and interesting news items.In politics we shall be independent.Our columns will contain impartial reports from all political parties, and the same left for our readers to form their own opinion.The Daily Record is not the organ of any party or politician; expects no favors from either the Liberals or the Conservatives, and most certainly will ask none.This paper has been established on strictly business principles and will be continued on the same.We believe that when a man lives in a place he should do all in his power to promote the interests of that place, giving his time and money for such a purpose, in so far as his circumstances will allow.Wishing for the prosperity of Sherbrooke, everything that will assist the city or its inhabitants, it will be our aim to promote.In starting we have made the size of the paper small, but shall enlarge it as fast as the advertising patronage will warrant.One thing we shall always remember, is not to allow the advertising to encroach on the news columns.It is not an advertising sheet that we purpose issuing, but a news paper in every sense of the word.In addition to the local news we have completed arrangements for receiving the latest telegraphic and cable news from all parts of the world every afternoon just before going to press.We will not be able to compete with large dailies in giving quantity and details, but shall present a summary of the important events.Arrangements are made with LA.Belanger, proprietor of Le Progrès de l’Est, Sherbrooke for use of part of his office in printing the Daily Record.Later on, when the paper increases in circulation, as we expect, a plant of its own will be required, and then purchased.Mr.Belanger has no connection with the paper, or the firm of L.S.Channell & Co.A good word spoken in favor of a new enterprise like the Daily Record, goes a long way toward making it popular.These good words are what we ask for, in so far as our efforts warrant.We rust that the relations between our readers and the management will ever be of a pleasant and profitable nature.Soliciting the assistance of all in the Eastern Townships, to make the Record a success., L.S.Channell, Editor and Manager Sherbrooke Doilg HecorîL / nia NO.1.SHERBROOKE, t, Q, FIBRUARY »t«, 1807.PRICE ONE CENT.HOCKEY AT LENNOXVILLE.A Close Game.College Won the Play Off Ui*lM»!>» rvliejpt V-S ,4«y- t*l their (list *fh«*liil.-.l matt h tu (h« ËM'totii lWtwhi|M flock*)' lr*t|IRr, 4M! ttto 1 Milk.U-t Sat unlay.nmltinu »?» victory for tin* < oltogc.Tiw hh wn« »w»t in the ln-Ht of conditio»), ft fact whirl» told against tin* School, «h tii*y had the faster fnrwanU.TIicl’iilh gc certain!)' had thr advantage In tin* defence.The Clue \Vft*« »MH ft* fa»t lia might Vo I wen excreted, and l»Hh i«miii« w ill bave to pinrtico bard if tln*y intend tucvr»u«r* tho vlr-I or ion» Village, t'haniUir» wit* ruled off fur f«ml i-lsyiug during th« 3th gaine.Willi* tone nra* culled the «core «fund tluve nil.After ft few minute* rent, (day wa* le-umied.and Mutilent wax called tt|«a« to atop »*»w»c Imr »hoti-.However Hniilihi managed tu make ft pretty nidi nod iwN-ed to Hoyla wlm m-ucim!, and tut lege had won the match.Then* »a« n little tU*|*ile about the iiitri|iivtalfuM of the rule* r*> grtrdinx a "play off" which wa* «luirkly *e*UU-d hr Mr.A.Sinn***» who made nit efüchmt reffwrftft.Chandler*, K.PurvU and Hayward played tin* *tar game fin- BISHOP TH0HNEL0E.Welcomed at Sault 8t*.Maria Congratulated on bia Appointment.Sault Si*.Marie, tbit-, Feb., Ur.Tluaiieioe.recently of Sher-l»n*ike.n«»w Bi*hnp of Algouia, wa* given a cordial welcome on id« arrival in tlii* place to a**uuie li>e duties of hi* new pualih.n.On Sunday, January *|M, ha too-dik-ied acrvUx-oftt the pro-Oat he-dral, and in the evening confirmed thirty candidate* Tuesday aveu* hnr la-t a faw)KloH «•» tendered him hy the t-ongregattou.A large cMttjMuy wa* ]ir«woub Alt tlenu-mination» were rntmuentetl.in an add re** on behalf of the laity, the new Ul-Uiop a** emigre-totaled «ai hi» am»obitni«nt and wrtounvd to the flanlt.The ad-dre»» e«)ircaa«at cuufldt-uce that the dioe»-*e would uroafimr under hi* atwftlco* ami that it* claim* on tin- ndo-don fund would rapidly diminish.It congratulated the HI»liop upon that broad liberality which iiad diatinguidted hi* career in lia» (Yovince of Quebec, ami had endeared him to ali jimh irii putv- .—.„ .the*«lM*»f.while Hunkiu.tarter.It nth vea ami Wimler aid very •-Ifw-tnal wm k for the Cnllt-gv.The Irani* llnt*l up a* follow*: Hot her* ««*.1 Hayward, l alter.|a«lnt Wimler.wv." Uiltuore.Hoyle, vrn- forward S.Furvl*.Johnson.renter K.Piirvt*.(tonkin, lit.wing t/uweu.MHU left wing C hamber*.T.IhanMl.umpires H Webster.K.S»«n**«n.Timer* F.Barmin.“ -r\.Hlmi**»»., ¦ .Leaving for Italy.tbir gruwl friend, Assistant IWima-tor M.A, Mitfiwlott, ax-ia*rti * -v to all IH! pie then* a* if mrtainly would < here.The niHlmit in reply, «aid that any misgiving* lie might itavn had luid i*en «-uthely di*al|aitod by the wttniirU of tu« ntraplion tendered him and the bright jwou-\*xt* of the church which had o|wncd up to hi* vision.Ko wa* iwrwmally Introduced to erery ont» in the hall and greeted all wish hi* well known ford tally daiwtug especial friendliness to the aihiMii* of other denominate»*.sherbrookTmarket.Watoh THa Spaa FltC#» AMUL * IT WILL fAr YOU; THE BON - TON I.1Î MW, lh»t tnunl lit.» you ,Ht, the dun-pirn 8»*r Giug.; fi» Htüog ud filing x or.Mwa, prie 40c.Out dog» It rfi ud 11.26 A lew idutet !ett from 20c » P»i' “P- i 11 MITCHELL * CO.WlMlawV:, ^ »«lad hare* *»«.trtt*lw»H)U.•hc*«no|m.p.» Ma>’VrACTj,:ltt* U» CIICULA8 AND MILL SAWS Of EVERY DESSlUFnM.____ Ail «t» UrSSiifjÿôrl -V*»»! gi-ren to IwUrr emt Pte wee offered.All I raueirw «old tv«til>- et quotetloe.eecept 1 frrwen twf.uf wfak-b, Ut, «h, When It cue, to block good* the Udiet ell know Out we fond.The Ugh Mteltiei oftbie epring'i inportetioa being nnt eipreuioni of corpriee erea Aon the Indie, wboiro need la nnUng the kind of good* we cell.Wa will not try (a den* aribn the good».Wa went yoa to aoaa in end nee tbotn with your own aynn.Tan, end bay four fain of opectnclan, ton, if yaa wiik; lot tha qtulltini will «tond dona inspection, and the prioan an gnarnuteed to bn lower then nay other Butter and Egg* eold readily.The market «mi Saturday a a* the bc*rheld fur a Hummer otl week*.There wa« a geud « *> an iSir.eaten- {|4y of?» «low.SwtmnUj, l>V>A OK.JfUUHK mr*hl |>itotiua»l«r M.A.Mitpuslott, «X-tu Imtve Mhvt bro ol a buttle of larbolir acul.at hi* store, by an uiwvrtiHttt clerk, and the second hft'cmphiyinK uu uw-ntilWd «dark.The first actMUt wa* f|i>-ml*-ea lu»t the s4**whI taken "cm FMftlRe mm** VC- %*» Owl.liw-lr *••**¦ Hf> itv *»»n t hftibw tt, Csoor» ter À,, te hto»- htUtvwbn*»* Swr- ikd.»«m l wav T* Hw jaufttmt IbNUMfaet IMMm cw.II wtorUa.«&¦ "-®Mvrr?BKrv* X S lb*, package for She-FJMSffjrh £*(?& STOBE, NakamwtfcftaarUt L.B.CHAMBERLAIN.PURE, SPARKLING AND DELICIOUS (tbo fio4ot withoat txcaption), an our popalur ALES ABB CREAM PORTER P»t up in quart* and pint*, pronounced by *x-perte, to be perfection.F» Sale Ewyvhm ly ill First-Oias Qstien.Ball talopbonaa 320 and 290.- Skianar toltpoaa, U.SILVER SPRING BREWERY SHERBROOKE.H.C.WILSON & SONS, RAW WAIEMOMS, Buablûbad 1873.name is synonymy of perfection ^ms»i;:rc:iTHE jeu machine co„ awfuatgicat » .no w „ „„ OftTCM THt«e*AOa.j »m”bI^!”u4*iwr!J!“THE LITTLE QROOER* =a~*—Builders of »* ot heir «IM» tent.*.The, «wits* of lira l^nut known hut juukoa hu bûff SHERBROOKE, P.Q, thmight to be Iwcawdiary.Rocord east fro?to fOSU (HatkU If any one In thft Kaatern T»wo-., who they think ikiial*» friru4i, .— .wtmkl be intereatod in the Shew ~ “ «hubyseodm* eadroww*.,t!rî4ir ,k* *** ** t*irnvr tu ini» ]at)k-i «