Daily Bulletin

Thursday, November 6, 1997

Hagey lecturer talks of prisons

Says Mark Havitz of the recreation and leisure studies department, on behalf of the committee:

Cayley will introduce the lecture by documenting the exponential growth of incarceration: "During the last generation the number of people imprisoned has expanded dramatically throughout the Western world. The United States today has four times as many people behind bars as it did in 1970; Canada's prisons are crowded beyond their capacity; and even traditionally mild penal regimes like Norway or the Netherlands have experienced substantial growth." His talk will explore briefly why this has occurred and look at "the disturbing fit between this emerging penal/industrial complex and a post-modern social order that has no place for a growing number of its citizens".

Cayley will then speak to alternatives. "It is widely recognized that imprisonment is more likely to further de-socialize offenders than correct them. Could society respond to criminal behaviour in other ways? Looked at historically, public prosecution of crime is a novelty. Before the modern era of Western expansion, many societies knew different conceptions of justice and practised different forms of peace-making and conflict resolution. Some of these forms are recurring today in a movement towards restorative, rather than repressive criminal justice." His lecture "will explore this new conception of justice and contrast it with the penal regime that has gradually taken shape in the West since the Middle Ages. It will also give examples of successful decarceration from around the world."

While a student at Harvard, Cayley was a student of George Wald, who was UW's first Hagey Lecturer in 1970. Havitz notes: "Though the principal writer behind CBC Radio's 'Ideas' featuring Lister Sinclair, Cayley is perhaps best known or his 'In Conversation' book series: Northrop Frye in Conversation, Ivan Illich in Conversation, and George Grant in Conversation. Cayley has also published The Age of Ecology: The Environment on CBC Radio's Ideas."

Tickets for the lecture are available, free of charge, from the Humanities box office, the faculty association office, or members of the Hagey Lecture committee. The lectures are jointly sponsored by the university and the faculty association each year.

Now a note on parking

However, first offenders are more likely to be warned or ticketed than to be towed, he said. "Even illegal parkers are entitled to a second chance."

MacKenzie says the new computer system that the parking office installed a couple of years ago has made a new approach possible. "We are better able to track the warnings that are given to illegally parked vehicles," he says, "and then do follow-up with the ministry of transportation for vehicles that are not registered with us. We also have a system that invoices the registered owners of illegally parked vehicles that did receive parking tickets."

He added a little praise for Elaine Koolstra, the new manager of parking services: "Elaine has worked hard to provide a good service to the university community and to decrease the opportunities for confrontation. I believe that parking services has improved their image on campus over the past two years and all the parking staff will continue to provide the best service possible."

As preregistration continues

Also continuing are efforts to find winter term jobs for co-op students. Those who had interviews during October are on tenterhooks right now, waiting for job matches that are due Monday. Students who didn't have interviews, or weren't ranked by employers, should hit the bulletin boards again starting today: "Continuous Phase Job Posting #1" will be available by noon.

And the Student Life Centre's annual fall arts and crafts sale continues today and tomorrow.

Some of the day's events

Eric Manning returns to campus today to speak on "Computer Science, Software Engineering and Professional Engineering". The first director of UW's Institute for Computer Research, Manning is now an ex-dean at the University of Victoria, and president of the Canadian Association for Computer Science. His talk starts at 2:30 in Davis Centre room 1304.

A seminar on the Microgravity Science Program of the Canadian Space Agency -- and, especially, on how researchers can find funding for work that matches the program's objectives -- starts at 3 p.m. in Needles Hall room 3001.

The Pain Awareness and Intervention Network, in which researchers from applied health sciences are deeply involved, sponsors a seminar from 5 to 10 this evening about motor vehicle accidents with legal and medical experts. Well, wait a minute: not "accidents with legal and medical experts", but "a seminar with legal and medical experts"; you get the idea. Location, Westmount Golf and Country Club. Information: 745-7485.

Representatives hit campus today from IBM or, as the business pages call it, "International Business Machines Corporation of Armonk, New York". From 5:30 to 8:30, people from Big Blue will be at Ground Zero, the new restaurant in the Student Life Centre, "to give students a first-person look at the kind of energy, inventiveness and breakthrough thinking that make IBM a great place to work."

The school of architecture presents Alan Brookes of London as the next speaker in its Arriscraft Lecture Series. He'll speak tonight on "the work of Brookes, Stacey, Randall, Fursdon", at 8:00 in Environmental Studies II room 286.

On the eve of Homecoming weekend

Other Homecoming events include a talk by Victor Malarek of CBC television's "The Fifth Estate", Friday night; the annual five-kilometre fun run on Saturday morning; a community skating party at the Icefield, Saturday from 11 to 1; a visit to the UW Shop by children's author Janet Lunn; "The Best of the Canadian West", a travel presentation Friday by the Twin Cities Kiwanis Club; an Athena and Warrior swim meet on Saturday; and Waterloo-Laurier hockey, Sunday afternoon at 2 at the Icefield.

And that's not mentioning the actual partying, chiefly at Federation Hall and the Bombshelter. Fed Hall is setting up the now traditional Big Tent, with a mystery band Friday night and Mackeel, "the hottest rage in Celtic music and dance", on Saturday night. The Bomber has a Friday night party and a Saturday event (2 p.m. to 2 a.m.) that it's billing as a Tailgate Party, even if the weekend's football game is way down the highway in London.

Homecoming headquarters is at the Visitors Centre in South Campus Hall, where tickets are available for those events that need tickets -- the fun run, the Big Tent and the Naismith.

Two final notes this morning

In yesterday's Gazette, the caption on a convocation photograph identified the wrong Wilson. No point in going into how the mistake happened, but suffice it to say that the man pictured wasn't James Wilson of Northeastern University, who received an honorary degree from UW the other day; it was Waterloo's own John Wilson, of the department of political science. They do bear a slight resemblance, observers say.

CAR

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