  {"id":15046,"date":"2010-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2010\/06\/17\/be-prepared-and-disregard-rules-when-necessary-grads-told\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:05:42","slug":"be-prepared-and-disregard-rules-when-necessary-grads-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2010\/06\/17\/be-prepared-and-disregard-rules-when-necessary-grads-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Be prepared and disregard rules when necessary, grads told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When York Professor Naomi Black first came to teach in the Department of Political Science in 1964, her father, a professor elsewhere, gave her a few words of advice: Always break the chalk in two to prevent it from squeaking on the blackboard, make sure the fly of your pants is done up (or for women, the seam in your stockings is straight) before giving a presentation and always look up the answer to anything you don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>Black received an honorary doctor of laws during Tuesday's\u00a02010 Spring Convocation ceremony for part of the Faculty of Liberal Arts &amp; Professional Studies and\u00a0thought to share these wise words with the graduating students. The words translate roughly into several maxims, she said, the first being, know the tools of the trade. It may no longer be chalk, but \u201cperhaps it corresponds now to something like locate and test the plugs and the sockets before you have to give a presentation,\u201d said Black, who taught at York for 30 years and was the first female political science professor hired. The second was about advance planning, which Black said is more useful now than ever, and the third \u201cwas about admitting when you don\u2019t know something and then finding out about it, and this is always a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_372104\" style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372104\" class=\" wp-image-372104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2025\/01\/Naomi-Black-hon-doc-400x397.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi Black\" width=\"302\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2025\/01\/Naomi-Black-hon-doc-400x397.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2025\/01\/Naomi-Black-hon-doc-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2025\/01\/Naomi-Black-hon-doc.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-372104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Black during Convocation 2010 when she was awarded an honorary doctor of laws.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But although those words of wisdom are still relevant today, many other things have changed since Black first started at York. At that time, women professors accounted for less than one-tenth of the academics at Canadian universities. \u201cBy contrast, at this University today, about 45 per cent of the faculty is women. That\u2019s more than four in every 10, in sight of half, and for students, again there are huge changes,\u201d said Black, one of the founders of York\u2019s pioneering Graduate Program in Women\u2019s Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Black\u00a0promoted the study of women and feminism and fought to legitimize the study of women and politics within her department as well as within the Canadian Political Science Association, which led to the creation of its Women\u2019s Caucus. \u201cThe first graduating class of 1963 had 43 members \u2013\u00a032 of them were men, that\u2019s about three-quarters, fairly average for the time. This year, there are 810 of you eligible for this convocation, 810, compared to 43.... More than two-thirds of your entire class is women. Numbers don\u2019t tell the whole story about change, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed they don\u2019t. Black read a snippet of what was written in York\u2019s 1963 yearbook about\u00a0a young woman who had \u201cachieved the ambition of every female student at York \u2013\u00a0a man. She had married another York student,\u201d says Black. That same woman was described as a housewife in the following yearbook. \u201cThat\u2019s the yearbook that shows six men for the first class at law school, including the well-known activist lawyer Clayton Ruby. None of the women are at law school or anything comparable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much has truly changed in both attitudes and numbers of female students. \u201cThe statistics about faculty and women and students at York in fact reflect a major shift in Canadian life from when professional women were the exception. A girl\u2019s aspirations at university were indeed what were sometimes called \u2013 my daughter remembers about this\u00a0\u2013 the\u00a0M-R-S degree,\u201d says Black. \u201cSo it is an unbelievably different world for all of you, men and women both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black was part of what prompted the change. She served on the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women in 1972 and since the 1970s her research and publications have focused on the history of feminism,\u00a0women\u2019s leadership and women\u2019s history. She helped establish York\u2019s Nellie Langford Rowell Women\u2019s Studies Library and is co-author of <em>Canadian Women: A History<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Black, who began her speech reciting York\u2019s motto, ended by reiterating the importance of those words\u00a0\u2013 the way must be tried. \u201cWhen I began at York in the early days, the way was untried, unclear, but we had great hopes and considerable resources,\u201d said Black.<\/p>\n<p>In the Maritimes, where she now lives, there is another proverb Black finds useful\u00a0\u2013 the wind and the waves favour the prudent mariner. \u201cIt means be very, very careful. Keep your paper charts, even when you have GPS,\u201d she said. And, in the international collision avoidance regulations about how a ship\u2019s captain should act to avoid a collision, another gem of advice follows what\u2019s called the general prudential rule, where regard should be given to special circumstances that make a departure from the rules necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Black left the graduands with these words: \u201cBeing prudent sometimes includes disregarding the rules, being imaginative, being daring when necessary. You have no choice. The way must be tried. You will have to face the world as it is and the unpredictable future as it may be. Be prudent, but also be bold, and be lucky, as you were to be educated here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>York's 2010 Spring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/mygraduation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Convocation<\/a> ceremonies are streamed live and then archived on the Internet. To view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/mygrad\/Convocation\/webcast\/2010June.htm\">Black\u2019s convocation address<\/a>, visit the Convocation Web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emerita Naomi Black tells graduands much has changed for the better since women first started at 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