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" UBC REPORTS CAMPUS EDITION\nINCREASE\nMINIMAL\nUBC's Office of Academic Planning,\nestimates that 21,108 students will enrol for\nthe 1971-72 winter session, an increase of only\n168 students or 0.8 per cent over 1970-71.\nThe increase, one of the smallest\nexperienced by UBC in the last five years,\nreflects tougher entrance requirements, the\nraising of standards for students already\nenrolled and the continued expansion of the\nprovincial system of community or regional\nColleges.\nUBC's percentage increase in enrolment in\nthe past two years \u00E2\u0080\u0094 0.4 per cent in 1970 and\n0.8 per cent in 1971 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is in sharp contrast to\nthe rates of increase in the previous four years.\nIn 1968, for instance, enrolment went up by\n9.7 per cent.\nUBC's academic planner, Prof. Robert M.\nClark, advances another possible reason for the\nlevelling off of enrolment: \"I surmise that\nUniversity education is not quite as popular and\nprestigious as it was a few years ago, and this\nmay be another factor leading to a reduced rate\nof increase in enrolment.\"\nA major factor in the reduced rate of\nincrease is the limitation to 3,400 of the\nnumber of students entering the first year at\nUBC.\nThis enrolment restriction was first imposed\nlast year by UBC's Senate and Board of\nGovernors after studies by the Office of\nAcademic Planning showed that there were\nadequate alternate facilities available to\nstudents who wanted to continue their\neducation beyond the secondary school level.\nLooked at another way, the decision by the\nBoard and Senate meant that UBC's academic\nentrance requirement was raised to 65 per cent\nfrom 60 per cent.\nA UBC faculty which this year will limit\nenrolment to its first year is Law. A total of\n200 students have been chosen to enter the\nfaculty out of approximately 900 applicants.\nSimilarly, UBC's Faculty of Medicine this year\nhad 699 applications for the 60 places open in\nthe first-year medical class.\nThe formidable task of registering more than\n21,000 students and collecting first-term fees\nwill be carried out by the Registrar's Office, the\nDepartment of Finance and hundreds of faculty\nmembers in the period Sept. 7-10.\nMany students who visited the campus in the\nfirst two weeks of August to have their\nproposed academic programs approved by\nfaculty advisors should be able to complete the\nregistration process in half a day, an official in\nthe Registrar's Office said.\nEven those who didn't visit the campus in\nAugust should be able to complete registration\nin a day providing they don't have timetables\nthat involve clashes in the times at which\nlectures are given.\nLectures for the majority of students begin\nat 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 13. During registration\nweek lectures begin for students in the\nFaculties of Law and Dentistry and for some\nstudents in the Faculties of Medicine,\nPharmaceutical Sciences and Graduate Studies.\na\na>\na\no\no\nO\nCO\nSAVE YOUR PAPER\nUBC has adopted a policy of encouraging the\nre-cycling of high-grade office paper in\nco-operation with Vancouver's Joshua Society.\nMrs. Lynne Vickson, an official of the Joshua\nSociety, said she plans to visit UBC departments in\nSeptember to enlist their support for the program\nand aid them in setting up methods of collecting\nhigh-grade paper.\nShe said the Joshua Society would supply\ngunny sacks to UBC's Department of Physical\nPlant for departments that want to participate in\nthe program. Building janitors would collect the\ngunny sacks daily and they would be taken to a\ncentral campus point to be collected by the Joshua\nSociety truck. The society would leave an\nadditional supply of gunny sacks daily for campus\ndistribution.\nMrs. Vickson said the society also plans to place\nlarge fibre barrels at strategic campus points to\nenable students to participate in the program. The\nbarrels will be on campus in registration week, she\nsaid, and students would be asked to deposit\nunwanted registration material in them.\nPlease turn to Page Two\nSee RE-CYCLING\n*N\u00C2\u00BB~\nTHREE major building projects currently taking\nshape on the central UBC campus are captured by a\nwide-angle lens from atop UBC's Mathematics\nBuilding. Sedgewick Undergraduate Library in the\nforeground is being built under the Main Mall and is\nscheduled for completion in the spring of 1972.\nHoardings surrounding the project may come down\nTen Majo\nUnderway\nUBC students can look forward to another year of\nhard hats and bulldozers.\nTen major projects valued at more than\n$30,000,000 are currently under construction or\nalmost complete on the campus.\nAnd during the summer two other projects worth\napproximately $61,000,000 were announced. They\nare a Museum of Man and a teaching and research\nhospital for the Health Sciences Centre.\nMost of the current building projects on the UBC\ncampus are being built under special financing\narrangements with the federal government or as the\nresult of loans and special fund drives. Others are\nfinanced out of the provincial government's annual\ncapital grant to UBC, which this year totals $6\nmillion.\nRoad construction completed over the summer by\nthe provincial government and UBC will, however,\nmake access to the campus a little easier.\nThe provincial government has paved the\nextension to 16th Ave. from Blanca St. to South West\nMarine Drive and UBC has improved the road system\non the extension to 10th Ave. The two projects will\nprovide an improved traffic pattern on UBC's south\ncampus and better access to student parking lots.\nUBC has even postponed until next spring a\nnumber of projects, which would have involved\ndigging up campus access roads, in order to keep\ntraffic flowing smoothly, an official in the\nearlier to recreate the Main Mall linking the north and\nsouth sections of the central campus. At far left\nabove Main Mall trees is the extension to the\nBuchanan Building and between the extension and\nthe Ladner Clock Tower at centre are two towers of\nthe Walter H. Gage Residence. For details of campus\nconstruction present and projected, see story below.\nr Projects\nOn Campus\nDepartment of Physical Plant told UBC Reports.\nOnly one of ten current building projects \u00E2\u0080\u0094 an\naddition to the George Cunningham Building for the\nFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences \u00E2\u0080\u0094 will be fully\noccupied when classes begin Sept. 13. The four-storey\naddition, which cost $906,109, will be mainly used\nfor graduate research and is part of the developing\nHealth Sciences Centre.\nTwo other major projects will be occupied by\nstudents and faculty members by mid-November.\nFULLY OCCUPIED\nBy late September the one-storey Civil and\nMechanical Engineering Building will be fully\noccupied. The building, which cost $1,170,000,\nhouses shop and laboratory facilities as well as\noffices.\nThe first stage of the Geological Sciences Centre,\nvalued at $2,832,416, will be fully occupied by Nov.\n15. The new building will house classroom and\nlaboratory facilities for the Department of Geology,\nwhich is now housed in cramped quarters in one of\nUBC's original buildings, built in 1925, and several\nconverted army huts on the West Mall.\nConstruction has started on the second stage of\nthe Walter H. Gage Residence adjacent to the Student\nPlease turn to Page Three\nSee CONSTRUCTION DRUG STUDY UNDERWAY\nAn investigation into the effects of marijuana is\nbeing conducted by members of the Faculty of\nMedicine at UBC in response to public and\ngovernment demands for more information on the\ndrug.\nIt is being financed by the federal government\nand has received the sanction of federal and\nprovincial legal authorities.\nThe inter-disciplinary study is designed tri\nanswer the most pressing questions concerning the\neffect of marijuana and will probably constitute a\nmajor contribution to scientific knowledge of the\naction and effects of the drug.\nIt will try to find out if the use of marijuana\ndisrupts short-term memory and if it does,\nwhether impairment is limited to verbal processes\nor includes non-verbal memory patterns as well.\nIt will- also study the effect of marijuana on\norganic brain functions.\nThe study is being financed through a grant\nfrom the National Health & Welfare Department\nand wilt extend over 18 months.\nSTUDY APPROVED\nThe investigation has been approved by the\nUBC administration and Board of Governors and\nthe medical board and the Board of Trustees of\nthe Vancouver General Hospital, where some of\nthe work will be done.\nBecause of the controversy surrounding the use\nof marijuana, UBC officials have gone to great\nlengths to ensure that the investigation is ethically\nunassailable. As a first step the project was\ndesigned within the \"Declaration of Helsinki\"\nrecommendations of the World Medical\nAssociation for guiding doctors in clinical research\non humans.\nThe investigation was also approved by a special\nUBC ad hoc committee set up to examine its\nethical implications.\nApproval of the investigation has come from\nthe provincial Attorney-General's Department and\nDepartment of Health Services and Hospital\nInsurance as well as the federal Departmeht of\nJustice and Department of^ National Health &\nWelfare.\nVolunteers are carefully screened for\nacceptance into the program and their identity is\nbeing kept strictly confidential. Volunteers and\nUBC officials will be immune to prosecution from '\nprovincial or federal legal authorities.\nVolunteers are between 18 ahd 30 and Women\nare included. Investigators don't expect to find\nany difference between, the effects on men and\nwomen but have included women to make the\nstudy more scientifically and socially relevant\nsince both sexes use marijuana in society. Many\nmarijuana studies in the past have used men only.\nComplete details of the investigation can't be\ngiven without prejudicing results. Volunteers\nwould be given clues as to what to expect and this\ncould alter their performance.\nAll volunteers must previously have used\nmarijuana or hashish. They must not have been on\nmedication of any kind for two months preceding\nthe study, and they are asked to abstain from any\ndrugs for a week before the testing begins and\nbetween sessions.\nAfter preliminary psychiatric and psychological\nscreening, each volunteer is tested in three\nexperimental sessions. At each of these sessions\nthe volunteer is given either marijuana {supplied\nby the federal Food & Drug Directorate) or a\nplacebo, a harmless substance which resembles\nmarijuana in appearance.\nDuring the first two sessions the volunteers are\ngiven short-term memory and other batteries of\nneuropsychological tests>\nThe volunteers remain in hospital, until the\neffects of the drug have worn off. They are then\nsent home by taxi and are telephoned the next day\nto make sure they are ail right.\nIn the third session, investigators make\nrecordings of the volunteers' electrical brain\nactivity before and after administration of either\nmarijuana or the placebo.\nDespite widespread. and controversial use of\nmarijuana, almost nothing is known of its effects\non people. The meagre'scientific reports on the\nsubject are cluttered with contradictory evidence,\nmostly the result of previous inadequate research.\nOf the four main American studies on marijuana,\nonly one used experimental controls to compare\nresults with.\nIt isn't surprising that there have been many\nrequests for research Into the effects of marijuana.\nThe most important recent demand came from the\nLe Dain Commission Report on the Non-Medical\nUse of Drugs.\nThe report was critical of the lack of hard facts\non the effects of all drugs used in society for\nnon-medical use.\n\"There is general agreement that we lack\nsufficient reliable information to make sound\nsocial policy decisions and wise personal choices in\nrelation to non-medical drug use,\" the report said.\n\"The commission has heard repeatedly of the\ndesire for more information. Not only citizens, but\nadministrative officials, legislators, physicians and\nscientists have confessed that they have an\nInadequate basis for judgement on this subject;\"\nThe commission recommended that \"the\nFederal Government actively encourage research\ninto the phenomenon of non-medical drug use,\nand in particular, research into the effects of\npsychotropic drugs and substances on humans:\"\nIMPORTANT ISSUE\nRegarding marijuana in particular, the\ncommission said \"the most important issue\nconcerning the short-term effects of cannabis\nwould appear to be its effect on cognitive\nfunctions and psychomotor abilities - those\ncapacities which affect learning, performance in an\noccupation, the operation of machinery and\nsimilar - activity having significant social\nconsequences.\"\nThe report goes on to say that scientific\nknowledge and opinion on the effects of cannabis\non \"cognitive functions and psychomotor abilities\nis not of such an order as can be relied on at this\ntime for purposes of public policy\ndecision-making.\"\nThe UBC medical school study is in response to\nthe commission's and the federal government's\ndemand for hard information on marijuana.\nCANADIAN CONTENT BOOSTED\nUBC's rapidly-developing Department of\nLinguistics has taken steps to increase Canadian\ncontent in courses offered to students.\nDr. Bernard Saint-Jacques, acting head of the\ndepartment, said the ultimate aim of the department\nis \"to produce students who are not only well trained\nin linguistics, but who have the ability to use and\napply their knowledge in a Canadian context.\"\nHe said there were an increasing number of\nemployment opportunities in Canadian educational\ninstitutions, including community colleges, and\ngovernment agencies for students who were trained in\nRE-CYCLING\nContinued from Page One\nUBC's Department of Physical Plant also plans to\nconfer with UBC departments in an effort to set up a\ncollection method for high-grade paper.\nA number of UBC departments, including the\nLibrary, Information Services, Mathematics, the\nComputer Centre and the Institute of Animal\nResource Ecology, are already participating in the\nprogram.\nThe Joshua Society sells the unwanted office\npaper for $45 or more a ton.\nMrs. Vickson said she would visit any UBC\ndepartment that requests help in organizing the paper\ncollection. She can be reached at 224\u00E2\u0080\u00947109.\nThe following kinds of paper are acceptable:\ngeneral office paper, computer cards and runoff\npaper, envelopes without stamps or cellophane\nwindows, brochures and file folders.\nThe following materials cannot be accepted:\ncarbon paper, paper towels, tissue paper, styrofoam\ncups, cardboard and newsprint.\n2/UBC Reports/Sept. 7, 1971\nlinguistics and were able to apply it in the Canadian\ncontext.\nOne new course to be offered this year. Linguistics\n535, will deal with problems of bilingualism and\nbiculturalism with the main emphasis on Canadian\nproblems.\n\"There are several million people in Canada,\" Dr.\nSaint-Jacques said, \"who speak more than one\nlanguage, one of which is not necessarily English or\nFrench.\"\nHe said the course would deal with both the\npsychological and sociological implications of\nbilingualism.\nTwo other courses. Linguistics 440 (for\nundergraduates) and Linguistics 540 (for graduate\nstudents), will concentrate on Canadian dialectology,\nboth French and English.\nThe French spoken in Montreal has characteristics\nwhich are different from that spoken in Quebec,\nWOMEN'S STUDIES\nA 20-lecture program of women's studies,\ndeveloped during the summer under a federal\nOpportunities for Youth grant, will begin Sept. 28 in\nthe ballroom of the Student Union Building.\nStudents, UBC faculty members and experts from\nthe community-at-large will speak during the weekly,\nnon-credit lecture series which is entitled \"The\nCanadian Woman: Our Story.\" Lectures begin at 7\np.m. Tuesdays.\nAdvance registration for the series, sponsored by\nthe Alma Mater Society, will take place during UBC's\ngeneral registration week Sept. 7-10. Fee for the\ncomplete series is $2. Each lecture will be followed\nby a small-group discussion.\nwhich, in turn, is different from that spoken in Paris,\nDr. Saint-Jacques said. And the English spoken on\nVancouver Island is in some respects different from\nthat spoken in the Kootenays.\nA fourth course, Linguistics 530, will deal with the\nrich linguistic heritage of native Indian languages. Dr.\nSaint-Jacques said. The course will survey Canadian\nIndian languages generally and concentrate on B.C.\nIndian languages.\nThe west coast Salish family, Dr. Saint-Jacques\nsaid, is divided into more than 20 languages alone.\nThe structures of these languages as well as the\ncultures they represent are so different from western\nlanguages and thought that every effort should be\nmade for their study and preservation, he said.\nAlthough most of the courses have been planned\nwith the graduate student in mind, undergraduates\nwill be permitted to enrol with the approval of\ninstructors. Dr. Saint-Jacques said.\nIn addition, a new introductory course in\nlinguistics, offered at the first-year level, will touch\non topics included in the senior courses.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 p^ \u00E2\u0080\u0094^ Volume 17, No. 11 - Sept. 7\"\nIIDI1 1971. Published by the\nI III I \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 University of British Columbia\nmmMWmW and distributed free. UBC\nREPORTS Reports appears on\nWednesdays during the University's winter\nsession. J.A. Banham, Editor. Louise Hoskin,\nProduction Supervisor. Letters to the Editor\nshould be sent to Information Services, Main\nMall North Administration Building, UBC,\nVancouver 8, B.C.\n>4 CONSTRUCTION\nContinued from Page One\nUnion Building under a $3,300,000 loan from Central\nMortgage and Housing Corporation. The first stage of\nthe complex named for UBC's president \u00E2\u0080\u0094 two\n16-storey towers and a partially-completed common\nblock \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is being built with a CMHC and bank loan\ntotalling $5,516,000.\nThe second stage will involve construction of a\nthird residence tower, a low-rise housekeeping unit\nand completion of the common block. The\ndevelopment, which will house 1,200 students, will\nbe ready for occupancy in September, 1972.\nOn the central campus work is continuing on the\nnew Sedgewick Undergraduate Library, which is\nbeing constructed under the Main Mall. The\ntwo-storey building, scheduled to open at the end of\nMay, 1972, will seat 2,000 students and house\n180,000 books.\nThe hoarding surrounding the $3,894,808 library\nwill probably come down before the building is\nfinished to re-establish the Main Mall linking the\nnorth end and south sections of the central campus, a\nDepartment of Physical Plant official said.\nThe roots of the northern red oaks lining the Main\nMall have been enclosed in caissons and incorporated\ninto the interior design of the Library building.\nAnother central campus project, the 12-storey\nextension to the Buchanan Building, will be\ncompleted in the spring of 1972 and will contain\noffices for the Faculty of Arts and nine seminar\nrooms, each seating 15 students. The building will\ncost $2,799,763.\nThe Instructional Resources Centre, the key\nstudent training facility of the Health Sciences\nCentre, is expected to be complete in February,\n\u00C2\u00AB1972. The building will make extensive use of\n'audio-visual equipment so that a greater number of\nstudents will be able to learn from a limited number\nof teachers. Total cost of the building will be\n$4,650,967.\nConstruction of the last major building in the\nHealth Sciences Centre \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a teaching and research\nhospital \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is expected to start early in 1972.\nGREEN LIGHT\nThe green light for the hospital project was given\nduring the summer by B.C.'s health minister, Mr.\nRalph Loffmark. Victoria has committed itself to $28\nmillion of the cost and Ottawa is expected to put up\n$25 million. Construction of the 350-bed hospital is\nlikely to take several years.\nThe long-awaited hospital is the creation of Dr.\nJohn F. McCreary, dean of UBC's Faculty of\nMedicine, who has been appointed co-ordinator of\nHealth Sciences by UBC's Board of Governors.\nDr. McCreary pioneered the idea of the health\nteam which will be basic to the training of students in\nthe health sciences in the hospital and in other Health\nSciences Centre buildings.\nStudents will be trained together so that they learn\neach other's special strengths and limitations. After\ngraduation they will be able to work together as a\nteam, with many jobs now done by doctors being\nshifted to other health professionals.\nWhen the hospital is completed, total health\nsciences student enrolment at the Centre will be\nbetween 2,400 and 3,000.\nThe hospital will be added to a 60-bed psychiatric\nunit, which has been functioning on campus for two\nyears, giving the complete UBC hospital a total of\n410 beds.\nThe hospital will be the central training facility for\nthe five professional schools that make up the Health\nSciences Centre. These are the Faculties of Medicine,\nDentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the\nSchools of Nursing and Rehabilitation Medicine.\nStudents in other disciplines planning careers in the\nhealth field \u00E2\u0080\u0094 for example, clinical psychologists and\nmedical social workers \u00E2\u0080\u0094 will also be trained here.\nApart from its teaching functions, the hospital will\nserve as a major research centre for work in all the\nhealth fields. It is also expected to become a major\nreferral centre, like the Mayo Clinic, to which doctors\nthroughout B.C. can refer their most difficult cases.\nThe five-storey hospital will contain\napproximately 900,000 square feet of teaching,\nresearch and patient-care areas.\nUntil now the UBC Faculty of Medicine has relied\non downtown service hospitals for clinical teaching of\nmedical students. But there is a fundamental\nGONE are the days of water-filled potholes and\nwashboard surface on the extension to 16th Ave.\nleading to the UBC campus. The provincial\nDepartment of Highways paved the artery from\nBlanca St. to Marine Drive during the summer\nmonths, thus providing another all-weather access\nroute to UBC. UBC has also improved the 10th Ave.\nextension on UBC's South Campus to provide an\nimproved traffic pattern in that area and easier access\nto student parking lots.\ndifference between a service hospital and a true\nteaching hospital.\nA service hospital is designed primarily to serve the\nhospital needs of the community, and proper\nteaching facilities are not considered in its design. The\ninevitable result of trying to teach health science\nstudents in a service hospital is that public service is\naggravated and teaching is compromised and\nexpensive. In a building designed from the start for\nteaching and research, the various functions can be\ngiven the space and facilities they need for maximum\nefficiency.\nThe hospital will incorporate a number of\ninnovative approaches to hospital organization and\nplanning. It will be designed by architects at\nThompson Berwick Pratt & Partners in such a way\nthat construction can begin even before all working\ndrawings are completed and so that advances in\nhospital design can be incorporated as construction\nprogresses.\nAnother long-awaited campus project, a Museum\nof Man, will be built with a $2.5 million grant from\nthe federal government to house UBC's collection of\nwest coast Indian art, valued at $7 million, as well as\nartifacts of other cultures.\nDISPLAY COLLECTION\nThe grant is part of a $10 million gift from Ottawa\nto mark the 100th anniversary of B.C.'s entry into\nConfederation. The Museum will allow public access\nto the 10,000 or so pieces of the UBC collection,\nmost of which are now hidden away on storeroom\nshelves in the Main Library for lack of display space.\nHere are details of other projects current under\nconstruction on campus:\nThe TRIUMF accelerator, under construction in\nUBC's South Campus research area, is on schedule for\nits start-up in 1973. TRIUMF will produce\nsub-atomic particles called mesons and will be used\nfor research in nuclear and particle physics, nuclear\nchemistry, radiobiology and radiotherapy. TRIUMF's\n4,000-ton magnet, central to the project, is now being\nassembled in the cyclotron's vault. TRIUMF is a\nconsortium of the Universities of Alberta and\nVictoria, UBC and Simon Fraser. Ottawa is putting\nup $23.3 million towards the project.\nHEALTH CENTRE\nA community health centre for three Faculty of\nMedicine groups \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the Department of Health Care\nand Epidemiology, the Division of Medical Genetics\nand the Division of Audiology and Speech Sciences \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nis being built for $1,096,645 on Wesbrook Crescent.\nThe building will contain the Faculty of Medicine's\nthird Family Practice Unit to provide health care to\nfamilies in the Wesbrook area as well as a training\nfacility for student health professionals. The building\nis scheduled for completion this winter.\nA $540,054 facility is being built for the School of\nPhysical Education and Recreation for instruction in\nspecialized group activities including gymnastics,\narchery, golf, dance and floor hockey. Offices are also\nincluded. The new structure is the second phase of a\nphysical education complex located on the extension\nof 10th Ave. adjacent to the Thunderbird Winter\nSports Centre.\nThree relocatable buildings with office and\nseminar space are being built for $733,213 south of\nthe Fraser River parking lot. They will be used by the\nOffice of Student Services and faculty members in\nthe Faculties of Education and Arts and the\nDepartment of Agricultural Economics. They will be\nbuilt among the trees of an arboretum of native\nCanadian and exotic trees. Only a few of the trees\nhave had to be moved for the new buildings.\nUBC Reports/Sept. 7, 1971/3 UBC Hostel A Hit\nThere wasrvt any air conditioning, it wasn't\nlicensed and there was no room service, but the\nclientele thought it was the best accommodation\nof its kind in North America*\nThat's the men's hostel operated by the\nUniversity of B.C. this summer, the first run by a\nuniversity in Canada.\nThe hostel - 56 beds in converted army huts in\nUBC's Fort Camp student residence - opened\nJune 4 and closed August 15. Its operating costs\nwere borne by the provincial and federal\ngovernments.\nHOSTEL PRAISED\nYoung men using the hostel praised it\nunanimously.\nTheir reasons are easy to understand.\nThey had individual rooms rather than a few\nsquare feet of a gymnasium or warehouse or other\nimpersonal building.\nTheir six supervisors were their own age, hired\nby UBC's Housing Administration from among\nsenior UBC students who had previously served as\ndons or residence fellows in other UBC residences.\nAs one French-Canadian described the supervisors,\nthey were \"tres, ires sympathique.\"\nThere were a jninimum of regulations and the\nemphasis was on informality. There was no\ncurfew. The transients didn't have to sleep in the\nhuts \u00E2\u0080\u0094 many spent the night on the beaches\nbeneath Fort Camp during the spell of hot\nweather. They could eat their supper at any time\nfrom'4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.\nThe food - prepared by UBC's Department of\nFood Services '\u00E2\u0080\u0094 was touted by the transients as\nthe best available at any hostel in Canada. Their\nonly complaint was that the breakfast \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a\nhard-boiled egg, coffee and a bun \u00E2\u0080\u0094 wasn't\nenough. Lunch was two sandwiches wrapped in a\nbag and given to the transients at breakfast.\nSupper was a hot meal.\nAnd of course there's the environment, the\nUniversity's beautiful scenery and inexpensive\nfilms and other entertainment organized for\nSummer Session students on the campus.\nThe U8C hostel also drew praise from Mr. W.N.\nBoyd, director of the City of Vancouver's Social\nService Department. Writing to President Walter H.\nGage, Mr. Boyd said the UBC hostel was \"one of\nthe most efficient and well run hostel programs in\nthe system, and we are proud to have been\nassociated with you and the group of young\npeople who made Fort Campus such a success.\"\nThe hostel was the only one in the Vancouver\narea open to Americans. Americans and\nFrench-Canadians accounted for many of the\nnearly 3,000 bed-nights provided by the hosteK\nSome days Americans or French-Canadians were in\nthe majority.\nUntil the high schools let out, many transients\nwere young men who had been in Vancouver for\nfour or five months on welfare and who resorted\nto the hostel system. In July and August many\nwere high school and university students. Some\nwere post-graduate students.\nThere were only a few incidents and most were\ncleared up by the transients themselves.\nMany of the Americans staying at the hostel\nwere amazed. \"The States has nothing like this,\"\nsaid one San Franciscan. \"A lot of kids trying to\nget across the country cheaply end up in flop\nhouses in some skid row area surrounded by\ndrunks, deadbeats and The Man is always around.\"\nThe hostel was so popular that many transients\ntrekked out to UBC from Vancouver without\nbeing assigned to Fort Camp by the Youth\nReferral Centre on West 7th operated by the City\nof Vancouver for all hostels in the area and\nreferred to as the \"trailer.\"\nSENT TO TRAILER\nThey were put up for the night in the hostel's\nrecreation room and sent to the trailer for referral\nthe next morning.\nThe birth of the hostel was roundabout. A few\npeople, including one of the hostel's supervisors,\napproached the Alma Mater Society with a scheme\nto set up a tent city on campus for summer\ntransients.\nThe AMS took the idea to the Administration.\nHowever, the tent city was considered unfeasible.\nInstead, the University decided to use the Fort\nCamp facilities.\nSummer\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 It\nIncrease\nFigures compiled by UBC's Office of Student\nServices indicate that there were more summer job\nopportunities available to students in 1971 than in\neither of the two previous years.\nDespite this, some students may end up with lower\nearnings than in previous years because few jobs were\navailable in the early part of the summer. It was not\nuntil June that jobs became available in appreciable\nnumbers, according to Student Services director Mr.\nA.F. Shirran.\nThere were also a greater number of students\ncompeting for existing jobs in 1971 than in either of\nthe two previous years. A total of 3,585 students\nregistered with UBC's Office of Student Services this\nyear as compared to 2,550 in 1970 and 2,230 in\n1969.\nThe 1971 increase, Mr. Shirran said, was partly\ndue to the fact that the provincial government\ndecided to screen applicants for jobs in parks through\nthe UBC office.\nA total of 963 companies this year offered 2,476\nfull-time jobs to students. Comparable figures for the\ntwo previous years are as follows: 1970 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 709 firms\noffered 1,457 jobs; 1969 - 827 firms offered 1,538\njobs.\nThe UBC Office also noted a trend toward\nemployers requesting larger numbers of students in a\nsingle contact. Several companies and community\nagencies asked for up to 40 students. This trend\ntoward hiring blocs of students was partly due to\nprovincial government hiring and federal\nOpportunities for Youth programs.\nAs in the past, Mr. Shirran said, a large number of\nsummer resorts requested students but such positions\nare becoming increasingly hard to fill. \"The isolation\n4/UBC Reports/Sept. 7, 1971\nand lower pay scales limit the attractiveness of such\njobs to many students,\" Mr. Shirran said.\nPart-time job opportunities for students also\nincreased over the previous two years, Mr. Shirran\nsaid, and many students made themselves available\nthroughout the summer for'part-time employment\nand managed to maintain a full-time work schedule.\nMr. Shirran said an accurate picture of how well\nstudents fared financially is impossible until after\nregistration. During registration students are asked to\nprovide information on summer job experience. The\nresults of that survey will be analysed and made\npublic in October, he said.\nMR. ARTHUR FOUKS\nUBC Board\nElects New\nChairman\nMr. Arthur Fouks, a University of B.C. graduate,\nhas been elected chairman of UBC's Board of\nGovernors for the year that began on Sept. 1, 1971.\nMr. Fouks, a member of the Board since 1963,\nsucceeds Mr. John Liersch, also a UBC graduate, who\nhas been chairman for the past year and a Board\nmember since 1962.\nBorn and education in Vancouver, Mr. Fouks\ngraduated from UBC with the degrees of bachelor of\narts in 1941 and bachelor of laws in 1949. He has\nbeen a practising lawyer in Vancouver since that time.\nHe was appointed a QC in 1964.\nMr. Fouks serves as chairman of the management\ncommittee of the Health Sciences Centre and as\nchairman of the UBC Board's property committee.\nMr. Fouks has been closely connected with a\nnumber of voluntary health organizations in\nVancouver and is a past president of the B.C. Heart\nFoundation.\nMr. Liersch, who will continue to serve as a\nmember of the UBC Board, is a former chairman of\nthe Board's property committee. He received the\ndegrees of bachelor of arts in 1926 and bachelor of\napplied science in 1927 from UBC and was head of\nUBC's former Department of Forestry from 1942-46.\nMr. Liersch is a former president of the\nAssociation of Professional Engineers of B.C. and was\na member of the provincial Royal Commission on\nEducation chaired by Dr. S.N.F. Chant. He was\nrecently awarded the Medal of Service of the Order of\nCanada. The Medal is awarded to individuals \"for\nmerit of a high degree in many different areas of\nservice to Canada or to humanity at large.\"\nBreak For UBC Bikers\nCyclists travelling to and from UBC will have a\nsmoother ride this year because of improved cycling\nconditions along University Boulevard and plans to\nimprovethe Chancellor Boulevard cycle path.\nSigns have been erected on the south sidewalk on\nUniversity Boulevard from Blanca to Toronto Road\nindicating that the path is reserved for cyclists.\nMr. R.P. Murdoch, manager of the University\nEndowment Lands, said that $3,000 was spent this\nsummer improving the quality of the sidewalks on\nboth the south and north sides of University\nBoulevard. He said that all of the money was\nprovided by the University Endowment Lands\nratepayers.\n\"We had hoped to provide cyclists with a six-foot\nwide path, but tree roots along the route make it\nimpossible to maintain a satisfactory surface,\" he\nsaid.\nHe said that provision has also been made in this\nyear's Endowment Lands budget to construct a\nsix-foot path along the south side of Chancellor\nBoulevard from Tasmania St. to School Road to be\nshared by cyclists and pedestrians. Construction will\nbegin on the Chancellor path as soon as the point of\nintersection between Chancellor and the new Fourth\nAve. extension have been established, he said.\nThe UBC Cyclists Club, formed last year, has\nspearheaded demands for improved cycling\nconditions along access routes to UBC. The club\nreceived an Opportunities for Youth grant last spring\nto conduct a survey of cycling conditions at UBC.\nThe University does not have jurisdiction over any\nof the roadways outside the campus proper. Cycling\nis encouraged in UBC's pedestrian core and 540 new\nbicycle parking stalls were installed this summer at\nvarious campus locations.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2:*"@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LE3.B8K U2"@en . "LE3_B8K_U2_1971_09_07"@en . "10.14288/1.0118102"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver: University of British Columbia Information Office"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the University of British Columbia Public Affairs Office."@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives."@en . "University of British Columbia"@en . "UBC Reports"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .