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E. A. Parnall\nsaid the break would provide\nThursday, Friday and Saturday\noff in all those faculties where\ntime off would not interfere\nwith the program of studies.\nParnall said each faculty\nwould decide whether or not the\nbreak could be granted. \"It is\npossible that certain professional faculties have prior commitments that will not allow them\nto take time off,\" he said.\nWhen students asked for a\nmid-term break they gave as\ntheir reason time to study and\nbreak from the long period of\nclasses and instruction from\nChristmas to Easter, Parnall\nsaid.\n\"The deans supported the argument,\" he added, \"and said\nthey felt the break would be\nvaluable to faculty members as\nwell.\"\nGrant Aids\nResearch on\nCell Growth\nA $24,000 grant has been made to\na University of B.C. scientist to support two years of research in human and animal cell growth.\nThe grant from the Jane Coffin\nChilds Memorial Fund for Medical\nResearch in New Haven, Connecticut,\nhas been made to Dr. Wilfred E.\nRazzell, associate professor of agricultural  microbiology at UBC.\nDr. Razzell, who joined the UBC\nfaculty in July, 1964, received a grant\nfrom the same fund while associated\nwith Dr. H. G. Khorana at the B.C.\nResearch Council from 1956 to 1960.\n Dr.    Khorana    and    his    associates\nstartled the scientific world in 1960\nwhen they announced that they had\nsuccessfully synthesized coenzyme A,\none of the basic life substances, at\nthe Research Council's laboratories.\nDr. Razzell's current grant will be\nused to pay a professional assistant\nand purchase equipment and supplies\nfor research on how life develops in\nits various forms.\nDr. Razzell will study the ways in\nwhich enzymes in human and animal\ncells change the nucleic acids\u2014the\ncarriers of heredity\u2014and help bring\nabout normal, desirable changes in\ncells at the proper time.\nThe results of such research will\nhave bearing on research in cancer,\nvirus infection, and cell death, which\nare examples of undesirable or abnormal changes in cell growth.\nScience hopes, said Dr. Razzell, that\nit may eventually be possible to control the cell's machinery and reset\nit after it has gone astray.\n\"We also know,\" said Dr. Razzell,\n\"that enzymes can attack the nucleic\nacids of invading viruses and so protect the cell. Sometimes these enzymes fail, but at the moment we\ndon't know why.\"\nMR. AND MRS. P. A. WOODWARD visited the UBC campus during November\nto take part in ceremonies marking the official opening of the new $953,000 Woodward Library. It will serve the planned P. A. Woodward Health Sciences Center, to\nwhich Mr. Woodward has given an initiating $3.5 million. Mr. Woodward unveiled\nthe plaque shown in the background and declared the building open. Vancouver\nTimes photo by Gordon Whittaker.\nDonor Woodward Declares\nEJio-medical Library Open\nThe $953,000 Woodward Library at\nUBC was officially opened by Mr. P.\nA. Woodward at a brief and simple\nceremony November 12.\nMr. Woodward, who gave $440,000\ntoward construction of the building\nthrough Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Woodward's Foundation, unveiled a plaque\ninside the main door of the building\nand declared the building officially\nopen.\nMrs. P. A. Woodward also attended\nthe ceremony presided over by Dean\nIan McTaggart Cowan, chairman of\nthe Senate  Library Committee.\nIMAGINATIVE GIFT\nDr. Phyllis G. Ross, UBC's chancellor, said in an address that the\nWoodward Library \"is an unusually\nimaginative gift, a gift which across\nthe years will continue to serve the\nmany generations of young people\nwho find their life's work in that most\ngenerous and humane service men\ncan render to one another; the practice of the healing arts.\"\nDr. William C. Gibson, chairman of\nthe Biomedical Library Committee,\ndescribed the form and function of\nthe Woodward Library, which boasts\nair conditioning to preserve the 55,000\nvolumes of biomedical and kindred\nliterature housed there.\nDr. John B. Macdonald, in thanking\nMr. Woodward, said the new Library\nwas an example of the unique role\nwhich private philanthropy played in\nmaking a University building exceptional.\n\"It illustrates,\" he said, \"that private\nphilanthropy can do what government\ncan  never do.\"\nPIONEERS PRESENT\nSpecial guests at the ceremony were\na number of the pioneer physicians\nin practice in B.C. before 1914 whose\nnames appear on a copper plaque in\nthe Charles Woodward Memorial\nRoom, where the Library's collection\nof rare books is kept\nThe Woodward Library houses material used by students in medicine,\ndentistry, nursing, pharmacy, biology,\nbotany, and zoology. The three-storey\nbuilding is intended mainly for graduate students, but will be open to all\nrequiring its material, including the\nmedical  profession.\nSERVES HEALTH CENTRE\nIt will serve the $18 million teaching and research centre at UBC to\nwhich Mr. Woodward contributed an\ninitiating $3.5 million and which will\nbe known as the P. A. Woodward\nHealth Sciences Centre.\nMajor debate about the academic\nfuture of UBC opened in October\nwith publication of a report calling for\nextensive changes.\nPresident John B. Macdonald, in\nreleasing the report, emphasized that\nonly those proposals eventually approved by UBC's Board of Governors\nand Senate would be implemented.\nThere are no recommended timetables or target dates.\nWritten after a year of study by a\nPresident's committee of eight faculty members \u2014including Dr. Macdonald \u2014 the publication is entitled\n\"Guideposts to Innovation \u2014 A study\nin Academic Goals at the University\nof British Columbia.\"\n(Excerpts from the foreword to the\nreport, written by President Macdonald, and summaries of the chief\nrecommendations made by the committee, are reproduced on page two).\nAmong the major changes proposed are:\n\u2022 Limitation of UBC's student\nbody to 22,000 by 1973, including 5,500\ngraduate  and  professional  students.\n\u2022 Maintenance of the present academic year plus an experimental\nsummer term. This does not mean,\nhowever, that UBC will adopt a trimester system.\n\u2022 Higher student qualification to\nenter UBC from grade 13, and full-\nscale trial of college entrance tests.\n\u2022 Closer study of the relationships\nbetween secondary school and university performances, and development of closer liaison between the\nuniversity and secondary schools.\n\u2022 Two basic undergraduate programs: the general course and selected course, each at two levels, the\ncomprehensive  and the  honors.\n\u2022 A four-year arts or science degree before entering professional\nstudies.\n\u2022 More emphasis upon independent and group study, less on lectures.\n\u2022 Designed programs of study to\nreplace the unit system; a diversity of\nprograms but less choice among\nelective courses.\n\u2022 An end to Christmas examinations and generally less reliance on\nexaminations. Letter grades and ranking by position in class to replace\nexam  marks.\n\u2022 Expansions in campus study\nspace, special residence provisions\nfor graduate and married students,\nand liberalized rules in undergraduate\nresidences.\n\u2022 Major expansions of UBC's library system and Computer Center.\n\u2022 A Senate standing committee on\nacademic affairs, and planning committees within  larger faculties.\nFaculty members who served on\nthe committee which wrote the report are: President Macdonald; Dr.\nCyril Belshaw, dept. of anthropology\nand sociology; Dean Emeritus S.N.F.\nChant; Dr. John Chapman, director\nof academic planning; Dr. D. Harold\nCopp, head of the physiology dept.;\nDr. Kenneth C. Mann, dept. of\nphysics; Dr. John M. Norris, dept. of\nhistory; Dr. Robert F. Scagel, dept. of\nbiology and botany.\nNewspaper columnist Eric Nicol, a\nmember of the UBC Senate, provided\neditorial  assistance  in  the  study.\nChairs Commission\nProf. Philip White, head of the\nestate management division in the\nfaculty of commerce, has been named\nchairman of a commission of enquiry\nestablished by the Newfoundland government.\nThe Commission will report on\nhouse construction costs with a view\nto determining the extent of profits\nmade on houses constructed for sale\nin  the city of St. John's.\n1\nU.B.C.   REPORTS\nVOLUME  10,  No. 6\nNOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1964\n-.fa.'.-.-__a_____.U >-__.. RESULT OF YEAR-LONG STUDY\nReport Suggests Innovations, Improvements\nThe \"Guideposts to Innovation\" report of the\nPresident's committee on academic goals has sparked\ndebate on the academic future of UBC. What follow\nare excerpts from the foreword to the report, written\nby President ]ohn B. Macdonald, and the summary\nand recommendations which followed most chapters\nin the 67-page report.\nThe University of British Columbia is sensitive to\nits changing responsibilities. It is aware of its changing role in response to the great issues of our time:\nthe Impact of the scientific revolution, the new\ndimensions of power, the gigantic contrasts of feast\nand famine, over-population, the surge of underdeveloped countries, the massive threats to individuality. The University is aware too of its new role\non a much smaller stage within the Province of\nBritish Columbia\u2014that of the comprehensive University offering undergraduate education and bearing\nalmost the sole responsibility for graduate and\nprofessional education and responsibility for much\nof the research on which our future welfare depends.\nThis documeht represents an attempt to define\nsome goals for the University and to seek ways of\nachieving them. The document has been written by\na President's Committee and is the result of studies\nextending over one year. The Committee consulted\nwidely with members of the Faculty, including a\nlarge and representative Consultative Committee.\nNevertheless, at the time of writing, the document\ndoes not represent an official position of the University, or even a consensus of Faculty opinion. It is\nwhat its name implies, a study of goals along with a\nseries of recommendations. The document and\nrecommendations will be considered by the various\ngoverning bodies of the University and, to the extent\nthe department concerned and the University admission officers that they have the intellectual capacity\nand academic foundation upon which to build, they\nbe permitted to enter the University at an appropriate level.\nThe Quality of Instruction\nand the Assessment of Achievement\n1. Lectures be reduced to an effective minimum\nand that other methods of instruction be used more\nfrequently. To this end departments should review\ncritically the nature of their teaching systems.\n2. Organized independent study programs be expanded. These should begin in the first year and be\ncontinued to an increasing extent in subsequent\nyears.\n3. The University requirement of formal Christmas examinations be removed but departments be\nrequired to provide an assessment of the student's\nstanding at the end of their first term at the\nUniversity.\n4. The University work towards establishing\nnorms which will permit a more uniform assessment\nof achievement throughout the University.\n5. In official transcripts, the numerical system of\nrecording grades be replaced by letter grades and\nrank order of the student in the class.\n6. Functional specialization as in teaching or research among faculty members be accepted and\nrewarded.\n7. (a) Departments and Faculties establish procedures to demonstrate teaching methods to\njunior personnel and to encourage discussion\nand evaluation of instruction techniques.\n(b) The   University  establish   a  Teaching   Research   Group   which   would   have   associated\nFaculty members who prepared the \"Guideposts to Innovation\" report are, left to right, Kenneth C. Mann,\nRobert F. Scagel, John D. Chapman, President John B. Macdonald, Cyril S. Belshaw, John M. Norris, and\nS. N. F. Chant. Missing is D. Harold Copp. Vancouver Times Photo by Gordon Whittaker.\nthat they are accepted, its recommendations will be\nimplemented.\nThis report can claim nothing new: in a sense it\nis as old as formal education. We believe that no\nsingle recommendation is without its parallel in some\nother institution. To this extent the recommendations\nare tried and true. Yet for the University of British\nColumbia they are new. Some ideas will be accepted\nafter debate; others will fall by the wayside. The\nCommittee presents this report with modesty and a\nkeen sense of its inevitable inadequacies, yet with\nthe conviction that the \"Guideposts\" point not only\nto innovation but to improvement.\nJohn B. Macdonald\nPRESIDENT\nAdmission Policy and Enrolment\n1. UBC plan to enlarge the total undergraduate\nenrolment to 16,500 and graduate enrolment (including post-Bachelor professional students) to 5,500\nby 1973.\n2. Studies comparing achievement in secondary\nschool and performance at university be enlarged in\nscope  and carried  out  regularly  by  the  Office  of\n. Student Services in conjunction with the University\nadmission officers.\n3. Full-scale trials of standard admission tests be\nmade, to be followed up by carefully-designed\nstudies to test their predictive value.\n4. Entrance requirements continue to permit\nflexibility in the subjects which may be offered for\nentrance to the University, and that entrance to the\nfirst-year program be uniform for the University as\na whole.\n5. The present regulations governing re-admission after failing first year be made more stringent.\n6. Students entering from Senior Matriculation\nbe required to have a clear pass at first attempt in\nfive subjects and  an  average of 60%.\n7. (a) All   faculties   and   schools   regard   supple-\n;   ^mentals as a  privilege to be granted only to\n'those students with a standing sufficiently high\nto warrant a reasonable expectation of success-\n.. ..fill completion of the year.\n~(b) The number of supplemental granted be\nreduced by means of awarding adjudicated\npasses, based upon the students overall performance.\n8. In unusual cases where applicants can satisfy\nwith  it an  Audio-visual  Centre to foster  and\nfacilitate use of audio-visual aids.\nThe Quality of Student Life\n1. The present liaison between secondary schools\nand the University be improved.\n2. All departments nominate a member or members of their staff to be directly responsible for academic advice and to ensure that such persons are\navailable for consultation between terms.\n3. The program of subsidy and support from\nUniversity funds for students' cultural activities be\nexpanded.\n4. Unallocated study space and departmental\nreading rooms be provided in each new building.\n5. The further development of decentralized coffee\nlounges and common rooms about the campus, designed  to foster small  group discussions.\n6. Some residences be set aside for graduate students with amenities for them, and that affairs of\nsuch residences be run by house committees composed of and responsible to the students themselves,\nso far as is compatible with the responsibilities of\nthe   University  administration  according  to statute.\n7. A committee composed of faculty and students\nexamine the prevailing undergraduate residence\nrules with a view of liberalizing them as far as is\nconsistent with the University's responsibilities with\nregard to conduct of students on campus.\n8. The University plan a significant increase in\nresidences for married students.\n9. The University administration promote the zoning and development of the University Endowment\nLands as a community germane to the welfare of\nthe university.\nU.B.C.   REPORTS\nVolume 10, No. 6 \u2014 November - December, 1964.\nAuthorized as second class mail by the Post Office\nDepartment, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in\ncash. Published by the University of British Columbia and distributed free of charge to friends and\ngraduates of the University. Material appearing herein may be reproduced freely. Letters are welcome\nand should be addressed to The Information Office,\nUBC, Vancouver 8, B.C.\n10. The Faculty Council be charged with the\ntask of continuously evaluating the quality of student life' and recommending means by which it can\nbe improved.\nDesign and Structure of Curriculum\n1. The flexibility desirable in curriculum planning\nbe provided by the purposeful and deliberate design\nof optional programs rather than by the widespread\nuse of unprescribed electives.\n2. The unit system of measurement be discontinued in favour of a series of designed programs\nof study.\n3. The principle adopted that, where practicable,\na Bachelor degree in Arts or Science be required for\nentry in to professional programs and that the basis\nof the Faculties of Arts and Science be broadened\nto include such fundamental work, at present offered\nin other Faculties, as is acceptable for the Arts and\nScience programs. To effect this it will be necessary\nfor some departments to have representation and\nresponsibility  in   more than  one faculty.\n4. Each degree program contain a balance of\nwork in the following elements: a selected discipline,\nallied disciplines and general education.\n5. Departments individually and collectively meet\ntheir responsibilities to design courses in the general\neducation and inter-disciplinary elements of the\ncurriculum.\n6. No fewer than five general education courses\nbe required in all undergraduate curricula, three\nto be taken in the first two years (normally two in\nthe first year) and the remainder in the upper\nyears.\n7. The University have two basic undergraduate\nprograms, the general course and the selected\ncourse, each at two levels: the Comprehensive and\nthe Honours, in which the emphasis on the three\ncurricular elements vary while retaining a common\nminimum of each.\n8. Commitment to specialized programs in the\nfirst year be resisted for most students.\nThe University Year\n1. The University year consist of two terms (Fall\nand Spring), of 13 weeks each, entered in September\nonly, and a Summer term of 13 weeks entered in\nMay. At least for the immediate future, the present\nSummer Session (as distinct from the Summer\nTerm) to be retained.\n2. Means be devised by which the students complete registration before the opening date of the\nFall term.\n3. Courses of study taken in the proposed Summer term provide an acceptable means of acceleration, permitting a student to obtain a degree in less\ntime than at present.\n4. (a) Faculty should be expected to teach 4 out\nof 6 terms and not more than 3 consecutively;\n(b) if they teach 3 terms consecutively, they\nshould be free of teaching duties for the next\ntwo terms while remaining on full salary and\nbenefits; (c) their salary continues to be on\na 12-month basis.\n5. Ways and means be examined by which school\nteachers could be released from their teaching duties\nin order to attend the regular university terms.\n6. Enrolment in Summer Session (as distinct\nfrom the proposed Summer Term) be limited to\nthose who, because of their teaching positions, are\nunable  to  attend  during the  regular terms.\nGraduate Work, Research\nand Continuing Education\n1. The University provide the faculty and facilities\nfor the considerable but orderly expansion of the\ngraduate program.\n2. The University seek funds to permit graduate\nstudents to continue their program of studies\nthroughout the year.\n3. The University actively support research programs in all the disciplines in which graduate work\nis to be offered.\n4. The University seek funds to permit the appointment of distinguished professors to initiate new\nresearch  and foster creative work.\n5. The University devise an organization to capitalize on the funds which may be available from\nthe public to support fundamental research in fields\nwhere  aid   is presently  inadequate.\n6. The Department of Extension be replaced by a\nFaculty of Continuing  Education.\n7. Funds be allocated to faculties, schools and\ndepartments specifically for the purpose of undertaking Continuing Education programs for credit,\nand strengthening the quality of their non-credit\nofferings.\nAcademic Administration\n1. There be established a Senate Standing Committee on Academic Affairs consisting of nine members charged with the responsibility of advising\nSenate on the quality and development of the University curriculum.\n2. The larger faculties establish a Faculty Planning Committee to assist the dean and faculty to\nassign academic priorities and maintain an appropriate balance between existing fields and departments.\n3. Faculty Curriculum Committees concern themselves not with the detailed content of courses,\nwhich is primarily a departmental responsibility,\nbut with the, principles which underlie degree and\ndepartmental programs. DR. WALTER KOERNER\nPROF. MARGARET ORMSBY\nPROF. ROY DANIELLS\nFIVE DEGREES AWARDED\nGovernor, Faculty Members Honored\nA total of five honorary degrees\nhave been conferred on a member of\nUBC's Board of Governors and two\nmembers of the faculty in recent\nmonths.\nThe recipients are Dr. Walter Koerner, a UBC Governor since 1957; Prof.\nRoy Daniells, head of the English\ndept., and Dr. Margaret Ormsby, act-\nting head of the history dept.\nLIBRARY DONOR\nDr. Koerner received honorary doctor of laws degrees from the University of New Brunswick in October\nand from the University of Victoria\non November 14 when Dr. Malcolm\nTaylor was installed as president.\nMr. Koerner, who has been a generous donor to the UBC library and\nother  campus  facilities,   is  chairman\nof the board of Rayon ier Canada\n(B.C.) Ltd., and was appointed by\nthe federal government to the Economic Council of Canada in 1963.\nProf. Daniells received honorary\ndoctor of laws degrees from the University of Toronto Nov. 27 and from\nQueen's University in May.\nAuthor of two volumes of poetry\nand a book on Baroque art and John\nMilton, the English poet, Prof. Daniells is also a contributor and member\nof the editorial committee of the\nLiterary History of Canada, to be published by the University of Toronto\nPress this year.\nDr. Ormsby received the degree of\ndoctor of laws Oct. 24 at ceremonies\nmarking the opening of the new Uni\nversity College on the Fort Garry\ncampus of the University of Manitoba.\nProf. Ormsby is a former president\nof the B.C. Historical Association and\nwas appointed by the Centennial Committee to prepare an official history of\nB.C., published in 1958.\nAWARD OF MERIT\nShe was made a freeman of the\nCity of Vernon in 1959, the same year\nshe received an award of merit from\nthe American State and Local History\nSociety and the American Society of\nArchivists.\nShe is currently vice-president of\nthe Canadian Historical Association\nand is serving a second term on the\nHistoric Sites and Monuments Board\nof Canada.\nNEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NAMED\nCouncil Seeks to Raise $40 000\nTo Expand Educational Research\nThe B.C. Educational Research\nCouncil will seek to raise $40,000 by\nthe end of 1964 to expand research,\nthe newly-appointed executive director of the Council  has announced.\nDr. Walter Hartrick, associate professor of education at UBC, said that\nat least six B.C. school boards had\nalready assured the Council that they\nwould make contributions to an expanded research program.\nDr. Hartrick, who was named executive director of the BCERC September 1, said funds will also be sought\nfrom local teacher associations,\nparent-teacher associations, and the\ndepartment of education.\nB.C.'s total expenditure on education is now approaching $100 million,\nDr. Hartrick said, but very little has\nbeen provided for research into the\neffectiveness of the system and how\nit might be improved.\n\"Money must be provided,\" he said,\n\"to  purchase the time  and talent of\npersons who can carry out rigorous\nresearch.\"\nDr. Hartrick said the Council plans,\nin the immediate future, to concentrate its research in curriculum and\ninstruction in such areas as the appropriate level for study of foreign languages, the effectiveness and efficiency of new courses and programs,\nand kindergarten programs.\nOther areas of research such as\ngeneral school evaluation, school administration and teacher education\nwill   not  be   ignored,  he  added.\nIn certain situations, Dr. Hartrick\nsaid, school boards will be encouraged\nto allow teachers to undertake research projects. Larger, more complex\nprojects may require the services of\nprofessors from the education faculties of B.C.'s three public universities,\nhe said.\nAnother important aspect of the\nCouncil's work will  be the introduc\ntion into B.C. schools of programs\nbased on research carried out elsewhere, Dr. Hartrick said.\nThe Council has carried out eight\nresearch studies at a cost of approximately $5,000 since it was formed in\n1957.\nThe main contributors to these projects have been the B.C. School Trustees' Association and the B.C. Teachers Federation.\nThe Council is composed of representatives of UBC's faculty of education, the Vancouver School Board and\nits research division, the University\nof Victoria, the provincial department\nof education, the B.C. Parent-Teacher\nFederation, the BCTF, and the B.C.\nSchool Trustees Association.\nDr. Hartrick taught at high schools\nin Trail, Prince George, and Dawson\nCreek, and obtained his doctor of\nphilosophy degree at the University\nof Chicago before permanently joining the UBC faculty in 1961.\nComputer\nAids Health\nStudies\nA UBC doctor is using questionnaires, statistics, and the electronic\ncomputer as tools in the continuing\nstruggle to improve community health.\nDr. Donald O. Anderson, of UBC's\nfaculty of medicine, works in the field\nof epidemiology, or the study of epidemics, a branch of medicine which is\nconcerned with the distribution of all\ndiseases, infectious or not\n\"To most people,\" says Dr. Anderson, \"an epidemic involves a localized\nand highly infectious disease which\nflares up for a short time and then\nsubsides.\"\nEpidemiology concerns itself with\nall diseases, infectious or hot, and\noften involves the study of well people, a group which acts as a standard\nagainst which to measure the prevalence of disease.\nTo   continue   epidemiology   studies\nHeads Named\nfor Five\nDepartments\nNew heads have been named\nrecently for five UBC departments.\nProf. William S. Hoar, one of\nthe world's leading fish physiologists and a member of the\nUBC faculty since 1945, is the\nnew head of the zoology dept.\nHe succeeds Dr. Ian McTaggart-\nCowan, who is now UBC's dean\nof graduate studies.\nProf. William H. Mathews,\none of Canada's leading experts\non glaciers and volcanoes, is the\nnew head of the geology dept.\nsucceeding Prof. V. J. Okulitch,\nthe new dean of science.\nThe new head of the dept. of\nmetallurgy, Prof. William M.\nArmstrong, succeeds Prof.\nFrank Forward, who resigned\nearlier this year to become the\nfirst director of the science secretariat established by the federal government.\nProf. William Nicholls is the\nhead of the newly-created dept.\nof religious studies in the faculty of arts, and Dr. Alfred J.\nElliot heads the new ophthalmology dept. in the faculty of\nmedicine.\nbegun in 1961, Dr. Anderson recently\nreceived a $7,500 grant from the Canada Council. It is one of six awards\nmade by the Council to Canadian\nscientists from a fund established by\nan anonymous donor to further interdisciplinary studies.\nPart of the grant will be used to\ncontinue work on data obtained by\nDr. Anderson during surveys in Berlin, New Hampshire, in 1961, and Chil-\nliwack, B.C., in 1963.\nBoth these surveys were designed\nto throw light on the causes of chronic\nlung disease, which is the fastest\ngrowing cause of death in North\nAmerica.\nAnother part of the Council grant\nwill be used to further studies on .the\nhealth hazards of climate and air pollution using available data and results\nobtained from surveys to be carried\nout in a B.C. town, which has yet to\nbe selected. >\nON TIP OF POINT GREY\nSen. McKeen s Home Bought for $100,000\nThe University of B.C. has purchased Yorkeen,\nformer home of Senator S. S. McKeen at the tip of\nPoint Grey, for $100,000, plus incidental legal expenses.\nThe 50-year-old mansion stands on VA acres of\nrolling lawns and gardens overlooking Howe Sound.\nUBC bought it from St. Mark's Theological College at the price it was sold recently to St. Mark's\nby Senator and Mrs. McKeen.\n\"We are most fortunate in being able to add to\nour campus a property of such unique value to\nthe University,\" said! UBC President John B. Macdonald. \"Its purchase is a most logical step. The\nformer Graham house, donated to the University\nlast year, occupied a similar 3V_> acre site immediately east of Yorkeen.\n\"UBC has now gained possession of an entire\n7-acre pocket of land which is entirely surrounded\nby campus, but had been in possession of private\nowners.\n\"The dollar value of this land to the University\nin years to come just cannot be estimated, quite\napart from its aesthetic value. The University will\nhave a problem to raise the cash, but the Board of\nU.B.C.   REPORTS\nNOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1964\nVOLUME 10, No. 6\nGovernors decided to take advantage of this unique\nopportunity to purchase.\n\"An arrangement for the financing will be worked\non a self-liquidating basis. Studies have been undertaken to determine which of several prospective\nuses would provide most service to the university.\n\"The University is most grateful to St. Mark's\nCollege for making possible this valuable addition\nto the UBC campus \u2014 and, of course, to the original\ngenerosity of Senator and Mrs. McKeen in making\nYorkeen available to St. Mark's.\"\nThe 18-room mansion was built before the first\nworld war by E. P. Davis, a pioneer Vancouver\nlawyer.\nThe entire 7-acre tract was established by special\nprovincial legislation. GAIL AND KEITH SANDERCOCK\nIN EAST PAKISTAN\nHusband-wife  Team\nConduct  Fish   Survey\nA husband-and-wife team of\nfisheries experts from UBC is in\nEast Pakistan to conduct a survey\nat an American-built dam near the\nBurma border.\nKeith and Gail Sandercock, both\nstudents in UBC's Institute of Fisheries, where they are working on\nadvanced degrees, were hired to\nconduct a fish survey at the dam\nby Forestal Forestry and Engineering International, which has a\ncontract with Canada's external aid\noffice for development in the dam\narea.\nMr. Sandercock will survey the\nnumber and kinds of fish currently\nin the reservoir behind the dam\nto ascertain whether or not a commercial fishery can be developed.\nMrs. Sandercock will survey the\nbottom organisms in the reservoir\nto determine the food sources\navailable for the existing fish.\nOverall adviser for the project\nis Dr. C. C. Lindsey, associate professor in the Institute of Fisheries,\nwho will fly to East Pakistan at\nChristmas to check on the progress\nof the project.\nPulpmill  Said  to  Hold\nKey to Timber Reserves\nThe sulphate pulpmill rather than\nsawmills holds the key to unlocking\nthe untapped timber reserves of B.C.,\na UBC geography professor says in a\nrecently published book.\nFULL UTILIZATION\nDr. Walter G. Hardwick, assistant\nprofessor of geography, in a book entitled \"Geography of the forest industry of coastal B.C.\" says full utilization of trees is now imperative.\nDR. W. G. HARDWICK\nHe adds: \"Full utilization can only\ntake place through provision of additional pulping plant capacity which\ncan use both sawmill waste and pulp-\ngrade logs.\"\nWhen such mills are built, he says,\ntotal annual recovery on a sustained-\nyield basis could reach an annual allowable cut of two billion cubic feet,\nas compared to the present annual\nallowable cut of 850 million cubic\nfeet.\n\"Much of this increase,\" says Prof.\nHardwick, \"would come from utilization of grades and species suitable for\npulping, but not sawmilling, and timber  found  in  remote  areas.\"\nThe demand for full utilization of\nforest resources will significantly\nmodify the pattern of forest activity\nin the province, he says.\nTRACES GROWTH\nDr. Hardwick first traces the growth\nof the forest industry in coastal B.C.\nand concludes that even though markets are not yet large enough to permit establishment of total potential\nsulphate pulp production, a major expansion in timber speculation :s due.\nB.C. still occupies a peripheral location when related to major world\nmarkets and thus continues to suffer\nfrom competition with producers in\nmore central locations.\nU.B.C.   REPORTS\nVOLUME 10, No. 6\nNOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1964\nClinic for Diabetic\nChildren Established\nUBC will establish a research clinic\nfor diabetic children with a $4,000\ngrant from the Sick Children's Research Foundation.\nThe grant, to UBC's department of\npaediatrics, is the first to be made\nby the Sick Children's Research\nFoundation, which was established in\n1962. It is administered by the Vancouver Foundation.\nThe UBC clinic, to be known officially as the Juvenile Diabetic Research\nClinic, will function through the outpatient department of the Health\nCenter for Children at the Vancouver\nGeneral Hospital where the UBC department of  paediatrics  is  located.\nDirecting the clinic will be Dr. J. A.\nBirkbeck, assistant professor of\npaediatrics, who ran a similar clinic\nwhile a research fellow in endocrinology at the University of Iowa from\n1960 to   1962.\nDr. John F. McCreary, dean of\nUBC's medical faculty, said the clinic\nwill fulfil the greatest need in the\nmanagement of the diabetic child,\nadequate education of the patient and\nZoologists\nTo Explore\nEaster Island\nTwo UBC zoologists are taking part\nin a Canadian expedition of medical\nscientists to Easter Island in the\nSouth  Pacific.\nIncluded in the 25-man expedition,\nwhich left Halifax November 14, were\nDr. Ian Efford, assistant professor of\nzoology, and graduate student Jack\nA. Mathias, 5751 Balsam.\nDr. Efford and his assistant will\ncarry out studies in the field of\necology on Easter Island, a possession\nof Chile about 2,500 miles west of the\nSouth American coastline. Ecology is\nthe study of the relationships of\nplants and animals to their environment.\nDr. Efford said very little is known\nabout how the plant and animal life\non Easter Island had adapted itself to\nconditions there.\n\"Because of its isolation,\" he said,\n\"very few species of plants and\nanimals have been introduced on the\nisland and we are interested in such\nthings as their productivity.\"\nHe also plans to investigate how\nartifically introduced pests, such as\ncockroaches and flies, have affected\nthe ecological system on the Island.\nOther studies include animals and\nfish in the intertidal zone and in the\nmany volcanic lakes on the island.\nSponsored originally by the World\nHealth Organization, the Easter Island\nExpedition forms part of the Human\nAdaptibility Project of the International  Biological  Program.\nthe family in technique and attitudes.\nDr. Birkbeck, the dean said, will\nadvise children and parents currently attending the outpatient department and those referred to the\nclinic by practising physicians.\nDr. Birkbeck said there are an estimated 150-160 juvenile diabetics in\nB.C. ''Because of the concentration of\npopulation in the lower mainland, it\nit likely that the bulk are located in\nthis area,\" he said.\nThe basic objective of the clinic, he\nadded, is to assist and advise patients\nand their families and physicians in\nthe management of the problem in\norder that juvenile diabetics can lead\na  normal  life.\nDr. Birkbeck added that there also\nexists a need to expand research in\njuvenile diabetes, which is one of the\nmost common endocrine diseases.\nResearch is currently hampered by\nthe difficulty of gathering together\nenough diabetics for observation. The\nclinic, Dr. Birkbeck said, will provide\nsuch an opportunity.\nA native of Scotland, Dr. Birkbeck\nis a graduate of the University of\nEdinburgh where he received the degrees of bachelor of medicine and\nsurgery.\nThe Sick Children's Research\nFoundation, which has made the grant\nfor establishment of the new clinic,\nwas established in 1962. The objective\nof a minimum sum of $100,000 to establish a permanent fund was reached\nby the end of 1963, and as of June\n30, 1964, the fund totalled $115,146.\nThe $4000 grant to UBC represents\nincome from the fund to date.\nPatrol Moved\nTo Permanent\nHeadquarters\nUBC Traffic and Patrol Service has\nmoved permanently into the former\nwireless station residence on Wesbrook Crescent.\n\"We have established permanent\nheadquarters in a most strategic location for this service at negligible\ncost,\" said Burser William White. \"It\nis on the east border of the campus,\nand Wesbrook intersects with all main\ntraffic arteries on the campus.\n\"Facilities the service was occupying can now be removed to provide\nadditional parking for students, faculty and staff in the growing campus\narea adjacent to the engineering\nbuilding and the Ponderosa cafeteria.\"\nThe wireless station residence was\nused as temporary living and training\nheadquarters for the hockey team\nseeking world championship, and rowers preparing for the recently Olympic Games in Tokyo.\nPriority List Set Out\nfor New UB C Buildings\n-Year-by-year  priorities for buildings to be constructed at UBC up\nto 1969 are set out in the table below.\nFunds for UBC's new building program will be derived from two\nsources \u2014 the provincial government, which will provide a total of $40.7\nmillion in the next five years for capital construction at B.C.'s three\npublic universities, and the \"3 Universities Capital Fund,\" which will\nseek to raise $28 million in the next year.\nYEAR BUILDING  PROJECTS\n1964-65     Commerce and Social Sciences\t\nEducation  Additions.,...\t\nDentistry including Expansion of Basic Medical\nSciences     \t\nAMOUNT\n$ 2,538,000\n900,000\n1965-66\nLibrary\u2014Completion of Stacks and Reading Space._\nForestry-Agriculture   Complex .\t\nMusic \t\n1966-67      Metallurgy\n4,116,000\n972,000\n3,427,000\n1,585,000\n1,580,000\nBiological Sciences, Oceanography and Fisheries      6,000,000\n1967-68\n1968-69\nMathematics and Geography..\nEngineering\nSocial  Work.\nGeology and Earth Sciences... \t\nOther Projects (5 year Progressive Development)\nAgriculture Field Development..\nPhysical Education and Recreation Development\t\nSite Development and Services\t\n50,000\n4,350,000\n525,000\n125,000\n500,000\n250,000\n2,842,000\n$29,760,000","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/hasType":[{"value":"Periodicals","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/spatial":[{"value":"Vancouver (B.C.)","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/identifier":[{"value":"LE3.B8K U2","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"LE3_B8K_U2_1964_11_01","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/isShownAt":[{"value":"10.14288\/1.0118536","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/language":[{"value":"English","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/provider":[{"value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/publisher":[{"value":"Vancouver: University of British Columbia Information Office","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/rights":[{"value":"Images provided for research and reference use only. 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