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Advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by_the Government of British Columbia\nTHERE'S ONE DRINK\nTHAT WILL PLEASE\nEVERYONE.\nPARK & TILFORD.\nCOMES IN THESE\nGREAT FLAVOURS\nPAINTED IN THE PARK & TILFORD GARDENS BY DAVID LAM\nYOUR ASSURANCE OF QUALITY ^^| UBC ALUMNI \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nChronicle\nVOLUME 25, NO. 3, AUGUST 1971\nTHE PACE OF CHANGE AT UBC\nThis issue is devoted to examining the\ndirection UBC is heading today. Due\nto its length, regular sections on Books\nand Spotlight have been held over until\nnext issue. Our apologies to devoted\nfans of those sections.\n11\n26\n30\n32\n34\nTOWARDS A MORE ACTIVE\nPUBLIC ROLE\nFrank Walden\nREVOLUTION POSTPONED TILL\nFURTHER NOTICE Alex Volkoff\nONLY THE SLOGAN IS NEW\nAlex Volkoff\n13 LONG LOCKS DO NOT A\nRADICAL MAKE\nViveca Ohm\n18 THE STATUS QUO UNDER\nCHALLENGE\nKeith Bradbury\n22 THE CLOSED DOORS HIDE\nNO OGRES\nAlex Volkoff\nA MACHINE-LIKE IMPERSONAL\nUNIVERSITY\nHow Williams Lake Sees UBC Keith Bradbury\nCENTENNIAL OF AN IDEA\nW. C. Gibson\nALUMNI NEWS\nLETTERS TO THE EDITOR\nEDITOR Clive Cocking, BA'62\nEDITORIAL ASSISTANT Susan Jamieson, BA'65\nCOVER Annette Breukelman\nADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE\nAlumni Media Ltd.\nEDITORIAL COMMITTEE\nMrs. R. W. Wellwood, BA'51, chairman, Frank C.\nWalden, BA'49, past chairman, Mrs. Frederick\nField, BA'42, Kirsten Emmott, Med 4, Dr. Joseph\nKatz, BA, MEd (Man), PhD (Chicago), Philip Keatley, BA'51, Trevor Lautens, BA (McMaster), David\nMole. BA (Cambridge), Grad Studies 5, Jack K.\nStathers, BA'55, MA'58, Dr. Ross Stewart, BA'46,\nMA'48, PhD (Washington).\nPublished quarterly by the Alumni Association of the University\nof British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Business and editorial offices: Cecil Green Park, 6251 N.W. Marine Dr., Vancouver 8, B.C. (604-228-3313).\nSUBSCRIPTIONS: The Alumni Chronicle Is sent to all alumni\nof the university. Non-alumni subscriptions are available at $3\na year, students $1 a year.\nPostage paid at the Third Class rate. Permit No. 2067.\nMember American Alumni Council.\nAge of Gage\nOn Thursday, September 23, at\nCecil Green Park, the UBC Alumni\nAssociation will hold an informal\nreception and chicken barbeque to\nhonor President Gage for his\ncontribution to UBC.\nAlumni, faculty and students are\nall invited . . . 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B.C., 685-3711 TITThat factors are working for\n\" change at the University of\nBritish Columbia? How effective are\nthe senate, the board of governors,\nthe faculty or the students in directing or effecting change? This issue\nof the Chronicle, in a special series\nof articles, examines the extremely\ncomplex institution that is UBC.\nThis examination has been undertaken with a view to stimulating\ndiscussion about the direction in\nwhich UBC is currently heading.\nThe articles in this issue do not\nrepresent the official views or policy of the alumni association. Each\narticle represents the interpretation\nof the writer under whose byline\nit appears. We hope that alumni,\nfaculty, and students will feel free\nto contribute to this discussion\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\ndebate, challenge, agree with or add\nto points made in this series\u00E2\u0080\u0094in\nletters to the editor to be printed\nin the following issue.\nChange\u00E2\u0080\u0094and often rapid change\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094is a fact of life in society today.\nIt applies to all organizations and\ninstitutions, including the University\nand the UBC Alumni Association.\nHow change should be handled and\ndirected is the major problem facing\nthe Board of Management of your\nassociation this year.\nThe alumni association has been\na vigorous organization over the\nyears. It has as its members all those\nwho graduate from UBC; membership is automatic. The governing\nbody is the board of management\nwhich consists of an executive, eight\nmembers-at-large, and representatives of all undergraduate degrees,\nthe faculty and student councils.\nBasically, the alumni association\nacts as a support group for the university in the community. Its first\nobjective is to instil in all graduates\na feeling of loyalty to the University\nand a sense of responsibility for the\ncontinuation of the educational\nwork of the University and for service to the public. This objective has\nbeen met by thousands of graduates\nwho serve on alumni or university\ncommittees, or who contribute annually through the UBC Alumni\nFund.\nThis \"feeling of loyalty\" is instilled by means of a variety of alumni\nprograms. The Chronicle, for instance, keeps graduates posted regularly on UBC affairs. Contact with\nspecial interest groups within the\nassociation body is maintained\nthrough participation in the Young\nAlumni Club, annual reunions,\nstudent-alumni activities, alumni\nbranch meetings and gatherings,\ndivision activities, and the annual\nmeeting. Through these activities\nand by having alumni serve on senate and committees established by\nthe University, the association supports the work of the University\nand education in general, its second\nobjective.\nThe forces of change, however,\nare nudging the association into consideration of a more active \"public\"\nrole. The other stated objectives\nallow the association to influence\npublic opinion regarding the needs\nand benefits of UBC and education\nin general, and to consider and\n\"take action\" on questions affecting UBC, education in British Columbia, or graduates of UBC. These\ntwo objectives have never been\nfully attained.\nEditorial\nTowards\nA More\nActive\nPublic Role\nShould the board of management\nand the association executive take\na leadership role in controversial and\nimportant matters, and lobby for\nchange? Or should they hang back\nwaiting for direction from the graduates themselves, most of whom lose\ncontact with UBC and higher education when their diplomas are\nreceived.\nWe are attempting to resolve this\nproblem in a survey of graduate\nopinion which is now underway.\nAbout 5,000 alumni will receive\nquestionnaires in September which\nwill seek their opinion on this, and\nother issues. On the basis of the\nsurvey and other information the\nboard of management will decide\nhow active its role will be in support of UBC and higher education\nin general in the face of widespread\nand conflicting demands for change.\nFrank C. Walden, BA'49, president\nof the UBC Alumni Association\nfor 1971-72. '^%^^ -'^l^fK^S^,\nr-'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0,\u00E2\u0080\u0094 <\">. <*\u00C2\u00BB....._*.\nrr. \u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n' t JM\n'II\nSwTO\n^-\nJf***:*\"\nJH Jf ^ V _ TODAY MORE THAN EVER before\nstudents and administrators alike\nare crying out about overcrowding\nat the university. And they have a\npoint. In the last five years the number of students on campus has risen\nfrom 16,500 to 22,000. Now everyone knows overcrowding\u00E2\u0080\u0094be it\nblacks in a ghetto or rats in a sociology lab\u00E2\u0080\u0094produces discontent and\nunrest. Not so at UBC. Ironically,\nas the student population grows, so\ntoo does student apathy.\nThree years ago when Dave Zirn-\nhelt was president of the Alma\nMater Society the council issued a\nlengthy ultimatum stating seven\nareas where negotiation between\nstudents and the administration had\nto be initiated. These included academic appointments, financing of\neducation and the \"relations between\nteaching and research, the whole\npackage coming with a string of\ndeadlines. Few, if any, were met\nthat year, but there was no doubt\nthe campus was an exciting place\nto be. The year 1968 heralded the\nopening of the Student Union Building, felt Jerry Rubin march across\nthe campus leading a sizeable number of students to occupy the\nFaculty Club and witnessed 5,000\nstudents, or one-quarter of the student population, gather in front of\nthe Buchanan building to discuss\nthe sense or nonsense of that sit-in.\nIn comparison, this past year has\nbeen cool and calm. Probably the\nGone now are those heady scenes of\nstudent activism like this one from\n1968 when 5,000 students gathered\nin front of the Buchanan building to\ndiscuss the sense or nonsense of the\nJerry Rubin-inspired sit-in at the\nFaculty Club.\nmost exciting thing that happened\nall year was the Jericho aftermath\nwhen 100 transients turned up to\nsleep on the floor of SUB. Even\nthen students did not really get involved. Where did all the energy\nand enthusiasm go?\nOr perhaps one should ask, did it\never really exist, as we were led to\nbelieve?\nTime and again student radicals\nhave tried to precipitate a crisis on\ncampus. The Faculty Club sit-in was\nalmost successful and failed in the\nend only because the moderates remained moderate. That same year\nthe local RCMP were called on\ncampus twice\u00E2\u0080\u0094not by the president's office but by radical students\nhoping to kick up a backlash.\nLuckily for the campus, cool heads\nin the administration and the prudence of the RCMP who double-\nchecked with the president's office\nstopped the action before it got\nstarted.\nA special section entitled \"The\nCooling of America\" in TIME\nmagazine earlier this year claimed\nthat for today's students, \"Looking\nfor a job takes precedence over\nlooking for trouble.\" Students are\nmore worried about the job situation this year than they have been\nfor many years, and while TIME\nmay have correctly assessed the\nAmerican situation, its supplement\nhas missed the point when it comes\nto institutions like UBC.\nNear the end of Zirnhelt's stint as\nAMS president two commerce professors, Dr. Vance Mitchell and Dr.\nLarry Moore, undertook a survey\non student attitudes and opinions.\nThey found that even during the\nyears the campus seemed to be at\nits liveliest the majority of students\nwere definitely not interested in a\nrapid or revolutionary overthrow\nStudents\nof the present system. Instead, the\nsurvey shows, only 39 per cent of\nthe students considered bringing\nabout change important at all. They\nwere much more interested in vocational pursuits, cultural and artistic\ninterests and humanitarian ideals,\nseeing themselves as the agents of\nonly gradual change.\nDr. Mitchell concludes that far\nfrom being the rabid rebels downtown merchants fear, students are\nclose to what the public would like\nto see. The blame for this distorted\nimage obviously lies with the media\nwhich not surprisingly gives its coverage to the student on the soapbox\nand not the one in the classroom.\nIn the long run, then, student activity is judged on the personalities\nof their spokesmen, not on the actual temperature of the campus. In\n1968 when Zirnhelt was president\nand Carey Linde and Ruth Dworkin\nsat on council the Vancouver Sun\nheralded the 3,000-word manifesto\nwith the headline\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Student Revolution: UBC The Next Flashpoint.\"\nThen came two years with the\nHodge brothers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Fraser and Tony\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094leading the student council and\nnothing more was heard about revolution.\nThis year a new development has\ncome up\u00E2\u0080\u0094the \"Human Government\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094and it is anybody's guess\nwhat will happen. To begin with,\nthere is no doubting the brilliance\nof some members of the Human\nGovernment slate who now occupy\nAMS positions. On the other hand,\nthere is some doubt as to their sincerity. During the campaign, one\nof their major platforms was bringing student government closer to\nthe students and to do this they said\nthey were going to govern from a\nbig room off the main lobby in SUB.\nWell, it appears the need for privacy\nRevolution\nPostponed\n'Till\nFurther Notice\nAlex Volkoff ^PW\nApathy has reared its ugly head\nagain as students turn their backs on\nparticipation in university affairs.\nintervened in all their good plans\nand students can now find their\nelected representatives where they\nhave always been\u00E2\u0080\u0094in the northwest\ncorner offices on the second floor\nof SUB.\nBut, come to think of it, what\npart does the AMS play in the\nstudents' lives anyway? I did a\nsimple survey of students during\nfinal exams, not long after the AMS\nelections were held and found 81.3\nper cent of the students polled did\nnot know the name of either their\npast year's faculty rep or the newly\nelected one.\nFor many long years The Ubyssey\nhas been denouncing the AMS as\n\"irrelevant.\" Despite the triteness of\nthe word it is an apt description\nthese days. Connie Bysouth, last\nyear's education rep on the AMS,\nsays she had a hard time reconciling\nher involvement in the AMS with\nher involvement in the education\nfaculty. \"It's very hard for the AMS\nto have any unified purpose at all,\"\nshe says. \"I was working on two\nAMS committees last year\u00E2\u0080\u0094course\nevaluation and high school visitation. Both were left in mid-air because there was no support from\nthe AMS. They were more concerned with giving money to certain\ngroups in town than they were with\nthe standards of education on campus. On high school visitation the\nenthusiasm from ordinary students\nwas great\u00E2\u0080\u0094they really wanted to do\nit\u00E2\u0080\u0094but the money wasn't always\nthere from the AMS.\"\nCourse evaluation\u00E2\u0080\u0094you would\nthink it is of prime concern to a\nstudent during his education. The\nAMS, however, lost interest before\nit got beyond the pilot project stage.\nBut the AMS will never admit\nhaving only paper power. Judge Les\nBewley, newest member of the board\nof governors, puts it this way: \"Students remind me so often of Snoopy\nsitting with his flying helmet on top\nof his doghouse pretending he is a\nWorld War I flying ace. He's not\nreally flying nor capable of it yet,\nbut it makes him feel powerful that\nhe's going through the motions of\npulling levers and running world\naffairs. It's an interesting exercise\nand no doubt excellent for the ego\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Lord knows I'm not saying they\ncan't do it\u00E2\u0080\u0094but it seems a bit of a\nwaste of time for many of them.\"\nPaul Tennant, a young political\nscience professor, well-liked by\nmany of his students, agrees. He believes the AMS is in no position to\nreally accomplish anything, mainly\nbecause the representatives are not\nin touch with the students. \"The\npresent official AMS leaders will\nprobably provoke symbolic notions\nof change but they have neither the\npower nor the support to actually\naccomplish change,\" he says. \"So\nreally the leaders of the AMS are in\nthe same position as leaders of city\ncouncil. Their skill comes in making it appear they do have power\nwhich means they use sensationalism\nand try to exploit the media.\"\nBut if the AMS is no longer sincerely concerned with educational\nreform, the campus has students who\ndefinitely are. These are the students working within the system in\nfaculty committees. Unfortunately\nnot all faculty unions and societies\nare successful. When Stan Persky\njoined the arts council in 1967 the\nwhole faculty experienced a regeneration. He spoke out for artsmen\nin general, brought together students\nfrom 29 separate departments and\nput out the first arts anti-calendar.\nSince then the arts council seems\nto exist merely for the sake of\nexisting and students have once\nagain sunk to departmental loyalties,\nas far away as ever from having any\nsay in the direction of their education.\nIt is the professional faculties that\nhave had the most success in involving students in the decisionmaking process and in taking the\nfirst steps on the road to reform.\nFor example, the education faculty\nhas had student representatives on\nalmost every major committee for\nthe last three years.\n\"In the fall of 1968 five faculty\nmembers and five students formed\nthe Committee on Student Involvement (COSI),\" says Dr. John Dennison, associate professor of education. \"In January, 1969 they handed\ndown their report which said students should take part at all levels\nstarting with the full faculty council. Now they have 15 reps there,\nplus eight reps in the different divisions (elementary, secondary) and\ntwo reps in each of the 25 separate\ndepartments.\"\nKerry Bysouth, internal affairs\nofficer on the education council for\ntwo years and next year's education\npresident, had the job of filling these\npositions. \"We filled about three- Henry Hudson\ndidn't discover\nHudson's Bay Scotch.\nBut you can,\nThis advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. g another low-cost series by the\nVancouver symphony orchestra\n20 TH CKNTIIKY KEItltiK:\nItartok&Co.\n4 thrilling concerts\nOCTOBER 13\nNOVEMBER 4\nNOVEMBER 19\nDECEMBER 17\nfor only 9,12 or 15 dollars!\nBrilliant guest artists - virtuosi\nof our time - perform the great\nsounds of the 20th Century.\nLUKAS FOSS \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 JOHN OGDON\nMASUKO USHIODA \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BELA\nSIKI \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BORIS BROTT \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ELYAKIM\nTAUSSIG \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 and our own dynamic Resident Conductor\nSIMON STREATFEILD bring\nyou the major BARTOK CONCERTOS \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 STRAVINSKY \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 IVES\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BRITTEN \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 COPLAND \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 FOSS\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 WEBER \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 SHOSTAKOVICH \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nNIELSEN \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 NORDHEIM \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 MER-\nCURE\n4 magnificent concerts for as\nlittle as $2.25 a concert if you\nsubscribe NOW.\nsingle-sale teat\nprices\n$3.50\ncott to those who buy\neach concert separately\n$14\ncost when you huV\nIhe series\n$ 9\n$4.50\n$18\n$12\n$5.50\n$22\n$15\nSAVE UP TO $14 on a pair of the\nbest seats in the house.\nTickets NOW ON SALE at the Vancouver Ticket Centre, 630 Hamilton\nSt., or charge to your Eaton account\n- call 683-3255.\nCet your tickets TODAY. Seats will\ngo fast for this super series! For\nbrochure with full programme details, call 685-6161.\nthis series sponsored by CP Air.\nHZ\n\"The present official AMS\nleaders will probably provoke symbolic notions of\nchange but they have\nneither the power nor the\nsupport to actually\naccomplish change.\"\nquarters of the committees, but had\na hard time because students didn't\nwant to make the commitment. But\nthose who did go in got a lot out of\nthe committees. They felt they were\nreally doing something, really taking part in the decisions that were\nbeing made. And that was the whole\npurpose. We didn't expect them to\nbe great authorities on what they\nwere doing, but if a student opinion\nwas needed, it was there, and the\nfaculty didn't have to second-guess\nwhat students wanted.\"\nMore recently the education\nfaculty has created a mini-parliament called the student assembly.\nThis is made up of representatives\nfrom the 120 seminars which cover\nalmost all the students in the\nfaculty. Every Monday between 50\nand 70 turn up for a lively rap session. And just as students have representation on the faculty committees, four faculty members are\nelected to sit on the student\nassembly.\n\"Now the students are very much\naccepted by our faculty members in\nthe making of decisions,\" says By-\nsouth. \"The only thing that is holding us back is that students don't\nwant to get involved.\"\nThe fact that he has never been\nable to fill all the student positions\nin the faculty committees is symptomatic of what is happening on a\nmuch larger scale all across the\ncountry. In Carleton University\nstudents campaigned for more representation in the departments and\nfinally over the last few years created\n131 positions for themselves. In the\nrecent elections there, nomination\npapers were filed for only 33 positions, of which five were contested.\nAt UBC the picture is the same.\nFor the past five years students have\nbeen crying out for representation\non senate. Bit by bit the numbers\nincreased and now students have 12\npositions out of a total 101. In the\nOctober 1970 election only 2,220\nstudents voted for three members-\nat-large, and 571 voted for the\nFaculty of Arts rep. Applied Science,\nGraduate Studies and Education\nreps all got in by acclamation. In\nanother few years we may not be\nable to find students willing to fill\nthe posts at all.\nThe reasons for this are simple.\nTo begin with it's a question of\nnumbers. There are more students\nat UBC than there are people in\nthe capital of Prince Edward Island.\nThe area should be treated like a\ncity and instead it is being treated\nlike a glorified high school. There\nare so many people enrolled in English they don't even know what their\ncounterparts in the French department are doing much less the students in agriculture. They just have\nno common interests to sustain\nthem, never mind the fact it takes\nalmost half an hour to walk between their study areas.\nAnd it almost goes without saying that students have little to gripe\nabout. Activists have had quite a\ntime manufacturing issues around\nwhich students will rally. UBC's\nsystem is just too flexible and perhaps too incomprehensible for students to make much of a dent anywhere.\nBut most important is the question of time. \"Students should be\nfull-time students,\" says Tennant.\n\"So often I see students rationalizing their own failure as academics\nthrough activism. Until it is proven\notherwise I assume that a student\nactivist is not interested in intellectual pursuits.\"\nIt's as simple as that. There is\nalways a lot of reading or research\nto do, essays or lab results to write\nup. It takes a lot of energy for a\nstudent to trudge through Vancouver rain to a meeting he doesn't\nhave to attend. He has just finished\na full day of lectures and the last\nthing he wants to do is listen to another speaker. He may even want to\nsee some real change take place at\nthe university. But in the end he'll\nalways leave the work of getting\nchange for somebody else. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nMiss Alex Volkoff, BA'71, a former\npart-time Vancouver Sun reporter,\nrecently moved to Ottawa where she\nplans to take up journalism full-time.\n10 UBC's 'Radical'\nStudent Government\nOnly The Slogan\nIs New\nPlus ca change; plus c'est la\nmeme chose.\nFor the past five months all the\ntalk at the university has been\ncentred on one thing\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Human\nGovernment. Some speak of it in\nterms appropriate to the Second\nComing. Others express anxiety\nabout what the new regime will\nbring. No one can really know\nwhat the final impact of this new\nAMS council will be on the university but I think people might\nbe well advised to remember the\nold French proverb above.\nLooking on the radical side to\nbegin with, the human government is the first group in recent\nyears to enter the AMS elections\nas a slate. Oh sure, people knew\nwhat side of the fence candidates\nlike Stan Persky and Fraser Hodge\nwere on, but more often students\nwere faced with a ballot which\nMark Kaarremaa\nAlex Volkoff\ndidn't have a single familiar name\non it. Voting became arbitrary\nand a mere gesture. But the human\ngovernment presented a solidarity\nand unity that dazzled the constituency, never mind what their platform was. In two days they plastered the campus with blocks of\nposters and won the day with a\nblitzkrieg publicity campaign.\nAdded to this were issues no one\ncould argue with\u00E2\u0080\u0094more Canadian\ncourse content, the democratization\nof the university and the end of\nstudent unemployment. Perhaps the\nmost radical aspect of the human\ngovernment they presented to the\nvoters was the length of their hair.\nPerhaps it is more illuminating\nto look at the other side of the\ncoin and see how little different\nthe human government is from any\nother student council. \"I didn't\nrun so I could sit in this office and\nget important phone calls from important people,\" says president\nSteve Garrod. But that's what he\nseems to be doing. It's amazing\nhow musical telephones and carpeted floors can subvert the best of\nintentions.\nThe most striking example of\nwhat the campus might be in for\nnext year is the relationship between the new council and The\nUbyssey. Traditionally the student\npaper has always opposed the student government and has put all\nits energies behind ridiculing, exposing and knifing council members.\nThe basis for this has been that the\nstudent journalists were always to\nthe left of student politicians and\nStudent government executive includes (left to right): Evert Hoogers,\nSue Kennedy, Colin Portnuff,\nCarole Buzas, Dave Mole, president\nSteve Garrod, and Jan O'Brien. this made for a good line of attack.\nThis year the council is, if anything, more left than Ubyssey staffers and the paper is bereft of its\ntraditional form of battle.\nThe curious part is that the paper campaigned long and hard to\nget the human government slate\ninto office. Now that they have\nsucceeded, what have they got left\nto fight for? Well, presumably the\ntwo should work together to promote the ideals of both bodies and\nfor once present a unified face to\nthe outside world. Herein lies the\nproblem. Very early in the summer the human government started\nlaying down exactly which line The\nUbyssey is to follow this coming\nyear. Staffers went along so far,\nbut before long started saying, now\njust a minute! and wondering just\nwhat kind of monster they had\nhelped give birth to. The Ubyssey\nrefused to be told by anyone what\nthey should be printing and the\nhuman government couldn't understand the sudden reversal in opinion. \"But we're all friends and think\nalong the same lines,\" was the hurt\nresponse. \"We're just trying to help\nyou out by showing you what to\nthink,\" was the implication Ubyssey\nstaffers heard. Their simple retort\nwas: \"The human government is\nbecoming much more dictatorial\nthan any liberal AMS council ever\nwas.\"\nIn the same way, for all their\ntalk about working for, and getting\nclose to the people, the human\ngovernment is not about to let the\npeople know about their program\nuntil they are good and ready. During one interview I had with two of\nthe human government \"heavies\",\nthe pair talked around issues and\nnever once strayed from a hackneyed radical Une for two hours.\nFinally they had to admit their generalizations and evasions were quite\non purpose. To begin with they\ndidn't want to let out any surprises\nbefore the time was ripe. But more\nimportant they admitted that general membership in the caucus did\nnot appreciate statements on policy\nbeing given out by heavies on the\nexecutive all the time when they\nhad a hand in the decisions too.\nNow we can only wait and see\nwhat happens. At best the human\ngovernment will carry out a successful program and unite the ener\ngies of students to develop a critical\nuniversity. At worst people on\ncampus will over-react to what the\nhuman government is trying to do\nand lay the foundations for battle\nlines. But most likely UBC will progress at the same speed it always\nhas\u00E2\u0080\u0094neither faster nor slower.\nGarrod says now that he is elected\nstudents come up to him on campus\nand ask him what he's going to do\nfor the university. \"As president of\nthe AMS I can give interviews, talk\non the phones, but / can't do anything. So I turn to them and say,\nwell, what are you going to do, or\nwhat are we going to do. It's only\nall of us together who are going to\ndo anything.\"\nHe's quite right. The problem is\nhe'll have to wait forever before the\nstudents take an active interest.\nRight now the human government\nelected representatives are surrounded by people who think the\nsame way they do and it is very\neasy for them to delude themselves into thinking they have a\nwider base of support than they\nreally have. But then and again,\nthat's what every AMS council\ndoes. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nPack all your cares and\nIn 71\nTRAVEL\nJust for the Fun of It!\nGO B.C.A.A.\nYou'll Enjoy It More!\nB\nC\nA\nA\nY LAND - SEA - OR AIR\nBCAA WORLD TRAVEL SERVICE is\nunsurpassed in personalized attention\nRUISES - INDIVIDUAL OR ESCORTED\nWide choice from passenger-freighters\nto luxurious Ocean Liners\nIRLINE TICKETING - Business or Pleasure\nAccommodation reservations - all details\ntaken care of\nNYWHERE IN THE WORLD YOU WANT\nTO GO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 You can rely on\nBCAA WORLD TRAVEL SERVICE\nFor All Transportation Tickets and Accommodation Reservations Contact\nBCAA WORLD TRAVEL SERVICE\nVancouver Victoria New Westminster Nanaimo Penticton Kamloops Prince George\n845 Burrard St. 1075 Pandora 755 Sixth St. Northbrook 302 Martin Thompson Spruceland\n682-4433 382-8171 521-3791 Mall 492-7016 Park Centre\n758-7377 372-9577 563-0417\nA MOST TRUSTED NAME IN TRAVEL\n12 Faculty\nLong Locks\nDo Not\nA Radical Make\nViveca Ohm\nWHERE WOULD YOU START looking\nfor the new breed of faculty\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the firebrands that would logically\ngo with the much-analyzed new\nbreed of students? Well, you could\nleaf through a few TIME magazines\nfrom the late sixties, you could\ncheck out the bigger universities in\nthe States and scout around up the\nmountain in Burnaby. But as for\n'UBC, you would have come to the\nwrong place.\nSurprised? After all, the public\nand the media seem to find young\nfaculty members by the score taking political stands, being noisily\ndismissed, waving petitions and\nSPEC placards. All the while, of\ncourse, arousing still more suspicion\nby looking like their students! Do\nthey not constitute a radical\nelement?\nAnd for the students who find\nthemselves, after feeling like punch-\ncards in a maze of offices and classrooms, sitting around a table with\nsome near-peer in a paint-splashed\nshirt who begins by saying it's not\nhis wish to lay his trip on them\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nis not that a welcome indication\nthat the faculty are no longer the\nremote and stodgy reactionaries\nthey are expected to be?\nAnd yet, long locks do not a\nradical make. New breed? Afraid\nnot. More like a few mutations\nshouting above the polite click of a\nthousand expensive ball-point pens.\nA bit of a disappointment for\nsomeone who has been looking at\nthe faculty through outside eyes.\nHow much more exciting is the\nvision of an army of idealistic\nyoung assistant professors sweeping\naside the old order. Wandering with\na small group of debaters around a\nflower-studded campus, a combination of Socrates and Donovan.\nDrinking beer on the carpets of\nconverted classrooms, making a\n22,000-strong multiversity a downright cozy place to be.\nBarely a glimmer thereof. But at\nleast the archetypal faculty member\nporing over his research behind\nclosed doors while his neglected\nstudents pore over dead lecture\nnotes is almost\u00E2\u0080\u0094if not quite\u00E2\u0080\u0094as\nmisleading, for the faculty is moving, at its own pace. Which may\nbe described as one of academic\ndignity, or reactionary snail-tempo,\ndepending on where you stand.\nUBC's sedateness compared to institutions like Simon Fraser, is\npartly due to the greater number\nof senior and conservative faculty\nwho provide a buffer against upheavals. But in almost every department at present, committees\nare examining teaching improvement and curriculum reform.\nAmong the few generalizations\nthat can be made about the UBC\nfaculty, it's safe to say that it has\ngrown both larger and younger.\nTen years ago, the number of full-\ntime faculty members was 699. That\nincluded everyone from lecturer to\ndean. Today that figure has jumped\nto 1,539. And since the student\npopulation in the same period has\nnot increased at the same rate (it\nhas barely doubled) the allocation\nof faculty to students is slightly\nmore generous.\nLarger means younger. The influx\nof recent graduates has lowered the\naverage age to somewhere in the\nearly 40's.\nAre the incoming faculty members any better prepared or better\neducated than they would have been\n30 years ago? Yes, say most of the\ndepartment heads. It is the currently\nglutted job market that is responsible for the improvement in quality.\nBecause they are flooded with applications, deans and department\n13 \"Teaching is\na sadly neglected\nfunction\non this campus.\"\nheads can afford to be much more\nchoosy in getting top-notch people.\nA blunter explanation claims that\ntop scholars who otherwise would\nhave ensconced themselves in prestige universities in the east or in the\nStates are \"having to settle for\nUBC.\" In any case, the academic\ntone of UBC has apparently been\nraised.\nAnd slowly, hopefully\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cana-\ndianized. When qualified people\nabound, the university can afford to\npay more attention to the touchy\nquestion of whether they are imports or home-grown. \"All things\nbeing equal, we hire Canadians,\"\nalmost every department claims. But\nthey lay great stress on the \"all\nthings being equal.\"\nBut regardless of age, nationality,\nor discipline, there is greater pressure on faculty members than ever\nbefore. Pressure from students who\ninsist on better communication, pressure of swelling competition on a\nshrinking job market, pressure to\npublish, to obtain tenure, and, having got tenure, pressure to fulfill\nthe triple role of teacher, scholar,\nand server on committees, the latter\ninvolving a continual web of memos\nand reports to be written.\nThe faculty over the years has\nalso acquired increased power in\nthe running of the university. But,\naccording to Assistant Dean of\nArts, Dr. Donald Soule, most faculty\nmembers are unaware of this power.\nAnd possibly indifferent to it.\nWhy, for example, do only 100\nfaculty out of a membership of\naround 1,300 attend faculty association meetings? The majority are\napparently not interested unless the\nagenda touches on issues that concern them personally or significantly\naffect their department.\nThe faculty association, which\nis open to every full-time instructor\nat the university, handles such\n14\nmatters as salary and individual\ngrievances. With 100 per cent support it could 'also be a tremendously\npowerful force at the forefront of\nuniversity grievances\u00E2\u0080\u0094or reform. At\npresent it seems, faculty feel they\ncan exert more power and influence\nthrough their department and faculty\ncommittee structures.\nBut even such a tradition-tilting\nmovement as the abolition of rank\ndrew only the usual tiny quorum in\na faculty association meeting, which\npassed the motion 54-31. The final\ndecision is up to UBC's board of\ngovernors.\nThere is clearly a greater loyalty\nand commitment to one's own discipline than to the institution as a\nwhole. That is no doubt natural in\na university this size; maybe it is the\nonly way to cope with its enormity.\nBut what happens to the \"community of scholars\" when a professor works, eats, and plays golf only\nwith members of his own department?\nClassics head Dr. Malcolm McGregor who \"couldn't be persuaded\nto leave here for money\", insists\nthat his first loyalty is to the university. \"This is my university. I\nbelong to it, and I am prepared to\ndefend it when necessary.\"\nThis kind of commitment presupposes an overview, a sense of the\ninstitution that often takes three or\nfour years to grow. But zoology professor Dr. David Suzuki agrees that\nthis overview should be expected\nof every faculty member. But for\nhim the purpose is not so much\nloyalty as reform. Those who do not\nsee beyond their own departments\nare dismissed by Dr. McGregor as\nselfish and by Dr. Suzuki as\nirresponsible.\nTo overcome the \"cubicling\"\nwithin his own vast precincts, the\ndean of arts has started informal\nafternoon meetings with newer\nmembers of the faculty to get to\nknow some of their opinions and to\nexchange interdepartmental problems. Although assistant dean Soule\nagrees that a larger minority than\never before\u00E2\u0080\u0094in the university as a\nwhole\u00E2\u0080\u0094are involved in community\nconcerns, he finds that most new\nfaculty members are still \"too busy\nwith their own work to be directly\ninvolved in campus or social issues,\nand show little inclination to participate.\" So it isn't the expected\nyoung who are necessarily spearheading whatever reforms are under way.\nThe chief criticism of the faculty\nhas long centred on teaching. This\nyear the complaints of the students\nabout poor or uninspired teaching\nculminated in a pile of indignant\nstatements. The M.B.A. (Master of\nBusiness Administration) Student\nAssociation felt \"teaching to be a\nsadly neglected function on this\ncampus.\" The AMS report on\ntenure practices claimed that \"the\npursuit of tenure can detract from\nteaching due to the de-emphasis of\nit\" and that \"tenure, designed to\nprotect the interesting and outspoken teacher, is often apologist for\nthe deadhead.\" With the AMS following suit, the Graduate Student\nAssociation refused to have anything to do with the choosing of\nthe Master Teachers and scorned\nthe award as a token attempt to\ncover up the bad teaching situation\nat UBC by \"doling out a few dollars\nto a couple of people each year.\"\nNonetheless, the two Master\nTeacher Awards went out and were\nreceived with proper enthusiasm by\nassistant French professor Dr.\nFloyd B. St. Clair and zoology professor Dr. Peter Larkin. Both are\nadvocates of an informal teaching\napproach.\nContinued p. 16 The Importance\nOf Teaching\nDr. David Suzuki\nT\"\R. DAVID SUZUKI of ZOOlogy\nU denies that he is a New Breed\ntype of professor although his blunt\nstatements, his television show, his\nhip public image would seem to\nmake him a Number One candidate.\nIf Dr. Suzuki isn't one of a new\nbreed, then there aren't any on the\nUBC faculty. The following collage\nof Suzuki thoughts run a range of\nfaculty flaws:\nMy most important function is\nteaching, obviously. But I think that\ncan be defined in many ways . . .\nwe have to distinguish between real\nteaching and lecturing. One of the\nthings the university has never faced\nup to is that it's so big it's become\nimpossible to teach.\nPeople have never sat down\u00E2\u0080\u0094at\nleast not since I've been here\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nasked what is the primary role of\nthe university? I've tried this in my\nown department and said \"Look,\nwe don't know where we're going.\nLet's get together and spend two\nor three days with each other and\ntry to figure out what we're after.\"\nAnd the whole attitude is \"Christ,\nyou'll never get agreement,\" so we\nalL. bumble along, and everybody is\non their own power trip\u00E2\u0080\u0094the administration, the Faculty of Arts,\nthis department. And what happens?\nThe ultimate person who loses out\nis the student.\nWe never use as our primary\ncriterion the student and his education, and to me that's the only\njustification for all the committees,\nranks, and so on.\nMost of us regard the lower-year\ncourses as the drag courses. We're\nall trying to get courses in upper\ndivision so we can teach our specialty. At Harvard and MIT the\nfirst-year biology course is the prestige course, the most important\ncourse. We've got it all backward.\nBy the time a student gets to third\nand fourth year, he's committed to\nan area and he can put up with a\nlot poorer profs.\nI think a lot of the problems can\nbe diminished if we have a true attempt at democratization, that is,\nwhere the administration, the faculty, and the students all have the\nsame amount of input.\nI personally don't attend faculty\nmeetings; part of this is due to a\nfeeling of total impotence. You\ncan spend a year writing up a magnificent report with recommendations and it'll be dismissed in five\nminutes . . . When I was on a\nfaculty committee here we spent\nweeks trying to hammer out what\nwe were trying to do in zoology, and\nproposed a very radical new teaching approach. We really believed in\nit and thought we were leaning over\nbackwards to be objective. It was\nbrought up at the faculty meeting,\nthe committee members were\nthanked, it was discussed very briefly, and that was it.\nI think the most vulnerable point\nthe faculty has is its own sense of\npride. I see no reason why student\nevaluations of teachers shouldn't be\npublished like a big list with stars\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"good, lousy, should be booted out\nof university . . .\"\nI think faculty will do what they\ncan within their own little empire,\nbut few will sacrifice their piece of\nthe departmental pie in terms of\nmoney for labs, courses they've invented, out-of-date areas, in order\nto become more effective teachers.\nWe still teach as if we had to\ncover all the information in a field\nin four years. We have to face it\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthere's no way. Like when I teach\na genetics course, within six months\nthere will be so much new information that the kids who took it will\nbe behind . . .\nI suspect that we, the faculty who\nare here now, can't do anything\nabout this. We belong to the older\ngeneration, we're the prehistoric\nmonsters that are still hanging\naround ... I think new people in\nscience and technology have to come\nin and train a whole new group of\nteachers a whole new approach. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\n15 'The doctrine of\npublish or perish\ndoes not exist\nat this university.\"\nDr. St. Clair, who says he nas\nalways been \"somewhat free-wheeling\" in his approach, feels that one\nmust relate as a total person to one's\nstudents rather than regarding the\nteaching role as a separate part of\none's personality. Dr. Larkin says\nthat \"the exciting part of the profession is to get to know the students, to encourage them, and discover how talented they are at doing\nwhat they are good at.\" He feels\nthat good teaching cannot happen\nwithout this personal side. \"If I\ncould have. 20 students, 20 hours a\nweek, it would be an educational\nparadise.\"\nLong regarded as the mainstay\nof the old guard, Dr. Malcolm McGregor is suspicious of informal\ntrends. \"It's not necessary to dress\nand talk like the more erratic students to prove that you are a good\nteacher.\" And \"Unscrewing all the\nchairs doesn't increase teaching\nefficiency; this is an artificial\nattempt.\"\nWhile defending the adequacy of\nlectures for first and second year\nstudents who \"should be collecting\nfacts first,\" Dr. McGregor also says\nthat \"any teacher who takes teaching seriously is always looking for\nnew things, new approaches.\"\n\"Over the years, I've learned a\ngreat deal from students; they have\ngood ideas. But this has not been\ndone by questionnaires, but by chatting, and by students coming in to\ntalk about the department.\" He\nnotes with some pride that the classics department uses no markers, a\nfairly rare situation even in the\nsmaller departments. And, indicating a half dozen doors down the\nhall, he points out that there are\nno office hours specified. \"We are\nalways here.\"\nWhat is the primary function of\nthe faculty? According to the students it is teaching. According to the\nFaculty Handbook, the role involves\nequally teaching and research, with\na smaller section of administrative\nduties wedged in. But is it possible\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094or reasonable\u00E2\u0080\u0094to expect that\nkind of neat role-division from 1,500\nindividuals with widely disparate\ntalents? Or to place the same importance on research in both arts\nand science, when literature as a\nsubject depends far less on new\nfindings than does chemistry?\nWhat should be the first consider\nation? The question made many\nfaculty members uncomfortable.\nFew said \"teaching\" without hesitation. Many felt the existing structure was perfectly adequate and\nallowed for flexibility. All felt it was\nimpossible to be a good teacher\nwithout keeping up in one's field.\nSome added that it was something\nakin to a moral obligation to share\nfindings with one's colleagues\nthrough publication.\nFew faculty (and probably fewer\nstudents) would go so far as to agree\nwith Dr. McGregor that \"the doctrine of publish or perish does not\nexist at this university.\" But it is\nobviously harder to evaluate a man's\nteaching' than his pile of publications. It would seem that the most\ndirect way is to go to his classroom\nand listen. In a few departments\nthis is done, but generally the classroom is considered the professor's\nprivate domain. You just don't drop\nin without warning.\nOddly enough the strongest opposition to visitation has come from\njunior faculty. Or perhaps not so\nodd\u00E2\u0080\u0094the idea carries with it an air\nof \"inspection by one's superiors.\"\nBut it needn't be approached on\nthose terms. If all faculty\u00E2\u0080\u0094junior,\nsenior, teaching assistants\u00E2\u0080\u0094were\nvisited by department heads, and\nwere free to visit each other, to\ncompare notes, if more classes were\ntaught in teams of two or more, if\neach department explored the particular teaching problems of its own\ndiscipline, and if departments communicated more with each other on\nboth teaching and research, both\nteaching and courses couldn't help\nbut improve. Across the campus\nthese attempts are slowly growing.\nIn the English department, a\nPhD candidate noted that during\nhis two years as a teaching assistant, no one had ever come to see\nhow he handled his class. Department head Dr. Robert Jordan acknowledges \"slippage regarding first\nand second year classes,\" but promises a change. Team teaching is\nbecoming an important approach.\nGreater communication between\nteachers and between departments\nis being urged. Groups of three\nteaching assistants and one experienced professor are being organized\nto talk over problems. The course\nallotment is also being re-arranged\nso that more senior faculty will be\nteaching first-year courses rather\n16 than graduate student teaching\nassistants.\nThe comparative neglect of lower-\nlevel courses is an important problem, most noticeable in the Faculty\nof Arts. Teaching assistants may be\nlively and enthusiastic, but they\noften lack a sense of students' capabilities. Dr. St. Clair feels lower-\nlevel courses are the most demanding, and suggests TAs should be\nteaching graduate courses. Assistant\nphilosophy professor Ed Levy would\nlike the whole teaching emphasis\nbrought down to first and second\nyear level where \"the students need\nit most.\"\nThe Arts 1 program has, according to Dr. Kubicek, had a tremendous feedback into the arts faculty.\nIt has resulted in greater awareness\nof teaching methods, exchange of\nideas, and more self-discipline. But\nthere is a problem in getting instructors, in re-educating them, and\nin recognizing the limitations of\ntheir expertise. Science is instituting\na similar program, a nine-unit\nScience 1. But Prof. Levy insists that\nthis kind of development is only one\nkind of curriculum reform\u00E2\u0080\u0094other\nstructures, or non-structures, must\nfollow.\nThe question of community involvement is also touchy. The\nofficial stand is that participation in\nsocial issues is fine so long as it\ndoe's not interfere with academic\nresponsibilities. A rather flexible\nboundary. But many younger faculty\nmembers claim this means school\nboards, government commissions,\ncorporation surveys are benevolently\napproved while controversial issues\nsuch as ecology, civil liberties and\nU.S. war-objectors, are viewed with\nsuspicion.\nThat, of course, ties in with the\nquestion of whether the university\nshould be aloof from society, an\n\"objective interpreter\", or whether\nit should be an integral part of it,\nproviding leadership on social questions. The first has been called a\n\"ghetto mentality.\" But, bigger,\nyounger, and sporadically radical\nthough it may be, the bulk of the\nUBC faculty still prefers aloofness. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nVancouver freelance writer Miss Viv-\neca Ohm graduated from UBC in\n1969 with a BA in English.\n\Ne want you\nto get\nyour money's worth.\nBank of Montreal\nThe First Canadian Bank\n\"At the Bank of Montreal, we wish\nto be unique among banks. Unique\nin that we wish to serve not only as\na place where you can deposit and\nborrow money. But we also want to\nshow you how to get the most for\nyour money.\n\"After all, we've become one of\nthe largest banks in the world, and\nwho should know more about money?\nThat's why all our efforts are dedicated to giving you advice that will\nhelp you in your depositing and\nborrowing. We want you to get your\nmoney's worth.\"\n17 The\nStatus Quo\nUnder\nChallenge\nI KEEP HAVING THIS DREAM\nabout the UBC senate. I see row\nupon row of solemn-faced senators\nsitting at long wooden tables rising in\ntiers along the sides of a narrow,\nhigh-walled Gothic hall. The light is\ndim, but by the flickering candlelight\nwe can see that the members, all\ndressed uniformly in black, clutch\nquill pens in their aging hands. They\nare acutely uncomfortable in their\nhigh-backed wooden chairs, but they\npress manfully on. The question up\nfor discussion is a course called:\nEarth: Flat or . . .? The importance\nof the decision weighs heavily on\neach and every member. The debate\npresses on with one creaky voice following another, almost endlessly\nuntil the vote finally comes. Tt always\nends in one of two ways: the question\nis tabled or it is sent to a committee\nfor further study.\nYes, of course it's just a dream.\nOh, it must be. UBC doesn't have any\nGothic halls that I know of. But then,\non the other hand (as they say in\nsenate), UBC's senate is not exactly\nan electronic light show. Oh yes it's\na dream, at least I think it is. . .\n\"The senate in many ways is a\ntight network of old boys. If one did\nan examination of membership in the\nsenate, length of time, position on the\ncommittees, you'd find that all the old\nboys have been there since the year\ndot just about.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Senate member Dr. Walter\nYoung in an interview, June 1971.\n\"The fact that many individuals\ncontinue ... to serve on university\ngoverning bodies has led to charges\nby radical elements that these bodies\nare self-perpetuating groups which\nare sunk in inertia and are uninterested in new ideas and effecting\nchange. It should be apparent... that\nan overlapping membership ensures\nthat a governing body has a reservoir of people who are knowledgeable about University affairs and are\nable to bring a certain amount of historical perspective to bear on matters\nunder discussion.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094President Walter Gage, in his\nannual report, 1969-70.\n\"I don't think it's true to say the\nsenate isn't directing the university\nanywhere. I think the problem is the\nsenate is directing the university very\nspecifically, in a very conservative\nsense. It is heavily weighted at the\nmoment on the side of non-change\nand that's a direction. That's a very\nspecific choice senate makes.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dr. Cyril Belshaw, chairman of\na committee on long-range objectives whose report was emasculated by senate.\n\"I think it safe to say that the\n(Belshaw) report confronted the university with the necessity of making\ndecisions on a number of important\nissues which had to be resolved for\nthe future benefit of faculty members\nand students.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094President Gage, in his 1969-70\nannual report.\n\"Senate ... if it continues in its\npresent form, doing the things it has\nbeen doing for the last two or three\nyears, will in effect not only destroy its own effectiveness, it will inhibit the university and may even\ndestroy it as the institution as we see\nit at the present time.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Senate member Dr. CA. McDowell in an interview, June\n1971.\nWell, I suppose it all depends on\nwhere you sit. If you're a member of\nan administration that is managing to\nkeep the lid on in these troubled\ntimes, that probably looks like progress itself. But if you happen to be a\nfaculty member who expects the university to be vital and alive and ready\nto move with the times, this is a very\nfrustrating period. Nowhere is this\nseen better than in the senate.\nThe senate these days is a body\nsharply divided. Unquestionably, the\nupper hand is held by the forces of\nthe status quo, a conservative\nelement which is little interested in\npressing for academic reform and innovation at UBC. But the status quo\nis increasingly under challenge. A\nsmaller group of senators\u00E2\u0080\u0094including\nboth faculty and students\u00E2\u0080\u0094feel that\nmajor changes are essential. One result is that even in this supreme academic body, positions have become\nhardened and issues frequently now\ntake on a symbolic quality. Says a\nmore liberal member of senate:\n\"Change these days is identified with\nradicalism when quite often it\nshouldn't be. This is quite clearly the\nworst possible time in the university's\nhistory for introducing major\nchange.\"\nSo what is the function of the senate? The Universities Act states that:\n\"It is the duty of the senate and it has\npower to provide for the government,\nmanagement and carrying out of curriculum, instruction and education\noffered by the university.\" A simple definition, but one which, particularly today, results in serious\nproblems.\nOne of the main troubles is that\nnobody is really sure what the section\nof the Act means. The more conservative members of the senate take the\nview that anything which in any way\ninvolves money isn't a subject for\n18 Keith Bradbury looks at the UBC Senate senate but for the board of governors. The more liberally-minded\nmembers of senate take a broader\nview. As Dr. Belshaw says: \"You\ncannot manage unless you deal with\nthe resources. You've got to distribute resources and that means\nmoney. That phrase indicates senate\nhas a concern with money. But it is\nnot interpreted that way. Senate has\nsupported the interpretation that\nonly the board is concerned with\nmoney.\"\nIf this all sounds like a kind of\nesoteric semantical battle, don't underestimate it. It is fundamental.\nThose who don't want the university\nto do any given thing, or follow any\ngiven path, can frequently argue that\nit is outside the senate's terms of reference because it deals with money;\nthat only the board can deal with it.\nThose who want change in fact contend that the conservatives, including\nthe administration, frequently take\nrefuge behind this legalistic distinction to avoid having to deal with legitimate issues raised in the senate.\nSome senators, however, maintain\nthat the board is less scrupulous in\nobserving the distinction between financial and academic functions.\nThey argue that the board has,\namong other things, initiated such\n\"academic\" projects as the water resources centre, the industrial relations centre and TRIUMF.\nAdding to the frustration of those\nwho see a need for academic change\nin the university is the way in which\nsenate itself is run. President Gage,\nwho is chairman of senate, had this\nto say about the matter in his 1969-\n70 annual report; \"Those who have\nobserved the inner workings of a university will know that, by and large,\ninstitutions of higher learning are\ncomplex democracies that operate by\nconsensus achieved in countless\nmeetings of committees, large and\nsmall.\" But not everyone agrees with\nthis statement. Dr. Walter Young,\nhead of political science, frankly\ncharges: \"The senate is run by\nWalter Gage.\"\nFrom this point of view, the problem apparently centres on the lack of\nsystematic procedure. Roberts Rules\nof Order, for example, are not used\nin senate deliberations. \"It's the best\nexample of the Gage style\", says Dr.\nYoung. \"No procedure. He specifically eschews the use of procedure.\nAnd so, as a result, you find that at\none meeting, somebody will move a\nmotion under new business and it'll\nbe discussed and debated and disposed of at that point. At another\nmeeting, somebody will move a motion that is distasteful and so it's\nconsidered to be notice of motion.\nAnd at yet another meeting, somebody will move a motion that is even\nmore distasteful and it will be accepted. The rules are designed to suit\nthe circumstances.\"\nIn fairness, however, it should be\npointed out that the majority of senators have not protested this lack of\nprocedure. It is apparently acceptable to most of them. But it is clear,\nhowever, that this lack of procedure\ncan make it easy for senate to sidestep difficult fundamental issues. And\nthis can only be frustrating to those\nacademics who believe the university\nneeds major reform.\nEqually irritating is the fact that\nit's difficult, even for a senate member, to get hard information on the\nuniversity. Incredibly, some committees set up by senate, just don't\nreport; others report only to the president. One experienced senate member says the senate budget committee\nhas never reported to senate so far\nas he knows. As for the buildings\ncommittee, \"it reported last year or\nthe year before but it hasn't reported\nsince.\"\nAnother member complains that\nthe university financial report, required to be presented to senate, goes\nonly to the president, \"who puts it\ndown in a cupboard and locks it away\nsomewhere.\" Student senator Art\nSmolensky, who tried to get a copy of\nthe university's investment portfolio\nto see how it is invested, says he can't\nget it. \"They will not give me a copy,\nyet they make copies for every investment house in town and they\nsend them around every quarter.\"\nOne result of all this is that some\nsenators feel endless amounts of time\nare wasted on trivial details\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nsenate becomes, among other things,\na very unrewarding experience for\nthose who would like to see it dealing\nwith broader issues. Dr. Walter\nYoung, for one, charges that many\nof the more senior people on senate\njust don't want to be bothered with\nthe more complex issues.\n\"They say\u00E2\u0080\u0094'We came here to say\nyes or no to Plant Science 400, why\nbother us with how many Indians are\nat UBC and what is the social background of these people and so on.\nWe're not really interested in that\nand if we were so what? What could\nwe do about it?' \" To them, he says,\nsenate is a club. \"You get together\nand have a chance to get up and debate and be witty.\"\nYes, they do debate and they deal\nwith things like degrees, course\nchanges, scholarships and honorary\ndegrees. Why course changes\ncouldn't be delegated to the faculties\nis something that some members of\nsenate would like to know. As for\napproving degrees, they come in a\nwad an inch thick and are approved\n19 \u00E2\u0080\u0094without ever being read\u00E2\u0080\u0094in about\n10 seconds flat, according to one senator. Scholarships? \"The only person who reads them is someone who\nwants to see if his son or daughter or\nneighbor or friend has got one,\" says\nDr. C. A. McDowell, head of chemistry. \"Senate has become a terribly\nineffective body. There should be a\ncommittee struck to reorganize senate very drastically,\" he says.\nDr. Robert Clark, director of the\noffice of academic planning, was\nquick to point out, in response to\nquestioning, where the blame should\nlie for the senate's weaknesses. \"In\nthe first place,\" he said, \"if the senate is not dealing effectively with the\nbasic questions of curriculum then\nthat is essentially the fault of the faculty, because the faculty, through\nmembership and otherwise, dominate\nthe discussions of senate. If there is\ninsufficient discussion of curriculum\nthen this reflects two considerations,\nnamely, the natural concern of departments and faculties to protect\nr tfieir own autonomy, and an uncer-\n\ tainty on the part of faculty about\nj what are the most important objec-\n! tives of the university and the best\n1 ways to achieve them.\"\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\"\"\"Dr. Clark, however, notes that\nsenate has always dealt with some\nof the basic academic questions fac-\ning the university. But he does agree\nwTtEThe criticism that senate is not\ngiving \"enough consideration to what\n.are to be the main goals of the uni-_\nyersity_,'r And that \"is essentially the\npoint.\nOf course, if you start out with a\nconservative bias and you're bogged\ndown in mechanical trivia, then\nchances are you're not really going\nto get at the \"big\" issues. There is\nsome evidence this is the case. Consider the following matters and their\ndisposal:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The report of the committee on\nlong range objectives, which proposed fundamental reorganization of\nUBC: mostly tabled or defeated;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A proposal to abolish rank for\nprofessors: dismissed as a matter for\nthe board, not senate;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A proposal that the university\nsell off its American stocks (at the\ntime these stocks were thought to be\nworth three quarters of a million\ndollars): referred to the board without comment.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A motherhood motion on pollution: defeated.\n20\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A proposal to examine the university's role in society: defeated.\nAnd so on. There is no shortage of\nexamples.\nThe presence of students on the\nsenate has made some of these issues\nmore glaringly obvious. Some of the\nstudents are not overly impressed by\ntradition and ritual and the lofty importance with which some senate\nmembers feel their deliberations\nshould be attended. Some student\nsenators also feel strongly that some\nissues must be raised whether or not\nthey are within the purview of issues\nsenate has historically dealt with.\nThe result is tension. On at least one\noccasion, I was told, one student senator was booed and hissed by some\nfaculty senators. But the more usual\nreception for the students is apparently one of \"restrained tolerance.\"\nIn the end, however, the badgering\nby the students\u00E2\u0080\u0094free from the inhibitions that might limit promotion-\nconscious faculty members\u00E2\u0080\u0094may\nwell help to push senate to the point\nof doing a proper re-examination of\nits functions.\nThere is no shortage of ideas for\nreform of the senate. The matter has\nbeen a subject for study by numerous\ncommittees. Their reports are still to\nbe found in assorted cubbyholes\naround the university. But one essential reform raised by most of the\npeople with whom I spoke is the\nbringing together of the financial and\nthe academic decision-making power.\nThe senate, as the university's supreme academic governing body, is in\nlarge measure responsible for what\nkind of university UBC becomes.\nThe university has made significant\nprogress over the years, despite financial obstacles, but today there are\nalarming signs of drift just when the\ntimes seem to demand new departures in the academic orientation of\nthe university. If the senate is not\nreformed, the university may well\nsuffer.\nTo Dr. McDowell, reform of the\nsenate is imperative as the alternative is unthinkable. Expanding on his\ncontention that senate as it is presently operating could destroy the\nuniversity, he said: \"It will destroy\nthe university as an intellectual force\nin the community because it is\nbogged down in trivialities. The result is that people with initiative in\nthe university are beginning to feel\nthat there's no possibility of chang\ning the university and making it more\nappropriate to the contemporary\nsocial society and contemporary educational society and the contemporary needs of mankind.\n\"And so they get disenchanted,\nand they do one of two things: they\nwill leave this institution, and I think\nthere's evidence that this is happening, or that they will simply retreat\ninto some academic ivory tower and\nget on with their teaching and research and the university will be the\nless place for not having the advice\nand interests of these people being\nexpressed on measures.\"\nContinuance of the present state of\naffairs may in fact represent a disservice to the future of higher education in B.C., in Dr. Belshaw's view.\n\"What concerns me at the moment\"\nhe said, \"is that a lot of long-range\nissues that are going to be hurting\nus around 1980 need decisions now\nwhich will affect the outcome and\neverbody's too darned busy to give\nthem attention. Nobody's giving attention to the demographic growth\nin this province, the population\ngrowth in this province which is going away beyond all forecasts. We\nare now roughly where all the forecasts said we would be by 1978 or\n1979.\"\nFor those faculty concerned about\nending the drift in university academic affairs, membership on senate\nis clearly a demoralizing and frustrating experience. There is now increasing doubt as to whether the\nUBC senate\u00E2\u0080\u0094like its Ottawa counterpart\u00E2\u0080\u0094will ever become an effective institution.\nAs Dr. Walter Young said: \"I\noften wonder\u00E2\u0080\u0094and I sometimes ask\nother people this\u00E2\u0080\u0094'Why do we go to\nsenate at all?' \"\nWell, I asked him, why do you\ngo?\n\"I don't know. I guess I go in case\nsomething might just come up.\"\nWho knows, something might. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nVancouver freelance writer Keith\nBradbury, BA '66, LLB'69, is a former Vancouver Sun reporter. He was\neditor of The Ubyssey in 1962-63. shels the life of the party\nQueen Anne has a way of making friends. This rare\nScotch is a blend of finest whiskies so give a big hand\nfor the little lady \u00E2\u0080\u0094 you're in good company\nThis advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liqu\nquor Control Board or by the Government of\nBritish Columbia\n21 Board of Governors\nThe\nClosed Doors\nHide No Ogres\nAlex Volkoff\nTT'VER SINCE ITS INCEPTION UBC's\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^board of governors has operated\nunder the unenviable image of university bogeyman. Board members\nare cast as the campus ogres, raising cafeteria prices one day, cutting\ndown on funds for a building the\nnext and generally keeping a careful eye on the direction of education for Uncle Cece.\nIt's their own fault, really. If\nfaculty and students alike see the\nboard as the elitist club on campus,\nmembers themselves do nothing to\ncontradict the notion. The closest\nstudents ever get is the board's\nannual dinner with the Alma Mater\nSociety where the board pays for\nthe privilege of dining with the\nyounger generation.\nReporters find this determination\nto keep a low profile frustrating but\nit's more than just habit\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's board\npolicy. In the face of criticism board\nmembers rarely react with anything\nlouder than silence. \"We'd rather be\nmisunderstood and not praised for\nour good actions than be accused\n22 Examining a detailed report are\nmembers of UBC's board of governors (left to right) Art Fouks\n(immediate foreground, back to\ncamera); Donovan Miller; Paul\nPlant; Les Bewley; David Williams;\nWalter Koerner; Mrs. Beverley\nLecky; chairman John Liersch;\nUBC vice-president (finance) Bill\nWhite; UBC President Walter Gage;\nUBC vice-president (academic) Bill\nArmstrong; secretary; and (back\nto camera) A llan McGavin.\nof blowing our own horns,\" they\nearnestly explain.\nUnfortunately it is just this aura\nof secrecy that gives students ample\nexcuse to suspect the board of\nreally getting away with something\nbehind their firmly closed doors. No\none really knows what the board\ndoes so it is very easy to pin the\nblame for any unhappy situation on\nit. And the board silently submits\nto its role as scapegoat.\nEveryone knows the university is\nchronically short of money and\nwhen student fees go up to meet\nthe costs where do people point the\naccusing finger? Not at Ottawa, for\nthe federal government doesn't\nhandle education. And not even at\nVictoria except in passing reference because it is just too far away.\nIf students are severely provoked\nand the weather is good they may\nmarch on the capital. But time has\nproven that the provincial purse\nstrings are hard to loosen and the\nonly substantial transfer of money\nis between the students and ticket\nsellers for B.C. Ferries. It isn't long\nbefore the resentful eyes find a target\nclose at hand and the board is in\nfor it again.\nOne of the basic reasons for this\nis their misleading name. Board of\ngovernors. Sounds like a group of\npotential Huey Longs. Perhaps they\nshould really be called the board of\nadministrative assistants. The name\nis nowhere near as glamorous but\nprobably hits a little closer to the\ntruth.\nUnder the Universities Act of\n1963, the board is responsible for\nthe \"management, administration,\nand control of the property, revenue,\nbusiness and affairs of the university.\" In elaboration it is made\nclear that the board has authority\nto: 1. appoint all persons who work\nfor the university; 2. establish and\nmaintain faculties and departments;\n3. construct and maintain buildings;\n4. prepare and adopt the current and\nthe capital budgets; 5. decide upon\nthe amount of students' fees; 6. restrict the number of students in\neach faculty, \"having regard to the\nresources available.\" However the\nAct stipulates appointments and\ndismissals of faculty must have the\napproval of the president and the\nestablishment of faculties and departments must have the approval\nof senate.\nBut trying to understand the\nboard by looking at the Act is unrealistic. There you can learn six of\nthe 11 members are appointed by\nthe Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council,\nthree are elected by Senate, and\nthe President and Chancellor are\nmembers automatically. But the\nboard is not just a concept or an\nabstract principle. It is a collection\nof 11 personalities and operates on\nindividual strengths and weaknesses.\nThe chairman is John Liersch,\nvice-president of Canadian Forest\nProducts and in his third term on\nthe board. Others include Chancellor Allan McGavin, President Walter\nGage, Walter Koerner, head of\nRayonier Canada Ltd. and a board\nmember since 1957; Richard Bibbs,\nvice-president of industrial relations\nat MacMillan Bloedel and a quiet\nprofessional; Donovan Miller, president of Canadian Fishing Company,\na reserved man in his third term on\nthe board; David Williams, an outgoing young lawyer from Duncan\nand the only member not residing\nhi the Lower Mainland; Paul Plant,\nan extrovert and vice-president of\nRalph Plant Ltd.; Art Fouks, a\nbrisk, business-like and affable\nlawyer; Les Bewley, B.C.'s colorful\nProvincial Court Judge and freshman board member, having been\nappointed only last November; and\nMrs. Beverley Lecky, a charming\nhousewife whose father, George\nCunningham, was a board member\nfor about 30 years.\nOf the 11 members, only two\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nChancellor McGavin and Koerner\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094are not graduates of UBC. Among\nthe others, four have been Alumni\nAssociation presidents and at least\nthree were at one time members of\nthe Alma Mater Society council.\nThere also seems to be a new trend\nin the government appointments\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nboth Bibbs and Miller are recent\nappointees who in previous years\nwere elected by Senate. In other\nwords, only four of the 11 are government appointees without previous\nsenate mandate.\nOne popular condemnation has it\nthat board members are stuffy, conservative businessmen and what are\nbusinessmen doing heading an academic institution anyway? If you\nlook closely enough, the Act stipulates even that the three board members elected by senate must not be\nemployed by the university.\nTo begin with, nearly half the\nboard members are not businessmen. Besides the president of the\nuniversity there are two lawyers, a\nhousewife long associated with the\nuniversity and a judge.\nBut perhaps more to the point,\nwhat's so wrong about having businessmen on the board? The university's annual budget is upwards\nof $60 million. As Judge Bewley\nsays, \"That must rate pretty high\non the corporate scale.\" It stands\nto reason the university needs people\ncompetent in money matters to deal\nwith UBC's financial and business\naffairs. The board is the legal entity\nof the university and as such calls\nfor tenders, lets contracts and makes\ninvestments.\nMoreover the board is in the position of having to worm funds out of\nthe provincial government. As Dr.\nRobert Clark, UBC's academic planner, says,\"Both the government of\nB.C. and any board authorized by\nthe government to distribute funds\namong universities are likely to be\nmore impressed by a well-presented\ncase for funds, or in defence of academic freedom if it is advanced by\nlay members of the board than the\nsame case presented by a group of\nfaculty. The latter, however idealistic\ntheir presentation, are seen generally to be advancing their own interests at the same time they seek\nto promote the public interest. The\nfact that the board at UBC is composed of persons highly regarded in\nthe community helps maintain public\nconfidence in the university.\"\nDeputy president Bill Armstrong,\nwho acts as secretary for the board,\nsays at one time he thought academics should be allowed on the\nboard but having seen it in action\nhas changed his mind. \"People with\nvested interests should not be board\nmembers. That goes for students\ntoo. All these people should be on\nsenate if they want a hand in university affairs.\" Open board meet-\n23 ings is no answer either. \"That\nwould only force discussion into\ncommittees, the same thing that\nhappens in parliament,\" says Armstrong.\nOne change the university has\nbeen pushing for is to get more representatives of labor on the board.\n\"But frankly, this is not acceptable\nto the provincial government,\" says\nArmstrong. Actually, this was done\ntraditionally to the end of Larry\nMacKenzie's term as president. It\nwas never laid down in the Act, but\nhe used to recommend to the government, representatives of the professions, labor, agriculture and\nbusiness.\nBoard members see their function not only as a board of directors of a corpor don but also as\ntrustees of public funds. As trustees\nit is their job both to ensure maximum education value per dollar and\nalso to act as one of the town-gown\nlinks. The average taxpayer trusts\nthe business board member much\nmore readily than he does the\nacademic.\nAnd the board goes to bat for\nthe university in terms other than\nstrictly monetary ones. Twice in the\npast five years members have turned\ndown requests from American companies to make a film on campus.\nThey decided it was not in the interests of the students and faculty\nto be disrupted by large-scale\nfilming.\nThere are those on campus who\nclaim the university cannot separate\nits financial decisions from its academic ones. Not so, says Fouks. \"It's\nlike going out to dinner,\" he says.\n\"Once you've decided to go out you\nhave to decide what price restaurant. The senate sends us a priority\nlist and we decide on the basis of\nthat exactly what we can spend. We\nhave never, in my experience, cut\nthe financial assistance or availability\nof funds because there was something in the academic decision we\ndidn't like. It never would have\noccurred to us.\"\nSo while the board handles the\nbusiness end of the university, it\nleaves academic matters to the\nsenate.\nIn fact, as board members themselves are quick to say, the board acts\nas a rubber stamp in virtually all\nacademic decisions. \"I think it's fair\nto say that if senate has approved\nsomething and the president ap-\n24\nproves it, then we rubber stamp it,\"\nsays Art Fouks. \"They are the people\nwho are smarter than us in the academic world and they set the rules\nfor getting a degree. I don't think\nwe're capable of criticizing that. Our\njob then as members of the board is to\nmake sure the tools are available and\nused with the greatest efficiency.\n\"To say we are a rubber stamp\nfor the administration and the business end of the university, however,\nis categorically incorrect. We respect very highly our President and\nour administrative staff. We listen\nto them and we examine very carefully what they recommend; on\nmany occasions we have asked for\na review. Based on that kind of\nexamination the board uses its best\njudgment. And I think it's fair to\nsay the administration has not always had its way.\"\nWhat this means is a well-\nrespected president is the strongman\non the board. He sits there flanked\nby his deputy presidents\u00E2\u0080\u0094Bill Armstrong fielding academic questions\nand Bill White the financial\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nacts as the source of information for\nthe other board members.\nThe only man who can really\nchallenge his position is the chairman, and it needs a well-informed,\ndynamic man to do it. A case in\npoint occurred five years ago during\nthe planning stages for the Student\nUnion Building. One day the Alma\nMater Society received a letter\nostensibly from the board listing 10\nconditions under which members\nwere willing to let the building operate. Students were none too happy\nfor the list was harsh and included\none rule stating the administration\nhad to okay every function before it\ncould take place in SUB. An upset\nAMS president approached the\nboard in hopes of negotiating a\nbetter settlement. He didn't need to.\nTo begin with, the board had never\neven seen the list. Chairman Nathan\nNemetz took one look, poised his\npencil, and saying \"The students\nwon't accept this,\" crossed off nine\nof the ten, leaving the author of the\nlist\u00E2\u0080\u0094past UBC president John Macdonald\u00E2\u0080\u0094with a red face. The only\ncondition left concerned the use of\nliquor in the building, a regulation\nwhich the provincial government\ncarries in its own pocket to begin\nwith.\nThe trick to getting a recommendation passed by the board is\nsmooth presentation. Board members examine many topics in one\nmeeting. They do their homework\nbut they cannot be experts on everything that comes before the board\nand have to rely on presentations from outside sources.\nThis is where students can profit.\nThere is a growing feeling on campus that student-faculty cooperation\nis passe. A more profitable alliance\nmight well be between students and\nthe board. \"It is the entrenched\nfaculty, not the board members who\nput up objections and obstructions\nbecause the old faculty are the ones\nwho will lose if the system changes,\"\nsays former AMS president Shaun\nSullivan. But student-board cooperation does not mean having student\nboard members, he says.\n\"You'd run into a lot of problems. First, is it going to be a person elected for that purpose? Or\nthe AMS president? What happens\nwhen the AMS is negotiating with\nthe board? Wouldn't there be a conflict of interests? Perhaps more basic\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094students should be in on academic\ndecisions rather than business ones.\nI think they would find board meetings very dull.\"\nThe best example of student-\nboard cooperation up to now is the\nWinter Sports Centre. The two sides\njoined together in an equal partnership to build and expand the centre,\na facility that neither party could\nhave pulled off alone. And now that\nsupporting beams have cracked and\nneed reconstruction, the board and\nthe AMS have joined legal powers\nfor the first time in UBC history in\na litigation against the companies\ninvolved.\nJudge Bewley also believes in promoting good student-board relations.\nHe is chewing over the idea of having an auditor-general for the board\nin the same way parliament has. \"A\nqualified man could both audit the\nefficiency of the board and act as a\nsounding post for any faculty and\nstudent gripes,\" he said. \"If a student has a gripe now, where does he\ngo? For a long time now there has\nonly been a vertical chain of command. I'd like to see a lateral one\ntoo. An independent, skilled man in\nthe position of auditor-general would\nmake a good ombudsman because\nhe would have both access to the\nlevers of power and the confidence\nof the board.\"\nThe board really has little of the\npower for the direction of education\nat the university and yet has the\nfinal responsibility for it. So why do\nmembers of the community take on\nthe job? There's no doubt the posi\ntion is prestigious but it's not all\nstrawberries and cream. Fouks estimates he spends at least one full\nday per week on board business.\nBig deal, you say, that's what they're\nthere for. But remember for the\nmajority of them that means time\nspent away from a lucrative job\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nboard members get no salary. The\nonly benefits are a free parking\nspace on campus and an honorary\nmembership at the Faculty Club.\nBeyond prestige there must be something else and I think one can find\nit in the characters of the individual\nboard members. Surely their motivations are simply a desire to look\nafter the welfare of the old Alma\nMater and a pure love of business.\nSo next time you pass the old administration building on your way\nto the caf, look up at the southeast\ncorner of the top floor. If there is a\nlight burning up there you know the\nboard is meeting. But they are not\nthe ogres of business, people have\nmade them out to be over the\nyears. They are simply a group of\n11 individuals looking after the\nmechanics of operating a university,\nleaving the academics free to get on\nwith the process of education. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nwhen you look at life look to Canada Life\n25 Keith Bradbury\nHow Williams Lake Sees UBC\nA DAY'S DRIVE NORTH AND EAST\n-^*- of Vancouver, the Cariboo\nHighway takes a sharp swing toward\nthe Pacific Ocean, skirts a lake, and\nquite suddenly deposits you in the\nOld West. At least many of the locals\nprefer that you think of it as the Old\nWest. This is Williams Lake, home of\nB.C.'s \"premier\" stampede, one of\nthe province's leading cattle shipping\ncentres, and the town with the highest\nconsumption of cowboy hats and\nstring ties west of Calgary.\nYet, to be truthful, the Old West\nwas never quite like this. That ever-\npresent blue haze that covers the\ntown\u00E2\u0080\u0094it comes from the burners of\nthe sawmills that now congregate\naround the railhead and make lumbering, not ranching, the town's biggest industry. Lumber is followed by\ntourism. Cattle might be third but\nmining is coming up fast and will\nsoon replace it. No, this is really the\nNew West\u00E2\u0080\u0094a town like many in B.C.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094based on the outwardly contradictory ideas of extracting resources and\nattracting tourists.\nWhich brings me to the point of\nwhy I was driving into Williams Lake\non a day late in July with the temperature hovering somewhere in the\n90's. A few weeks earlier, in Vancouver the editor of the Chronicle\nhad been wondering aloud about\n\"how a small town in the Interior\nof B.C. sees the university.\" He suggested a visit to one. A couple of days\nlater he had settled upon Williams\nLake as the one to be so honored.\nOne of the first things that should\nbe said is that the selection of Williams Lake didn't turn out to be a bad\none at all. This town may not be\ntruly representative of small B.C.\ntowns (for one thing, it has a larger\nnative Indian population than many)\n26\nbut it has much in common with the\nothers. It is young, rough-edged and,\nbeing resource-based, peopled with\nthe kind of people who live in many\nof the smaller communities of B.C.\nSo this is probably not just the story\nof a single community.\nAnd the very first thing that one\nrealizes on coming to a town like this\nis that the university is not exactly\ncentral to the lives of ordinary people. To the majority, UBC is \"down\nthere\", in Vancouver, a place where\nyou may send your kids if you are\nwhite, if they are smart enough and\nif you have the money. But beyond\nthat the people have little knowledge\nabout the university and perhaps less\ninterest.\nOn the day before I arrived in\nWilliams Lake, a student who had\njust completed his first year at UBC\nwas giving a talk to the local Kiwanis\nabout his first year and about the\nneed of summer jobs for university\nstudents. One of those who heard the\nspeech told me later, \"The members\nwere interested for about five minutes. But by 10 minutes, they were\ngetting bored. People here are lackadaisical, they need a bomb to stir\nthem up.\"\nIt seems to be only among those\nwho are \"professionally\" involved\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthose who are required to know\nabout the university\u00E2\u0080\u0094that you find\ngreater interest and better informed\nopinions. And among these people\nthere are several different, sometimes\ncontradictory, views of the university.\nA composite of these views might be\nthat \"while UBC is definitely a better\nplace than Simon Fraser, we don't\nlike the shaggy, long-haired students,\nwe distrust graduates who think they\nknow it all and we are concerned\nabout the machine-like impersonality\nof UBC.\" The only way their lives\nare directly touched by UBC is for\nthose few who take extension courses.\n\"We regard UBC as 'our' university,\" school board chairman Fred\nWaterhouse told me as we drank cold\npop in the shade of his backyard.\n\"Up here, we're not particularly enamored with the thoughts of SFU.\nWe don't like the constant disruptions. What's going on at SFU is an\nunnerving thing. UBC we regard as a\nfirmly-established university with\nlittle or no criticism\u00E2\u0080\u0094just as England\nregards Cambridge or Oxford.\"\nHowever, Waterhouse, a photographer, who visited UBC this spring\nto recruit teachers for his sprawling\nschool district also is concerned\nabout the long-hairs he saw while he\nwas on the campus. \"It's a bit of a\nshock to go down on the campus and\nwalk around. There seems to be so\nmany scruffy people. You see the\ndregs of humanity walking around on\ncampus and it's a bit shaky.\" However, he did allow that the education\nstudents he interviewed were neat\nand well-scrubbed.\nIt was Herb Gardner, the mayor\nfor the last 18 years, who got in a\ndig at know-it-all graduates. \"In the\npast a lot of students have come out\nand thought they knew everything\nabout everything,\" says Gardner,\nwho ran a building supply operation.\n\"I recall one case of a biologist who\ncame in here and simply wrote off\nthe knowledge of the professional\nguides who have been here for years.\nBut I don't think it's as bad as it used\nto be.\"\nUBC grad Mrs. Anne Stevenson, a\nschool trustee and leading figure in\neducational matters around Williams\nLake, expressed the \"impersonality\"\ncomplaint. \"I know of one student Fred Waterhouse\nMachine- Like\nImpersonal\nUniversity\nHerb Gardner\n27 from here\u00E2\u0080\u0094a 90's student in high\nschool\u00E2\u0080\u0094who went down there and\nby Thanksgiving wanted to quit. He\nwas homesick and just plain browned\noff because he felt that he was working in a vacuum.\n\"One fault is in the large classes\nwhere a student writes an essay and\nthen it is turned over to a marker for\nmarking. In this case, the marker put\nsome smart alecky comments on the\nessay. That makes it pretty tough for\nsomeone from a small town who is\nin the strange new world of the university and the big city. Some of the\nkids who go down from here feel that\nnobody gives a damn about them.\"\nOne way that UBC overcomes\nsome of its remoteness for the people of Williams Lake is through programs other than the usual on-\ncampus curriculum courses. Thus\nRoy Blackwood, the Town of Williams Lake's clerk-administrator, has\nimproved his qualifications by taking\na course for municipal administrators\nput on by the Centre for Continuing\nEducation. This course covered such\nareas as assessment, law, administration, accounting, finance and economics and convinced Blackwood\nthat the Centre does \"quite a job.\nBut now they are phasing the course\nout. I'm sorry about that.\"\nOne thing that is making UBC\neven less real for the people of Williams Lake is development of Cariboo College at Kamloops. The college affects the people of Williams\nLake in at least two ways. One is that\nmore children from Williams Lake\nwent to the college to study last year\nMrs. Anne Stevenson, BA'27\nthan came to UBC. Another is that\nthe college has attempted to make itself relevant to the people of Williams Lake by establishing a permanent Dean of Continuing Education\nin the town.\nThe college finds considerable\nsupport from most of the people I\ntalked to in Williams Lake. \"Colleges and technical institutions seem\na little more relevant to us,\" says\nMayor Gardner. \"At Cariboo College, the fact that they get more practical experience seems to make it\nmore popular.\" He points out that\nseveral students from the college got\non-the-job training with the Williams Lake Tribune last term. \"And\nit's easier for a college student to get\nemployment than for a university\nstudent. A lot of our boys want to\ngo there.\"\nMrs. Stevenson, who is on the college council, feels that Cariboo College can be an important stepping\nstone to university for both students\njust out of high school and for people\nwho previously never completed\ntheir formal education. For high\nschool students continuing with\nhigher education she points out that\nCariboo College offers smaller\nclasses and a closer relationship between students, staff members and\ncounsellors. In addition, Cariboo has\nboth technical and academic courses\nand offers students a chance to experiment a little more. \"The facilities\nare old and inadequate,\" Mrs. Stevenson says, \"but the spirit is great.\nIt's like the spirit of UBC when UBC\nwas still in the Fairview shacks.\"\nThe other popular aspect of Cariboo College is the fact that the Dean\nof Continuing Education in Williams\nLake will be bringing programs right\ninto the community and onto nearby\nIndian reserves. \"We hope it will be\nlike the open universities of Great\nBritain,\" says Mrs. Stevenson.\nAnother thing working in favor of\nCariboo College and others like it is\na growing feeling that a university\neducation is simply \"over-education.\" Says school board chairman\nWaterhouse: \"I'm not suggesting\nuniversities will lose their identity,\nbut people are wondering if they\nshould regard a university education\nas a must.\" Adds Gardner, who again\nlists off the main industries: \"There's\na limited opportunity for a university-trained person who wants to live\nhere.\" Mrs. Stevenson says that in\nthe past people have been university- Mrs. Irene Peters\noriented but with the graduation of\nthe first class from Cariboo this year,\nmore are now seeing college as an\nattractive alternative.\nOf course, all of the foregoing applies to the white community. It is\nnot necessarily true for the native\nIndian community, the next largest\nracial grouping in Williams Lake.\nThis was brought home to me when\nI phoned Mrs. Irene Peters, operator\nof the Indian Friendship Centre, to\nseek an appointment with her.\n\"I don't think I could help you,\"\nshe told me, \"Because I don't know\nanything about the university. All I\nknow is that it's a big building with a\nlot of people, but I really don't even\nknow what they do there.\" Later,\nafter I had driven out to her reserve\nhome just south of town, she\nelaborated:\n\"We've had about 8,000 people,\nmostly young Indians, through the\nCentre in the last 15 months. But\nuniversity is something that is simply\nnot talked about. I don't know any\nthing about it even if the kids did ask\nand 1 don't know of one Indian from\nhere who has gone to the university.\"\nThe distance to UBC from the reserve, I came to realize, is a lot longer\nthan it is from Williams Lake. Mrs.\nPeters explained that in the lower\ngrades at school there is usually an\nequal number of whites and Indians.\nBy Grade 12 last year, there were\nonly 10 Indians in a grad class of\n150.\nJust getting to Grade 12 can be a\nterrifying experience for Indian\nchildren, what with being removed\nfrom the reserve and their parents,\nbeing forced to learn English and being thrust into the white man's world.\n\"When I went to school, we were\nstrapped if we spoke our native language,\" she recalled.\nAs for going to university, that can\nbe a major difficulty for an Indian\nfamily too. \"An Indian family\ncouldn't just move to Vancouver to\ntake their child to university the way\na white family could. If you've lived\nin the Chilcotin and eaten fish and\nwild meat all your life, what are you\ngoing to do in Vancouver?\"\nWhat does Williams Lake think of\nUBC and its role in higher education?\nWell, of course, I didn't come away\nwith a definitive answer to that question. For that you would need perhaps a year and an in-depth study\nby a team of social scientists. But\nstill the viewpoints I encountered are,\nI think, valuable for the university\ncommunity to know. The sheer fact,\nfor instance, of the wide ignorance of\nUBC. The belief that the regional\ncollege provides more relevant education. Concern over the impersonality of UBC and its effect on students from smaller centres. The popularity of certain extension courses.\nAnd the fact that many Indians do\nnot see university education as an\nobtainable goal. It's this sort of information\u00E2\u0080\u0094particularly if received\nmore extensively and more regularly\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094that can help UBC continue to be\nthe university of all British Columbia.\n29 The University\nHospital\nCentennial\nOf An\nIdea\nDr. William Gibson\nWHEN BRITISH COLUMBIA'S FIRST\nphysician, Dr. John Sebastian\nHelmcken, went to Ottawa to negotiate the terms for the entry of British\nColumbia into Confederation 100\nyears ago, he had one prophetic item\non his long list of \"demands.\" He\nwanted the Canadian government to\nbuild, at Esquimalt naval base, a\nhospital of sufficient size and quality\nto permit a medical school to be\nstarted. This appears to be the first\nmention of higher education on Canada's west coast.\nOn August 3, 1971, the B.C. Minister of Health announced, and the\nUBC Board of Governors confirmed,\nthat a 350-bed teaching, service, and\nresearch hospital would be built on\nthe UBC campus\u00E2\u0080\u0094just 100 years\nafter Dr. Helmcken's proposal was\nignored by Ottawa. In fairness, however, it must be stated clearly that\ntoday Ottawa will be paying approximately half the $60 million overall\ncost of the UBC teaching hospital.\nThe provincial share will come from\nhealth funds, not from educational\nfunds. The operating costs will similarly come from the hospitalization\nbudget of the province.\nDuring World War I, UBC President Wesbrook, an internationally-\nknown medical scientist, set out the\nneed for a university teaching hospital at Point Grey. He had brought\nthe faculty of medicine at the University of Minnesota into the front\nrank of medical education, and the\never critical Abraham Flexner\nawarded Wesbrook's school a class\n\"A\" rating\u00E2\u0080\u0094at a time when two-\nthirds of American medical schools\nwere being closed down. Wesbrook's\nwords of 1915 were prophetic:\n30\n\"Proper clinical teaching is only possible\nif teaching institutions control hospitals\nwhich are ready to discharge their double\nfunction. This double function involves\nthe care of the patients of today and not\nless important, the better care of the patients of tomorrow through teaching and\nresearch. Hospitals should not be simply\nboarding houses for the sick but institutions for research, study and teaching.\nFortunately both ends are served by the\nsame plan.\n\"The best results are obtained where\nthe University owns its own hospital which\nis conducted primarily as a teaching and\nresearch institution. This safeguards at the\nsame time, the best interests of the patient.\nBy arrangement with municipal and other\npublic bodies, university medical schools\nmay assume responsibility for the professional conduct of hospitals, guaranteeing\nthe best possible service but such hospitals\ncannot easily be made integral parts of the\nteaching plant of a university. They will\nbe accessory.\"\nThe first legacy to be left to UBC\ncame from Dr. Alexander Monro, an\noutstanding Vancouver physician, in\n1932. A pre-medical society was organized bearing Monro's name, and\nthe first action of its officers was to\ninform UBC President Klinck of this\nsupposedly momentous fact. It is reported that Dr. Klinck listened in his\nusual grave manner, until the students prophesied that this was the\nbeginning of a drive for a medical\nfaculty complete with a teaching\nhospital on campus. The president\ncovered his face with his hands and\nburst out laughing. In the depths of\nthe Depression he was thankful for\nsuch comic relief.\nPresident Klinck's successor was a\nformer Dalhousie medical student,\nNorman A. M. MacKenzie, and he\ncarried the message to Premier John\nHart in several games of golf. The\nalumni, immediately post war, urged\nHow the UBC Health Sciences Centre\nwill look when complete. Components are:\n1. Wesbrook Building: 2. George Cunningham Building (Pharmacy); 3. Cunningham Addition: 4. Additions to Medical Blocks A and B; 5. Block C (Pharmacology and Pathology); 6. Block A (Biochemistry and Physiology); 7. Block B\n(Anatomy and Cancer Research); 8. John\nBarfoot Macdonald Building (Dentistry);\n9. Woodward Biomedical Library and\naddition; 10. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (under construction); 11.\nHospital (to be built); 12. Psychiatry and\nNeurological Research; 13. Psychiatry\na survey by experts and in 1946 the\ncampus was visited by some of the\nforemost medical educators in the\nworld\u00E2\u0080\u0094such as Dr. Allan Gregg,\nDirector of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Wilder Penfield of McGill,\nProfessor Ray Farquharson of the\nUniversity of Toronto, President G.\nE. Hall of Western Ontario and\nseveral deans of top American medical faculties. Long range policy\nagreed by governors, senate and the\nalumni association included a university hospital, with the use of existing community hospitals in the meantime.\nIn 1951, two years after UBC's\nmedical school opened in huts, an\nacrimonious debate in senate resulted in a pointed confirmation of\nthe originally agreed policy. This\nlong range objective remained only\na dream until a dynamic dean of\nmedicine in the person of Dr. J. F.\nMcCreary, in 1959, undertook the\nadministration of the rapidly expanding faculty. With the active encouragement of early graduates such as\nArthur Lord, Jack Clyne and Chancellor Sherwood Lett and Phyllis\nRoss, and chairmen of the board such as Nathan Nemetz and Walter\nKoerner, the new dean's program\ngathered momentum. To help in the\nplanning he recruited Lloyd Detwiller, former commissioner for the\nhospitalization tax in B.C., and a task\nforce was set up in the former agricultural engineering building which was\nplunked down in the middle of the\n40-acre plot originally reserved for\nthe hospital by President Wesbrook.\nAbout this time an amazing scene\ntook place just as a session of the\nprovincial legislature was about to\nprorogue. Every hand was ready to\nempty wastebaskets of paper into\nthe air when suddenly up stood\nGeorge Hobbs, the six-foot five-inch\nlocomotive driver from Revelstoke.\nHe roared at the members that he\ndid not care how anxious they were\nto get home, he had brought his lunch\npail and was determined to hold the\nfloor until the members voted for a\nuniversity hospital on the UBC campus! The legislators were thunderstruck and heatedly called on the\ndeputy speaker for \"order.\" They\nhad not reckoned with the former\nScottish medical student Alex Matthew in the chair, who, with Ray\nPerrault, cheered on the stately\nHobbs. Within minutes the members\nof the legislature endorsed Hobbs'\nhospital and jubilantly closed up\nshop.\nUpon this well set stage came another would-be medical student, P.\nA. Woodward, whose father had \"cut\nhim off\" for going to McGill with a\ntrainload of his friends before World\nWar I. Now, with his only child dead\nof cancer, \"Puggy\" Woodward took\non the greatest challenge of his career\nto initiate the building of a Health\nSciences Centre. He challenged the\nfederal government to match a multi-\nmillion dollar contribution, that total\nto be put up for matching by the provincial government, hopefully. Dean\nMcCreary approached the Hon.\nJudy LaMarsh with his challenge. In\nthe wisest decision of her career she\nrecommended to Prime Minister\nPearson that a fund of half a billion\ndollars be paid out over a 15 year\nperiod to universities establishing\nhealth science centres.\nThe Leverhulme Trust of London,\nthe Rockefeller Foundation and the\nMarkle Foundation of New York\ncame in with support\u00E2\u0080\u0094thanks to the\nfriendly feelings for UBC generated\nduring visits to the campus years previously by Sir Miles Clifford, by Dr.\nAllan Gregg and his deputy Dr.\nRobert Morison, and by John Russell, the pater familias for two generations of Markle Fellows and, most\nimportantly, an admirer of his fellow\nMaritimer, Larry MacKenzie. The\nNuffield Foundation and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom\nmade handsome gifts to the program\nand the Health Science Centre dream\nstarted to become a reality.\nThe recent developments are well\nknown to all alumni, the chief being\nthe opening of the Woodward Biomedical Library, and the construction, still in progress, of the even\nlarger Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, together with the\nopening of the 60-bed psychiatric\nunit at Wesbrook Crescent and Agronomy Road.\nThus is Dr. Helmcken's hope of a\nteaching hospital being realized, in\nthis centennial year. D\nDr. W. C. Gibson, BA'33, MSc(McGill), DPhil(Oxford), MD, CM(Mc-\nGill), is UBC head and professor of\nthe history of medicine and science.\nJoin This\nSelect Group....\nDonate to the\nUBC Alumni Fund\n6251 N.W. Marine Drive,\nVancouver 8, B.C.\nfgve\nThe\nengine f\u00C2\u00A3#\u00C2\u00A3/ft7/\npotion\nThe soothing oil\nforoverwroughtengines.\nCastrol Oils (Canada) Limited\n31 Remember the\nGood Times?\nRemember the good times you had as a\nstudent at UBC? Well, come on out to\nReunion Days 71 and renew acquaintance\nwith former classmates and relive those\ngood times ...\nClass Reunions\nSaturday, October 30,1971, is your\nnostalgia day as reunions will be held\nthen for the classes of:\n'16\n'21\n'26\n'31\n'36\n'41\n'46\n'51\n'56\n'61 ..\nm\nGolf Tournaments\nFor sporting buffs there will be golf\ntournaments at the University Golf\nCourse with lots of prizes ...\nLadies' tournament \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFriday, October 15, 1971\nMen's tournament \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFriday, October 29, 1971\nFoursomes or singles are both welcome.\nTournament application forms should\nbe obtained from the alumni office.\nFor Reunion Days 71 information call or\nwrite UBC Alumni Association, 6251 N.W.\nMarine Drive, Vancouver 8, B.C. (228-3313).\nReunion Days 71\nalumni\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2news\nSurvey Results May\nAffect Alumni Policy\ndon't look now, but you soon may be\namong the \"chosen few\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094chosen few alumni, that is.\nThe chosen few will be asked to complete a questionnaire giving their views on\nthe alumni association, UBC and higher\neducation.\nAbout 5,000 alumni all over the world\nwill be selected at random to receive the\nquestionnaire, which is expected to be\nmailed early this fall. The questionnaire\nmaterial will contain an outline describing the purpose of the survey. The reply\nform will enable alumni to answer the\nquestions without giving their names and\nto return it postage paid.\nThe intention of the survey is to discover how much alumni know about the\nwork of their alumni association and of\ntheir university, and also to learn their\nattitudes to the association and to the university. Future alumni association programs and policies will be developed on\nthe basis of what is learned from the\nsurvey.\nSo if you are one of the \"chosen few\" to\nreceive a questionnaire, we would appreciate it very much if you would take a few\nminutes to fill it out and return it.\nHelp Wanted by\nAwards Committee\nif you're an alumnus and interested in\npromoting academic excellence at UBC,\nthen the alumni association has a job for\nyou! Serving as a member of the alumni\nawards and scholarship committee.\nThe function of the committee is to\nexamine, on a continuing basis, the alumni association's extensive program of\nscholarships, bursaries and awards. The\ncommittee makes recommendations to the\nalumni board of management on changes\nin the scholarship program. It also has the\nresponsibility of recommending to the\nboard names of individuals to be honored by the association with the Award\nof Merit and Honorary Life Membership.\nThe first committee meeting this fall is\nexpected to be held in late September.\nFor information, contact the chairman,\nHarry White, UBC Alumni Association,\n6251 N.W. Marine Drive, Vancouver 8,\nB.C.\n32 Young Alumni Club\nOpens Fall Program\nthe ever-popular Young Alumni Club\nswings in to its fall program at Cecil Green\nPark on September 17.\nIt will feature the now-traditional suds\nand socializing informal gatherings, plus\noccasional parties with music. Thursday\nevenings 8 p.m. to 12 p.m., from October\n7 to November 25, will be set aside\nfor informal drop-in functions with taped\nmusic. Essentially the same pattern will be\nfollowed on Friday evenings, 4 p.m. to\n12 p.m., from September 17 to December 3, except for three special functions.\nParties with live music will be held on\nSeptember 24, the official opening; October 29, Halloween; and on December 3,\nto celebrate Christmas.\nCourse Examines\nOptions For Women\nthe center for Continuing Education, in\ncooperation with the UBC Alumni Association, is staging a special program for\nwomen at Cecil Green Park this fall.\nThe program, called \"Options for\nWomen\", will be held on six Tuesdays,\nbeginning September 21, and will run\nfrom 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. The fee is\n$10.\nThrough informed speakers and their\nguests, the program will aim to examine\nsome of the life style choices for women.\nTopics discussed will be: return to education, the world of work and careers, community and volunteer committment, public life and politics, and creative family\nliving. Small groups with group leaders\nwill make it possible for individual participants to relate lecture information to their\nown lives and discuss the topics on a personally useful level.\nThe same program was put on last\nyear at Cecil Green Park and found to be a\nsuccess. Further information can be obtained by phoning the Center for Continuing Education at 228-2181.\nAnother Top Award\nFor Alumni Fund\nthe ubc alumni fund organization has\nwon a top prize for sustained performance in alumni annual giving in a competition involving similar organizations at\nuniversities throughout the U.S. and\nCanada.\nIan C \"Scotty\" Malcolm, Fund Director, received the Alumni Giving Incentive\nAward for third place in sustained fund\nperformance at the annual meeting of the\nAmerican Alumni Council held in Washington, D.C. on luly 17-22. The award\nincluded a \"Mobius Strip\" trophy and a\n$1,000 cash prize. The awards program,\nwhich also involved prizes for other categories, is financed by the U.S. Steel\nFoundation.\nThe award recognized the contributions\nof alumni to the fund over the past three\nyears. Donations from alumni and friends\nof the university have grown during that\nperiod to total a record $288,000 in 1970.\nThe money is used to support a variety of\nuniversity student and faculty programs.\nThe prize was granted on the basis of\nthe number of contributors to the fund,\nthe level of giving, the purposes for which\nthe funds are raised and evidence of deliberate efforts to sustain and improve all\ntypes of alumni giving at a high level.\n\"Success in this competition is very encouraging, but we must never forget that\nwithout the generosity of our alumni and\nfriends of the university we could not\nhave won this award,\" said Ken Brawner,\nchairman of the 1971 UBC Alumni Fund\ncampaign. \"I like to think that this is strong\nevidence for the view that donations to the\nfund are being used in ways that greatly\nhelp improve the university as a whole.\"\nThe principal officers of the Alumni\nFund are to meet shortly to decide how\nthe $1,000 prize should be used.\nThere were 2,100 entries to the competition from fund-raising organizations at\nNorth American universities, with 150 being selected as finalists. UBC was the only\nCanadian university to win an award for\nfund-raising. Queen's University of Ontario won a certificate of recognition.\nThis is the second award the UBC Alumni Fund has won this year. In February, the fund won first prize for the excellence of its alumni giving direct mail\nmaterial in a competition involving 47\nuniversity organizations in northwest U.S.\nand Canada.\nfRESH\nDairyland\nFine quality products from\nFRASER VALLEY MILK PRODUCERS'ASSOCIATION\nrrm\"\nExport A\nREGULAR AND KINGS\n33 letters\nto the\neditor*\nBOOKS\nOF ANY KIND\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nTEXTS\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nPAPERBACKS\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nCHILD STUDY\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nSALE TABLE\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nART BOOKS\n& SUPPLIES\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nUBC Bookstore\nVancouver 8, B.C.\n228-4741\nInquiries & Orders by\nPhone or Mail invited\nUBC\nBOOKS\nPITMAN BUSINESS\nCOLLEGE\n\"Vancouver's Leading\nBusiness College\"\nSecretarial Stenographic\nAccounting Clerk Typist\nINDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION\nDay and Night School\nEnrol at any time\n1490 West Broadway\nVancouver 9, B.C.\n738-7848\nMrs. A. S. Kancs, P.C.T., G.C.T.\nPrincipal\nFootnote on Ted Scott\nIn your write-up of the thoughts and\nlife of the Rt. Rev. Edward Walter Scott\n(Chronicle, Spring '71), you neglected to\nmention the very active part he played in\nUBC life. A perusal of publications of\nthe early 1940's would show you pictures\nof Ted Scott of the Big Block Club, the\nmarathon runner, General Secretary of\nthe SCM at UBC etc., etc. He was a\nfriend to all students and a special source\nof support to our beleaguered boys and\ngirls of Japanese race. Even his motorcycle endeared him to the younger people.\nYours for the total picture of the whole\nman.\nAingelda Rhodes, BA'44,\nNorth Vancouver, B.C.\nChronicle's report\ninaccurate\nIt is somewhat ironic that the UBC\nAlumni Chronicle, edited by the late Dr.\nHarry Logan for six years (1953-1959)\nwith meticulous devotion to detail and\naccuracy, should itself be inaccurate in\nits report of his death (Spring 1971).\nHad reference been made to the issue\nof June-July 1953, which published an\nannouncement of Dr. Logan's appointment as editor, and the issue of Spring,\n1959, which reported his retirement as\neditor, one might have been spared the\nneed for this letter.\nHarry Logan received his B.A. degree\nfrom McGill University in Montreal in\n1908; he did not, as you report, graduate\n\"from McGill College (Vancouver)\". In\nthe excellent history of UBC, TUUM\nEST (1958), of which he was the author,\nHarry Logan went to some pains to point\nout that McGill College of Vancouver\nwas started by McGill University in 1906\nbut never conferred degrees as such; it\nwas not until McGill College was transformed into UBC in 1916 that the first\ndegrees were granted.\nWith reference to Harry Logan's military career, let it be recorded that he\nenlisted in the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders\nin 1915 but his active military service\nwas carried out in the Canadian Machine\nGun Corps, an association of which he\nwas proud throughout his life.\nI bring these facts to your attention to\nkeep the record straight in a publication,\nand among the community, to which\nHarry Logan gave so much.\nAlbert A. Tunis,\nBrock University,\nSt. Catharines, Ontario.\nEloquent article\nappreciated\nThank you so much for the current number of the (Chronicle, Spring '71)\u00E2\u0080\u0094especially for the very eloquent and accurate\ncover and accompanying article. One\nbreathes a great sigh of relief to discover\nthat our Alma Mater is with us in the\nbattle against Americanization and loss\nof our Canadian identity and sovereignty.\nWe have few other allies.\nVince Venables, BA '50,\nNorth Kamloops, B.C.\nBusinessmen like\nfootball stars\nI have just finished reading Keith Bradbury's excellent article (Chronicle, Spring\n'71) on the \"International Corporate\nOctopus\", and feel impelled to make a\ncomment thereon.\nFirst, I think it should be noted that\nthe executive officers of major corporations are seldom fat, pig-like men such\nas those pictured. Those I know tend to\nbe exceptionally good-looking, reasonably\nathletic, genial, empathetic, and very\npersuasive men. with above-average IQ's,\nwho have reached their present position\nby hard work and ability to make the\nright play at the right time, just like star\nfootball players. Like football players,\nthey are enthusiastic professional mercenaries, who exert tremendous effort on behalf of their shareholders. . . .\nThere is no doubt that, until they reach\ntheir level of incompetence, they do their\njob well. Even here in remote B.C. hardly\na day passes without a press report of\nthe absorption of some independent local\ncompany into a giant conglomerate. There\nis no doubt the situation is a serious one.\nIt is doubtful if Canada is likely to\npossess any group of men in political life\nwho are of a stature to cope with the.\npowerful and aggressive executive officers\nof international corporations.\nOn the plus side, however, is the fact\nthat most of these corporations are American, and that in the United States there\nare also many powerful and aggressive\nAmericans of independent wealth and\ngood-will who are able and willing to\ngrapple with the corporations and who\ninvolve themselves in government, and\nwho through their strength of character\nare often able to bolster the morale of\nour own politicians, as for example in the\ncase of the current oil controversy.\nWe are fortunate that such Americans\nexist; and there will be more of them as\nthe new generation evolves, with its more\nhumanistic outlook. Perhaps Ralph Nader\nis a pioneer in this category.\nG. W. 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