"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "1995-01-12"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0117796/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nT TBC REPORTS\nRinging In The New Year\nCharles Ker photo\nGraduate student Noel Genoway prepares the Asian Centre's temple bell for\nOshogatsu, the Japanese New Year. Centre celebrations on January 9 began\nwith the ringing of the bell 108 times. According to Buddhist teaching,\nhumans are plagued by 108 earthly desires; with each toll of the bell, one\nis dispelled.\nFaculty'members named\nto Order of Canada\nby Connie Filletti\nStciff writer\nFive UBC faculty members have been\nhonoured with appointments to the Order of Canada in recognition of their\noutstanding achievement and service.\nMichael Smith, director of the\nBiotechnology Laboratory and co-winner\nofthe 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was\nnamed a Companion to the Order of\nCanada, the order's highest rank.\nSmith was awarded the Nobel Prize for\nhis discovery of site-directed mutagenesis,\na technique which enables scientists to\nreprogram the genetic code and is considered to be instrumental in the fight\nagainst cancer and in the treatment of\nhereditary diseases.\nDr. Patrick McGeer and Dr. Edith\nMcGeer, professors emeriti in the Psychiatry Department's Division of Neurological Sciences, were both named to the\nsecond highest rank as Officers of the\nOrder of Canada.\nThe McGeers' research has focused on\nAlzheimer's disease for more than a decade. Their most promising discovery to\ndate is that indomethacin, an anti-inflammatory drug widely prescribed for\narthritis patients, may slow and even halt\nthe progression of Alzheimer's disease.\nDr. John Blatherwick, a clinical professor in Health Care and Epidemiology's\nDivision of Public Health Practice, and\nPeter Oberlander, a professor emeritus in\nthe School of Community and Regional\nPlanning, were two of 52 Members of the\nOrder of Canada appointed.\nBlatherwick, who has been Vancouver's medical health officer for the last 10\nyears, is the author of Canadian Orders,\nDecorations and Medals, a book he wrote\nin 1984 which includes his research about\nthe Order of Canada.\nOberlander, a graduate of Harvard\nUniversity, was the founding director of\nboth the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Centre for Human Settlements in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. In the 1950s, he served as a\nspecial consultant to the House and Planning section of the United Nations Dept.\nof Social Affairs on education for city\nplanners.\nSee photo Page 5\nKlawe appointed\nVP, Academic and\nStudent Services\nby Gavin Wilson\nStaff writer\nMaria Klawe, head of UBC's DepL of\nComputer Science, has been named vice-\npresident. Academic and Student Services. She replaces K.D. Srivastava, who\nstepped down Dec. 31 after\neight years In that position.\nKlawe, who served for\nsix and a half years as\nComputer Science head\nand built the department\ninto one of the best In\nCanada, assumes her new\nposition Feb. 1.\n\"We are extremely\npleased that Maria has\nagreed to accept this appointment,\" said UBC President David Strangway. \"She\nis not only a brilliant\nscholar, but she also brings\nexceptional management\nand communication skills\nto the position. Her incredible energy and\nenthusiasm are an Inspiration.\"\nThe office of vice-president, Academic\nand Student Services is responsible for\nstudent registration and records, awards\nand financial aid, the library, information\nand computing systems, athletics and\nsports, housing and conferences, and\nMaria Klawe\nservices for women students and students with disabilities.\nKlawejoinedUBCin 1988 as professor\nand head of Computer Science. Under\nher leadership, the department doubled\nits enrolment of undergraduate and\ngraduate students, more than doubled\nresearch funding, expanded its lab facilities and\nhired 17 new faculty members.\nMeanwhile, the department increased its interaction with industry, the community and other universities and Klawe introduced\nher management philosophy of shared decisionmaking, inclusiveness and\nconsensus.\nAs well as her administrative duties, Klawe conducts research in theoretical computer science. She\nhas also organized a collaborative research project call E-GEMS\nwhich brings together researchers from a\nwide range of fields to look atthe potential\nof electronic games to help children learn\nmath and science.\nKlawe was educated at the University\nof Alberta, where she received a BSc and\nSee KLAWE Page 5\nWorks by Pasteur among\nrare books donated to UBC\nby Gavin Wilson\nStciff writer\nA collection of rare books that includes works by Louis Pasteur and\nFlorence Nightingale has been donated\nto the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology by its first head, the late Claude\nDolman.\nDolman died last month, shortly after\nmaking the donation.\nComprising 500 books on topics related to microbiology, the collection includes scientific treatises, biographies,\nreports and lecture transcripts, some\ndating back as far as the 17th century.\n'This collection is far better than what\nis available in microbiology texts in the\nWoodward Biomedical Library,\" said\nJulian Davies, current head ofthe department.\nDavies said he\nhopes students in\nparticular will use\nthe books to gain a\nsense of microbiology's history and of\nthe people behind\nits development.\n\"The Dolman\ncollection will serve\nas a unique and\nvaluable resource for future generations\nof microbiologists,\" he said.\nSee DOLMAN Page 5\nClaude Dolman\nInside\nFreelance Florist\nOffbeat: Nancy Nevison's skills bloom at the Rose Bowl parade\nBright Ideas\n4\nStudent ideas will be the force behind the Greening the Campus program\nGruelling Grading\n10\nForum: New guidelines for grading fall short of the mark\nGiving Voice\n12\nProfile: Vocal health expert Linda Rammage speaks out on voice disorders 2 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 January 12, 1995\nLetters\nProblems and\nquestions\nplague policy\nEditor:\nThe latest version of the\nDraft Policy on Discrimination\nand Harassment is clearly\nbetter than its predecessors,\nbut it still leaves some disturbing questions and problems.\nThese have been raised in the\ncontext of such policies\nelsewhere, and I hope that\nUBC will take warning and\ndeal with them before the\npolicy is put into final form.\n1. In many cases, there is\nno objective, a priori criterion\nforjudging whether a given act\nis harassment or discrimination within the terms of the\npolicy. Most laws and regulations define punishable\nbehaviours. Questionable\nbehaviours can be matched\nagainst criteria to determine\nwhether a violation has\noccurred, regardless of, e.g.\nwhether charges are eventually\npressed or the perpetrator is\ncaught. In contrast, the\npolicy's procedures depend\nentirely on the subjective\njudgement of whether a\n\"reasonable person\" feels that\na rule has been broken.\nTherefore, one cannot be sure,\neither in advance or even after\nthe fact, whether a particular\nbehaviour is per se harassment or discrimination.\nObviously, also, mounting a\ndefence is difficult: because\nfeeling offended is a completely\nsubjective reaction, the\naccused cannot contradict a\ncomplainant who claims to\nhave experienced that reaction.\n2. Such vagueness and\ndefencelessness lead to a\nchilling effect. Members of the\nuniversity community will self-\ncensor their comments just in\ncase someone might be\noffended. Given that almost\nany remark may offend\nsomebody, the vigour of debate\nand enquiry is likely to decrease significantly. Education,\ntoo will suffer: in spite of the\npolicy's nod to academic\nfreedom, faculty and students\nwill be reluctant to voice ideas,\nreport findings, or offer interpretations, that conceivably\nmay be offensive to someone.\n3. The criterion of \"reasonable person\" is both undefined\nand invidious. Do we accept\nthat reasonable people may\ndisagree about whether\nsomething was offensive? If so,\nwhat is the decision rule for\nadjudging someone to be guilty\nor innocent? My colleague. Dr.\nCoren, assumed in a previous\nletter {UBC Reports. Oct. 21,\n1994) that the reasonable\nperson rule means that if a\nhigh percentage of, say, a\nclass, is not offended, the fact\nthat a few students are will not\nlead to a conviction. I'm afraid\nthat he is wrong, and that if\nthere is a complaint from even\na few people \u00E2\u0080\u0094 perhaps even\none, or perhaps no students at\nall but rather a member of the\nhuman rights bureaucracy \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthis will satisfy the reasonable\nperson criterion. Perhaps the\npolicy should specify the\nlowest proportion of offended\nto non-offended people necessary for conviction. On the\nother hand, if all reasonable\npeople are assumed to recognize offensiveness, then if X\npercentage of an audience feel\noffended, and the rest do not,\nany decision implies that one\nportion of the group consists of\nunreasonable people. What\nwill the university do when\npeople feel offended by this\nimplication?\n4. I object to the power of\nthe human rights staff to\ninitiate investigations and to\ncontinue them regardless of an\noriginal complainant's withdrawal. It is highly likely that\nindividuals selected (and self-\nselected) for these positions\nwill have a shared approach of\nlow \"offensiveness\" thresholds\nand a highly prosecutorial\norientation; furthermore, the\ncontinued existence of their\npositions will depend on there\nbeing enough \"cases.\" This\ncombination of ideology,\npersonality, and practicality is\nbound to result in the perception of misdeeds where no one\nelse sees them and in a\nproliferation of complaints.\nThere is also a condescending\nassumption that if the people\ndirectly involved don't com-\nVagueness a\nproblem in\napplying policy\nEditor:\nI share Prof. Salzberg's\nforebodings about the consequences of implementing the\nDraft Policy on Discrimination\nand Harassment as formulated\nin the Dec. 1, 1994 issue of\nUBC Reports.\nThe adjudication procedures\ndescribed in the policy are\nponderous and their capacity\nfor fairness completely unproven. Indeed, given the\nadvocacy character of some of\nthe officers involved in the\nprocess, the scope for prejudice and bias seems considerable. For a person convinced\nof the justice of her or his case,\nwhether as complainant or\nrespondent, the established\nprocedures of a court of law, in\nwhich evidence is presented\nunder oath and the judge or\njury are at arms length from\nthe hot-house passions of\nuniversity politics, must offer a\nsurer guarantee of fair treatment.\nThe latest version of this\npolicy is as flawed as its\npredecessor and worse. Why,\nfor example, have the authors of this latest draft seen\nfit to omit an offence as\nserious as \"physical and\nsexual assault\" from the list\nof examples of sexual harassment, though it was included\nin the earlier version published in UBC Reports, Oct.\n6, 1994? The omission is all\nthe more incongruous when\none notes the retention of so\nmany other ill-defined\nexamples of harassment\ninvolving behaviour much\nless clear-cut in intention,\nand for that reason less\nsusceptible to proof than\n\"physical or sexual assault.\"\nI am especially concerned\nthat \"display of pornography\"\nstill appears in the list of\nBeware the age\nof intolerance\nEditor:\nYour Dec. 15, 1994 issue\nregarding Killam Research\nPrizes informed the public\nthat the director of the\nCentre for Research in\nWomen's Studies and\nGender Relations \"is helping\nto rewrite Canadian and\nwomen's history.\"\nRewriting history is no\ndoubt a growth industry.\nBefore travelling along this\nrevisionist highway politicians\nand universities should heed\nthe words of UBC's W.J.\nStankiewicz:\n\"With the advent of political\ncorrectness, the Age of Imbecility has reached a new high.\nSuddenly we all find ourselves\nmaking what is perceived as\n'errors' and are assailed by a\nhost of hidden inhibitions.\nBeware of the coming of the\nnew age of intolerance.\"\nRaymond Young\nVancouver, BC\nbehaviour categorized under\n\"Harassment, including\nSexual Harassment.\" Are we\nto assume from this that the\nauthors of this policy and\nthose participating in the\ncomplex bureaucratic apparatus that will be responsible\nfor its execution are capable\nof identifying \"pornography,\"\na term whose precise definition continues to elude the\ncollective wisdom of our\nparliament and courts? Does\nthe committee's definition of\n\"pornography\" include, for\nexample, the projection of\nslides illustrating pedicatio\nand irrumation as depicted\non Greek vases, and the\nscenes of soixante-neuf and\nother forms of spintrian\nactivity, as well as the\npractice of avian and mammalian copulation much\nfavoured by certain heroines\nof classical mythology that\ndecorate Etruscan and\nRoman walls and other forms\nof ancient art. I need to have\nan answer if I am to change\nmy ways.\nJames Russell, Professor\nDept. of Classics\nEditor's Note:\n\"Pornography\" was deletedfrom\nthe Dec. 1 draft shortly after its\npublication.\nPCease %&cycCe\nplain it is because they are\nfearful or ignorant, whereas the\nstaff is courageous and enlightened. I suggest, rather, that\nthe staff is more likely to make\nmountains out of molehills, or\nno hills at all, and should be\nlimited to dealing with complaints brought by others.\nI hope that the various\naspects of the policy will\ncontinue to be debated. One\nthing that has intrigued me for\nsome time is the silence of the\nFaculty Association on this\nissue aside from one inconclusive discussion. One would\nthink that protection against\nharassment and discrimination, and the protection of\nacademic freedom, are both at\nleast as important as the fine\npoints of how increments are\nallotted, or whether a one-half\npercent salary raise is possible\nin a given year. It is clear that\nindividual members of the\nfaculty are deeply concerned;\ndon't the leaders of our\norganization have any\nthoughts on these issues?\nPeter Suedfeld, Professor\nDept. of Psychology\nolll OH\nSniversity Village\n2nd Floor 2174 W. 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Opinions and advertising published in\nUBC Reports do not necessarily reflect official\nuniversity policy.\nMaterial may be reprinted in whole or in part with\nappropriate credit to UBC Reports. UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12, 1995 3\nFaculty reassigned as\ndepartments dissolved\nThe dissolution of three departments\nin the Faculty of Arts - Russian and Slavic\nLanguages and Literatures, Classics, and\nReligious Studies - was approved by\nSenate at its last meeting. The latter two\ndisciplines will be combined in a Dept. of\nClassical, Near Eastern and Religious\nStudies to be established in July.\nIn presenting the recommendations to\nSenate, Dean Patricia Marchak said the\nfaculty will no longer offer a major in\nRussian and Slavic languages but will\nmaintain a minor offering in these areas.\nWhen the Dept. of Russian and Slavic\nLanguages and Literatures officially\ndisbands on June 30, its four faculty\nmembers will be reassigned to other\ndepartments for administrative\nservices.\nThe faculty's Co-ordinating Committee\non Slavic Area Studies will continue\nhelping students who wish to pursue\ngraduate work with an Eastern European\nor Russian focus.\nMarchak describes the merging of\nClassics and Religious Studies as \"very\npositive.\"\n\"Both departments are small and there\nwas already considerable interaction in\nboth teaching and research,\" she said.\n'Those concerned felt it was in their\nmutual interest to link up.\"\nSince the mid-1980s both Religious\nStudies and Classics have experienced a\nsignificant resurgence. Full-time\nequivalent (FTE) undergraduate\nenrolment figures in Classics have\nincreased from about 140 to 185 while\n(FTE) undergraduate enrolment in\nReligious Studies has almost doubled\nfrom 65 to 120. Graduate enrolment has\nalso increased.\nUBC employee Nancy Nevison is a veteran of two Rose Bowl Parades.\nOffbeat\nby staff writers\nThe new year got off to a rosy start for UBC staff member Nancy Nevison\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 for the second time in her life she fulfilled a dream of taking part in\nthe annual Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, Ca.\nNevison, a freelance florist and a clerk in the Advancement Services Dept.\nof UBC's External Affairs Division, flew to California after Christmas to join\nthe 70,000 volunteers who put the parade together.\nIf you were one of the 80 million people around the world who watched\nthe annual New Year's Day parade, you saw her handiwork. Nevison used\nher talents to help create three floats, which, like all the floats in the\nparade, are painstakingly assembled with flowers.\n\"Every piece has to be floral \u00E2\u0080\u0094 every bit of it,\" Nevison said shortly before\nshe was off to California.\nFor many years, the closest Nevison got to the Rose Bowl parade was her\ntelevision set. Each year she would faithfully watch and marvel at the huge\nfloral floats.\nTwo years ago, she decided to look into getting involved. After a few\nphone calls, she arranged to volunteer with Charisma Floats of Pasadena, a\nprivate company that designs and builds floats for the parade.\nShe worked on the award-winning Malaysian government float, an\nunderwater floating garden fantasy that had tropical fish, coral reefs,\nenormous crabs with mechanical arms and a huge oyster shell that opened\nto reveal a pearl.\nPutting the Malaysian float together \u00E2\u0080\u0094 it was covered in 31,000 roses and\nhundreds of orchids \u00E2\u0080\u0094 required a carefully orchestrated and intense period\nof labour. Nevison got only six hours sleep in the three days leading up to\nthe parade.\n\"It was the most exhilarating experience,\" she said.\nAs with other parade floats, the work is painstaking. Sometimes individual petals are stripped from blooms and then pasted one by one on the\nfloat. Other textures are created using seeds, beans, corn husks, seaweed,\nrice, coconut, and even popcorn.\nPart of the challenge is making sure the flowers survive for the 72-hour\nassembly time leading up to the parade. Some of the more delicate buds are\nset in their own tube of water.\nNevison worked with Charisma Floats this year on two entries: Rotary\nInternational and the 1928 Jewelry Co., a U.S. retail chain. She also helped\ncreate the parade's logo, a huge rose comprising 3,000 flowers.\nNevison has been honing her skills as a florist for several years.\nWhen she's not working at UBC, she operates The Floral Freelancer\nExtraordinaire, teaching floral design and making floral arrangements for\nbusinesses, private homes and weddings.\nShe's done the flowers for many UBC weddings and even UBC events,\nsuch as the windup dinner for the World of Opportunity campaign.\nNevison's work has been seen at floral shows in South Africa, England,\nthe United States and Holland. She took part in the Art in Bloom show at\nthe Vancouver Art Gallery in April and also placed in the top 10 three out of\nfour times she entered the Flowers Canada People's Choice Awards held\neach fall at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre.\nGavin Witson photo\nProf. Gordon Walker is the lead Canadian scientist for the Gemini Project,\nan international venture to build two eight-metre telescopes in Hawaii and\nChile. He is seen here outside the white-domed enclosure of UBC's\nobservatory on the roof of the Geophysics and Astronomy building.\nNew telescopes rival\nHubble Space scope\nby Gavin Wilson\nStaff writer\nIn 1998, high atop a Hawaiian mountain, a UBC astronomer will join other\nscientists in opening a powerful new telescope that will introduce a new era in\nearth-based observation.\nProf. Gordon Walker is the lead Canadian scientist for the Gemini Project, an\ninternational venture to build two eight-\nmetre telescopes, one on Mauna Kea in\nHawaii and the other on Cerro Pachon,\nChile.\nThin-mirror technology and other advances will allow the telescopes to rival,\nand in many instances surpass, the capabilities ofthe Hubble Space Telescope.\n\"The Gemini Project may not have the\nworld's largest telescopes, but they should\nhave the best image quality, effectively\nmaking them more powerful than existing telescopes,\" Walker said.\n\"First light,\" as astronomers refer to\nthe start of observation, will be in 1998 in\nHawaii and in 2001 in Chile. The sites\noffer superb viewing conditions, being\nlocated at elevations of 4,200 metres in\nHawaii and 2,700 metres in Chile.\nAmong other things, the new telescopes\nwill allow astronomers to observe conditions that lead to the birth of stars, study\nthe farthest known galaxies to see how\nthey form and evolve, and explore heavy\nelement production in stars of the Milky\nWay and nearby galaxies.\nThe Gemini project is looking at doing\nthings a little differently, he said. Traditionally, competition for viewing time is\nfierce and astronomers are given only a\nbrief time to make their observations,\nregardless of the weather conditions.\n\"It's easy to waste a lot of time on a\ntelescope,\" Walker said.\nInstead, Gemini is proposing that per\nmanent staff make the observations and\nonly when conditions best match the type\nof viewing required. The information will\nthen be sent to the scientists for study.\n\"The heroic days are over, anyway,\"\nWalker said. 'These days the real work\ncomes when you are sitting in front of a\ncomputer.\"\nThe project brings benefits for Canadian industry, as well as scientists.\nA Coquitlam company, Coast Steel, is\nbuilding both enclosures, the huge white\ndomes that cover the telescopes. Coast\nSteel has built enclosures for other telescopes on Mauna Kea, including the\nCanada/France/Hawaii telescope, the\ntwo Keck telescopes and Japan's eight-\nmetre Subaru telescope.\nVictoria's Dominion Astrophysical\nObservatory will supply some ofthe high-\ntech gadgetry for the Gemini telescopes.\nObservatory staff will build an adaptive\noptics unit, which corrects distortion in\nimages caused by atmospheric conditions, and spectrographs, which disperse\nlight into its component colours, providing information on the makeup and movement of stars.\nGemini is a collaborative project that\npools the resources of Canada, the United\nStates, Britain, Chile, Argentina and Brazil.\nCanada is providing $35 million, or 15\nper cent of the total funding of $176\nmillion U.S. The contributing agencies\nare the National Research Council, the\nNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Westar university\nconsortium.\nThe Westar consortium was established in the 1960s by then-UBC Science\nDean Vladimir Okulitch to hold in trust\nthe assets of the Queen Elizabeth observatory, once planned for the\nOkanagan's Mount Kobau.\nUBC to participate in study of\nbone injuries among seniors\nUBC endocrinologist Dr. Jerilynn Prior\nwill direct the Vancouver site of a\nmulticentred clinical trial aimed at understanding the risk factors for broken bones\nand hip fractures in the aging population.\n\"We hope that the project will help\nincrease knowledge about osteoporosis\nand reduce the risk of bone loss, pain and\ndisability,\" Prior said.\nThe Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CAMOS) is one of the\nlargest prospective population-based\nstudies of bone ever conducted.\nAbout 10,000 men and women at 10\ncentres across the country will participate in the five-year, $12-million project.\nPrior's ancillary research will focus on\nthe menstrual cycle and ovulation in an\neffort to determine when in the life-cycle\nwomen begin to lose bone density and the\nrate of loss. She will also search for\nlifestyle factors which could stop bone\nloss and enhance bone mineralization.\nCAMOS is funded by the National\nHealth Research Development Programs\nand various industrial partners. 4 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 January 12, 1995\nOntario puts environmental\nassessment program to use\nby Charles Ker\nStaff writer\nOntario is adopting a one-of-\na-kind program developed at\nUBC to assess the environmental merits of provincial government office space.\nThe program, developed by\nthe UBC School of Architecture's\nEnvironmental Research Group\n(ERG), evaluates the environmental performance of new and\nexisting office buildings.\nThere is a much more knowledgeable and scrutinizing public emerging who not only expect\nhealthier indoor environments,\nbut also greater environmental\nresponsibility by industry,\" said\nProf. Ray Cole, head ofthe ERG\nand president of the newly\nformed Green Building Information Council.\nThis program represents a\nunique collaboration within the\nbuilding industry in response to\nthe emerging environmental\nagenda.\"\nThe Building Environmental Performance Assessment\nCriteria (BEPAC), is a set of\nenvironmental criteria structured around five assessment\nareas: ozone layer protection\nthrough improved containment\nand reduced use of ozone depleting substances (chloro-\nfluorocarbons and hydro-\nchloro-fluorocarbons); environmental impacts of energy\nuse with respect to reduced\nemissions of greenhouse gases,\nregional pollutants and electrical energy use; quality ofthe\nindoor environment including\nair, lighting and acoustic conditions; conservation of resources through the use of products made from recycled materi\nals and water-conserving fixtures; and site selection and design strategies which encourage\nalternative transportation methods to the automobile.\nIn September, Ontario began\nthe process of applying BEPAC\nin eight government buildings in\nNorth Bay, Peterborough and\nToronto. These assessments\ncover the workplace of nearly\n5,000 government staff housed\nin close to 215,000 square metres of space. The government\nhas also negotiated the rights to\napply the program to a further\n800 government-owned buildings.\nUnder the voluntary program,\nbuilding owners are awarded a\ncertificate indicating the environmental merits of their buildings.\nCole anticipates BEPAC will\nbe adopted in other regions of\nCanada.\nRecycling, cost-efficiency, at\nheart of student-led initiative\nShredding machines for recycling plastics. A chemical exchange program. Recovering\nheat from air vents at the UBC\nswimming pool. These three\nbright ideas are part of a new\nprogram launched by the Sustainable Development Research\nInstitute (SDRI) aimed at improving the campus environment\nand reducing UBC's operating\ncosts.\nThe Greening the Campus\nprogram hopes to harness skills\nand knowledge of students, faculty and staff in a series of\nprojects designed to promote ecological sustainability. Program\nco-ordinator Janet Land said\nprojects will focus on five resource components on campus:\nenergy, waste, water, land and\nfood. Investigations of one or\nmore of these \"resource flows\"\nwill be done through audits, technical and economic analyses,\nconsultation with stakeholders\nand regular project monitoring\nand maintenance. Four projects\nunderway examine the\ncomposting of food waste from\nAMS and UBC Food Group out\nlets, heat loss from the university steam system, the economics of electricity use on campus\nand new alternatives for travelling within the campus. Other\nprojects under consideration involve user-pay bike lockers,\nwaste audits of individual buildings, a material-handling system for recycled paper, and landscaping proposals to improve\nsecurity and/or reduce water\nuse.\nViewed as a 10-year initiative. Land hopes the program\nspawns up to 50 projects annually, all of which would be student-led and supervised by faculty with input from staff. Wher\never possible, the work would\nalso be tied to undergraduate or\ngraduate courses for credit.\n\"From a student perspective,\nit has been shown that the practical and applied nature of the\nproposed work is very popular\nand has a positive impact on\nlearning,\" said Land. \"It also provides students with problem-\nsolving skills which make them\nmore marketable upon graduation.\"\nFaculty who can identify\n\"greening\" projects as possible\ntopics for their students are\nurged to contact Land at 822-\n9154 or by e-mail at\njland@unixg.ubc.ca.\nCalling\nall Authors!\nAre you the author of a book\npublished between\nJanuary 1994\nand December 1994?\nIf so, we would like to hear\nfrom you!\nOn March 16,1995\nPresident David Strangway\nand University Librarian\nRuth Patrick\nare hosting the\n5th Annual Reception\nfor UBC Authors.\nIf you're a UBC author,\nplease contact\nMargaret Friesen\nor Pauline Willems\nMain Ubrary\n(822-4430/822-2803)\nby January 31,1995\nTHE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS\n(B.C. DIVISION)\npresents\nA TWO-DAY HYPNOSIS TRAINING SEMINAR\nIncorporating an Introductory\nand Advanced Program\nThis seminar will provide basic induction and utilization skills for those\nwho wish to add hypnosis to their repertoire of therapeutic skills.\nConsiderable practice time will be provided.\nSimultaneously, advanced skills in hypnosis utilization will be provided\nto the experienced hypnotherapist in areas such as: Hypnosis &\nBuilding Self-Esteem, Habit Control, Stress Management, Dissociative\nDisorders, Hypnotically Induced Healing Imagery.\nFaculty: Drs. Lee Pulos, Gordon Cochrane, Heather Fay, Marlene\nHunter, Leora Kuttner, Saul Pilar, and Bianca Rucker . . . longtime\npractitioners in the clinical applications of hypnosis.\nDates: February 4th and 5th, 1995.\nPlace: Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre,\nUniversity Site, Psychiatry Lecture Theatre.\nFees:\nNon-Members*\nMembers (CSCH)*\nResidents/Students*\nBefore Jan. 18\n$200.00\n$150.00\n$100.00\nAfter Jan. 18\n$225.00\n$175.00\n$100.00\n* Enrolled in graduate program of a doctorate in medicine, dentistry, or\npsychology, or a master's degree in counselling psychology, social\nwork or nursing.\nNon-refundable deposit of $20.00\nFor further information please contact:\nThe Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (B.C. Division)\nc/o Dr. Lee Pulos\nSecond Floor, 1260 Hornby Street,\nVancouver, B.C. V6Z 1W2 Telephone: 688-1714\nTechnical Support\nfor Social Science Projects\n* Course & Instructor Evaluations\n* Scannable Forms (multiple-choice)\n^ Data Collection i\n^ Statistical Analysis }\n^ Custom Reports/Graphics\n^ Questionnaire/Survey/Test Design\nEducational Measurement Research Group\nUniversity of British Columbia\nRoom 1311 Scarfe Building\n2125 Main Mall\nDr. Michael Marshall\nV 7 Executive Director\n^S Tel: 822-4145 Fax: 822-9144\nThe Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting\nProfessorships of Green College\nDONALD AKENSON\nProfessor of History\nQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON\nThe Concept of Diaspora\nin English-Canadian Historiography\nMonday, January 23 at 3:30 PM\nBuchanan Penthouse\nSorting out the Orange and the Green:\nMax Weber Visits Ireland\nTuesday, January 24 at 3:30 PM\nBuchanan D-244\nThe Making of the 'Greatest Living Irishman'\nWednesday, January 25 at 7:30 PM\nHotel Georgia, 801 West Georgia\nCo-sponsored by UBC Continuing Studies\nYahweh and the History of South Africa\nThursday, January 26 at 12:30 PM\nBuchanan A-104 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12, 1995 5\nMartin Dee photo\nCongratulations In Order\nProfessors Emeriti Pat and Edith McGeer are among five\nUBC faculty named to the Order of Canada. Governor-\nGeneral Ramon Hnatyshyn announced a total of 85\nappointees to the Order of Canada, including 10 from\nBritish Columbia, in Ottawa on Jan. 4. Story on Page 1.\nKlawe\nContinued from Page 1\na PhD in mathematics, and at\nthe University of Toronto, where\nshe did graduate work in computer science.\nAfter teaching at the University of Toronto and Oakland\nUniversity in Rochester, Michigan, she moved in 1980 to the\nIBM Almaden Research Centre\nin San Jose, California.\nAt IBM she held various positions including manager of the\nDiscrete Mathematics Group and\nmanager ofthe Mathematics and\nRelated Computer Science Dept.\nKlawe is married to UBC Computer Science Prof. Nicholas\nPippenger and has two children,\naged nine and 12.\nDR. U.B.C. 4U\n4153YUCULTA\nMICHAEL ANDRUFF\n261-5000\nNRS LEDERMAN\nREALTY\n$529,000\nBring your grand piano to this comfortable 3 bedroom home. Efficient\nfloor plan, double garage, exceptional lot size, located on Shaughnessy's\n4th fairway.\nProf. Julian\nDavies, head\nof the Dept. of\nMicrobiology\nand\nImmunology,\nleafs through\none of the 500\nrare books\ndonated by its\nfirst head, the\nlate Claude\nDolman.\nGavin Wilson photo\nDolman\nContinued from Page 1\nIncluded in the collection\nare:\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 a first edition of Robert\nHooke's Micrographia, printed\nin 1667, in which the British\nscientist describes microbes\nviewed with a magnifying glass\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 a book by pioneering Dutch\nmicrobiologist Anton van\nLeeuwenhoek, maker of the\nworld's first microscopes,\nprinted in 1695\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 a report to the British surgeon-general by Florence\nNightingale, the English nurse\nwho introduced basic hygiene\nprincipals to hospitals, helping to stem the spread of infection\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 first editions of 1886 works\non the production of beer and\nwine by Pasteur, the French\nchemist who invented the process of pasteurization, as well\nas a bound volume of his com\nplete works and a first edition of\nRene Vallery-Radot's Life of\nPasteur\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 19th century reports on such\ndiseases as smallpox, typhus,\nscarlet fever, cholera and yellow\nfever.\nAn avid collector of books,\npaintings and sculptures. Dolman acquired the collection during a long and distinguished career in public health.\nHe was a faculty member at\nUBC from 1935 until his retirement in 1971. In addition to\nholding numerous administrative positions with the university, he conducted research on\nbacterial toxins such as salmonella, botulism and\nstaphylococcus. His work earned\nhim international recognition\nand many honours.\nThroughout his career Dolman believed passionately in\nestablishing and implementing\npublic health procedures. He\nsometimes had to overcome fierce\nresistance, especially when he\nplayed a major role in the chlo-\nrination of Vancouver's water\nsupply.\nHe was also instrumental in\nthe founding of the Faculty of\nMedicine at UBC, from which\nthree of his six children later\ngraduated. Dolman also served\nas director of the division of\nlaboratories with the provincial Dept. of Health for many\nyears.\nThe Dolman collection has\nbeen put on display in a conference room in the Dept. of\nMicrobiology and Immunology.\nDolman had also established\nan endowment which will fund\nthe CE. Dolman Prize, to be\nawarded annually to the outstanding graduate ofthe Dept.\nof Microbiology and Immunology. The endowment will also\nfund the CE. Dolman Visiting\nLectureship, which will bring\nan eminent microbiologist to\nthe department each year.\nLiving on two levels\nIt's Kits at its Best!\nWhich shall it be? The peace and quiet ofthe home\nof your dreams - or a fun lifestyle? Trafalgar Mews gives\nyou both! Picture a\ntwo-level town-\nhome with its own\nfront door. A cozy\nfireplace. A private\nlandscaped courtyard. Outside,\nVictorian style\narchitecture with contemporary flair. Inside, a choice\nof floorplans and colour schemes. A gourmet kitchen.\nHeritage detailing, quality finishes...\nTwo-level,\ntwo-bedroom townbome*)\nfrom $215,900\nTwo-bedroom from\n$239,900\nOne bedroom from\n$163,900\nPriced include GST\nAnother Development by tbe\nCASCADIA\nGroup of Companies\nW Location? None better! Shopping and restaurants\nright at your doorstep. Schools and a library nearby.\nThe beach, a five-minute bike ride. Downtown,\n10 minutes by bus. It's life on two levels. Kits at its\nbest! W Our Presentation Centre is located at 2620\nWest Broadway, across from Banyen Books. Open\ndaily 12-5 pm (except Friday)\nW Call the KitsLine 730-8285\njap**\n0HWi 6 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12,1995\nCalendar\nJanuary 15 through January 28\nSunday, Jan. 15\nMusic Concert\nFirst of a series of three. The\nPiano & Violin Sonatas of\nBeethoven featuring pianist Jane\nCoop and violinist Andrew Dawes.\nMusic Recital Hall at 3pm. Three-\nconcert pass $24/16; individual\n$12/8. Call 822-5574.\nMonday, Jan. 16\nAstronomy Seminar\nUnveiling The Initial Mass Function Of Galactic Globular Clusters. Ciampaolo Piotto,\nOsservatorio di Padova and\nBerkeley. Geophysics/Astronomy\n260 at 4pm. Refreshments at\n3:30pm. Call 822-2696/2267.\nMechanical Engineering\nSeminar\nInertial Effects And Wake Structure In Swimming. Dr. J.R.\nLowom, U. of Wyoming. CMl/\nMechanical Engineering 1202\nfrom3:30-4:30pm. Call 822-6671.\nIHEAR Seminar\nTwice Imprisoned: Loss Of Hearing, Loss Of Power In Federal\nPrisoners In British Columbia.\nMarilyn Dahl, PhD candidate,\nIHEAR. Hearing accessible.\nBrock Hall 0017 at 4pm. Call\n822-3956.\nGreen College Lecture\nScience And Society: Technology\nAnd The Arts - Politics Of Science\nFunding. Erich Vogt, former director of TRIUMF; Peter Hochachka,\nZoology. Green College Coach\nHouse at 8pm. Call 822-8660.\nTuesday, Jan. 17\nAnimal Science Seminar\nSeries\nMetabolic Response Of Fish To\nVaccination. Paige Ackerman,\nMSc student, Animal Science.\nMacMillan 256 at 12:30pm. Refreshments. Call 822-4593.\nPharmaceutical Sciences\nSeminar\nEnhancing Learning/Teaching\nFrom The Classroom To Community Pharmacy Practice. Dr.\nNaseem Amarshi, Clinical Div.,\nPharmaceutical Sciences. IRC\n#3 at 12:30pm. Call 822-4645.\nGSS Professional\nDevelopment Seminar\nWriting And Defending Your Thesis. Experienced faculty members and graduate students. Grad\nCentre at 12:30pm sharp. Refreshments. Call 822-3203.\nBotany/Biodiversity\nResearch Seminar\nWalking A Two-way Street From\nPlant Genetics To Space And\nBack: A Journey Of 30 Years. Dr.\nRichard H. Waring, College of\nForestry, Oregon State U.\nBioSciences 2000 from 12:30-\n1:30pm. Call 822-2133.\nCentre for Chinese\nResearch Seminar\nSino Judaica: A New Avenue Of\nUnderstanding. Prof. Rene\nGoldman, Asian Studies. Asian\nCentre 604 from 12:30-2pm. Call\n822-2629.\nAstronomy Seminar\nThe Galactic Bulge. Andy\nMcWilliam, Carnegie Observatories. Geophysics/Astronomy 260\nat 2:30pm. Refreshments at 2pm.\nCall 822-2696/2267.\nOceanography Seminar\nA Historical Perspective Of Biological Studies InThe Ocean. Tim\nParsons, professor emeritus.\nBioSciences 1465 at 3:30pm. Call\n822-4511.\nGreen College Lecture\nLearning To Teach, Teaching To\nLearn. Gail Riddell, director, Centre for Faculty Development/Instructional Services. Green College Coach House at 5:30pm. Call\n822-8660.\nWednesday, Jan. 18\nOrthopedics Grand Rounds\nSports: Anterior Shoulder Instability. Dr. W. Regan. Eye Care Centre auditorium at 7am. Call 875-\n4272.\nFaculty Development\nLecture/Workshop\nThe Four Cultures Of The Academy. Bill Bergquist, Asian Centre.\nAsian Centre Auditorium from 9-\n12:30pm. Keynote address from\n9-10am. To register call 822-9149.\nRed Cross Blood Donor\nClinic\nContinues to Jan. 20. SUB Ballroom from 9:30am-3:30pm. Call\nJudy Au at 879-6001, local 418.\nMicrobiology/Immunology\nSeminar\nProtein Adsorption To Polymeric\nSurfaces And The Rational Design\nOf Biomaterials. Dr. Charles\nHaynes, Chemical Engineering.\nWesbrook 201 from 12-l:30pm.\nCall 822-3308.\nCanadian Studies Lecture\nWhy The Deficit Does/Doesn't\nMatter. David Donaldson, Economics. Buchanan B-212 at\n12:30pm. Call 822-5193.\nWednesday Noon Hour\nConcerts\nJazz Concert. George Robert Quintet with guitarist Oliver Cannon.\nMusic Recital Hall at 12:30pm.\n$2.50. Call 822-5574.\nOpera Panel Discussion\nPeter Grimes. George Crabbe And\nBenjamin Britten. Susan Bennett,\nVancouver Opera; Ronald Hatch,\nEnglish; John Hulcoop, English;\nAndrew Busza. English.\nBuchanan Penthouse at 12:30pm.\nCall 822-4060.\nForest Sciences Seminar\nSeries\nExtinctions Of Mammals From\nU.S. Rocky Mountain Parks. Dr.\nSusan Glenn, Forest Sciences.\nMacMillan 160 from 12:30-\n1:30pm. Call 822-9377.\nCentre for Japanese\nResearch Seminar\nTransforming Of Japanese Universities. Prof. Kiyofumi\nKawaguchi, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan U., Kyoto. Asian\nCentre 604 from 12:30-2pm. Call\n822-2629.\nFrench Colloquium\nY a-t-il Une Traduction Dans La\nSalle? Jeu-questionnaire Sur\nl'ldentification Du Traduit. Louise\nLadouceur, PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies. Buchanan\nTower799from2:30-3:30pm. Call\n822-2879.\nPharmaceutical Sciences\nSeminar\nCyclosporin Vs FK506 In Liver\nTransplantation. Ms. Mary Ann\nLindsay, PhD student. Clinical\nPharmacy. Vancouver Hosp./\nHSC, UBC Pavilion G-279 from 4-\n5pm. Call 822-4645.\nUBC Writing Centre\nBegins Jan. 18, Wednesdays, 7-\n10pm. Preparation For University\nWriting And The LPI. Section 702\nis a one-term non-credit writing\ncourse in language and composition. For info/registration, call\n822-9564.\nThursday, Jan. 19\nPathology/Laboratory\nMedicine Lecture\nReactive Airway Disease: The\nSmooth Muscle Story? Dr. P.\nSeidman. assistant professor,\nAnesthesiology/CCM, U. of Pittsburgh. VHHSC Eye Care Centre\nauditorium at 8am. Call 875-\n4577.\nFaculty Development\nSeminar\nAlso Jan. 26. A Brown Bag Work\nGroup: Developing New Teaching\nSkills. Gail Riddell/colleagues.\nDavid Lam bsmt. seminar room\nfrom 12:30-2pm. Call 822-9149.\nPhilosophy Colloquium\nA General Theory Of Term-forming Operators. David DeVidi, Philosophy, U. ofWaterloo. Buchanan\nD-351 from 1-2:30pm. Call 822-\n3292.\nHort Club Seminar\nHothouses: Floriculture In The\nMediterranean Region. Christia\nRoberts. Plant Science Greenhouse\nseminar room 102, near Stores\nRd. from l:30-2:20pm. Refreshments. Call 822-0894.\nCICSR Faculty Forum\nEmpirical Investigations Of The\nDeterminants And Consequences\nOf The Use Of Explanations In\nKnowledge-based Systems. Dr.\nIzak Benbasat, Commerce.\nCICSR/CS 208 at 4pm. Call 822-\n6894.\nPhysics Colloquium\nSL9 Comet And Jupiter Impacts.\nClark Chapman, Planetary Science\nInstitute. Hennings 201 at 4pm.\nCall 822-3853.\nGenetics Graduate Program\nSeminar\nComparative Gene Mapping,\nGenome Informatics And Models\nFor Multifactorial Human Diseases. Dr. Joseph Nadeau, associate professor, Human Genetics,\nMontreal General Hosp., McGill.\nWesbrook 201 at 4:30pm. Refreshments at 4:15pm. Call 822-\n8764.\nCanadian Studies Workshop\nWhat Use Is Ethnicity To Native\nPeople? Margery Fee, English.\nGreen College small dining room\nat 8pm. Call 822-5193.\nFriday, Jan. 20\nPediatric* Grand Rounds\nPKU 30 Years On: Maternal !\nPhenylketonuria Syndrome; Current Approaches To Prevention.\nDr. Robin Casey, Pediatrics, Royal\nUniversity Hosp., Saskatoon/Biochemical Diseases Clinical Service, B.C.'s Children's Hosp. GF\nStrong auditorium at 9am. Call\n875-2307.\nHealth Care/Epidemiology\nRounds\nViolence In The Workplace. Dr.\nRobert Jin, Occupational Health\nSection Prevention, Div., Workers\nCompensation Board. Mather 253\nfrom 9-10am. Parking available in\nB lot. Call 822-2772.\nLaw Seminar Series\nLegal Theory, Artificial Intelligence,\nAnd Flexicon. J.C. Smith, professor. Law 178 from 12:30-1:30pm.\nCall 822-3151.\nPharmaceutical Sciences\nSeminar\nNatural Product Drugs In The\nTherapy Of Asthma And Allergy.\nDr. John Langlands, Inflazyme\nPharmaceuticals Ltd. IRC #3 from\n12:30-1:30pm. Call 822-4645.\nCentre for Korean Research\nSeminar\nOn Chaebol In South Korea. Dr.\nIlan Vertinsky, Commerce. Asian\nCentre 604 from 12:30-2pm. Call\n822-2629.\nOccupational Hygiene\nProgram Seminar\nDevelopment Of An Improved Industrial Helmet: Issues In Occupational Standard Setting. Dr.\nJocelyn Pedder, RONA Kinetics &\nAssociates. Civil /Mechanical Engineering 1202 from 12:30-\n1:30pm. Call 822-9595.\nFisheries Centre Seminar\nTackling The Bycatch Problem\nThrough Enhancement Of Post-\ncapture Survival: The Case Of\nPacific Halibut. Ralf Yorque Room,\nFisheries Centre, Hut B-8 from\n1:30-2:30pm. Call 822-2731.\nMathematics Colloquium\nRational Curves On Algebraic Varieties. Dr. Shing-Tung Yau, winner of the Fields Medal in Mathematics, 1982, Harvard U. Math\n104 at 3:30pm. Refreshments at\n3:15pm in Math Annex 1115. Call\n822-2666.\nChemical Engineering\nWeekly Seminar\nOptimum Discrete PID Controller.\nMr. K. Vu, grad student. Chemical\nEngineering 206 at 3:30pm. Call\n822-3238.\nTheoretical Chemistry\nSeminars\nThe Relation Between Kinetic And\nThermodynamic Temperatures.\nDr. R.E. Nettleton, Physics, U. of\nWitwatersrand. S.A. Chemistry\n402, central wing at 4pm. Call\n822-3997.\nSPEAK Conference\nStorming the Tower: A Conference\nIn Political Activism In The Academy. Keynote address: Feminist\nRevolution: The Politics Of Solidarity. Sandra Butler, co-director\nof the Inst, for Feminist Training,\nOakland, CA. Sponsored by Feminist Caucus Of Counselling Psychology. Curtis Law Bldg. 101-\n102 at 8pm. $10/7. Continues to\nJan. 22.For information on Sat/\nSun program call/fax 228-9060.\nSaturday, Jan. 21\nLanguage Programs\nRegistration underway for Continuing Studies French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, German, Korean\n& Portuguese Conversation\nclasses beginning Jan. 21, 24 &\n26. Buchanan D-3rd floor. For\ncourse times/information, call\n822-0800.\nMonday, Jan. 23\nApplied Mathematics\nColloquium\nData Fitting With Implicit Functions. Dr. J.M. Varah, CICSR\ndirector. Math 203 at 3:30pm.\nCall 822-4584.\nCecil & Ida Green Visiting\nProfessor\nThe Concept Of Diaspora In English-Canadian Historiography.\nProf. Donald Akenson, History,\nQueen'sU., Kingston. Buchanan\nPenthouse at 3:30pm. Call 822-\n5675.\nAstronomy Seminar\nThe Nearby Universe: Maps, Mass\nAnd Motion. Mike Hudson, U. of\nDurham. Geophysics/Astronomy 260 at 4pm. Refreshments. Call 822-2696/2267.\nCommerce Research\nDevelopment Seminar\nTricks Of The Tobacco Trade:\nTargets/Tactics In Cigarette Promotion. Dr. Richard Pollay, Commerce Professional Research Excellence Award winner '93-'94.\nDavid Lam 142 from 4:30-6pm.\nRefreshments. Call 822-8488.\nTuesday, Jan. 24\nPharmaceutical Sciences\nSeminar\nStructure-function Relationship\nOf The Non-chelating Residues\nIn The Loop Region OfThe HLH\nCation Binding Motif. Patrick\nFranchini, grad student. Pharmaceutical Sciences. IRC #3 at\n12:30pm. Call 822-4645.\nAnimal Science Seminar\nSeries\nStress Protein Expression And\nInflammation In Fish. Robert\nForsyth, PhD student, Animal\nScience. MacMillan 256 at\n12:30pm. Refreshments. Call\n822-4593.\nPhilosophy Colloquium\nA Procedural Model For Analogi-\nUBC REPORTS\nThe UBC Reports Calendar lists university-related or\nuniversity-sponsored events on campus and off campus within the Lower Mainland.\nCalendar items must be submitted on forms available from the UBC Community Relations Office, 207-\n6328 Memorial Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T1Z2. Phone:\n822-3131. Fax: 822-2684. Please limit to 35 words.\nSubmissions for the Calendar's Notices section may be\nlimited due to space.\nDeadline for the January 26 issue of UBC Reports \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwhich covers the period January 2# to February Ills noon, January 17. Calendar\nUBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12, 1995 7\nJanuary 15 through January 28\ncal Reasoning. Paul Bartha, Philosophy, U. of Pittsburgh.\nBuchanan Penthouse from 1 -\n2:30pm. Call 822-3292.\nBotany Seminar\nComponents Of Competitive Ability: Distinguishing Between Competitive Effect And Response. Dr.\nDeborah Goldberg, U. of Michigan. BioSciences 2000 from\n12:30-1:30pm. Call 822-2133.\nOceanography Seminar\nThe Ocean As A Source For Rapid\nInterglacial Climate Fluctuations. Dr. Andrew Weaver. School\nof Earth/Ocean Sciences. U.Vic.\nBioSciences 1465 at 3:30pm.\nCall 822-4511.\nCecil & Ida Green Visiting\nProfessor\nSorting Out The Orange And The\nGreen: Max Weber Visits Ireland.\nProf. Donald Akenson, History.\nQueen's U., Kingston. Buchanan\nD-244at 3:30pm. Call 822-5675.\nGreen College Seminar\nCanadian Architecture In The\n19th Century. Allan Evans, Classics. Green College Coach House\nat 5:30pm. Call\"822-8660.\nCentre for Applied Ethics\nColloquium\nEmerging Social Issues On The\nInternet/Information Highway.\nDr. Richard Rosenberg. Computer Science. Angus 415 from 4-\n6pm. Call 822-5139.\nMedical Genetics Seminar\nA Pilot Project For Predictive\nTesting For Breast Cancer In\nB.C. Karen Sedun, genetic\ncounsellor. Medical Genetics.\nWesbrook 201 at 4:30pm. Refreshments at 4:15pm. Call\n822-5312.\nGeography Colloquium\nBertrand Russell: Passionate\nSceptic. Dr. Philip Hill, Mechanical Engineering. Buchanan B\npenthouse at 4:15pm. Refreshments at 4pm. Call 822-3112.\nWednesday, Jan. 25\nOrthopaedics Grand\nRounds\nAnaesthesia For Spinal Cord Injured Patients. Dr. J.\nBerezowskyj, Orthopaedics,\nancouver Hosp./HSCEye Care\nCentre auditorium at 7am. Call\n875-4272.\nMicrobiology/Immunology\nSeminar\nSelf-splicing And Recom-\nbinogenic Properties Of A\nChloroplast Intron From\nChlamydomonas. Dr. Franz\nDurrenberger. Biotechnologv\nLab. Wesbrook 201 from 12\"-\n1:30pm. Call 822-3308.\nWednesday Noon Hour\nConcerts\nMusic for Winds featuring faculty artists including bassoonist\nJesse Read. Music Recital Hall at\n12:30pm. $2.50. Call 822-5574.\nRehabilitation Sciences\nSeminar\nBiomechanics Of Muscle Injury.\nDr. Richard Lieber. professor of\nOrthopaedics/Bioengineering,\nU.SC, San Diego. Koerner Pavilion, lab-8 at 12:30pm. Call 822-\n7392.\nCentre for Japanese\nResearch Seminar\nSaving And Growth: Is High Saving Good News? Dr. M. Saito.\nEconomics: Somchai Jitsuchon.\nPhD student. Asian Centre music\nstudio from 12:30-2pm. Call 822-\n2629.\nGeography Colloquium\nMalice In Blunderland: The Bioge-\nography Of Fisheries Collapse -\nScience To Policy. Dr. Carl Walters,\nUBC Fisheries Centre/Zoology.\nGeography 201 at 3:30pm. Refreshments. Call 822-4929.\nCentre for Southeast Asian\nResearch Seminar\nOut/Standing In Her Field? Reflections On Feminist Fieldwork In\nThe Philippines. Deidre McKay,\nPhD candidate. Geography. Asian\nCentre 604 from 3:30-5pm. Call\n822-2629.\nPharmaceutical Sciences\nSeminar\nDo Corticosteroids Induce Ulcers\nAnd Is Prophylaxis for PUD Justified? Mr. Alan Low, PhD student,\nClinical Pharmacy. UBC Hospital\nG-279 from 4-5pm. Call 822-4645.\nGreen College Lectures\nPunishment And Crime Lectures.\nDangerous Offenders. Christopher\nWebster, professor/chair, Psychology, SFU; Robert Menzies, Criminology, SFU. Green College Coach\nHouse from 5-6:30pm. Call 822-\n8660.\nDistinguished Speakers\nSeries\nFirst of four evenings. The Making\nOf The Greatest Living Irishman.\nSponsored by Cecil and Ida Green\nVisiting Professorships. Donald\nAkenson. Hotel Georgia from 7:30-\n9:30pm. $ 10 per lecture or $35 for\nall four. Call 822-1450.\nGreen College Nineteenth\nCentury Studies Colloquium\nGod, Mammon, And The Marketplace: Religious Issues InThe Nineteenth Century. Paul Burns, Religious Studies: Don Lewis, Regent\nCollege. Green College Coach\nHouse at 8pm. Call 822-8660.\nThursday, Jan. 26\nPathology/Laboratory\nMedicine\nMolecular Genetics: New Tools To\nStudy Disease Progression. Dr. D.\nHorsman, Pathology/Laboratory\nMedicine. Vancouver Hosp./HSC\nEye Care Centre auditorium at\n8am. Call 875- 4577.\nUBC Board of Governors\nMeeting\nHeld in the Board and Senate room,\nsecond floor of the Old Administration Building, 6328 Memorial\nRd. The open session begins at\n9am.\nCecil & Ida Green Visiting\nProfessor\nYahwekAndThe History Of South\nAfrica. Prof. Donald Akenson, History, Queen's U., Kingston.\nBuchanan A-104 at 12:30pm. Call\n822-5675.\nUBC International Forum\nLecture\nGlobalization And Fragmentation:\nThe Aboriginal Response.\nRosemarie Kuptana, president,\nInuit Tapirisat of Canada. IRC # 1\nfrom 12:30-2pm. Call 822-9546.\nInstitute of Asian Research\nSeminar\nRussia In World Politics. Dr. Alex\nAlraf, honorary research associate. Asian Centre 604 from 12:30-\n2pm. Call 822-2629.\nPhilosophy Colloquium\nDeflationary Truth And Paradox.\nPhilip Kremer, Philosophy,\nStanford U. Buchanan penthouse\nfrom 1-2:30pm. Call 822-3292.\nPhysics Colloquium\nMagnetic Force Microscopy. Peter\nGrutter, McGill U. Hennings 201\nat 4pm. Call 822-3853.\nDal Grauer Memorial\nLectures\nAnn Schein Piano Recital. Performing the works of Beethoven,\nSchubert, Rachmaninoff and Chopin. Music Recital Hall at 8pm.\nAdmission $ 16/9. Call 822- 5574.\nFriday, Jan. 27\nPediatrics Grand Rounds\nClinicopathological Conference.\nDr. James Dimmick, head, Pathology; Dr. David Riddell,\nPediatrics. GF Strong auditorium\nat 9am. Call 875-2307.\nHealth Care/Epidemiology\nRounds\nManaging Health Technology.\nDean George Eisler, School of\nHealth Sciences, BCIT. Mather\n253 from 9-10am. Call 822-2772.\nLaw Seminar Series\nThe History Of First Nations Fisheries. Prof. Dianne Newell, History. Curtis 149 from 12:30-\n1:30pm. Call 822-3151.\nOccupational Hygiene\nProgramme Seminar\nBioethics Of Genetic Screening.\nDr. Michael Burgess, visiting fellow, Centre for Applied Ethics.\nCivil/Mechanical Engineering\n1202 from 12:30-1:30pm. Call\n822-9595.\nMathematics Colloquium\nImproved Use OfThe Gibbs Sampler. Dr. Priscilla E. Greenwood.\nMath 104 at 3:30pm. Refreshments at 3:15 in Math Annex\n1115. Call 822-2666.\nChemical Engineering\nWeekly Seminar\nMethane Homologation By A Low-\ntemperature Two-step Reaction.\nDr. Goran Boskovic, research associate. Chemical Engineering\n206 at 3:30pm. Call 822-3238.\nTheoretical Chemistry\nSeminars\nApplication Of Fokker-Planck\nModels To Globular Clusters. Dr.\nG. Fahlman, Astronomy. Chemistry 402, central wing at 4pm.\nCall 822-3997.\nNotices\nStudent Housing\nA service offered by the AMS has\nbeen established to provide a housing listing service for both students and landlords. This service\nutilizes a computer voice\nmessaging system. Students call\n822-9844, landlords call 1-900-\n451-5585 (touch-tone calling) or\n822-0888, info only.\nGrad Centre Activities\nDance To A Latin Beat. Every\nThur. at the Graduate Centre at\n8:30pm. To find out more about\nfree Mon. movies (presently Japanese) in the penthouse at the Grad\nCentre, free Tai Chi and other activities call the hot-line at 822-\n0999.\nInternational Student\nServices\nWomen's Support Group. Jennie\nCampbell, International Student\nAdvisor/Program Coordinator.\nInternational House every Thurs.\nbetween 4-5pm. Call 822-5021.\nCampus Tours\nSchool and College Liaison tours\nprovide prospective UBC students\nwith an overview of campus activities/faculties/services. Fridays at\n9:30am. Reservations required one\nweek in advance. Call 822-4319.\nUBC Libraries\nLibrary branches and divisions\nare offering more than 100 training/tutorial sessions this term.\nLearn how to use the online catalogue/information system, or one\nof more than 75 electronic\ndatabases in the library. Check\nbranches/divisions for times and\ndates. Call 822-3096.\nClinical Research Support\nGroup\nUnder the auspices of Health Care/\nEpidemiology. Provides Methodological, biostatistical, computational and analytical support for\nhealth researchers. Call 822-\n4530.\nDisability Resource Centre\nThe centre provides consultation\nand information for faculty members with students with disabilities. Guidebooks/services for students and faculty available. Call\n822-5844.\nWomen Students' Office\nWe are taking registration for January groups including Mature\nWomen Students; Self- esteem;\nAssertiveness Training, and\nWomen of Colour and Meditation.\nPersonal counselling and advocacy\nare available to women students.\nCall 822-2415 or drop by Brock\nHall 203.\nEquity Office\nAdvisors are available to discuss\nquestions or concerns. We are prepared to help any UBC student, or\nmember of staff or faculty who is\nexperiencing discrimination or\nharassment, including sexual harassment, find a satisfactory resolution. Call 822-6353.\nContinuing Studies Writing\nCentre\nWriting 098: Preparation For University Writing And The LPI. Winter Session. Call 822- 9564.\nResearch Study Volunteers\nRequired\nRole Stress In Dual-earner Parents Of Pre-school Children.\nWendy Hall, UBC School of Nursing. Participants will complete 2\nshort questionnaires only. Honorarium offered. Call 686-0877.\nA Study on Hearing and Age\nSenior (65 yrs. or older) and junior\n(20-25 yrs.) volunteers are need.\nExpected to attend 3 one-hour\nappointments at UBC. Experiments will examine how hearing\nand communication abilities differ with age. Honorarium. Call\n822-9474.\nDermatology Studies\nVolunteers Required\nGenital Herpes\n16 yrs/older. Approx. 8 visits over\none-yr. period. All patients will be\ntreated with medication. No control group. Call 875-5296.\nSkin Infection\nLooking for participants with infections such as infected wounds,\nburns, boils, sebaceous cysts or\nimpetigo. 18 yrs/older. 4 visits\nover maximum 26 days. Honorarium. Call 875-5296.\nAudiology/Speech Sciences\nStudy\nVolunteers needed with normal\nhearing, who are native-English\nspeakers; 18-35 years old. with\nno previous instruction in linguistics to participate in a study\nof speech perception in noise.\nHonorarium paid. Call 822-5054.\nStatistical Consulting/\nResearch Laboratory\nSCARL is operated by the Dept.\nof Statistics to provide statistical\nadvice to faculty/staff/students.\nDuring Term 2. 94/95, up to 3\nhours of free advice is available\nfor selected clients. Call 822-\n4037.\nFaculty and Staff Volleyball\nMondays/Wednesdays Gym B,\nOsborne Centre at 12:30pm.\nDrop-in or attend regularly for\nrecreation. Call 822-4479.\nBadminton Club\nFaculty/staff/grad students welcome. Osborne Gym A, Fridays\nfrom 6:30-9:30pm. $15 yr; $2\ndrop in. John Amor, Geophysics/Astronomy. Call 822-6933.\nSurplus Equipment\nRecycling Facility (SERF)\nDisposal of all surplus items.\nEveryWednesday. 12-5pm. Task\nForce Bldg., 2352 Health Sciences Mall. Call Vince at 822-\n2582/Rich at 822-2813.\nFine Arts Gallery\nOpen Tues.-Fri from 10am-5pm.\nSaturdays 12pm-5pm. Freeadmission. Basement of Main Library. Call 822-2759.\nNitobe Garden\nWinter hours are Mon-Fri from\n10am-2:30pm. Admission is free.\nCall 822-6038.\nBotanical Garden\nOpen daily from llam-5pm.\nShop in the Garden, call 822-\n4529; garden information. 822-\n9666.\nAdvertise in\nUBC Reports\nFor ad rate and deadline\ninformation call 822-3131 8 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12, 1995\n\u00C2\u00AB\nTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nLAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES\nThe UBC Board of Governors, at its December, 1994\nmeeting, approved an agreement to work with the Greater\nVancouver Regional District on the development of an Official Community Plan for the UBC campus. The agreement has\nsince been ratified by the GVRD.\nAs part ofthe agreement (see UBC Reports Dec. 15,1994),\nthe university is committed to providing the GVRD with a set\nof Land Use and Development Objectives so regional district\nstaff can proceed with developing the Official Community\nPlan. The following is a first draft ofthe objectives for campus\ndiscussion, comment and input. They will be presented as\ninformation to the Board of Governors on January 26, for\ndiscussion, with the intention that final objectives will be\nadopted in March.\nPlease forward comments to the director of Campus Planning and Development at 2210 West Mall; Fax: 822-6119.\nLAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT\nOBJECTIVES\nThe University of British Columbia, as\nan academic enterprise, is an important\nlocal, regional, provincial, and national\nresource. Historically, the University has\nalways been an important part ofthe city\nof Vancouver. The great cities of the\nworld are those in which universities are\ncentres of academic and cultural interaction. The concept of the major academic\nand educational institution as an essential component in a growing, dynamic\nand vibrant city will continue to be a key\nelement of the mission of the University.\nThe growth of the University parallels\nthe growth of the city of Vancouver. The\nUniversity can reasonably expect to continue experiencing a wider diversity of\neducational, recreational, and cultural\nactivities on the campus. The pressures\nof regional growth and change, as well as\nincreasing utilization of the campus by\nthe wider community, challenge the\nUniversity to continue to build and develop its traditional reciprocal link to the\ncity.\nAs a place, the University is beautiful,\nadmired across the country; however,\nthere are many parts ofthe campus with\nserious deficiencies and unrealized potential. As a community, the campus is\nunbalanced and incomplete in two major\nrespects; first, while the sense of community Is continuing to develop with\nmany more people living on campus,\nthere is still the impression of a place\nalive and inhabited only during working\nhours, lacking the balance of a well\nrounded and active environment. Second, the campus land use should be\nintegrated with the Greater Vancouver\nRegional District's Livable Region Strategy for growth management.\nIn response to its mandate to be the\nsenior institution of higher education\nand research in a vibrant pacific city, the\nUniversity will responsibly develop land\nin order to support the academic and\nresearch mission. All income from long\nterm leases will be used for endowments,\nfor long term assets which directly support the mission, and which allow the\nUniversity to develop the margin of excellence into the long term future. Under\nUniversity policy, endowments are managed as appreciating assets. For example, each faculty position added to the\nUniversity contributes to the growth and\ndevelopment of the province by way of\nteaching, research, and indirect economic\nactivity.\nLand use and development objectives\nwill also ensure that all development\ncontributes to a sophisticated vision\nbased, not only on site and building\nrelated specifics, but also on a consideration of sociological and operational issues informed by a regional and demographic perspective.\nA. PROTECT THE GREEN ZONE\nThe development objectives in this\ncategory include:\nCapitalize on Pacific Spirit Park, one\nof the world's great urban parks,\nthrough careful siting of adjacent\ndevelopment.\nii. Ensure that campus development\ncaptures the maximum possible\nviews of the ocean.\niii. Preserve managed natural areas\nsuch as the Botanical Gardens,\nNitobe Gardens and selected wooded\nareas.\nPreserve and further develop formal\nand informal landscapes to sustain\nand enhance the sense of a \"garden\ncampus\". Significant elements in\nthe formal layout ofthe campus will\ninclude the Escarpment, North\nLawn, Rose Garden, Main Mall, Library Square, Fairview Square,\nSouth Lawn, Main Mall extension,\nthe Stadium, the Playing Fields, including Maclnnes Field, and extensive planting throughout the campus.\nIncrementally reduce surface parking lots through such measures as\nthe construction of parkades, encouragement of bicycles and transit, reduction of oversized roadways,\ntransit supportive development, and\nthe establishment of a viable resident population.\nvl. Accommodate core academic and\nsupport growth through infill and\nintensification within the confines\nof the current Main Campus area\nnorth of Thunderbird Boulevard.\nB. BUILD A COMPLETE COMMUNITY\nThe development objectives in this category include:\nvii. Balance the proportion of residents and build a well-rounded\ncommunity by increasing the residential population between 1995\nand 2021.\nviii. In keeping with the value of the\ncampus to the wider community,\nstrengthen accessibility to the campus and the visibility of its activities.\nix. While maintaining the primacy of\nacademic use, strengthen other uses\nsuch as cultural, residential, commercial, research, retail, and community services.\nx. Ensure a mixed use concept of land\ndevelopment which precludes isolated single purpose enclaves.\nxi. Develop and reinforce a distinct campus landscape character, distinguished by a mix of urban\nstreetscapes and open spaces.\nxii. Reduce the barrier effects of and\nland consumed by major traffic\narteries and create physical and\nvisual linkages across them.\nxiii. Create human scaled road networks\nwhich function as multi use public\nplaces as well as movement corridors.\nxlv. Provide a balance between various\ncomplementary land uses allocating approximately 70% (of which\nclose to 40% is developed, leaving\nabout 30% for future uses) of the\n383 hectare campus for academic,\nresearch, and related institutional\nuse (including student housing) and\napproximately 30% of the campus\nfor market housing.\na) Approximately 85 hectares (22%)\nto academic and support use north\nof Thunderbird Drive in the existing main campus.\nb) Approximately 50 hectares (13%)\nto student housing north of\nThunderbird Drive, (including\nTheological Colleges) in the existing main campus.\nc) Approximately 30 hectares (8%)\nto university housing east of\nWesbrook Drive.\nd) Approximately 25 hectares (7%)\nto Botanical Gardens south of\nThunderbird Drive.\ne) Approximately 5 hectares (1%) to\nPlant Operations.\nf) Approximately 25 hectares (7%)\nto athletic facilities and fields south\nof Thunderbird Drive.\ng) Approximately 50 hectares (13%)\nto research south of Thunderbird\nDrive.\nh) Approximately 10 hectares (3%)\nto existing Hampton Place for market housing.\ni) Approximately 50 hectares (13%)\nto market housing south of\nThunderbird Drive.\nj) Approximately 50 hectares (13%)\nsouth of Thunderbird Drive as a\nreserve for future market housing,\npart or all of which may be used for\nlow intensity academic or research\nuse in the interim.\nk) Adjacent to the campus, on land\nowned by University, fraternities\nand the Provincial Government,\napproximately 3 hectares (1%) to\nbe developed for affordable housing in a joint venture between the\nUniversity and the Province.\nxv. Improve vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian connections between various parts of the campus.\nxvi. Provide public focal points: the\nmain academic core, a commercial\nand service area, and athletics and\nrecreation focuses, all of which are\nconnected by a general network of\ngreenspaces and road systems.\nxvii. Provide housing types with an emphasis on compact, small footprint\nforms.\nxviii. Provide optimal public safety by\ncareful location and design of building types, movement systems, utilities, and public services.\nC. ACHIEVE A COMPACT\nMETROPOLITAN REGION\nThe University can assist in meeting\nthis regional objective by:\nxix Accommodating a significant share\nof residential growth slated for Vancouver that is compatible with UBC's\nprimary mission to support its academic enterprise.\nxx. Ensuring that all land uses utilize\nas compact a form as possible.\nD. INCREASE TRANSPORTATION\nCHOICE\nThe major way in which UBC can\ncontribute to the weaning of the Region\nfrom an overwhelming dependence on\nautomobiles is to:\nxxi. Provide opportunities for people to\nlive close to the core of Vancouver,\nand hence reduce the travel from\nsuburban centres.\nxxii. Support the Region's Traffic Demand\nManagement measures such as utilizing high occupancy vehicles, increasing parking charges, and exhibiting preference for transit, bicycles and pedestrians.\nxxiii. Create a flexible campus road, bicycle and pedestrian network which\nlinks to similar networks beyond the\ncampus.\nxxiv. Provide for a modern regional transit terminus and a flexible and distributed transit service on campus.\nxxv. Anticipate that regional transit planning will include the university community in future rapid transit initiative. UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12,1995 9\nTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nUBC GAZETTE\nThe Board of Governors took\nthefollowing action at its meeting\nheld on December 1. 1994.\nPROPERTY\nThe Board approved the firm\nof Busby Bridger/MBT Associates as the Prime Consultants/\nArchitects forthe Earth Sciences\nProject.\nThe following construction\ncontracts were awarded:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The Walter C. Koerner\nLibrary (Central Library\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nPhase I)\nFINANCE\nThe 1995-96 Budget for Child\nCare Services was approved.\nGuidelines for the provision of\nchild care services were also\napproved.\nThe Board approved rent\nstructures for 1994-95 for the\nThunderbird Residence.\nThe following fees were approved:\n(1) The establishment of tuition fees at $12,000.00 for students entering the Pharm. D. program in September 1995, and\n(2) A special Practice Fee of\n$200.00 for students in the\nfourth year ofthe B.Sc. (Pharm.)\nProgram to take effect for the\n1995-96 academic year.\nPOLICEES\nThe Board approved the following policies; and noted the\nPresident's procedures for imple-\nThe Board of Governors at its\nmeeting of December 1, 1994\napproved the following recommendations and received notice\nabout thefollowing items:\nAPPOINTMENTS\nMarcia A Boyd, Associate Dean,\nFaculty of Dentistry, July 1, 1994\nto June 30, 1995.\nGeorge E. Kennedy, Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oct. 1, 1994 to June 30,\n1996.\nRichard Hodgson, Acting Head,\nDepartment of French, Jan. 1,\n1995 to June 30, 1995.\nElizabeth Croft, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Apr. 1, 1995 to\nJune 30, 1998.\nDaniel Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical\nEngineering, Jan. 1, 1995 to\nJune 30, 1998.\nDeborah Giaschi, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Sept. 1, 1994 to June\n30, 1997.\nMaleki Daya, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology.\nJuly 1, 1994 to June 30, 1997.\nEdwin D.W. Moore, Assistant Professor, Department of\nPhysiology, Jan. 1, 1995 to\nmentation and administration.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Extraordinary Expenses\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nGrant and Contract-funded\nEmployees\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Consultation with Students\nabout Tuition Fees\nACADEMIC AND STUDENT\nAFFAIRS\nThe Board approved the following Senate recommendations:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 New Diploma Program in Forestry (Advanced Silviculture)\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Establishment ofthe Life Skills\nMotivation Centre within the Institute of Health Promotion Research. Faculty of Graduate\nStudies, effective January 1,\n1995.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 An Endowment Deed was approved for the Ronald L. Cliff\nProfessorship for Junior Faculty\nin Accountancy.\nThe Board approved a change\nin the Endowment Deed to reflect the conversion of the Chair\nin Audiology and Speech Sciences to the Professorship in\nAudiology and Speech Sciences.\nAPPOINTMENTS\nDr. Michael Smith and Dr.\nRaphael Amit were appointed as\nPeter Wall Distinguished Professors; Dr. Smith as Professor of\nBiotechnology and Dr. Amit as\nProfessor of Entrepreneurship\nand Venture Capital.\nOTHER BUSINESS\nThe Board approved the restructuring of and appointments\nto the University Athletic Council.\nJune 30, 1998.\nPeter Liddle, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oct. 17, 1994.\nLynn Raymond, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry. Sept. 1, 1994 to June 30,\n1997.\nWilliam Jia, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Oct.\n1, 1994 to June 30, 1997.\nLome A. Whitehead, Associate\nProfessor, Department of Physics, Oct. 1, 1994 to June 30,\n1997.\nRESIGNATIONS\nVadilal Modi, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dec. 30, 1994.\nPenelope Quintana, Assistant\nProfessor, Occupational Hygiene\nProgram, Dec. 31, 1994.\nGordon Phillips, Professor, Department of Medicine, Nov. 9,\n1994.\nDeirdre Webster, Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation\nSciences, June 30, 1995.\nLuis Sobrino, Professor, Department of Physics, Dec. 30. 1994.\nErich Vogt, Professor, Department of Physics/TRIUMF, Dec.\n30, 1994.\nEmerging Asian markets\nfocus of conference\nby Abe Hefter\nStaff writer\nStudents in the Faculty of\nCommerce and Business Administration will provide a forum for\nindividuals interested in exploring new venture opportunities in\nthe Pacific Rim.\nBridging the Pacific - New\nVenture Opportunities in Emerging Markets, will be held Jan.\n20-21 at the Waterfront Centre\nHotel in Vancouver.\nThe conference, which will\ncombine keynote speakers, panels, and an information fair, will\nprovide attendees with an opportunity to learn from the experiences of business professionals who have participated in the\nestablishment of new ventures\nin Asia.\n\"Last year's conference, our\nfirst, centred on general business opportunities in the Pacific\nRim,\" said second-year graduate student Hanna Krause, the\n1995 conference co-chair.\n'The focus this year is on new\nventure opportunities in emerging Pacific Rim markets such as\nVietnam, Indonesia, Korea and\nMalaysia,\" said Krause. \"We're\nhoping to attract people in entrepreneurial positions within\ntheir respective organizations,\nand others generally interested\nin the opportunities available in\nthe Asian marketplace.\"\nThe conference organizing\ncommittee consists of 20 graduate and undergraduate students,\nincluding undergraduate co-\nchair Michiyo Iizuka, as well as a\ngroup of faculty advisers.\nKeynote speakers include Ron\nErdman, president of Wardley\nCanada, and Stan Ridley, president of B.C. Hydro.\nLast year's conference drew\n175 delegates. Krause is anticipating closer to 250 delegates\nthis year, as a result of increased\nparticipation by the Vancouver\nbusiness community.\nThe concurrent\nsessions will be\nhosted by entrepreneurs with successful first-hand experience in the Pacific\nRim. Speakers will\nshare their personal\nexperiences and will\ndiscuss subjects\nsuch as identifying\nHanna Krause\nmarket opportunities, developing\njoint ventures,\nreaching Asian investors, and overcoming cultural differences.\nFor more information on Bridging the\nPacific - New Venture\nOpportunities in\nEmerging Markets,\ncall 822-6016.\nAbe Hefter photo\nPartners In Education\nManagement committee members of the Canada-China\nuniversity partnership met at UBC Dec. 13 to discuss\ndevelopments in the areas of telecommunications,\nbiotechnology and environmental management. UBC,\nMcGill University, the University of Toronto and\nl'Universite de Montreal have joined with three of China's\nlargest research universities, Peking, Tsinghua and\nNankai, in a collaborative effort that covers a number of\nareas of graduate research. Committee members (l-r) are\nProf. Wang Jikang, Tsinghua University; Prof. Bernard\nSheehan, associate vice-president, Computing and\nCommunications, UBC; Prof. Zhang Maizeng, Nankai\nUniversity; Prof. Olav Slaymaker, associate vice-president,\nResearch, UBC; UBC Law Prof. Ivan Head; UBC Asian\nStudies Prof. Daniel Overmyer; and Xia Hong Wei, Peking\nUniversity. UBC President David Strangway will host a\nmeeting of the seven university partnership presidents\nApril 9-10.\nPharmacy doctoral students\nto face tuition increase this fall\nby Connie Filletti\nStaff writer\nAnnual tuition fees for UBC's\ndoctoral program in Pharmacy\n(PharmD) will rise from $2,181\nto $12,000 in September, 1995\nto support the clinical component of the program.\nThe fee increase was approved\nby UBC's Board ofGovernors at\nits December meeting.\n\"Since the program was\nlaunched in 1991, the clinical\nteaching has been done by dedicated volunteers,\" said John\nMcNeill, dean of the Faculty of\nPharmaceutical Sciences.\n\"But as hospitals face tight\nbudgets and diminishing revenues, it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to find clinical sites and clinical mentors for\nour students.\"\nThe two-year program, which\nconsists of eight months of\ncourse work and one year of\nclinical clerkship, was the first\noffered at a Canadian university.\nDan Birch, vice-president,\nAcademic and Provost, explained\nthat because the program is currently unfunded, 70 per cent of\nthe additional tuition revenue\nwill be remitted to the faculty\nand 30 per cent will be retained\nby the university for general infrastructure costs.\n\"We have concerns about such\na high tuition but it is in line with\nfees charged by other universities,\" McNeill said. \"It should also\nbe possible to raise funds for\nscholarships and bursaries to\nassist students in the program.\"\nTuition at The University of\nToronto, the only other Canadian university offering a\nPharmD, is $12,500.\nCanadians enrolled in\nPharmD programs at American\ninstitutions pay fees ranging\nfrom $6,100 at the University of\nUtah to $20,345 at the University of Southern California.\n$200 practice fee introduced for\nfourth-year pharmacy students\nUBC's Board of Governors\nhas approved a $200 practice\nfee for fourth-year BSc (Pharm)\nstudents beginning in the\n1995/96 academic year.\n\"Fourth year undergraduate Pharmacy students undertake 10 weeks of clinical\ninternship and the amount\nnow designated in the faculty's budget is less than half\nthe amount it spends annu\nally on the clinical program,\"\nsaid Dan Birch,vice-president, Academic and Provost.\nJohn McNeill, dean of the\nFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, noted that several U.S.\nuniversities charge similar fees\nof $300 and up.\nThe entire practice fee will be\nretained by the faculty for teacher\ntraining and the purchase of\nteaching materials. 10 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12, 1995\nForum\nHastily introduced\ngrading policy presents a\nchallenge for teachers\nby Gaaton Erickson\nProf. Gaalen Erickson is the director of\nUBC's Centre for the Study of Teacher\nEducation. Thefollowing remarks were\ndrawnfrom a lecture he gave initiating a\nfree, three-part UBC lecture series on\nImportant educational issues tn B.C.\nComing lectures: Accountability: Can we\nknow if schools are doing agoodjob, Prof.\nDoug Willms, Jan. 25; Equity: Who wins?\nProf. Jane Gaskell, April 26. For more\ninformation on upcoming lectures at the\nRobson Square Conference Centre please\ncall 264-0627.\nIn the new ministry policy on student\nassessment, evaluation and reporting three\nchanges have been introduced:\n- Grade 4 to 7 teachers must now use\nletter grades (previously it was optional);\n- teachers at all grades are to include\n\"structured written comments\" outlining\nwhat the student is currently able to do,\nwhat difficulties he or she is experiencing,\nand what type of support is required of\nparents and teachers to improve the\nstudent's performance;\n- letter grades in each subject are to be\nbased upon criteria derived from the\nexpected learning outcomes in the curriculum guides (most of which are currently\nunder revision).\nA number of\nissues must be\nclarified and\nfactors addressed\nbefore these policy\ninitiatives will have\nthe desired effects\nof Improving the\nevaluation and\nreporting of student performance.\nFirst, it must be\nrecognized that the\njudgments involved\nin assigning grades\nto students re-\nquires teachers to\ndevelop an extensive knowledge base in a\nnumber of different domains, including the\nsubject matter in which the evaluative\njudgment is being made, the social and\nIntellectual developmental characteristics\nof the learner, contemporary instructional\ntechniques and technology, and the\ngeneral societal expectations of schools.\nSecond, everyone needs to be clear that\naccording to the new policy, the primary\npurpose of assigning letter grades is\neducational (where grades are indicators of\nactual achievement and play a feedback\nrole for students and parents) and not\nmotivational (where grades are used as a\n\"carrot\" or a \"stick\" to promote learning) or\nselective (where grades are used to sort\nstudents for other educational institutions\nor for some employment opportunities).\nThird, the many different interpretations of\nwhat is meant by a letter grade must be\naddressed. Many teachers, parents and\nstudents alike think that effort as well as\nachievement ought to be included in the\nassigning of a letter grade. Effort and\nachievement of some intended learning\noutcome are two very different judgments\nand should not be combined in one letter\ngrade. Finally, the language in forthcoming\nministry documents elaborating on the\nnew policy must be much clearer about the\nnature of criterion-referenced evaluation,\nA potential problem can occur\nwith the use of letter grades\nwhen younger students are\n\"labelled\" as a result of\nreceiving a low grade. This\nmay influence a child's sense\nof self-esteem, and how\nparents and teachers respond\nto that child.\nprovide a more extensive rationale for its\nintroduction, and clarify the role of the\nteacher versus that of the ministry regarding the setting of standards and criteria\nused in making these evaluative judgments.\nThe strengths are that the ministry\npolicy makes it more apparent that the\npurpose of student assessment and evaluation is to provide a clear accounting of\nstudent achievement for both parents and\nstudents. The policy also encourages the\nparticipation of students and parents in the\nassessment process through the use of\nstrategies such as student portfolios,\nstudent self-assessment techniques and\nstudent-parent conferences. Finally, it\nshould result in more clearly defined\ncurricular documents in which the intended learning outcomes for a given\nsubject area at each grade level are clearly\nspecified and capable of being understood\nby students and parents.\nIn terms of weaknesses, the primary\ncriticism is the great haste with which the\npolicy was introduced. Teachers, school\nadministrators and parents were left\nwondering, even as late as October, what\nthe new report card would look like.\nAnother concern is that the emphasis on\nletter grades may return us to some of the\npractices that emerged during the era of\nbehavioural objectives in the 1970s. Then,\nthe temptation was to only teach to those\neducational outcomes that could be measured with some so-called \"objective\"\nassessment instrument. In other words\n instruction would be\n^mm reduced to include\nonly those topic\nareas that could be\neasily measured.\nAnother potential\nproblem can occur\nwith the use of letter\ngrades when\nyounger students are\n\"labelled\" as a result\nof receiving a low\ngrade. This may\ninfluence a child's\n sense of self-esteem,\nand how parents and\nteachers respond to that child. Also, with\nan increased focus on letter grades, learning may become associated with this\nextrinsic reward system in a sort of \"performance for grade\" game. This may well\nwork against what I consider to be one of\nthe primary purposes of schooling and that\nis to inspire in students a sense of enjoyment and wonder in learning and to\ndevelop their critical capabilities to analyse\nand deal effectively with the challenges they\nwill encounter in life.\nBecause this shift in grading practices\nis significantly different from previous\npractices, more resources will be needed\nto explain this policy initiative to teachers and to parents. It will entail a\nsubstantial and sustained effort to\ncommunicate the nature of criterion-\nreferenced evaluation through a series of\nworkshops and public meetings. Without\nsuch efforts, these policy changes will\nleave teachers with the unenviable task\nof attempting to implement a program\nthat has not been sufficiently articulated to the educational community nor\nthe public at large. 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UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12, 1995 11\nMaterials and Process Engineering Laboratory\nPractical approach\nremoves barriers\nbetween researchers\nby Gavin Wilson\nStaff writer\nYou have to look\nbeyond the bricks and\nmortar if you want to\nunderstand the Advanced Materials and\nProcess Engineering\nLaboratory (AMPEL)\nbuilding, says its director. Prof. Tom\nTiedje.\nIt's not just another\nresearch facility being built on East Mall,\nbut a whole new way\nof tackling technological research problems\nat Canadian universities.\n'Traditionally, research at universities\nis done through departments, and this\ncan create barriers\nbetween researchers\neven if they are working in similar areas,\"\nsaid Tiedje, who holds\njoint appointments in\nthe departments of\nPhysics and Electrical\nEngineering.\n\"For example, at\nUBC there are a\nnumber of departments involved in materials research, but right now they are\nisolated from each other. It's difficult to\nget any economies of scale or synergy of\nideas.\n\"In this building we will be able to pool\nresources and bring together activities\nthat are related in science and technology, but disconnected administratively.\nIt's a practical approach that's more common in industry than it is in academia,\"\nhe said.\nWhen construction of the $21 -million\nbuilding is completed in June, AMPEL\nwill be a major research i entre on campus. Faculty and gradual students from\nfour different departments (Chemistry,\nElectrical Engineering, Metals and Materials Engineering and Physics) will work\nside-by-side to better understand the\nproperties of materials and develop new\nprocesses for producing materials in useful forms.\nTiedje said the advantages of the new\nfacility are many: it will enhance interactions between researchers working in\nrelated areas, allow more efficient operations, appeal to funding agencies and\nattract more industry involvement because it is more compatible with its needs.\nThe AMPEL building will have an important educational role, he added, especially in graduate education. Students\nwill benefit by having better access to\nmodern equipment and instrumentation\nthat may now be inaccessible to them in\nother departments. They will also benefit\nfrom exposure to the different cultures\nthat exist in disciplines outside their\nown, he said.\nCovering nearly 8,000 square metres\nof space over four storeys, the AMPEL\nbuilding will include specialized facilities\nnot available elsewhere at UBC, such-as\nhigh headroom labs that have space for\nheavy industrial machinery.\nThe high headroom lab will be the new\nhome for the Centre for Metallurgical\nProcess Engineering, now based in the\nForward Building.\nAMPEL will also feature a \"clean room\"\nfor fabricating electronic devices in a\nGavin Wilson photo\nTom Tiedje, with drawings of the new Advanced\nMaterials and Process Engineering Laboratory.\ncontrolled environment that is sealed off\nfrom the outside and free of dust and\nparticles.\nTiedje, who began his three-year appointment as director last June, said\nthat AMPEL will also be serviced with\nadequate power, water and ventilation\nfor materials research, unlike some\nbuildings currently used for materials\nresearch, which were designed without\nthe services needed for safe and efficient operation.\nWork conducted in the new building\nwill generate new discoveries and help\ncreate new industries and high quality\njobs for the future as well as support\nexisting industries, he said.\nAMPEL researchers will be working on\na variety of different materials including\nceramics, composites, metals, semiconductors and superconductors. Tiedje said\nthe building will bring together under one\nroof one ofthe best collections of modern\ninstrumentation in Canada for studying\nthe properties of materials.\nMaterials processing will be another\nimportant activity in the new building, he\nsaid. Activities in that field will be as\ndiverse as the development of environmentally sound processes for resource\nindustries and the fabrication of semiconductor lasers for fibre-optic communications systems.\nAMPEL does not have enough space to\naccommodate all the materials researchers on campus, Tiedje said, but it will be\na focal point for materials research at\nUBC.\n\"We expect it to become an important\ncentre provincially and nationally, as\nwell,\" he said.\nLinked by bridges to the Civil and\nMechanical Engineering Building,\nAMPEL is located in the applied sciences precinct at the south end of Main\nMall, near the Centre for Integrated\nComputing Systems Research/Computer Science Building, the MacLeod\nBuilding (Dept. of Electrical Engineering), the Dept. of Chemical Engineering\nand the Pulp and Paper Centre.\nPeople\nby staff writers\nCommerce and Business Administration Prof. Trevor Heaver has been\nelected president of the International Association of the Maritime\nEconomists (IAME) for a two-year term.\nIAME was formed in 1992 and comprises more than 350 members from\napproximately 50 countries.\nThe director of the faculty's Centre for Transportation Studies, Heaver\nhas acted as a consultant to provincial, federal and foreign governments on\na range of transportation policy issues. He has also worked as a consultant\nto shippers and railways on management and policy issues.\nThe Water Environment Federation's 1994 Willem\nRudolfs Medal for noteworthy accomplishment in\nindustrial waste control has been awarded to\nAssoc. Prof. Eric Hall of the Dept. of Civil Engineering.\nThe 40,000-member federation is a non-profit\ntechnical organization dedicated to the preservation\nand enhancement of the global water environment.\nHall holds the Chair in Forest Products Waste\nManagement as part of the environmental engineering\ngroup within the Dept. of Civil Engineering. His\nresearch focuses on methods of treating pulp and\npaper mill effluent, especially chlorinated organic\ncompounds.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nHall\nTwo former students from the Dept. of Creative Writing have won major\nawards for their work. Morris Panych, UBC graduate of 1977, received\nthe 1994 Governor General's Award in English Drama for his comic\nfull-length play, The Ends ofthe Earth. Murray Logan, a 1993 creative\nwriting graduate, is winner ofthe 1994 Du Maurier One-Act Competition\nheld by Vancouver's New Play Centre. Logan won for his play, Deathland.\nSaving Grace\nD Thomson photo\nThunderbirds goaltender Paul Hurl comes up big during UBC's 3-2 win over\nthe Alberta Golden Bears during the recent Father Bauer Hockey Classic at\nthe Winter Sports Centre. Hurl emerged as a tournament all-star while the\nT-Birds lost 4-3 to Litvinov of the Czech Republic in the championship\ngame.\nNews Digest\nThe tender for construction of the\nWalter C. Koerner Library has\nbeen awarded to Foundation\nBuilding West Inc. for $20.2 million.\nThe project is the first phase of a\nnew central library for the university,\nwhich will eventually replace the\naging facilities in the existing Main\nLibrary.\nSite preparation and clearing is\nunderway. Occupancy of the building\nis slated for November, 1996.\nThe Main Mall Restoration Project\nis continuing this month with\nthe planting of a dozen oak\ntrees.\nThe oaks have been inspected by a\ncertified arborist and UBC's head\ngardener for health and signs of disease.\nMost ofthe oaks will be planted to fill\nin gaps in the twin lines of trees that\nstretch the length of the mall.\nSome existing oak trees that are\ndiseased with oak anthracnoses, which\nis caused by the fungus apiogncmonia\numbrinella, will be removed and\nreplaced with new plantings.\nThe Morris and Helen Belkin Art\nGallery has received a Progressive\nArchitecture Award for excellence\nin design.\nThe awards, considered by architects to be the most prestigious in their\nfield, attracted more than 500 submissions from the U.S., Canada and\nMexico. Only four awards and 15\ncitations were presented this year.\nThe gallery was made possible\nthrough a major gift by the Morris and\nHelen Belkin Foundation to UBC's A\nWorld of Opportunity fund-raising\ncampaign and a matching grant from\nthe provincial government.\nHelen Belkin, a long-time friend of\nthe university, has also made a personal gift, matched by the province, to\nestablish the $1.5 million Morris and\nHelen Belkin Art Gallery Operating\nEndowment\nDesigned by the Vancouver firm\nPeter Cardew Architects, the building,\nlocated in front of the Frederic Wood\nTheatre, is scheduled for completion\nthis year. The gallery will undertake a\ncomprehensive program of exhibitions\nfeaturing contemporary artists. 12 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 January 12, 1995\nProfile\nRegistered speech-language pathologist Linda Rammage specializes in voice disorders.\nAn Active Voice\nMartin Dee photo\nby Connie Filletti\nStaff writer\nIf Linda Rammage is a voice\ncrying in the wilderness, people\nare starting to listen.\nAerobics instructors, rock stars,\npreachers and cancer patients\nsearching for vocal health are\nfinding their way to Rammage who\nis director of the Provincial Voice\nCare Resource Program (PVCRP).\nRammage established the\nprogram in 1993 to provide British\nColumbians suffering from voice\nproblems with comprehensive,\nhigh-quality, community-based\nclinical services, and to increase the\nknowledge and skills of the professionals who treat them.\nIn setting up the program,\nRammage, a registered speech-\nlanguage pathologist specializing in\nvoice disorders, formalized a role\nshe had been playing for years.\n\"I spent a lot of time on the\ntelephone talking to speech pathologists throughout B.C. about\nthe voice problems they were\nencountering with patients. I even\nadvised on equipment they should\nhave in their clinics.\"\nBecause of the program's\nsuccess, Rammage still\nspends a lot of time on the\ntelephone and on B.C.'s highways.\nColleagues in areas stretching\nfrom the province's Northern\nInterior to the Sunshine Coast, as\nwell as people across Canada, are\nseeking her advice on how to set up\nsimilar programs in their communities.\nAnd although more than 500\nclients a year pass through the\nLinda Rammage\nPVCRP, Rammage admits that voice\ndisorders are not universally recognized\nas a health concern.\n'The medical profession has been\nslow to acknowledge that voice disorders are illnesses and can be occupa-\ntionally crippling,\" she says.\nHer own\ncareer as an\namateur singer\nhas made t^tmmmmmmmmm^m\nRammage\nparticularly\ninterested in\nevaluating,\nclassifying and\ntreating voice\ndisorders in\nindividuals\ncalled occupational voice\nusers.\n\"Most people\nwho use their\nvoices extensively in their\noccupations,\nincluding teachers, sales representatives and politicians, do not have any\nvoice training to prepare them for a\nheavy and often difficult vocal demand\non the job,\" Rammage said.\nThey may be particularly susceptible\nto problems like vocal fatigue, hoarseness and loss of or change in pitch\nrange, she explained.\nAs a member of several church\nchoirs and glee clubs while\ngrowing up in the Maritimes, and\nas a performer with Vancouver's Bach\nChoir during the 1980s, Rammage\ndraws from her experience as a singer\nwhen treating clients.\nThe result has been the creation of a\nunique voice care team which includes\n\"The medical profession\nhas been slow to\nacknowledge that voice\ndisorders are illnesses\nand can be occupationally\ncrippling.\"\nBruce Pullan, artistic director of the\nVancouver Academy of Music, psychiatrist Dr. Hamish Nichol, Dr. Murray\nMorrison, head of UBC's Division of\nOtolaryngology, and several theatre\nvoice teachers.\nThrough the PVCRP, the team offers\na 10-week\nvocal rehabilitation pro-\n^^^^^^^^^^^ gram, in a\ngroup format,\nto occupational voice\nusers experiencing vocal\ndistress.\n\"We use a\nholistic\napproach in\nthis program\nbecause we\n consider the\nvoice's physical production\nas inseparable\nfrom its\nfunctions in expressing thoughts and\nemotions,\" Rammage said.\nConsiderable attention is given to\nthe participants' posture and alignment, not surprising when Rammage\nindicates that everything from the top\nof the legs is part of the speech machine.\n\"Half of the therapy training program\nis teaching people what realignment is,\nhow to balance the head without fixing\nit on top of the neck and how to relax\nthe face and jaw.\"\nAmong the other preventive techniques participants learn are\navoiding straining their voices to\nbe heard, yelling, screaming, and\nrepressing emotion. Rammage believes\nthe latter is as damaging to the vocal\ncords as driving a car with the\nemergency brake engaged is to the\nbrake pads.\nThe voice care team also devotes\ntime to the client's physical and\nemotional health, recognizing that\nsome voice problems such as\nhoarseness may warn of cancer of\nthe vocal cords and larynx while\nspeaking in a monotone or with a\nlow pitch sound may signal depression.\nDespite her full load as director\nof the PVCRP, Rammage\nfinds time to serve as a\nsessional lecturer in the Faculty of\nMedicine's School of Audiology and\nSpeech Sciences, and as a research\nassociate in the Division of\nOtolaryngology.\nShe recently collaborated with\nMorrison on The Management of\nVoice Disorders, a multidisciplinary\ntextbook heralded as the most\ncomplete and up-to-date publication of its kind.\nRammage also continues to\nmanage a harmonious blend of\nwork and pleasure.\nAs a student at the University of\nAlberta, she was able to combine\nher undergraduate work with a tour\nof Europe as a member of the\nuniversity's concert choir.\nToday, Rammage and several\nfriends perform early music for\nenjoyment as a singing group called\nCantamus, the Latin word for\nsinging.\nHighly accomplished in a new\narea of medicine and the recipient\nof two graduate teaching awards,\nshe does, ironically, have one\nregret.\n\"I dreamt of being a concert\npianist.\""@en . 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