"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "1969-01-13"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118339/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " UBC REPORTS - CAMPUS EDITION/\nPRESIDENT\nHARE RESIGNS\nk\nDr. Walter Koerner, chairman of the Board\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 of Governors of The University of B.C.,\nannounced Saturday, Jan. 11, the resignation\nof Dr. F. Kenneth Hare as president of the\nUniversity.\nDr. Hare said in his letter of resignation\nthat he had found the job of president\nimpossible for a man of his temperament.\nDr. Hare is now in England. His resignation\nis effective January 31, 1969.\nDr. Koerner, in announcing Dr. Hare's\nresignation, said the Board of Governors had\naccepted it with great reluctance and regret.\nHe said he and his fellow Board members\nhad the highest respect for Dr. Hare, for his\nintelligence and his imaginative approach to\nUniversity problems. He said Dr. Hare, with\nhis broad liberal view of education, had\nachieved easy rapport with the student body,\nthe faculty and administration, with alumni\nand with the Board of Governors, and had\nmade a promising start in overcoming some of\nthe University's problems.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A1 an\nBut he said the presidency of any major\nuniversity is a highly demanding and complex\njob, as evidenced by the premature resignation of dozens of Canadian and American\nuniversity heads in the last two years. He said\nthe many conflicting pressures of the\npresidency had simply proved to be more\nthan Dr. Hare had anticipated.\nDr. Hare, a geographer and meteorologist\nof international stature, plans to return to\nteaching and research at another university.\nDean Walter Gage has been named acting\npresident of UBC until a permanent successor\nto Dr. Hare can be found. Dr. Koerner said a\nselection committee will be set up to seek a\nnew- president, and will be widely representative of the University community.\nThe committee will undertake the difficult\nsearch for candidates with the rare combination of academic and administrative qualifications necessary for the presidency.\nIn his letter of resignation, Dr. Hare\nexplained to the Board his reasons for\nrelinquishing the position:\n\"The presidency,\" he said, \"is rendered\nimpossible for a man of my temperament, not\nby things inside the University but by the\nexternal environment. The problem is that I\nsee the difficulties of the University with\nstark clarity, and believe them to demand\nimmediate solution; yet there are no resources\navailable to the president even to mitigate\nthem, let alone solve them. This is in spite of\nthe outstandingly loyal support of the\nGovernors, to whom I am deeply grateful.\nThe Faculty too has backed me up,\nnotwithstanding my inability to help them.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A1 \u00E2\u0096\u00A1 \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\n\"I must put in a good word for the student\nbody. I have identified with their cause\nbecause I am a teacher, and they have\nresponded with friendly enthusiasm. I have\nhad a few brushes with the so-called radicals,\nbut even they at close hand have not been\nunfriendly.\n\"I am not leaving you with a sinking ship.\nThe administration is the best in the country,\nthanks to the fine work of the three deputy\npresidents, Walter Gage, W.M. Armstrong and\nW. White. Walter has had to cope with the\nduties of the presidency before, and will\nundoubtedly cope better than I could; few\nmen deserve better of his colleagues.\"\nIn a separate letter to Dean Gage, Dr. Hare\nsaid he had found his position as president\n\"more than uncomfortable.\"\n\"To succeed in the job,\" he said, \"a man\nmust not merely have a tough constitution\nand a thick skin; he must also be able to call\non the resources needed to meet the\nUniversity's inescapable responsibilities, and\nhe must be able to give his colleagues some\nassurance that there is light at the end of the\ntunnel.\n\"Lacking these things, I ran myself into the\nground with anxiety and fatigue.\"\nHe said he had thought it best to resign\nbefore he committed the University to\npolicies he might not be able to carry out. He\nadded: \"My reasoning was personal and in no\nway reflected pressure from any quarter other\nthan my own conscience.\"\nDR. F. KENNETH HARE\nDr. Hare expressed his gratitude for their\nsupport to the Board, to the three deputy\npresidents, to Dr. William Webber, president\nof the UBC Faculty Association, and to David\nZirnhelt, president of the Alma Mater\nSociety.\nDr. Hare took office May 31, 1968,\nsucceeding Dr. John B. Macdonald who\nresigned as president of UBC June 30, 1967.\nDr. Hare came to UBC from London,\nEngland, where he was Master of Birkbeck\nCollege of the University of London. He had\npreviously been on the faculty of McGill\nUniversity, Montreal, for 19 years and from\n1962\u00E2\u0080\u009464 was dean of arts and sciences there.\nDDD\nIn 1968 he published a book \"On\nUniversity Freedom in the Canadian Context.\" Earlier he had published a widely used\ntextbook on climatology, \"The Restless\nAtmosphere.\"\nDr. Hare is a Fellow of the Royal Society\nof Canada and is active in a number of\nprofessional associations. He has headed the\nArctic Institute of North America, the\nCanadian Association of Geographers and the\nRoyal Meteorological Society.\nHis last official act as president of UBC will\nbe to attend the installation of Dr. A.W.R.\nCarrothers as president of the University of\nCalgary on January 30. TO PERRY COMMITTEE\nFour Groups Send Briefs\nFour major UBC groups\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Alumni and Faculty\nAssociations, the Committee of Deans and the\nSenate\u00E2\u0080\u0094have now made submissions to the provincial\ngovernment's Advisory Committee on Inter-\nUniversity Relations.\nThe provincial body, established last year by\nEducation Minister Leslie Peterson, is chaired by\ndeputy minister of education Dr. G. Neil Perry,\nformer vice-president and dean of commerce at UBC.\nThe committee's purpose, Mr. Peterson said when\nhe announced its formation during the 1968 sitting of\nthe Legislature, is to ensure that in future there is a\nminimum of overlapping of programs and no undue\ncompetition between the three public institutions in\nB.C.\nThe Alumni and Faculty Associations, in their\nbriefs to the Perry Committee, propose a single\nagency to replace the two-tiered system now in\neffect.\nThe Alumni brief specifies an agency made up of\nnine to 15 academics and non-academics to\ncoordinate all post-secondary education in B.C.\nSome academics would be included in the new\nbody, but there would be no direct representation for\nindividual institutions. Representation would be by\ntypes of institutions instead.\nThe 10-man single agency proposed by the UBC\nFaculty Association provides for two representatives\nfrom each university, three from the public-at-large,\nplus a distinguished academic as full-time executive\nsecretary.\nIn addition to undertaking specific functions with\nrespect to universities, the body would undertake\nlong-range planning on the development of post-\nsecondary education.\nUBC's committee of deans has opted to retain the\ntwo-tiered system of government advisory bodies, and\nthis viewpoint was endorsed by the Senate.\nThe Senate, at its Jan. 8 meeting, heard a report\nfrom a presidential advisory committee established by\nDr. F. Kenneth Hare. The committee, chaired by Dr.\nNoel Hall of the commerce faculty, prepared no brief\nfor the Perry Committee and chose to recommend\nendorsement of the deans' brief with some\nmodifications.\nThe two bodies recommended by the deans are:\n1. A Commission on University Finance, made up\nof three full-time commissioners with extensive\nacademic experience, and six part-time members\nbroadly representative of the public-at-large.\nThe Commission, regarded by the Deans as the\nsenior and more important of the two proposed\nagencies, would initiate and conduct studies on the\neducational needs in public universities, formulate\nand recommend plans for the provision and\nexpansion of public universities, analyse and review\ncapital and operating budgets, report on any\nuniversity matter referred to it by the minister and\nmaintain close liaison with those concerned with all\nother post-secondary educational institutions in B.C.\n2. The Council on University Affairs, with a\nsuggested membership of the president of each\nuniversity, one Board member from each university\nand one academic member of each university Senate.\nThe deans' brief sees the Council as a voluntary\norganization with its terms of reference and methods\nof operation determined by the institutions working\ntogether.\nIn general, the Council would involve itself in the\nplanning and coordination of both academic and\nfinancial affairs and would serve as a vehicle for\nattempting to solve problems without recourse to the\nCommission.\nThe recommendations made by the deans seek to\novercome one of the major difficulties which has\narisen from the present system of allocating operating\ngrants among the universities.\nThis difficulty, as stated in the deans' brief, is that\n\"members of the Financial Advisory Board drawn\nfrom the individual boards of the universities have\nbeen put in the position of reconsidering estimates\nwhich they have already approved.\"\nThe deans' brief also points out that \"no effective\ntechnique has been developed to assess the extent and\ndesirability of duplication among the three universities,\" which has led to the view \"that there is some\nwaste in the system as a whole . . .\"\nThe report from Dr. Hall's presidential advisory\ncommittee made three recommendations for amending the deans' brief. All were accepted by Senate.\n2/UBC Reports/January 13, 1969\n\"In our view,\" the Hall committee said, \"the\nCouncil on University Affairs and the Commission on\nUniversity Finance are agencies operating in an\nover-lapping fashion\" and \"do not represent a\ncontinuation of the traditional separation of\ndecision-making on academic and financial matters.\"\nTo avoid the connotation of \"academic\" vs.\n\"financial\" the Hall Committee recommended a\nchange of name for the Commission on University\nFinance to the \"Commission on Universities.\"\nThe Hall Committee also made a firm recommendation for the composition of the Council On\nUniversity Affairs (see above), which was only\nsuggested in the deans' brief.\nFinally, the Hall committee asked for a change in\none of the terms of reference for the finance\ncommission which would provide for the commission\nto advise the minister of education on the relation of\nthe planning and development of other post-\nsecondary educational institutions to the universities.\nA major part of the Senate debate on the Hall\ncommittee report resulted from a statement by Dr.\nCyril Belshaw, head of the anthropology and\nsociology department, who made a case for a single,\nfederated university system for B.C.\nUnder such a system there would be one president,\none Board of Governors and possibly one Senate for\nall B.C. universities. The president and Board would\nhave the sole authority for submitting estimates to\nthe government and distributing funds among the\nuniversities.\nThe briefs submitted to the Perry Commission by\nUBC bodies have either rejected the concept of a\nsingle universitv system or have not considered the\nproblem and attempted to make a case for it.\nDr. Belshaw said he wished to say something about\nthe idea of the single system because he felt that this\nwas the direction in which developments would\nuntimately move.\nThe advantages of a single system, he said, were:\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094provision of a mechanism for the coming\ntogether of academic and financial judgements so the\ntwo are not separate,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094provision of the possibility for the universities to\npresent a single brief to the government with all the\ndifficulties ironed out before presentation,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094provision of the possibility for existing, established elements in the university system to nurture\nand assist new elements by provision of staff and in\nother ways, and\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094provision of a ready-made basis for the\nrationalization of the distribution of supporting\nservices such as the Library.\nThe main objection to a single, federated system,\nhe added, was the fear that individual institutions\nwithin the system would lose autonomy.\nActing dean of arts Dr. John Young, who spoke\nafter Dr. Belshaw, told Senate that he thought one\nreason the question of a single system had not been\nattacked was that time was short and material had to\nbe prepared for the Perry Committee quickly.\nThose who worked on submissions, he said, felt\nthat an interim solution had to be found, but this did\nnot preclude further discussions about university\nreform.\nThe case made by Dr. Belshaw had its effect. It\nwas pointed out that one paragraph of the Hall\ncommittee report read as though Senate was opposed\nto the proposition of a single system and later it was\nsuggested that the report should not be submitted as\nthe policy of Senate.\nDean Ian Cowan said it was very easy for the UBC\nSenate to contemplate the rationality of a completely\nfederated system. It is not nearly so easy for UBC's\nyounger, sister institutions to contemplate it with the\nsame equanimity, he said.\nThe newer institutions are still staking out the\nboundaries of their activity, he said, and while they\nare losing their suspicion of UBC as a university\nattempting to dominate the system, they would\nprefer the kind of body proposed in the deans' brief.\nSenate was still not convinced and a motion that\nno submission be sent to the Perry Committee was\nvoted on and defeated.\nFinally, Senate compromised by approving the\nrecommendations in the Hall committee report with\nthe deletion of a paragraph which pointed out that all\nthe briefs reviewed by the committee had rejected the\nidea of a single university system.\na\u00C2\u00ABtf\na t \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nlit*\ndiwww\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0X\nWater nymphs in fountain of UBC's Graduate Ce\nSCIENCE FACULTY SAY!\nNew Campu\nUBC's faculty of science has recommended\ncreation of one or more new, separate campuses\nunder UBC control, stiffening of academic standards\nin the faculty and limitation of enrolment on the\nPoint Grey campus to 25,000 students. ^^\nThe recommendations resulted from the repon^^\na six-man faculty of science committee on limitation\nof enrolment chaired by Dr. Rodney A. Restrepo,\nassociate professor of mathematics.\nThe faculty of science approved the recommendations arising out of the report at a meeting in '*\nmid-December. The recommendations have been\nforwarded to UBC's Board of Governors and will also\nbe sent to Senate for consideration.\nThe major recommendation approved calls for\nsteps to be taken immediately to establish one or\nmore new campuses under UBC control, but\nphysically separate from the existing Point Grey\ncomplex. ^\n\"Financing of at least one new campus is so urgent\nthat it should be requested immediately,\" the\nrecommendation says.\nA second recommendation calls for the same\nminimum admission standards on all UBC campuses.\nAdmission standards should be decided on academic\ngrounds in a manner essentially independent of the\nproblem of size.\nAlso recommended is a stiffening of standards for <\nretention of students in the faculty of science and the\nUniversity.\nSpecifically, the recommendation says that students who pass less than nine units in their first year\nshould not be allowed to register again, save in\nexceptional circumstances. Also requested is a\nminimum average in the second year for retention in\nthe science faculty. L\nThe faculty also passed two recommendations\ndealing with limitation of enrolment.\nThe first requests the Senate to consider\nrecommending to the Board of Governors \"that steps\nbe taken immediately to plan enrolment in all aspects\nof the University so that total enrolment shall not\nexceed at any time 25,000,\" on the Point Grey\ncampus. M\nA second recommendation calls for Senate to\nA Senate Asks for\nReport On Upping Standards\nh? were sheathed in ice during recent cold snap\nes Needed\nestablish an enrolment limitation as soon as possible\nto take effect in the fall of 1971. The total facilities\nof the science faculty and the Point Grey campus\nshould be planned to accommodate adequately the\nnuaber of students agreed on, the recommendation\nsnWP.\nThe report of the faculty of science committee\nsays that current UBC facilities are \"pitifully\ninadequate\" to handle all the students now taking\ncourses in science.\nThe report adds: \"This committee believes that\nlarge numbers on one campus or in one faculty of\nscience inevitably force a deterioration in quality, no\nmatter what the facilities.\"\nThe report says first priority must be given to\nconstruction of new campuses, \"and any additional\nfacilities provided simultaneously or later at West\n<*Point Grey should be designed to cope with no more\nthan present enrolments.\"\nThe reasons for fixing a maximum number of\nstudents in one location are based on human,\nacademic and administrative grounds, the report says.\nThe report claims that courses with enrolments in\nthe thousands create problems that no one has been\nable to solve satisfactorily and large size affects the\ninteractions between student and student, between\nfaculty member and faculty member, and between\nstudent and faculty member.\n\"It results,\" the report says, \"in serious breakdowns of communication and in a general deterioration in the quality of life for everyone concerned. It\nis unquestionably a major factor in the current\nstudent and faculty unrest.\"\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 BH^ ^fe Volume 15, No. 1-January 13,\nllllll 1969. Authorized as second class\nIIHI mail by the Post Office Depart-\nIll I I \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 merit, Ottawa, and for payment of\nU ^/f ^\u00C2\u00A3 postage in cash. Postage paid at\nDCDrtDTC Vancouver B.C. Published by the\nR E P O H I o university of British Columbia and\ndistributed free. J.A. Banham, Editor; Barbara Clag-\nhorn, Production Supervisor. Letters to the Editor\nshould be addressed to the Information Office, UBC,\nVancouver 8, B.C.\nThe University of B.C. Senate has asked for an\nurgent report on how stiffer admission standards\nwould affect enrolment estimates and the long-term\ndevelopment of the University.\nA motion by Dr. William Gibson asked for the\nreport on how enrolment would be affected by\nraising admission standards to various levels up to 65\nper cent from the 60 per cent now required of B.C.\nmatriculants.\nThe motion, which Dr. Gibson said was for\ninformation only at this time, also asked for details\non what alternatives would be available to students\nrefused admission to UBC under higher standards.\nThe motion was passed at the Jan. 8 meeting of\nSenate which approved recommendations by the\ncommittee on enrolment policy to bring minor\nreductions in enrolment estimates for September,\n1969.\nThe following recommendations were approved by\nSenate and will reduce 1969\u00E2\u0080\u009470 enrolment by an\nestimated 280 students:\nStudents seeking admission on the basis of grade\n13 will be required to meet the same standing as those\nadmitted from junior colleges. This would mean an\noverall average of 60 per cent on the five subjects of a\nfull study program. Students presenting only four or\nthree subjects would be admitted with an average on\nthe subjects presented of 65 per cent.\nFirst-year students passing only two courses will\nno longer be allowed to repeat their year, with\nprovision for appeal to the Senate admissions\ncommittee.\nStudents in the second year of the faculties of\nagriculture, arts, education, science or in first year\ncommerce who pass in less than six units will be\nrequired to withdraw for at least one year, with\nprovision for appeal to the admissions committee.\nIn presenting the committee report Dean Ian\nMcTaggart Cowan said the possibility of any general\nrestriction on enrolment for the upcoming year had\nbeen considered and rejected. He said there were a\nnumber of reasons for this including the fact that it\nwas too late to inform other elements of the\neducational system that a major institution was\ndrastically altering its intake.\nIn speaking to his motion for a report on the\neffects of stiffer admission standards Dr. Gibson said\nfigures produced by the UBC office of student\nservices indicated a high failure rate among first-year\nstudents entering the University with less than 65 per\ncent on matriculation.\nHe said students who had gone through high\nschool on the new curriculum and entered University\nwith less than 65 per cent standing had a failure or\nwithdrawal rate of 27 per cent in the first year.\nDr. Gibson said such students had little relative\nchance of academic success and were a waste of\nprofessors' time and University facilities.\nDean Walter Gage said the University had to be\ncareful about raising its admission standards. He said\nthe records of some graduate students now\nconsidered among the best at the University showed\nthat they had entered with less than the average\nwhich had been suggested the University might adopt\nfor admission.\nDean Cowan said the committee was well aware of\nlong-range problems in setting enrolment policy\nbeyond the recommendations for 1969 and said the\ncommittee was willing to consider these problems.\nSenate approved a motion that the enrolment\ncommittee work with other committees of Senate to\nconsider policy for 1970\u00E2\u0080\u009471.\nBoard Names Three to\nHead UBC Departments\nThe University of B.C. today announced the\nnames of three persons to head UBC departments and\na new division of continuing education in the health\nsciences.\nThe appointments were approved by the UBC\nBoard of Governors at a meeting on January 7.\nNamed head of UBC's geography department is\nProfessor John Chapman, 45. He has been acting head\nof the department since July, 1968, following the\nresignation of Dr. J. Lewis Robinson.\nProf. Chapman, who has been a member of the\nUBC faculty since 1945, is a former president of the\nCanadian Association of Geographers. He was a\nmember of the eight-man team that worked on the\nMacdonald report on higher education and in 1964\nwas appointed by the UBC Senate to represent the\nUniversity on the provincial academic board.\nAs a geographer Dr. Chapman is noted for his\nwork in the field of natural resources and was\nco-editor of the British Columbia Atlas of Resources,\npublished in 1956.\nAppointed head of a new department of linguistics\nin UBC's faculty of arts is Dr. John T. Waterman, 50,\ncurrently professor of German at the University of\nCalifornia at Santa Barbara.\nBorn in Iowa, Dr. Waterman headed the\ndepartment of linguistics at the University of\nSouthern California, where he was a faculty member\nfrom 1948 to 1967. He is the author of two books,\none on linguistics and the other a history of the\nGerman language.\nUBC at present offers a major in the field of\nlinguistics. The courses are given in the department of\nclassics.\nNamed director of the new division of continuing\neducation in the health sciences is Dr. Donald H.\nWilliams, 61, who has been head of the department of\ncontinuing medical education in the faculty of\nmedicine since 1960.\nDr. John F. McCreary, UBC's dean of medicine,\nsaid the new division would coordinate all courses in\ncontinuing medical education for doctors, dentists,\npharmacists, nurses and rehabilitation personnel.\nThe new division, he said, reflects the integrated\nteaching program which is currently taking shape in\nthese same areas within UBC's Health Sciences\nCentre.\nSucceeding Dr. Williams as head of the continuing\nmedical education program will be Dr. H. Ormond\nMurphy, who is currently associate director of the\nprogram.\nUBC's Board of Governors also accepted the\nresignations of Prof. Geoffrey H. Durrant as head of\nthe department of English and Prof. R. Stephen Milne\nas head of the department of political science.\nProf. Durrant, who has been head of the UBC\ndepartment since 1966, said he was resigning to\ndevote full-time to teaching and research at UBC. He\nhas had two books on the English poet Wordsworth\naccepted for publication by Cambridge University\nPress and is currently preparing a third manuscript for\npublication.\nProf. Milne, who will also remain on the UBC\nfaculty, said he resigned because he believed in\nlimited terms for heads of departments. He will be on\nleave in the coming year to complete a book on the\npolitical development of Borneo. He has also been\nawarded a Commonwealth visiting professorship to\nthe University of London for research purposes.\nThe Board also approved a change in title from\nassistant to associate dean of science for Dr. Robert\nF. Scagel and the appointment of two assistant deans\nin the same faculty.\nDr. Nathan J. Divinsky, professor of mathematics,\nwill serve as assistant dean in charge of curriculum\nand calendar, and Dr. Kenneth B. Harvey, associate\nprofessor of chemistry, has been named assistant dean\nin charge of time-tabling, registration and counselling\nof students.\nUBC Reports/January 13,. 1969/3 NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE\n'68 Productive Year\nDr. Walter Koerner, Chairman of the Board\nof Governors of the University of British\nColumbia, issued the following New Year's\nmessage to the people of British Columbia:\n\"At the beginning of this new year, I\nshould like to give to the people of the\nprovince a brief report on the progress of\ntheir senior university.\n\"I am glad to be able to say that the year\n1968 has been a most productive period in\nUBC's history. Its faculty and students have\nwon many scholarly honors and grants for a\nvariety of purposes, but particularly in\nteaching and research. In many cases these\nwere obtained in national and international\ncompetition with other institutions.\nDR. WALTER KOERNER\n\"Outside funds obtained through the\nefforts and stature of our faculty, amounting\nto several millions of dollars, have made it\npossible for us to initiate important projects\nin many fields, such as community and\nregional planning, computerized and\nautomated hospital laboratories, trace\nelements as related to the food supply of the\nworld, tax policies and their effects on\ninitiative, computerized libraries, reading\nmachines for the blind, and a large-scale\ninterdisciplinary study of the interaction of\nman and his environment. These are but a few\nexamples of the great contribution UBC is\nmaking to the province and to Canada.\n\"I am happy also to report that\ncooperation among our universities is\nincreasing. A notable example of this is the\nTRIUMF project, which involves the three\npublic universities of British Columbia and\nthe University of Alberta.\n\"One of our increasing problems is that of\nstudent numbers. British Columbia has\nCanada's highest percentage of persons of\nuniversity age actually enrolled in\npost-secondary institutions. Our campus at\nPoint Grey cannot possibly handle all of BC's\nsons and daughters who wish to pursue\npost-secondary studies.\n\"At present we have an enrolment of\n20,088 students, and many more are\nforthcoming. As I have stated on previous\noccasions, our present plant is inadequate to\nhandle such numbers. I am not surprised that\ndedicated and serious students, who have had\na struggle to get to university, find their\nsearch for knowledge frustrated in many ways\nby the present overcrowding of lecture rooms,\nlaboratories and especially libraries. (We have\nonly one library seat for every seven\nstudents).\n\"To give our students the high quality of\neducation which they should have, we must\nfind some better means of equating numbers\nwith budget and physical facilities. Perhaps\nmore two-year colleges in suitable centres\nthroughout the province are part of the\nanswer. If so, we stand ready to assist these\ncolleges in every way possible, and\nparticularly in planning curricula which will\nensure transferability of students to UBC for\ntheir senior work.\n''The effort which young British\nColumbians put into obtaining their\neducation, at great cost to themselves, to their\nparents, and to the public generally, must be\ntreated seriously. The responsibility which\nour students demonstrate is recognized by\ntheir inclusion in active planning for the\nimprovement of the University, and I expect\nthere will be increasing emphasis on the part\nwhich they will play in the future.\n\"The well-being of British Columbia and of\nCanada depends to a large extent on the\ngraduates of our universities. All members of\nthe University family should do everything\npossible to improve conditions for the great\nnumber of serious students who are eager to\nmake their contribution to the material and\nintellectual development of our society.\"\nDR. BANESH HOFFMANN\nAnti-Testing\nAdvocate to\nSpeak Here -\nDr. Banesh Hoffmann, a former collaborator with\nAlbert Einstein and an outspoken critic of mass,\nmultiple-choice testing, will speak at the University of\nB.C.Jan. 22 and 23.\nDr. Hoffmann, who is professor of mathematics at\nQueens College of the City University of New York,\nis best known for his 1962 book \"The Tyranny of\nTesting,\" an attack on multiple-choice testing, which\nDr. Hoffmann claims encourages intellectual dishonesty and corrupts education.\nDr. Hoffmann will speak on \"The tyranny of\ntesting\" Wednesday (Jan. 22) at 12:30 p.m. in room\n110 of the Henry Angus building. His second lecture,\nat 4 p.m. on Thursday (Jan. 23), in room 201 of the\nHennings building will be entitled \"Just a second,'^\nand will deal with general relativity. ^\nDr. Hoffmann's book on testing has resulted in\nwidespread controversy among testers, testing organizations and university administrators since its\npublication.\nIn it he challenged the scientific validity of\nmultiple-choice tests and called for an enquiry by a\ndistinguished committee in the national interest.\nMultiple-choice tests, he says, are \"inherently\nsuperficial, using vagueness, imprecision and worse as\nsubstitutes for the worthwhile difficulty their format\ncannot encompass.\"\nHe contends that they \"sap the strength and\nvitality of a nation by rewarding conformity and\nquick-witted mediocrity while penalizing depth,\nsubtlety, individuality and creativity.\"\nBorn in England and educated at Oxford and\nPrinceton universities. Dr. Hoffmann collaborated\nwith Albert Einstein in the mid-1930's at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.\nMARATHON DANCE PLANNED\nSUB to open with Flurry of Events\nThe Alma Mater Society will officially open the\nnew Student Union building with a six-day program\nof events beginning January 20.\nHighlights will include four symposia, entertainment, film presentations, a marathon dance lasting all\nnight and a formal opening ceremony at 4 p.m. on\nSaturday, Jan. 25.\nThe building, which cost nearly $5,000,000 to\nconstruct, has been in use since October, 1968. The\nUBC administration contributed just over $1,500,000\nfor food services in the building. The balance will be\npaid for by students out of an annual $15 levy added\n4/UBC Reports/January 13, 1969\nto the AMS fee.\nThe four symposia will take place in the SUB ballroom on Jan. 20, 21, 22 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. Discussion titles are \"The Cultural Relevance of the University,\" \"The Image of the University,\" \"The University as a Training Ground,\" and \"How SUB Relates.\"\nParticipants in the symposia and a panel debate\nentitled \"Has the University Gone to Pot?\" at 12:30\np.m. Jan. 24 had not been announced at press time.\nThroughout the week entertainment will be provided in the SUB cafeteria by rock and jazz groups\nand there will be major concerts in the SUB ballroom\non Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. by the Varsity Christian Fellowship and at 12:30, 2:30 and 4 p.m. on Jan. 23 by two\nrock groups.\nThe marathon, all-night dance begins at 9 p.m.\nJan. 24 and will end with a breakfast served in the\nSUB cafeteria from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Jan. 25.\nThroughout the week there will be bridge,\nbowling, billiards and snooker tournaments in the\ngames room areas.\nFor further information on the six-day program,\nplease call 228-3966 or 228-3777."@en . 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