New president for Douglas College named

After a Canada-wide search
and a rigorous selection
process with participation
from college employees,
students and community
members, Susan Hunter-
Harvey, Ph.D., has been
named the new President for
Douglas College.

Hunter-Harvey is now Vice-
President (Academic and
Research) at Brandon
University in Manitoba and
President of the Western
Universities Telecourse

Consortium. She has held a
variety of teaching positions,

most recently as Associate

Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brandon University and as Professor
in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson Polytechnic University. She holds an
M.A. and Ph. D. from the Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii.

Current college president Bill Day steps aside in August, and Hunter-Harvey
takes up her position in September. Watch the INside in September for an
interview with the new President.

Art show uses
color and form
to demonstrate
Africa’s
harmony

The beauty of Africa is the beauty of
harmony, says artist and writer Chidi A.
Okoye.

But harmony is not what most people
in this country think of when they think of
Africa, and Okoye wants to provide some
balance to mass media images of that
continent.

“T discovered when I came here that
the negativity of Africa and African
people has been blown out of proportion
in order to capture an audience,” says
Okoye, who is from Nigeria. “Having
come from there, my feeling is some of
the information people have here is not
true.”

Okoye’s drawings, sculptures,
paintings and poems will be displayed in
a show called Harmony at Douglas
College beginning June 12. Harmony of
color and harmony of form are the real
beauty of Africa, he says.

“My influences are political, religious
and social, but I have been most
influenced by my environment. The land,
the topography, and the beauty and horror
of things around me are the themes I’m
working toward in the show.”

 

Okoye has had several exhibitions in
Vancouver and Burnaby since coming to
Canada last fall. He studied art in Nigeria,
and executed some twenty commissioned
pieces for public collections there. His
works have also found their way into
private collections in Europe and North
America.

The human race must work toward
harmony instead of destruction, says
Okoye, and he uses his work to send a
message to the world that Africans are a
peace-loving people.

Harmony runs from June 12 to July 20
in the Amelia Douglas Gallery. Everyone
is invited to an opening reception on June
15 at 4:30pm in the Gallery. For
information, call 527-5528. 1