"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "1994-05-19"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118329/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " CONGREGATION ISSUE\nTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nUBCREPORTS\nInternational\nreputation\ndraws students\nby Connie Filletti\nMartin Dee photc\nInternational students Nathan Swami, left, and Ivy Shiau are among the 4,500 UBC\nstudents graduating during spring Congregation ceremonies May 24 to 27 in the War\nMemorial Gymnasium. Shiau, a Hong Kong native, will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree,\nwhile Swami, who came to UBC from India, will receive a Master of Applied Science. The\npair are pictured in UBC's Map Library.\nStaff writer\nIvy Shiau and Nathan Swami\nagree that UBC deserves an A+\nwhen it comes to putting out the\nwelcome mat.\nThey are two of the 2,077\ninternational students who attended UBC this year and are\namong the 4,500 students scheduled to graduate during annual\nspring Congregation ceremonies,\nto be held at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30\np.m. each day. May 24 to 27, in\nthe War Memorial Gymnasium.\nShiau, a Hong Kong native,\nwill receive a Bachelor of Arts\ndegree in Theatre on May 26.\nShe arrived on campus in 1991\nafter discovering a love for the\nstage while attending Cariboo\nCollege in Kamloops.\nSwami, who will receive a\nMaster of Applied Science degree in Metals and Materials\nEngineering on May 25, came to\nUBC from India because of the\nreputation of the program and\nhis supervisor. Associate Prof.\nDavid Dreisinger.\nIn addition to being attracted\nby UBC's good name, both students agree that the university's\nstrong commitment to building\nan international student community also got their attention.\n\"I had heard that there is a\nstrong international student\ncommunity at UBC,\" Swami said.\n\"That was an important factor in\nmy decision to come here.\"\nMuch of the credit for\nUBC's success in welcoming\ninternational students belongs to the International Student Centre, now in its fourth\ndecade of operation.\nThe centre, originally established to revive social and cultural activities for international\nstudents, was recently re-named\nas the International Student\nServices Office (ISS) to reflect an\nexpanded mandate.\nThe centre's responsibilities\nnow include providing specialized services to support international students and the co-ordination of student exchange programs.\n\"Our main objectives are to\nsupport the academic and personal growth of exchange students and international students, and to enrich the learning\nenvironment for the UBC community by broadening the international experience on campus,\"\nsaid Winnie Cheung, ISS director.\nWith the help of more than\n400 volunteers, mainly UBC students, faculty and staff, the ISS\nprovides a full range of year-\nround support services to international students and scholars\nincluding airport reception, temporary accommodation and special programs for spouses and\nfamily members.\nApproximately half of the 700\ninternational students who are\nnew to UBC each year find their\nway to ISS, many of them taking\nadvantage of an orientation program offered each September and\nJanuary.\nISS staff have seen an increased demand for their advising services, especially for the\nadvice they provide about visas,\nwork permits and dealing with\ncross-cultural issues.\nUBC's community extends beyond campus limits\nIt is during Congregation that one has to be impressed by the\nspirit of community exhibited by those who call UBC their academic\nhome.\nThe pride of accomplishment exhibited by faculty and students\nis unmistakable as they make their way into War Memorial Gymnasium for the conferring of degrees. Regardless of discipline,\nregardless of academic pursuit, they are all members ofthe community we call the University of British Columbia.\nYet, this sense of community doesn't begin or end at UBC's gates.\nWe are all members of multiple communities. Each and every\nperson associated with this great institution, whether it's the\ncarpenter from Plant Operations, the faculty member devoted to\nteaching and research, or the youngster involved in Community\nSports Services, brings with him or her a sense of community.\nThis sense of community is as diverse as the people themselves.\nThere are those who coach little league sports, others who volunteer\ntheir services to help improve the lives of those less fortunate, those\nwho are active in professional organizations, and still others whose\ngreatest community effort lies in a sense of family commitment. The\ncampus community is a rich mosaic of those who call UBC home.\nAnd who says you can't take it with you?\nIn the pages of this special issue of UBC Reports, you will read\nabout some ofthe members ofthe UBC community who are putting\ntheir personal stamp of excellence, dedication and commitment on\na number of communities world wide.\nYou will learn of students who are working to address unique\ncultural needs and issues through a number of university-related\ninitiatives, others judged to have reached a level of academic\nexcellence second to none in their respective disciplines, and others\nabout to embark on a quest for athletic excellence in the international sporting community.\nGraduating UBC students may be leaving the campus, but they\nremain members ofthe UBC community while reaching out to other\ncommunities in their professional and personal lives.\nLet us commend these students for the personal dedication they\nexhibit as members of the UBC community, and the dedication of\nspirit they take with them as they conquer new challenges in the\nconstantly evolving global community.\nDavid W. StrangwayA V\nPresident, UBC 2 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 May 19, 1994\nAwards reflect commitment to UBC, society\nThe UBC Alumni Association\nhas named five outstanding Individuals as the winners of its\nannual awards for 1994.\nThe Alumni Award of Distinction goes to Dr. Patrick McGeer\n(BSc, MD '56), who has a long\nand distinguished career in\nmedical research conducting pioneering research into schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease\nand, more recently, Alzheimer's\ndisease.\nMcGeer is also known for his\npublic service, most notably from\n1975 to 1986, when he served as\nB.C.'s minister of Education,\nminister of\nEducation,\nScience and\nTechnology\nand minister of Universities,\nScience and\nCommunications.\nHe was\nleader of\nB.C.'s Liberal Party from 1968 to 1972. He\nhas also served as a director of\nmany organizations including\nB.C. Hydro. B.C. Petroleum Corp\nand the B.C. Medical Research\nFoundation.\nThe Honorary Alumnus Award\nMcGeer\ngoes to John Kim Bell (BA Music, '75, Ohio State). Bell was the\nfirst North American native Indian to become a symphony conductor. He was also the youngest professional conductor in the\nU.S. when he conducted his first\nBroadway musical at the age of\n18.\nBell is also the founder of the\nCanadian Native Arts Foundation, which has awarded more\nthan $1.6\nmillion in\nscholarships\nacross\nCanada to\nhelp First\nNations\nyoung people train in\nthe performing and\nvisual arts.\nHe has conducted symphony\norchestras in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Winnipeg and London, England. He also produced\nand co-wrote the music for the\nfirst native contemporary ballet.\nLand of Spirits.\nThe Faculty Citation Award\ngoes to Walter Hardwick. a geography professor at UBC since\n1959. He has served extensively\nin the community throughout\nHardwick\nhis career, taking a leadership\nrole in many regional, provincial\nand federal agencies.\nHe was an alderman on Vancouver city council from 1969-\n74, a director of the GVRD in\n1973-74 and more recently, chair\nof the Vancouver: Choosing our\nFuture working group.\nAs a specialist in urban studies, Hardwick has brought his\nexpertise to many organizations,\nincluding the B.C. Health Research Foundation, the National\nFilm Board of B.C., the Ministry\nof Education and the Knowledge\nNetwork.\nThe Blythe Eagles Volunteer\nAward goes to Dr. Anthony\nCheng (MD, '67). Currently in\nprivate practice in Hong Kong,\nhe is a founding member of Hong\nKong's North American Medical\nAssociation and has served as a\nconsultant and director for numerous medical organizations.\nCheng has won other honours, including UBC's Outstanding Alumni Award in 1990 and\nhe served as Honorary Patron of\nUBC during the university's 75th\nanniversary celebration. He is\nalso a member of the Alumni\nAssociation's board of directors\nand is a former president of the\nHong Kong branch of the Alumni\nAssociation.\nPair helps Somali immigrants\nease into new life in Canada\nby Connie Filletti\nStaff writer\nWhen Jenny Campbell and\nLorraine Klassen cross the stage\nin the War Memorial Gymnasium on May 24 to receive their\nMaster of Education degrees in\nCounselling Psychology, one\nword will be fresh in their minds:\nhimilo, the Somali name for hope,\nprogress and accomplishment.\nAnd although it may reflect\ntheir feelings on Congregation\nday, himilo has greater meaning\nfor both graduates. It is the name\nadopted by a Somali women's\ngroup Campbell and Klassen\nhave spent the past 10 weeks\ncounselling on issues arising\nfrom adjusting to life In a new\nculture.\nCampbell and ^^^^^^\"\nKlassen were ideal\ncandidates to lead\nthe project, sharing research interests in cross-cultural and inter-cultural counselling,\ninterests influenced by similar\nbackgrounds.\nBorn and raised\nabroad \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nCampbell in Kenya\nand Klassen in Japan \u00E2\u0080\u0094 both emigrated to Canada \t\nat the age of 17.\n\"Canada wasn't home. I felt\ncaught between cultures,\"\nKlassen recalls.\nTheir involvement with the\nSomali women's project stemmed\nfrom practicums they had completed the previous year at UBC's\nWomen's Resources Centre.\nPart of Continuing Studies,\nthe Women's Resources Centre\nis located downtown and is part\nof UBC's link to the community.\nAs such, it is on the leading edge\nof developing programs to meet\nsocietal needs.\n\"The opportunity\nwe have had to\nexpress the\nemotions we are\nexperiencing has\nprovided women\nin the group with\nless of a sense of\nisolation.\"\n- Asha Jama\nLeft to right,\nJenny Campbell,\nRuth Sigal, Asha\nJama and\nLorraine Klassen\nwork together on\nhimilo, a project\nsponsored by the\nWomen's\nResources Centre\nto bring hope,\nprogress and\naccomplishment\ninto the lives of\nSomali women.\nMargaret Wilson photo\nImpressed by theirwork, Ruth\nSigal, the centre's director, enlisted their expertise after receiving a request\n^^^^^^\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 last November\nfrom the Multilingual Orientation\nServices Association for Immigrant\nCommunities to\nhelp Vancouver's\ngrowing Somali\npopulation, especially the women,\nwith issues such\nas family violence,\npower and identity\nstruggles, discrimination and\nchild rearing.\n With a grant\nfrom Continuing\nStudies' Robert Englund Fund,\nSigal was able to launch the\nproject last month.\n\"Many other programs are\nvery specific, focusing on one\nproduct like resume writing and\njob placement,\" Campbell said.\nThis project was designed to\ndeal more with cultural background, give the participants a\nsense of hope, help them take\naction for themselves to bond\nmore, empower them and set\nspecific goals.\"\nGroup member Asha Jama,\nwho came to Canada from Somalia in 1986, cited feedback as\none of the project's greatest\nstrengths.\nThe opportunity we have had\nto express the emotions we are\nexperiencing has provided\nwomen in the group with less of\na sense of isolation,\" Jama said.\n\"We also have a greater understanding of what can be changed\nand what can't be.\"\nCampbell and Klassen plan\nto establish a resource file for\nSomali women and hope to follow up with the group to gauge\ntheir progress, while Sigal will\napply for more funding to continue the project.\nStudent academic achievement\nThe names of students who this year finished at the top\nof their graduating classes as well as recipients of the\nGovernor General's Academic Medal, awarded for academic\nachievement, were not available at press time. They will\nbe featured in the June 16 issue of UBC Reports.\nThe Out-\nstanding\nYoung\nAlumnus\nAward goes\nto Tricia\nSmith (BA\n'81, LLB\n'85), an\ninductee\ninto B.C.'s\nSports Hall\nof Fame who has received more\ninternational medals than any\nother Canadian athlete.\nSmith spent 13 years as a\nmember of Canada's rowing\nteam, winning medals at seven\nworld championships, including\nSmith\na gold medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and a 1984\nOlympic silver medal. She is the\nonly athlete in UBC history to\ntake part in four Olympics.\nShe serves a a member of\nUBC's Athletic Committee and is\nthe first Canadian to be appointed to the women's commission of FISA, the International\nRowing Federation. 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Opinions and advertising published in\nUBC Reports do not necessarily reflect official\nuniversity policy.\nMaterial may be reprinted in whole or in part with\nappropriate credit to UBC Reports. UBC Reports \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 May 19,1994 3\nMILESTONES\nUBC has celebrated many milestones\nsince last May's Congregation ceremonies,\nincluding these noteworthy events:\n1993\nMay\nThe First Nations Longhouse, built as a\ncentre for native education programs and to\nserve as a cultural base for First Nations\nstudents, celebrates its opening with 1,500\nguests.\nJune\nKim Campbell, UBC's first female frosh\npresident, wins the federal Progressive\nConservative leadership race to become\nthe second prime minister to have graduated from UBC. The first was John Turner.\nJuly\nConstruction of the $34-million, 450-unit\nThunderbird student housing complex\nbegins, moving UBC a step closer to its\ngoal of housing 25 per cent of the student\nbody in on-campus residences.\nAugust\nUBC is chosen to lead a landmark\nCanadian research study investigating the\ncause of multiple sclerosis.\nSeptember\nScience One, an innovative program\noffering an alternative to traditional first-\nyear science by stressing the inter-relation\nbetween the sciences, is launched.\nGreen College, UBC's new residential\ngraduate student college, opens its doors.\nOctober\nProf. Michael Smith wins the Nobel Prize\nin chemistry for his discovery of site-directed\nmutagenesis, a technique which enables\nscientists to reprogram the genetic code.\nThe School of Family and Nutritional\nSciences celebrates its 50th anniversary.\nNovember\nUBC concludes the most successful\nfund-raising campaign in Canadian history.\nThe World of Opportunity campaign raises\n$262 million.\nAlumnus Robert Lee is installed as\nUBC's 14th chancellor during the fall\nCongregation ceremonies.\nThe provincial government invests $9\nmillion to build UBC's new Centre for\nMolecular Medicine and Therapeutics.\nDecember\nNobel laureate Michael Smith donates\nhis half-million-dollar prize money to fund\nschizophrenia research and science\nawareness programs in B.C.\n1994\nJanuary\nUBC and the University of Singapore\ncollaborate to establish the West East\nCentre for Microbial Diversity on campus.\nThe centre will identify previously unknown\nmicrobes and study their usefulness in\nmaking new drugs or helping to clean up\npollution.\nThe School of Nursing, the oldest\ndegree-granting school of nursing in the\nBritish Commonwealth, celebrates its 75th\nanniversary.\nFebruary\nThe Faculty of Graduate Studies plans\nthe construction of St. John's College, a\nresidential graduate college which will\ncreate an international community of\nscholars at UBC.\nMay\nDr. Harold Copp, a UBC professor\nemeritus of Physiology who discovered\ncalcitonin, a hormone used in the treatment\nof bone disease, is one of the first inductees\ninto the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.\nGrad gets Cannes screening\nby Abe Hefter\nStaff writer\nAt a time when UBC graduates are\nshowcasing their academic achievements\nat Congregation, one UBC graduate is\nshowcasing her academic accomplishments at the Cannes Film Festival.\nKarethe Linaae, who is graduating with\na Master of Fine Arts in film and creative\nwriting, was invited to Cannes to screen\nthe 22-minute film she presented as her\nthesis. Her film, off Key, is a story about\na female photographer who goes to provocative lengths to photograph a Russian\nmale concert pianist.\nThe 35mm short film was one of hundreds submitted by first-time directors\nfrom around the world for festival screening. Seven were selected to be shown,\nalong with seven feature films, during\ncritics' week, which kicks off the May 12-\n23 film festival.\n\"It's wonderful to be included,\" said\nthe 30-year-old native of Norway. The\nfilm will be shown eight times in Cannes\nand will then be screened in London,\nParis and Lyon as part ofthe critics week\npackage. It has also been accepted for a\nfestival in Norway.\"\nIn France she will be joined by another\nUBC grad. Wade Ferley (MFA Film, 1992),\nwho was the producer and director of\nphotography on the project.\nThis is the third time that a UBC film\ngraduate has been invited to the festival.\nJohn Pozer (The Grocer's Wife, 1992) and\nMark Sawyer (Stroke, 1993) also had\ntheir films screened at Cannes.\nA BFA graduate from Concordia University in Montreal, Linaae entered the\nmaster's program at UBC after spending\nfour years in the Vancouver film industry. She worked as a lighting technician\non a number of features and television\nshows, including The Commish, and 21\nJump Street, and used her professional\ncontacts to help turn a short story written\nfor her creative writing class into a film for\nher master's thesis.\n\"All the outside help came from friends\nin the professional film industry. Their\nefforts enabled me to come up with a\nprofessionally finished film at minimal\ncost.\n\"They are the people who so richly\ndeserve the honour that has been bestowed upon this film by festival organizers.\"\nThe boost that the Cannes screening\nwill give Linaae's film-making career cannot be emphasized enough, said Raymond\nHall, an associate professor in the Dept.\nof Theatre and Film, and a member of her\nthesis committee.\nAbe Hefter photo\nKarethe Linaae, here with camera technician Craig Volker, will make her\ninternational directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival with her\nproduction, a short film titled off Key.\n\"The exposure that the film will receive\nis absolutely immense,\" said Hall, who\ncalled Linaee one of the most talented\nstudents he's had the opportunity to work\nwith.\n\"The fact that it is one of only seven\nshort films selected by a jury of 10 film\ncritics is tremendously significant.\n\"If the film is picked up by a distributor\nas a result of the festival screening,\nKarethe will have the development money\nfor her next project.\"\nThere will be no shortage of projects\nfor Linaae to pursue when she returns\nfrom Europe. She is working on a number\nof film scripts, including the Spanish-\ntitled Donde la Espalde Pierde duNombre,\nwhich will pick up on some of the themes\nexplored in off Key.\n\"It's not a sequel to off Key, not in the\nsense of plot or characters. Where off Key\nexplored art and desire, Donde la Espalde\nPierde du Nombre (where the back loses\nits name) will explore death and desire.\n\"It's much more angst-ridden.\"\nIn addition, Linaae has been accepted\ninto the Academy of Canadian Cinema\nand Television's directing apprenticeship\nprogram, which will give her the opportunity to work with a number of directors on\nB.C.-based productions as she pursues\nher own film-making career.\nSpace school offers unique opportunity\nby Connie Filletti\nStaff writer\nKimberly Barker is excited about attending a university with courses that are\nout of this world.\nBarker, a Physiology student who will\nbe graduating with a Master of Science\ndegree this fall, is one of 11 Canadian\ngraduate students who will join about\n150 students chosen from 30 participating countries to attend the International\nSpace University in Barcelona, Spain,\nthis summer.\n\"I'm very excited by the opportunity to\nwork with people from so many different\ncountries and backgrounds,\" Barker said.\n\"It will give me a greater global perspective on my field of study.\"\nShe will receive a $15,000 scholarship to attend the 10-week program\nthat gets underway on June 22. In\naddition to attending courses concentrating on different science disciplines,\nshe will participate in a design project\nto study ways in which space information and technology can be used to\nimprove health care and education in\nKimberly Barker\nremote areas of the world.\nIt's a project she is well prepared for.\nBarker, who speaks French and German,\nspent the summer of 1992 in Guyana,\nhelping to set up a mobile rehabilitation\nclinic by raising funds for much needed\nequipment and prosthetics.\n\"Seeing the need for very basic health\ncare in Guyana attracted me to the International Space University program,\"\nBarker said. \"It's important to explore\nwhat more can be done to improve health\nconditions in underdeveloped parts of\nthe world.\"\nWith an interest in science that dates\nback to her teenage years. Barker earned\na BSc at Queen's University in Kingston\nafter graduating from high school in her\nnative Oakville, Ontario.\nSince beginning her graduate studies\nat UBC, Barker has been working in the\nlaboratory of Physiology Prof. John\nLedsome.\nThey have been exploring how the\nbody regulates the excretion of sodium,\nresearch that may yield clues to understanding hypertension and heart disease.\nHer interest in space evolved from\nexperiments Ledsome is developing on\nhow brain function is affected in a\nmicrograviry environment.\nThe experiments will be performed\naboard the International Microgravity\nLaboratory scheduled to fly on NASA's\nspace shuttle Columbia in July. 4 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 May 19, 1994\nStudy abroad offers\nunique perspective\nProgram enriches teaching and learning\nby Gavin Wilson\nStaff writer\nWhen Trevor Morrison spent a year in\nJapan learning its culture from the inside\nout, he did something that was impossible a few years earlier \u00E2\u0080\u0094 earn credits at\nUBC.\nMorrison, who is graduating in honours history, was in the Education Abroad\nProgram, an initiative that aims to give\nfive per cent of all UBC graduates the\nopportunity to study and live in another\ncountry as part of their degree requirements.\nThe program started as a pilot project\nin 1988-89 when two students went to\nstudy at the only participating institution, the University of California.\nToday, Education Abroad is by far the\nlargest exchange program on campus,\ninvolving almost 100 UBC students and\n34 universities around the world. Another 86 international students are studying at UBC under the program.\nUBC now has exchange agreements\nwith universities in the United States,\nDenmark, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, the U.K.,\nFrance, Taiwan and the Philippines. More\nuniversities are added every year.\nUndergraduates are eligible to apply to\nstudy abroad in their third year if they\nhave at least a 70 per cent average, said\nMary Watt, student exchange program\nco-ordinator in the Registrar's Office. Applicants are interviewed by faculty members before being chosen for the program.\nWatt is new to her position, but knows\nfrom first-hand experience how much\nimpact such a program can have. She\nwas an exchange student herself, completing one year at University of Port\nElizabeth in South Africa and a term in\nIreland on a work co-op program.\n\"It's a unique experience, one that\nchallenges a lot of what you think about\nyourself and where you come from. You\nnever look at the world the same way\nagain,\" she said.\nThe Education Abroad Program is attracting some of UBC's top students,\nincluding recent Rhodes scholar Laurel\nBaig, a political science major who is\nstudying Mandarin this year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.\nWhile some students go for the excellence ofthe programs, and others to learn\nabout a particular culture, all gain new\nperspectives and establish life-long networks of contacts and friends. Watt. said.\nSometimes unexpected cultural exchanges occur, as when one law student\nfell in love with the chancellor's daughter\nat his host university.\nMorrison chose to spend the 1992-93\nacademic year studying political science,\nlaw and international relations at Japan's Sophia University, where courses\nfor international students are taught in\nEnglish. He also enrolled in intensive\nJapanese language courses.\n\"For anyone who wants to study Japanese history or politics, it is a great place\nto spend some time,\" he said. \"It definitely\nhelped with my thesis.\"\nThe year abroad also let Morrison immerse himself in other aspects of Japanese culture: visiting the temples of old\nKyoto, being the only foreigner on the\nSophia track team and living with a family in suburban Tokyo.\nHe was surprised that his time in\nJapan gave him some insights into his\nown culture as well.\n\"I'm now more aware of what Canada\nis all about and what it means to be a\nCanadian,\" Morrison said. \"That's one of\nthe greatest impacts it had on me.\"\nUBC students who are selected for the\nprogram remain registered at UBC, pay\ntuition and student fees to UBC and\nremain eligible for UBC awards, scholarships and financial aid.\nIn turn, international students from\npartner universities attend UBC as visiting exchange students without displacing Canadian students.\nWhen the UBC students return to complete their degrees they enrich the classes\nthey are in with new and different insights\ngained through their experiences, Watt\nsaid.\n\"There are lots of other practical ben-\nKent Kallberg photo\nGraduating UBC student Trevor Morrison compares notes with Mihoko\nNakagawa, a Commerce student on exchange from Japan's Sophia University.\nMorrison spent a year studying at Sophia University as part of UBC's\nEducation Abroad program.\nefits,\" she added. \"Exchange students\nmake important contacts, improve their\njob prospects, learn language skills and\nincrease their cultural understanding.\"\nDan Birch, vice-president. Academic\nand Provost, said students in the Education Abroad Program serve as ambassadors for UBC and are better prepared to\nplay a leading role in representing Canada's national interests as they move on in\ntheir careers.\n\"However you define it, in terms of a\nliberal education, understanding others\nin different cultures, or international competitiveness, the Education Abroad Program is an important part of UBC's development,\" he said.\nThe involvement of faculty members is\na critical factor in the success of the\nprogram, he said. It has thrived in faculties where it is seen to enrich teaching\nand learning.\nBirch said the next stage of international study for UBC students, beyond\nthe Education Abroad Program, may include the development of short-term programs for recent graduates.\nThese might include short study trips\nthat could unite European and UBC students on visits to Pacific Rim countries.\n\"With our strategic position on the\nPacific, we could serve as a catalyst for\ncontact between Europe and Asia,\" Birch\nsaid.\nWinners have 153 years of service at UBC\nFive members of the campus\ncommunity are this year's winners of\nthe President's Service Award for\nExcellence, presented in recognition\nof distinguished contributions to the\nuniversity.\nCollectively, this year's recipients\nhave a total of 153 years of service at\nUBC. Each winner will receive a gold\nmedal and $5,000 at award presentations during spring and fall Congregation ceremonies.\nMaureen Douglas, assistant to the\ndean in the Faculty of Science, has\nbeen a member of the campus\ncommunity for 40 years. Her association with UBC and the faculty began\nin 1954 as an undergraduate student.\nShe joined the Zoology Department as\na research technician/associate upon\ngraduating with a BSc degree.\nDouglas, who is cited as an outstanding administrator, joined the\ndean's office staff in 1963 and has\nserved under four deans. In the mid\n1980s, she once again enrolled as a\nstudent at UBC and received a BA in\nEnglish in 1987, with an interest in\nCommonwealth and African literature.\nShe has been a volunteer in the\ncampus United Way campaign for\nseveral years and has served on many\ncommittees dealing with equity and\nmulticultural issues, university management and information systems. In\n1991, she was honoured with a Just\nDeserts Award by the Science Undergraduate Society for her work with\nstudents.\nAlbert Emslie has been a senior\ncustodial supervisor in Plant Operations for 24 years. He first joined UBC\nin 1970 as a custodial scheduler after\nnearly a decade with Woodward's\nDepartment Stores.\nHe has served on various management committees within Hant Operations and has participated in the\ndepartment's United Way fund-raising\nactivities for the past several years.\nIn 1990, Emslie was the recipient of\na UBC 75th anniversary gold medal\naward in recognition of his service to\nthe university.\nHelen Hann, assistant to the vice-\npresident. Research, began her UBC\ncareer in the real estate division ofthe\nFaculty of Commerce in 1961. A year\nlater she left campus to pursue other\ncareer opportunities but returned to\nthe university in 1965 as a research\nassistant to Peter Larkin, then director\nof the Institute of Fisheries.\nHahn served as Larkin's research\nassistant for 22 years, moving with\nhim from the Institute of Fisheries to\nthe Dept. of Zoology, where he was\nhead, to the Faculty of Graduate\nStudies upon his appointment as dean\nand finally to the office of vice-president. Research.\nShe was honoured by the university\nwith a 75th anniversary gold medal\naward in 1990, has been involved with\nthe campus United Way campaign and\nserved as president of UBC's 25 Year\nClub.\nThomas Shorthouse joined the\nFaculty of Law as law librarian in 1966.\nA UBC graduate, he studied English\nand history and received a certificate in\nteacher training before embarking on a\ncareer as a secondary school teacher\nwith the Surrey School Board and the\nVancouver School Board. Shorthouse\nreturned to the university in 1965 and\nearned a bachelor degree in Library\nScience.\nDuring his 28-year career at the\nuniversity, he has served on numerous\nUBC and library committees and task\nforces including the committee on\nexternal library funding, the campus\nemergency planning committee and the\ntask force on access to periodicals.\nShorthouse taught Law Library\nAdministration in UBC's School of\nLibrarianship between 1979 and 1987\nand has lectured on librarianship in\nCanada at Beijing's Qinhua University and Aeronautics Institute.\nDavid Llewelyn Williams, whose\ncareer at UBC spans three decades, is\na professor in the Dept. of Physics\nand served as department head\nbetween 1982 and 1987. A graduate\nof the University of Cambridge, he\nwas a National Research Council of\nCanada post-doctoral fellow at UBC\nfor two years before joining the\nuniversity as an instructor in 1962.\nWidely lauded for his commitment\nto university and community service,\nWilliams served as assistant, associate and acting dean of the Faculty of\nGraduate Studies between 1975 and\n1981. He was an executive member of\nthe Faculty Association, chair of the\npresident's advisory committee on\nland use and has chaired the UBC\nentrance scholarship committee and\nthe UBC Killam post-doctoral fellowship committee.\nWilliams has been a member of the\nUBC Senate for 10 years and currently chairs the Senate nominating\ncommittee.\nIn 1984, he was one of 21 individuals cited by the Alma Mater\nSociety for his hard work and commitment to university and student\nconcerns. UBC Reports \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 May 19,1994 5\nUBC bestows 14 honorary degrees\nDegrees honour exemplary Canadians\nby Abe Hefter\nStaff writer\nVerna Kirkness,\nwho developed and\narticulated a vision\nfor Native education,\nand Nobel Prize winner Michael Smith are\namong the 14 outstanding Canadians\nreceiving honorary\ndegrees from UBC\nduring spring Congregation.\nOther honorary\ndegree winners are\nwriter George\nBowering, civil servant Margaret Catley-\nCarlson, UBC educator Dr. Wallace\nChung, forest sector researcher Otto\nForgacs, teamsters pioneer Diana\nKilmury, business leader David McLean,\nnursing pioneer Helen Mussallem, legal\npractitioner Patricia Proudfoot, UBC educator J. Lewis Robinson, novelist Jane\nRule, former Simon Fraser\nUniversity president William\nSaywell and grand tea master\nSoshitsu Sen.\nGeorge Bowering enjoys\na national and international\nreputation as one of Canada's finest poets and fiction\nwriters. He is the author of\nmore than 50 works including Burning Water, the story\nof explorer George Vancouver.\nMargaret Catley-Carlson\nis one of the most prominent\nand respected civil servants\nin Canada. She has had an\nexceptional career in the field of\ninternational development and is currently president of the Population Council.\nDr. Wallace Chung established the\nDivision of Vascular Surgery in UBC's\nFaculty of Medicine and served as head of\nthe Dept. of Surgery during an outstand\ning 30-year career as a\nteacher and clinician.\nOtto Forgacs has\nchampioned research,\ndevelopment and higher\neducation as the means\nof creating an internationally competitive and\nenvironmentally sensitive forest sector in\nCanada. The former senior vice-president of research and development\nat MacMillan Bloedel has\nbeen responsible for a\nnumber of important\nwood product innovations.\nDiana Kilmury was a pioneering member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union,\nthe reform caucus within the Teamsters\nUnion dedicated to ridding the union of\ncorruption. In 1991 she was elected as\nthe first and only woman vice-president\nofthe International Brotherhood of Teamsters.\nVerna Kirkness, in\nher career as a respected educator\nand spokesperson\nfor aboriginal education, has devoted\nmore than three decades to making education available and\nrelevant to the philosophy and needs\nof First Nations people. She has developed and articulated\na vision for Native\neducation, and has\nacquired the resources and created\nthe institutions for the realization of her\nvision.\nDavid McLean has been a leader in\nVancouver's business community for the\npast 25 years. His role as chair of the\nVancouver Board of Trade and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce has been\nTrained Eye\nClassics graduate student\nMike Patience displays the\nsteam safety valve he\nidentified from the civil war\ngunboat, USS Suwanee,\nwhich went down in 1868 in\nQueen Charlotte Sound. The\nvalve sat unidentified in the\nVancouver Maritime\nMuseum for 10 years, until\nPatience took on the\nidentification project as part\nof an innovative cooperative venture between\nthe museum and the\narchaeology program in the\nClassics Dept. After having\nthe valve X-rayed, Patience\nhit the books and managed\nto identify the piece as a\nsteam safety valve.\nAbe Hefter photo\nEvents bring alumni together\nAre you a young alumnus, or an\nalumnus who is young at heart? The\nYoung Alumni Connections (YAC) of the\nUBC Alumni Association is looking for\nyou.\nNow in its second year, the YAC organizes events and activities and is open to\nany member of the UBC Alumni Association \u00E2\u0080\u0094 recent grads, or those just plain\nyoung at heart, said Leanne Jacobs, chair\nof the YAC.\n\"All of our events are organized by\nvolunteers on a cost recovery basis. So,\nif you have any ideas and are interested in\nhelping out, let us know,\" Jacobs said.\nMore than 280 alumni took part in\nYAC events during the 1993-94 year,\nincluding a job search workshop, two\nFrederic Wood Theatre nights, and a New\nYear's Eve dinner and dance.\nEvents this summer include a chocolate dessertfest at Le Meridien Hotel June\n24, a dude ranch/white water rafting\nadventure July 29-Aug. 1 and a sailboat\ncruise Sept. 11.\nGraduates from other universities, and\nstudents in their final year of study, or\nclose to it, are also welcome Jacobs said.\nFor more information, call the UBC\nAlumni Association at 822- 8917.\ncritical in supporting\nCanada's position in international trade and\neconomic development.\nHelen Mussallem is\na former director of the\nCanadian Nurses Association and was active\nwith the World Health\nOrganization, the International Red Cross, the\nCommonwealth Foundation and the Canadian\nInternational Development Agency. A recipient of the Order of\nCanada and a fellow of\nthe Royal College of\nNursing of the U.K., she was the first\nCanadian nurse to earn a doctoral degree.\nPatricia Proudfoot was, prior to being\ncalled to the bench, a family law practitioner and has served as a mentor for\nmany women in the legal profession. She\nserved on the Royal Commission on the\nIncarceration of Female\nOffenders and was a\nmember of the Federal Committee To In-\nvestigate Sexual\nOffenses Against Children.\nJ. Lewis Robinson\nwas invited to establish a program in geography at UBC in\n1946 and went on to\nbecome the founding\nhead of the Dept. of\nGeography from its inception in 1959 to\n1968. He was previously honored with a\nMaster Teacher Award in 1977.\nJane Rule is an American-born novelist and essayist who now resides on B.C.'s\nGaliano Island. Rule's writings about the\nlives of women in contemporary North\nAmerica have become significant texts in\nWomen's Studies courses in recent years.\nShe has participated\nin Canada's arts communities as a member of various boards\nand juries, most recently serving on the\nboard of the prestigious Koerner Foundation.\nWilliam Saywell,\na specialist in 20th\ncentury Chinese history, served as a\nsinologist and first\nsecretary in the Canadian embassy in\nBeijing in the early\n1970s, prior to becoming president of Simon Fraser University in 1983. During his tenure, Saywell\ndirected the university's expansion from\nits Burnaby Mountain campus to an additional downtown campus.\nSoshitsu Sen, dedicated to a life-long\ncalling of promoting and teaching Chado,\nthe way of tea, became the grand master\nof the Urasenke School of\nTea in 1964. He has directed\nmuch of his efforts to introducing Chado around the\nworld. Sen has provided invaluable assistance to UBC\nfor the complete renovations\nofthe tea house in the Nitobe\nMemorial Garden.\nMichael Smith received\nthe 1993 Nobel Prize in\nChemistry for discovering\na technique which enables\nscientists to reprogram the\ngenetic code.\nSmith serves as director\nof UBC's Biotechnology\nLaboratory and as a professor in the Dept. of Biochemistry and\nMolecular Biology. His numerous academic awards and distinctions granted\nin recognition of his scientific achievements include fellowships in the Royal\nSociety of London and the Royal Society of Canada.\nGrad moves out after\n16 years in residence\nby Gavin Wilson\nStaff writer\nWhen Carl Cooper graduates this\nmonth, he will finally be leaving his student dorm \u00E2\u0080\u0094 after 16 years in residence.\nCooper has worked as the residence\nlife manager at Place Vanier for 12 years\nafter spending four years there as an\nundergraduate. Now he's graduating with\na master's degree in education.\n\"It's a terrific place,\" he said. \"I'll miss\nit.\"\nCooper didn't always m^^^^m^m\nfeel so good about student\nlife. When he first arrived\nat UBC as an undergraduate he had just shaved off\nall his head and body hair\nfor a swimming competition. \t\n\"I didn't know anyone. I\nhad no hair. It took me a week to find my\nmath class,\" he says of his traumatic\nintroduction to campus life. \"I was pretty\ndespondent.\"\nHis difficult adjustment hurt his studies, too. Cooper had a 22 per cent average\nheading into Christmas exams.\n\"I was in deep trouble,\" he admits now.\nBut Cooper pulled through. He found\nlike-minded companions in the varsity\nswim team and also got involved in residence life. By second year, he was a\nhouse president at Vanier.\nCooper later used his experiences to\nhelp Place Vanier students cope with\n\"It's a terrific\nplace, I'll miss it\nCarl Cooper\ntheir own problems. He developed a course\nthat gives them hints on how to survive\nfirst-year, hints that include getting involved in campus activities.\n\"Probably the number one thing to do\nis build a rapport with your professors,\"\nhe added. \"I know many students feel\nuncomfortable doing it, but they should\ndrop by and talk to their profs in September.\"\nCooper also applied his vast experience with student life to his graduate\nstudies. His major paper\nfor his master's degree was\non the factors affecting student success in first-year\nuniversity.\nAs residence life manager, Cooper was responsible for the welfare and\n discipline of 900 students.\nHe supervised 23 residence advisors who in turn run about\n300 events a year, including barbecues,\ntalent shows, Softball games and dances.\nHe also oversaw student government\nin residence, which organizes another\n150 activities.\n\"Sometimes, residences get a reputation for parties \u00E2\u0080\u0094 it was pretty wild when\nI first arrived \u00E2\u0080\u0094 but most parties are\ntightly controlled these days,\" he said.\n\"It's a great place, I've had lots of\nfriends here.\"\nIn August, the recently engaged Cooper\nis moving to Salmon Arm to be with his\nfiance, who is also a teacher. 6 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 May 19, 1994\nProgram aims to boost First\nNations science enrolment\nby Gavin Wilson\nStaff writer\nPlans are underway at UBC to\ndevelop a program that would\nencourage more First Nations\nstudents to enrol in engineering\nand science courses.\nThe program would look at\nissues relevant to First Nations,\nsuch as land and resource use,\nand seek guidance from native\nelders, said Jo-ann Archibald,\ndirector of UBC's First Nations\nHouse of Learning.\n\"We would like to see courses\nthat give an aboriginal perspective on science,\" she said, \"for\nexample, a course on ethno-bi-\nology that looks at First Nations\ncultural knowledge and relationships with the environment and\nits natural resources.\"\nArchibald said that it is becoming increasingly important\nfor First Nations people to learn\nthe skills they will need for self-\ngovernment. It is equally important for non-native people to\nlearn more about and from Canada's aboriginal peoples, she\nadded.\n\"It Is imperative that there are\nmore courses with First Nations\nJo-ann Archibald\ncontent in all faculties,\" she said.\n\"I think everyone would benefit\nfrom knowing more about our\ntraditional values and knowledge.\"\nArchibald said the program\nshould also address the need for\nmath and science tutoring and\norientation to the university\namong the new students, many\nof whom may come from reserves\nand smaller schools outside the\nLower Mainland.\nThe program will also fulfil a\nFaculty of Applied Science desire to enrol more First Nations\nstudents, said Sid Mindess, associate dean. Engineering Program.\n\"We'd like to see more native\nstudents given the opportunity\nto study engineering. Right now\nonly three of our 2,100 undergraduate engineers are First\nNations students \u00E2\u0080\u0094 that's not a\nvery inspiring number,\" he said.\n\"As more land claims are settled, there will be a need for First\nNations professional engineers\nwho have an understanding of\ntraditions and culture to help\ndeal with resource development\nissues in their own communities.\"\nB.C. Hydro has donated\n$25,000 to the program to help a\ncommittee look at native engineering programs at other Canadian universities and see how\ntheir lessons could be applied at\nUBC.\nThe program's planning committee will also learn from already-existing UBC programs for\nFirst Nations students in law,\neducation and the health sciences.\n\"Our goal is to have 1,000\nFirst Nations students enrolled\nat UBC by the year 2000,\"\nArchibald said.\nMindess said the program\naims to admit its first students\nin September, 1995.\nAthletics records best year so far\nby Abe Hefter\nStaff writer\nThe final score for UBC athletics in 1994: three Canadian\nInteruniversity Athletic Union\n(CIAU) championships; eight\nCanada West titles; 26 Canada\nWest All-stars; 23 CIAU individual and relay medals; 19 CIAU\nAll-Canadians; two All-Ameri-\ncans; and four CIAU coach-of-\nthe-year distinctions.\nWhen you add all these figures together, you come away\nwith what was arguably the most\nsuccessful season in UBC history. The following are highlights:\nWomen's Basketball:\nCanada West champions; Carrie\nCarlsen and Adair Duncan chosen as Canada West All-stars.\nMen's Basketball: Canada\nWest All-stars Derek\nChristiansen and Bob Heighton\nled the Birds to a berth against\nAlberta in the Canada West\nchampionship series, before losing to the Golden Bears.\nCrosscountry: Canada West\nchampions, men and women;\nKaren Reader, Lori Durward and\nmen's team members Jeff\nSchiebler, Graeme Fell and Zeba\nCrook named All-Canadians.\nMarek Jedrezejek named CIAU\nmen's coach-of-the-year.\nWomen's Field Hockey: Defeated Victoria to win Canada\nWest title; Sam LeRiche, Laura\nPrellwitz and Leslie Richardson\nnamed Canada West All-stars.\nLeRiche also named Canada\nWest player of the year.\nMen's Field Hockey: Won\nthe Berkeley Invitational Tournament at Berkeley, California.\nMen's Volleyball: Conrad\nLeinemann named Canada West\nplayer of the year and All-Canadian. Bob Smith and Ross\nBallard named Canada West All-\nstars. Dale Ohman named\nCanada West coach-of-the-year\nas T-Birds lost to Calgary in the\nCanada West championships.\nWomen's Volleyball: A re\nbuilding year saw Colleen Venne\nreplace Donna Baydock as head\ncoach.\nWomen's Swimming:\nCanada West and CIAU champions. Tom Johnson named CIAU\nwomen's coach-of-the-year.\nButterfly specialist Sarah\nEvanetz led all UBC competitors\nwith five gold medals at the national championships.\nMen's Swimming: Seventh\nat CIAU championships, with\nfreestyler Dave Higgins winning\na bronze medal.\nWomen's Track and Field:\nCanada West champions and\nsecond-place finishers at CIAU\nchampionship. First-year competitor Nadine Nembhard won\nthree gold medals. Carmyn\nJames named Canada West and\nCIAU women's coach-of-the-\nyear.\nMen's Track and Field: Seventh in CIAU championships,\nwith Jeff Schiebler winning a\ngold medal and Tim Moran and\nTrevor Jones winning bronze.\nRugby: Thunderbirds won\nthe World Cup Trophy with a\nvictory over the University of\nCalifornia-Berkeley enroute to a\n3-0 record in the annual California-Oregon tour.\nSkiing: Carmine Boskovich\nnamed Ail-American after a\nsixth-place finish in slalom at\nthe national championships.\nCormac Hickish finished third\nin the slalom at the regional\nchampionships.\nWomen's Soccer: Canada\nWest and CIAU champions;\nSophie Spilborghs, Nicole Sedgewick, Heidi Slaymaker and\nTammy Crawford named Canada\nWest All-stars. Crawford,\nSlaymaker and Andrea Neil were\ntournament All-stars.\nMen's Soccer: T-Birds won\nfifth straight Canada West crown,\nlosing to Sherbrooke in overtime\nin the national championship.\nKevin Hearne, Canada West and\nCIAU player-of-the-year, named\nto Canada West All-star team,\nalong with Pat Onstad, Tom Kim,\nRicki Hikida, Chris Franks,\nGiuliano Oliviero, Craig Chiasson\nand J.P. Knezevic.\nFootball: 20-17 victory over\nSimon Fraser University in\nShrum Bowl; Ian Hetherington,\nJon Salter, Jeff Sharpe, Vince\nDanielsen, Dave McLaughlin and\nAnthony Flndlay were named\nCanada West All-stars.\nDanielsen was a first-round pick\nofthe Calgary Stampeders ofthe\nCanadian Football League.\nGolf: Shelly Comadina's finished second at the University of\nCalifornia-Santa Barbara\nInvitational. Craig Doell and\nBrett Taylor recorded top-10 finishes on the men's side.\nGymnastics: The men finished third at the Canadian University Championships behind\nthe performances of Steve\nLatham, Josh Lepawsky and Len\nChong. The women finished seventh.\nHockey: T-Birds finished seventh in conference play.\nRowing: Michelle\nBrindamour represented\nCanada at the World Student\nGames and won a silver in the\nwomen's eight. Jack Walkey\nand Shawn Walsh won the open\npair competition at the Royal\nCanadian Henley Regatta.\nThey also won silver medals in\nthe men's eight competition at\nthe student games.\nHllssified\nThe classified advertising rate is $ 15 for 35 words or\nless. Each additional word is 50 cents. Rate includes\nGST. 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Gardiner- UBC Program for Executive Development\n* ..a mark of excellence to supply the needs of a\nconference and receive no complaints!\"\nMary Lou Bishoff- Anglican Renewal Ministries Conference\nCANADA'S LARGEST UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE CENTRE\nInnovations in teaching\nrecognized with awards\nby Gavin Wilson\nStaff writer\nTom Knight will find a place of\nhonour for his new talking stick\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 the traditional symbol of wisdom and the authority to speak\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 in his collection of Northwest\nCoast Native Indian art.\nThe talking stick is being presented to him as one of 22 UBC\nfaculty members receiving 1994\nUniversity Teaching Prizes during spring Congregation ceremonies.\nKnight, an associate professor in the Faculty of Commerce\nand Business Administration, is\nthe winner of the Commerce\nAlumni Talking Stick Award for\npedagogical innovation. Last\nyear, he won the faculty's Arne\nOlsen Master Teacher Award for\nundergraduate education.\nHe is being honoured for developing the internship program\nfor undergraduates studying industrial relations management\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 a program that recently re-\nIceived a national award for excellence in business-education\npartnerships from the Conference Board of Canada.\nPaul Smith\nThe program gives students\nprofessional experience and exposure by placing them in organizations where they perform\nentry level duties in human resource management and industrial relations. While there, they\nalso conduct an independent\nresearch project.\nIn six years, the internship\nprogram has placed almost 50\nstudents with more than 25 individual sponsors, IncludlngB.C.\nTel, MacMillan Bloedel, Molson's,\nthe Hongkong Bank of Canada\nand the Labour Relations Board.\n\"The internship program\nhelps to build bridges between\nthe university and the down-\nNews Digest\nThe International Student\nOutreach Office opened its\ndoors recently to help make life\nat UBC a little easier for\ninternational students, scholars and visiting professors.\nServices provided by the\noffice include information and\nregistration for International\nHouse programs, workshops\nand seminars, information on\nvolunteer opportunities\navailable through International\nHouse, and distribution of\nforms such as taxation guides\nand visa renewal kits to\ninternational students.\nThe office is located in room\n262, Brock Hall, and handles\nTom Knight\ntown business community that\nprovide tremendous benefits for\nthe faculty and our students,\"\nKnight said.\nThe program has also had\nbenefits for the participating\ncompanies, he added.\nTypically, these are our best\nstudents. The reports they write\ngive the sponsoring companies\nnew perspectives on what they\nare doing. It's a good experience\nfor everybody,\" he said.\nThe connections made\nthrough the program have also\nplayed a key role in the creation\nof the faculty's Centre for Labour and Management Studies,\nof which Knight is director.\nRecipients of University\nTeaching Prizes, which recognize the fundamental importance\nof teaching at the university, are\nselected by their faculties and\nreceive $5,000 from endowment\nsources.\nThe other winners for 1994\nare:\nFaculty of Agricultural Sciences: Les Lavkulich, professor, Dept. of Soil Science.\nFaculty of Applied Science:\nClive Brereton. associate professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering: Linda Leonard, associate professor. School of Nursing.\nFaculty of Arts: Lynn Alden,\nprofessor, Dept. of Psychology;\nThomas Blom, associate professor, Dept. of English: Paul\nBurns, instructor, Dept. of Religious Studies: Susanna Egan,\nassistant professor, Dept. of\nEnglish; Alan Tully, associate\nprofessor, Dept. of History.\nFaculty of Commerce and\nMartin Dee photo\nBusiness Administration: Craig Pinder,\nprofessor. Industrial\nRelations Management\nDivision (CGA Master\nTeacher Award for\ngraduate education).\nFaculty of Education: Patricia Arlin,\nprofessor, Dept. of\nEducational Psychology and Special Education; Kit Grauer,\nsenior instructor,\nDept. of Visual and\nPerforming Arts Education.\nFaculty of Forestry:\nTom Sullivan, associate professor, Dept. of\nForest Sciences.\nFaculty of Graduate\nStudies: Brian Elliott,\nprofessor, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology.\nFaculty of Law: Bruce\nWoolley, visiting assistant professor.\nFaculty of Medicine: Alexander Cairns: associate professor,\nDivision of Endocrinology, Dept.\nof Medicine; David Hardwick,\nprofessor and associate dean,\nResearch and Planning, Dept. of\nPathology; William Schreiber,\nassociate professor, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.\nFaculty of Pharmaceutical\nSciences: Frank Abbott, professor and chair, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.\nFaculty of Science: Murray\nGoldberg, instructor, Dept. of\nComputer Science; Paul Smith,\nprofessor, Dept. of Geological\nSciences; Matthew Yedlin, assistant professor, Dept. of Geophysics and Astronomy and\nDept. of Electrical Engineering.\nLynn Alden\ngeneral inquiries Monday to\nFriday from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30\np.m. For more information, call\n822-0617.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe Michael Smith Awards\nfor Science Promotion have\nbeen created to recognize the\ncontributions of Canadians\nand organizations in promoting\nscience, technology, engineering and mathematics among\nyoung people.\nUp to 16 awards will be\ngiven annually: two for individuals, four for public sector\nand non-profit organizations\nand 10 for private sector firms.\nAwards are non-monetary\nand consist of commemorative\nhonours. The deadline for\nnominations is Sept. 9. For\nmore information, call Industry\nCanada at (613) 993-5249 or\nfax (613) 998-0943.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nUBC's Faculty of Law has\nopened a Career Placement\nOffice to help law students and\ngraduates across Canada find\narticles, clerkships and\npermanent and part-time\nemployment.\nFor more information, or to\nprovide information to the\nCareer Placement Office, call\n822-3417 or fax 822-8108. 8 UBC Reports \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 May 19,1994\nU of T honours\nUBC president\nby Connie Filletti\nStaff writer\nUBC President David\nStrangway will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree on\nJune 7 from the University of\nToronto.\nThe honour recognizes\nStrangway's outstanding international contributions to science\nand his leadership role in the\nfield of higher education in\nCanada, said University of Toronto President Robert Prichard\nin a letter inviting Strangway to\naccept the award.\nA University of Toronto gradu -\nate, Strangway was a member of\nthe university's Physics Department from 1968 to 1970 during\nwhich time he was appointed\nprincipal investigator for the\nstudy of returned lunar samples. He became a member ofthe\nlunar sample and analysis planning team responsible for overseeing the security of the samples and for their allocation to\nscientists around the world.\nIn 1970 he joined NASA as\nchief of the Geophysics Branch\nwith responsibility for the geophysical aspects of the Apollo\nspace missions. He returned to\nthe University of Toronto three\nyears later to chair the Dept. of\nGeology where he developed electromagnetic techniques which\nprovided basic information related to the nature, origin and\nevolution ofthe earth, moon and\nsolar system.\nStrangway was appointed\nvice-president and provost ofthe\nUniversity of Toronto in 1980\nand served as interim president\nbetween 1983 and 1984.\nA fellow ofthe Royal Society of\nCanada, he has been awarded\nthe NASA Medal for Exceptional\nScientific Achievement, the Virgil\nKauifman Gold Medal ofthe Society for Exploration Geophysicists, the Logan Medal of the\nGeological Association of Canada\nand the Senior Izaak Walton\nKillam Memorial Scholarship,\nCanada's most prestigious award\nin the sciences.\nStrangway became UBC's 11th\npresident and vice-chancellor in\n1985 and was re-appointed to a\nsecond six-year term in 1991.\nSwimming veteran\npushing to the finish\nby Abe Hefter\nStaff writer\nKevin Draxinger has earned\nhis swimming stripes.\nA seven-year veteran of international competition, Draxinger\ncaptured a bronze medal at the\n1990 Commonwealth Games in\nAuckland and finished 12th at\nthe 1992 Summer Olympics in\nBarcelona. Now, in the twilight\nof his competitive career, the\nVictoria Commonwealth Games\nIn August represent his last kick\nat the competitive can.\nMaybe.\nDraxinger, who has continued to study at UBC since graduating with a BSc in Biology in\n1991, is no youngster when it\ncomes to international competition. And he knows it.\nTm 27. That's old,\" he said,\nsomewhat sheepishly.\n\"However, I peaked late as a\ncompetitive swimmer. I was 20\nwhen I took part in my first\ninternational meet. That's an\nage when many swimmers start\npeaking.\"\nJudging from his performance\nheading into the Commonwealth\nGames. Draxinger may be peaking at the right time.\nHe finished first in the 200-\nmetre backstroke at the Commonwealth Games trials in\nMarch in Victoria to ensure a\nspot on the Canadian team in\nthat discipline.\n\"It sure helps to know you're\nin there,\" he said.\nBeing \"in there\" also gives\nDraxinger a chance at qualifying\nfor the World Swimming Championships in Rome in September. A fast enough time in the\n200-metre backstroke in Victoria could earn him a spot on the\nCanadian team in Rome, and he\nacknowledges that it might be\nenough to keep the competitive\nfires burning for one more meet.\nKevin Draxinger\nBut first things first.\nHis goal at the Commonwealth\nGames is to swim as fast as he\ncan. A medal should come into\nplay, if everything goes right.\nThe Commonwealth Games\nwill be quite the challenge. Having the crowd behind me will be\na real boost. It'll be the first\nopportunity for a lot of friends\nand relatives to see me compete.\"\nThe moral support will come\nin handy for Draxinger, who is\nexpected to battle it out in the\npool with the number one 200-\nmetre backstroke artist in the\nCommonwealth, Scott Miller of\nAustralia.\n\"My personal best is 2:00.5.\nMiller has clocked in at 1:59,\nwhich will probably be gold-\nmedal territory.\"\nIn the meantime, Draxinger\nwill continue to train at UBC\nuntil the middle of June, when\nhe will leave for California and a\nseries of meets before going on to\nSalt Lake City for altitude training. He'll compete at the National Championships in Toronto\nbefore he heads to Victoria three\nweeks later to wrap up his international swim career.\nMaybe.\nAlan Roaf photo\nUBC men's varsity crew members, seen here training at Burnaby Lake, are among the\nathletes vying for spots on the UBC crew that will compete in the Henley Royal Regatta.\nUBC rowers to compete\nin Henley Royal Regatta\nby Abe Hefter\nStaff writer\nThe UBC rowing team is\ngoing back to the future.\nBuoyed by the success of\nthe university rowing program\nat all levels of competition this\nyear, UBC has elected to enter\na crew in the prestigious Henley\nRoyal Regatta, site of outstanding performances by UBC rowing crews over the years.\nA men's eight-oared crew\nwill represent UBC in the university level class of competition in this year's regatta, June\n29 to July 3.\n\"This is a tremendous boost\nto the varsity rowing program,\"\nsaid UBC rowing coordinator\nAlan Roaf.\n\"The program has been in a\nrebuilding stage in recent\nyears, and the men's team has\nbeen making large strides. The\nwomen's team has been building steadily as well.\"\nThe Henley Royal Regatta is\nthe Holy Grail of the rowing\nworld, on par with the Wimbledon tennis tournament in\nterms of athletic prestige and\ntradition.\nSince 1839, international\nclub crews have congregated\non the Thames River near London to compete in 14 rowing\nevents geared to all levels of competition.\nUBC's first appearance came\nin 1955 at the invitation of Prince\nPhilip, after the men's eights\nteam captured the gold medal at\nthe British Empire Games in\nVancouver the year before. The\nresult was a semi-final victory\nover the defending champions\nfrom Russia, and a subsequent\nnarrow loss to the University of\nPennsylvania in the final.\nThe eight-oared crew went on\nto win a silver at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne,\nwhile the coxless fours team from\nUBC won the gold.\nUBC crews appeared in finals\nat Henley in 1972, 1976 and\nagain in 1992, highlighted by a\nvictory for the men's coxless fours\nin 1976.\nRoaf believes the university is\non its way to recapturing past\nrowing glories, as a result of top-\nnotch recruiting and a first-rate\ntraining program.\n\"You need look no further than\nthe men's novice crew, undefeated in six races this year. This\nis the type of winning attitude\nthese students will take with\nthem as they move up the com\npetitive rowing ranks through\nthe junior varsity and varsity\nprograms.\n\"The future for UBC rowing\nis bright indeed. The Henley\nRegatta offers our athletes a\nunique opportunity to believe\nin themselves as individuals\nand a crew and build on this\nyear's successes,\" Roaf said.\nThe collegiate rowing season ended May 7 with a meet\nat the University of Victoria.\nThe men's crew will continue\nto train at Burnaby Lake\nthrough early June, at which\ntime the fined selection process will be made, with 12 athletes currently vying for spots\non the eight-member crew.\nThe Henley Royal Regatta\nwill also give the more than\n400 UBC alumni based in the\nUnited Kingdom an opportunity to meet with members of\nthe rowing team. President\nDavid Strangway, and other\nuniversity representatives at\na Canada Day reception. Any\ncurrent UBC faculty, staff or\nstudents in London during this\ntime are invited to attend. The\nreception will be held at B.C.\nHouse in London, hosted by\nUBC alumnus Mark Rose, the\nagent general for B.C.\nJobsLine service offers 24-hour help\nby Connie Filletti\nStaff writer\nUBC students looking for work\ncan get round-the-clock help\nfrom a new touch-tone system\nintroduced last year by Career\nand Placement Services.\nThe system places UBC first\namong Canadian universities to\noffer job placement and career\nhelp by telephone 24-hours-a-\nday.\nMore than 6,000 students\nhave registered for JobsLine, the\nsystem's main service, which lists\nboth full- and part-time employment opportunities as diverse as\nbabysitting and computer programming.\nAccording to estimates by the\nfederal human resources department, the number of students\naged 15 to 24 looking for work\nthis summer will rise to about\n120,000 from 116,000 in 1993.\nOf these students, 102,000 to\n105,000 wil find jobs, leaving\nabout 15 per cent unemployed,\ndown slightly from last year.\nEvelyn Buriak, manager of\nCareer and Placement Services,\nestimates the number of jobs\nposted on JobsLine at 50 to 120,\ndepending on the time of year,\nwith new listings being added\ndaily.\n\"A survey taken last September indicates that 30 per cent of\nthe UBC students who were registered JobsLine users found work\nthrough the service,\" she said.\nBuriak hopes to expand the\nrange of services accessible to\ncurrent students and alumni.\nA recent restructuring of the\noffice \u00E2\u0080\u0094 previously called Student Placement Services \u00E2\u0080\u0094 reflects the career help now being\noffered. An augmentation to the\nJobsLine system is also\nunderway to include a 24-hour\ntouch-tone CareersLine.\n\"CareersLine will be an enhancement of our recruiting program for graduates which attempts to place them in permanent, entry-level career positions,\" Buriak explained.\nShe believes that CareersLine\nwill facilitate recruitment by international employers.\nThe services offered are free\nfor students registered at UBC.\nThe fee for alumni is $25 and\nincludes a resume consultation.\nTo hear employment opportunities 24-hours-a-day, students can call JobsLine at 822-\n8668. To list with the service,\nemployers may call 822-6522.\nFor information, call 822-\n4011 or visit Career and Placement Services in Room 307,\nBrock Hall."@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LE3.B8K U2"@en . "LE3_B8K_U2_1994_05_19"@en . "10.14288/1.0118329"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . 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