TORONTO, October 17, 2001 -- York University is holding a full-day roundtable discussion, Good Play: Reducing Violence in Sport, which will examine topics such as reducing hockey violence in youth leagues, positive coaching, sexual stereotyping of female athletes and alternatives to abusive hazing rituals.
The roundtable, which is sponsored by York’s LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution, will be held Thursday, October 18, 9:45 a.m. - 4 p.m., in the Stong College Senior Common Room, (Room 201), York University Campus, 4700 Keele Street.
The roundtable itinerary and description of each presentation follows:
9:45 a.m. - Welcome, Opening Remarks
10 a.m. - "Interpersonal Sources of Violence in Hockey: The Influence of the Media, Parents, Coaches, and Game Officials" -- Norman Morra, sport sociologist (fighting in the NHL, junior leagues and its adverse impact on the behaviour of young players; the effects of sexual abuse and how hockey administrators and the law fail to safeguard children's basic rights)
10:30 a.m.- "The Role of the Coach Relative to Violence in Sport" -- Bob Bain, varsity coach and coordinator of York’s Coaching Certificate Program (how coaching education, certification can benefit both athletes and sport; the coach’s responsibility in the parent-coach relationship, and the need for parent training)
11 a.m. - "Sportsmanship as a Counter to Violence in Hockey" -- Lawrence Scanlan, journalist, author (the Fair Play system’s impact on amateur hockey, how it works, and how coaches, players and parents have responded to it)
11:30 a.m. - "Two Steps Forward, One Back: Exploring Exploitation of the Sporting Female" -- Laura Robinson, sports writer (how female athletes are frequently portrayed as passive, sexual objects)
1:15 p.m. - "No Pain, Some Gain: How Ropes and Challenge Courses Can Change Hazing Practices in Athletics" -- Jay Johnson, principal investigator and varsity sport program coordinator, U of T (some of the cutting-edge programs which are being inaugurated by athletic departments in an attempt to curtail traditional types of initiations, abusive hazing rituals)
1:45 p.m. - "Stop This Violence" -- Claude Grimmond, mediator, conflict resolution specialist (overview of a program designed to help minor hockey associations’ directors, convenors, coaches, officials, parents and players learn the skills of conflict mediation; presentation will include some of the outcomes and insights related to the project)
2:15 p.m. - "The Cycle of Violence in Youth and Varsity Sport" -- Peter Donnelly, director, Centre for Sport Policy Studies, U of T (hazing, injuries, and socialization / masculinity issues)
2:45 p.m. - Panel Discussion and Wrap-up -- Greg Malszecki, York U. professor, Kinesiology and Health Science
The roundtable is part of the annual Michael Smith Seminars on Violence and Sport. The seminars commemorate the work and research of York Prof. Michael Smith, a sport sociologist and one of the founding members of York’s LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution, who died in 1994. Smith's book Violence and Sport (1988) is a standard text on the subject.
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For further information, please contact:
| Prof. Greg Malszecki | Ken Turriff |
| Kinesiology and Health Science | Media Relations |
| York University | York University |
| 416-736-2100, ext. 77480 | 416-736-2100, ext. 22086 |
| gregm@yorku.ca | kturriff@yorku.ca |
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