'Loans provincial duty' By LORRI RUDLAND The implementation of the new Canada Student Loan Regulations is the responsibility of the provincial and not the federal government, justice minister John Turner said Thursday. Turner told Alma Mater Society external affairs officer Teri Ball and SFU student society president John Maffett the federal government provides the funds but it is up to the provincial government to decide on implementing the regulation. "So far we've been getting the old runaround," said Maffett, "the B.C.' Social Credit government said the regulations were federal and therefore they couldn't change them. "Now the provincial government will have to reexamine its role," he said. "We are trying to set up a meeting with education minister Eileen Dailly to discuss this THS U8YSSEY Vol. IIV, No. 9 VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1972 228-2301 possibility." The new loan regulations require a student applying for a loan to submit photostats of birth certificates, income tax returns, social insurance cards, marriage certificates, and motor vehicle registration forms. If a student is not "independent" as defined by the regulations, his parents also have to submit their income tax form or a signed declaration that they cannot give financial aid to the student. "Turner said that students from other provinces haven't complained about the new regulations but he is in error," said Maffett. "At the national student conference on the financing post-secondary education held this summer, David Dick, UBC, Russ Freethy, U.Vic, Bill Wells, U.Sask, and I brought up a resolution that the implementation of the regulations should be deferred for one year. "We received support from most of the Canadian campuses, particularly in the Maritimes," Maffett said. The regulations have been implemented without proper consideration. In Nova Scotia a medical student was expected to earn over $1,000 during the summer vacation, he said, but at Dalhousie University, the only medical school in that province, the summer vacation was only two weeks long. The new loan regulations were drawn up at an Ottawa meeting of provincial education ministers held in March. B.C. had no representation as Donald Brothers, the former education minister, didn't attend. Although Brothers did not agree with all the regulations, there was no attempt by the Socred government to defer their implementation, Maffett said. "We wrote to the superintendent of post secondary education, A. E. Soler, to request a deferral." But Soles replied that "to change our procedures at this juncture almost certainly would create serious delays in providing financial aid to a great many students who have already submitted applications for assistance." Maffett said that loosening up the regulations could not delay students receiving loans. "A much greater delay comes from the time, required to examine the new documents submitted and some loans are being delayed three to four weeks longer than before." —kini mcdonald photo NOTHING LIKE A FRIENDLY KISS between Alma Mater Society vice-president Gordon Blankstein and president Doug Aldridge. That's leadership as exhibited at chariot race between engineers and aggies Thursday. Engineers surged to the lead and won for the 100th time. No injuries. No students on board Two former UBC students and the Alumni Association president were elected by the senate to the board of governors Wednesday. Lawyer Ben Trevino, Alma Mater Society President in 1957-58, topped the field of eight candidates with 50 votes and Alumni Association president Beverly Field came second with 42 votes. Chuck Connaughan, president of the Construction Labor Relations Association and 1958- 59 AMS president landed the third of the three- year spots with 40 votes. They comprise what Ubyssey columnist Art Smolensky labelled the "liberal slate (read also large D" in the election. Smolensky placed the three between a conservative slate — engineer Aaro Aho, who got 55 votes, David Williams, previous senate appointee on the board who got 31 votes, and Frank Walden, Socred public relations man who also got 31 votes — and a "radical" student slate. On the student slate were science senator Svend Robinson, who with 29 votes topped Aho and landed just below Walden and Williams, and Staif Persky, the more radical of the two who received 18 votes. The senate is comprised of 11 members, six appointed by order in council of the provincial government in power, three by senate and two because of their positions as president and chancellor. Before leaving office, the Social Credit government filled its complement of appointees by giving Beverly Leckie, Paul Plant and Thomas Dohn seats on the board. But education minister Eileen Dailly announced two weeks ago her intention to revamp the Universities Act to seat students, faculty and university non-academic staff on the board. UBC students well off, urban By BERTON WOODWARD Your are the average UBC student. Your parents are well-off. They both have high-school diplomas and live in a large city. Your father — and you are almost sure to have one — works at a managerial, professional or sales job. You have two siblings, one older than you. If you are an American, you had a better chance of being accepted at UBC than a Canadian student from outside B.C. These are some of the key findings of a UBC senate committee survey of the backgrounds of 4,000 undergraduates who applied to UBC in 1970. The portrait given is taken from the median average of the responses. The most telling figures are those detailing the percentages of students' parents in income brackets ranging up to $20,000 or more, when compared with the figures for Canadian married couples with three dependants. While 2.8 per cent of UBC students' parents make under $3000 per year, 10 per cent of the Canadian parents are in that bracket. And although only 4.5 per cent of the Canadian parents make more than $20,000,13.1 per cent of students' parents do. The median average of students' parents is between $10,000 and $12,000. Fifty-seven per cent of them make between $6,000 and $15,000. Another way of looking at it is that while 30.7 per cent of the Canadian parents make over $10,000, 57.3 of the students' parents do. Fifth-one per cent of the students' fathers are in managerial, sales or professional jobs and an additional 11.3 per cent are skilled workers. The managers' kids have by far the best chance of being, accepted at UBC — 94.3 per cent of those applying made it. The second highest acceptance figures are for sons and daughters of communication and transportation men at 81.1 per cent. The greatest number of rejections were suffered by farmers' kids — one third of them were disappointed. Next highest rate is for children of now-deceased fathers at 32.1 per cent. If your mother is a manager you're laughing — 97.8 per cent of managerial mothers' children were accepted. The other interesting acceptance figures in the study deal with students from outside B.C. Of the 293 Canadian students from outside the province who applied to UBC in 1970, 27 per cent were accepted. Of the 104 - American students applying, 39 per cent were accepted. Thirty per cent of all foreign applications were accepted, with the figure falling to 25 per cent when American students are discounted. The study was commissioned by the senate in December 1969, with academic planning head Robert Clarke acting as committee chairman. Three student senators were on the original 11-member committee. Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 13, 1972 Alternative offered By BRENT THOMPSON A group of UBC students and professors have initiated an alternative to the strict lecture format of science and engineering programs. They call the alternative self-paced learning, a name suggesting a more responsible, less rigid approach to course structure. "The student may ask for the required content outline of a course at the beginning of the year," graduating engineer Mark Spowage said last week. "Utilizing seminars and lectures he may work at his own speed. The rigid, rote lecture method can be transformed into a more ef- I'icienct and interesting experience." The program is a product of the teaching and learning committee The committee is comprised of concerned engineering students and professors. The dean drew up the terms of reference and the committee is responsible to him, and the terms of reference place the balance of power heavily in favor of the professor and ultimately the dean. To effect reform, the students must have the professors okay to voice the request to the dean. This is working simply because the professors recognize the need for change. Until this year the committee has contented itself with room lighting and acoustics, instructional booklets, television analysis, workshops and other functional but hardly inspiring concerns. From this incongruous kernel now pops the self-paced learning program. Self-paced learning is not new. It is gaining enthusiastic disciples in Canada and internationally. University Hill school on the endowment lands has been developing the program. Its success in Canada is acclaimed by educators and students. With the UBC faculty of engineering, professor M. S. Davies is preparing to launch his interpretation of self-paced learning. "In the second term, 70 students from departments other than electrical engineering will take a one and half units electrical engineering course," Davies said Wednesday. He said the students will be given a comprehensive outline of the course. "I will be available for at least four hours a day to allow the student to confer with me." "I don't want the course to be irresponsible so I will give five exams, paced during the term." "This is an honest experiment and although I am reasonably sure of the outcome, I will watch for the results." "The program will be especially beneficient to students having difficulty with the course material," Davies said. The program ideally, will offer to both students and professors the opportunity to make better use of time and resource. Toronto crazies threaten left and blacks at U of T TORONTO (CUP) — An extreme right-wing group has threatened to disrupt all University of Toronto campus meetings featuring Marxist or black speakers. Emiliode Bono, a member of the Western Guard, phoned the 11 of T student newspaper, The Varsity, on Oct. 4, and said his PRC enemies found inside China has more to fear from enemies within her government than foreign powers, said Ann Tompkins, an American socialist recently returned from China. "The enemies of Chinese socialism are those persons who have a position of authority in the Chinese Communist Party and use this position to lead China into capitalism," she told about 250 people in the SUB ballroom Thursday. "These people are self- concerned and wish to set up a capitalist elite rather than serve the majority of the people of China." Tompkins said the proletarian cultural revolution was a great success in China. Intellectuals were won to the concept that they could learn from the peasants. Tompkins taught in a Chinese university of languages from 1965 to 1971 and was able to participate in the revolution. "At first it was very difficult for people to criticize respected party leaders and their policies and some of the party leaders did not appreciate being criticized," she said. "But self-criticism and government criticism are necessary to find the truth." Chairman Mao knew that the continuing class struggle was the most serious threat to socialism, Tompkins said. He encouraged the cultural revolution to help the Chinese people decide in which direction China's economic policy was to evolve, closer to capitalism or to socialism. organization would be "on the lookout, this semester and next, for any Marxist or black ... I mean radical black speakers." Asked what the Guard would do, he referred to "past experience." The Guard has a long history of disrupting left meetings. In 1971, the Guard, then known as the Edmund Burke Society, broke up a meeting at U of T with Quebec labor leader Michel Chartrand and lawyer Robert Lemieux. Members of the group threw a smoke bomb into the hall. More than 1,000 people were present. In June, 1970 the rightists unsuccessfully tried to break up a speech by American leftist lawyer William Kunstler. Since the 1971 incident, the rightists have refrained from breaking up meetings on campus, De Bono said, because they considered the campus "a sacred forum of free speech". But the cancellation Oct. 3 of a scheduled televison taping with a Ku Klux Klan official led them to reverse^ their policy. The show, intended to be taped in a classroom, was cancelled because of rumoured violent demonstrations by the Guard and the extreme left-wing Maoists in the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist- Leninist). LAY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Monday's 7:45-10:00 Oct. 16-Dec. 4 1st Hour Students — $5.00 Others-$10.00 2nd Hour -Father A. Zsigmond -The Prophets -Rev. D. Clarke -The Church and Urban Community -Mr. Don Forbes - "Music and the Church " VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY 6000 Iona Drive Rudy & Peters Motors Ltd. 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Open Every Day from 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. 5732 University Blvd. Phone 224-6121 Kazuyoshi Akiyama takes over the sound of the symphony 20th century style Concert two SATURDAY OCTOBER 21st 8:30 p.m. in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre the Vancouver symphony orchestra performs KHACHATURIAN: Violin Concerto with brilliant guest violinist Tsugio Tokunaga, Concertmaster of the Tokyo Symphony PROKOFIEV: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet SCRIABIN: Poeme de L'Extase SUPER-LOW STUDENT PRICE: $2.00 Adult Prices: $3.50, $4.50, or $5.50 discounted series prices available on request Tickets NOW at the Vancouver Ticket Centre, 630 Hamilton Street, or call 683-3255 to charge to your Eaton Account. ^^-a f*n W\3 Air This series sponsored by CP Air BIRD CALLS- The Handiest Book on Campus THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Available Monday at UBC Bookstore and SUB ONLY 75* with $75.00 in BONUS COUPONS included Friday, October 13, 1972 THE UBYSSEY Page 3 Council to decide lounge fate By TERRY TURCHYNIAK The SUB listening room lost $22,000 last year, and may not reopen if council decides to withhold funds, SUB building manager Graeme Vance said Thursday. Cost of wages and repairs for the no-charge operation amounted to over $22,000 for the past year, of which six to ten thousand dollars went for repairing equipment broken both by normal use and vandalism, he said. In its four years of operation, all the equipment in the listening room has had to be replaced at least once, and at most, monthly, as in the case of headphones, jacks and switches. "Council is seriously considering alternate low cost systems which would cut operating costs to under $6,000, but if none can be satisfactorily put forward, the listening room may not be operating," said Vance. The most favored system involves a number of tape machines, each with a program of a different type of music playing through a number of channels in the listening room. The same system of borrowing headphones in exchange for an AMS card, or bringing your own, will still be in effect. The taped programs would be prerecorded twelve hour SYMPHONY AND SMELLY SOCKS graced the War Memorial Gym Thursday when Kazauyoshi Akiyama, new conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, brought the boys in the band to —Olffk VttMH pnOtO campus for a one and a half hour concert before capacity audience. Ubyssey reviewer Forrest Nelson calls performance "first-rate", page seven today. Compromises on budget begin By LESLEY KRUEGER Compromise in council lowered the listening room budget and raised the guaranteed annual income allocation as the Alma Mater Society budget started its third reading Wednesday night. The first two readings were given in the budget committee, where changes were made from the original executive proposal. There, the guaranteed income plan, also known as the Palmer Proposal, which gives undergraduate societies operating budgets based in part on their size, was reduced from a basic grant of $200 and 40 cents per student to $200 plus 20 cents per student. At the Wednesday night meeting, science rep Ken Lassassen proposed returning to the 40 cents per student budget, taking the needed $3,480 from the.$6,000 listening room budget. This failed, and Lassassen moved to increase the amount to 30 cents per student, taking $1,740 from the listening room. This passed, but a motion again by Lassassen to increase the amount by a further five cents failed. AMS co-ordinator Bob Angus then moved to deduct $5,000 from The Ubyssey budget to install light fixtures in the SUB art gallery — a motion which he later said was made "facetiously, but to the point." He said the $6,000 allocated for the listening room was part of the SUB operating budget, and up to Wednesday the SUB budget was kept separate from the AMS discretionary funds. "If we take money out of the SUB budget and use it for things usually under the discretionary fund, we are unbalancing the whole budget. He then withdrew the motion. Under the revised budget, funds to The Ubyssey have been increased by $10,040. This includes a $5950 increase in predicted advertising revenue enabling The Ubyssey to publish twice weekly, have meal tickets, continue as a member of Canadian University Press, a cooperative student newspaper wireser- vice and send delegates to the annual CUP national conference. Intramural sports were awarded an extra $1,200 — $900 for men and $300 for women. This allocation came under fire when Shelagh Day, spokeswoman for the Women's Action Group, asked for $1,200 to print a report on the status of women at UBC. The revised budget also estimated the $2,000 Open house grant although it supported Open House, planned for March 1973, in principle. The education committee received an additional $2,000 under the new budget and community visitations was docked $500. tapes which would be changed weekly or bimonthly. The selections recorded and the variety of tapes available would depend on popular demand. The introduction of this or any other system depends on the amount of money, if any, that council decides to allot to the listening room for expenses. In past years, council has considered the $22,000 investment to be expedient, but has this year trimmed the operation budget to under $5,000 so far, and may withhold even more, he said. A major renovation of the listening room and adjacent reading room has been in planning since last year, but was held up over the summer due to the construction workers strike. Tenders have now been received, and council will vote on them in next Wednesday's meeting. The $55,000 contract will involve removal of the wall now separating the two rooms of the listening room, and the removal of the wall separating the reading room from the adjacent conversation pit. The interior appearance of the listening room will be changed with more lighting, furniture, and carpeting throughout. The concrete wall between the listening room and what is now the reading room will be replaced with a glass one. If a contract is granted, work should start within a week, and be finished by Christmas. Phenomena lives in SUB By JOSIE BANNERMAN Gallery phenomena is alive, vibrating, pulsating in the SUB art gallery. Gallery phenomena is made up of students in architecture, engineering, fine arts and commerce working to create a multi-media gallery-theatre event. Directed by curator Rory Ralston the gallery has become a maze of dramatic arrangements, interpretations and effects. Gallery phenomena presents a semi-controlled pathway which each visitor must take. "As in any walk of life there are forks in the road and the traveller chooses his own way. But I must warn you, one road leads to a flaming writhing devil; the other to the spiritual, calm godhead," Ralston said. Ralston said his ambitious project has received unanimous support and a $2,000 grant from the Alma Mater Society. He said the project has been enthusiastically greeted as a new concept in gallery presentations. Phenomena materializes Nov. 9. PANGO-PANGO (UNS) — Three million screaming Episcopalians blathered through the streets of this grimy island kingdom last week in search of the mythical pickled ack-ack eggs, said to be found 'neath the shade of a coolibah tree. However the ranting churchmen were told by uniformed sources that coolibah trees grow only near billagongs and besides they had no billies to boil. They went home, daunted. Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 13, 1972 Secrets About 30 people slipped quietly onto the UBC campus last weekend. Several hours later, they just as quietly slipped away, taking with them another little chunk of Canadian independence. Our publicity-shy "guests" were attending a secret conference on the sale of Canadian energy resources to the U.S. The conference was sponsored by an organization called Resources for the Future (whose resources? whose future?) which is based in Washington D.C. and is funded by the Ford Foundation. Smells fishy, doesn't it? It's not necessary to editorialize at any length about why the conference was held in secret and what was discussed. We already know the basics. And it doesn't matter whether or not agreements were reached at the conference on whether X billion gallons of water or kilowatts of electricity or barrels of oil are to be shipped to the United States. Conferences such as these usually cannot be measured by such concrete things as agreements. The effect for a Canadian nationalist is more like a slipping away of things. It's very frustrating and very difficult to combat. But it's time something was done about the situation. It's time the corporation executives, profs and government experts at the conference were called by their proper names. The Americans among them are imperialists. The Canadians who support them are traitors. But this obviously isn't enough. Nor is it enough just to make sure that these conferences never happen on this campus again. It really wouldn't help too much if the people attending the conference were tarred and feathered and run off campus on rails escorted by 20,000 screaming students, although it would be nice. Something more fundamental has to be changed. As we said previously, the national sell-out is very difficult to fight. This is because the industries and natural resources are controlled by a small group of individuals. The obvious solution to the problem is to remove the control of industries and natural resources from this group of individuals. However, you may have other ideas so we'd like to hear from you. But we'd also like to see some action on whatever your ideas are. There's nothing worse than watching a group of middle-class academics just discussing what they should be doing. With a bit of determination it's conceivable that the academic community, which so far has played such a large part in the sell-out, could be a major factor in the reclamation of the country. THE UBYSHY OCTOBER 13, 1972 Published Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the writer and not of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey's editorial offices are located in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2307; Sports, 228-2305; advertising, 228-3977. Co-editors: John Andersen, Jan O'Brien This masthead is supposed to make up for John Andersen's inability to write longish editorials. "Take as much as you need," says he to the lowly bard. Our story today deals with young Lesley Krueger and the way she drove old and new reporters alike batty with her demands that deadlines be met and copy be kept clean. "Aye and she's a tough one, she is," said Doug Higgins, as Ken Dodd left Krueger's desk trembling. Dodd, as he walked out the door to the Pit with Josie Bannerman, was heard to say how Krueger would get hers in the end. Mike Sasges alluded as to how it was too bad it couldn't be sooner. Maureen O'Rourke said she thought it was ridiculous that one woman could put so much fear into the newsroom. "Wait until you meet Sandi Shreve," yelled Rod Mickleburgh from under a table in the staff lounge. Usually unreliable sources have announced Rod will soon be leaving the paper for a new posting in Edmonton. Brian Murphy told Lorri Rudland the time has come to make a decision on the extent of gruffness allowed to young city editors. Dave Schmidt's holding a party this weekend and won't your house mates just love to read the masthead. Brent Thompson told Terry Turchyniak — won't we have fun with that name in future mastheads — that he'd better be there. Sports editor Kent Spencer echoed that sentiment to his little buddy, Simon Truelove. The photogs, said head Kini McDonald, didn't have to worry about Krueger this week. Their big worry was Jan O'Brien at news desk. Kini said she made damn sure the troops, Dirk Visser, Bruce West, Sucha Singh, Daryl Tan and Ed Dubois, kept the art rolling. And Berton Woodward put himself into this masthead at the last minute. AM$ I thought Leo Fox's Oct. 3 letter very well put. Doug Aldridge's response was a good deal less convincing. He seemed to be side-stepping the important issues. That the $5 athletic fee now goes to the administration rather than to the Alma Mater Society makes no difference to the students who pay it. Aldridge's arguments suggest that it is a sort of principle with him to not let fees drop below established levels. Now that the pool referendum has brought the AMS fee back to its former level, Aldridge assures us that he hopes to extend the present $15 SUB fee "for several years." Aldridge seems to note a retrogressive tendency in UBC's having the lowest student fees in Canada; apparently students who resist fee increases are petty and cheap. (Everyone knows that students really have plenty of money). He does not consider whether the whole fee structure needs re-thinking, whether students now have the right to bill future students $20 more yearly than they would otherwise be paying (the pool and SUB fee proposals amount to that), while leaving them no say in how the money shall be spent. It is interesting that Aldridge complains that student governors haven't enough time to perform all the services they would like to, while he at the same time expresses willingness to take on responsibility for food services. His conviction that it would be better for students to pay $15 yearly for their food services rather than to have a self-supporting operation strikes me as singular, especially since many students who would have to pay the fee seldom or never eat in the cafeterias. The comments on AMS discretionary spending are also unconvincing. Certainly daycare could have received more help from council. (And how does the AMS come to take credit for the grad class gift?) Any student who has been around UBC for a few Letters years knows that the student governing bodies have frittered away great sums of money. Finally, I would like to support Fox's suggestion of a 25 cent per student stipend for Karl Burau. Burau has for many years performed a valuable service in combatting student and academic complacency and stressing the need for educational and social alternatives, while at the same time maintaining an example of rare personal integrity. Moreover, with no lecture fund, he has succeeded in bringing an array of political, educational and religious speakers to his noon hour meetings; he has aimed at bringing together as many differing viewpoints as possible. Joan Bunn grad studies 9 P.S. It seems a bit sad that the student body now willing to donate $5 yearly for a new pool should have shown itself so niggardly in the recent Shinerama drive. Snot An all to (sic) common complaint at the university is that the engineers do not have the desired level of social consciousness that is expected of members of this community. We definitely refute this claim, and wish to display to the rest of the campus our overwhelming concern for many of the pressing social issues. One of the gravest of these problems, in our estimation, is the total preoccupation that many members of the society have with picking their noses. We feel that the only reasonable means of combating this problem, short of chopping off their fingers, is by launching a massive campaign directed at these misguided citizens. Our program will be entitled Don't Pick Your Nose 1972. We would very much appreciate appropriate coverage of this campus wide campaign and your favorable support of our project. Harold Cunliffe, EUS president Credit V This refers to Leo Fox's letter in Tuesday's Ubyssey wherein he suggests that a student-owned credit union would solve the problem of financing AMS projects for "all the profits of ownership would accrue to us". As solutions seem to come easy to this Science 5 student, maybe next week he will offer a plan for perpetual motion. However, before so doing, I suggest he first outline in detail how the AMS can profit from a credit union, which I believe, can be owned only by individuals. All students who are ready to loan their money to the AMS should come forward to support Fox's proposal. Please don't rush, I'm sure the line up won't be too long. Al Vince student publications manager. Money I feel the administration owes students an explanation on the subject of the recent disbursement of UBC-administered scholarships, bursaries and fellowships. There is something rotten in the state of the finance department when almost one-third of the first term must elapse before students can collect money awarded in some cases as far back as March. Last year students had to wait until late September; this year the official date was October 6. It does not take much imagination to realize that September is a very tight month for students largely dependent on financial aid, or that students may have rent and other obligations due the first of the month. If someone knowledgeable in the ways of our bureaucracy could perhaps explain this delay and what steps, if any, are being taken to rectify it, I would be most appreciative. Don Meakins grad studies Friday, October 13, 1972 THE UBYSSEY Page 5 Fifth year education student David Walmsley offers his views on the state of the third oldest profession. Any UBC student will be familiar with the-term"Mickey Mouse" and he will also know to which department's courses this term belongs. If the student is a transfer student (transferring with a BA to the one year education program), he will by October have discovered that such a value judgement does not entail the meaning "easy", but he may still be wondering about its other entailments — as, for example, useless, unco-ordinated, too structured, too unstructured, irrelevant, etc. Just in case anyone has hypothesized to himself that the education department is in a state of flux between Socred and NDP, as is the rest of the world, and that this is the reason why the easiness entailment has disappeared, and the others not yet, he should reconsider his hypothesis after taking note of the following evidence. Just as the student was aware of the term "Mickey Mouse", it can be taken for granted that the education department was equally aware of it. In fact, I have it on good authority that the UBC education department invented the term. Walt Disney later plagiarized it. It was invented to entice, out of the environs of the Unemployment Insurance Commission, those people who did not Mickey who? yet feel an overwhelming urge to work. For, with the obvious entailment of "easy", any well indoctrinated Canadian youth would jump at the chance to avoid having to tell his relatives that the reason lie was on the dole was that he had no idea what he wanted to do. The education department realized, of course, that by this means it would be thrusting hundreds of mediocre teachers upon the unsuspecting multitudes, but it justified itself on two grounds: first that the vast majority of the unsuspecting multitudes were mediocre anyway and second that it was impracticable to insist upon having a preponderance of good teachers, because that would mean having a classroom ratio of 187:1, and besides, good teachers don't last long enough with local school boards. Upon the premise of attracting into the education department all those elements of the populace who were gifted enough to rote, learn, plagiarize papers, and cheat on exams without being caught, and who were still pragmatic (that is: wishy-washy) about job-seeking, the department had to figure out a way of pushing them in the required direction. A committee was formed of a cross-section of the faculty. It consisted of three American psychology professors, and a cafeteria waitress. They met in camera, the film of which has just been developed, and the ensuing outline emerged. In order to take advantage of the student's inability to make up his mind, it was decided that all courses should be incomprehensible as possible, and that no single course should have any content that was similar to the content of any other course in any way (satire included). Furthermore, whereas five 3-unit courses were all right for arts and science students, the education student was to be further confused by having a maximum of three 3-unit courses, the balancing six units to be made up of ones and one-and-a-halfs, with a compulsory zero thrown in just to balance the numerology. Having masticated the student's mind in this way, the next step was to present him with a viable alternative, and what better way was there to do this than send him out on a practicum? Once he was out in the schools all the student had to do was present several prepared-on- the-spur-of-the-moment papers, which the pupils need not necessarily understand, so long as the sponsor teacher did — and how could the sponsor teacher not understand, his being a product of the same system? And, because the pupils did not understand, the student teacher felt himself regaining that superiority complex that he had had before he had enrolled in the education department. It was pointed out by the cafeteria waitress that there might still be some students who would be confused enough by the course work to drop out, seeing as the ratio of practicums to courses was the same as the ratio of good teachers to mediocre pupils. Professors Winestain and Zbigniewski thereupon wrote into the education constitution that tests should be frequent, and that anyone who spelt his name right would get an automatic 66 per cent. The possibility that the student, during the summer vacation, might change his mind about teaching, was carefully invalidated by having him apply for, and accept, a job before he had had time to think about the whole process. In conclusion then, it would appear that the true identity of Mickey Mouse is hidden behind a cloud of diesel fumes emanating from the CPR shunting yards. To say that his is a railroad job is, perhaps, to understate the case. In current terminology, he is a transit supervisor. Letters Trash We aim to please — please aim too! Somewhere I have read this slogan, which nicely suggests a solution to some of the problems pointed out in your recent article on the cleaning services provided by Best Cleaners & Contractors Ltd. As president of the cleaning firm I am naturally interested in any comments on our cleaning, but suggest that your picture clearly shows that the effective use of available waste baskets (look for it in the picture) which are available everywhere, would practically eliminate such conditions. You might not realize this but the present contract asks for two persons on the afternoon shift and three on the day shift (no change from before) who have a great number of duties to perform, such as bringing in the beer (say, that is excellent cleaning material), and all other supplies. They also move, remove, set up furniture, police the areas for waste (should someone be there who can not aim because he lost his glasses), refill washroom supplies (we beg you and your visitors not to remove tissue and paper for any other purpose but the one to assist you whilst in the washrooms of the SUB). Young people today seem to be terribly concerned with human dignity and the values of life. Think of the backs of those who have to bend to pick up the litter which could have hit the waste receptacles in the first instance — think of the cost involved in money and effort to replace paper supplies which went out of the building to clean cars or refurbish someone else's household. Your co-operation will not only help those who at present try to cope with difficult working conditions - (which could be a cinch if you decided to help), but it will also guarantee you a place which will look decent at all times and thus reflect the value you put on your environment (now this should get Us the assistance of all anti-pollution groups). I am certain that upon reflecting on some of these points you will agree that the janitors deserve all the assistance you can give them — that they are very patient and competent people to be able to perform under present SUB conditions. And do not forget, and I quote from Ted the singing (80-year-old) janitor at SFU, "Once everyone has his PhD the last janitor will earn a fortune". Manus manum lavat. Ulf von Dehn Poet Those days when you were small, can you discern? When worries were not there to comprehend, When Man first told you: "Knowledge, you must learn." Did you not know the story that did pend? Man schooled his offspring very tastefully, With paint and song and things he would enjoy; His leggings, undulating wastefully, Lay pendant from his foreign wooden, toy. So Man injected patience in your veins, HILLEL CAR RALLY & PARTY Oct. 14 leaves Hillel 7:30 50c for members $1.00 non-members As concepts intercoursed your virgin thoughts, Your fingers learned to graph the mind you feigned, Then rationalization were taught. Can you recall the value of your worth, When from your desk, your feet did reach the earth? P.M. St. Pierre arts 2 The preceding sonnet of sorts for some reason ended up on rushant " CAMERAS * 4538 W.10 224-5858 NEVER UNDERSOLD! TUXEDO RENTAL & SALES + D.B. & S.B. Tuxedos + D.B. & S.B. White Coats + D.B. & S.B. 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Box 8600 — Information 687-280). giiii i iiwiiuiiKMMiwmii iii to.^sj.^^a.u^ nuf if ^rrtsENHin vs Page 6 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 13, 1972 Maritimes form their own union SACKVILLE, N.B. (CUP) — Student councils in the Atlantic provinces, dienchanted with the proposed national student union, may soon form a Maritimes student union. New Brunswick students formed the New Brunswick Union of Students (Union des Etudiants, nouveau Brunswick) or UENBUS in July, and Nova Scotia student councils are expected to approve a similar union in the next few weeks. Universities in Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland will be asked to join a Maritime student union, if the Nova Scotia union develops, according to Roy Neill, University of New Brunswick student president. UENBUS was set up in Fredericton July 15 to tackle student aid problems in the province. According to Paul Highham, vice- president academic of the Mount Allison University students administrative council and chairman of the UENBUS constitution committee, there was dissatisfaction among the province's nine post-secondary institutions with student aid. Exasperation with the present system of assistance in financing higher education was especially widespread and bitter, he said. Concern centred on the division of available money into loans and bursary grants. While the federal government makes loans available, the provincial government is expected to provide money for bursaries and decide how much must be borrowed before a student is eligible for a bursary. In New Brunswick, the amount rose from $1,000 last year to $1,400 this year and the provincial government consequently lowered the bursary allotment from $2.4 million to $1.1 million in its budget. Representatives from UNB, Mount Allison, St. Thomas University, College de Bathurst, College St. Louis and the Universite de Moncton attended the founding meeting, hoping to form a union to exercise "considerable bargaining power with youth and welfare minister Brenda Robertson. The union's first objective was reached following meetings with Robertson. A three-person committee obtained concessions in the provincial loan and bursary program; the mandatory loan portion of student aid is now down to $1,100, after which a $700 bursary is provided. An additional $300 loan is available if necessary. UENBUS is not a political organization, UNB student president Neill says. But "nobody's going to look after our problems is we don't," he said. He believes the Maritime and provincial unions are necessary to provide student-oriented services. Once local positions are firmed up, he said, Maritime universities will be better able to face a conference to set up a national student union. The national student union, proposed during the summer and coming up for discussion at the national conference of student coucil representatives in November, should also be "non-political", Neill said., "We're interested as long as it can do something for us," he said, suggesting the major topic should be standardized student loans and student services. If the organization sticks to student aid or other similar subjects, "it probably would be very valuable," he added. However, because Ontario universities seem more concerned with entertainment and Ontario-oriented problems, he is sceptical of joining the national student union. Councils organize All but two student councils from campuses across B.C. have joined in forming the B.C. Association of Student Councils, the Alma Mater Society external affairs officer said Wednesday. Teri Ball said representatives from 11 student councils met in Prince George last weekend, and with letters of support from three other campuses, voted to form the loosely-knit organization. Ball said the organization will not have an executive or an executive office in a deliberate attempt to keep the body unstructured and decentralized. "We won't be paying any fees either for the first year to keep from getting into all the official red-tape kind of hassles," she said. Information in Friday's Ubyssey reporting the AMS council had ratified membership in the council was incorrect, she said. The council had supported membership in the proposed National Union of Students. She said The Ubyssey was also incorrect in reporting that the association was drawing up a student bill of rights. This is strictly a UBC project, she said. But the association will deal with "policy decisions on issues important to B.C. students." "The main function of the organization will be to present a unified front when dealing with any important issues," she said. The association is now promoting a student boycott of Famous Players and Odeon theatres because of their recent cancellation of student rates. "We staged an informational display at the Famous Players theatre in Prince George to protest the changes and later talked to the manager," she told the AMS council meeting. AMS treasurer David Dick said negotiations with the chain's head office in Toronto would lead more directly to settlement than would the protest, "although the protest will serve to show our dismay." He said the theatres might reinstitute student rates if Canadian student councils marked expiry dates on their student cards. Dick said he and AMS president Doug Aldridge plan to meet with Famous Players representatives in Toronto later this year in an attempt to reach settlement. rushant ** CAMERAS * 4538 W.10 224-5858 NEVER UNDERSOLD! 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MEET GRANT DEACHMAN -Candidate in Vancouver Quadra -Chief Government Whip in the House -Nine Years Experience as a Member of Parliament FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 SUB CLUB'S LOUNGE 12:30 .J Friday, October 13, 1972 THE UBYSSEY Page 7 Poor acoustics overcome by symphony, students By FORREST NELSON Kazauyoshi Akiyama directed the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a nearly full War Memorial gymnasium Thursday. The concert, which got progressively better, began with the Overture to Egmont by Beethoven. Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony followed, then Canzoni for Prisoners by local Murray Schafer and finally Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Ballet Suite. Several thousand students packed the Memorial gym to hear the one and one-half hour concert presented by the dean of women's office through the generosity of the Vancouver Symphony Society, assisted by the UBC Alumni Association and the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation. The struggle of the symphony against the building was quickly outlined when noise from the back of the gym ruined a tremendous beginning of the Egmont overture. In this struggle the symphony was aided by the enthusiastic student audience. By the second movement of the Italian symphony, there was no doubt as to the triumph of the orchestra over the situation. The modern Canzoni for Prisoners by Murray Schafer engaged a surprising amount of student attention. Prokofiev was an enormously pleasant surprise after the Beethoven having been a let down. Akiyama has sharpened performance here to be first rate: superior on an international scale. WHITE TOWER PIZZA & SPAGHETTI HOUSE LTD. jjSteaks-Pizza-Spaghetti-Lasagna-Ravioli-Rigatoni-Chicken Cacciatore[| A OPEN Mon. - Thurs. 11 a.m. - 3 a.m. Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m. -4 a.m. Sun. 11 a.m. -1 a.m. TAKE OUT ORDERS _„0 .,-- HOME DELIVERY 730-9520 DINING LOUNGE FULL FACILITIES 3618W. Broadway' (at Dunbar) 738-1113' Extradition possible yet OTTAWA (CUP) — Puerto Rican independentista student Humberto Pagan will be spending up to another year in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada decided Oct. 5 the United States should be allowed to appeal the decision on Pagan's deportation. The hearing of the case was held Oct. 3. The appeal will be heard in the lower federal court sometime within the next year. The court is fully booked this year and most of next. Pagan was arrested in Ottawa a year ago after he fled Puerto Rico where he is charged with killing San Juan riot chief Juan Mercado during a riot at the University of Puerto Rico March 11,1971. He does not want to return to Puerto Rico because he fears for his life there. During the past year, extradition proceedings went smoothly for the Americans who wish to bring Pagan to trial back in Puerto Rico, but the deportation hearing hit a snag. On June 27 Carleton County court Judge A. E. Honeywell refused the American request to deport the student to Puerto Rico, setting a precedent in Canadian- American deportation relations. Pagan, who was kept in jail from the time of his arrest, was freed on $3,000 bail in early July. The counsel for the U.S. went to the federal court Aug. 3, asking for an appeal on the grounds the case was of extraordinary importance. The federal court refused to hear the appeal because it contradicted a 1955 Supreme Court ruling which prohibited a country seeking a deportation to appeal a case. The U.S. then went to the Supreme Court Oct. 3 asking that it allow the appeal to be heard in the lower court. Pagan was consulting with his lawyer Bernard Mergler in Montreal today and was unavailable for comment. However, a Pagan defence committee member in Ottawa said the decision to allow the appeal was based on one of three things. Either the court disagreed with the 1955 Supreme Court ruling, it agreed with the American counsel that the case of extraordinary importance or it felt the federal court's ruling on the appeal was incorrect. Another possible result of the Supreme Court decision, he said, is that the Americans may ask for a warrant to put Pagan back in jail. However, Judge Honeywell, who disallowed the first American deportation request, is the person who would have to sign the warrant and reliable sources report he has already refused to do so. On Oct. 2, the day before the Supreme Court hearing, Pagan predicted civil war would break out in his homeland in "two or three years". He told a Toronto press conference that "U.S. imperialism must be defeated by a revolutionary war of the people of Puerto Rico." While 90 per cent of Puerto Rico's capital is American- owned, living conditions have not improved under American domination, he told reporters. The average salary of a Puerto Rican worker is only one-third to one-fourth that of an American worker. In spite of U.S. domination, Pagan said, the people have resisted and maintained their own identity. He cited the long history of protests and uprisings against colonial rule. Kraft Feeds guilty MONTREAL (CUP) — Kraft Foods Ltd., perpetrator of low prices to farmers and substandard goods to consumers, has been caught in the act again. The multi-national food monopoly was found guilty Oct. 4 on a charge of false advertising in its Explore Canada contest. ~v Mr. Justice Claude Valer set Oct. 19 to hear arguments before sentencing. The company's sales promotion contest offered participants "15 big chances to win" trips to any Canadian city, free use of a vehicle, $1,000 spending money, and a set of luggage. The contest was advertised in national magazines and television programs, including the non-defunct Ed Sullivan Show. Kraft is the second largest television advertiser in the U.S. Chief Crown prosecutor Louis-Philippe Landry said no contestant had "15 big chances to win" and 120,900 of the 271,000 entrants had simply wasted a postage stamp. Meanwhile, the National Farmers Union boycott of Kraft products continues. The NFU is demanding the right to bargain collectively for prices paid to farmers by the monopoly. While Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony under direct rule, he added, the rest of Latin America, except Chile and Cuba, is held under the grip of neo-colonialism, or indirect rule. In a speech to about 150 people later Monday, Pagan said he came to speak of the Puerto Rican independence struggle, and "in the name of people all over the world who are willing to endanger their lives for freedom". "I come in the name of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and all the countries of Latin America and Africa to make this accusation against imperialism." 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Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) Establishment of diplomatic relations with China and the Vatican Protection of Privacy Bill Prosecutions for misleading advertising International Student Summer Employment Exchange New Unemployment Insurance Act Local Initiatives Program to fight unemployment Northern Inland Waters Act Loans to underdeveloped countries Transient Youth aids Move toward adoption of metric system Wildlife sanctuaries White Paper on Income Security LeDain Commission on non-medical use of drugs Department of Regional Economic Expansion Student Athlete grants Proposed Food and Drug and Narcotic Act amendments Multiculturalism policy defined "Opportunities for Youth" program Establishment of Department of the Environment Low income housing initiatives Foreign ownership policy study The Competition Bill Prices and Incomes Commission Extension of Territorial Sea and Fishing Zones Committee on Election Expenses report Drug research studies Increased monies available under Small Businesses Post Office Act amendments—assured mail Family Income Security Plan Research grants to Parliamentary caucuses DDT and phosphate bans Creation of six new national parks Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women Participatory and consultative approach to policy making—the White Paper technique Northern Development program Canadian Development Corporation Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention legislation Committees on Youth report Record Exports Nuclear Liability Act Northern and Arctic land use regulations Sports facilities study Recommendations re seal hunt Second language studies Anti-dumping legislation See-Canada programs Establishment of Ministry of State for Science and Technology Clean Air Act International travel programs Review of Indian Policy Official Languages Act Small Farms Development Program Liberalism—An openness to new ideas Oct. 30—The Federal Election Express yourself UBER4LR4RTY 614 West Pender Street, Vancouver 2, B.C. Page 8 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 13, 1972 Limits must be set By DAVID SCHMIDT The earth is heading for catastrophe within the next 25 to 50 years unless man limits himself before nature does it for him, said commerce professor Bill Rees Thursday noon. Rees spole to about 40 persons on The Limits of Growth at a meeting in SUB 207-209 sponsored by the Environmental Crisis Organization. Rees explained the operation of the environment as a closed system with predetermined inputs and outputs which keep the system operating as it should. He described man as a system which is adversely affecting the main system by presenting a pollution input which destroys the ecological balance. "Man can be described as a cancerous growth type subsystem which is multiplying exponentially while the rest of the system just remains stable. "It is a runaway system which is having an increasingly dominant effect on the environment, diseasing the rest of the organism. "This can't continue for ever. There is an overall limit to the amount of punishment the ecosystem can take," Rees said. "Each lifeform follows a set; pattern where it rises exponentially in a friendly environment until it reaches the point where nature can no longer support it and negative feedbacks take over to destroy the excess population till it conforms to the carrying capacity of nature," he said. Mankind will reach that point within our lifetime unless we take some steps to control our own gowth, he said. International House changing its image By MAUREEN O'ROURKE International House wants to change its image. Carl Beach, program co-ordinator of International House, said not only is International House a place for foreign students but also for Canadian students. Beach said Thursday International House is a place to get "first hand information of other parts of the world in your own backyard." Beach told The Ubyssey he would like to see more Canadian student participation at International House. They need Canadian students to help foreign students with their English at 8 p.m. Thursdays. The House offers a cafeteria service to all students, featuring a soup from a different country daily. It also offers trips to foreign countries as well as day trips. This Christmas International House is sponsoring a two week trip to Mexico. International House holds social evenings from 4 to 6 p.m. daily. Its next dance is on Oct. 27 and cost is $2 per person. Beach said International House is for the use of the entire campus. In September it held orientation meetings for all students in their first year at UBC, both foreign and Canadian. The house holds speaker programs in the education department. Speakers from foreign countries go and speak at education seminars. UN Day at International House, on Oct. 24 and Oct. 26, features speakers Stanley Burke, an ex-CBC newscaster and Mark Zacker, a UBC international relations professor. 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Thurs. & Fri. 9 . 9 622 COLUMBIA ST 726 YATES ST. 524-2016 388-6295 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Thurs. & Fri. 9 - 9 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Fri. 9 - 9 CHARGEX • EASY TERMS • LAY AWAY Drama A mixed bag of meet Intimacy, coffee and theatre are the delicacies offered at the City Meet Market. You'll find all three this weekend in Counterpoint's production of three Canadian one-act plays. Counterpoint is a talented theatre troupe working from this one-room North Vancouver coffee house. Productions are frugal and unpretentious. The stage is a corner of the room flanked on two sides by the audience. Scenery, costumes and lighting is spartan. Wooden chairs, the odd bench or the floor suffice as seats. Poor Theatre it is, but poor theatre it isn't. A Glass Darkly by S. R. Gilbert is an intellectual and abstract theatre piece. A man played by Dean Foster is lost and wanders onto the stage seeking help. He meets Bob and Dod, played by Eugene Tishauer and David Thomas. Bob and Dod are menacing and sinister personalities, and they prey upon their helpless and confused victim. Assaulted physically, intellectually and emotionally, the man is driven to the precipice of insanity. The play is one of words: long magniloquent soliloquies and verbal barrages. It demands concentration and attention, but the terse stage direction and pacing used by director Doug McCallum avoids monotony and boredom. Death Seat by J. M. Hurley does not fare as well as the first. A woman (Suzanne Dubois) stumbles into a bar. She is nervous, excited and desperately needs someone to talk to. She settles for a woman (Joan Needham) at a table. Dubois has escaped from a car crash. Her son, critically injured, is undergoing surgery. As the story progresses, however, we realize we are not witnessing ordinary people in an ordinary bar. The bartender, played by David Thomas, is Death, and his. bar Death's waiting room. Allegories can be theatrical successes if the stereotypes, the cliches and the stock characters are avoided. Unfortunately Hurley's script makes little effort to do this. Neeham is the stalwart stoic rock, braving life's adversity and pain, but unable to relieve herself of the tedious one- dimensional characterization. The Song of Louise in the Morning by Patricia Joudry is the best of the three. The script and the acting present an incisive, compelling and realistic drama. Within 40 short minutes we are drawn into the tangled lives of Louise and Stanley, a married couple played by Marie Foun- taine and Bren Traff. Stanley is a clerk struggling in a department store; Louise babysits for a five-year-old. The central idea, Stanley's jealousy over Louise's love for the boy, is woven through the delicate fabric of their relationship, and by following it, we unravel the subtle intricacies of their lives. The superb acting, especially Traff's, imbues the play with the depth, richness and crucial undertones possessed by Joudry's characters. The City Meet Market is at 69 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Plays run at 8 p.m. until Sunday. Admission is $1.50. —Steve Morris Immediate future The Jewish State of Theatre of Rumania moves into the QE Oct. 17 at 8:30 p.m. for a once^only performance of The Dybbuk, a love-and-spiritualism story performed in Yiddish. Promoter David Y. H. Lui says it "will appeal even to those who do not understand the language as they may revel in the extensive use of song and dance." Tickets are $3, $4, $5 and $6 at Vancouver Ticket Centre. The Jewish Rumanians are particularly interesting as they point up the differences between Rumania and other East European states, where the promotion of Jewish culture is less welcome. Lui is also bringing the Ballet Theatre Contemporain, a French dance company, to the QE tonight at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. For $3.25 to $6.50 you can see the rock ballet Hop-Op, which includes dancing to the music of such luminairies as Frank Zappa and Vanilla Fudge. Tickets at VTC. And at the Arts Club, Paul Zindel's comedy The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigold opens* next Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Starring Doris Chilcott, Marti Maraden and Pia Shandel, it will run Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. and Fridays at 7 and 10 p.m. And, oh yes, this is (or was) Theatre Week in Vancouver and surrounding municipalities. CAT # 1) "Comedy-Erotic" # 2) "Social Conscience" IPQpEI^SS <®W8|p Sponsored by Media McGill and Bellvue Pathe ^VQpElte Media McGill 3434 McTavish Montreal 112 Page Friday, 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 13, 1972 Books Refuse to be a victim By JAN O'BRIEN "This above all, to refuse to be a victim." This is what Margaret Atwood's new novel Surfacing is all about. In many ways this book is similar to her first novel, The Edible Woman. In both cases the woman narrator sees herself and other women as products. However, Surfacing is a more sophisticated version of this theme. Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood. McClelland and Stewart, $6.95, hardcover. The narrator returns to her childhood home in northern Quebec to search for her missing father. By returning home she is forced to look at her childhood and face up to the truth about her adult life. She lives in a "never- never land" and cannot reconcile her adult life with her childhood. As her companion Anna says: "You had a good childhood but there's this funny break." The funny break is a tragic love affair with a married man. She cannot face the truth about the affair and creates a complicated illusion to replace it. She no longer fights back, her only defence is flight, invisibility. The affair has left her aloof, uncommunicative. She has no faith and cannot love. "I was not prepared for the average, its needless cruelties and lies." Her parents take on the characteristics of gods with a mythology and a set of rules backing them. A transition occurs as the narrator reaches her home territory. She begins to think in terms of "we're supposed to" trying to fit into the childhood pattern created by her parents. The tension builds up and ■ *- — - - , * t* » when her friends leave she stays behind to work things out. After declaring: "I tried all those years to be civilized but I'm not and I'm through pretending", the narrator lives out a ritual which she believes her mother and father are demanding of her. It is a long and painful process. She can no longer run from the truth, and realizes the illusion she created was more disastrous than the truth. She is no longer powerless and victimized. She discovers her parents are human and "their totalitarian innocence was my own." She drops the illusion her life has been and faces reality. She thus defines woman as product: "They would never believe it's only a natural woman, state of nature, they think of that as a tanned body on a beach with washed hair waving like scarves; not this, face dirt-caked and streaked, skin grimed and scabby, hair like a frayed bathmat stuck with leaves and twigs. A new kind of centrefold." Anna, her female companion, reinforces this image of victimized woman. She wears makeup like a visor and is described as an imitation of a magazine picture which in itself is an imitation. The men in the novel play a secondary role and bring in some other contemporary issues like Canadian nationalism and technology. Anna's husband Dave, is tough and spouts all the radical catch phrases about Americans, life and love. At first glance Canadian nationalism seems to be treated superficially as American hunters fishing out and buying up the wilderness. Later, however, the idea is clarified when the narrator says of Americans: "They exist, they're advancing, they must be dealt with, but possibly they can be watched and stopped without being copied." It appears that Americanism can be equated with technology. Anna and Dave have become Americans and "are already turning to metal, skins galvanizing, heads congealing to brass knobs, components and intricate wires ripening inside." Joe, the narrator's current lover, seems to her only half-formed and therefore to be trusted. She cannot talk to him but in the end sees him as a mediator between her and the "normal" world. The book leaves one encouraged. There seems to be hope. At least the narrator is going to try. It's a strong, complex book by a woman who is probably writing the best Canadian poetry and fiction. Films Unkindest cuts are prime Prime Cut has all the appearances of a substandard Hollywood gangster movie but it gives a whole lot more than that. It's not only fun entertainment, it also gets right into America's problems and comes up with some images and ideas that are original and touching. Prime Cut, starring Lee Marvin, Gene Hack- man. Directed by Michael Ritchie. Music by Lalo Schifrin. At the Orpheum. Nick Devlin (Marvin) is sent by a Chicago beef baron to collect a half-million bucks owed by Kansas City upstart meat-packer Marion (Gene Hackman) of MaryAnn Meats. Marion runs a business that sells live woman-flesh and dope along with the packaged beef. He's also not above butchering the opposition, and one Chicago tough winds up as a rather short string of wieners. The archetypal unscrupulous, money-grubbing businessman, Marion draws no distinction between two and four-legged critters: "Cow flesh, woman flesh; it's all the same to me." I was hoping they would go more deeply into the woman-as-object theme which is so obviously embodied in the rearing and selling (from cattle pens yet) of young girls. We see the fat-cats ogling the "stock" in Marion's barns, and at the fair the parallels are clearly set between the pigs and the girls displaying them. Marion is the icontrified male chauvinist who is ironically driven to destruction by his villainous wife Clara belle (Angel Tompkins) who makes material demands so high they are designed to leave her a wealthy widow. Conversely, Nick is a city-slicker but treats women with humanity and respect. But it's not a movie about women's lib and there are other issues at hand. Marion and Nick are the key figures in the urban-rural reversal that is one of the most striking themes. The ordinarily idyllic country becomes a hotbed of vice and violence; while the city is peaceful and civilized and its role as the much-maligned breeding ground of all of America's ills is seriously questioned. Nick is the genteel thug and almost becomes a crusading knight. He is tough as hell but is kind, gentle, refined, and a man of grace and polish almost as much as Henry Higgins. He drinks fine wine and begins dinrier with Vichyssoise. Even his henchmen are sensitive and considerate. Lee Marvin is as sneeringly tough as usual and Hackman oozes corruption and lust. Both are a joy to watch. One of the grooviest, most metaphorically original scenes was one in which a giant combine literally eats a Cadillac limousine and the bystanders watch aghast as this confrontation of the farmlands and Detroit ends in an excretion from the back of the combine of a bale half hay and half hubcaps. The Calgary countryside, where much of the film was shot, had never seen anything like it before. I worked for director Ritchie in Switzerland when he and Robert Hackman were making Downhill Racer. At that time I asked one of his staff what they thought of him as a director. "That idiot," she said. "He's not fit to be directing TV < commercials." Her judgment at that time was pretty accurate, and just about everybody agreed.. But Ritchie has come a long way and in Prime Cut he even betters the individuality of style that brought rave reviews for his film released this September, The Candidate. His next film will truly be worth watching for. Be warned, it's not a milestone in cinematic history. But if you want your thinking stirred up a > little and/or want some raw-spirited excitement, see it. —Clive Bird Friday, October 13, 1972 THE UBYSSEY Page Friday. 3 t. Les Walker, hard-rock miner and labor unionist. during interview with oral history project. People histor comes to "We're not history. History is only important people and important things." That's what one man said when his wife was approached by the Oral History Project, an LIP group working out of the main library on campus, to record her memories of life in B.C. But it's people like this woman, who worked for many years in the logging camps of the interior, that project co-ordinator Bill Langlois says his group wants to talk to. The usual approach to history is to see it from the viewpoint of the politicians and bureaucrats, the corporation presidents and the big- time entrepreneurs — the people who had all the power. Langlois and his group are concerned instead about how ordinary people — laborers, factory workers, housewives, independent farmers — responded to the history that was happening around them in B.C. from about 1890 on. Since February the project workers have talked with more than 100 people. The tapes and written transcripts are on the sixth floor of the library, available to anyone. People listening to the tapes can also look at photographs and sketches made while the interviews were in progress. All the people interviewed now live in B.C. but many also talk about their experiences in other parts of Canada as well as the U.S. Although they were often shy nervous about speaking, very 1 refused to participate in project. As staff photographer F Weyler says, "most of the pec we talk to are workers who hi never been asked their opinior their whole lives. Not only are tl flattered that we think th memories are important, most these men and women really i that they have something to about the great events of histon the Boer War, First World \\ Great Depression, labor strug^ — that they lived through". The project has seemed to tak special interest in labor history . there are many recorded c versations with workers and et union organizers. A hard-r miner, a washing-woman, railwayman, a ship's carper talk about wages and work conditions; a Swede recalls lift an immigrant laborer; a fis* man describes a Japanese la union and others detail the e; organization of the CCF ; Communist parties. Fortunately a lot of early I and Prairie pioneers are still li\ and many of them are contribul to the oral history library. Th are tapes about farming in I and Saskatchewan, the settlerr of interior towns, the history ( commune at Sointula (off north Vancouver Island) ; reminiscences of life in Vancou Wartime internment Ellen Enomoto, 50, whose grandparents were pioneer members oj Vancouver's Japanese community, talks to a project interviewer about the internment of Japanese in the B.C. interior during the second worla war. It's over 30 years ago, isn't it? That's a long time, but eh ... we knew that something was going to happen.. . but we didn't really think we'd be . . . have to be evacuated like that. . . that was a terrible thing for us. Because we so . . . we had to start life over again . . . and for people like my father, you know, middle aged people who had to start life all over again. For one thing they lost everything. . . they could only take a certain amount and they . . . they stored all the stuff from ... of the store . . . with with a friend. . . who ... in Marpole who had a house .. . and they were going to stay for a few months longer than we were, so he stored it in their basement and then had some of it shipped up to Minto where we went.. . but the other stuff that was left in the store ... they eh.. . the custodian sold it all... very cheaply ... he got hardly anything for it. Then they had to live on whatever they had saved and they hadn'1 saved much because naturally you don't expect to be moved like thai and you're not saving money, are you, when you have a business.., trying to keep the business going ... so my father had to spend all his savings. When the money was nearly gone, when we were down to the last few hundred dollars, they went down to Devine ... I don't know where you'd ... if you know. . . it's near D'Arcy ... on the P.G.E.... wel between Pemberton and D'Arcy. He had a chance to start i cookhouse . . . and a commissary for a lumber company ... so he tool lh.it iImiky and he vmmii down there .uid Ihov bailed to |ust work hki m.id and save inone\ . imining .i cookhouse is not an easy business. Page Friday, 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 13, 1972 *■■ *$?**».'ri ■*•».. ■■■'. s r JBC id Victoria at the turn of the intury. As part of this cultural immunities series the group is so experimenting with tapes on perception of the natural en- ironment" with long-time tsidents of places such as Pernor ton. The ethnic groups who have )tne to B.C. are also well ^presented. The French set- ement of Maillardville and apanese community life in eveston and Vancouver are both intensively documented, oukhobors, Swedes, East Indians id Jews also talk about living and orking in B.C. As long as it can find funding the ral History Project will keep iding to its collection. Right now le staffers are beginning a series ' interviews on the early women's tovement in B.C. and they have ts of other plans. You can find iem on the sixth floor of the main orary for the next couple of weeks id then they're moving to the isement of Brock Hall. If you're terested in Canadian hostory or ist want to know what it was like ' homestead on the prairies or *ospect in B.C., the Oral History arary is worth visiting. - Anne Petrie UBC graduate Mildred Fahrni, 22, talks to Chrystall Dick about her life as a student and the early days of the CCF. DICK: What were your days at UBC like? FAHRNI: Well mine started fairly early in the morning because living out in the middle of Burnaby and having to collect. . . having to come in on a tram ... I had to walk about 15 minutes, or run usually to catch a tram and I felt my life was divided into 20 minute periods. . . because if I didn't get this one, I got the next one, and sometimes just got one foot on the bottom step and hung on tenaciously till we got to the next station and I was able to worm myself in, and once in a while get a seat. But usually I came in to Broadway, and then took a streetcar across Broadway, Mildred Fahrni, Cheryl Pierson: "There was much more companionship amongst the students.' UBC student life, 7 920-style arriving in time for an eight o'clock or a nine o'clock lecture. At that time, most of the lectures were confined within the daytime period. . . they didn't run on quite as late, and because I was not taking laboratories, 1 was able to leave and get home, and usually in time to get dinner for the family consisting of my father and my brother, and I didn't join too many clubs, which met in the evening because of this. But I belonged to the player's club, and one of the public speaking groups. DICK: You must have been quite politically aware of the growth of socialism in the world. FAHRNI: I knew J.S. Woodsworth, who was the founder of the CCF. I had known him personally on the prairie through my family's connection in the church when he was in the church, and when he moved with his family out to Victoria, 1 can remember the whole family visiting in our home, and our relationship on a friendly basis continued through the years and 1 was fortunate enough in being able to go to the Regina conference which founded the CCF and kept in touch with the... the movement. . . from the beginning, became very involved in it for a time. It was eh. . . more than a political organization to those of us who entered into it under the leadership of J.S. Woodsworth... it was a great cause... eh, in which we were involved for the good of humanity, and the slogan. . . "From Each His Best" and "To Each His Need". Joining a textile union Retired glove factory manager A. F. Mabbett, 72, talks to Cheryl Pierson about his early apprenticeship in Saratoga, N. Y. PIERSON: What would you say is the most difficult... or was the most difficult part in making gloves? MABBETT: Well now ... we were just at the first operation. Now . . . there are 43 different operations all together in glove making. There's a colossal lot of detail I can tell you ... and ... we would be here all day today and all day tomorrow ... if I were to describe the whole thing and go into the forgiting ... for instance ... PIERSON: Forgiting??? MABBETT: Yeah ... the little pieces that's in between the fingers. You look at your glove and you got a little piece in between the fingers... All right. Now those forgits have to be attached... and then afterwards the glove is closed . . . and the forgit is stitched on the other side and the glove is completed... so then ... the the glove has to be trimmed ... has to be trimmed... the fingers.. . each finger's trimmed around . . . trimmed around so it'll leave no ragged edges. PIERSON: Well how did it come about that you were accepted into the union? MABBETT: Well of course there was always men needed... they were at that time ... and if you showed that you had learned your trade, well you were accepted into the union. PIERSON: They made you take a test of some kind? MABBETT: No, no test at all. You soon get a test the very first day you're at work.. . that's your test. .. they very soon know whether you know your business or not. PIERSON: Did you have any kind of papers to show that you'd put in such-and-such a time as an apprentice glove cutter? MABBETT: No . . . none at all. . . no. Because see your . . . your papers is what you can do. There's your table, you're allocated three yards and a half of table with a drawer in it, and you have your own tools, your own shears, your own cutting knives and they give you a couple of pieces of cloth and show you what they want.. . now this is the glove we want cut. . . glove like that, and now let's see what you can do. So you . . . they soon find out. . . because if you didn't know .. . you couldn't move. PIERSON: And how was the union set up at this time? Back in the 1900's. MABBETT: Well I can't go into too much detail as how the union was set up. It was there ... and well-organized and secretary and treasurer and president... and it was a going concern and still a going concern. PIERSON: Was it all across the States at that time? MABBETT: Yes. Yes. Well I daresay there would be some factories that weren't unionized but the most of them were. PIERSON: What was the relationship between the union and the management? MABBETT: Was fairly good, I would say . . . fairly good. We did go on strike... we were on strike for 11 months. We were on strike for... ah... we were getting seven cents a dozen for cutting short gloves ... and we went on strike for nine cents... so you can see... today I don't believe anybody cuts a dozen gloves for less than a dollar and a half... well there's quite a stretch between that and nine cents. Gold miner Neils Madsens talked about depression days. ?'&>. itw* '*sif-. ■>" .'%*'•*«! Friday, October 13, 1972 THE UBYSSEY Page Friday, 5 Chess players and guitarist Dusty at Haida coffee house. Coffee, chili and jazz As long as I have been a student here, filling a Sunday evening has been a perplexing problem. I used to do mind-destroying jobs for the library. Some people even resort to studying! This year, however, there is an occurrence called the Haida Coffee House every Sunday from 8 to 12 p.m. in the basement of one of the fraternity houses on Wesbrook. It is like the downtown coffee houses, but on a smaller scale. I walked into a long low-ceilinged room with a scattering of small tables, chairs or old barrels to sit on a floor two inches in wood shavings. Soft candle-light and live musicians afford a warm congenial atmosphere for either conversing or getting into the music. I sat on an old wooden crate by the wall. In one corner a round low table was attended by a mustachioed gentleman who was tipping his chair back and amusing a small group of intent listeners. At another table two girls sat moving gently in time with the music. Several chess games were in progress; one, in front of me, exuded mental effort as the players hunched over the configuration, oblivious to the fascinating patterns formed by the candle-light shadows of the chess pieces. The guitarist played and sang amidst a clutter of other musical equipment. His eyes said he played to himself, but the music filled the room. After this song he just turned, went to the piano and played free-form music. Others began to join in: a guitar took the lead and passed it on; the clear tones of a silver flute floated in rom one side, a bass guitar drifted in, lurking in the background. Communication was established and soon up to seven people were jamming. I was amazed to hear that it was the first time they'd ever played together. A coffee maker stood unattended near the door, and I helped myself. Later someone produced a huge dish of steaming chili which we guzzled ravenously to the strains of jazz piano played by a new arrival. I went home at peace in mind and stomach. Norm Allyn, the organizer of the affair, tells me he has very good musicians coming this Sunday. They are not paid and there is no charge for coming so if you are stuck for something to do at 8 p.m. or so, the address is 2270 Wesbrook, opposite the psychiatric hospital. —Simon Truelove rushant ** CAMERAS * 4538 W.10 224 5858! NEVER UNDERSOLD! 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For Glasses for that smart look in glass** ... look to PlesciibtioH Optical Student Discount Given WE HAVE AN OFFICE NEAR YOU Best Cleaners Advertisement .../^rsDTCrMfe'.oRBuTTSf' Page Friday, 6 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 13, 1972 Books A dangerous lie After reading 34-year-old Saskatchewan, poet John Newlove's new collection, Lies, and waiting long enough to see what drops away and what sticks with me, I find two striking long poems: Company and Eleventh Elegy. Lies, John Newlove [McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972]. Company is the strongest poem of the book. It is Newlove's voice and message. Eleventh Elegy is a translation or version of a work by Rumanian poet Nichita Stanescu, and stands as a recognition of other possibilies (of being) than the bleak world Newlove characterically inhabits. It's unfair to judge a book by a single poem, I suppose, but I'm sticking to a strong intuition (perhaps that's the only sensible way to read poety). What comes through in Newlove's writing is personal pain, loneliness, certainly a developed sense of disgust and even despair. "There is a rancidness, a smell of having given up, /of having been given up on," Newlove writes in Company, whose alienated subject is simply described as: "it is a man". This does not mean that one turns away from such a book. The purpose of poetry isn't light entertainment, if the poet goes to the bottom and returns with the stuff of sorrow, then that's what he finds. That's the reality encountered. It's more complicated, however. If Newlove encounters the loneliness of sexuality unfulfilled ("It sits in the public library/coveting the women it fears") and the grotesqueness of human relations ("company enjoys being disgusted by it;/ it enjoys disgusting company"), the human condition is further aggravated by the despair that we cannot even tell the truth about it in the context of dying. The title metaphor of Newlove's collection is 'the lie'. In these lies we discover some cold truths. That's part of the word-play. But under the puns and irony, Newlove has a genuine distrust of what we do with language, how we use it. His disgust with our lying (even to ourselves) no doubt accounts for the simple style of, the poems. They are without conceit. Insofar as one of the traditional functions of poety is to reveal the truth (in a way no other writing can), Newlove denies this and conveys to us his own horror in being forced to deny it. Technically, there is nothing particularly noteworthy in Lies. As in his previous work — . most recently Black Night Window (1968) and The Cave (1970) — the poems (or sections of poems) are brief, See pf 8 FREE FILM ON ISRAEL DRY BONES A HISTORICAL - CONTEMPORARY - PROPHETIC PORTRAIT Discussion — Refreshments THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 7:30 P.M., LUTHERAN CAMPUS CENTRE Information - 733-7067 Sponsored by Charismatic Campus Ministry York University in Toronto FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS John Sayweil (Arts), Joseph Green (Fine Arts), and Jean-Marc Choukroun (Environmental Studies) will be in Vancouver to discuss graduate and undergraduate programs with interested students. Call York University, Georgia Hotel, at 682-5566 from October 19-21 for an appointment or drop in on October 20 from nine in the morning to midnight or October 21 from nine to five. PROGRAMS UNDERGRADUATE Arts (the traditional disciplines as well as Canadian Studies, Urban Studies, Third World Studies, and Physical Education.) 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