Jan. 27, 2016 Volume 48 | Number 8 Registration Mail No. 4006252 A M E M O R I A L U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W F O U N D L A N D P U B L I C AT I O N
Take a moment to breathe in that old familiar smell of new ink one last time.
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(Because you’re holding the very last printed edition of the Gazette.) From now on this publication will be entirely digital. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss a thing.
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From print to web The Gazette makes its move By Mandy Cook
AS LORD TAYLOR of Harlow wrote in the inaugural issue of the Gazette, a 12-page, black and white mimeographed product measuring about 7 x 8.5 inches, “every complex organization has to develop a nervous system.” On that second day of August 1968, the thenpresident and vice-chancellor of Memorial identified the newspaper as an essential “new tool” the university community needed to keep in contact—“not only for efficiency but for good and happy relations.” The team at Marketing & Communications couldn’t agree more. We work hard every day to keep you informed and enlightened with the information you want and need. We also work hard to anticipate where and how you find it. While the print vehicle has an undeniable appeal to many and offers unique qualities, many post-secondary institutions—the University of Toronto and the University of
British Columbia among them—have transitioned from print to online for a variety of reasons. The argument is compelling. With the ubiquity of personal handheld devices, we know the vast majority of our audience is consuming news content online. And for good reason: a digital news site offers incomparable storytelling ability—you’ll see stories enhanced by video, sound, illustrations and photo essays in addition to compelling textbased narratives on the online Gazette—and the potential to reach a worldwide audience, thanks to Memorial’s robust presence on social media channels such as Twitter and Instagram. Going digital will not only allow us to tell stories in an engaging and visually rich medium, it will also allow for a responsiveness to the rapidly changing news cycle that a printed newspaper simply cannot provide. This, in addition to supporting Memorial’s sustainability pledge, a sensitivity to cost savings and explicit feedback received from our
readership survey, has made the decision to cease the print publication of the Gazette a natural one. So, as Lord Harlow identified the printed Gazette as a “new tool” almost 50 years ago, the online Gazette is Marketing & Communications’ offering of this generation’s news-telling vehicles. From in-depth research stories to faculty-penned op-eds to familiar features like Books at Memorial, there will be something to suit everyone’s curiosity. Visit the Gazette at www.gazette.mun.ca; don’t forget to subscribe. We’ll send Memorial’s best stories and events straight into your inbox every two weeks to keep you up-to-date, plus share them regularly via Facebook and Twitter. Enjoy! And let us know what you think—we’re all ears. Mandy Cook is news editor, Marketing & Communications, at Memorial University. She can be reached at mandyc@mun.ca.
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Coach Frank Zahn will see his student rifle team the Beothuks, three-time winners of the Thomson Trophy, defend their title this coming weekend.
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A glorious day! The Queen came to Memorial to turn the sod symbolizing the start of construction of our new library—the Queen Elizabeth II Library.
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When your completed thesis title is Fiddling Fortune: The Role of Commercial Recordings made by Cape Breton Fiddlers, it calls for musical accompaniment.
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The Humber River Tube Race saw dozens of Grenfell College students float down the Humber River from Steady Brook to Ballam Bridge in Riverside Drive.
Legacy project A half-century retrospective of the Gazette in photographs By Mandy Cook
THE MORE THINGS change, the more they stay the same. If you leaf through the collection of bound copies of the Gazette newspaper housed in Marketing & Communications, it becomes apparent that some news never gets old. Some stories that have cycled through the newspaper’s pages during the past five decades are unique to the university environment: Increasing class sizes. Debates about the value of an arts degree. “Critical” student housing shortages. Snow storms: To close or not to close? The steady advance of technologyassisted teaching and learning. The “absurd” and “unsophisticated” findings of Maclean’s magazine’s yearly university rankings issue. Other stories that have received regular Gazette real estate are the typical operational notices required by any high-functioning community, large or small, such as updates on exhausted snowclearing budgets or the forever-escalating parking wars. Then there are the stories that affect
us all, from the local to the international and that are still relevant today: addressing the energy crisis (Jan. 11, 1980), sheltering Tamil refugees on the St. John’s campus (Aug. 28, 1986) and the Department of Ocean Sciences’ Dr. Garth Fletcher’s research on genetically modified salmon (Nov. 27, 1986). And for those of us who work in the field of newspaper production, following along with the evolution of the Gazette’s subject matter and style has been a novel and entertaining experience. From 1968-2016, the printed page morphed from overwhelmingly grey and image-less to colourful (2004) and photo-centric, including the appearance of paid advertising in 1987. As the decades passed, word counts dropped— as did the Gazette’s use of the quaint “fortnightly” (1986) with regards to its then-biweekly production schedule. The Gazette has even made news itself from time to time. In the April 24, 1986, edition, a member of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies is pictured indexing the newspaper for the Queen Elizabeth II Library’s holdings. While particular subjects and topics have proven to be perennial
Jan. 15, 1975 newsmakers, another aspect of the Gazette will remain the same as we dive into a digital-only realm: the newspaper’s mandate. As Memorial’s flagship news vehicle, the Gazette is committed to communicating the news of the university in a fair, clear and timely manner. What will change, though, is that it will now communicate
solely online, enabling contributors to tell stories in a dynamic, media-rich, fully searchable, sustainable medium. But for now, peruse the following pages and enjoy a selection of memorable moments and milestones from almost 50 years of print history at Memorial. You might even see yourself.
EDITOR Mandy Cook GRAPHICS John Andrews REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS Courtenay Alcock Laura Barron Jennifer Batten Melanie Callahan Rebecca Cohoe Nora Daly Kelly Foss Elizabeth Furey Leslie Earle Pamela Gill Jeff Green Janet Harron Jill Hunt Jackey Locke
Virginia Middleton Cathy Newhook Michelle Osmond Lisa Pendergast David Penney Marcia Porter Kristine Power Dave Sorensen Melissa Watton Meaghan Whelan Susan White Heidi Wicks Laura Woodford Sandy Woolfrey-Fahey
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June 28, 2007 – Grenfell College students enrolled in Memorial’s fast-track education program entered a team in the Humber River Tube Race earlier this month. The event saw dozens of participants float down the Humber River from Steady Brook to Ballam Bridge in Riverside Drive.
Oct. 16, 2008 – SIFE Memorial claimed first place at the SIFE World Cup in Singapore last week. Here, Ryan Hopkins holds the trophy aloft while receiving a hug from teammate Lisa Smart. SIFE Memorial members MaryBeth Handrigan and Michael Harris join the celebration in the background. The trophy was presented by Douglas R. Conant, left, the CEO of Campbell Soup Company.
Oct. 10, 2012 – Dr. Susan Dyer Knight was named Memorial’s first female chancellor.
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Nov. 26, 2009 – Dr. Gary Kachanoski joins the team at Memorial on July 1. He was the unanimous choice of the presidential search committee.
Nov. 26, 2009 – Ron Lewis has gotten to explore Antarctica up close and personal this fall. The research lab co-ordinator with the CREAIT Network took part in an oncein-a-lifetime research mission testing and studying autonomous underwater vehicles in the harsh conditions.
March 14, 2012 – Instructors prepare students to evacuate from the new helicopter underwater evacuation trainer at the environmental pool at MI’s Offshore Safety and Survival Centre in Foxtrap.
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Oct. 30, 2013 – Hundreds of alumni and friends relived their memories of former concerts and parties held at the Thomson Student Centre during Super TSC Night at Club One on Oct. 19 as part of havin’ a time: Reunion 2013.
June 10, 2015 – Dr. Noreen Golfman, provost and vice-president (academic), was installed as Memorial’s first female pro vice-chancellor during spring convocation. From left are Dr. Matthew Janes, Dr. Golfman, Sheila Singleton, Dr. Greg Naterer, Minister Clyde Jackman and Iris Petten.
Nov. 25, 2015 – Memorial engineering student Katy Warren, 21, used numerous types of intelligence to take the title of Canada’s Smartest Person on CBC Television during the Nov. 22 finale.
Sept. 2, 2015 – Members of the Memorial Community are encouraged to attend a Core Science Facility open house on Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and from 2-4 p.m. in The Landing, University Centre. Drop in any time to see architectural drawings and models of the new building. Project team members will be on hand to answer questions about the exciting new facility.
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