Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 18, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free press local october John Douglas 6977292 features Buzz Currie email a3 u of m considers Mega faculties by Nick Martin education reporter sweeping changes proposed for the Cash strapped University of Manitoba could allow professors and Deans to get Back to their main responsibilities of teaching and u of m president of Lonoke Szathmary said the second report of her task Force on strategic planning recommends amalgamating arts and science into one huge merging education with social and combining Sev eral other faculties and departments into fewer and larger that would free up the time of Many existing staff members to do what they do and expand the University ability to teach and conduct research within limited existing she mergers would free up staff to research report bold the first obligation is to do what youre supposed to do with your exper Tise teaching and Swath Mary said in an there will be Only modest financial savings by amalgamating depart she numerous directors and department Heads will be Able to shuck administrative loads and return to their duties As full time Szathmary the Point of this exercise is not Bud she we have been Cut by the provincial depart ment of thank you very to the tune of neither the faculty association nor the students Union would comment eight Public hearings have been scheduled next month on the task Force anyone wishing to speak can Contact in Many of the worlds leading uni the report arts and sciences Are placed together in one faculty As the Core of the the report repeats recent warnings that 124 professors taking Early retire ment in the next two and another Batch expected to opt for Early retirement in will not necessarily be replaced in the same were going to have a huge Early retirement Szathmary the University has to define whats important to its and both hire and offer programs Here Are some of the major recommendations of the u of m task Force arts and science would become a single with numerous depart ments in the two existing faculties blended into larger such As the departments of microbiology and zoology becoming a department of biological education and social work would be combined into education and social services at the undergraduate graduate programs would remain Independent so teachers could better understand the social problems they army gear replaces suits weekend warriors adventure by Bud Robertson staff reporter a Winnipeg lawyer and a real estate Developer will be Trad ing in their briefcases for army boots this weekend As they head out on patrol along enemy John Mcgoey and Bob Williams will be spending the weekend at cab Shilo near Brandon dressed in full combat participate in night enemy attacks and setting up enemy observation posts alongside army reservists with the fort Garry Ive never had any exposure to the military until i became involved in this said a 45 year old corporate last he and Williams made the winning bid on a weekend on the military Range As part of a Char Ity auction put on by the Winnipeg Art their donations went toward the gallery and the Manito Phil free press watches As trooper Chris Stephensen gives Williams a lesson in wearing fatigue a kidney earlier this they flew out to Shilo for a tour of the artillery Range and dined at the officers we were issued about 60 pounds of gear on tuesday said were equipped to walk to the North he Ive never been called sir so Many times before in my chuckled whose age is a state secret and he would have to kill whoever read in extremely excited about going out to see those Young men i just think the whole thing is going to be an added neither Mcgoey nor an experienced Are strangers to the pair has travelled on a freight train to Kenora As part of another Charity while Mcgoey has paid to bobsled in Cal Gary As part of the 1988 pre olympic festivities and tandem parachuted from feet with an experienced All you Are is said when asked if All this adventure is to make up for his somewhat tame Day Mcgoey Only Chuck led and replied you cant get into Public affairs officer Mike Lagace said they had intended to get the two civilians out on the Range much he the flooding really wiped things last a woman bid on a Simi Lar but it was Only for a added she really enjoyed College suspends psychiatrist living prescriptions net professional misconduct finding by Alexandra Paul and Bud Robertson reporters a former chief of psychiatry at Grace general Hospital has been found guilty of profession Al misconduct and suspended from practice for two years after he moved in with a former patient and pre scribed hundreds of drugs to her and her two Sukhbir Singh who still works at the Hospital As a was suspended after an exhaustive hearing this summer into the charges Laid by the College of physicians and he was also ordered to pay nearly in a copy of the decision was obtained yesterday by the free Ferdinand chief of med ical services at Grace said yesterday Sandhu will remain on staff until the Hospital receives formal notice of his Sandhu was replaced As chief of psychiatry in 1994 following the end of a three year in its written the inquiry panel took a dim View of Sadhus actions Between 1993 and last the evidence against Sandhu was overwhelming and the opinions of col leagues that condemned his actions were very the panel he has continued to maintain that he did nothing the panel finds Sadhus attitude to be inexplicable and at the time of the Sandhu had lived with the family in a platonic relationship since he made the move following the breakup of his marriage when he was depressed and ready to quit according to evidence at his the disciplinary panel heard that in 1994 the doctor named the patient the sole beneficiary of a life insurance pol icy that had previously named his Chil Dren As he pays a month for Board and supervision for ongoing bouts of according to Evi Sandhu maintained he had not Vio lated proper doctor patient boundaries because the woman had not suffered any harm As a result of him living with the panel took a different stance and said professional boundaries Are crossed whenever physicians act for their own Benefit rather than that of their the charges also concerned the pre scribing of hundreds of drugs in 1993 and 1994 that Sandhu had no experience with As a at the the family was being investigated by provincial child Wel fare authorities in a medically related Case that was subsequently will face in the real music and the school of Art would Combine As one u of m would develop an annual review of teaching and reseal he per with outstanding Meffor Mance in one area not allowed to outweigh unacceptable Pef for Manee in the there would be a system of annual financial Reward based on Pef of teaching and reseal he Pef f or Mance would take a higher priority than service to professional of government organizations of activities outside the such As editing academic the report recommends further examination of the school with the possibility of implementing a year round semester illegal Sale of supplements alleged after countrywide probe health food lands firm in trouble by Mike Mclntyre staff reporter trolice have charged two Winnipeg men and a local company with illegally importing and Selling health food supplements and Many of which Are Legal in the United the charges were Laid five weeks after police in Calgary and raided Homes and warehouses in a Cross country police were delayed in laying charges because they had to sort through the supplements most of which were fat burners and Energy deter mine which had yet to be approved by health Canada and were it was a very complicated Issue to sort said Winnipeg vice division Gary Many of the products will Likely become Legal in Canada one he there Hast been an application to have that done Complex Revenue Canada health Canada and the Canadian food inspection Agency also participated in the Complex 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