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Turn to Page Two for a story on the massive\ndoors which have been carved for the main entrance to the\nmuseum. Living art\nwill grace\nmuseum entry\n'Ksan carver inspects one of 10-foot red cedar\ndoors that will be mounted at the entrance of\nUBC's new Museum of Anthropology when it\nopens this spring. Picture by Tim Morris.\n'ay \"museum\" and the mind brings forth images of\nrelics of times past, inch-thick dust, reminders of the\nno-longer-living. Yet the Museum of Anthropology,\nscheduled to open at the University of British Columbia in\nlate May, has vowed not to be just a storage place for\nhistorical treasures of Canada's Pacific coast Indians. It\nintends to be a living museum.\nThat is why the entrance to the museum will be a\ncontemporary piece of art, a set of doors crafted by the\nIndian carvers of 'Ksan, B.C.\n\"You will enter the museum through living art, and as\nyou go down the ramp into the Great Hall, you go back\ninto the past, the roots of the living art,\" explains Marjorie\nHalpin, a curator of ethnology at the museum.\nDr. Halpin was part of the committee that commissioned\nthe 'Ksan carvers to design the huge red cedar doors which\ndepict the origin of the three main tribes of the Upper\nSkeena River.\nPlanning for the doors began about a year and a half ago\nand a scale model of the doors and their accompanying side\npanels was submitted by carvers Vernon Stephens, Walter\nHarris, Earl Muldoe and Art Sterrit in September, 1974.\nThe wood for the project, quality western cedar, was\ndonated by Rayonier Canada Ltd., also the major financial\ncontributor to the doors.\nThe wood was cured for over two months to make it\neasier to carve and reduce the amount of shrinkage and\nthen shipped to the 'Ksan village, near Hazelton. At 'Ksan,\nwhich is an Indian cultural centre established about nine\nyears ago to renew the traditional ways of wood carving\nand other arts of the northwest coast Indians, the four\ncarvers began the work ol creating the 10-foot-high doors\nand panels which would take them four months to\ncomplete.\nThe six-inch-thick doors are carved on both sides and tell\nthe story of Skawah, an ancient myth of the Gitskan\npeople. The myth recounts how a young maiden married\nthe man spirit from the sun after the animals of the forest\nfailed to gain her hand. Skawah had six children whom the\nsun divided into three tribes. These three tribes became the\nfrog, wolf and fireweed tribes of the Upper Skeena River.\nThe doors are the most expensive and the most\ntime-consuming project the carvers have undertaken so far.\nHowever, in 1972, the 'Ksan craftsmen carved a larger\nproject, the 'Ksan Mural measuring 120 feet long by 8 feet\nhigh, which is located on the mezzanine floor of the Royal\nBank of Canada's main branch in Vancouver.\nmuseum like UBC's Museum of Anthropology can\nserve as a study centre for the native craftsmen wishing to\nrelearn the arts of their people, says Dr. Halpin. \"New\ncarvers can study the old pieces displayed and relearn the\nrules of the art.\" She feels the contemporary doors to the\nmuseum are a \"strong symbolic statement\" of the\nmuseum's purpose.\nThe museum will house UBC's 10,000-piece collection\nof B.C. coastal art, the Koerner Masterwork Collection of\ntribal art, other collections totalling about 10,000 artifacts\nfrom oriental, classical and tribal worlds, and more than\n90,000 artifacts from the prehistoric period of B.C. Indian\nhistory, many of which have never been on display before.\nThe carved doors are completed and are being stored at\n'Ksan until the museum is ready to install them in early\nMay. At that time, the museum hopes to bring the carvers\nto Vancouver for an official ceremony to thank them and\nthose who made the project possible, Rayonier Canada, the\nUBC graduating class of 1974 and the National Museums of\nCanada.\n2\/UBC Reports\/April 7, 1976 Tides won't wash out this model\nGlenn McDonnell knew when he\nwas six years old that engineering was\nhis bag. That's when he was building\nfairly elaborate road systems on the\nlow-tide sandbars of Spanish Banks.\nThe tides washed out his roads, but\nnot his convictions, and when Mr.\nMcDonnell graduates from Civil\nEngineering in May he'll be looking for\na job with a Vancouver consulting firm\nEngineer Glenn McDonnell's harbor model fascinated visitors at UBC's\nrecent Open House. Vancouver Sun picture.\nthat specializes in pollution and water\nresources.\nBehind him, in the Civil\nEngineering hydraulics lab, he'll leave\na model that the tides didn't wash out;\na model, in fact, in which the tides\nplay an integral part.\nMr. McDonnell's model of\nVancouver Harbor and English Bay,\ncomplete with water, wasn't the most\nexotic display at UBC's recent Open\nHouse, but it attracted a steady stream\nof visitors to Room 203 of the Civil\nEngineering Building. It has since been\nshifted to the lab, where it will be used\nfor instructional purposes.\nMr. McDonnell built it originally\nfor the Engineer's Ball. It was a\nnon-credit project to which he gave up\n120 hours of time, $103 in cash and\nconsiderable ingenuity.\nHe based it on nautical charts, so\nthat his scaled-down depths would be\naccurate, and began assembling layer\nafter layer of particle board, with each\nlayer representing a contour interval of\n10 feet. With 400 feet of seams on the\n10-foot model, sealing the model to\nmake it watertight became a tedious\ntask of careful plastering and then\napplying rubberized sundeck paint.\nAn old electric barbecue motor,\nlinked to a wooden piston with a fan\nbelt from an old clothes dryer,\npowered the \"tides\" which McDonnell\nco-ordinated to the scale of the model.\nThat gives the model a \"12-hour\" tide\ncycle every 100 seconds.\nThe model is accurate enough to\npredict the path of an oil slick,\nfaithfully showing the eddies, swirls\nand counter-currents that are set up in\nthe harbor and in English Bay when\nthe tide sweeps in and out through the\ngap of First Narrows.\nA convincing demonstration of its\nreliability came during Open House\nwhen a crowd of visitors heard one of\nthe onlookers explain how his canoe\nhad capsized in English Bay and had\nfinished up a number of hours later in\nthe middle of the harbor.\nMr. McDonnell dropped a wood\nchip into the water at the designated\nspot in the bay, ran his model through\nthe appropriate number of tide cycles\n\u2014 and then lifted the \"canoe\" from\nthe middle of the harbor.\n\"Open House was an interesting\nexperience,\" says Mr. McDonnell, \"but\nI guess that was the highlight.\"\nNext, the real world.\nUBC Reports\/April 7, 1976\/3 campus\npeople\nProf.    Vladimir   Krajina,   of   the\nDepartment of Botany, has been\nhonored provincially and\ninternationally for his contributions to\nhis discipline and for his activities as\nan ecologist and environmentalist.\nHe was recently elected an\nhonorary member of the Association\nof B.C. Professional Foresters. He is\nonly the second person to be so\nhonored by the association in its\n27-year history. The only other\nhonorary forester is Dean Joseph\nGardner, head of UBC's Faculty of\nForestry.\nProf. Krajina has also been elected\nan honorary member of the Hawaiian\nBotanical Society for \"meritorious\nactivity in Hawaiian botany.\"\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\nProf. Harry Cannon, of the Faculty\nof Education, was an invited\nparticipant recently in the eighth\nregional education conference of the\nU.S. government's South Pacific\nCommission at Koror in the West\nCarolines. He discussed the Solomon\nIslands Research Project at the\nconference and at the University of\nGuam, which he visited en route.\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\nBill Reid, the noted B.C. artist who\nhas played a leading role in the revival\nof interest in West Coast Indian art,\nwill receive two honorary degrees this\nyear. He'll be honored by UBC on May\n26 and by Trent University in\nPeterborough, Ont., on June 4. Mr.\nReid, who supervised the carving of\ntotem poles and construction of\nbuildings in UBC's Totem Pole Park,\nwill receive the honorary degree of\nDoctor of Laws on both occasions.\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\nProf. Samuel Rothstein, of UBC's\nSchool of Librarianship, presented a\nbrief at recent hearings by the\nCanadian Library Association on the\nquestion of public lending rights \u2014 the\nright of an author to be paid when his\nbook is lent by a library.\nProf. Rothstein argued that there is\nno proof library lending of books\nhurts authors, and until studies\nestablish the effects of library book\nlending, libraries should not\nacknowledge public lending rights.\nHe advocated that the CLA adopt a\nposition   of   firm   opposition   to   the\ndevelopment   of  any   plan   of  public\nlending right.\n4\/UBC Reports\/April 7, 1976\nPROF. SAM BLACK\nUBC painter\nwins award\nProf. Sam Black, of UBC's\nFaculty of Education, has\nreceived international\nrecognition recently for his work\nas a painter and educator.\nTwo of his paintings are\nincluded in a collection of 30\nCanadian watercolors being\nexhibited in Tokyo, Nagoya and\nHiroshima.\nProf. Black also recently won\nthe Crown Life Purchase Award\nfor a work entitled \"Rusting\nHull,\" shown in the 50th\nexhibition of the Canadian\nSociety of Painters in Watercolor\nin London, Ont.\nHe was also re-elected\nrecently by an international vote\nfor a second three-year term as a\nvice-president of the\nInternational Society for\nEducation through Art.\nUBC's Centre for Continuing\nEducation has published China\nSketchbook, a verbal-visual\naccount of a visit he made last\nyear to the People's Republic of\nChina. The book, lavishly\nillustrated with black-and-white\nsketches, is available from the\ncentre for $5.\nDr.   Clifford   D.   Pennock,   of   the\nFaculty of Education, has been\nappointed to the educational language\nreview panel established by the\nprovincial   Department of  Education.\nmusical notes\nMaking music or talking about it\nare equally important for various\nmembers of UBC's Department of\nMusic.\nDr. Robert Silverman, one of\nCanada's most distinguished concert\npianists, will be soloist with the\nNational Arts Centre Orchestra in\nOttawa in 1976-77. The orchestra will\nalso perform in four western Canadian\ncities, including Vancouver and\nVictoria.\nLast year, Mr. Silverman was the\nsoloist with the Calgary Festival\nOrchestra for two concerts marking\nthe centennial of the City of Calgary.\nOrion Records have just released\nMr. Silverman's fourth album made up\nof piano compositions by Liszt. His\nearlier records, which received high\ncritical acclaim in North America, have\nrecently been released in England.\nJames Fankhauser, associate\nprofessor of music, was the tenor\nsoloist with the American Symphony\nOrchestra in a performance of Carl\nOrff's Carmina Burana in Carnegie Hall\nin New York in February. He has\nperformed the same work with the\nAtlantic, Toronto and Vancouver\nSymphony Orchestras.\nDr. Dimitri Conomos, assistant\nprofessor of music, has been invited to\ndeliver the principal paper in\nmusicology at the 15th International\nCongress of Byzantine Studies in\nAthens. Last year, Dr. Conomos, an\nexpert in eastern European medieval\nmusic, represented Canada at the\nInternational Conference on Balkan\nStudies in Varna, Bulgaria, where he\npresented a paper on Slavonic church\nmusic.\nA half-hour videotaped\nperformance of Chinese classical\ninstrumental music, performed by Dr.\nLiang Ming-Yueh, associate professor\nof music at UBC, was shown on the\nFederal Broadcasting System in West\nGermany in February.\nAn invitation to videotape the\nrecital resulted from Dr. Liang's visit\nlast summer to France and Germany,\nwhere he performed traditional\nChinese music at the second Festival\nof Traditional Arts in Rennes, France,\nand carried out research and lectured\nin comparative musicology at the\nMuseum of Ethnography and at the\nFree University of Berlin.\nDr. Liang, who is also a composer,\nis working on a book on Chinese music\ncommissioned by the International\nInstitute of Comparative Music Studies\nand Documentation in Berlin, and is\nworking with Dr. Doreen Binnington,\nof UBC's Faculty of Education, on a\nbook on Eskimo music. Prof.    Charlotte   David,   of   the\nFaculty of Education, has been\nhonored by the Variety Club for her\nrole in the establishment of the B.C.\nMental Retardation Institute, which\nwill be housed in a building now\nnearing completion in the Health\nSciences Centre on the UBC campus.\nShe was presented with the Heart\nAward at the club's annual dinner in\nlate March. The BCMRI will serve as a\ncentre for training students in a\nnumber of disciplines to work with the\nmentally retarded.\nFunds for the centre were raised\nthrough the Variety Club's annual\ntelethon and by the Vancouver Sun.\nProf. Edwin Diewert, of UBC's\nDepartment of Economics, has been\nelected a fellow of the Econometric\nSociety, an international organization\nfor the advancement of economic\ntheory and its relation to statistics and\nmathematics.\nFellows are economists of\ninternational reputation who have\nmade important contributions to\neconomic theory, statistics and\nmathematical economics. It is thought\nthat Prof. Diewert is only the third\nCanadian economist to have been\nelected.\nMr. George Morfitt, a graduate who\nserves on UBC's 15-member Board of\nGovernors, has been elected to a\ntwo-year term as president of the\nCanadian Squash Racquets\nAssociation. It marks the first time\nthat the presidency has been conferred\non anyone outside Ontario and\nQuebec.\nMr. Morfitt is a two-time Pacific\nCoast squash champion and is\ncurrently ranked tenth in Canada. He\nis B.C. veterans tennis doubles\nchampion and B.C. racquetball\nchampion.\nDr. James Miller, head of the\nDepartment of Medical Genetics in the\nFaculty of Medicine, has spoken out\non the federal freeze on the funding of\nscientific research. In his capacity as\npresident of the Canadian College of\nMedical Genetics, he said the freeze\ncould disrupt Canadian science by\ndiscouraging bright young researchers\nwho are unable to obtain funds to\nstart research programs.\nCancellation of the Medical\nResearch Council's June grant\ncompetition will mean that newly\nappointed university scientists will\nhave to wait until mid-winter for\nfunding, thus setting back new\nresearch by six months or more, he\nsaid.\nMajor award\nfor chemist\nProf.    Laurance   D.   Hall,   of\nUBC's chemistry department,\nhas received a major award from\nthe Chemical Society of\nLondon, England, for\noutstanding contributions to the\nadvancement of chemical\nscience.\nHe has been named the\nwinner of the Corday-Morgan\nMedal and Prize, one of the\nthree awards the society makes\nannually to scientists under the\nage of 36.\nProf. Hall was unable to\nattend the annual congress of\nthe Chemical Society of Great\nBritain in Glasgow, where the\naward was to have been\npresented, because of a previous\ncommitment to give an invited\npaper at meetings of the\nAmerican Chemical Society in\nNew York. A special meeting of\nthe Chemical Society of London\nis planned for later this year to\npresent the award to Prof. Hall.\nHe received the award for\nwork in the field of organic\nchemistry carried out in recent\nyears. He has made unique\ncontributions to synthesizing\nnovel carbohydrate derivatives\nand in developing magnetic\nresonance spectroscopy as a tool\nfor studying organic compounds\nin solution.\nMore recently. Prof. Hall has\nbeen   adapting   his earlier work\nPROF. LAURANCE HALL\nfor biological studies in the field\nof immunological reactions in\nhuman blood groups.\nThis is not the first award\nProf. Hall has received for his\nresearch. Last year he was the\nrecipient of the Merck, Sharpe &\nDohme Lecture Award and in\n1974 was the winner of both the\nCarbohydrate Chemistry Award\nof the British Chemical Society\nand the $1,000 Jacob Biely\nFaculty Research Prize awarded\nannually for distinguished\nresearch by a UBC faculty\nmember.\nIn 1971 Prof. Hall was the\nrecipient of a prestigious Sloan\nFoundation fellowship.\nA study of Lower Mainland ferry\nservices operated by the B.C.\ngovernment has been carried out by\nDr. C. Loren Doll, of UBC's Faculty of\nCommerce and Business\nAdministration.\nThe study was sponsored by the\nprovincial government's environmental\nand land use secretariat and the B.C.\nhighways department with funds made\navailable through UBC's Centre for\nTransportation Studies.\nDr. Juhn Wada, of the Division of\nNeurological Sciences in the\nDepartment of Psychiatry, has been\nchosen as the 1976 Lennox Award\nlecturer at the 27th annual meeting of\nthe Western Institute of Epilepsy in\nDallas, Tex., in March.\nDr. Wada, who is also director of\nthe   EEG   department  of   the   Health\nSciences Centre Hospital at UBC, will\nspeak on \"Epilepsy, What's New?\"\nIn early February, Dr. Wada was an\ninvited participant in the International\nNeuropsychology Symposium in\nToronto, where he spoke on \"Sex\nDifferences in Human Brain\nAsymmetry.\"\n\u2022 \u2022 *\nProf. Allan Evans, of UBC's classics\ndepartment, has been elected\nvice-president of the American Society\nof Papyrologists. Since 1971 Prof.\nEvans has served as review editor for\nthe society's bulletin.\nDr. Roy L. Taylor, director of\nUBC's Botanical Garden, was elected\nto the council of the International\nAssociation of Botanical Gardens for\nthe period 1975-81 at recent meetings\nin Moscow.\nUBC Reports\/April 7, 1976\/5 Group on North planned\nFourteen Canadian universities\nhave agreed to form a new\norganization that aims to play a\nsignificant role in meeting Canada's\nnorthern scientific needs and in the\nlong-term development of the\nNorth.\nDr. John K. Stager, chairman of\nthe University of B.C.'s Committee\non Arctic and Alpine Research, has\nbeen named to a five-member\nworking group that has been\nformed to discuss the role of the\nproposed organization and to make\nrecommendations for its\nestablishment.\nDr. Stager, who is also associate\ndean of UBC's Faculty of Arts, said\nthe planned organization will be\nsomething new for Canada and will\nbe designed to serve the increasing\nscientific needs of the North.\nHe said it would be bilingual and\nwould meet the needs of member\nuniversities for collaboration in\ncarrying out northern research and\ntraining and provide liaison with\ngovernments, industry and northern\nresidents.\nThe decision to form the new\norganization   was   made   in   late\nFebruary when representatives of\nthe 14 Canadian universities met at\nRankin Inlet in the Northwest\nTerritories.\nDr. Stager said the demand by\ngovernments, private industry and\nnative organizations for scientific\ninformation, skills and advice on\nnorthern matters is growing daily.\n\"Canada needs to utilize the\nscientific resources within its\nuniversities more effectively and\nthe new organization is intended to\nfacilitate this,\" he said.\nThe working group's report will\nbe considered in December when\nrepresentatives of Canadian\nuniversities active in northern\nresearch meet at the University of\nAlberta's Boreal Institute at Fort\nMcMurray, Alberta.\nProf. Trevor Lloyd of McGill\nUniversity is chairing the working\ngroup. Other members of the\nworking group, in addition to Dr.\nStager, are Dean Robert Bergeron,\nUniversity of Quebec at\nChicoutimi; Prof. Robert Bone of\nthe University of Saskatchewan;\nand Prof. Jack Hildes of the\nUniversity of Manitoba.\nmiscellany\nWomen who are tired of being\ncalled \"just a housewife\" get a chance\nto air their views at a workshop\nentitled \"Occupation: Housewife\" this\nweekend.\nThe workshop, to be held Saturday,\nApril 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.\nat Simon Fraser University, is\nco-sponsored by UBC's Centre for\nContinuing Education and features\njournalist June Callwood as the\nkeynote speaker.\nFor more information, call\n683-2531.\nA joint Soviet-Canadian program in\nRussian studies will be offered during\nthe next academic year by Dalhousie\nUniversity and the Pushkin Institute in\nMoscow.\nThe course will be open to students\nfrom any Canadian university with the\nequivalent of two university courses in\nRussian language with a \"B\" grade or\nbetter. Up to 10 students will be able\nto participate.\nStudents will spend their first term\nfrom September to December at a\nCanadian institution and the second\nterm from January to April at the\nPushkin Institute.\nFor enquiries and applications,\ncontact    Prof.    Norman    Pereira,\n6\/UBC Reports\/April 7, 1976\nDepartment of History, Dalhousie\nUniversity, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H\n3J5.\nJuly 1 is the deadline for\nnominations for the 1976-77\nSherwood Lett Memorial Scholarship,\na $1,500 award open to men and\nwomen undergraduates at UBC. A\nbrochure giving details of the award\nand method of nomination is available\nfrom UBC's Awards Office, Room 50,\nGeneral Services Administration\nBuilding, local 5111.\nA team of three UBC students has\nreceived honorable mention in the\n1975 William Lowell Putnam\nMathematical Competition, the most\nprestigious competition open to\nundergraduates in mathematics in\nNorth America.\nPaul A. Hildebrand, Allan D.\nJepson and Arnold Santanove were\namong 2,203 students from 355\ncolleges and universities in the United\nStates and Canada who participated in\nthe competition.\nOnly one other Canadian university\nfigured in the team-competition\nresults. The University of Waterloo\nteam was also awarded an honorable\nmention.\nServices get\nnew homes\nMany service departments around\nthe campus will be changing their\nlocation in the next few weeks now\nthat the addition to the General\nServices Administration Building and\nrenovations to Mary Bollert Hall are\ncompleted.\nAmong the first to move are\nPersonnel, Purchasing and Accounts\nPayable, now housed in the old\nadministration building. Personnel and\nPurchasing are taking new quarters in\nMary Bollert Hall, formerly a women's\nresidence, at the junction of Cecil\nGreen Park Road and Northwest\nMarine Drive. Accounts Payable is\nmoving to the new addition to the\nGeneral Services Administration\nBuilding.\nAll three moves will take place\nApril 7, 8 and 9 with some disruption\nof service from these departments\nduring this period. Telephone numbers\nfor the departments will remain the\nsame.\nLast week, the Awards Office\nmoved to Room 50 of the addition to\nthe General Services Administration\nBuilding from its former location in\nthe Buchanan Building. Its new\ntelephone number is 228-5111.\nIf you yearn\nto learn...\nIf you're yearning for more\nlearning, why not consider enrolling\nfor a course or two during UBC's 1976\nIntersession or Summer Session?\nA single calendar listing all courses\navailable in the two upcoming sessions\nis now available from the registrar's\noffice in the General Services\nAdministration Building, or by calling\n228-2844.\nThe Centre for Continuing\nEducation has also published a spring\nprogram supplement listing their\nofferings \u2014 from raft trips to eastern\ndance \u2014 for April, May and June.\nCopies can be had by calling the\ncentre, 228-2181.\nIntersession, which runs from May\n3 to July 28, is expected to enrol some\n2,000 students for 99 late afternoon\nand evening courses.\nSummer Session from July 5 to\nAug. 13 offers 289 on-campus and 18\noff-campus courses. A total of 51\ncourses are offered during both\nsessions.\nUBC's Intersession has attracted\ngrowing numbers of part-time students\nsince it was established nearly 10 years\nago. Registration in 1975 totalled\n1,762. Little left\nof old AMS\nconstitution\nBy Jake van der Kamp\nThe Alma Mater Society now has a\nnew constitution.\nThe new structure was approved by\nstudents in a referendum Nov. 21.\nSeventy-three per cent voted in favor.\nBut don't worry. It's still called the\nAlma Mater Society. An attempt to\ngive it a new name, the UBC Student\nUnion, was defeated after student\ncouncil members insisted on retaining\nsome tradition.\nLittle else, however, remains of a\nconstitution that served the society\nsince the 1920s and has guided many\nof the University's graduates through\ntheir terms as student politicians.\nThe students' council is gone,\nreplaced with two bodies, a smaller\none to handle the day-to-day affairs of\nthe society, and a larger one to make\nthose \"political demands\" of the\nUniversity that have had so many\npeople worried about the campus\nbecoming a hotbed of revolution.\nGeneral elections to the executive\nare gone. Representatives to the AMS\nare now the student members of the\nBoard of Governors and the Senate\nand those students who are voted to\noffice by their undergraduate societies.\nThey, in turn, appoint an executive\nand the members of the smaller\nhousekeeping group.\nAnd finally, the student president,\nthat figure of supposed importance\nand popularity, is no longer the Big\nMan On Campus he previously was.\nNot only does he work without the\nmancjate of a general election but he\nhas been relegated to chairing\nmeetings, preparing agendas and giving\nadvice.\nA drastic change it certainly is. But\nwho would say that the University is\nnot now drastically different from\nwhat it was about 50 years ago when\nthe old constitution was written?\nAnd the same things that promoted\na new Universities Act and the\nappointment of three new\nvice-presidents for UBC prompted the\nchanges in the student society.\nFor one thing the sheer size of the\nUniversity   has   made   it   difficult   for\nJake van der Kamp, the author of the\narticle on this page, was president of\nthe Alma Mater Society in 1975-76\nand as such was the last AMS president\nwho came to office in a University-\nwide election.\njF\u00bb\u00ab5s$fc\nAlma Mater Society president for\n1976-77 is Dave van Blarcom, who was\nelected by the new policy-making\nStudents' Representative Assembly.\nstudents to retain a sense of cohesion\namong themselves. After all, what is so\nunique about being a UBC student\nwhen the status is shared with over\n20,000 others?\nAnd how can a student society,\nwith executive members who must\npass courses just as any other student\nand who patch their work together\nwith string and glue, remain responsive\nto the wishes of so many students?\nIn addressing themselves to those\nquestions members of the last AMS\nexecutive decided that further\ncentralization was futile and the only\nway out was to encourage\nundergraduate societies to become\nmore active.\nThus, the general elections to the\nexecutive were abolished. The framers\nof the new constitution felt that an\nAMS executive with a popular\nmandate was far too dominant over\nundergraduate societies. If the\nundergrads were to be encouraged\nthey had to be made the final arbiters\nof what goes on in the AMS.\nThis in turn, it was hoped, would\nlead students to identify with their\nundergraduate societies and so restore\nsome of the lost cohesion.\nAt the same time, some\naccommodation had to be made for\nstudent senators and students on the\nBoard of Governors. There was none\nin the old constitution because those\npositions did not exist at the time it\nwas framed. Recently there has been\nfriction between student councillors\nand student senators because their\nwork was not concerted.\nAlso, over the years the AMS's\nholdings have grown larger and larger\nso that now a great deal of time must\nbe devoted to administration alone.\nSome students find their calling in\nsuch administration but many others\nprefer to see the society involved in\nreform of the University and in\ndiscussion of political and\nphilosophical questions. These people\nfind themselves frustrated by their\nextensive housekeeping duties.\nThe splitting up of the students'\ncouncil into two councils is an attempt\nto resolve this. The smaller body, the\nStudent Administrative Commission,\nconsists of 10 members whose duties\nare to ensure the sound management\nof AMS funds, the Student Union\nBuilding, the affiliated clubs, and all\nthe other facets of the AMS\nbureaucracy.\nThey are appointed by the Student\nRepresentative Assembly, the larger\nbody made up of student senators,\nBoard members and undergraduate\nsociety members.\nThe SRA comprises about 50\nmembers, depending on how many\npositions are filled and the growth of\nthe University.\nIts role is to provide a forum for\ndiscussion of academic questions, to\nwork for such things as better housing\nand day care facilities and to ensure a\nunified AMS voice in issues facing the\nUniversity.\nNumerous smaller changes have also\nbeen made, but the ones outlined here\nform the basis of the new constitution.\nWhether it all works only time will\ntell. Perhaps the undergraduate\nsocieties will still remain dormant, the\nnew assembly will want to discuss only\nthe price of beer and the new\ncommission will become a clique.\nBut the new officers of the AMS\nare well aware of these possibilities\nand are working to make sure the new\nconstitution is a success.\nWith hard work and support from\nthe students they hope to guarantee a\nresponsive student society and one\nthat is of benefit to the entire\nUniversity.\nUBC\nPublished on Wednesdays and distributed\nfree by the Department\nof Information Services\nREPORTS of the University of Brit\nish Columbia, 2075 Wesbrook Place,\nVancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5. J.A. Banham,\neditor. Judith Walker, staff writer. Production assistants, Louise Hoskin and\nAnne Shorter.\nUBC Reports\/April 7, 1976\/7 THIS WEEK AND NEXT\nNotices must reach Information Services, Main Mall North Admin, Bldg., by mail, by 5 p.m. Thursday of week preceding publication of notice.\nTHURSDAY, APRIL 8\n9:00a.m. PSYCHIATRY CONFERENCE. Panel discussion on\nNot for Their Hurt or Any Wrong\u2014 Hippocrates and the\nHealth Sciences Approach. Lecture theatre, Health Sciences Centre Hospital.\n2:00p.m. DISTINGUISHED LECTURER. Prof. Joan Robinson,\nprofessor emerita of economics. University of Cambridge, will speak at a student seminar. Penthouse,\nBuchanan Building.\n9:30p.m. BEYOND THE MEMORY OF MAN. Michael Batts,\nGerman, UBC, on Literature in German. Channel 10,\nVancouver Cablevision.\n10:00p.m. UBC PUBLIC AFFAIRS. Dr. Ann McAfee, housing\nplanner. City of Vancouver, on Human Settlements:\nHousing \u2014 Whose Responsibility? with host Gerald\nSavory, Centre for Continuing Education. Channel 10,\nVancouver Cablevision.\nFRIDAY, APRIL9\n9:00a.m. PAEDIATRICS GRAND ROUND. Dr. T. Hall, B.C.\nCancer Institute, on The Pharmacology of Cancer\nDrugs. Lecture Room B, Heather Pavilion, Vancouver\nGeneral Hospital.\n9:30 a.m. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY GRAPHICS FAIR. This show\ning of films continues until 4:30 p.m. Biomedical Communications Studio and Room B-8, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre.\n1:30p.m. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS LECTURE. Dr.\nGunter Schramm, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on Water Resource Development and Irrigation Water Charges in Mexico. Room\n221, Buchanan Building.\n7:30p.m. SIGMA XI ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER. Peter\nSuedfeld, past president, Sigma Xi, Psychology, UBC,\non Beneficial Effects of Sensory Deprivation on Human\nBeings Faculty Club. Call A.H. Cayford, 3045 or 2666.\nSATURDAY, APRIL 10\n9:00a.m. SURGICAL GRAND ROUND. Dr. Andre Robert, Experimental Biology, The Upjohn Company, on Prostaglandins in the Treatment of Peptic Ulcer. Lecture\nRoom B, Heather Pavilion, Vancouver General Hospital.\n9:30a.m. SCIENCE AND RELIGION DISCUSSION GROUP\nmeets at the Lutheran Campus Centre. For information,\ncall 224-3722.\nSUNDAY, APRIL 11\n12 noon CREATIVE ARTS OPEN HOUSE. Annual exhibition\nof work done by students in creative arts studio courses\ncontinues until 5 p.m. Conference room, Centre for\nContinuing Education, Chancellor Blvd. at Newton\nCres.\nMONDAY, APRIL 12\n12:30p.m. CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINAR. Bill\nOvalle, Anatomy, UBC, on The Use of Stereology in\nUltrastructure Studies of Muscle. Library, Block B,\nMedical Sciences Building.\nDISTINGUISHED LECTURER. Richard Llewelyn-\nDavies, member of the British House of Lords and former dean, School of Environmental Studies, University of\nLondon, on Thought and Action in Architecture and\nPlanning. Lecture Hall 4, Woodward Instructional\nResources Centre.\n2:30p.m. CHEMISTRY SEMINAR. Prof. B.G. Gowenlock,\nChemistry, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, on\nSome Recent Studies in C-Nitrosocompounds. Room\n225, Chemistry Building.\n3:30p.m. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE SEMINAR. Prof. L.\nLasdon, Case Western Reserve University and Stanford\nUniversity, on Stanford Pilot Energy Model. Room 419,\nAngus Building.\n4:30p.m. CANCER CONTROL AGENCY. Prof. Brian, L. Hill-\ncoat, Biochemistry, McMaster University, on Attempts\nto Predict Clinical Tumor Response to 5FU. Cancer\nControl Agency of B.C., 2656 HeatherSt.\n5:00p.m. DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY LECTURE. Dr. R.\nThomas Bergeron, professor of radiology. New York\nUniversity Medical Center, on Film Processing and\nQuality Control. Lecture Room B, Heather Pavilion,\nVancouver General Hospital.\n8:00p.m. DISTINGUISHED LECTURER. Richard Llewelyn-\nDavies on Strategies for Human Settlements. Lecture\nHall 4, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre.\nSEDGEWICK MEMORIAL LECTURE. Northrop Frye,\nUniversity Professor, University of Toronto, speaks on\nCriticism as Creation. Frederic Wood Theatre.\nTUESDAY, APRIL 13\n5:00p.m. DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY LECTURE. Prof.\nThomas Bergeron, professor of radiology, New York\nUniversity Medical Center, on Paranasal Sinuses. Lecture Room B, Heather Pavilion, Vancouver General\nHospital.\nWEDNESDAY, APRIL 14\n8:00 p.m. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY LECTURE. Alan MacMillan on Archaeology of the Nootka (Barclay Sound).\nCentennial Museum. 1100 Chestnut St.\nTHURSDAY, APRIL 15\n9:00a.m. PSYCHIATRY CONFERENCE. Panel discussion on\nTraditional Healing Practices Among North American\nIndians. Lecture theatre. Health Sciences Centre Hospital.\nFocus on China\nThe focus will be on China at a free\npublic lecture to be given tonight at 8\np.m. by Prof. Joan Robinson of\nCambridge University.\nProf. Robinson, professor emerita\nof economics at Cambridge, will be the\nfifth speaker in the Distinguished\nLecturer Series arranged by the\nPresident's Committee for Habitat at\nUBC.\n''Views on China's Human\nSettlements Policies\" is the topic\nchosen by Prof. Robinson, and she will\ndraw upon the personal experience of\nseven trips to China, as well as many\n8\/UBC Reports\/April 7, 1976\nyears of academic research, for her\ntalk. Prof. Robinson is the author of\n\"The Cultural Revolution in China,\"\npublished in 1969.\nShe will speak in Lecture Hall 4 of\nthe Woodward Instructional Resources\nCentre.\nOn Monday (April 12), Richard\nLlewely n-Davies will speak on\n\"Strategies for Human Settlements,\"\nalso in Lecture Hall 4 of the IRC.\nLord Llewelyn-Davies, made a\nmember of the House of Lords in\n1963 for his professional and academic\nwork in planning, is former dean of\nthe School  of Environmental Studies\nat the University of London and has\nbeen closely involved with the\nplanning of a number of resettlement\nprojects in various countries.\nProf. Fritz Fischer, one of Europe's\nleading historians, will give a free\npublic lecture today at 12:30 p.m. in\nRoom 100, Buchanan Building on\n\"Germany's War Aims in the First\nWorld War.\"\nThe work of Prof. Fischer,\nprofessor emeritus at the University of\nHamburg, has generated a far-reaching\ncontroversy and debate on the nature\nof Wilhelmine Germany, before and\nduring the 1914-18 war.","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Periodicals","@language":"en"}],"GeographicLocation":[{"@value":"Vancouver (B.C.)","@language":"en"}],"Identifier":[{"@value":"LE3.B8K U2","@language":"en"},{"@value":"LE3_B8K_U2_1976_04_07","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0118570","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"English","@language":"en"}],"Provider":[{"@value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","@language":"en"}],"Publisher":[{"@value":"Vancouver: University of British Columbia Information Office","@language":"en"}],"Rights":[{"@value":"Images provided for research and reference use only. 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