From the archives: Life was a long series of disappointments for Valery Fabrikant
23.02.12
This story was published Aug. 26, 1992.
When Valery Fabrikant came to Concordia about 12 years ago, one of the first things he did was to try to to order a super computer.
A university computer services official still remembers Fabrikant's response when told such computers were very expensive.
"But this is capitalism, I thought we all get everything we want." Fabrikant said.
From then on, it seemed that life at Concordia was a series of disappointments for Fabrikant. But that appeared to change recently.
After years of his complaining that he was being passed over, Concordia finally agreed to put Fabrikant on the tenure track. And he had recently won one of his five grievances.
Yet he was due in court yesterday to answer a charge of contempt of court - in a lawsuit that he had initiated against two members of the mechanical-engineering department.
And he still kept up his flood of computerized accusations and continued to harass people at Concordia, raising the ire of vice- rector (academic) Rose Sheinin.
Source: Montreal Gazette