"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "1991-11-28"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118060/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " I\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ^%vi t i j wmm \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\"Joseph Kania\" by Elfleda Russell. Inset: Kania's 1926 yearbook picture\nGrad waits 65 years to\nbe granted Arts degree\nBy CONNIE FILLETTI\nNo one knows more about patience and persistence\nthan Joseph Kania.\nHe has waited 65 of his 91 years to receive the BA\ndegree he earned from UBC in 1926.\n\"It's the longest gestation period I know of,\" Kania\nquipped.\nKania, of Vancouver, completed the requirements\nfor both a BA and B.Sc. degree at UBC in 1926. Self-\ntaught in both French and German, he took the second-\nyear language requirement for his BA in his freshman\nyear. To make matters more interesting, he completed\nboth degrees in five years instead of the usual six.\nBureaucratic confusion ensued and Kania never obtained his BA.\nUndeterred, and with his B.Sc. in hand, he subsequently earned an M.Sc. from UBC in 1928, before\nenrolling in M.I.T., where he was awarded a PhD in\neconomic geology in 1930.\n\"I've enjoyed kidding every UBC president there's\nbeen over the past half century about not giving me that\ndegree,\" Kania said. \"I was becoming an institution.\"\nBorn in 1901, Kania emigrated from Czechoslovakia, with his family, to a nine-acre ranch in the Kootenay s\nin 1913.\nAfter his father's death three years later, Kania found\nwork in the smelter at Trail, B.C., to help _________\nsupport his mother and three sisters. I MORE\nSTORIES PAGE 8\nHe supplemented his paycheque by accompanying\nsilent films with his violin in the evenings, earning $1 a\nnight. He spent any spare time giving dance lessons,\nplaying in a band at Saturday night dances, and teaching\nthe clarinet, even though he never played one in his life.\nKania quit the smelter on his 20th birthday, in the\nspring of 1921. To prepare himself for a UBC education, he embarked on a 12-hour-a-day home study\nprogram and completed an entire high school education\nin three and a half months.\n\"I made up my mind that 1 was going to go to\nuniversity.\" Kania said. \"I guess I was a punk kid.\"\nAfter graduating from M.I.T., he joined the faculty\nat the University of Illinois, but was forced to leave by\nU.S. immigration in 1932 because of the Great Depression.\nReturning to B.C. unemployed, Kania talked his\nway into a sales position with Pemberton Securities.\nHe quickly established himself a top sales representative and remained with the firm, spending the last\n40 years as a director, until his retirement in 1986.\nKania's successful career with Pemberton was rewarded with a membership to the prestigious Vancouver Club. That's where he encountered his first UBC\npresident, Norman MacKenzie, in 1944, and every subsequent UBC president.\n________ \"I met MacKenzie and asked him how\nGRAD I See KANIA's on Page 3\nChancellor taps 866grads in Fall congregation\nBy CONNIE FILLETTI\nWhen Joseph Kania receives his long-awaited\nBA degree at the fall Congregation ceremonies,\nhe'll be joined by 865 others.\nCeremonies begin at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.\nin the War Memorial Gym. In addition to\nacademic degrees, three distinguished Canadians, all of whom have made outstanding and\nsignificant contributions to society, will be\npresented with honorary degrees.\nThey are:\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Judith Forst, a UBC music grad and one\nof Canada's leading opera singers. She has\nperformed with many opera companies and\nsymphonies in North America and abroad, including the New York Metropolitan Opera.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Antonine Maillet, a major contemporary\nCanadian playwright, novelist, folklorist and\nthe leading writer of Acadia, the Francophone\nMaritimes. She currently teaches at Laval University.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Dorothy Smith, a professor in the Department of Sociology in Education at the Ontario\nInstitute for Studies in Education in Toronto.\nShe is known nationally and internationally for\nher groundbreaking work in feminist episte-\nmology and methodology.\nUBC alumnus Robert Wyman, former mem\nber of the Board ofGovernors, chancellor emeritus and chairman of UBC's A World of Opportunity fund-raising campaign, will be presented\nwith the Chancellor's Medal during the morning ceremony.\nThe Chancellor's Medal is awarded in recognition of extraordinary service and dedication\nto the university.\nDuring the afternoon ceremony, the Honorary Alumni Award, awarded by the UBC Alumni\nAssociation, will be presented to John Chapman.\nThe award recognizes outstanding contributions to the Association and the university by\nnon-alumni.\nUBC tops in the country in '91-'92\nNSERC strategic grants competition\nBv GAVIN WILSON ceutical Sciences. NSERC strategic grants are of-\nChapman has been called one of the builders\nof B.C.'s post-secondary education system. He\nwas first appointed to UBC's Faculty of Arts as\na professor of Geography in 1947, served as\nhead ofthe department between 1968 and 1974,\nacting head from 1979 to 1981, and retired in\n1988.\nUBC's third annual Lights of Learning ceremony will also take place today, directly following Congregation, at 5 p.m.\nSeasonal lights on the giant sequoia tree in\nfront of the Main Library will be turned on to\ncelebrate the coming holiday season and new\nyear.\nInside\nWHO'S FILLING THE NET?:\nMike Coffin, new T-Blrd\nhockey coach, sets out to\nrebuild the foam. Page 2\nMONTREAL 14 REMEMBERED: Florence Ledwitz-\nRigby pays tribute to the\nwomen slain at L'Ecole\nPolytechnique. Page 3\nB.C. HISTORY: The clash of\ncutturesduringthe goldrush\nof 1858 stffl resonates today. Page a\nBy GAVIN WILSON\nUBC is the top-ranked university\nin the country in the 1991-92 Natural\nSciences and Engineering Research\nCouncil (NSERC) strategic grants\ncompetition.\nNSERC awarded more than $3.15\nmillion to UBC researchers in the\ncompetition, a total that accounts for\nnearly one of every $10 awarded in\nCanada. UBC researchers had requested nearly $3.87 million.\nThe grants are shared by 36 UBC\nresearchers in the faculties of Arts,\nScience, Applied Science, Forestry,\nAgricultural Sciences and Pharma\nceutical Sciences.\nWalter Hardy, of the Department\nof Physics, won a grant of $240,000,\nthe largest single award made to a\nUBC researcher. Other major awards\ninclude: $ 151,000 to Mabo Ito, Electrical Engineering; $ 136,700 to Philip\nHill, Mechanical Engineering; and\ntwo grants worth a total of $153,978\nto Douw Steyn, Geography.\nThis year's strategic grants program had a budget of $37.4 million,\nwhich funded about one-quarter of\nthe grants requested. About $23 million of the funds were already committed in previous competitions.\nNSERC strategic grants are offered to promote and support targeted research and assist with the\ndirect operating costs of high quality research projects or programs in\nselected fields of national importance.\nMajor areas eligible for support\ninclude advanced technologies (information systems, biotechnology,\nindustrial materials and processes,\nmanufacturing systems and energy),\nresources (food and agriculture, forestry, mineral resources, fisheries\nand oceans) and environmental quality.\nMemorial for\n14 slain women\nWreaths will be placed at four\nlocations on campus Dec. 6 in\nmemory of the 14 women slain at\nL'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal two years ago.\nA memorial will be held at\n12:30 in the SUB.\nMemorial ribbons will be distributed free at the Women Students' Office and the University\nBookstore lobby on Dec. 6.\nWreaths will be laid at the\nfaculty club, SUB, the Women\nStudents' Office and in the Library, at the entrance to the stacks.\nFor info, call the Women Students' Office at 822-2415. 2 UBCREPORTS November28.1991\nCoffin rebuilding T-Bird Hockey\nBy ABE HEFTER\nA .500 record might not be anything to write home about. But for\nMike Coflin, head coach of the UBC\nThunderbird hockey team, it's certainly a step in the right direction.\nCoflin's biggest challenge going\ninto this season as Terry O'Malley's\nreplacement behind the Thunderbird\nbench was to\nmake hockey enjoyable again.\nHockey was\nanything but fun\nfor the T-Birds\nlast season. Despite occupying\nfirst place in the\nCanadian Western University\nAthletic Association standings at\nChristmas, the T-\nBirds closed out\nthe season by failing to win a single game in their\nlast 15 outings.\n\"The players\nwent into this season hungover \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nhungover from\nthe effects of a disastrous second-\nhalf season,\" said Coflin.\nHis first job during the off-season\nwas to meet with the players in an\neffort to find out what went wrong.\nFeedback was what he was after, and\nopening the lines of communication\nwas essential.\n\"It was a snowball effect,\" said\nCoflin. \"As the losses piled up, the\nteam's confidence level plummeted\nand frustration began to set in.\"\n\"As the season progressed, it was\nalmost as though they expected to\nlose,\" he added.\nCoflin said the players dealt with\nlast season's crushing setback well\nover the summer months and came\ninto training camp with a positive\nattitude.\nSo far, the T-Birds have been struggling to win as many as they lose, but\nCoflin says it's not because of a lack\nCoach Mike\nCoflin brings a youthful enthusiasm\nof effort.\n\"We lost nine players off lastyear's\nteam, many of them front-line performers,\" said Coflin. \"That means,\non any given night, we'll ice a team\nwith eight or nine first-year players.\nThat's a high level of inexperience\nfor any hockey club to have to contend with.\"\nAt the same time, Coflin said,\nsecond, third and fourth-string players have been forced to fill the void.\nHe said they've done so with a level\nof enthusiasm and confidence that\nhas rubbed off on the entire team.\nCoflin singled out forwards\nCharles Cooper of Quathiaski Cove,\nB.C. and Darrel Kwiatkowski of\nPrince George for the way they\nstepped in when given the opportunity to play on a regular basis.\n\"We almost have to overachieve\nto be successful,\" said Coflin. \"A lot\nof teams may be\nmore talented\nthen we are, but\nwe can be successful if we continue\nto stress an unselfish, team-oriented\napproach.\"\nCoflin is faced\nwith the reality\nthat no matter how\nsuccessful the T-\nBirds are this season, he might not\nbe back behind the\nbench next season.\nCoflin, who\nplayed with the\nThunderbirds\nfrom 1981-1986,\nhas been given the\njob for this season\nonly, as the university conducts a\nnational search for a permanent head\ncoach. Still, it's no secret that he\nwants the position full time and he's\nworking hard to lay the foundation\nfor a nationally competitive team.\n\"It starts with raising the awareness of UBC's hockey program\nthroughout the province and across\nthe country,\" said Coflin. \"This university, both on an academic and\nathletic level, has a lot to offer. It's\nmy responsibility to let people know\nthat.\"\nto the job.\nUBC students run RE.\nclasses for U HUI kids\nBy ABE HEFTER\nPhysical Education Associate Professor Alex Carre calls it a \"micro\ninstructional lab.\" University Hill Elementary School students would\nprobably call it a really\nneat gym class.\nWhat it is, is an opportunity for grade six\nand seven students from\nUniversity Hill Elementary School in Point\nGrey to sample a complete range of physical\nactivities under the\nwatchful eye of UBC\nphysical education students.\nThis year, 134 UBC\nstudents, who took the\ninstruction and coaching program as part of\ntheir Bachelor of Physical Education degree,\ntaught more than 60 University Hill students at UBC.\n'The lab lets UBC students develop specific instructional skills in phys.\ned. and apply theoretical principles in a practical setting,\" said Carre, who\nteaches in the instruction and coaching program. \"It also allows up to 70\nU. Hill students to take advantage of the instructional opportunity and the\nphysical activity program that's been offered to them each year.\"\nThe one-hour visits, twice a week for 12 weeks, let the elementary school\nkids select from offerings that include dance, co-operative games, basketball, volleyball and badminton. With the UBC students acting as instructors, 10 physical activities can be taught at once.\nCarre said most of the UBC students who take the instruction and\ncoaching program go on to a variety of instructional roles in community\ncentres, fitness organizations and the school system.\nIt's a valuable learning experience, for both the older and the younger\nstudents, he said. The program has been running for 14 years.\n\"We work very closely with the teachers at University Hill to make sure\nwe are maintaining a quality physical activity program, emphasizing\nenjoyment, safety and motor skill development,\" said Carre.\n\"The feedback from both sides has been tremendous and is just another\nexample of UBC's involvement with the community.\"\nU Hill kids shoot some hoops.\nAsthma causes studied in new 4-year project\nBy CONNIE FILLETTI\nDeaths due to asthma are on the\nrise, despite increasing understanding ofthe disease and a wider range of\neffective treatments.\nBut a new four-year study by\nUBC researcher Dr. Tony Bai may\nhelp determine what causes the centuries-old lung disease that has been\nsteadily regaining a foothold throughout the western world for the past two\ndecades.\n\"Our laboratory is examining the\nrole of viruses and substances derived from nerve disorders as elements in the development of asthma,\"\nsaid Bai, an assistant professor of\nMedicine based at UBC's Pulmonary\nResearch Laboratory.\nBy examining frozen lung tissue\nremoved from patients who have died\nfrom asthma and other obstructive\nairway diseases, such as chronic\nbronchitis and emphysema, Bai and\ncoworkers will try to detect the presence of viral products which may alter\nthe lungs, making them asthmatic.\nThe Pulmonary Research Lab,\nheadquartered at St. Paul's Hospital, is the only one in the world\nwith a sizeable collection of frozen lung tissue from asthmatic\npatients and one of a small\nnumber of labs, worldwide, with\nthe facilities and experience to\nstudy such tissues in depth.\nBai will also study the nerves\nsurrounding the airways for more\nclues.\n\"These nerves release chemicals\nsuch as neuropeptides which make\nthe airway smooth muscle contract,\"\nhe said. 'The peptides also produce\nDr. Tony Bai\nmucous and cause blood components\nto be released into the airways. Itwould\nbe helpful for us to know how much\npeptide the lungs are producing.\"\nat night,\" Bai explained. \"In the asthmatic person, the airways are always\nnarrow and inflamed, so they get critically smaller at night.\"\nBai cautioned that asthma can develop at any point in life, although it\nusually strikes between ages 3 and 50.\n\"All of us are susceptible. Prolonged chest colds, wheezy bronchitis\nor repeated chest infections may be\nasthma,\" he said.\n\"The lungs inhale 7.5 litres of fresh\nair every minute.They have a moist,\ndelicate surface the size of a tennis\ncourt, and a lot of potential to react to\nthings they don't like,\" Bai added.\nAsthma attacks can be triggered\nby a variety of things, including dust,\nfumes, humidity, exercise and diet \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nespecially food additives and preservatives found in many foods.\nBai feels people should be advised of\nthis potential culprit.\nDespite being a long way away\nfrom the prevailing attitude among\npsychiatrists in the 1930s who said\nasthma was psychosomatic, it is true\nthat asthma worsens with stress.\nHowever, repeated inhalation of\nhouse dust, animal danders, pollens\nand spores and viral infections remain\nthe most common reasons for asthma\nflareups.\nBai attributes the increase in\nasthma deaths to inappropriate treatment, in particular, over-reliance on\ndrugs such as ventolin which relieve\nsymptoms but do not treat the airways inflammation, and to a lack of\npatient and health care worker education. As a result, many don't seek\nproper treatment for their symptoms.\n\"Some asthmatics get to the point\nwhere every airway is plugged and\nthey literally die of asphyxiation. Patients with asthma need to change\nbehavioral patterns so that they recognize early symptoms of attacks\nand have a simple action plan so that\nappropriate self-managment occurs.\"\nThere is no cure for asthma but\nsymptoms, which range from moderate to disabling, can be controlled and\nsome people seem to have remissions,\nBai said.\nThe study is being funded by the\nB.C. Health Research Foundation.\n\"Asthma attacks can be triggered by a\nvariety of things, including dust, fumes,\nhumidity, exercise and diet \u00E2\u0080\u0094 especially\nfood additives and preservatives found in\nmany foods.\"\nAsthma affects more than one\nmillion Canadians of all ages and five\nper cent of the adult population in\nBritish Columbia.\nBai described asthma as often being a night-time condition characterized by coughing, shortness of breath,\nwheezing andchest tightening. Symptoms may also occur during the day.\n\"Everyone's airways get smaller\nAsthma specialists frequently see\npatients with occupationally induced\nasthma, particularly mill workers and\npeople working with hard paints. He\nsaid that 50 per cent of the labor force\nwhich develops work-related asthma\nremains asthmatic, even if a new\noccupation is undertaken.\nAsprin may also lead to an asthma\nattack, and although it is uncommon,\nReach readers all over\ncampus and across the\nWest Side\nAdvertise\nin\nubc Reports\nDeadline for paid advertisements for the\nDecember 12 issue is noon, December 3.\nFor information, phone 822-3131\nTo place an ad, phone 822-6163 UBCREPORTS November28.1991\nScholar renews Shakespeare by visiting the past\nBy CHARLES KER\nModern texts of Shakespeare represent theatre for the page, not the stage.\nSo sayest Neil Freeman, the newest member\nof UBC's Department of Theatre and Film.\nAn aficionado of the Bard, Freeman is out to\nchange the way actors perform Shakespeare:\nnot so much how they act his plays, but rather,\nhow they initially read his lines from the printed\npage.\n\"Shakespeare has been terribly watered down\nin the modern scripts,\" said Freeman. \"His\nplays now are more literature than portraits of\nhuman beings in conflict and action.\"\nThe bearded actor, director and professor has\nspent 17 years trying to remedy the situation by\nrevisiting, not revising, Shakespeare's tragedies,\ncomedies and histories.\nSince 1974, he has painstakingly cross-referenced every line of modern text with the\noriginal 17th century folios. So far, he has\nreproduced 16 easy-to-read scripts which remain faithful to the originals, but also contain\ncomprehensive footnotes relating to modern-\nday changes.\nHowever, his expertise in text analysis is just\na small part of what Freeman brings to the\ndepartment.\nNot one to be pigeonholed, he has directed\nhundreds of Canadian, European and American\nplays, musicals, children's productions and British classics.\nFormerly a professor and associate dean in\nYork University's Theatre Department, Freeman has acted for television, radio and theatre.\nHe got the drama bug in the late 60s after\ncompleting an MA in Industrial Sociology at\nNottingham University in England. He directed\nthe only stage version of Judgement of\nNuremburg and was hooked.\nA graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre\nSchool, Freeman laments the fact that actors\ntoday aren't as adept as their 18th century\npredecessors at performing in front of large\naudiences. Instead, they are being groomed\nmore for TV and small theatre.\nIn the case of William Shakespeare's plays,\nthis is precisely the reason why Freeman advo\ncates a return to original texts.\nA glimpse of Act II, Scene II in Romeo and\nJuliet, the \"audiovisual feast\" Freeman has just\nfinished directing at Frederic Wood Theatre,\nproves his point.\nIt's the balcony scene, and Romeo has just\ncaught sight of Juliet when he says, \"It is my\nlady, O it is my Love, O that she knew she\nwere,\" (a 16 syllable line).\nThe accompanying footnote in Freeman's\nfolio text refers to the modern version as a\n\"poetically polite two lines with pause,\" (10\nsyllables plus six syllables). According to Freeman, the line should be full of passion, not\npoliteness.\n\"The boy's charged,\" he says. \"He isn't\ngoing to pause even though the modern text\nsuggests he does.\"\nFreeman goes on to cite a handful of other\nexamples where tinkering with text and punctuation have resulted in passages losing their\nmeaning and characters getting changed.\nToday, artistic directors in theatres across\nCanada and the United States use Freeman's\nPersian poet focus of\ncultural festival\nA festival of Persian culture comes to the\nAsian Centre auditorium Friday, Nov. 29.\nHeld from 12:30 to 6 p.m., the event marks\nthe 850th anniversary of the 12th century\nPersian poet, Nizami. UNESCO has named\n1991 the year of Nizami and Mozart.\nHighlights of the festival include: an exhibition of contemporary Persian art, books and\nmusical instruments; presentations by the University Singers and Vancouver's Vivaldi Chamber Choir; and lectures on the rise of Persian\nculture and the works of Nizami. A buffet of\ntraditional Persian food will also be served for\nlunch.\nThe event is being sponsored by the Roudaki\nCultural Foundation in co-operation with the\nInstitute of Asian Research and the Department\nof Religious Studies.\nA priority of the university's A World of\nOpportunity Campaign, the Institute for Asian\nResearch is committed to establishing a Centre\nfor Arabic and Islamic Studies. The $4 million\ninitiative will establish two academic chairs, an\nendowment and also provide a building for the\ncentre.\nThe institute also has plans to establish similar centres for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, South\nAsian and Southeast Asian Studies.\nFor more information about the festival call\nProfessor Hanna Kassis at 822-6523.\n&JU&^&Wty\n7j%e*^cfc^ # vj:\n> <-\nfolio scripts because audiences seem to understand them better than the doctored versions.\nFreeman left York after 20 years because he\nbelieves UBC's acting division is in an enviable\nposition vis-a-vis other theatre departments in\nNorth America.\nHired to teach acting and directing, he is the\nfirst of three crucial replacements in the division. Two more follow later this year in voice\nand movement.\nWith these appointments. Freeman says UBC\nwill have a chance to adapt its curriculum to\nmeet the difficult challenges of training directors and actors for both theatre as well as\ntelevision and film. In the process, the division\nhopes to expand its already established links\nwith the rest of campus.\nIn a profession full of uncertainty, Freeman\nconsiders himself exceedingly fortunate. After\n25 years pursuing a \"paid hobby\", he hasn't\nbeen out of work for more than three weeks.\nSo what is there left for him to do?\n\"Well, I haven't appeared on Broadway,\nyet.\"\nKama's BA\nfinally\nbestowed\nContinued from Page 1\nmy degree was coming along. I've been asking\neach one the same thing since. No one would do\nanything about it until David Strangway.\"\nStrangway enlisted the help of Dean of Arts\nPatricia Marchak to clarify Kania's academic\nstanding. Her investigation concluded that\nKania had indeed earned his degree.\n\"Under the 1926 rules and a Senate motion\nof that period, Kania should have been given the\ndegree,\" Marchak said. \"I'm pleased we can\nfinally do this properly.\"\n\"I've been fighting on behalf of all students,\nnot just myself,\" Kania says. \"You deserve the\nrecognition if you can make the grade.\"\nForum\nA tribute to the victims of the Montreal Massacre\nBy FLORENCE LEDWITZ-RIGBY\nFlorence Ledwitz-Rigby is the Advisor to\nthe President on Women and Gender Relations.\nOn Dec. 6 we are forced to confront one of\nthe darker aspects of our society in memory of\nthe 14 victims of the Montreal Massacre. I\nhope that everyone will join me in a personal\nmoment of silence, remembering the lives of\nGenevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie\nCroteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie\nEdward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara\nKlueznick, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse\nLeClair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier,\nMichele Richard, Annie St.-Arneault and\nAnnie Turcotte: women, aged 21 to 31, who\npossessed talent, promise and hopes for the\nfuture.\nWhenever we try to encourage young\nwomen to think broadly of their potential and\nhow they can join in the fabric of society, we\nmust consider the message that such a tragedy\nconveys. While we might be tempted to blame\nthe tragedy on a man with a deranged mind,\nwhose biochemical balance was distorted, the\ndirection the acting out of this derangement\ntook is the result of attitudes of our society.\nThe image of women as victims to be blamed\nfor their own victimization is rampant. A recent\npolitical cartoon in the Province, depicting the\nfashion for women of the 90s as a coffin, is\ntypical of this attitude. Resentment of equity\nemployment measures by men who fear that\nwomen can only be given equal opportunity to\nthe detriment of men, is another example.\nIn memory of the 14 women slaughtered in\nMontreal on Dec. 6, 1989, we each need to\nexamine our own attitudes and the messages we\ngive, either by our silence or compliance with\nactivities that denigrate women. We need to ask\nhow each of us can take an active role in\nproviding a positive environment for everyone\nto live and work in. We need to examine our own\nprejudices that may make it difficult for anyone\nwho is different from us, whether by sex, race,\nreligion, or physical disability, to feel safe and\nfree to thrive in a society that values individuals\nfor their unique talents and capacities.\nAs an institution, UBC is currently confronting these issues. Attempts to improve physical\nsafety include a program to increase campus\nlighting, expansion of shuttle bus services, walk\nhome programs and installation of telephones\nin areas where individuals work at night. The\nUniversity Health and Safety Committee has\nincluded women's safety as an issue to be dealt\nwith by department and building committees. I\nhave formed a President's Advisory Committee\non Women's Safety to take a broad look at all\naspects of university life that impinge on safety.\nThis committee will deal with psychological\nsafety, as well as physical safety.\nThe challenge is how to change attitudes of\npeople who think that the victimization of individuals who are different from themselves is\nacceptable or even funny. Workshops, seminars\nand ethics courses initiated by the Sexual Harassment Office, the Women Students' Office\nand the faculties of Engineering and Medicine\nhave all been steps in the right direction. If all\nfaculty members who have the imagination to\nsee how such issues relate to their disciplines\ncould incorporate a discussion of interpersonal\nethics into even a few minutes of their curriculum, we would be much further along.\nCertainly, every university instructor and\nsupervisor must question whether anything they\nsay or do in class, or on the job, could encourage\nanother Marc Lepine to think his actions were\nappropriate, or to discourage anyone from thinking that they are valued as students, employees\nor members of the human race.\nOn Dec. 6,1991, the University of British\nColumbia will officially remember the lives\nand hopes of the women of Montreal. Wreaths\nFlorence Ledwitz-Rigby\nwill be placed on campus by the Women\nStudents' Office, flags will fly at half staff\nand the carillon will play. Individuals who\nwish to express their concern over the issues\nof the day are encouraged to wear a simple\nwhite ribbon on their lapels. Ribbons will be\navailable at the Women Students' Office and\nthe University Bookstore. This is a day for\nmen and women to join in remembrance and\nin a vow to change society so that such events\nwill only be history. 4 UBC REPORTS November 28.1991\nDecember 1 -\nDecember 14\nSUNDAY, DEC. 1 |\nSunday Concerts At MOA\nFor World Aids Day: A Day\nWithout Art. Vancouver\nMen's Chorus directed by\nWilli Zwozdesky. Free with\nmuseum admission. Museum of Anthropology\nGreat Hall at 1:30pm. Call 822-5087.\nCALENDAR DEADLINES\nFor events in the period December 15 to January 11, notices must be submitted by UBC faculty or staff on Calendar forms no\nlater than noon on Tuesday, December 3 to the Community Relations Office, Room 207, 6328 Memorial Rd, Old Administration\nBuilding. For more information call 822-3131. The next edition of UBC Reports wil be published December 12. Notices\nexceeding 35 words may be edited. The number of items for each faculty or department will be limited to four per issue.\nStatistical Consulting/Research\nLaboratory\nSCARL is operated by the Department of\nStatistics to provide statistical advice to\nfaculty and graduate students working on\nresearch problems. Forms for appointments available in Ponderosa Annex C-\n210. Call 822-4037.\nChina/Korea Seminar\nMONDAY, DEC. 2 |\nBiochemistry/molecular Biology Seminar.\nDiscussion Group. Alloimmunity,\nAutoimmunity and AIDS. Dr. Geoff\nHoffman,Microbiology. IRC#1 at3:45pm.\nCall 822-4524.\nTUESDAY, DEC. 3~~j\nThe Role Of Legal Specialists In Chinese Law-making. Prof. Li Meigin, Law,\nBeijing U. Asian Centre\n604 from 12:30-2pm. Call\n822-4688.\nFaculty Women's Club Christmas Meeting\nLuncheon. Music by Alex McLeod, Education. Cecil Green Park at 9:30am.\nReservations required, babysitting provided. Call 222-1983.\nForestry 9th Schaffer Lecture | WEDNESDAY, DECT^\nChallenges in Canadian Forestry Research. Dr. Peter Morand, president,\nNatural Science/Engineering Research\nCouncil. MacMillan 166 from 12-1pm.\nCall 822-2727.\nBotany Seminar\nBiosynthesis Of Antibiotics. Dr. Heinz\nFloss, Chemistry, U. of Washington,\nSeattle. BioSciences 2000 from 12:30-\n1:30pm. Call 822-2133.\nLectures In Modern Chemistry\nSynthesis And Chemistry\nOf Twisted Carbon \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Carbon Double Bonds. Dr.\nKenneth J. Shea, Chemistry, U. of Californiaat Irvine.\nChemistry 250, South\nBlock at 1pm. Call 822-3266.\nMedical Genetics Seminar\nWilliams Syndrome In Adults. Elena Lopez,\nMD, graduate student, Medical Genetics.\nIRC#1 from 4:30-5:30pm. Refreshments\nat 4:15pm. Call 822-5312.\nStatistics Seminars\nA New Measure Of Quantitative Robustness. SoniaMazzi, Statistics. Angus 223\nat 4pm.\nHierarchical Modelling Of Multivariate\nSurvival Data. Paul Gustafson, Statistics.\nAngus 223 at 4:45pm.\nBoth seminars, call 822-4997/2234.\nUBC Reports is the faculty and\nstaff newspaper of the University\nof British Columbia. It is published every second Thursday by\nthe UBC Community Relations\nOffice, 6328 Memorial Rd., Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z2.\nTelephone 822-3131.\nAdvertising inquiries: 822-6163.\nManaging Editor: Steve Crombie\nAsst Editor: Paula Martin\nContributors: Ron Burke, Connie\nFilletti, Abe Hefter, Charles Ker,\nand Gavin Wilson.\nJ%l Please\nCi^J recycle\nMicrobiology Seminar\nTBA. Dr. Robin Turner, Biotechnology\nLaboratory. Wesbrook 201 from 12:30-\n1:30pm. Call 822-6648.\nPhysiology Seminar Series\nCell Surface Peptidases Regulate Biological Actions Of Neuropeptides. Dr. N.\nBunnett, Physiology/Surgery, U. of California, San Francisco. IRC #4 at 3pm.\nCall Dr. A. Buchan at 822-2083.\nTHURSDAY, DEC75~j\nCICSR Distinguised Lecture Series\nComputer Graphics. Electronic Books:\nUser-controlled Animation In A\nHypermedia Framework. Andries van\nDam, professor, Brown U. Scarfe 100\nfrom 1-2:30pm. Refreshments at 12:30pm.\nCall 822-6894.\nInstant Imaging Product Fair\nSponsors: Polaroid Canada Inc. and Lens\n& Shutter Door prizes, product demonstration, refreshments. UBC Media Services, Library Processing Centre 379 from\n10am-4pm. Call 736-0711.\nGraduate Student Society\nFree Video Night. A Christmas Carol and\nMiracle On 34th Street. FRIDAY, DEC. 6\nPaediatrics Grand Round\nEthics In Clinical Research In Children.\nSydney Segal, professor emeritus. G.F.\nStrong Auditorium at 9am. Call875-2118.\nHealth Services/Policy Research Seminar\nQuality Improvement in\nHealth Care: An Overview. Peter Dodek, assistant prof, Medicine;\nassoc. dir. ICU, St. Paul's,\nMather 253 from 12-1pm.\nCall Dr. Geoff Anderson at 822-3130.\nObstetrics/Gynaecology Grand\nRounds\nThe Community Hospital Visits The Ivory\nTower: The Opportunities And Realities\nOf Practice In A Northern BC Centre. Dr.\nDarryl Vine, Prince Rupert Regional Hospital. University Hospital, Shaughnessy\nSite D308 at 8am. Call 875-2171.\nSATURDAY, DEC. 7 j I SUNDAY,~bEC. 15 ) Muscle Soreness Study\nGraduate Society Children's\nChristmas Party\nFool's Theatre and Santa Claus. Grad\nStudent Centre Fireside Lounge from\n11am-2pm. Gifts for your child(ren) will be\nprovided; pre-registration required. Call\n822-3203.\nMONDAY, DEC. 9 j\nAstronomy Seminar\nSupernovae la And The\nHubble Constant. Dr. B.\nLeibundgut, Centre for\nAstrophysics, Harvard/\nSmithsonian. Geophysics/\nAstronomy 260 at 4pm.\nCoffee available at 3:45pm. Call 822-\n6706/2267.\nTUESDAY, DEC. 10\nBotany Seminar\nMolecular Interactions In Victoria Blight\nOf Oats. Dr. Tom Wolpert, Centre for\nGene Research and Biotechnology, Oregon State U. BioSciences 2000 from\n12:30-1:30pm. Ca|l 822-2133.\nMedical Genetics Seminar\nStudies On Antigen Processing/Presentation. Wilfred Jeffries, PhD, Biotechnology\nLaboratory. IRC #1 from 4:30-5:30pm.\nRefreshments at 4:15pm. Call 822-5312.\nWEDNESDAY, DEC. 11\nGeophysics Seminar\nImaging The Ocean Surface With Sound.\nDr. David Farmer, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sydney, BC. Geophysics/Astronomy 260 at 4pm. Coffee available at\n3:45pm. Call 822-3100.\nTHURSDAY, DEC. 12 |\nObstetrics/Gynaecology Research Seminar\nUnexplained Infertility. Patrick J. Taylor,\nprofessor and head, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, St. Paul's Hospital. Grace Hospital 2N35 from 1 -2:30pm. Call 875-2334.\nFRIDAY, DEC. 13\nPaediatrics Grand Rounds\nOh No! Not Another Talk About Asthma!\nThoughts from Critical Care. R Adderley,\nassociate clinical professor; M. Seear,\nclinical assistant professor and D.\nWensley, clinical assoc. prof. G.F. Strong\nAuditorium at 9am. Call 875-2118.\nObstetrics/Gynaecology Grand\nRounds\nGrace \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Children's Perinatal Mortality Review. Drs. Douglas Wilson and Margaret\nPendray. University Hospital, Shaughnessy\nSiteD308at8am. Call 875-2171.\nSunday Concerts At MOA\nChristmas Concert with\nThe University Chamber\nSingers. Courtland\nHultberg, director. Free\nwith museum admission.\nMuseum of Anthropology\nGreat Hall at 2:30pm.. Call 822-5087.\nNOTICES\nUBC Speakers Bureau\nWould your group like to know more about\ntopics ranging from Hawaiian History (with\nslides) to Materials for the Future? More\nthan 300 topics to choose from. Call 822-\n6167 (24-hr. answering machine).\nChristmas Craft Show\nBC craftspeople display locally made craft\nitems in the Student Union Building concourse. Mon.-Fri., Dec. 2-6, from 9am-\n5pm except Thurs., from 11 am-7pm. Call\n822-3465.\nGraduate Student Centre\nLive entertainment every Friday in the\nFireside Lounge from 8-11 pm. No cover.\nCall 822-3203.\nCarpool Matching\nujM\nA service for faculty, staff\nand students. Call Karen\nPope, Dean's Office, Applied Science at 822-3701\nand find your area match.\nCall For Former UBC Athletes\nAthletics is updating its mailing list of\nformer athletic team players: originators/\ncontributors to programs in place today. If\nyou qualify or are knowledgeable in the\nlocation of any other past player, call 822-\n8921 after 4:30pm.\nFine Arts Gallery\nOpen Tues.-Fri. from 10am-5pm. Saturdays 12pm-5pm on. Free admission.\nMain Library. Call 822-2759.\nHealth Sciences Bookshop\nOpen Saturday\nThe Bookshop is open\nMon.-Sat. from 9:30am-\n5pm in the Medical Student/Alumni Centre at\nHeather and 12th Ave. Call\n879-8547.\nExecutive Programmes\nOne to two day business seminars. December 1-15 series includes: Grievance\nHandling, $795; New Manager Guidelines,\n$495; Legal Update, $350; Human Resources Information Systems, $825; Engineer as Manager, $895. For info call\n822-8400.\nChemistry Seminar\nThree day seminars: Dec. 10-12. Recent\nProgress In The Defect Properties Of\nOrganic Crystals. Dr. Kenichi Kojima,\nPhysics, Yokohama City U., Yokohama,\nJapan. Chem. 225, Centre Block, at\n2:30pm. Call 822-3266.\nVolunteers, ages 20-45 yrs. required for a\nstudy of muscle soreness after exercise.\nIf you primarily walk as a form of exercise,\nor are not exercising at present, call Donna\nMaclntyre at Rehab Medicine, 822-7571.\nHigh Blood Pressure Clinic\nVolunteers (over 18 years) needed, treated\nor not, to participate in clinical drug trials.\nCall Dr. J. Wright or Mrs. Nancy Ruedy in\nMedicine at 822-7134.\nSeniors Hypertension Study\nVolunteers aged 60-80 years with mild to\nmoderate hypertension, treated or not,\nneeded to participate in a high blood pressure study. Call Dr. Wright or Nancy\nRuedy in Medicine at 822-7134\nDrug Research Study\niffi,ra\u00C2\u00AB-i!'M\u00C2\u00ABii volunteers required for\n?!\u00C2\u00BB>! Genjta| Herpes Treatment\nStudy. Sponsoring physi-\n3 II \u00C2\u00AB' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n7 !:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0!\u00C2\u00AB i: \" i! cian: Dr. Stephen Sacks,\nh\u00C2\u00A3L\u00C2\u00BBJ Medicine/Infectious Diseases. Call 822-7565.\nHeart/Lung Response Study\nAt rest and during exercise. Volunteers\nage 45-75 years, all fitness levels, required. No maximal testing. Scheduled at\nyour convenience. Call Fiona Manning,\nSchool of Rehab. Medicine, 822-7708.\nLung Disease Study\nSubjects with emphysema or fibrosis\nneeded to investigate means of improving lung function without drugs. Call\nFiona Manning, School of Rehab Medicine, 822-7708.\nStress/Blood Pressure Study\nLeam how your body responds to stress.\nCall Dr. Wolfgang Linden in Psychology at\n822-3800.\nMemory/Aging Study\nParticipants between the ages of 35-45\nyears or 65 and over needed for study\nexamining qualitative changes in memory.\nKenny 1220. Call Paul Schmidt in Psychology at 822-2140.\nCounselling Psychology Research Study.\nClerical Workers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Explore your stress\ncoping skills. Clerical/secretarial workers\nneeded to participate in a study on work\nand stress which involves completion of\none questionnaire a month for three\nmonths. Call Karen Flood at 822-9199.\nRetirement Study\nWomen concerned about retirement planning needed for an 8-week Retirement\nPreparation seminar. Call SaraComish in\nCounselling Psychology at 931 -5052.\nPersonality Study\nVolunteers aged 30+ needed to complete\na personality questionnaire. 2 visits, about\n3 hours total. Participants receive a free\npersonality assessment and a $20 stipend. Call Janice in Dr. Livesley's office,\nPsychiatry, Detwiller 2N2, 822-7895. UBCREPORTS November28.1991\nDecember 1-\nDecember 14\nPMS Research Study\nVolunteers needed for a study of an\ninvestigational medication to treat PMS.\nCall Doug Keller, Psychiatry, University\nHospital, Shaughnessy site at 822-7318.\nDermatology Acne Study\nVolunteers between 14-35 years with\nmoderate facial acne needed for 4 visits\nduring a three month period. Honorarium\npaid. Call Sherry at 874-8138.\nSun-Damaged Skin Study\nj Participants needed between ages of 35-70 for 9\nvisits over 36 weeks. Not\nto have retinoids for the\nI past year. Honorarium\npaid. Call Sherry in Dermatology at 874-8138.\nEczema Study\nVolunteers 12 years of age or older needed\nfor 4 visits over a three week period.\nHonorarium paid. Call Sherry in Dermatology at 874-8138.\nSurplus Equipment Recycling\nFacility\nAll surplus items. Every Wednesday, 12-\n3pm. Task Force Bldg., 2352 Health\nSciences Mall. Call 822-2813.\nStudent Volunteers\nFind an interesting and challenging volunteer job with Volunteer Connections, UBC\nPlacement Services, Brock 307. Call 822-\n9268.\nNarcotics Anonymous Meetings\nEvery Tuesday (including holidays) from\n12:30-2pm, University Hospital, UBC Site,\nRoom M311 (through Lab Medicine from\nMain Entrance). Call 873-1018 (24-hour\nHelp Line).\nFitness Appraisal\nBH'MUIMW**]\n822-4356.\nAdministered by Physical\nEducation and Recreation\nthrough the John M.\nBuchanan Fitness and\nResearch Centre. Students $25, others $30. Call\nFaculty/Staff Badminton Club\nFridays from 6:30-9:30pm in Gym Aof the\nRobert Osborne Centre. Cost is $15 plus\nlibrary card. Call Bernard at 822-6809 or\n731-9966.\nNitobe Garden\nOpen Mon.-Fri. from 10am-3pm; closed\nweek-ends. Free admission. Call 822-\n6038.\nAdvertise in\nUBC Reports\nDeadline for paid\nadvertisements for\nthe December 12\nissue is noon,\nDecember 3.\nFor information,\nphone 822-3131\nTo place an ad,\nphone 822-6163\n- NOTICE -\nCALENDAR POLICY\nThe Calendar is becoming increasingly popular. Because of\nspace limitations, we are not able\nto include every item submitted.\nIn order to be as fair as possible,\nthe number of items for each fac-\nulty/dept. is now limited to four\nper issue.\nUrban woes studied\nBy CHARLES KER\nClose to 70 per cent of the world's\npopulation increase this decade will\nbe in urban areas. Already, Third\nWorld cities are bursting.\nBy the year 2000, urban planners\npredict 23 world cities will have\npopulations of more than 10 million,\nwith 17 of these megacities in developing countries.\nTrends in global urbanization will\nbe among the topics discussed next\nmonth at a workshop sponsored by\nUBC's Centre for Human Settlements\n(CHS).\nAprodicio Laquian, director ofthe\ncentre, said major international donor agencies plan to use the UBC\nworkshop to introduce their spending plans for the rest of the decade.\n\"They have written strategies as\nto where they would like the money\nto go,\" said Laquian. \"This is a chance\nfor us and our network to find out\nwhere the developments will be.\"\nThe World Bank, UN Development\nProgram, International Development\nResearch Centre and the Canadian International Development Agency are\nscheduled to give submissions at the\nAsian Centre Dec. 10-12.\nUrban planning experts from Indonesia, China and Thailand, and faculty associates from UBC and other\nuniversities, will also be on hand to\nscrutinize the various strategies.\nWorld Bank officials have talked\nabout spending $3.5 billion annually\non urban projects by 1993 and $5\nbillion by 1995. But Laquian says a\nmore strategic and programmed approach to financing is the key to\ncombatting the spiralling problems\nof urban poverty.\nThe Centre for Human Settlements\nwas established in 1976 following\nthe UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat) in Vancouver.\nCIDA launched a Centre of Excellence at the CHS in 1990 with a $6.2-\nmillion grant over 5 years. It will\nsupport human resource and institutional development in partnership\nwith universities in China, Thailand\nand Indonesia.\nThose requiring more information\non the December seminars can call\nNora Brandstadter at 822-8213.\njrVP\nS*\n\\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00BB\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Free Polaroid Video Tape\nDoor Prizes\nProduct Demonstrations & New Products\nRefreshments\nkFor further information: y3B-0\"711\nSEE AND HEAR ABOUT:\nPOLAROID INSTANT SLIDE SYSTEM\nCLOSE UP CAMERAS\nMP4 COPY STAND FOR 35mm &\nINSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY UP TO 34X\nOVERHEAD PROJECTORS\nVIVITAR INSTANT SLIDE PRINTER\nINSTANT TRANSPARENCIES\nOTHER WONDERFUL INNOVATIONS\nGOOD FOR\nENTRY\nIN SPECIAL\nEARLY BIRD DRAW\nMUST BE IN DRAW BOX BY 2 PM\nTO WIN A $100 POLAROID PRODUCT\nCUT OUT AND BRING WITH YOU\nTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 5\nNAME:\t\nPHONE: 6 UBCREPORTS November28,1991\nT-Bird grid star beats the odds\nBy ABE HEFTER\nIn the winter of 1986, Vince\nDanielsen, a promising 15-year-old\nathlete, had two things on his mind:\nfootball and basketball.\nDanielsen, a grade 10 student at\nVancouver College, had just celebrated a junior varsity football\nchampionship and was looking forward to the coming basketball season.\nBut by the time Christmas arrived, Danielsen had only one thing\non his mind.\nLiving.\nIt was on a cold, grey December\nday that Danielsen discovered a\nlump in his throat. At first, it was\ndiagnosed as a virus, but the lump\npersisted. A biopsy was eventually\nperformed and doctors discovered\nDanielsen had non-hodgkins\nlymphoma: a very rare form of\ncancer that was moving swiftly\nthrough his body.\nThey gave him a 50-50 chance of\nsurvival.\nThat was five years ago. Today,\nDanielsen is quarterback ofthe UBC\nThunderbirds, and a third-year\nphysical education student with a\nwarm smile and an easy-going manner that belies his brush with death.\n\"At the time of diagnosis, I was\nlike any other high-school athlete \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nworried about getting through each\ngame, one play at a time,\" Danielsen\nsaid, reflecting. \"Then, all of a sud\nden, I was concerned about getting\nthrough life, one chemotherapy session at a time.\"\nDanielsen said he went through\nfour months of chemotherapy after\nthe growth was removed. He was\ntold that the first six months after\ntherapy would be the most critical in\ndetermining the treatment's success.\nSix months later, his body was cancer-free.\n\"I'm down to one checkup a year,\"\nhe said. \"I got a clean bill of health\nfollowing my most recent one, last\nmonth. At this point, I don't think the\ncancer will reappear.\"\nDanielsen's bout with the disease\nhas left him with a new perspective\non life. He looks at himself as a\nwalking, breathing example of how\nresearch dollars can help cure an often-fatal disease.\n\"I feel I have a responsibility to let\npeople know that research works,\"\nsaid Danielsen. \"I try to do that by\nworking to raise funds for cancer\nresearch, through public appearances\nand appeals through the media.\n\"But I'm nobody special. Thousands of people have beaten cancer. I\njust want to get the word out that\nhappy endings do exist.\"\nOn the football field, Danielsen\nsays there isn't a defensive lineman\nalive who can take him down with the\nsame devastating effects that chemotherapy did. Nothing that he goes\nthrough in a game can compare to\nwhat he went through in the cancer\nward\u00E2\u0080\u0094not the pressure, not the pain.\n\"I've overcome a huge obstacle\nand its helped build my confidence.\"\nsaid Danielsen. \"I worked hard to\nbeat cancer and I know I can work\njust as hard to make myself a success\nin football, both in practice and on\ngame day.\"\nDanielsen leads the attack against the Manitoba Bisons in 1990\nThis was Danielsen's first full season as starting quarterback with the\nThunderbirds, a season filled with\nthe ups and downs that accompany a\nteam struggling to stay above the\n.500 mark.\nThe ups came early in the campaign, when the club opened with two\nstraight wins. What followed were a\nfistful of one-point losses, games\nwhich Danielsen admits the\nThunderbirds could have won.\n\"Winning is everything,\" said\nDanielsen, \"But I know I can face\nthe pressure that comes with it.\"\n\"I've already beaten back the\nbiggest obstacle I'll probably ever\nface in my life.\"\nForestry research day a first\nBy ABE HEFTER\nForestry related research at UBC\nwill be showcased on December 3\nwhen the Faculty of Forestry hosts its\nfirst forestry research day.\nThe public, along with government agencies, industry, and other\nacademic institutions, have been invited to learn more about campus-\nwide forestry related research initiatives through a series of lectures and\nposter presentations.\n\"The Faculty of Forestry research\nday is our invitation to the community to come out and learn about the\nresponsible and responsive ways UBC\nis dealing with the management of\nour forests,\" said Forestry Dean Clark\nBinkley.\n\"It's an exciting, new venture that\nis being held in conjunction with the\nSchaffer Lecture,\" he added.\nThe topic of this year's Schaffer\nLecture is Challenges in Canadian\nForestry Research, given by Peter\nMorand, president ofthe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research\nCouncil.\nFollowing the lecture, the public\nis invited to attend three research\ntalks scheduled to be given by Professor Jack Saddler of the Department of Forest Harvesting and Wood\nScience, Cindy Prescott of the Department of Forest Sciences and Assistant Professor Valerie LeMay of\nthe Department of Forest Resources\nManagement.\nLeMay will discuss the research\nshe has done on determining how tree\nshapes change over time.\n\"By changing such things as spacing, we can effectively change the\nshape of a tree's stem, or bole,\" she\nsaid.\n\"If we want tall, straight trees for\ntelephone poles, how do we go about\ngrowing trees that end up tall and\nstraight? We plan to find that out\nthrough research projects like this\none, which is funded by the B.C.\nScience Council.\"\nLeMay said the open house will\ngive UBC researchers an opportunity\nto exchange ideas with the larger\nresearch community.\nIn addition to the Schaffer Lecture\nand the three research talks, the public is invited to inspect more than 25\nposter presentations representing examples of the forestry related research being done at UBC.\nThe poster displays will be staffed\nby researchers, who will be available\nto answer questions.\nFor more information, please call\nco-ordinator Sue Watts at the Faculty\nof Forestry, 822-6316.\nCampus campaign building steam\nBy ABE HEFTER\nUBC's Statistics Department is\nproof positive that good things come\nin small packages -\u00E2\u0080\u0094 certainly when\nit comes to UBC's campus campaign.\nThe latest figures show that members of the department have contributed $4,200 to the university's campus fund-raising campaign.\n\"I'm delighted with our department's participation in the campus\ncampaign,\" said Professor John\nPetkau, department head.\nCampus Campaign Chair Dennis\nPavlich echoed Petkau's sentiments.\n\"With less than a dozen full-time\nregular faculty members in the Statistics Department, their contribution\nreflects an excellent participation\nrate,\" he said.\nPetkau said the department's goal\nis to raise a minimum of $35,000\noverall to maintain its specific endowment fund.\n\"Our endowment fund is designed\nto enhance the department's academic\nprograms at both the graduate and\nundergraduate levels,\" he said. \"Ideally, the fund might allow us to supplement the level of support available to some of our graduate students.\"\nUBC's A World of Opportunity\ncampaign has raised $200 million to\ndate \u00E2\u0080\u0094 $110 million from individual\nand corporate donors, and $90 million in matching funds from the provincial government.\nDuring the next year, the university is seeking $30 million more in\ncontributions from a wide range of\nprospective donors, including the\ncampus community.\nThe president, vice-presidents,\nassociate vice-presidents and deans\nhave contributed just over $200,000\nso far.\nThe 1991 annual solicitation has\nresulted in pledges totalling approximately $80,000 from faculty and staff.\nPrior to that, the university received a number of unsolicited gifts\nfrom campus individuals.\n\"In addition to contributing to\nprojects not yet fully funded, employees may also contribute to\nprojects created by various campus\nunits,\" said Pavlich.\nThese initiatives include the Statistics Fund for Excellence within the\nFaculty of Science, and the Library's\nCollection Enrichment Fund, as well\nas the Institute of Asian Research and\nthe seminar series for sustainable development research in the Faculty of\nGraduate Studies.\n\"I'm pleased with the overall\nprogress of the campus campaign,\"\nsaid Pavlich. \"After a slow start, the\ndepartmental projects seem to be coming together nicely. I'm hopeful that\nthe participation rate will increase,\"\nhe added.\n\"To date, we have received only\n104 replies from faculty and staff, a\ndisappointing number,\" said Pavlich.\n\"Although, overall, our campus\ncampaign is in line with what has\nhappened at other Canadian universities, I'm convinced we can do as well,\nor better.\"\nMurray Isman\nProfit in pine oil?\nBy GAVIN WILSON\nUBC researchers have discovered\nthat a pulp and paper byproduct has\nproperties that could lead to commercial use as a natural insecticide.\nThe research, led by Plant Science\nAssociate Professor Murray Isman\nand Botany Professor Neil Towers,\ncould provide another marketable\nproduct for the B.C. forest industry,\nwhile serving as an alternative to\nchemical pesticides.\nIsman, Towers and post-doctoral\nresearchers Terry Jarvis and\nYoungshou Xie are investigating the\nproperties of tall oil, a residue that\nremains after lodgepole pine trees\nare pulped. \"Tall\" is Swedish for pine.\nBoth Isman and Towers have dedicated much of their careers to the\nsearch for natural sources of insecticides. This is the first time that either has\nexplored the potential of the lodgepole pine, one of the most common tree\nspecies in B.C.'s central interior.\n\"We've both travelled to far corners ofthe globe, from deserts to tropical\nforests, looking for natural sources. But here is something right under our\nnoses that could have great potential,\" said Isman.\nTheir research involved breaking down the oil into its constituent parts\nand then determining which are its chemically-active components.\nAt first it was believed that tall oil pitch held promise as an anti-feedant,\na substance that inhibits insects from eating plants. But Isman and Tower's\nresearch has shown that it is not the pitch, but the de-pitched oil, and\nspecifically the resin acids, that actually contain anti-feedant properties.\nResearch on campus was conducted using the variegated cutworm, a\ncaterpillar that is a pest for a wide variety of crops, including vegetables,\nflowers, fruit tree and conifer seedlings.\nThe tests showed a pronounced anti-feedant effect. Cutworms shunned\nfood containing small amounts of the de-pitched oil. There was also\nevidence of some toxicity, important for commercial applications.\nIn the forest industry, 86 per cent of a tree is used for lumber, 12 per cent\nis pulped and the remaining two per cent is resinous material that must be\neither refined and used in some way, stored, or disposed of by burning.\nFor Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. and B.C. Chemicals Ltd., the\ncompanies that initiated the tall oil research, this could be a chance to make\na high-value product from what is now the under-utilized part of the tree.\n\"This is certainly a novel use for this material. B.C. Chemicals is looking\nfor value-added products for the forest industry,\" said company president\nHugh Norman. \"We're excited by these developments.\"\nCommercial application is still some time off, Isman said. A year from\nnow the researchers will have a better feel for the ultimate potential of the\ntall oil extract.\nUpcoming research will focus on the resin acids to discover the chemically-active ingredients within these compounds. As well, tests will be\nconducted on a different insect species.\nThe research is funded by B.C. Chemicals, with matching grants from the\nNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Forestry Canada,\nfor a total of $69,000 a year for two years. UBC REPORTS November 28,1991\nPeople\nMagrega appointed to Vocational Commission\nMagrega\nDennis Magrega, research co-ordinator in\nUBC's Disability Resource Centre, has been\nappointed one of two Canadian representatives to\nthe Vocational Commission of Rehabilitation International.\nRehabilitation International is a worldwide\nfederationof 120 organizations dedicated to promoting the prevention of\ndisability, the rehabilitation of disabled people\nand the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities.\nMagrega's role on the commission will be\nto represent Canadian interests in the development of international projects related to career\nevaluations of persons with disabilities.\nDr. Alexander Boggie, professor emeritus\nof Family Practice and former associate dean\nof admissions for the Faculty of Medicine, has\nbeen honored by the First Nations Health Care\nProfessions Program (FNHCPP).\nBoggie, an advocate of Native health and\neducation, was the first chair of UBC s Health\nCare Committee, formed in 1987, which was\nresponsible for the creation of the FNHCPP a\nyear later.\nOriginally launched as a three-year development project, the overall objectives of the\nFNHCPP were to recruit First Nations students\ninto health care programs at UBC, and to increase\nthe number of Native people working in the\nhealth professions.\nCurrently, there are 19 First Nations students\nenrolled in the health sciences. Atthe initiation of\nthe program, no Native people were enrolled in\nthe Faculty of Medicine, and few were registered\nin other health sciences faculties and schools.\nBoggie was presented with a plaque and an\noriginal Ojibway painting depicting a person\ncaught between two cultures at a luncheon held in\nhis honor Oct. 25.\nMurray Isman, an associate professor of\nPlant Science, recently received the Entomological Society of Canada's C. Gordon Hewitt Award\nfor outstanding achievement in Canadian entomology by an individual under the age of 40.\nIsman was recognized for his research, which\nfocuses on the discovery and development of\nnatural insecticides, his teaching abilities and his\ncontribution to the scientific community. He is\nthe first UBC faculty member to win the award.\nIsman also recently assumed the post of presi\ndent of the Phytochemical Society of North\nAmerica,\nThe society comprises botanists, chemists and\nbio-chemists who are interested in the chemistry\nof plants and its uses. The society has about 450\nmembers in Canada, the United States and 15\nother countries.\nCivil Engineering Professor Peter Byrne is\nthe winner of the 1991\nEditorial Board Award\nfor the best article published in The B.C. Professional Engineer during Bf f I.\nthe previous year.\nByrne won for his co-\nauthorship of the article\n\"Terremoto\u00E2\u0080\u0094Geo-tech-\nnical Consequences,\"\npublished in the April, Byrne\n1991 issue of the magazine.\nByrne specializes in seismic response and\nliquefaction aspects of earthquake engineering\nand has co-authored about 40 technical publications in this area. He was co-chairman of the\nrecent Task Force on Earthquake Design in the\nFraser Delta and has acted as a consultant to B .C.\nHydro and geotechnical consulting firms.\nByrne's co-author was professional engineer\nNigel Skermer.\nDr. A. Douglas Courtemanche has\nbeen appointed president-elect ofthe Royal\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of\nCanada (RCPSC).\nThe college accredits Canadian\nspecialty training programs, judges the\nacceptability of training taken outside\nCanada and conducts the certifying examinations. It also assists its 26,000 members through continuing medical education.\nCourtemanche joined UBC's Faculty\nof Medicine in 1962. He was program\ndirector of the Division of Plastic Surgery\nfrom 1972 to 1988, and became head ofthe\ndivision in 1977.\nHe has served as associate dean of\npostgraduate education for the past three\nyears.\nHe is a former president of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons and was\nelected a fellow ofthe American Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1986.\nCourtemanche has been involved with\nthe Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for the past two decades, and has served as both chair and\nmember of numerous college committees. His two-year term begins in September, 1992.\nBerkowitz & Associates\nStatistics and Mathematics Consulting\nresearch design\nsampling\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 data analysis\n\u00C2\u00BBforecasting\nJonathan Berkowitz, Ph.D.\n4160 Staulo Crescent, Vancouver, B.C., V6N 3S2\nOffice: (604) 263-1508 Home: (604) 263-5394\nClassified\nClassified advertising can be purchased from Community Relations. Phone 822-6163. 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Science Connection is a North America-wide singles network for science professionals and others interested in science or\nnatural history. For info write: Science Connection Inc., P.O. Box 389,\nPort Dover, Ontario, NOA 1 NO\nNeil Hartling, Outfitter and Guide, invites you to an evening of image and\nsound. Nahanni \u00E2\u0080\u0094 River of Gold and\nTatshenshini\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ice Age River. Robson\nSquare, Judge White Theatre, Tuesday, December 3, 7:30 p.m., Admission $2.00 at the door.\nNew parking spaces, transit\nroutes and carpooling to\nease campus car crunch\nBy GAVIN WILSON\nJuggling demands for parking at\nUBC, while encouraging carpooling\nand the use of public transit, is proving to be quite a challenge, says John\nSmithman, director of Parking and\nSecurity Services (PASS).\nThe university lost 1,200 surface\nparking spaces last year to new building construction. On average, each\nIS YOUR BABY\nBETWEEN\n2 & 22 MONTHS?\nJoin our research\non infant\ndevelopment\nat U.B.C! Just\none visit to our\ninfant play-room.\nPlease contact\nDr. Baldwin for\nmore information:\n822-8231.\nGet your\nmessage\nacross!\nUBC Reports\nClassifieds\nTo place an ad\nphone 822-6163\nspace is used two and a half times a\nday, Smithman said, so this affects\n3,000 motorists.\nHowever, construction of the new\nwest parkade, the fourth on campus,\nwill begin next month if it receives\nthe green light from the Board of\nGovernors at its Nov. 27 meeting.\nCompletion is expected in about a\nyear.\nTo help pay for the new parkade,\nwhich will cost $10 million to construct, monthly parking fees for faculty and staff were increased to $14\non Sept. 1.\nSmithman said this has resulted in\nsome complaints, but added that\nUBC's rates are lower than many\nother Canadian universities. Parking\nrates at the University of Toronto \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nnearly $700 per year for unreserved\nspace, $1,200 for reserved \u00E2\u0080\u0094 are\nprominently displayed at PASS wickets to give UBC commuters \"a sense\nof perspective,\" he said.\nIf commuters had to cover the full\ncost of parkade operations, they would\npay $ 1,000 in fees each year, instead\nof the current $168, to help service\nthe debt, Smithman said. Each parking space in a parkade costs $10,000\nto construct.\nSmithman also said that Campus\nPlanning and Development has hired\na consultant, Carolynn Hatten, to see\nthat parking plans are well integrated\nwith the campus master plan.\nAs parking spaces are further reduced, planning will ensure that no\ngroup will be hit harder than any\nother, whether they are faculty, staff\nor students, he said.\n\"We care about parkers, or we\nwouldn't have a plan.\"\nPASS is continuing discussions\nwith B.C. Transit to see how bus\nservice to campus can be improved.\nNext year, a new east route along\n16th Avenue will be added and service on the 41st Avenue route will be\ndoubled to every 10 minutes during\npeak hours.\nEarlier this month, PASS and B.C.\nTransit conducted a traffic and transit\nsurvey, counting the number of cars\nand car passengers coming onto the\nUBC campus every day, as well as\nthe number of transit riders. The information will be used in future planning.\nPASS also provides two carpool\nlots for registered drivers, one between Gage Towers and the Curtis\nbuilding and the other in the Health\nSciences area.\nSmithman added that the new\nPASScard system encourages informal carpooling, because the permit is\ntransferable between vehicles, unlike the old decal system. Also, PASS\nhas joined a carpooling program,\nRideshare, sponsored by the provincial Ministry of Energy, Mines and\nPetroleum Resources.\nOperating bugs in the new\nPASScard system have been traced\nto faulty software and are being corrected, he said.\nSmithman also said $100,000 in\nparking fines collected each year is\nused to build an endowment fund for\nstudents needing help to pay academic fees. The goal is to create a $ 1 -\nmillion fund by 1999.\n\"We don't enjoy collecting fines,\"\nSmithman said. \"We try to get voluntary compliance with campus parking regulations first.\" 8 UBCREPORTS November28.1991\nB.C. history gives\nresidents a sense of\nplace, perspective\nBy CHARLES KER\nIn 1857, the year before British\nColumbia became a crown colony,\nFort Langley was the primary link\nbetween Natives and Europeans along\nthe lower Fraser River.\nThe 30-year-old Hudson's Bay\noutpost had a mixed population of\nabout 200 Scots, Brits, French Canadians, a handful of Hawaiians and\nNative peoples.\nIt was through the fort that Natives were introduced to trade goods\nsuch as firearms and blankets, and to\nfarming, learning to grow potatoes\nand raise chickens. Seasonal work\nwas available to Native women in the\nfort's salmon salteries, while Native\nmen worked in the surrounding fields\nor as boatmen on the Fraser River.\nYet despite these influences, Fort\nLangley residents were resigned to\nbeing an island of Europeans in a sea\nof Natives.\nAll that changed with the Gold\nRush of 1858.\n\"The worlds that ran into each\nother then could hardly have been\nmore different,\" said Professor Cole\nHarris. \"It was a huge collision of\nvalues and ways of life.\"\nThis dramatic clash of colonial\npower and Native culture is at the\nheart of research Harris is conducting\nwith fellow UBC historical geographer Robert Galois.\nHarris and Galois have taken up\nthe daunting task of writing a synthesis of B.C.'s changing human geography during the 19th century.\nPast research on the roots of early\nB.C. has been divided among a\nnumber of academic disciplines.\nHarris, who edited Volume I of the\nHistorical Atlas of Canada, hopes to\npull some of these different strands\ntogether and present them in a more\nintegrated, regional framework.\n\"There are some basic things that\nhaven't been done such as figuring\nout where people lived and putting\nthis information on a map,\" he said.\n\"They can be central to getting the\nwhole picture.\"\nFueled by a grant from the Social\nSciences and Humanities Research\nCouncil, the two geographers set out\nin 1988 to write a book describing the\nprovince's development, from Simon\nFraser's arrival in 1808 to the time of\nthe first Dominion census in 1881.\nThe project has since expanded into\nthree separate books: one dealing with\nsettlement patterns along the Fraser\nRiver, another with settlements on\nthe Skeena River and a third with\nVancouver Island.\n\"British Columbians don't seem\nto know where they are in the world,\nwhat it means to live here and where\nthis place has come from,\" said Harris.\n\"The condition of living with other\npeople from radically different backgrounds has been a way of life in this\nprovince from the beginning.\"\nHarris and Galois have been piecing their provincial retrospective together by combing through reams of\nresource materials including archaeological records, Hudson's Bay Company files, CPR surveys, and journals\nof early traders and missionaries.\nThey have also transferred government records ofthe time onto 100\nmicrofilm reels. They show how land\nwas apportioned lot-by-lot, as well as\ndemographic characteristics of particular sectors of the population.\n\"We can now determine the\ndemographics of Chinese railway\nworkers in the Fraser Canyon and the\nmakeup of the early ranching society\nin the Nicola Valley,\" said Harris.\nBut it is the underlying Native\nThe campus United Way campaign has collected nearly\n$250,000. With your support we will reach our goal of\n$280,000. For more information, or to make a pledge, call\nEilis Courtney at 822-6192.\nFort Langley in 1859 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a European island in a Native sea.\npresence, together with the European\ninflux, that intrigues Harris.\nEssentially, he argues. Native ways\ndominated life along the Fraser River\nuntil 1858 and then were quickly\nmarginalized. The miners who poured\ninto the new colony contributed to\nthis, but the more decisive influence\nwas a new regime of land ownership\nbacked by laws, courts, jails and, if\nnecessary, gunboats.\nNatives protested, but they were\nnot heard. By the time of the Indian\nReserve Commission of 1878, the\nagricultural lands of the lower Fraser\nValley had been allocated to whites.\nBy then, Harris writes, \"moving\nseasonally as they could through land\nthey no longer controlled, Natives\nwere everywhere and nowhere.\"\nIn the summer of 1989, Harris and\nGalois presented a photographic exhi\nbition in Lillooet, Lytton and Hope\nshowing early patterns of Native settlement and the impact of the Gold Rush.\nAt the rate they are uncovering\nnew information, a second exhibition\nmay be warranted.\nSaid Harris: \"The university must\ntry to connect its scholarship to the\ncommunities that support it. Our research will give people a richer understanding of the province.\"\nNurses earn long distance degrees\nBy CONNIE FILLETTI\nAs a full-time working mother\nof two small children, Roxanna\nMcCrone wanted to upgrade her\nnursing skills but couldn't afford\nto quit her job at Lionsgate Hospital, hire a baby-sitter and return to\nschool.\nBut McCrone was able to get a\nquality education that met her learning needs and her lifestyle, thanks\nto UBC's School of Nursing\nOutreach Program.\nAt today's Congregation ceremonies, after four years of part-\ntime study at home, McCrone will\nbe one of eight other students who\nare the first to receive a Bachelor\nof Science degree in Nursing\n(BSN), earned through distance\neducation.\nMcCrone said she appreciated\nthe flexibility of the program most\nof all.\n\"The way the program is designed respects the fact that this\nwasn't my whole life. It allowed\nme to continue working and raise\nmy family.\"\nCheryl Entwistle, director ofthe\noutreach program, said that some\nnurses in B.C. are finding it difficult to pursue education through\ntraditional college and university\nprograms.\n\"They are scattered throughout\nthe province in many fields of practice, and increased accessibility to\nnursing education is essential,\" she\nsaid.\nEstablished in 1919. UBC's\nSchool of Nursing is the oldest and\none of the largest in Canada. BSN\ndegree completion by distance education began in 1988, joining scores\nof other distance education courses\nand programs UBC has offered\nsince 1949.\nThe Nursing Outreach Program\nuses print materials and technol\nogy to assist students with course\ncompletion. In addition, a course tutor, contacted through a toll-free\nnumber, is available to clarify course\nexpectations, deal with concerns and\nsufficient to meet today's demands.\nThrough the commendable efforts\nof the provincial nursing associu-\ntion, provincial government, individual nurses and nurse educators,\n\"The opportunity to increase\nknowledge and skills through\ndistance education has become a\nreality in nursing.\"\nquestions, and evaluate students' performance. A clinical facilitator is assigned to arrange clinical placements\nand make clinical visits.\n\"Nurses work in a complex, rapidly changing world,\" Entwistle said.\n\"Yesterday's preparation, though\nadequate at that time, may not be\nthe opportunity to increase knowledge and skills through distance\neducation has become a reality in\nnursing.\"\nFor more information about\nUBC's BSN degree completion by\ndistance education, please call 822-\n7449.\nGrads win GREAT\nscholarships\nBy GAVIN WILSON\nFifty-eight UBC graduate students in science and engineering have\nwon 1991 Science Council of British Columbia GREAT Industrial\nScholarships, worth a total of $814,891.\nThe GREAT (Graduate Research Engineering and Technology) scholarships are worth up to $16,000, depending on the value of other\nscholarships a student has secured.\nGREAT scholarships are designated to encourage collaboration among\nB.C. universities and off-campus companies and agencies that are performing industrial research and development.\nIn co-operation with the collaborating organization and supervising\nprofessors, GREAT students are expected to select a thesis topic relevant\nto the collaborating organization. Students are also expected to spend\nabout one-third of their research time at the organization's facilities.\nUBC's GREAT Scholarship winners include 22 students in master's\nprograms and 36 in PhD programs. The largest number, 19, are enrolled\nin engineering. As well, 14 are in forestry, 12 in biology, six in agriculture,\nfour in physics, two in geology and one in chemistry.\nSince the program was established by the Science Council in the late\n1970s, over 300 students have received more than $7 million in GREAT\nscholarship support."@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LE3.B8K U2"@en . "LE3_B8K_U2_1991_11_28"@en . "10.14288/1.0118060"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver: University of British Columbia Community Relations Office"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. 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