Newsletter

January 2002

Nominations for SAFS Board of Directors, 2002-2003

The Nominations Committee consisted
of Clive Seligman (President), Doreen Kimura (Past-President), and Ian
Brodie (Political Science Department, UWO) and John Mueller (Psychology
Department, University of Calgary) as two SAFS members not currently on
the Board.

The six nominated current Directors
are: Tom Flanagan, Steve Lupker, Philip Resnick,
Clive Seligman, Harvey Shulman, Peter Suedfeld. The two additional nominees are:

Grant Brown
holds a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Waterloo, and a D. Phil.
From Oxford University, specializing in ethics and political philosophy.
From 1990 until 1999, he taught in the Faculty of Management at the University
of Lethbridge. In 1999, Grant began a law degree at the University of Alberta,
which is expected to be completed in April 2002. A member of SAFS since
its inception, and a vociferous critic of the biased practices at the CAUT
before that, he has demonstrated through his publications a strong commitment
to academic freedom and merit-based appointments over many years.

Andrew
Irvine is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British
Columbia. He is best known for his work on the controversial British philosopher,
essayist and social critic Bertrand Russell. He is the editor or author
of half a dozen books, including Argument: Critical Thinking, Logic
and the Fallacies (with John Woods and Douglas Walton, Prentice-Hall
Canada, 2000) and Bertrand Russell: Critical Assessments (in 4 volumes,
Routledge, 1999). He is also a member of several academic advisory boards,
including the editorial board of the new on-line Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu). As a Past President and
long-time member of the Board of Directors of the B.C. Civil Liberties
Association, Professor Irvine has also long been involved in the promotion
and protection of basic democratic rights and freedoms in British Columbia
and across the country. Over the years, he has also been a regular contributor
to several Canadian newspapers and has either held academic posts or been
a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University,
the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford University.

Any member of SAFS may nominate individuals
for election as Director. These nominations must be received at the SAFS
Office by April 15, 2002. Each member nomination shall contain the following
information: (i) the signature of the person nominating and the signatures
of two (2) seconders; (ii) the full name and address of the person nominated;
(iii) a statement of the status and attributes of the person nominated,
showing each person’s qualifications to be a director; (iv) a written consent
signed by the person nominated agreeing to be nominated for election and
to serve, if elected.

For your information,
Dale Beyerstein and Murray Miles are stepping down from the Board.