Arts and Science scholars fêted

photo by PBL Photography

At right, linguistics student Michael Barkey and his mother, Kathryn Barkey, talk with Dean of Arts and Science David Graham at a Scholars Awards presentation on Oct. 4. Gift cards from the Bookstore were presented to 150 students with a GPA of 4.08 and higher, and 19 students nominated by their departments.

Barkey, who was one of the award-winners, is a member of CLOUT (Concordia University Linguistics Outreach). He was one of Charles Reiss’s students who spoke at a Montreal high school and a U.S. prison recently to demystify the science of language.

The students went to New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility to show inmates that regional or other dialects, such as that used by some African Americans, are as logical as standard English. CLOUT was recently featured in The Gazette.