"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "1966-03"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118018/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " UBC\nRETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED\nVOLUME 12, No. 2\nVANCO\nfofr 6f\u00C2\u00BBflmstt ^ *^\nMarch-April, 1966.\n7,000 RARE BOOKS ARRIVE\nGrad\nClass\nWooed\nThe University of B.C.'s 1966 graduating class is being wooed by an unprecedented number of recruiting\nteams from industry.\nUBC's Office of Student Services\nhas arranged for 328 recruiting teams\nfrom 258 companies to talk to students\nthis year. This represents an increase\nof 13 percent over 1965 in the number\nof companies visiting the campus to\ninterview students.\nCAREERS OFFERED\nThe number of B.C. firms interviewing graduating students to offer\ncareers in the province has increased\n21 percent over 1965.\nWhile opportunities are excellent\nfor all types of graduating students,\nengineers and commerce students are\nthe most sought after, according to\nMr. J. C. Craik, UBC's Placement\nOfficer.\n\"To take\ncompanies\nview the\nmechanical\nsaid.\nNO LIMIT\nOther companies, Mr. Craik said, are\nnot even putting a limit on the number\nof students they want to hire. The\nrepresentative of one firm said they\nwould hire as many students as were\navailable providing they wanted to\nwork for the company and their\nqualifications met the company's\nstandards.\nSome companies are continuing their\npolicy of offering summer employment\nto undergraduate students in the hope\nthat they will join the company permanently after graduation.\nMr. Craik said one international\nconstruction company has been interviewing engineering students who will\ngraduate in 1968.\nTRAINING PROGRAM\nHe said the company has a specific\ntraining program to prepare engineers\nfor positions in other parts of the\nworld.\nThe increasing number of recruiting\nteams coming to the UBC campus is a\nreflection of Canada's expanding economy, employment officials said.\na single example, about 80\nsent recruiters to inter-\ngraduating class of 28\nengineers,\" Mr. Craik\nLAURIER LAPIERRE, television personality and McGill history professor,\nspeaks at the UBC Alumni Association's annual dinner meeting May 11\nin the Hotel Vancouver. See story\non page 7.\nPURE WATER found by a drill crew 325 feet under the UBC campus near\nthe biological sciences building will be used by fisheries and zoology experts\nfor scientific experiments.\n325 FEET DOWN\nDrilling Rig Strikes\nWater on UBC Campus\nDrilling of a 325-foot well to provide pure, fresh water for scientific experiments has been completed on the UBC campus.\nThe well, which has been sunk\nat the south west corner of UBC's\nbiological sciences building, will\nprovide 60 gallons of water per\nminute for the Institute of Fisheries and the department of zoology.\nWATER UNSATISFACTORY\nDr. Norman Wilimovsky, director\nof the fisheries institute, said the\ncity water supply presently used\nfor experiments is unsatisfactory\nfor three reasons.\nChlorine in the city supply kills\nexperimental fish if it is not first\ndechlorinated in a special unit in\nthe biological sciences building.\n\"The city water supply is also\ndeficient in certain minerals which\nare necessary for fish growth and\ndevelopment,\" Dr. Wilimovsky\nsaid.\nFinally, interruptions in the present supply anywhere in the city\nproduce minute air bubbles in the\nwater which clog the gills of fish\nand kill them.\nDr. Wilimovsky said that in the\npast two years at least four im\nportant experiments have been\nruined as a result of one or more\nof these factors.\nCAMPUS WATER IDEAL\nThe natural water found on the\ncampus has been analysed and\nfound to be ideal in terms of chemical composition and purity for\nsuch experiments, Dr. Wilimovsky\nsaid.\nThe drilling of the well is one\nof the first steps in the expansion\nof the biological sciences building\nto provide increased research and\nteaching space for the Institute of\nFisheries and Oceanography and\nthe departments of zoology and\nbotany.\nA $6,000,000 addition is currently\nbeing planned for the building.\nFunds for construction will be provided by the provincial government and the 3 Universities Capital\nFund.\nCONTRACT AWARDED\nRural Well Drillers Ltd., 4739\nLougheed Highway, Burnaby, were\nawarded a contract for drilling the\nwell. The total cost of the project,\nincluding construction of a manhole and installation of pipe, pumps\nand electrical wiring, will be approximately $26,000.\nUBC has acquired a collection of\n7,000 rare medical and scientific books\nas a result of the accelerated book\nbuying program initiated last year\nthrough the support of Dr. H. R. MacMillan.\nUBC librarians are now unpacking\nthe collection from 65 tea chests in\nwhich they travelled to Vancouver by\nship from Magdalen College, Oxford.\nThe collection was regarded as the\nfinest of its kind under private ownership in Great Britain.\nThe former owner, Dr. Hugh Sinclair, lecturer in physiology and biochemistry at Magdalen College, has\nbeen quoted in British newspapers as\nReport Examines\nGovernment of\nUniversities\nA report suggesting major\nchanges in Canadian university\ngovernment was published in\nMarch by the Association of\nUniversities and Colleges of\nCanada and the Canadian Association of University Teachers.\nThe report makes recommendations concerning the size of\nthe board of governors and\nsenate of universities, the role\nof students and relations between universities and governments.\nThe extracts from the report\nto be found on page two are\nnot intended as a comprehensive\ndigest of the report but merely\nas a sampler of suggested\nchanges and the thinking behind them.\nsaying he sold to UBC because \"he\nwanted his collection to be used by\nserious students, as they would be in\nBritish Columbia, not hoarded by collectors.\"\nSome of the more outstanding features of the collection are:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A rare 1641 edition of a medical\ntext by Nicholaas Tulp, physician to\nRembrandt, which has bound into it\na red chalk drawing of a chimpanzee,\nallegedly by the great Dutch painter.\nThe chalk drawing is the original\nused to make a copper engraving\nwhich is used to illustrate other copies of the Tulp book also in the collection.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A medical text printed in Ulm,\nGermany, in 1481, during the first days\nof printing.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Many original letters written by\nFlorence Nightingale and several copies of rare first editions of her books.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Original examples of Albert Einstein's early works.\nDr. William C. Gibson, professor of\nthe history of medicine and science,\nsaid the acquisition of the collection\nputs UBC in the forefront of the\nworld's medical and scientific libraries.\nThe books are being catalogued in\nthe special collections division of the\nmain UBC library. Appropriate volumes will be transferred to the Woodward Library later.\nPresident John B. Macdonald, in\nannouncing acquisition of the collection, said it was purchased \"as a result of the greatly accelerated buying program initiated a year ago by\nDr. H. R. MacMillan's gift of $3 million to buy books over a ten-year\nperiod.\n\"Our librarian, Basil Stuart-Stubbs,\nexamined the collection at Oxford\nlast year during his first buying trip\nto Europe under the accelerated program.\n\"The decision to buy it was made\nafter his return to UBC, when Dr.\nMacMillan extended his generosity to\nmake this extremely valuable collection available to faculty members\nand students of the University.\" FOR CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS:\nExpansion Means Increased Pressures\nMajor changes in the system of Canadian university government are suggested in the report,\n\"University Government in Canada,\" published in\nMarch. The report was sponsored by the Canadian\nAssociation of University Teachers and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and\nwas compiled by an independent commission consisting of Sir James Duff, former Vice-Chancellor\nof the University of Durham, and Prof. Robert O.\nBerdahl, of San Francisco State College.\n(The following extracts are not intended as a\ncomprehensive digest of the report, but merely as a\nsampler of suggested changes and the thinking behind them.)\nIf tension levels are already high at many\nCanadian universities, it seems likely that future\ndevelopments will only serve to heighten them.\nThe rapid rate of expansion planned for higher\neducation in most provinces points to increasing pressures on the President to obtain rapid decisions at\nthe very time that the teaching faculties are asking\nfor more and more of a share in these decisions.\nThe growing shortage of qualified faculty will\nstrengthen the hand of those teachers who are\nseeking to be treated as members of a \"community\nof scholars\" rather than as mere employees of the\nBoard. For example, faculty demands will probably\nbecome more insistent for a larger share in the\nprocess of appointing their Department Chairmen,\nDeans, and senior university officers. Furthermore,\nsome faculties are attracting to their university substantial grants for research. These are due to the\ndistinction of the faculty members concerned and\nnot to the money-raising efforts of the Board. In such\ncases members of faculty must necessarily be involved in financial decisions.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nSTUDENT DISCONTENT in other countries and\ntestimony that we heard in Canada both point to\nthe probability of growing demands for participation\nin university government; and those Presidents,\nBoards, and Senates who are insensitive to their\ngrievances may find student negotiating tactics increasingly unpalatable.\nPROBLEM OF SHEER SIZE\nFinally, as a variable related to rapidity of expansion but separate from it, the problem of sheer\nsize may make the governance of universities still\nharder and cause excessive tensions in some institutions which seem relatively stable now. We know\nthe advantage and probably even the inevitability\nof larger universities, but we must note here the\nfact that relations between Board and Senate, between President and faculty, between students and\nfaculty, and between students and administration\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nall seem to deteriorate as a university grows into a\ntotal of many thousands. Communication becomes\nmore difficult; face-to-face negotiations more rare; a\nsense of identification with the institution more difficult both for students and for faculty. We are not\nsociologists and hence shall not explore the phenomenon beyond noting that this is part of a much\nlarger trend in contemporary society to alienation\nand mass institutions . . .\nThe two-tier pattern is retained but our proposals\ninvolve an almost fundamental alteration. In place\nof the assumed separation of powers between Board\nand Senate, we propose a system whereby they are\nbrought into much closer contact at many stages . . .\nThere should be more variety than is commonly\nfound at present among Board members. Business\nmen and lawyers tend to predominate. Both are\nadmirably suited for the fiscal and constitutional\naspects of the Board's duties, but what we may\ndescrrbe as the \"window on the world\" ought to be\nwider open. Both these professions are concerned\nto keep many aspects of their work strictly confidential and to avoid unnecessary communication,\nwhereas the lack of good communication, from top\nto bottom and vice versa, seems to us a major\ncause of misunderstanding and discontent in many\nCanadian universities. And we do not refer solely to\nlack of official communication. We recognize that\nthere are aspects, both fiscal and personal, of Board\nbusiness that must be kept confidential . . .\nThe common practice of electing a certain number of alumni to seats on the Board should be\ncontinued. We recommend that other universities\nshould adopt the practice at Queen's University of\nincluding as a full member of the Board a Rector,\nnot himself a student, but elected by the students .. .\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nA BOARD IS ALL TOO LIKELY, under existing\nconstitutions, to meet faculty members only when its\nFaculty Association requests consideration of salary\nscales or conditions of tenure. This is a necessary\nfunction of the Faculty Association. But it should not\ncause Board members to say, as we heard them say,\nthat teachers seem only interested in their own\nsalaries. If a Board that takes that attitude were\nasked to add one or two faculty members, nominated\nby the Faculty Association in default of a more\nappropriate body, the Board might well feel that\nthey would be including members of the Opposition\nin the Government. It would not work. The case for\nfaculty representation on the Board depends on other\nreforms, especially on the existence of a body such\nas the kind of Senate that we advocate, which could\nelect responsible representatives to the Board . . .\nWe recommend that the charter and acts should\nbe modified where necessary to permit the inclusion\nof faculty members on Boards. It is important that\nthey should be members of the Senate so that they\nwill know in advance the business that is coming\nfrom Senate to the Board and will not be tempted\nto raise, as if they were fresh issues, matters on\nwhich the Senate has reached a decision. Staggered\nthree-year terms are desirable to ensure continuity\nof experience; but re-election should normally be\ndiscouraged so that the Senate shall sooner or later\ncontain a substantial proportion of members who\nhave served a turn on the Board.\nMONOPOLIZE DISCUSSION\nBeyond the minimum of three members to permit\nproper rotation in office, the number of faculty\nmembers on the Board should vary with the size of\nthe Board, not exceeding 25 per cent. The faculty\nshculd definitely be in a minority, because otherwise\nthere would be a danger that the professors, being\nmore vocal by nature and training than most lay\nmembers of the Board, would tend to monopolize\nthe discussions . . .\nThe primary functions of the Board should continue to be as at present, i.e. to exercise the ultimate\nfiscal responsibility and the ultimate de jure sovereignty. . . .\nA major premise of our recommendations for\nrevised structure and functions of both Board and\nSenate is that these bodies must understand each\nother better and work together more closely. We\nrecommend that the Senate be allowed to discuss,\nand indeed pass resolutions on, any topic relating\nto the welfare of the university, not excluding matters\nrelating to finance. Such Senate actions, would, of\ncourse be subject to the overriding legal authority\nand to the primary fiscal responsibility of the Board.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nCONVERSELY, WE NOW RECOMMEND that the\nBoard should not be inhibited from asking Senate\nto take a second look at some educational proposal\nthat they have brought to the Board. The Board\nshould give their reasons if they think that Senate\nhas failed to take into account some public reaction\nto a particular educational plan. Again, they should\nfeel free to ask Senate to consider a new development which the Board thinks deserving of consideration. But, just as the Board must have the last word\non fiscal matters, so the Senate must not be overruled by the Board on a purely educational issue . . .\nCENTRAL EDUCATION FORUM\nThere are numerous non-academic members on\nmany Senates. Often the Senate has become so\nlargely external in its composition, acting as a kind\nof public relations committee, that the normal functions of Senate have either lapsed or been passed\non, perforce, to bodies such as the General Faculty\nCouncil or its Executive Committee. We recognize\nthe value of the public relations functions for\nSenates . . . But it is so crucial for the Senate\nto become the central education forum of the university that we venture to recommend the removal\nof all external members except in those cases where\nit has been considered desirable to have a small\nrepresentation from the Board of Governors sitting'\non Senate . . .\nThe size of a Senate often determines its effectiveness. It should be a deliberative body, not a\nmass meeting. That sets an upper limit of about\nfifty . . .\nWe recommend that the majority of the Senate\nshould be elected by the faculty from the faculty,\nfor staggered three-year terms, with rotation considered as normal but re-election not ruled out . . .\nFor eligibility, we suggest either all professors\nand associate professors or alternatively all tenured\nstaff. In general we favour the former. Faculty\nbelow the rank of associate professor already form\nsuch a high percentage of total faculty (and their\npercentage is likely to increase) that if they formed\na \"youth lobby\" and voted accordingly, the \"gerontocracy\" would change to a government by juniors.\nThis would inevitably give the impression that the\nSenate was not a responsible body. Also there are\nnot many junior faculty who could afford to give\nthe necessary time (quite a considerable amount of\ntime) to their Senate duties without jeopardizing\ntheir chances of establishing their academic career.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nON THE OTHER HAND it is important that\njunior faculty should feel that their voice can be\nheard somewhere in the government Nothing else\ngives them so good a chance for developing a sentiment of loyalty to their university. Accordingly we\nsuggest that, say, three seats on Senate should be\nreserved for faculty below the rank of associate professor who have tenure. The electorate for these\nseats should exclude professors and associate professors. If, as we are about to suggest, elections to\nSenate are held separately for each Faculty these\nUBC REPORTS\nVolume 12, No. 2 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 March-April, 1966. Authorized as second\nclass mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for\npayment of postage in cash. Published by the University of\nBritish Columbia and distributed free of charge to friends\nand graduates of the University. Material appearing herein\nmay be reproduced freely. Letters are welcome and should\nbe addressed to The Information Office, UBC, Vancouver 8,\nB.C.\nthree \"junior\" seats will need to be rotated among\nFaculties by some agreed method.'. . .\nPRESIDENT CHIEF VICTIM\nWe consider that the President has been the\nchief victim of the defects of structure that have\nrevealed themselves as universities become larger\nand more complex. Our major recommendations\nthroughout this report aim at better communication\nand better representation from top to bottom and\nvice versa. In particular, with more links between\nBoard and Senate, and with an elected majority on\nSenate, which itself elects members to seats on the\nBoard, the President will have allies on both bodies.\nThey can support him in presenting the Senate's\nrequests to the Board. They can support him in explaining the Board's decisions, necessarily sometimes\nunwelcome, to the Senate. A President who under\nexisting conditions feels himself baited and badgered\nby his Faculty Association may find this expectation\ndifficult to accept Yet it is true. The Faculty Association by its very nature carries no official responsibility. But the very same men, as elected members\nof the Senate, have responsibility thrust upon them.\nThey become better informed, and if the Board's\ndecisions are reasonable, they will see the reasons. . . .\nThe subject of the relationship of students to\nuniversity government is one which has only recently\nreceived serious consideration. But we saw enough\nsymptoms of student dissatisfaction with their self-\nperceived status as \"customers\" of the university to\nknow that there will be increasing demands made in\nCanada for their elevation to partners (albeit unequal ones) in the \"community of scholars and\nstudents.\" Some variations of the Berkeley disturbances may possibly occur in Canada during the\ncoming years. The issue, then, is not whether to\nwelcome or stifle this new wave of student sentiment,\nbut rather how to develop channels into which it\ncan flow constructively.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nSUCH CHANNELS WITHIN the university could be\nestablished on several different levels. For departments and/or Faculties, joint student-faculty committees seem to have worked well in the institutions\nwhere they have been tried. Normally the Department Chairman or Dean heads the committee and\nthere is an equal number of students and professors . . .\nAlthough some student leaders insisted that only\none of their own number could properly represent\nstudents on the Board, most young people to whom\nwe talked were willing to concede that this was not\na feasible proposal. There are a variety of possible\nobjections: the rapid turnover in student leadership\nnot only makes consistently high-quality representation unlikely, but when a gifted student leader\ndoes emerge he is prevented from acquiring sufficient\nexperience to be a useful participant. Furthermore,\nquestions of delicacy and confidentiality which come\nbefore the Board would effectively silence the student representative vis-a-vis his constituency and\nwould, in effect, drive a wedge between him and his\nfellow students. There is also the not inconsiderable\nfactor of the additional time demands which Board\nmembership would make on already busy student\nleaders.\nSTUDENT RECTOR PROPOSED\nWe recommend that the plan which has been\nsuccessfully employed at Queen's University and at\nthe Scottish universities be generally followed.\nUnder this formula, the students elect a Rector, not\nhimself a student, to represent them as a full member of the Board. There is some question as to\nwhether this representative should be a well-established figure, or a lesser known, perhaps younger,\nman; but in our view, his fame is less important than\nhis willingness to accept at least a three year term,\nto participate conscientiously, and to be easily accessible to the students for consultation and communication. Such a Rector should act as the articulate\nspokesman for student interests on Board matters\nthat bear, even remotely, on student interests. As an\nexample, he should suggest consultation *vith students before the Board decides to raise stapent tuition fees. The final decision may have to be the\nsame, but if the necessity to raise fees has been\ncarefully explained to the students ahead of time,\nmutual trust will have been greatly enhanced.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nPROPOSALS TO ADD one or more student members to the Academic Senate seem to present fewer\nproblems in principle, and the University of Victoria\nand several American institutions have already done\nso. The practice is too new for informed evaluation\nto be made of it As an alternative or additional\nplan it has been suggested that students (not members of the Senate) be put on Senate committees\nrelevant to student interests, broadly defined. (For\ninstance, these committees should include not only\nthe obvious ones dealing with libraries and scholarships, but also those which determine educational\npolicies and admission standards.) . . .\nWe found Alumni participation in Canadian university government to be, by and large, of a high\ncalibre. There was little evidence of the stereotyped\n\"old grad\" who wanted a sports stadium instead of\na better library. On the contrary, the representatives\nof the Alumni Association whom we met seemed both\ndevoted to and knowledgeable about the universities\nthey were serving . . . UBC'S EXTENSION DEPARTMENT became truly international in scope recently\nwhen it began cooperating with the University of Rajasthan in India on a project\ndesigned to develop adult education in rural areas. Dr. John Friesen, UBC's extension department director, led the team which was in India last year to advise\nthe University on starting the project. One of the first tasks undertaken was a\nsurvey of the need for adult education and a research assistant is shown above\nconducting the survey.\nINTERNATIONAL PROJECT\nCornerstone Laid\nFor Indian Centre\nDecember 23, 1965, marked a new\ndate in India's history of education.\nOn that day Canada's High Commissioner, the Honourable Roland Miche-\nner, laid the cornerstone at the University of Rajasthan for a Centre for\nContinuing Education.\nThe occasion, attended by leading\neducators and government officials of\nRajasthan and presided over by Vice-\nChancellor Mohan S. Mehta, saw the\nculmination of several years' study of\nthe need for such a building on the\nUniversity of Rajasthan's campus.\nURGENT NEED\nWhen completed, the Centre, with\nits conference and seminar rooms, administration offices, modern communications service, and residential wing,\nwill open its doors to many profes-\nDR. MOHAN S. MEHTA, former vice-\nchancellor of the University of Rajasthan, and the man who sparked the\ncurrent UBC - Rajasthan project, is\nvisiting UBC until April 20 to review\nthe program, and meet with members\nof the Asian studies department and\nIndian students. He will also speak\nat public meetings in Vancouver and\nVictoria.\nsional and community groups seeking\nto continue their education.\nThe need to up-grade India's manpower is most urgent. UBC's twinning\narrangement with its sister university\nin the Commonwealth, is enabling that\ncountry and particularly Rajasthan to\nprogress on an educational frontier\nthat is relatively new in regional and\nnational development on the subcontinent.\nEstablished in the fall of 1964, between Canada's External Aid Office\nand the Government of India, the\nUBC-Rajasthan project was begun in\nits initial year by UBC's resident staff\nmembers in Jaipur, Dr. J. K. Friesen\nand Dr. J. A. Draper.\nEXTENSIVE SURVEYS\nAfter extensive surveys in rural and\nurban Rajasthan, the Canadian team\nand their Indian colleagues in Extension, in close co-operation with faculty,\ngovernment and community resources,\ndrew up a plan for continuing university education, the first of its kind in\nIndia. On this basis an extensive program in this field is now being\nlaunched.\nDr. J. Roby Kidd, the present senior\nadviser at Jaipur, reports that current\ndevelopments in continuing education\nthere include a plan for education by\ncorrespondence, now approved by the\nUniversity and the governments which\nwill lead to the eventual enrolment\nof some 10,000 students a year.\nMany of these have no other opportunity to continue higher education.\nThe Canadian team also reports holding an increasing number of short\ncourses and conferences for librarians,\ncommunity development staff, personnel of many of Rajasthan's 70 colleges, supervisors and teachers in\nliteracy programs, etc.\nCREDIT UNION ASSISTS\nRecently a course in co-operative\ndevelopment was held in Jaipur with\nthe financial assistance of the B.C.\nCredit Union League.\nAnother organization that is twinning with its Jaipur counterpart is\nthe University Women's Club of Vancouver. The staff at the University of\nPlease turn to page six\nSee EXCHANGE PLANNED\nSPECIAL SUPPLEMENT\nExtension 30 Years Old\nUBC's extension department is 30 years old this year.\nIts 1936 founders \u00E2\u0080\u0094 two in number \u00E2\u0080\u0094 little dreamed that in\n1966 the department would have grown to 55 persons and would be\nfacing new challenges resulting from a rapidly changing society.\nBut the goal of the extension department in 1966 remains almost\nidentical to the one which motivated the founders \u00E2\u0080\u0094 to expand the\nboundaries of the University campus to the four corners of the\nprovince..\nOn this and the following three pages of the March-April edition\nof UBC REPORTS are articles and news stories detailing some of\nthe current and future programs of the department.\nDemand Increases for\nContinuing Education\nPrograms in continuing education\nfor professional people are expected\nto double in enrolment in the next five\nyears at the University of British\nColumbia.\nThis year 7,400 professional men and\nwomen are taking advantage of extension courses.\nIncreasing demand for short courses,\nseminars and evening classes is coming from professional associations,\ngroups and individuals who express\na growing need for continuing education in their areas of specialization.\nKEY ACADEMIC GOAL\nCurrently, programs for teachers,\nlawyers, pharmacists, businessmen,\nsocial workers, nurses, agriculturalists\nand special industries such as fisheries\nPopular\nCourse\nRevived\nThe popular extension department\nstudy-discussion program, Living\nRoom Learning, will be revived this\nSeptember after a two-year discontinuation.\nFirst started in 1957 under a grant\nfrom the Fund for Adult Education,\nLiving Room Learning at one time\nreached into 66 communities throughout British Columbia and involved\nsome 1,600 people.\nPROGRAM AIMS\nAfter seven years of operation the\nprogram was terminated in 1964 when\nthe extension department was struggling to meet the challenge of financial\nself-sufficiency. In some areas of the\nprovince study-discussion groups continued on an autonomous basis, and\nrequests to reactivate the UBC program continue to be received.\nKnute Buttedahl, associate director\nof the extension department, who initiated the first Living Room Learning\ngroups, described the aims of the program as \"helping the participants to\nthink independently, critically and objectively, to develop his tolerance of\nopinions and ideas which differ from\nhis own and to develop his skills in\ncommunicating with others.\"\nStudy-discussion involves the individual reading of specially prepared\nmaterials followed by group discussion. Groups are under the guidance\nof trained discussion leaders whose\nfunction is to create maximum opportunity for relevant and productive\ndiscussion. ,\nMEET IN HOMES\nGroups normally enroll between 10\nand 20 participants and meet in private\nhomes. For this reason the \"living\nroom\" gives the study-discussion program its name.\nMany aspects of the original program will be repeated but new subjects will be offered and planning is\nunderway to produce special study\ndiscussion courses for professional\ngroups.\nThe range of topics will include\nGreat Religions of the World, Looking\nat Modern Painting, Ways of Mankind,\nIdeas in Context, and Exploration of\nthe Universe. New program subjects\nwill be developed in cooperation with\nvarious academic departments at UBC.\nDirected reading courses and individual study programs will be added\nto the program.\nare among those arranged by the department.\nThe University of British Columbia\nhas selected as a key academic goal\nin continuing education, \"the education\nof graduates already active in professional and other fields in order to\nensure that such persons are fully\naware of the rapid developments in\ntheir fields.\"\nParalleling this, the Economic Council of Canada's Report, published in\nDecember, 1965, recommends the advancement of education at all levels\nbe high priority in public policy, adding \"In particular we urge that immediate attention be given to the\nfollowing . . . The development and\nimplementation of greatly expanded\nprograms to upgrade and bring up to\ndate the education and skill qualifications of the existing labor force, including professional workers and\nmanagement. Continuing education\nand retraining must play an ever-increasing role in the future.\"\nINTEREST HIGH\nIndicative of interest is a recent architects' conference in Vancouver for\nwhich the main speaker's topic was\n\"continuing education for architects.\"\nSimilarly, continuing education in\neducational administration was a major topic at a November, 1965, Vancouver conference for district superintendents, principals and vice-principals from schools throughout B.C.\nAll programs in continuing education for the professions show significant growth in the past few years at\nUBC.\nAn education-extension program was\nestablished in the department 2Vi\nyears ago to provide non-credit\ncourses, workshops and lectures in\nthe field of education.\nPrior to 1964 only a few professional\neducation courses were held each year\nwith registration in the low hundreds.\nSince then, 40 to 50 programs have\nregistered more than 2,000 people each\nyear.\nSPECIAL SEMINARS\nContinuing education programs in\nengineering fields show a similar\ngrowth with an enrolment of 64 in\n1962-63 which had increased to 1,375\nby 1964-65.\nHighly specialized seminars, such as\none held in February, 1965, on British\nColumbia's Future in Forest Products\nTrade in Asia and the Pacific Area,\nare being offered in increasing numbers in the area of commerce and\nbusiness administration.\nThis intensive one-day seminar, offered in cooperation with the faculty\nof forestry, brought to the campus 20\nspecialists from different areas of the\nforest industry, representing government, universities and industry in\nCanada, the U.S. and New Zealand.\nMore than 100 attended.\nFor the past seven years the Canadian Bar Association, B.C. branch, the\nVancouver Bar Association and the\nfaculty of law in conjunction with the\nextension department have offered an\nannual law refresher course.\nFrom 1964 to the present the B.C.\nPharmaceutical Association, faculty of\npharmacy and extension department\nhave offered programs in continuing\neducation for pharmacists. In total 279\npharmacists have participated in seven\nprograms.\nPHYSICIANS REACHED\nThe faculty of medicine's department of continuing medical education,\nestablished in 1960, reaches physicians\nthroughout B.C. In 1964-65 alone, 27\nper cent of the province's 2,345 physicians in practice registered for one\nor more continuing education courses. IN UBC'S EXTENSION DEPARTMENT:\nNew Emphasis Is on Continuing Education\n(Gordon Selman, the author of the following\nbrief history of the UBC extension department, is executive assistant to President John B. Macdonald\nand former associate director of extension. The\narticle is based on the thesis which he wrote for his\nmaster of arts degree in history).\nBy GORDON SELMAN\nExtension services have been offered by UBC\nsince the earliest days of the University. The Faculty\nof Agriculture was giving courses for farmers and\nother primary producers before it accepted any\nregular full-time students. More than 1,300 veterans\nof World War I attended vocational short courses\nat the University between 1917 and 1921.\nA lectures service for community organizations\nwas organized by the faculty in 1918 and before\nlong was arranging some hundreds of lectures each\nyear. Almost all these activities were curtailed in\nthe early 1930's, however, when the University grant\nwas cut drastically by the government.\nA FRESH START IN 1935\nA fresh start was made possible in 1935 as a\nresult of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, a\nportion of which was used to carry out a remarkable\nseries of lectures throughout the province. In just\na few months 893 lectures were given, attended by\nmore than 70,000 persons. In order to give permanence to this work, the University created the Department of University Extension in late April of\n1936, almost thirty years ago exactly.\nThe Extension Department has had three directors\nsince that time, Mr. Robert England (1936-37), Dr.\nGordon Shrum (1937-53) and Dr. John Friesen (1953-\n66).\nFrom a staff of two \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a director and his secretary \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the Department has grown over the years\nto perhaps the largest in the country. The program\nhas expanded from just a few courses in the first\nyear which involved only a few hundred persons, to\nthe present ambitious and comprehensive service\nwhich enrolls more than 25,000 adults each year in\nits many hundreds of courses.\nMr. England launched a number of new programs during his short term as director and laid\nthe foundation for future development of policy\nand program. The main task of building up the\nDepartment remained to Dr. Shrum. In him the\nDepartment had a leader admirably suited to this\ntask. He recruited able young people to help set\nup the program. He sought funds and other assistance from outside the University in order to build\nup the Department beyond what university funds\npermitted.\nMost important of all, he looked at the needs\nof the people of the Province and designed programs\nwhich helped meet them. He found people troubled\nabout the problems of the depression and provided\nstudy groups on economics and public affairs. He\nfound interest in the arts at a low ebb and provided a wide variety of services in theatre, music\nand the visual arts.\nLife in the rural parts of the Province was\nisolated and economically depressed in many areas\nand he organized a field staff to put on training\ncourses for unemployed rural youth, a program on\nco-operatives for fishermen and courses on home\neconomics and handicrafts for women in all parts\nof the Province. At the same time many and varied\ncourses were offered in the Vancouver area.\nBy the time Dr. Friesen took up his duties as\ndirector in the early fifties, the pattern of educational services in the Province had changed greatly.\nEconomic conditions were more satisfactory, people\ntended to stay in school longer and a wide variety\nof other agencies were developing adult education\nprograms. The need then was for the University to\nconcentrate more on the training of leaders and the\nfurther education of its graduates.\nContinuing education in the professions and\nspecialized programs in many different fields of\ninterest were stressed. The Summer School of Arts\nwas brought to new levels of achievement. Courses\ncarrying credit towards a degree were made more\ngenerally available. With the help of funds secured\nfrom private foundations, experimental and interdisciplinary programs in the liberal arts were expanded, high-level courses on public affairs were\norganized and long-range programs for persons in\npositions of public responsibility were successfully\ncarried out. With other institutions providing a\nrange of services, UBC could more and more concentrate on \"higher adult education.\"\nThe development of UBC's comprehensive extension program has been made possible by a number\nof factors. One of the most obvious has been the\nencouragement and support given to it by Presidents Wesbrook, Klinck, MacKenzie and Macdonald.\n\"Guideposts to Innovation\" states clearly that continuing education continues to be a major function\nof the institution.\nIMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION\nThe faculty of the University, several hundreds\nof whom teach Extension courses each year \u00E2\u0080\u0094 from\nthe most junior to the most senior members of the\nstaff\u00E2\u0080\u0094make an essential contribution to the program\nand do so obviously in the belief that this is an\nimportant aspect of the University's contribution to\nthe Province. The directors and staff of the Extension Department itself have also, of course, played\na crucial part over the years in creating the outstanding service now available to the people of\nBritish Columbia.\nIn the years ahead, further changes in the program can clearly be expected. UBC has gained new\npartners in the post-secondary field in the form of\nthree universities (University of Victoria, Simon\nFraser and Notre Dame) the B.C. Institute of Technology and the public and private community colleges. The emphasis of UBC's role in continuing\neducation will undoubtedly change in keeping with\nthe changing goals of the institution as a whole. The\ndevelopments in the next thirty years will likely be\nas exciting as those of the last thirty, although one\ntends to wonder whether that is possible.\nJet-Age Study Tour\nAttracts 39 to Mexico\nAn education program keyed to the\njet-age began March 18 when a group\nof 39 left by Canadian Pacific Airlines\nfor a 19-day study tour of Mexico.\nThe Mexican tour was the second\neducational tour organized by the\nUBC extension department, the first\nbeing a highly successful tour to Quebec last spring.\nOrientation lectures on Mexican history, politics, sociology and culture by\n3,000 Titles\nListed in\nFilm Catalogue\nThree new catalogues listing films\navailable on loan throughout British\nColumbia have recently been published by the audio-visual services division of the extension department.\nMore than 3,000 titles, ranging from\nthe experimental films of Norman\nMcLaren to a series on the nature of\nwork are listed in a general catalogue.\nForty-seven new films have been\nadded to those available in the last\nthree months.\n\"Films from Britain,\" 266 titles and\n\"Films from Australia,\" 121 titles, are\ncatalogued providing borrowers interested in productions from these two\ncountries with more complete descriptions of films available.\nIn the past year the audio-visual division served more than 1,000 film\nborrowers, including firms, churches,\ngovernment departments, schools, individuals and community organizations.\nFilm subjects include agriculture,\ncommunity and national affairs, education, travel, labor and management\nrelations, manufacturing and technical training, music, dance, fine arts,\ntheatre, natural resources, wildlife\nand conservation, science, philosophy,\nreligion, recreation and world affairs.\nAmong new films recently added to\nthe department's library are \"Computers and Control,\" generally describing the application of computers in\nBritain; \"Growth of Love,\" behavioural\nstudies of factors involved; \"And a\nCouple of Wallabies,\" travel in Australia; and \"In Good Shape,\" original\ncreations in British designs.\nProfessor Thomas Brose, Simon Fraser\nUniversity, and on art and architecture by Professor William Hart, UBC\nfine arts department, as well as lessons in conversational Spanish, prepared participants for the tour directed and accompanied by bilingual\nsociologist Roberto Cuba Jones of the\nInternational Cultural Centre, Mexico\nCity.\nORDERLY ITINERARY\nThe tour focused upon cultural, social, economic, archaeological and historical aspects of Mexico and the itinerary was conducted in chronological\norder \u00E2\u0080\u0094 from centres of pre-Columbian, Aztec and Mayan cultures to\nareas of Spanish conquest, colonial\nhistory and independence, to contemporary aspects in Mexico City.\nThe group visited many historical\nsites and attended lectures by archaeologists at digs in the Yucatan, a program of native dances at Patzcuaro, a\nlecture-seminar on art by the director\nof the Institute of Art at San Miguel\nAllende, a program at the UNESCO\nSchool for Fundamental Education in\nPatzcuaro, lectures in Mexico City\non regional planning and the Four\nGreat Murals, a visit to the Mexican\nAutonomous University and participation in the seminar on social change\nin Latin America conducted by four\nexperts in Mexican economics and\npolitics.\nFULLY BOOKED\nThe tour combining learning with\nleisure was fully booked shortly after\nit was announced and had a long waiting list.\nIt attracted mainly professional people and included several physicians, a\nlawyer, engineer, labour relations expert, community planner, radio and\ncommunications expert, librarian,\nnurse, school teacher, research assistant, and a forester.\nEducational tours, linking study with\nfirsthand observation, are designed by\nthe extension department for adults\nseeking a comprehensive understanding of other cultures.\nUBC REPORTS\nMARCH-APRIL, 1966\nVOLUME 12, No. 2\nERICA BUSCH\nMARCELLE ZONTA\nUBC SCHOOL\nOpera Workshop Leads\nTo Professional Stage\nWithin the first five years of its\nexistence, the UBC Opera Workshop\nhas trained two outstanding students\nwho have made their professional\ndebuts with the Vancouver Opera Association and have since advanced\ntheir careers in New York and\nLondon.\nSoprano Marcelle Zonta, who during the past three years has trained\nat the University of Toronto's opera\nschool, has appeared with the Canadian Opera Company and at the 1965\nStratford Festival.\nNEW YORK AUDITION\nIn December, 1965, while singing the\nlead in Prokofiev's \"The Love for\nThree Oranges\", she was heard by\ndirectors of the Metropolitan Opera's\nNational Touring Company and after\nan audition in New York became the\nthird Canadian to win a year's contract with the Company.\nErica Busch, who is studying with\nRoy Henderson, one of Britain's leading teachers, has had encouraging\nauditions with both the Sadler's Wells\nOpera Company and the Glynde-\nbourne Festival. This spring she\njoined the British Arts Council Touring Company \"Opera for All.\"\nThe UBC Opera Workshop, which\nbegan in 1961, aims to train vocalists\nin the \"stage arts\" of the opera singer\nby using a series of excerpts, rather\nthan a single major production as the\nbasis for a six week course. This\nmakes it possible to utilize each\nsinger to the fullest extent of his or\nher abilities.\nVARIETY STRESSED\nProfessor French Tickner, director\nsince 1961, says \"I wish to stress the\ncreative aspects of learning 'styles'\nrather than 'works' and the adaptability of the singer to specific dramatic\nsituations brought about by performing several parts in operas highly\ndiversified and different in approach\nand style.\"\nNicholas Goldschmidt first introduced opera to UBC in 1952 at the\nannual extension department Summer\nSchool of Arts. Until 1958, when the\nVancouver Opera Association was\nfounded, the UBC Opera School provided the only locally produced opera\non a near professional level. CHINA\nINDIA < J' ;\n: \u00C2\u00AB>.\nDiploma\nCourse\nOffered\nA diploma program in adult education will be offered for the first time\nby the University of British Columbia\nbeginning in July, 1966.\nThe program is designed for persons\nwho wish to acquire the skills and\nknowledge to organize, conduct, evaluate and administer programs in adult\neducation, but who do not wish to\npursue a graduate degree.\nIt is offered by the faculty of education and the extension department\nin response to growing demand for\nspecialists in adult education.\nMANY PARTICIPATE\nPublic school adult education directors, trainers in business and industry,\neducation officers in the armed services, community development workers, program organizers in volunteer\norganizations and district agriculturalists will be among those participating.\nCandidates for admission to the program should have a bachelor's degree,\na satisfactory background in some\nfield of work or study which can make\na contribution to adult education and\nPROFESSOR William L. Holland, head of UBC's Asian\nStudies department delivers one of the weekly adult education television programs on Asja over CHAN-TV. The 26\nTO BE REPEATED IN SUMMER\n^M-MMi-'i\nlectures, produced in cooperation with the UBC extension\ndepartment, deal with art, religion and international relations\nin southeast Asia. Series will be repeated this summer.\nAsian Civilization Topic\nOf First Television Series\nIn response to continuing requests\nby viewers, CHAN-TV will repeat the\ncomprehensive series of weekly adult\neducation television programs Great\nAsian Civilizations this summer on\nChannels 8 and 6.\nPROFESSOR CO-ORDINATES\nThe series of 26 half-hour lectures\nwas produced by British Columbia\nTelevision in cooperation with the\nUniversity of British Columbia departments of Asian studies and extension.\nProf. W. L. Holland, head, Asian\nstudies department, coordinated the\nprograms.\nCRISIS AREAS\n\"With such crises as the recent war\nin India and Pakistan, such events as\nthe Chinese development of nuclear\nweapons and, above all, the increasing involvement of the U.S. and Commonwealth nations in the Viet Nam\nwar, the need for a deeper understanding of some of the social and\nConference Office Uses\nIdle Space on UBC Campus\nThere is no such thing as an idle\ncampus anymore \u00E2\u0080\u0094 at least not at\nthe University of British Columbia.\nThe recently published 1964-65 annual report of the UBC extension\ndepartment shows some 13,329 persons\nattended conferences, short courses\nand seminars on campus last year \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmore than double the 5,763 figure in\n1963-64.\nIn addition, 5,882 adults from\nthroughout Greater Vancouver attended non-credit evening classes sponsored by the extension department,\nexceeding in total the 15,489 winter\nsession students for the same year.\nFULL-TIME OFFICE\nUBC is unique among Canadian\nuniversities as the only one to have\na full-time office of short courses and\nconferences for the single purpose of\norganizing, coordinating and administering.\nThe office was established in 1958\nas a part of the extension department.\nFrom a total of 5,048 on-campus conferences in that year, the number has\nalmost tripled in six years.\n\"Educational conferences, institutes\nand seminars are growing because of\nthe increased demand for continuing\neducation programs, particularly in\nthe professions,\" said Knute Butte-\ndahl, recent supervisor of the office.\nThere is a growing demand from\ncommunity organizations for convention facilities. Some of these conventions or annual meetings are so large\nthat they are difficult to accommodate\nin commercial facilities. For example,\nduring June, 1965, the Conference of\nLearned Societies of Canada registered more than 4,000 people.\n\"Our philosophy towards non-educational meetings has been that the\nuniversity, as a public institution,\nmakes its facilities available to the\ncommunity whenever they are not required for teaching or research purposes, provided that any group making use of the facilities pays all expenses involved,\" said Buttedahl.\nGROUPS MEET\nIn 1964-65 alone, the Chartered Accountants Association, Junior Red\nCross, General Synod of the Anglican\nChurch of Canada, Luther League,\nGirl Guides of Canada, provincial\nUnited Nations High School Seminar,\na dairy short course, Metropolitan\nHealth Nursing Workshop, a school\ndesign seminar, fisheries short course,\nseminar on B.C. Forest Products Trade\nin Asia and the Pacific Area, seminar\non Automation and Business for businessmen and B.C. School Trustees\nwere among meetings held on campus.\nFormer supervisor of the office,\nKnute Buttedahl, is now associate\ndirector of the extension department.\nHe has been succeeded by Jindra\nKulich, who has returned from the\nElliot Lake Centre for Continuing\nEducation in Ontario to head the conference office.\npolitical forces in Southern and Eastern Asia is greater than ever,\" said\nProf. Holland.\nProgram topics range from art, religion and social change to politics,\neconomics and international relations\nin China, Japan, India, Viet Nam and\nMalaysia.\nFIRST EFFORT\nThe initial run of the series began\nin November, 1965, as a part of University of the Air, the first combined\neffort of a group of private television\nstations across Canada to offer educational programs five mornings a\nweek. Continuing until June, this series is shown at 7 a.m. Fridays.\nIn December a repeat of the program began Tuesdays at 11:30 p.m.\nThis summer's showing will give\npersons who missed portions of either\nearlier broadcast the opportunity to\nview the complete series. Time and\nday will be announced later.\nFACULTY LECTURE\nUBC faculty members participating\ninclude: Dr. W. E. Willmott, Dr. Mary\nMorehart, Prof. Shuichi Kato, Dr. D.\nG. E. Hall, Dr. John K. Friesen, Prof.\nJohn F. Howes, Prof. Jan J. Solecki,\nProf. Kazuko Tsurumi, Dr. Peter Har-\nnetty, Dr. Michael Ames, Prof. Elliot\nWeisgarber, Prof. R. S. Milne and\nDean Emeritus F. H. Soward.\nThis venture into educational television adds a new dimension to UBC\nextension department offerings, cooperating closely with University departments, in bringing the University's\nresources to the community at large.\nUniversities in Calgary, Edmonton,\nOttawa and Toronto along with UBC\ndeveloped programs for the University of the Air series. Subjects include\npsychology, conversational French, history, theatre and mathematics.\nFOWLER COMMISSION\nThe programs were planned before\nthe Fowler Commission report which\ncriticized private stations and recommended educational shows in the\nmorning.\nUBC REPORTS\nMARCH-APRIL, 1966\nVOLUME 12, No. 2\nADULT SUMMER\nPROGRAM WILL\nBE EXPANDED\nAn expanded summer program in continuing education\nfor adults will be offered by the\nextension department in July\nand August, 1966.\nMajor programs will include\nbeginning, intermediate and advanced intensive French conversation classes; weekly public\naffairs lectures; a one-week program focusing on the present\nstate and future potential of\nVancouver's harbor; a two-week\nresidential workshop for teachers on programs for educationally deprived children and a\nseminar on India Today, July\n7, 8 and 9.\nCourses are planned to take\nadvantage of the resource of\nvisiting professors on campus\nfor the summer and to utilize\nteaching facilities not available\nin the winter.\nJohn P. Blaney, associate director of the UBC Summer\nSession, said an adult enrolment\nof 1,800 to 2,000 is expected.\nLast year approximately 1,500\npersons participated in non-\ncredit summer extension programs.\nbe considered by a policy committee\nto be serious and mature students.\nIn exceptional instances, individuals\nwithout a bachelor's degree who display a university graduate's level of\nknowledge and an ability to work at\nthe graduate level may have their\ncases reviewed for admission.\nCONTENT SET\nContent will focus on three areas:\nphilosophy, psychological and social\nfoundations, processes and administration of adult education; a subject\nmatter area related to the student's\ninterest or previous academic experience; and the nature of both the educational program and the agency in\nwhich the student will work.\nThe course of study will be equivalent to a minimum of five full university courses plus a short internship\nwhich may be completed by one winter session or by summer sessions\nand/or extra-sessional classes.\nIn 1957 a graduate program in adult\neducation was initiated by the University.\nDIPLOMA POLICY\nDiploma program policy is established by a committee of persons\nrepresenting the faculties of education, arts, agriculture and graduate\nstudies, the director of extension, the\nregistrar and the professor of adult\neducation.\nFurther information on the program\nis available from the extension department. CHANDELIERED BALLROOM of Yorkeen House on the\nUBC campus was a classroom recently for these B.C.\nfishermen taking an intensive three-week course designed\nto acquaint them with the latest developments in a wide\nrange of areas, including fishing techniques, navigation\nTHREE WEEKS AT YORKEEN\nand marine law. The annual program, sponsored by the\nUBC extension department and the federal department\nof fisheries, has increasing enrolments each year. This is\nits 27th year of operation. Photo by Gordon Sedawie, Vancouver Province. *\nCourse Takes Fishermen\nFrom Boat to Ballroom\nThis spring 35 commercial fishermen, from such points as Ucluelet,\nPrince Rupert, Puget Sound, Bella\nBella and the Queen Charlotte Islands,\nmoved from boat to ballroom for the\n13th annual Fisheries Short Course\nsponsored by the extension depart\nment and financed by the federal Fisheries Department.\nSTUDY IN BALLROOM\nIn what was once the ballroom of\nYorkeen, the former home of Senator\nS. S. McKeen, now owned by UBC,\nGOVERNMENT SUPPORTED\nProgram Seeks\nTo Aid Indians\n\"You don't build houses, but ideas.\"\nThe comment was made at a recent meeting in Fort St. James\nsponsored by the UBC extension department's Indian Leadership\nEducation Program.\nThe speaker is a builder of houses, one of a growing number of\nIndians who are employed in helping improve the physical environment of their people.\nACQUAINTS GOVERNMENT WITH NEEDS\nBut he is also a builder of ideas, as an elected representative\nto the recently formed British Columbia Regional Advisory Council \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nestablished to acquaint government with the needs and desires ofthe\npeople it represents.\nIt was in the latter capacity he was sharing with others in considering current difficulties facing Indians. With financial support from\nthe Federal Indian Affairs branch opportunity for such sharing is\nprovided through the Indian Leadership Education Program.\nThe program began on a part-time basis in 1962 at the request\nof an Indian organization. Indian leaders from across the province\nmet at UBC.\nSince becoming a full-time program in 1964 the emphasis has\nchanged to taking campus resources to the people on their own home\nground.\nA recent workshop brought together chiefs and councilors from\nfive bands in the Terrace agency, Kitimat in the south to the Nass\nRiver in the north. For two days the leaders examined the impact\nof the growing forest industry on the previously isolated fishing communities. With them were representatives of the major company\noperating in the area.\nDelegates recognized the need for councils, as the local elected\ngoverning authority, to keep up with new developments in helping\ntheir people to adapt\nENCOURAGE TRAINING AT HIGHER LEVEL\nEducation in relation to home, community, school and adult\nlife was discussed. The group agreed that although many Indians are\nfinding a place in the new forest industry, there is still need to encourage young people to undertake training at higher technical and professional levels.\nthe fishermen studied how to do their\njob better.\nThe three-week course is part of\nan extension department program in\nfisheries which began in 1939 with\nfunds provided by the federal Fisheries Department.\nCO-OP FORMED\nEarly programs, following the east\ncoast example of St. Francis Xavier,\nconcentrated on helping fishermen by\naiding them in establishing co-operatives and credit unions. One example\nis Prince Rupert which, from a\nmeagre beginning, now boasts a Fishermen's Co-operative Association that\nhas more than eight and one-half\nmillion dollars in assets.\nIn the mid-fifties the residential\nschool, a completely new concept of\nextension work in fisheries, was introduced at the time the Hon. James\nSinclair was minister of fisheries.\nIn 1954 seventy fishermen, selected\non the basis of competency and experience, came to UBC for two weeks\nto study their industry. This was the\ngenesis of the current program, which\nhas grown to three-weeks in length.\nVARIED COURSES\nNow in its 27th year, the varied\ncurriculum covers international law,\noceanography and accounting to coastal piloting, boat construction and\nradar operation. Lecturers are from\nthe UBC faculty, federal Fisheries Department Fisheries Research Board,\ncommercial companies and individual\nspecialists.\nAs another part of the fisheries program, middle management from fishing companies have attended a 12-\nweek evening class modification of\nthe short course for the past five\nyears. The 1966 series had an enrolment of 33.\nIndicative of the program's success\nare growing requests for information\non content and operational details\nfrom Australia, New Zealand, the\nUnited States and countries in southeast Asia.\nSTATISTICS COURSE\nSpecial programs such as a recent\n10-week statistics course for technicians at the Biological Research Station, Nanaimo, are conducted as a part\nof the extension department fisheries\nwork.\nPharmacy\nLectures\nTaped\nAutomated lectures involving three\ncommunications media \u00E2\u0080\u0094 tape, slides\nand telephone \u00E2\u0080\u0094 are planned for April\nto provide continuing education to\npracticing pharmacists in certain areas\nof British Columbia.\nA specialist in internal medicine\nand staff member of the B.C. Cancer\nInstitute has tape-recorded a 45-\nminute lecture on treating cancer\nwith drugs and synchronized selected\nslides to accompany the tape.\nThis material is being made available to groups of pharmacists throughout B.C. by the UBC extension department, faculty of pharmacy and\nthe B.C. Pharmaceutical Association.\nPlaying of the tape and showing of\nthe slides will be followed by a direct\ntelephone hook-up with the specialist\nin Vancouver to provide each group\nwith opportunity to ask questions and\nreceive immediate answers from him.\nLocal speakers will also participate.\nThe advantages of this tri-media\napproach are numerous. In particular,\nit allows a single speaker to be heard\nby many more audiences than he could\nspeak to in person, remoteness of locale is not a factor; and large and\nsmall groups alike can be accomodated.\nAdditionally, this technique allows\ndissemination of information not generally available through ordinary literature channels.\nThe program is scheduled to be repeated in several communities, including Kamloops, Cranbrook and Terrace.\nCONTINUED FROM PAGE 3\nExchange\nPlanned\nRajasthan's Department of Adult Education is also assisting the Faculties\nof Engineering, Social Science and\nCommerce, to develop refresher\ncourses in Engineering, Management,\nPublic Administration and Welfare.\nAn interesting feature of Indo-Cana-\ndian co-operation in Rajasthan and in\nother states is the work of the young\nCUSO volunteers. In Rajasthan alone,\nthese recent university graduates are\nmaking a unique contribution in teaching, community development, agricultural extension and nursing.\nAt the same time they are learning\na good deal about a new culture in a\ncountry whose development is of special significance to its Commonwealth\npartners.\nTEAM TO UBC\nThe first exchange team from the\nUniversity of Rajasthan to UBC is\nexpected to arrive shortly. They will\ncome to Canada under Colombo Plan\nauspices and return to India as members of the extension staff in Jaipur.\nThis form of exchange, which was\nso successful in the recently completed\nUBC-University of Malaya project in\nbusiness administration, assures continuity of the project in tfie host institution and aids directly in achieving\nthe goals of self-help in national development\nIn addition to investment by governments in this program, the UBC\nproject team sees an even larger opportunity for twinning arrangements\nbetween voluntary, social, business\nand cultural agencies of British Columbia with those in Rajasthan. In\nthis way, an increasing number of people, both young and adult, can assist\nin, and benefit from, this unique undertaking in international goodwill\nand understanding.\nUBC REPORTS\nMARCH-APRIL, 1966\nVOLUME 12, No. 2 EXTENSION AND IMPROVEMENT program currently\nunderway at the south end of the UBC campus includes\na new stadium which can be seen taking shape in the\ncentre foreground of the aerial photo. Agricultural field\nfacilities to the north of the stadium site, now zoned for\nparking, athletics and housing, will be moved to cleared\nareas in woods to the south and east, where facilities for\nforestry and the biological sciences will also be placed.\nWhen completed, the expansion will put into use the entire\n988.74 acre campus stretching from the tip of Point Grey to\nthe Simon Fraser Memorial on Southwest Marine Drive.\nPhoto by George Allen Aerial Photos Ltd.\nENDOWMENT NEARS $30,000\n$1,500 Scholarship Named\nFor Former UBC Chancellor\nA \"little Rhodes Scholarship\" honouring the late Chief Justice Sherwood\nLett has been established at the University of B.C.\nGifts of nearly $30,000 have been\ncontributed to an endowment fund\nwhich will provide an annual award\nof $1,500 to a student who displays\nthe all-around qualities of the former\nChancellor of UBC.\nDean Walter Gage, chairman of the\nUBC awards committee, said the first\nscholarship will be awarded this\nspring. Closing date for nominations\nis normally the end of February, but\nfor this year only the final date was\nextended a further week.\n\"The late Chief Justice Lett was\nhimself a winner of the Rhodes Scholarship in 1919,\" Dean Gage said, \"and\nthe basis for awarding the new UBC\nscholarship will be the qualities which\nMr. Lett possessed \u00E2\u0080\u0094 high scholastic\nand literary attainments, physical vigour, moral force of character and\nability to serve, work with, and lead\nothers.\"\nSAME QUALITIES\nHe said these are the same qualities\nlooked for by the selection committee\nwhich annually chooses a B.C. student\nfor the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford\nUniversity.\nThe scholarship will be open to both\nPharmacists to Develop\nPoison Control Center\nA $4,590 National Health Research\ngrant to develop a computerized poison control information system has\nbeen made to the University of British\nColumbia.\nThe grant will enable a research\nteam in UBC's faculty of pharmacy\nto study and develop a method of data\nprocessing which will lead to poison\ninformation being available quickly\nfrom a computer in the planned University hospital.\nTREATMENT DATA\nThe research team under J. Glen\nMoir, assistant professor of pharmacy,\nwill attempt to develop a computer\nprogram which will give treatment information when told either the patient's symptoms or the name of the\npoisonous product.\nWhen the UBC hospital's computer\nis in operation it should be possible\nfor a hospital or physician in any part\nof B.C. to phone or telex for treatment\ninformation which would be available\nin minutes.\nAlternately, Mr. Moir said, the computer program could be made available for local use to any hospital having the necessary computer facilities.\nThe new grant arises out of a pharmacy faculty project developed in cooperation with the Health Branch, Department of Health Services and Hospital Insurance, of the provincial government. This initial project was designed to update and simplify information on poison control.\nPRODUCT INFORMATION\nFor the new computer project pertinent information on drugs, patent\nmedicines, household and agricultural\nproducts, cosmetics, chemicals and\nsolvents would be collected and reviewed.\nWhen adequate volumes of poison\ncontrol data are available experimental computer programs will be written, tested and analysed with a view\nto selecting the best system for the\nUBC Health Sciences Center and the\nUBC computer.\nmen or women graduate or undergraduate students who have attended\nUBC for at least two full winter sessions and who rank academically in\nthe top quarter of the students in\nhis or her year and faculty.\nWinners will be selected on the\nbasis of academic achievement, character and personal qualities, participation and achievement in student affairs,\nand leadership and service to the\nUniversity or community.\nSELECTION COMMITTEE\nSelection committee will consist of\nDean Gage, who will act as chairman,\nPresident John B. Macdonald, and\nrepresentatives of the UBC Alumni\nAssociation, Alma Mater Society and\nthe Graduate Students' Association.\nChief Justice Sherwood Lett, who\ndied in July, 1964, at the age of 68,\nwas described in the memorial minutes of the UBC Senate as UBC's\n\"most distinguished, graduate.\"\nHe was a member of the Senate\nfrom 1924 to 1957; a member of the\nBoard of Governors from 1935 to 1940\nand from 1951 to 1957, a recipient of\nan honorary doctor of laws degree in\n1945, and Chancellor of UBC from\n1951 to 1957.\nMr. Lett began his university studies at the old McGill University College and continued at the new University of B.C. where he was elected\nthe first president of the Alma Mater\nSociety in 1915.\nFIRST CONSTITUTION\nTogether with his wife to be, Evelyn\nStory, he drew up the first AMS constitution. He then enlisted in the Canadian army, and was awarded the\nMilitary Cross while serving in France.\nHe received his bachelor of arts\ndegree in 1916 while on active service\nand was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 1919 after returning to Canada.\nAt Oxford he took a BA in jurisprudence and returned to practice law\nin Vancouver. He was three times\npresident of the UBC Alumni Association.\nFund\nActive\nAgain\nThe Three Universities Capital\nFund has resumed active campaigning to raise the final $8 million of its\n$28 million objective.\nThe Fund, which now stands at\nnearly $20 million, has been in recess\nsince last September to allow United\nAppeal campaigns to complete canvassing.\nGIFTS RECEIVED\nCo-chairman of the Universities appeal, Allan M. McGavin, who announced the resumption of canvassing, said that 2,480 gifts totalling $1,098,246 were received during\nthe inactive period.\nMr. McGavin said active canvassing\nfor the Fund, which was launched in\n1964 to finance building projects at\nB.C.'s three public universities, should\nbe wrapped up by June 15.\nHe added that the Fund would continue after this date and the campaign\ncommittee would remain active.\nMUST GO ON\n\"We go on,\" he said, \"until we\nhit $28 million. We must. The fund is\nonly trying to keep pace with minimum building requirements of our\nuniversities.\"\nThe $28 million being raised by the\nFund is part of a $68.7 million expansion program in progress at UBC,\nUniversity of Victoria and Simon\nFraser University.\nThe provincial government has\npledged a total of $40.7 million toward\nthe five-year building program.\nAlumni\nHonour\n1916 Grads\nLaurier LaPierre, nationally-known\ntelevision personality, will be guest\nspeaker at the annual dinner meeting\nof the UBC Alumni Association\nMay 11.\nLaPierre, who is associate professor\nof history and director of French Canada Studies at McGill University as\nwell as co-host of the CBC's public\naffairs program \"This Hour Has\nSeven Days,\" will speak in the ballroom of the Hotel Vancouver after\nthe Association's annual meeting beginning at 6 p.m.\nHis topic is \"Canada ... 1, 2, 3?\"\nHe will describe the \"melting pot\"\nconcepts of Canadian society and explore the subject of cultural diversity.\nSpecial guests at the meeting will\nbe graduates of McGill College, UBC's\nforerunner, and the UBC class of 1916,\nthis year celebrating its fiftieth year\nof graduation.\nTickets, at $5 per person, are available through the UBC Alumni Association office in Brock Hall, CAstle\n4-4366.\nNOTICE\nNotice is hereby given that the\nAnnual Meeting of the Alumni\nAssociation will be held at the\nhour of 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday,\nMay 11, 1966, in the Ballroom\nof the Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, B.C.\nTwo members of the Association may nominate persons for\nthe elective positions on the\nBoard of Management pursuant\nto Section 8 of the By-Laws of\nthe Association. All nominations\nmust be accompanied by the\nwritten consent of the nominee,\nand be in the hands of the Director of the Alumni Association, 252 Brock Hall, at least\nseven days before the date of\nthe Annual Meeting.\nT. HOLLICK-KENYON,\nDirector.\nUBC REPORTS\nMARCH-APRIL, 1966\nVOLUME 12, No. 2 ^ y, t. .- \u00C2\u00BB =s /^\n^ 3 1966\nCHEMISTRY PROFESSOR FINDS:\nReactions Don't Stop in Frcrt\u00C2\u00A3fiBRi\u00C2\u00A7&futions\nA generally-accepted belief that\nmany chemical reactions slow\ndown or cease at low temperatures\nhas been disrupted by a University\nof B.C. chemist.\nDr. Richard E. Pincock has\nshown, in fact, that some kinds of\nchemical reactions are actually\nspeeded up when solutions are\nfrozen.\nThe studies are described by\nProfessor C. A. McDowell, head of\nUBC's chemistry department, as\n\"outstandingly original in conception.\"\nHe said the experiments may\nhave far-reaching consequences not\nonly in chemistry, but in biochemistry and geochemistry as well.\nREACTIONS STOP\nDr. Pincock's work, and that of\nother scientists carrying out similar experiments, is relevant to such\nthings as the preservation of human tissues and organs, the storage\nof foods, and the question of\nwhether life may exist (or even\noriginate on other planets) at low\ntemperatures during freezing conditions.\nThe underlying assumption involved in freezing is that chemical\nreactions which take place at normal temperatures are either slowed\ndown or stopped completely.\n\"What we can say with certainty,\" says Dr. Pincock, \"is that far\nfrom ceasing, many chemical reactions may actually be speeded\nup in the frozen state.\"\nContractor\nNamed for\nMusic Bldg.\nThe Board of Governors has authorized the award of a $2,199,000 contract\nfor a new University of B. C. music\nbuilding to Burns & Dutton Construction Co., lowest of six bidders.\nConstruction is expected to start in\nearly summer. The building is the\nthird in the Norman MacKenzie Centre\nfor Fine Arts being developed at the\nnorth end of the campus.\nIt will be the fifth construction project started in UBC's $30 million, five-\nyear building program, partly financed\nby the Three Universities Fund which\nresumed canvassing recently.\nOther contributors to the music\nbuilding are the provincial government\nand the Canada Council which has\ngranted $600,000 for this project.\nThough the building was listed by\nthe Three U's Fund in the summer of\n1964 at $1.5 million, UBC Bursar William White said the contract price is\nnot out of line.\n\"The $1.5 estimate was made early\nin the planning,\" he said. \"Refinements\nand special necessities which became\nevident as planning progressed, and\nthe addition of underground parking\nand storage space, have resulted in\ntoday's cost.\"\nThe contract calls for 76,022 square\nfeet\u00E2\u0080\u009458,465 finished and 17,557 unfinished.\nArchitects for the four-storey, air-\nconditioned building, which will accomodate about 300 students, are\nGardiner, Thornton, Gathe & Associates.\nThe lower two floors will contain a\nrecital hall for chamber music performances seating 285 persons, a large\nrehearsal hall for orchestra, wind ensembles and opera workshops, a small\nchoral rehearsal hall, practice rooms\nand administrative offices.\nThe upper two floors will have\nabout 30 teaching studios, theory and\nmusic history lecture rooms, practice\nrooms, a music library seating 100,\nseminar and listening rooms and a student lounge.\nWhen completed the department will\nmove from its present scattered accomodation in an old forest products\nbuilding, five army huts and a converted agronomy barn.\n8\nUBC REPORTS\nMARCH-APRIL, 1966\nVOLUME 12, No. 2\nDr. Pincock has not undertaken\nany studies of frozen foods or\ntissues but he does feel that scientists involved in these areas will\nhave to alter their thinking radically on these subjects.\nDr. Pincock began his work on\nfrozen solutions in 1963 when he\nwas studying the mechanisms involved in the decomposition of an\norganic peroxide called t-butyl-\nperoxy-formate, which broke down\nwhen heated to a temperature of\n90 degrees centigrade.\nDECOMPOSED\nSome solutions of the peroxide\nwere kept in a chemistry department refrigerator, and when removed for further experiments\nwere found to have decomposed.\n\"Not only had the peroxide decomposed but it had done so in a\nmuch shorter time than would have\nbeen the case if heated to 90 degrees centigrade,\" Dr. Pincock said.\nSTARTLING RESULT\n\"Chemically, this was a startling\nresult,\" said Dr. Pincock. \"Since\nthen, however, we have confirmed\nthis result and noted it in several\nother compounds.\"\nMore recently Dr. Pincock has\nbeen concentrating on trying to explain why decomposition is speeded\nup when solutions are frozen.\nHe thinks he's found the answer.\nIt lies in the fact, which Dr.\nPincock has confirmed through a\ncomplex analysis involving a technique known as nuclear magnetic\nresonance, that even when solutions freeze, there remain microscopic areas of solution invisible\nto the naked eye.\nVIALS OF FROZEN solutions which have yielded some remarkable results\nare scrutinized by Dr. Richard Pincock, left, and graduate student Thomas\nKiovsky. UBC Extension photo.\n$9 Million Budgeted for\nCapital Construction\nThe University of B. C. has budgeted\n$8,947,326 for capital construction and\ncampus improvement during the 1966-\n67 fiscal year.\nThe Board of Governors has given\napproval in principle to the program,\nwhich covers the third year of UBC's\nfive-year, $30 million capital improvement program.\nThe 1966-67 program will be financed\nalmost entirely out of provincial construction grants and public contributions through the Three Universities\nCapital Fund Campaign. It also includes $300,000 of a $600,000 Canada\nCouncil grant toward a new music\nbuilding and $78,000 from the UBC\nDevelopment Fund of 1957-58.\nBORROWING PLANNED\nFinancing plans include borrowing\nof $5 million, to be repaid from proceeds of the Three Universities Fund.\nThe borrowing has been authorized by\nprovincial order-in-council, as required\nby the Universities Act of 1963.\nThe $8,947,326 program provides $7,-\n088,254 for continuation and completion\nof projects underway, which will bring\nclose to completion three major\nprojects undertaken during the summer of 1965; the forestry-agriculture\ncomplex, facilities for the faculty of\ndentistry, and a 3,000-seat replacement\nstadium.\nIt provides as well a substantial\nportion of the music building and for\ncontinuing development of agricultural\nand athletic fields.\nMAJOR EXPANSION\nThe budget provides $1,227,318 for\nnew projects which are subject to\nfinal scrutiny and approval. Among\nthem are a start on the building for\nmetallurgy and a major expansion of\nthe biological sciences building.\nAn amount of $403,000 for campus\ndevelopment involves expansion of\nroads, sewers, grounds and parking (a\nnet increase of 221 parking spaces).\nPrincipal groupings of 1966-67 expenditures are listed in the box below.\nCONTINUATION AND REPLACEMENT\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nforestry-agriculture, dentistry, music, replacement stadium\nand field development $7,088,254\nNEW PROJECTS\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmetallurgy and biological sciences addition 1,227,318\nCAMPUS DEVELOPMENT\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nroads, sewers, grounds, parking t 403,700\nCONSULTANTS AND PLANNING\u00E2\u0080\u0094....\ncampus development and architect fees 84,000\n$8,947,326\nUBC\nReports\nMARCH-APRIL, 1966\nVOLUME 12, No. 2\nRETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED\nKEftNETH TELFER\nLie SERIALS\nIn these microscopic areas of\nsolution the chemical reactions necessary for decomposition can proceed faster because the components\nof the reaction are concentrated.\n\"It's as though you put two reacting agents in an enormous\nroom,\" said Dr. Pincock. \"Under\nthese conditions, which are analogous to the agents being in an\nunfrozen solution, the chances of\na collision and a reaction are reduced.\nSMALLER VOLUME\n\"If, however, the agents are\nbrought together in a much smaller\nvolume, which is analogous to\nfreezing the solution, the reaction\ntakes place in a shorter time because of concentration.\"\nSo far Dr. Pincock's research\nhas concentrated on simple compounds, but this summer he plans\nto extend his work to investigate\nmore complex reactions.\nThe scientific community, however, has already noted Dr. Pincock's work with interest. Every\nweek he receives requests for\ncopies of his research papers, many\nof them from scientists who are\ninvolved in such practical areas as\nfood technology.\nGrants from the National Research Council and the Petroleum\nResearch Fund of the American\nChemical Society have aided Dr.\nPincock's work in the past. Recently he received additional support\nfrom the United States Air Force\nOffice of Scientific Research.\n$100,000\nGift for\nResearch\nA gift of $100,000 in memory of the\nlate Alan H. Williamson has been\nmade to the Health Sciences Centre\nat the University of British Columbia.\nIn making the gift, Mrs. Alan H.\nWilliamson, of 2008 South West Marine Drive, dedicated it to \"research\nand support, particularly in the early\ndetection and prevention of mental\ndeficiency in children.\"\nMr. and Mrs. Williamson shared a\nlong-standing interest in work in the\nfield of mental retardation among\nchildren.\nUBC President John B. Macdonald\nsaid, \"This is an important gift and\nwill enable the University to accelerate its progress in relation to the\nproblems of the detection and prevention of mental deficiency in children.\"\nDean of Medicine John F. McCreary\nsaid: \"Impressive progress has been\nmade already in the new field of prevention of mental retardation. It has\nbeen demonstrated that congenital defects of metabolism, when present at\nbirth, will lead to mental retardation\nunless they are recognized early.\n\"In one group of cases, the failure\nof the new born to digest and metabolize certain food elements produces\nsubstances which are damaging to\nbrain tissue. 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