"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "1979-07-18"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0117799/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \"WMl eoiLECTKX,*\nVolume 25, Number 14. July 18, 1979. Published by Information Services, University\nof B.C., 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5, 228-3131. Jim Banham and\nJudith Walker, editors. ISSN 0497-2929.\nThere is no oil to check, but Frank Peabody, supervisor of the UBC Electric Car\nproject, still has to spend time looking under the hood.\nElectric Car gets ready\nfor Detroit competitions\nSon of Wally Wagon rides againl\nThe 1979 version of the UBC Electric Car, preparing for its appearance\nnext month in an American competition, has left its secluded West Mall\ngarage home to begin outdoor testing.\nIn its three years of evolution, the\nElectric Car project has involved more\nthan 100 UBC engineering students,\nfrom both the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering departments.\nEight students have worked full\ntime during this summer to prepare\nthe vehicle for the SCORE (Student\nCompetitions on Relevant Engineering) contest which begins on August\n12 in Detroit, capital of America's\nautomobile industry.\nAll eight students and project coordinator Frank Peabody will accompany the Electric Car to Detroit to ensure that any repairs that may be required during the course of the competition can be made as quickly as\npossible by the people that built the\nvehicle.\nPeabody said that he expects the\nElectric Car to perform well in the\ncompetition that will likely include\nabout 50 vehicles. He added that there\nwill only be about six electric vehicles,\nthe other entries being gasoline- or\nhydrogen-powered, or powered by\nsome other means.\n\"The contest has switched objectives to go for an energy-efficient\nvehicle,\" said Peabody. He added that\nthe present contest is dramatically different from the 1972 contest at which\nthe Wally Wagon, the UBC engineering faculty's entry, won the overall\ncompetition.\nThe Wally Wagon was a gasoline-\npowered vehicle, he said, designed to\nmeet the requirements of the 1972\ncontest for a safe, low-pollution vehicle.\nBut the Electric Car is powered by a\nseries of lead-acid batteries, said\nPeabody, similar to the batteries used\nto power electric forklifts. He added\nthat the use of batteries as a power\nsource has some advantages for an\nenergy-efficient vehicle.\nFor instance, the rechargeable bat\nteries require only an overnight charging process that is simply done by\nplugging the vehicle into a standard\nhousehold electrical outlet. The batteries can be charged to 85 to 90 per\ncent of their maximum capacity in as\nlittle as four hours.\nBut the batteries are not without\nproblems, said Peabody. One\ndrawback is their massive weight of\n1200 pounds, which brings the total\nweight of the vehicle to almost 4000\npounds, he said. He added that\nanother drawback is the amount of\nenergy that can be stored in the batteries.\n\"The 1200 pounds of battery store\nabout the same amount of energy as a\ncup of gasoline.\"\nBecause of this, he said, the Electric\nCar has a range of only about 50 miles\nif driven at 45 miles per hour. He\nadded that this will hurt the vehicle's\nscoring in the endurance portion of\nthe competition as the vehicles are expected to have a range of 250 miles.\nThe limited storage capacity of the\nbatteries also forced the engineers to\nuse a Volkswagen gasoline heater to\nheat the vehicle, Peabody said, and so\nthe Electric Car still has a gasoline cap\nand a small gasoline tank.\nThe \"braini\" of the vehicle is a computer system that helped two UBC\nstudents, Peter van der Gracht and\nKonrad Mauch, win second prize in a\n1977 internaticjnal 'fontest to determine possible uses for a\nmicroprocessor/microcomputer. The\nmicrocomputer monitors and controls\nthe functioning of the engine in the\nElectric Car, and also monitors driver\naction to provide the most efficient\noperation of the vehicle.\nOne of the Electric Car's most innovative features is the braking\nsystem, Peabody said, as it is used to\nregenerate some electrical power to\nrecharge the batteries. The regeneration only takes place when the brakes\nare applied, he said, but this is the\nfirst vehicle that has been able to\nContinued on page 2\nSee ELECTRIC CAR\nMore parking spaces\nto ease campus squeeze\nThere will be 350 additional parking stalls on the campus this fall,\ndespite a continued squeeze on UBC\nparking space caused by new construction.\nAdministration officials have made\nprovision for some 800 new parking\nstalls in a variety of locations to help\nmeet the loss of 450 stalls to construction. The erection of a four-level,\n1,000-car parking structure to serve\nthe new Acute Care Unit of the Health\nSciences Centre Hospital will take 300\nexisting stalls away from the hospital\nlot next to the Library Processing Centre; construction of the Home\nEconomics Building has caused the\ntemporary location of three huts onto\nthe Biological Sciences lot,\neliminating 80 spaces; access roads to\nthe Acute Care Unit will eliminate 40\nspaces, and the installation of\nwalkways and landscaping will take 30\nstalls away from the Aquatic Centre\nparking lot.\nThe 800 new parking stalls now being prepared range from 25 spaces adjacent to Duke Hall near the Centre\nfor Continuing Education, to the creation of 550 new stalls in and adjacent\nto \"B\" lot on the south campus. There\nwill also be a new 50-car lot built\nsouth of Totem Park Residence.\n\"Parking in the north end of the\ncampus is strained at the best of\ntimes,\" said C.J. Connaghan, vice-\npresident of administrative services,\n\"and the loss of some of our parking\nareas brings about greater strain.\nHowever, the 300 additional parking\nstalls will help to alleviate some of the\npressure.\n\"I'd also ask faculty and staff to\nbear with us over the summer as we\nundertake a sizeable amount of construction and road work on the campus. With the students away and the\nweather on our side, we're doing our\nbest to get a lot of changes made during the summer months. This may\ncause some temporary inconvenience\nfor the next few weeks, but we hope to\nhave all the work out of the way before\nthe summer ends.\"\nMr. Connaghan noted that one major roadwork problem, the entrance to\nWesbrook Mall from 16th Avenue,\nwas out of the University's hands at\nthis point.\n\"That entrance work is part of a\nB.C. Highways construction project to\nwiden the entire length of 16th\nAvenue. We have done our part of the\nconnecting project \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the widening of\nWesbrook Mall up to 16th Avenue.\nHowever the connection, which will\neliminate the current traffic squeeze,\nis a provincial matter. I understand\nthat the contract has just been awarded and it is our hope that the work in\nthis area will begin soon.\"\nCampus parking is crowded, even in the summer.\nMulti-level carpark planned\nWork is expected to begin shortly on the construction of a\n1,000-car parking structure to\nserve the parking needs of the\nHealth Sciences Centre Hospital.\nDetailed plans, which are now\nbeing finalized, call for a structure\ncontaining parking spaces on the\nground level and three additional\nfloors, making it the first multilevel parking structure to be built\non the UBC campus.\nThe $4 million project has\nreceived the approval of both the\nprovincial ministries of Health and\nEducation and will be financed\nwith provincial funds. It will be\nsituated adjacent to the hospital\nand should be completed within\neight months.\nIt is being built by the Greater\nVancouver Regional District which\nis responsible for the overall construction of the hospital project,\nbut will be operated by UBC.\nThe need for multi-level parking\nfacilities on campus has been\nrecognized by the University for\nsome years, but next year's completion of the 240-bed Acute Care\nUnit in the Health Sciences Centre\nHospital made the need for additional parking a critical necessity.\nParking is needed to service outpatients, visitors and staff connected with the Acute Care Unit,\nthe 60-bed Psychiatric Unit, and\nthe 300-bed Extended Care Unit,\nas well as the Dental Clinic, which\nserves a high number of outpatients.\nWillis, Cunliffe, Tait & Co.,\nconsulting engineers commissioned\nby the University to study UBC's\nparking situation, recommended\nthe construction of two 1,000-car\nparking structures adjacent to the\nhospital. However, funding was\nonly approved for the first structure. UBCreports\npage 2\nA look at children's lite]\nMichael Brennan\nAlbert E. Hall Chair filled\nDr. Michael Brennan, 37, has been\nappointed to the Albert E. Hall Chair\nin Finance at UBC.\nThe new chair in the Faculty of\nCommerce and Business Administration honors the first chairman and\nchief executive officer of the Bank of\nBritish Columbia, which was a key institution in the creation of a meaningful financial market in B.C. Mr.\nHall serves now as a member of the\nbank's board of directors.\nMr. Hall said he looks for the\nestablishment of the Chair to bring\nthe UBC Faculty of Commerce and\nthe financial community into closer\ntouch with one another.\nThe new Albert E. Hall Professor of\nFinance becomes editor next April 1\nof the \"Journal of Finance,\" the\nleading academic journal in the field.\nHe is the first editor to be picked from\noutside the United States in the jour-\nElectric Car\nContinued from p. 1\nrecharge its own power cells to some\nextent.\nThe 1979 Electric Car utilizes a DC\n(Direct Current) motor, the most commonly used for electric motor vehicles,\nhe said. The motor drives the front\nwheels of the vehicle and is capable of\nproducing speeds up to 60 miles per\nhour. But the Electric Car must be\nable to attain only a speed of 55 miles\nper hour to satisfy the requirements of\nthe contest, he added.\nThe Electric Car's unique four-\npassenger body design was created\nand built by another group of UBC\nEngineering students in 1976. It is\ncomposed of fiberglass and plastic\nfoam in a way that is designed to absorb the effect of an impact if the vehicle were involved in an accident.\nThe doors open upward, instead of\nin the traditional outward motion of\nmost vehicles, and require only a force\nof eight pounds to operate. The Electric Car design also includes a rear\nhatchback to provide cargo space, and\nfeatures front bucket seats that swivel\noutward to provide easier access for\nthe vehicle's occupants.\nFunding for the three-year project\nhas been provided by various government agencies, private industry, and\ninterested individuals. The cost of\nemploying the eight engineering\nstudents for the work this summer was\npaid for by the B.C. ministry of labour\nthrough their Youth Employment\nProgram.\nnal's 34-year history. The journal will\nhave its headquarters at UBC for three\nyears.\nGeorge Eaton\nPlant scientist\nto be honored\nA University of British Columbia\nplant scientist and his research assistant have been named 1979 co-\nwinners of the George M. Darrow\nAward by the American Society for\nHorticultural Science.\nGeorge W. Eaton, a horticultural\nprofessor at UBC, and assistant Tina\nKyte will receive the award on Aug. 2\nduring the society's 76th annual\nmeeting, at Ohio State University. It is\ngiven for \"excellence in viticulture and\nsmall fruits research\" and the citation\nspecifically recognizes the recipients'\nresearch paper, \"Yield Component\nAnalysis in the Cranberry.\"\nDr. Eaton said he and Mrs. Kyte\ndeveloped a numerical technique for\nbreaking down yield into various components, such as flowers per bush,\nlength of stems, etc., and then\nmeasuring the relative importance of\neach factor.\n\"This provides a rational basis for\ndeciding what research to pursue or\nwhat management practices to\nadopt,\" said Dr. Eaton.\nHe said that although he and Mrs.\nKyte had used the cranberry for their\nresearch, the analytical system they\nhad developed could be applied to interpretation of yields of many other\ncrops.\nAdults who want to know what contemporary society is really like should\ntake a long, hard look at children's\nliterature, says Sheila Egoff, a\nmember of UBC's School of\nLibrarianship.\nProf. Egoff, who's already produced\none standard reference book on\nchildren's literature and is working on\na second, believes that any radical\nchange in society affects the ycung\nmore quickly than any other section of\nthe population and that the changes\nare reflected more quickly in\nchildren's literature than they are in\nadult literature.\nShe thinks the reason is that writers\nof children's literature strive for\nsimplicity and directness, whereas\nwriters of adult fiction are often more\nconcerned with subtleties and a\n1979'lnternational\n^arof the Child\nsophistication that's absent from\nbooks for the younger set. \"I can enjoy\na really good novel written for\nchildren more than I can one written\nfor adults,\" is the way she puts it.\nBut, she adds, children's literature\nis, on the whole, ignored by parents.\n\"They're awfully eager to know what\nbooks they should put in their\nchildren's hands,\" she says, \"but\nparents rapidly lose interest in what\ntheir kids are reading as the children\nget older.\"\nIt wasn't always so, she says.\nIn the Victorian period, say from\n1850 up to the end of the 19th century, which she characterizes as the\nfirst \"golden age\" of children's\nliterature, books for children were\nproduced by adults who were intent\non inculcating basic moral values in\nthe young. \"Childhood was seen by\nthe Victorians as a training ground, a\ntime when children were trained to accept the responsibilities of adulthood.\n\"Thus, the books of that day\ncharacterize children as good, innocent, perceptive, but in need of protection. It produced some great\nstorytellers, for example Lewis Carroll, who wrote Alice's Adventures in\nWonderland, which can be read entirely for its entertainment value,\nquite apart from its parodies and take-\noffs on Victorian manners.\n\"For me, the two finest children's\nnovels of that period, novels that sum\nup the Victorian view of childhood,\nare George MacDonald's At the Back\nof the North Wind and The Princess\nand the Goblin. \"\nThe authors who wrote for the second golden age of children's\nliterature from the 1930s to the end of\nthe 1950s got rid of the didacticism \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe instructive aspects \u00E2\u0080\u0094 of Victorian\nliterature and tended to let children\nexist in a world that excluded adults,\nProf. Egoff says. \"What these authors\nsuggest is that children need time to\nplay, to have fun, to explore before\ntaking on the responsibilities of\nadulthood and learning about the\nharsh realities of life.\"\nThe children's literature of this second golden age also depicts the\nchildren as being members of stable,\nhappy households led by parents who\nare there to help if the children get into trouble. \"Even the stories that deal\nwith children who come from poor\nfamilies reveal stable homes in which\nthe child can handle the problems of\npoverty, not, as in so many contemporary books, a situation where poverty is going to leave a deep and lasting\nimpression on the child and warp his\nmind for all time.\"\nFor Prof. Egoff, the books of\nAmerican writer Eleanor Estes about\nthe children of the Moffatt family just\nabout sum up the values of the writers\nof the second golden age. \"You know\nthat those kids are going to grow up to\nbe solid citizens with their psyches intact,\" she says.\nIn the 1960s, Prof. Egoff says,\nwriters of children's literature decided\nthat childhood was no longer important or valuable in itself. \"What\nbecame important,\" she says, \"was the\nidea that children had to be told\neverything, no matter how harsh the\nreality was. What was important was\nhonesty...letting it all hangout, as the\nexpression is.\"\nThe new genre has come mostly\nfrom the U.S. and Britain, but the\nAmerican influence is so widespread\nthat the new wave has been dubbed\nthe American Problem Novel, she\nsays. \"The themes are much heavier\nthan those dealt with earlier and involve divorce, drugs, sex, disappearing parents, emotional and physical\ncruelty and, overall, a sense of alienation.\"\nProf. Egoff also points out that contemporary writers of children's novels\nalso deal with unusual children, those\nfrom minority groups, abused\nchildren and the mentally and\nphysically retarded. \"The shift,\" she\nsays, \"has been away from a concern\nwith childhood to dealing with\nchildren as individuals and the problems that confront them.\"\nAs an example, she cites a book\ncalled Hey, Dummy by American\nauthor Kin Piatt, in which a normal\nchild attempts to befriend a retarded\nchild to the horror of the normal\nChildren's literature\nis, on the whole,\nignored by parents\nchild's parents. When the normal\nchild is rebuffed by a teacher and a\nsocial worker in an attempt to get help\nfor the friend, he prefers to sink into\nretardation himself because he has\ncome to hate the world.\n\"That kind of theme and story is\nfairly typical of modern-day children's\nbooks,\" Prof. Egoff says, \"and I think\nit reflects an ambivalence, a terribly\nmixed-up and uncertain view of society toward children, as though we don't\nknow how to act toward them or deal\nwith them.\"\nCertainly, she adds, the outlook of\nthe books reveals a conservatism on\nthe part of children. \"They are shown\nas being desperately eager for two\nparents \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in many books, the kids are\nconvinced it's their fault if the parents\naren't getting along \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and for a stable\nexistence. And even in the best books,\nyou find an incredible concern with\ndeath, even in those written for two,\nthree and five-year-olds.\" UBC reports\npageS\nrature \u00E2\u0080\u0094 yesterday and today\nContemporary children's stories\noften take an unrealistic view of life,\nProf. Egoff adds. \"For instance, take a\nstory that has a plot based on sibling\nrivalry. In these books, the older child\nusually comes to accept the younger or\nnew child by the end of the book. But\nall of us know that rivalries of this kind\ncan last a lifetime. To me, that's not a\nrealistic view of life.\"\nOther characteristics of contemporary children's literature: most of\nthe stories are set in an urban environment and are limited (in America) to\nNew York, New Jersey and San Francisco, the characters in the stories tend\nto live in apartments and it's rare for\none to take place in a foreign setting\nor in a rural environment. \"I think\nthis means that kids get a remarkably\nnarrow view of how life is lived as a\nresult,\" says Prof. Egoff.\nShe believes too that where the\nwriters of the past \"wrote for the child\nwithin themselves and could universalize the experiences, today's authors\nare writing for the adult within\nthemselves.\"\nMuch of the best writing for\nchildren produced by British authors\nis the product of people who were\nthemselves children during the Second\nWorld War, she points out, and many\nof the books are set in that period.\n\"One of the best British writers of\nchildren's literature, Susan Cooper,\nwho was a child during the war, has\nproduced a remarkable quintet of\nbooks called The Dark is Rising. Each\nof them is concerned with the titanic\nstruggle between good and evil and I\ncan't help but think that that theme\nstems from the 1939-45 war,\" says\nProf. Egoff.\nMany contemporary children's\nbooks are also concerned with fantasy,\nProf. Egoff points out. \"The Arthurian legend as well as Norse and\nCeltic myth are recurring aspects of\nmany of today's books for children,\nbut not in the sense that the stories are\nset in those times. The stories are set in\nmodern times with the past breaking\nthrough into the present. What the\nauthors seem intent on doing is giving\ncontemporary children a sense of the\ncontinuity of time, a feeling that\nthey're linked with the past.\"\nDespite the heaviness of the themes\nand the feelings of alienation that pervades much contemporary children's\nliterature, Prof. Egoff believes that\nthe best of the modern stories are probably the greatest ever written for\nyoung people.\n\"The trouble is that the stories verge\non being adult reading,\" she adds,\n\"and the best of the modern books will\nonly be read by very dedicated and\nmature children. In the past, a book\nlike Winnie the Pooh could be comprehended by every age level, with the\ngood readers taking it in at the grade\nthree and four levels and the less proficient encountering it at the grade five\nand six levels.\n\"Modern-day children's books tend\nto split the readership because the very\nbest will only be read by the very\ndedicated. And there's a decided gap\nin good reading material for children\nin 9\u00E2\u0080\u009411 age group.\"\nAnother problem for people like\nProf. Egoff is the incredible number\nof books being published in the field\nof children's literature. \"Even I can't\nkeep up with it,\" she says, adding that\neach year some 6,000 new books for\nchildren appear and in the U.S. there\nare more than 50,000 books in print at\nany one time.\nProf. Egoff says there is still some\ngood, lightweight reading available on\nthe market for children, \"but they're\nnot the books people talk about and\nthey don't win prizes. They are,\nbasically, a throwback to the past\nwithout being as good as Winnie the\nPooh or Mary Norton's The Borrowers. \"\nSomething else she believes has gone\nfrom the current children's book scene\nis the sharing of literature between\nadults and children. \"There was a\ntime when adults sat down and read to\nchildren,\" she points out. \"But I can't\nimagine a really literate adult wanting\nto read one of the modern-day problem novels to a child. Mostly because\nmany of the books are highly symbolic\nand experimental in style and much of\nthe action is carried out through\ndialogue alone. Contemporary\nchildren's stories just aren't written for\neasy reading aloud.\"\nHaving said all that, Prof. Egoff\npoints out that the modem problem\nnovel is highly popular with children\nin every socio-economic group. \"Kids\nare still avid readers,\" she says, \"and\nthe new genre seems to appeal to\nthem. It's all very well for me to claim\nthat most of the books by modern-day\nwriters of children's literature are\nsuperficial, badly written and\nunrealistic, but children like them,\nperhaps because the stories comfort\nthem, give them a sense of identity, a\nfeeling that they're not alone.\"\nThe best a concerned parent can\nhope for, she adds, is that the overall\nquality of the all-pervasive Problem\nNovel will improve to meet the quality\nof the best of modern children's\nliterature.\nChildren's literature expert Sheila Egoff, left, and research assistant Judi\nSaltman are in the process of cataloguing and annotating a collection of\nchildren's literature donated to UBC in 1975 by 1925 graduate Stanley Arkley\nand his wife, Rose, of Seattle. The collection of more than 1,000 items includes\nmany first editions and rare items. The Arkley Collection is part of a\n25,000-volume collection of children's literature housed in the UBC library,\nwhich is used for teaching and research purposes by Prof. Egoff and other UBC\npeople.\nHere's some of the\nbest ever written\nUBC Reports asked Prof. Egoff to\nprepare a list of some of the best\nchildren's books ever written to go\nwith her comments on the current\nstate of children's literature. Here's\nher choice of the 10 top books, all of\nwhich are in print. At the end of the\nlist, she briefly comments on what\nmay appear to some readers to be a\nfew surprising omissions.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Alcott, Louisa May. Little\nWomen. New York: MacMillan,\n1962. The everyday life of the\nMarch girls still has pleasure and\nmeaning for modern children.\nThis lively, natural narrative of\nfamily experiences is as well-loved\ntoday as when it first appeared in\n1868.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The\nSecret Garden. Philadelphia: Lip-\npincott, 1962. Three Edwardian\nchildren make a garden out of a\nwilderness and grow in friendship\nand imagination as they do so.\nFirst published in 1911.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Cooper, Susan. The Dark is Rising.\nNew York: Atheneum, 1973. This\nsecond volume of Cooper's acclaimed quintet on the stormy\nstruggle between the primal forces\nof the Dark and the Light is set in\nmodern Buckinghamshire. Her\npower of imaginative fantasy has\nrarely been equalled in children's\nliterature.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch\nand the Wardrobe. London: Bles,\n1950. The first of seven Narnia\nChronicles, this Christian allegory\nis played out in an enchanted land\nof nymphs, dryads and talking\nanimals. Children respond to the\nquiet humor, domestic detail, and\nintense dramatic conflict.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Milne, A.A. Winnie the Pooh.\nToronto: McClelland and Stewart,\n1925. Milne's is the art that conceals art, notably his ability to let\nthe child feel superior to the\nloveable but bumbling Pooh. Still\nthe most universally popular of all\nchildhood books.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Pearce, Philippa. Tom's Midnight\nGarden. London: Oxford, 1958. A\ntime story in which a modern boy\nand a girl from Victorian times\nfind companionship. Pearce's clear\nprose, energetic dialogue, and\nvivid imagery makes this stylistically one of the finest books in modern\nchildren's literature.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure\nIsland. New York: Scribner, 1947.\nStevenson's highly colored\ncharacterization and flawless\nEnglish prose make this pirate\nadventure one of the most famous\nstories ever written. First published\nin 1883.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit; or,\nThere and Back Again. Boston:\nHoughton Mifflin, 1938. Though,\non the surface, a story of a search\nfor treasure, other values, truths,\nand virtues discovered by Bilbo\nthrough experience help him to\nface difficulties with wit, wisdom\nand courage.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Twain, Mark. The Adventures of\nTom Sawyer. New York: Mac-\nmillan, 1962. Although it appeared first in 1876, Tom Sawyer\nhas a continuing freshness for\nmodern readers through its simple,\ndirect presentation of universal\nboyhood.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 White, E.B. Charlotte's Web. New\nYork: Harper and Row, 1952. E.B.\nWhite's humorous and affectionate\nportrayal of the barnyard world\nsubtley suggests the larger world of\nhuman life and, as well, the\nwisdom that comes from life close\nto nature and her children.\nSome surprising omissions may well\nbe considered: Lewis Carroll's Alice's\nAdventures in Wonderland; Kenneth\nGrahame's The Wind in the Willows;\nJ.M. Barries Peter Pan; George Mac-\nDonald's At the Back of the North\nWind. All are recognizably great in\nstyle and theme. Today, however,\nthese appear the domain of adult interest in imaginative writing concerned with childhood as symbol and\nmetaphor, rather than as the first\nspontaneous choices of children\nthemselves. UBCalendar\nUBC CALENDAR DEADLINES\nEvents in the week of\nJuly 29-Aug. 4 Deadline is 5 p.m. July 19\nAug. 5-Aug. 11 Deadline is 5 p.m. July 26\nSend notices to Information Services, 6528 Memorial Road\n(Old Administration Building), Campus. Further information is available at 228-3131.\nSUNDAY, JULY 22\n1:00 p.m. TOUR OF THE HAIDA HOUSES on the\ngrounds of the Museum of Anthropology. Those\ninterested should meet in the museum rotunda.\nFree with museum admission. Repeated at S p.m.\n2:00 p.m. GUIDED WALKS IN THE WOODS with a\nmember of the Canadian Institute of Forestry, any\nSunday, May through August. UBC demonstration forest, Maple Ridge. The trails are open\nseven days a week for those who wish to guide\nthemselves. For information, call 683-7591 or\n463 8148.\nMONDAY, JULY 23\n12:30 p.m. BRASS QUINTET gives a concert on the plaza\noutside the Student Union Building.\n7:30 p.m. SUMMER SCREEN presents three free NFB\nfeatures on Workers: 12,000 Men, Spar Tree and\nOur Health is Not For Sale. Lecture Hall 2,\nWoodward Instructional Resources Centre.\nPUBLIC LECTURE. Robert Davidson, professor of Old Testament at the University of\nClasgow, on The Bible in Religious Education.\nVancouver School of Theology, 6000 Iona Dr.\n8:00 p.m. MUSIC FOR SUMMER EVENINGS. Martin\nHackleman, french horn; and Arlie Thompson,\npiano, play Music of Halsey Stevens, Alec\nWilder and Gliere. Recital Hall, Music Building.\nTUESDAY, JULY 24\n12:30 p.m. SUMMER SOUNDS. Barb Kallauer gives a flute\nrecital on the plaza outside the Music Building.\n8:00 p.m. REGENT COLLEGE LECTURE. Ernest Ru\nnions, principal, Carey Hall, Vancouver, and\nPsychiatry, UBC, on The Counsellor's Values\nMatter. St. Columba Presbyterian Church, 2196\nE. 44th Ave., Vancouver.\nWEDNESDAY, JULY 25\n12:30 p.m. SUMMER SOUNDS. Susan Driver gives an\norgan recital on the plaza outside the Music\nBuilding.\n2:00 p.m. GENETICS SEMINAR. Dr. C. Person on\nGenetics of Host-Parasite Interactions. Room\n2449, Biological Sciences Building.\n7:30 p.m. OUTDOOR FOLKDANCING on the Student\nUnion Building terrace every Wednesday, rain or\nshine; all ages welcome. Easy fun dances from\nmany countries will be taught. For more information, call Marcia Snider, 224-0226.\nSUMMER SCREEN presents a free NFB feature\non Sports: Going the Distance, the 1978 Commonwealth Games. Lecture Hall 2, Woodward\nInstructional Resources Centre.\n8:00 p.m.THE COFFEEPLACE. Music, food and films at\nInternational House.\nFRONTIERS IN MEDICINE. Prof. Douglas\nYeo, associate dean of Dentistry, UBC, on How\nthe Faculty of Dentistry Serves Our Community, one of a series of lectures videotaped during\nUBC's Open House last March. Channel 10, Vancouver Cablevision.\nTHURSDAY, JULY 26\n12:30 p.m. THE ROD BORRIE QUARTET performs on\nthe plaza outside the Student Union Building.\n6:00 p.m. PUB NIGHT at International House\n8:00 p.m. AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS SEMINAR.\nDr. Jan Svedborg, University of Ornskoldsvik,\nSweden, on The Technological and Socio-\nEconomic Impacts of the Thrust-Hammer on\nModern Agriculture. Room 160, MacMillan\nBuilding.\nMUSIC FOR SUMMER EVENINGS. A concert\nby Patrick Wedd, organ. Recital Hall, Music\nBuilding.\nFRIDAY, JULY 27\n12:30 p.m. THE WESTSIDE FEETWARMERS play on\nthe plaza outside the Music Building.\n6:30 p.m. WINERY TOUR. Free wine and cheese. Meet at\nInternational House. Those wishing to join the\ntour should inform International House before July 23.\n7:30 p.m. SUMMER SCREEN presents a free feature film:\nSaturday Night Fever. Lecture Hall 2. Woodward\nInstructional Resources Centre.\nSATURDAY, JULY 28\nTHEATRE IN THE PARK. A group outing to\nNo, No, Nanette at Stanley Park. Admission $2\nfor students. Phone Bev, 228-5021, for more information.\nFOOD SERVICES HOURS OF OPERATION\nFOR JULY\nBarn Snack Bar, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.\nBus Stop Coffee Bar, Monday-Friday, 7:45 a.m.-4:00 p.m.\nAuditorium Snack Bar, Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.\nStudent Union Building Snack Bar, seven days a week, 7:00\na.m.-7:00 p.m.\nBuchanan Snack Bar, Monday-Friday, 7:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.\nIRC Snack Bar, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.\nMobile truck, located outside Scarfe (Education) Building,\nMonday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.\nFINAL ORAL EXAMINATIONS FOR THE\nDEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY\nHeld in the Faculty of Graduate Studies Examination Room,\nNew Administration Building. Members of the University\ncommunity are encouraged to attend, provided they do not\narrive after the examination has commenced.\nTuesday, July 24, 9:30 a.m.: ANTONIO EDUARDO\nCLARK PERES, Mineral Engineering; The Interaction between Xanthate and Sulphur Dioxide in the Flotation of\nNickel-Copper Sulphide Ores.\nThursday, July 26, 2:30 p.m.: DOUGLAS WEST,\nEconomics; Market Pre-Emption as a Barrier to Entry in a\nGrowing, Spatially Extended Market.\nDRAMA\nUBC Stage Campus '79 presents The Good Woman of\nSetzuan by Bertolt Brecht until Saturday, July 21. Frederic\nWood Theatre. Admission, $3.50; students and seniors,\nJ2.50. For reservations call 228-2678.\nFREE LEGAL ADVICE\nThe UBC Law Students Legal Advice Program offers free\nlegal advice to people with low incomes through 18 clinics in\nthe Lower Mainland. For information about the clinic nearest\nyou, please telephone 228-5791 or 872-0271.\nSUMMER GARDEN HOURS\nThe Nitobe Garden is now open every day from 10 a.m. to\nhalf an hour before sunset. Admission: 50 cents; children\n10 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 16, 10 cents; children under 10, seniors, handicapped\nand community and school groups (advance notice of one\nweek required for advice to gateman), free. Tours for this\ngarden and others may be requested by calling the Botanical\nGarden office at 228-3928.\nEXHIBITS\nOn display at the Museum of Anthropology are two exhibits\nwhich will continue throughout the summer months. Plantae\nOccidentalis, 200 Years of Botanical Art in B.C., is an exhibition of 109 works which includes historical works from\n1792 to contemporary 1977 paintings.\nThe Four Seasons: Food Getting in British Columbia\nPrehistory is an exhibition showing the livelihood and living\npatterns of the prehistoric peoples of southern B.C., and the\nscientific techniques used to study their past.\nFour student exhibits are on display in the museum \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Design\nElements in Northwest Coast Indian Art; The Evolution of\nBill Reid's Beaver Print; Design Variations in Guatemalan\nTextiles; and Kwagiutl Masks.\nThe Theatre Gallery in the Museum features two multi-screen\nslide-sound presentations which can be operated by visitors.\nFITNESS APPRAISAL\nThe School of Physical Education and Recreation offers comprehensive physical fitness assessment through the new John\nM. Buchanan Fitness and Research Centre in the Aquatic\nCentre. A complete assessment takes about an hour and encompasses various fitness tests, interpretation of results,\ndetailed counselling and an exercise prescription. The assessment costs $15 for students and $20 for all others. To arrange\nan appointment, call 228-4521.\nUBC AQUATIC CENTRE OPEN\nThe UBC Aquatic Centre is open for public swimming and\nspecialized classes. Those who pay the entry fee for public\nswimming will have the use of both the indoor pool and the\noutdoor facility adjacent to the War Memorial Gymnasium.\nUBC students, faculty and staff only will be admitted to the\npool Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The\ncentre also offers a wide range of special programs, including\nladies and co-ed keep-fit classes; toddlers, childrens and adult\nswimming lessons, adult diving lessons and Royal Lifesaving\nSociety lessons. Full information on public swimming hours is\navailable at the centre or by calling 228-4521. The current\nschedule is effective until Sept. 8.\nINTENSIVE ENGLISH\nAn intensive program in English as a Second Language begins\nAug. 7 and runs for three weeks. Two sessions are offered:\nmornings from 9 a.m. to 12 noon; afternoons from 1:30 to\n4:30 p.m. Courses, offered at all levels, have 14 sessions of 3\nhours of instruction at a cost of $125. More information\nthrough the Language Institute, Centre for Continuing\nEducation, 228-2181, local 285.\nInternational House offers a cheap travel opportunity\nInternational House on campus\nisn't just a meeting place for students\nfrom countries other than Canada. It's\na year-round chance for Canadians to\nexplore places like Nigeria, Indonesia\nor Denmark without ever leaving the\ncomfort of their living rooms.\nThis summer, the people working at\nInternational House are especially\nbusy trying to introduce Canadians to\nsome 300 students from other countries who are expected to begin their\nstudies at UBC in September.\nThe new students, who are mostly\ngraduate students at the masters level,\nhave all been accepted academically\nby UBC. They've received their\nvarious forms and notifications. But\nmost of them likely have little idea of\nwhat UBC or Vancouver is like, what\nthe climate is like, or the people are\nlike. And most of them probably don't\nknow a soul in Vancouver.\n\"Once they've been accepted. International House sends them a package\nof material that we've put together explaining what to expect in Vancouver.\nAnd they get an impersonal letter,\"\nexplained Saf Bokhari, program coordinator for International House.\n\"But we'd like to introduce them to\npeople who live here before they\ncome.\"\nThe reception and orientation program set up by International House to\ndo this is arranged so that a Vancouver person who wants to meet\noverseas students is given information\nabout the new student, and writes him\nor her a letter explaining details about\nCanada, Vancouver, the University,\nliving conditions or anything else that\nmight be important.\nIf it's possible the Vancouverite will\nalso meet the newcomer when he or\nshe arrives and give a bit of help finding accommodation for the first few\ndays.\nFrom mid-August to mid-\nSeptember, International House will\nset up a booth at the Vancouver airport to greet overseas students. Three\nstudents, funded by the provincial\ngovernment's Youth Employment Program, have been working on the\nreception and orientation program\nand will be at the greeting booth 12\nhours a day to ensure a good start to\nthe students' stay at UBC.\nA personal Canadian contact has\nbeen arranged for about 200 of the\n300 expected students, Mr. Bokhari\nsaid. Anyone who's interested in\nmeeting people from other countries is\nwelcome to join the activity. (Phone\n228-5021.)\nSince International House has been\ngreeting overseas students for as long\nas it has existed, a steady group of\nvolunteers has always participated in\nthe programs and offered its services.\nBut Saf Bokhari would like to see\nmore and more off-campus people\nbecoming part of International House\nactivities. Dances, cultural evenings,\nday hikes are part of the year-round\nofferings.\n\"We're fighting an image that we're\nonly for foreign students. Well, we're\nnot,\" Mr. Bokhari said. \"International House can only be international\nif Canadian people participate in it.\"\nI*\nCanada Poataa\nPoat Canada\nThird Troisieme\nrIrian cta\n2027\nVancouver, B.C."@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LE3.B8K U2"@en . "LE3_B8K_U2_1979_07_18"@en . "10.14288/1.0117799"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver: University of British Columbia Information Services"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the University of British Columbia Public Affairs Office."@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives."@en . "University of British Columbia"@en . "UBC Reports"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .