"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "1972-09-05"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118434/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " OFFICIALS CAUTIOUS\nUBC REPORTS CAMPUS EDITION\nMore than 19,000 students are expected to register\nthis week (Sept 5-8) for UBC's 1972-73 Winter\nSession which gets underway on Monday (Sept. 11).\nJust how many more than 19,000 students will\nregister is one of the guessing games that has occupied\nUBC officials in recent months.\nLast year UBC enrolled 19,826 students, a drop of\nmore than 1,000 from the record 1970-71 registration of 20,940 students. The enrolment decrease was\nnot unique to UBC; almost every Canadian university\nexperienced the same situation last year.\nThe enrolment decline has resulted in a certain\namount of caution on the part of UBC officials in\nmaking enrolment predictions for the current\nacademic year.\nAs one official put it: \"There's nothing to suggest\nthat we will be faced with an enrolment increase this\nyear and there's the possibility of another decline in\nregistration.\"\nAn official in the Registrar's Office said there were\nfew surprises in terms of the numbers of students\napplying for admission to UBC.\nFor the third year in a row UBC will limit to 3,400\nthe number of students enrolling in the first year for\nPlease turn to Page Eight\nSee REGISTRA TION\nUBC NEEDS\nBIGGER, BETTER\nREGISTRATION WEEKS\nOr so says PROF. WALTER YOUNG, head of\nthe Department of Political Science, who\nargues that UBC's decentralized campus needs\na mechanism for throwing faculty members\nand students together in an atmosphere less\nformal than the classroom or office. He also\ntakes up cudgels against registration by\ncomputer, which he says is de-humanizing.\nBy Walter Young\nLarge institutions cannot brook inefficiency for,\nobviously, large-scale inefficiency is better known as\nchaos while small-scale inefficiency is best known as\npleasant muddle. Moreover, the effects of inefficiency\nin large organizations have an appalling multiplier\neffect, it reverberates through the institution and\nrectification is a task of monumental proportions.\nAnd when a serious gaffe occurs, more people suffer\nthan would be the case in a small operation.\nThis is largely true for universities. What may have\nbeen all right for a small college with an enrolment of\na few thousand would be disastrous in a university\nwith 20,000. Idiosyncracies which lend color and\ncharacter to the small college produce foul-ups of\nelephantine proportions in a university which must,\nadministratively at any rate, \"process\" the records of\n20,000 students each taking five courses.\nRULE OUT ERROR\nTo rule out the possibility of error, administrators\nmust systematize. And systematization \u00E2\u0080\u0094 apart from\nthe injury it does to the English language \u00E2\u0080\u0094 removes\nthe idiosyncratic by releasing the individual operator\nin the system from responsibility for making judgments. Judgments are made when the system is\ndesigned; they are built in. The individual need only\ndo what he is told \u00E2\u0080\u0094 fill out the form in the recuired\nplace, giving the required information and taking\nevery reasonable precaution to avoid folding, stapling\nor otherwise mutilating the elements of the system.\nThe gnomes of Minneapolis-Honeywell, or IBM,\nwinnow out the inconsistencies, eliminate the idiosyncratic and eradicate the mister in between. What\nonce took three days and was prone to bottle-necks\nand tie-ups, takes three hours and smooths the path\nto learning with asphaltic thoroughness. It is done by\nde-humanizing.\nUBC's process of registration has often been cited\nby the systems men as a mote in the eye of the\nadministration and beam in the eye of the student.\nDespite the use of IBM cards and the date-stamping\nof \"authorization to register\" forms (which are much\nlike the stamps on milk cartons in the supermarket: a\nday early and you're too fresh, a day late and\neverything is rather sour \u00E2\u0080\u0094 class enrolments once\nfluid have become solid) the foibles of the old system\npersist. There are long line-ups at various places,\nconversations with department or faculty advisers,\nand a great deal of wandering around from place to\nplace in a somewhat disorderly way.\nWhat has been proposed is computerized registration, a system which, in general, removes the need for\nvirtually all human contact \u00E2\u0080\u0094 physical and otherwise\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 from the registration process. Students would fill\nout their cards in the comfort and safety of their own\nhomes, the computer would receive these little\nPlease turn to Page Eight\nSee DE-HUMAN1ZA TION UNIVERSITY GOLF COURSE\nUniversity Boulevard\nA new extension to Fourth Avenue, providing a\ndirect route to Chancellor Boulevard and the UBC\ncampus, should be completed and in operation by\nthe end of September, according to Mr. R.P.\nMurdoch, manager of the University Endowment\nLands which lie between UBC and the City of\nVancouver. When the new extension (the dotted\nstretch between Drummond Drive and Chancellor\nBoulevard in the map above) is complete, a barrier\nwill be erected at Tasmania Road and a short\nstretch of Chancellor Boulevard (cross-hatched in\nmap above) will be closed. Map by John Kuia.\nLabor Disputes Delay\nMajor UBC Buildings\nRecent labor disputes that have plagued B.C.'s\nconstruction industry have delayed completion of\nseveral campus buildings which were to have been\nready for the opening of the 1972-73 Winter Session.\nA Sept. 1 ceremony to mark the opening of the\nnew Sedgewick Undergraduate Library, being constructed under the Main Mall of the campus, was\ncancelled because of construction delays.\nIt is expected that the new library, which will\ncontain 1,400 study spaces and a 180,000-volume\nbook collection, will be completed in late October or\nearly November.\nCancellation of the library-opening ceremony also\nmeant cancellation of a visit to the campus by Their\nExcellencies the Right Honorable Roland Michener,\nCanada's Governor-General, and Mrs. Michener.\nThe Governor-General was to have officially\nopened the Sedgewick Library. Their Excellencies\nhad also planned to be present, earlier on Sept. 1, at\nthe unveiling in the Main Library of a mural\npresented to UBC by Mrs. Michener. This ceremony\nhas been postponed indefinitely.\nAlso delayed is part of stage two of the Walter H.\nGage Residence on the east side of the campus. Stage\none of the residence \u00E2\u0080\u0094 two high-rise towers \u00E2\u0080\u0094 was\ncompleted earlier this year and has been in use as a\nconference centre during the summer months.\nStage two of the development consists of a third\nhigh-rise residence tower and a group of low-rise\napartments. The high-rise unit was ready for the\nopening of the 1972-73 Winter Session but the\nlow-rise unit will be delayed until October.\nThe development is a new departure in residence\nliving at UBC. Students will live in groups of six men\nor women, each group occupying one of four suites\non each of the 16 floors of the high-rise towers. Two\nsuites on each floor will be occupied by senior\nstudents who have previously lived in other UBC\nresidences.\nEach student will have a separate bedroom and\nstudy area and each group of six will share common\nsitting room, kitchen and bathroom facilities.\n2/UBC Reports/Sept. 5, 1972\nThe new housing development, when complete,\nwill house 1,368 students.\nUBC teachers in the Faculty of Arts will be less\ncrowded this session as a result of the completion of\nthe new Buchanan office tower adjacent to the\nBuchanan Building, the centre of studies in the\nhumanities at UBC.\nIn addition to providing new office space, the\n12-storey building includes nine seminar rooms for\nsmall-group teaching.\nFaculty of Arts departments which have moved\ninto the new office tower and their locations in it are:\nGerman (part of second floor); English (part of\nsecond floor and all of floors three through six);\nFrench (seventh and eighth floors); Economics (ninth\nand tenth floors); History (eleventh and twelfth\nfloors).\nSpace formerly occupied in the Buchanan Building\nproper by the above departments will be taken over\nby the Departments of Philosophy and Religious\nStudies, which are moving from the West Mall Annex,\nand the Department of Political Science, which is\nmoving from the Henry Angus Building.\nThe Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration will expand into space formerly occupied by\nPolitical Science in the Angus Building.\nStudents in the health sciences will enjoy the new\nResources Centre, one of the key units in UBC's\ndeveloping Health Sciences Centre.\nThe $4,600,000 building makes extensive use of\naudio-visual equipment so that a greater number of\nstudents will be able to learn from a limited number\nof teachers.\nThe Health Sciences Centre will provide a centralized training facility for all students who deliver\nmedical care and allied services. Students in Medicine,\nDentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Rehabilitation\nMedicine and other disciplines will be trained in the\nCentre.\nCHANCELLOR NATHAN T. NEMETZ\nChancellor\nNemetz\nInstalled\nUBC welcomed home one of its own graduates\nAug. 31 when Mr. Justice Nathan T. Nemetz, a\nJustice of the B.C. Appeal Court, was installed as\nChancellor during a ceremony in the old Auditorium.\nThe Hon. John Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor of\nB.C., declared Mr. Justice Nemetz duly installed after\nhe had repeated the following declaration:\n\"I, Nathaniel Theodore Nemetz, accept the\nresponsibility of the office of Chancellor of the\nUniversity of British Columbia and promise to\nperform to the best of my ability all the duties\npertaining to this office. I pledge myself to uphold\nthe traditions and principles of the University whose\nwelfare I seek to promote. So help me, God.\"\nMr. Justice Nemetz was introduced at the\nceremony by Dr. Allan M. McGavin, UBC's retiring\nChancellor.\nMr. Justice Nemetz was elected Chancellor on\nJune 7 following the counting of ballots in the\ntriennial election for Chancellor and the 15 members\nof the Senate who are elected by Convocation.\nMr. Justice Nemetz' opponent in the election was\nanother UBC graduate, Mr. Robert S. Thorpe, a\nVancouver lawyer who lives in North Vancouver.\n(For the names of the 15 persons elected to Senate\nby Convocation, see story on Page 7.)\nDr. Roy Daniells, University Professor of English\nLanguage and Literature, spoke at the Aug. 31\nceremony following the installation of the\nChancellor.\nAs Chancellor, Mr. Justice Nemetz is a member of\nUBC's two main governing bodies, the 98-member\nSenate or \"Academic Parliament,\" and the 11-\nmember Board of Governors, which manages the\nfinancial affairs of the University. He will also preside\nat all formal University occasions, including the\nannual spring Congregation for the awarding of\nacademic and honorary degrees.\nMr. Justice Nemetz is no stranger to University\naffairs. He was president of the UBC Alumni\nAssociation in 1956-57 and Alumni Association\nrepresentative on the Senate from 1957-63.\nHe was elected by Senate to the Board of\nGovernors and served on that body for 11 years from\n1957 to 1968. He was chairman of the Board from\n1965 to 1968.\nThe UBC Alma Mater Society presented the Great\nTrekker Award to Mr. Justice Nemetz in 1969.\nAs a student, Mr. Justice Nemetz was a four-time\nMcGoun Cup debater, exchange editor on the student\nnewspaper. The Ubyssey, and a member of the\ngraduating class executive. He graduated from UBC in\n1934 with honors in history. STYLISH, award-winning \"Wally Wagon,\" built by a\n150-member team of UBC engineers, is dwarfed by\nanother vehicle that will have general student\napproval, a converted B.C. Hydro bus that will\nprovide a free, morning shuttlebus service beginning\nthe first day of lectures from Parking Lots C and D.\nFor details on the shuttlebus service, see box at\nbottom of this page. Grouped around the Wally\nWagon, which won the overall award for excellence\nand two other awards at an international competition\nin Michigan in August, are a few of the students who\nbuilt the urban vehicle. From left to right are Steve\nCousins, fourth-year Mechanical Engineering; Brian\nWeeks and Greg Johnson, both third-year Mechanical\nEngineering; Dean MacKay, leader of student team\nthat designed and built the vehicle and a May\ngraduate in Mechanical Engineering, and Don\nO'Connor, fourth-year Mechanical Engineering.\nFunds Sought For Production Study\nUBC's award-winning urban vehicle \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the \"Wally\nWagon\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 may only now be preparing to move into\nhigh gear despite the fact that it has already captured\nthe grand award in an international competition.\nAlma Mater Society President Doug Aldridge will\nask Students' Council Wednesday (Sept. 6) for seed\nmoney to conduct a feasibility study which could\nlead to limited production of the vehicle, built by a\nteam of UBC engineers and named for UBC's\nPresident, Dr. Walter H. Gage.\nMr. Aldridge said the grant to be requested from\nStudents' Council would be a \"pump-primer\" to\nattract additional funds from various levels of\ngovernment and from people who have expressed an\ninterest in seeing the car put into production.\nThe feasibility study on the vehicle, which captured the overall award for excellence in a competition at Milford, Michigan, Aug. 6-10 involving 60\nentries from North American universities, would\ndetermine whether the car can go into limited\nproduction and sell at a reasonable price.\nMr. Aldridge declined to name the individuals and\norganizations that had expressed an interest in\nproduction of the car. He said the estimated cost of\nthe feasibility study was $10,000 to $15,000.\nHe said the interested individuals wanted to know\nif there was interest in the project among the Council\nand the general student body before they went ahead\nwith plans to allocate funds for the feasibility study.\nReasonable cost of mass production was only one\nof a battery of tests that the UBC vehicle was\nsubjected to during the competition at the General\nMotors proving ground.\nIn addition to the award for overall excellence,\npresented to the UBC team by Mr. John A. Volpe,\nSecretary of Transportation in the United States\ngovernment, at an Aug. 12 banquet, the Wally Wagon\nalso captured awards for safety and styling.\nEntries were also judged on the basis of the purity\nof engine emissions, safety features, space utilization,\ndriving characteristics, fuel efficiency, the ability to\nwithstand collisions and additional performance tests.\nThe international competition was organized by a\ngroup of students working at the Massachusetts\nInstitute of Technology at Cambridge, Mass., and was\nan outgrowth of a 1970 competition called the Clean\nAir Car Race.\nUp to 150 UBC engineers, lead by Mr. Dean\nMacKay, who graduated in Mechanical Engineering in\nMay, produced over 15 months a car which included\nthe following features:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 An engine fueled by liquid natural gas that\npassed 1974 standards for emissions set by the U.S.\nCongress;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A stylish, olive-green Fiberglas body shell\nformed in one mould;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A tubular-steel roll cage that forms part of the\ncar's chassis;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Heavy steel bars that slide into position when\nthe doors close, locking them and protecting\npassengers from side collisions;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A frame that tolerates front- and rear-end\ncollisions of up to seven miles per hour and which\ndeflects the engine downwards and the roll cage\nupwards in the event of high-speed, head-on\ncollisions;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 An interior that features a collapsible steering\nwheel, heavily padded instrument panels and recessed\ncontrols. All interior objects that couldn't be recessed, such as mirrors and the gear shift lever, break\noff at a predetermined force to prevent injury;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 An electronic connection between seat belts and\nFree Bus\nTo the\nBookstore\nUBC students who park their cars in Lots C\nand D at the south end of central campus won't\nhave to face driving rain and dodge mud\npuddles on their way to classes this year.\nThey'll be able to ride free and in comfort to\nthe UBC Bookstore on a University-operated\nbus.\nThe new shuttle bus service, which will\noperate Monday through Friday from 7:30 to\n9:30 a.m., will begin its run from the corner of\nthe Tenth Avenue Extension and the East Mall\nand travel via Agronomy Road and the Main\nMall to the Bookstore, making four stops on\nthe way.\nThe bus, purchased from B.C. Hydro, has\nbeen repainted in the University colors of blue\nand gold. (See picture at top of page.)\nPresent plans call for the service to operate\nin the mornings only. Mr. Hugh Kelly,\nsuperintendent of Traffic and Security at UBC,\nsaid consideration would be given to operating\nthe bus in the late afternoon to return students\nto Parking Lots C and D if students requested\nit.\nThe UBC bus will be driven by a member of\nMr. Kelly's department. The service \" begins\nSept. 11, the first day of lectures.\nignition so that the car can't be started unless the seat\nbelts are fastened;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A hidden service module that electronically\nmonitors engine temperature, water and oil levels, oil\npressure, battery water level and electrical charge, and\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \"Drunk tester\" locks operated by numbered\npush-buttons, like those on push-button telephones,\nwhich make it impossible for the driver either to get\ninto the car or to start the engine if his reflex time is\ntoo slow to pass a built-in computerized test.\nThe vehicle carries a special B.C. licence plate \u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"UBC-306\" - a personal touch from B.C. Motor\nVehicle Superintendent Ray Hadfield. The \"306\" was\nthe car's entry number in the competition.\nCanadian entries did well in the competition. The\nentry from Sir George Williams University in\nMontreal won the award for the car least expensive to\nmass produce. The University of Western Ontario in\nLondon, Ont., took the award for the best electric\ncar.\nBefore the awards banquet Mr. Volpe inspected\nthe cars and slid behind the wheel of the UBC entry.\nWhile television cameras whirred, members of the\nUBC team made their way past security men to drape\na large Canadian flag across the hood of the Wally\nWagon.\nThe car was exhibited across Canada on the\ntriumphal trip back to Vancouver.\nIt was exhibited during the Pacific National\nExhibition at the British Columbia Automobile\nAssociation stand in the Show Mart Building.\nAMS Executive\nMember Resigns\nAMS Coordinator of Activities Rick Murray\nhas resigned from his post to devote his full-time\nto a $350,000 capital development program in the\nStudent Union Building.\nAMS President Doug Aldridge has announced\nappointment of Robert Angus, a graduate student\nin Electrical Engineering, to succeed Mr. Murray as\nActing Co-ordinator until an election can be held,\nprobably on Oct. 4.\nThe AMS also proposes to put two referendums\nbefore students on Oct. 4, providing Students'\nCouncil approves. The referendums deal with an\nincreased AMS levy to cover part of the costs of an\nindoor swimming pool and approval of UBC's\nparticipation in a proposed national student\norganization.\n(For details on the referendums and the capital\ndevelopment program in the SUB, see interview on\nPages 4 and 5.)\nUBC Reports/Sept. 5, 1972/3 UbL h t I UHI b talks to AMS President Douglas\nAldridge and Treasurer David Dick about the problems faced by student\ngovernment in the 1972-73 academic year. They anticipate a lively debate\nover the proposed budget for the AMS, which is faced with declining\nrevenues as a result of a drop in student enrolment. The AMS budget, they\nsay, will reflect a new set of priorities for AMS programs and a new deal for\nundergraduate societies, which will get more money this year.\nEconomic Sanctions, No!\nUndergraduate Power, Y(\nUBC REPORTS: Every organization operates on\nmoney and the Alma Mater Society is no exception.\nWhat sort of year do you look forward to financially in\n1972-73?\nMR. DICK: It's going to be tight, there is no\nquestion about that. There may be another drop in\nenrolment which means that both the administration\nand the AMS will have less revenue. We're budgeting this\nyear on the basis of 16,500 dues-paying AMS members.\nThat's a drop of 1,000 from last year.\nUBCR: Why is there a gap between your figure and\nthe University's estimated enrolment of 19,000 or more\nstudents?\nMR. DICK: Graduate students, after their first year\nof graduate school, do not pay AMS fees. They pay a\ngraduate student fee and a fee to the Graduate Student\nCentre. There are also some affiliated students who\naren't on the campus. For instance, the industrial\neducation majors at the B.C. Institute of Technology\ndon't use the AMS facilities so they are exempted from\npaying the Student Union Building fee. So we are\nlooking at about 16,500 undergraduate students and\nfirst-year graduate students who are paying the fee.\nUBCR: Does this decline in enrolment mean a\nsignificant drop in income for you?\nMR. DICK: Yes, it means that we lose $9,000, or $9\nper student, in our operating budget for discretionary\nallocations. It also decreases the repayment of the debt\non the Student Union Building.\nEARLY BUDGET\nUBCR: Are you making some efforts to finalize a\nbudget earlier this year?\nMR. DICK: Definitely. It will be out in the first week\nof classes. The first issue of The Ubyssey on Sept. 14\nshould have the budget in it.\nUBCR: Which organizations are going to feel the\ngreatest effect of your cuts?\nMR. DICK: The main one, and the one I expect is\ngoing to create the greatest amount of controversy is\nThe Ubyssey. Costs in that area have risen\nAMS PRESIDENT DOUG ALDRIDGE: I don't accept the idea\nthat we are imposing economic sanctions by reducing the\nbudget of The Ubyssey. We are faced with a situation where we\nhave to make choices and the 1972-73 budget will reflect a\nmore balanced approach to AMS programs.\nphenomenally, and we haven't the money to allow\npublication twice a week. We're looking at areas where\nwe can bring costs down. But for this year we're locked.\ninto a contract and within the terms of that contract we\ncan't afford to publish more than one issue a week.\nThe budget also reflects a change in priorities. Grants\nto undergraduate societies will be increased markedly.\nEach society gets $200 plus 40 cents a student to carry\non programs within the Faculty.\nUBCR: Your decision to cut the budget of The\nUbyssey could be interpreted in some quarters as an\neconomic sanction for the paper's thorn-in-the-flesh\ntactics against Council in the past. What have you told\nThe Ubyssey about restoring funds in order that they\ncould publish more than once a week?\nMR. DOUG ALDRIDGE: I don't accept the idea that\nwe are imposing economic sanctions. We are simply\ntrying to point out to The Ubyssey and our Council that\nmoney is tight and we are faced with a situation where\nwe have to make choices. If we funded 77ze Ubyssey to\nthe extent that they would like, we would be forced into\na situation where we would have to cut back on many\nother programs.\nOur budget will reflect a more balanced approach to\nAlma Mater Society programs. If the Council members\nfeel that The Ubyssey is a higher priority item, then it is\nup to them to give back some of the money that has\nbeen allocated to their programs in order that The\nUbyssey can publish twice a week. And if that is what,\nthey decide, then the budget will have to be changed.\nUBCR: What do the undergraduate societies propose\nto do with their increased funds?\nMIR. DICK: There have been a number of proposals.\nFor some of the societies \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the smaller ones \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the\nincreases won't make too much difference. It's the large\nsocieties like Arts and Science where it will make a big\ndifference. Arts president Brian Loomes has indicated\nthcit they plan to carry out a fairly active program next\nyear of both social and educational events \u00E2\u0080\u0094 speakers\nand films, this kind of thing.\nTRANSFER CONTROL\nUBCR: The re-allocation also means that you will\nhave less free money available to subsidize\nnon-undergraduate society affairs, I take it?\nMR. ALDRIDGE: Exactly. It transfers control of\nabout $12,500 directly to the undergraduate society,\n. executive members and their councils.\nUBCR: What you are really doing is to decentralize, if\nmoney means power.\nMR. DICK: Yes, it does, and we believe that it is a\ngood thing. Many of the societies have had a problem\ngetting organized and they have always maintained that\nthe problem is caused by a lack of funds. So this move\nwas made in an effort to give them a chance to set up\ntheir own programs.\nMR. ALDRIDGE: I think the Council and the\nexecutive are starting to recognize that there are certain\nthings that the AMS can do very well on a campus-wide*\nbasis, such as service-oriented and campus-wide\neducational programs. But I think we have got to realize\nthat there are specific interests within certain Faculties\nancl we have to try to make it possible for these\nundergraduate societies to develop some kind of\nprogram within each unit.\n4/UBC Reports/Sept. 5, 1972 )s!\nUBCR: You said there are some things that only AMS\nas a centralized organization can do well. What things\nspecifically?\nMR. ALDRIDGE: I think in terms of dealing with the\nadministration directly. The objectives of the Society are\nto provide services for the students. Many of those\nservices are currently being handled entirely by the\nadministration. I mean such things as Food Services, the\nJ3oc>kstore, things that directly affect us. This is where\nthe AMS has perhaps fallen down in ihe past by not\nconcentrating on those areas. We would like to.\nIntramural sports programs are something that only we\ncan handle because they affect students across the\ncampus.\nFUNDS RESTORED\nUBCR: There was a move on the part of the Council\nlast year to cut back on the amount of money that went\nto support the intramural program. Has that money been\nrestored?\nMR. ALDRIDGE: We have increased the allocation to\nthe,intramural sports program. It was budgeted last year\nat around $5,500 after some shuffling in the budget\ndebate. We propose to allocate $7,000 th>s year.\nUBCR: And this is in keeping with your philosophy\nthat because the program operates on a campus-wide\nbasis it deserves that kind of financing?\nMR. ALDRIDGE: Right. There are approximately\n4'500 students involved in the intramural program. We\nstated in our campaign and we still maintain that the\nnumber of students actively involved in the program\nshould be a consideration in funding.\nI think for the first time, too, the budget will allow\nstudents to get a look at where the money for\ni administrative work is going. It's not a case of just\npumping money down the drain in administrative work.\nIt'll be broken up so that people can see which particular\ngroups are using the services that are offered in the\ngeneral offices in the Student Union Building. This is\nalways a bone of contention in the budget.\n. i UBCR: Last year students voted in a referendum to\nacquire control of the Administration food facility in\nthe Student Union Buidling. Have you been actively\npursuing the possibility of this?\nMR. ALDRIDGE: Yes, we have. The vote was 73.2\nper cent in favor of it. I should point out that the\nproblem has become somewhat more complex since the\n, cpnstruction of the nearby Walter H. Gage Residence,\nbecause there is a substantial convention business being\ncarried on during the summer and this will have a great\neffect on the food operation in SUB. It's for this reason\nthat we have decided to take a long, hard look at the\nproblem before we go to the Board of Governors with\nour recommendations or our offer to purchase this\nfacility.\nUBCR: Are you prepared to take on the repayment\nof the debt for construction of the SUB food facility?*\n* The UBC administration's contribution to construction of the\nStudent Union Building was $1,154,497.17. These funds were\nborrowed by the University and used to construct the food\nfacility in SUB. The money borrowed must be paid back out of\nthe profits from the sale of food and other services in keeping\nwith a Board of Governors policy with regard to UBC's ancillary\nservices. This policy is that ancillary services, such as Food\nServices, the Bookstore and traffic and parking must operate on\na self-supporting basis without subsidies from the University's\noperating grant from the provincial government. The remaining\noutstanding debt on the food facility in SUB is $926,983.07 and\nthe amount repaid by the University in the last fiscal year fell\nsrtort of the sum due.\nAMS TREASURER DAVID DICK: It's going to\nbe a tight year financially. Our budget has been\ndrawn up on the basis of 16,500 fee-paying\nstudents \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a drop of 1,000 from last year.\nMR. ALDRIDGE: Not on the conditions currently\naffecting the University's loan. We would like to extend\nthe S1 5 levy that was to pay our share of the cost of the\nStudent Union Building. This would mean no increase in\nAMS fees but would mean approximately four or five\nmore years would be required to pay off the building.\nWe want to do this so that future food prices would not\nbe influenced by debt repayment arrangements. The\nfacility would simply have to break even on its daily\noperation.\nMR. DICK: The price that is finally settled on will be\na matter of discussion with the administration. When we\ntalk about the existing debt we have to realize that the\nfacility has been open for four years, there's been\ndepreciation on some of the equipment and that has to\nbe taken into account. I think the basic decision is going\nto be whether the administration is willing to sell it to\nus. If they are, I have no doubt that we are going to\ncome to an agreement on the price.\nAnother important question we'll be asked is, \"Can\nyou run it?\" We have got to be able to say not just,\n\"Yes, we can do it,\" but we've got to be able to say how\nwe can do it better and what we are planning to do with\nit. If we can do that intelligently and show that we are\nprepared to make a pretty good go at it, I think there\ncan be a fair area of agreement on the subject.\nUBCR: Students also approved a referendum to\ndevelop an unfinished area of the Student Union\nBuilding.\nMR. DUCK: The referendum involved expenditure of\napproximtely $350,000 to develop two areas in the\nbasement of the building. We are proposing to build a\n350-seat pub in that unfinished area. It will be a social\ncentre where students and faculty can get together in a\nfairly relaxed atmosphere. We want to serve beer there\non the same basis as it has been available in the past in\nThe Pit in SUB. We also want to have a food facility\nthere, although not a complete meal service.\nUBCR: You recently made a presentation to the\nBoard of Governors about an indoor swimming pool, did\nyou not?\nMR. ALDRIDGE: That's right. As a matter of fact we\nexpect to put a referendum to students on Oct. 4 dealing\nwith the pool and the question of a revival of a national\nstudent organization.\nFollowing our presentation to the Board, it approved\nthe formation of a fund-raising committee which will try\nto raise one-third of the estimated $2.75 million needed\nto construct the pool. Students will be asked to agree to\nan increased AMS fee levy to raise another third of the\ncost and the Board will be asked to contribute the\nremaining third.\nThere have been several meetings over the summer\nregarding a new national student organization. The\nreferendum will ask students to approve UBC's\nparticipation in the new organization and authorize a\n10-to-15-cent levy per student to support it.\nUBCR: What do you envisage such an organization\ndoing?\nMR. ALDRIDGE: One of the things discussed was\nstudent participation in the negotiations which are going\nto take place in the next few years between the federal\nand provincial governments on the question of financing\npost-secondary education. We believe students should\ntake part in those discussions and that our voice is most\nlikely to be heard if it comes from a national\norganization.\nWhat I think Council and most students are wary of is\na national organization that attempts to indulge in\npartisan political action, which is what killed the old\nCanadian Union of Students in the late 1960s. We want\nto avoid that and make the new organization a\nconstructive voice.\nThere have also been meetings this past summer to\ndiscuss closer relations between universities and colleges\non the Lower Mainland. There were discussions about a\nB.C. stance on a national student union and ways of\nkeeping in closer touch with each other. We also\nexplored the possibility of co-operation in booking\nentertainment and taking part in joint group and life\ninsurance schemes for students.\nI want to emphasize that we are trying to avoid\ncreating, at both the provincial and national levels, a\ntop-heavy, bureaucratic structure that tends to get out\nof control.\nNEW REGULATIONS\nUBCR: There have been some new regulations\nintroduced under the Canada Student Loan Plan for\nstudents who want to obtain money to finance their\neducation. Has the Alma Mater Society been concerned\nabout these?\nMR. DICK: There are two things that concern us\nabout the new regulations. The first is the requirement\nthat parents of dependent students and the students\nthemselves submit their T-1 income tax forms along with\nthe student loan application.\nThe second one is the schedule that is provided by\nthe government that assumes students have saved so\nmany dollars during their summer work period. We've\nlooked at those figures. We don't believe that they are\nentirely accurate.\nThe average saving assumed for a student at UBC,\naccording to a survey done by the federal Manpower\ndepartment, was $875 for the summer. That is savings,\nnot earnings. The National Conference on Student\nFinancing this summer discussed this issue and issued a\nstatement which expressed the general national concern\nabout the new regulations and urged all the councils\nacross Canada not to co-operate with the Manpower\nsurvey if the request was made to do it on the campus\nthis year. Our council has unanimously adopted the\nstatement of the National Conference on Student\nFinancing and we will not be co-operating this year.\nUBCR: Because you feel that they have distorted the\npicture of students' summer savings?\nMR. ALDRIDGE: Yes. The savings figures are\nunrealistic. They haven't taken into account, first of all,\nthose people who didn't get a job and therefore didn't\nfill out the form or those people who didn't get a job\nand didn't even come back.\nMR. DICK: We are hoping that all students will fill\nout the UBC employment survey, the one that is run by\nthe Office of Student Services, which is a much more\ncomplete survey and breaks the figures down so that\nthey make some sense. Mr. Dick Shirran, the director of\nStudent Services, has done quite a good job for a\nnumber of years. Granted, it still doesn't get the people\nwho haven't been able to come back, but it does give a\nmuch clearer picture. He gets about an 82 per cent\nreturn and I would like to see that even higher and we\nwill be encouraging people to fill out the card in the set\nof registration cards.\nUBC Reports/Sept. 5, 1972/5 ll^\" 5rAiRK/Ay\nMap shows location of Endowment Lands trails improved or constructed under AMS-sponsored LIP Project\nCampus, Lands Benefit\nThe UBC campus and adjacent Endowment\nLands benefited this summer as the result of\nprojects carried out under the federal government's S100 million Local Initiatives Projects\nscheme.\nIn a section of the University Endowment\nLands north of Chancellor Boulevard, 25 men and\nwomen spent four months repairing old trails and\ncreating new ones under a project sponsored by\nthe Alma Mater Society. Grants for the project\ntotalled $19,890.\nUBC graduate Stuart Scholefield supervised the\nprogram which improved the existing trail system\nby laying down log surfaces to protect parts of\nvarious trails and constructed four stairways down\nthe cliffside above Marine Drive. In other places\nbridges were built across streams and ravines.\nMany new trails were also built to open up\nadditional areas of the forest which are used for\nrecreational purposes, as a research facility by\nvarious UBC departments and by the Vancouver\nSchool Board as an outdoor classroom. (See map\nabove for details of the AMS-sponsored project.)\nUBC spent a $20,080 LIP grant to carry out a\nfacelifting operation in areas adjacent to roads in\nthe South Campus research area. UBC added\nnearly $17,000 to the LIP grant to remove\nunderbrush and dead and fallen trees with the\nobject of reducing fire hazards and the danger of\nfalling trees.\nTwo LIP grants totalling more than $48,600\nwere used to tape-record more than 500 books to\nbe used by blind students and physically handicapped students at UBC and other Canadian\nuniversities and colleges. The recording was carried\nout by the Crane Memorial Library for blind\nstudents in Brock Hall.\nHelp for\nUBC Centre\nPromised\nThe federal government has announced that it will\njoin with the B.C. government and private donors to\naid construction of an Asian Studies Centre on the\nUBC campus.\nThe Hon. Mitchell Sharp, Canada's Secretary of\nState for External Affairs, said in Vancouver on Aug.\n10 that the federal government would match B.C.\ncontributions up to $400,000. It is hoped that the\ntotal Canadian contributions will be matched by\nJapanese sources to ensure the estimated $1.6 million\nneeded to erect the Centre.\nThe Asian Studies Centre would be housed in the\nreconstructed pavilion of the Sanyo Corporation, the\nonly building from Japan's Expo '70 to be recreated\noutside the country.\nThe structural steel girders from the building were\ndonated to UBC by Sanyo. They arrived in\nVancouver in March, 1971, and are now stored on the\nUBC campus.\nThe pavilion, styled after a traditional Japanese\nfarmhouse, was a huge, glass-faced structure with a\nsteeply-pitched, overhanging roof. The building\nmeasured 140 feet on each side of the roof line and\nwas about 70 feet high.\nThe reconstructed building would ultimately\naccommodate the largest centre for Asian studies in\nCanada. It would include a library of Asian-language\nmaterials and provide an important focus for the\nco-ordination of scholarship in Asian studies. A\nteaching program could involve 1,500 students and\nthe building's architectural plans include provision for\na performing arts centre where performances of\ncontemporary and classical Asian music and drama\nand exhibitions of art and sculpture could be staged.\nCanadian fund-raising efforts for reconstruction of\nthe Sanyo building are being carried out by a\ncommittee chaired by Mr. Alan Campney, chairman\nof the Canada-Japan society.\nUBC Museum In Planning Stage\nPlans for a new public anthropology museum to\nbe built on the site of the former Fort Camp\nstudent residence will be presented to UBC's\nBoard of Governors for approval before the end of\n1972.\nThe Vancouver architectural firm of Erickson-\nMassey is pressing forward with planning for the\nmuseum in order to meet an April 1, 1973,\ndeadline for the start of construction of the\nbuilding, which will allow UBC to display\nsystematically collections of artifacts of many\nworld cultures which have been accumulating on\nthe campus since 1927.\nThe new museum will be constructed with a\n$2.5 million grant received last May from the\nfederal government. The grant is part of the $10\nmillion fund established by the federal government\nto mark the 100th anniversary of B.C.'s entry into\nConfederation.\nUnder the terms of a UBC-federal government\nagreement, construction of the museum must start\nbefore April 1 next year and it must be complete\nand open to the public before April 1, 1975.\nUBC also plans to move its existing outdoor\ndisplay of Indian totem poles and buildings, now\nlocated in Totem Pole Park on the western edge of\nthe campus, to a site adjacent to the new museum\nat the north end of the campus.\nTOTEM POLES\nThe largest building in Totem Pole Park, a\ntypical communal dwelling house of the Haida\nIndians, will be adapted for use as a performance\ncentre where Indian artists and craftsmen will\ncarve totem poles and other iterns and stage music\nand dance exhibitions.\nA feature of the museum itself will be the\nWalter and Marianne Koerner masterpiece collection of tribal art, one of the outstanding\ncollections in private hands in North America.\nThe generous offer of Mr. Koerner, a member\n6/UBC Reports/Sept. 5, 1972\nand former chairman of UBC's Board of\nGovernors, and his wife, Marianne, to present the\ncollection to UBC was instrumental in the decision\nof the federal government to allocate $2.5 million\nfor construction of the museum.\nThe most famous part of the existing UBC\ncollection \u00E2\u0080\u0094 more than 10,000 items relating to\nthe art of the Indians of the B.C. coast \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is\ncurrently stored in the basement of UBC's Main\nLibrary and in facilities on other parts of the\ncampus because of a lack of display space.\nINDIAN COLLECTION\nThe Indian collection \u00E2\u0080\u0094 painstakingly accumulated since the Second World War by\nProfessor of Anthropology Dr. Harry Hawthorn\nand his wife, Audrey, who serves as curator of\nUBC's present Museum of Anthropology \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is\nvalued at almost $10 million.\nThe UBC Indian collection was widely\nacclaimed in the spring and summer of 1969 and\n1970 when it was displayed in Montreal in a\nbuilding on the site of Expo '67.\nThe UBC museum will also be the first\nCanadian museum to be closely associated with\nthe federal Museum of Man in Ottawa as part of a\nscheme to decentralize museum facilities in all\nparts of Canada. The program is sponsored by the\noffice of the Secretary of State.\nIt is anticipated that an annual grant will be\nreceived from the Museum of Man to operate the\nUBC facility, which will also serve as a western\nbase for activities of the Museum of Man.\nOne of the functions of the UBC museum, for\ninstance, would be to design and display travelling\nexhibits for the B.C. region and other parts of\nCanada.\nA functional program for the UBC museum,\nprepared by Graham Brawn and Associates in\nconjunction with UBC museum experts, says the\nUBC facility has the opportunity to overcome the\ncriticisms of \"secluding and withholding\" collections, criticisms that are \"levelled at many\nmuseums being developed throughout the world.\"\nAn innovation of the museum will be to place\nalmost 100 per cent of its artifact collection on\ndisplay so that the public will be able to see the\nscope and size of the collection in much the same\nway that a visitor to a library has access to a book\ncollection. Records and documents pertaining to\nthe collection will be accessible nearby.\nIn addition to the systematic display of the\ncollections, the museum will contain special\ngalleries where the Koerner collection and UBC\nIndian collection can be exhibited. These galleries\n\"will be especially designed to express the esthetic\nsplendor of many of these artifacts as well as the\ndramatic value of the massive carvings.\"\nThe functional program report also proposes\ninclusion of an experimental gallery in the\nmuseum for travelling exhibits, student displays\nand for experimentation in the art of display.\n\"In the Experimental Gallery,\" the report says,\n\"the public will be exposed to continual changes\nin displays, overcoming the 'static' nature often\ncriticized by museum visitors.\" .\nPUBLIC INVOLVED\nThe report goes on to say that the normal\n\"backroom\" spaces of a museum would become a\nstudent and public laboratory in the UBC facility.\nThe public would be involved in the day-to-day\nactivities of the museum and would be exposed to\nits inner workings and the scholarship of UBC and\nvisiting experts.\nThe new museum will also provide facilities for\nthe UBC training program in museology, which\nprepares students for careers in operating\nmuseums. It is the oldest established program of\nits kind in Canada.\nThe report calls for the museum to be open on\na year-round basis, seven days a week, from 10\na.m. to 9 p.m. New Faces On UBC's Senate\nUBC's 98-member Senate \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the \"Academic\nParliament\" of the University \u00E2\u0080\u0094 will hold its first\nmeeting of the 1972-73 Winter Session on Sept.\n13.\nThere will be a substantial number of new faces\nserving on Senate for the next three years as the\nresult of elections held earlier this year to fill the\nvarious categories of membership set out n the\nUniversities Act, the provincial legislation that\noutlines the academic and administrative structure\nof the University.\nThe terms of office o': those elected and\nappointed earlier this year became effective on\nSept. 1 and will not expire until Aug. 31, 1975.\nThe Universities Act states that Senate shall be\ncomposed of:\nA. 772e Chancellor \u00E2\u0080\u0094 UBC's new Chancellor,\nelected on June 7, is UBC graduate Mr. Justice\nNathan T. Nemetz of the B.C. Court of Appeal.\nMr. Justice Nemetz was installed as Chancellor on\nSept. 1 to succeed Dr. Allan M. McGavin.\nThe Chancellor, who also serves on UBC's\n11-member Board of Governors, is elected by\nConvocation, a body composed of the Chancellor,\nthe President, all members of Senate, all persons\nholding academic appointments at UBC who are\non the Convocation roll on the instructions of the\nPresident, all graduates of UBC and those on the\nroll as a result of regulation by Senate (Se\u00C2\u00AB also\nitem H below).\nB. The President \u00E2\u0080\u0094 President Walter H. Gage is\nalso the chairman of Senate under the terms of the\nUniversities Act.\nC. The Deans of Faculties and one member of\neach Faculty elected by the members of that\nFaculty.\nD. Such other Deans as may be determined by\nSenate.\nA total of 25 persons serve under clauses C and\nD, including the Deans of UBC's 12 academic\nFaculties plus Dean Helen McCrae, the Dean of\nWomen.\nTWELVE ELECTED\nThe 12 persons elected by the individual\nFaculties are: Agricultural Sciences \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Prof. W.D.\nKitts (Animal Science); Applied Science - Prof.\nG.V. Parkinson (Mechanical Engineering); Arts \u00E2\u0080\u0094.\nMrs. H.W. Sonthoff (English); Commerce and\nBusiness Administration - Prof. D.B. Fields;\nDentistry \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Prof. Leon Kraintz (Oral Biology);\nEducation \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Dr. R.F. Gray; Forestry \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Dr. D.D.\nMunro; Graduate Studies \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Prof. Patricia Merivale\n(English); Law \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Mr. J.G. Matkin; Medicine \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Dr.\nF.R.C. Johnstone (Surgery); Pharmaceutical\nSciences \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Dr. H.T. Brown; Science \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Dr. C.V.\nFinnegan (Zoology).\nE. The University Librarian, Mr. Basil Stuart-\nStubbs.\nF. One member elected by the governing body\nof each affiliated college of the University.\nTwo persons currently serve under this clause:\nRev. W.S. Taylor, representing the Vancouver\nSchool of Theology and Rev. R.W. Finn, of St.\nMark's College.\nG. Four members appointed by the Lieutenant-\nGovernor in Council.\nThe following currently serve under this clause\n(year of expiration of appointment in brackets):\nMr. CJ. Connaghan (1973), Mr. G.H.D. Hobbs\n(1973), Mr. A.J. Longmore (1974) and Mr. R.F.\nSharp (1973).\nH. Not less than six nor more than 75 members,\nto be elected by Convocation from the members\nthereof, who shall not be members of the\nFaculties.\nThe names of the 15 persons elected under this\nclause were announced on June 7 at the final\nmeeting of the 1969-72 Senate. They are as\nfollows (those re-elected from the previous Senate\nare indicated by an asterisk): Mr. Aaro E. Aho*,\nMrs. Monica D. Angus, Mr. Richard M. Bibbs*, Mr.\nRobert M. Buzza, Mr. Charles McK. Campbell*,\nMr. Mills F. Clarke*, the Hon. E. Davie Fulton*,\nMr. Ian F. Greenwood*, Mr. John Guthrie*, Mrs.\nBetsy A. Lane*, Mrs. Beverley Lecky, Mr. Paul S.\nPlant, Mr. Gordon A. Thom, Mr. Benjamin B.\nTrevino*, Mr. David R. Williams*. Mrs. Lecky and\nMr. Plant have served on Senate previously under a\ndifferent section of the Universities Act.\nI. One or more members, as determined by the\nSenate, to be elected by any society or group or\norganization in the Province which in the opinion\nof the Senate contributes in a significant way to\nthe economic and cultural welfare of the Province.\nServing under this clause are three representatives of the Board of Management of the UBC\nAlumni Association and 12 UBC students.\nStudents serve for varying periods as the result of\nelections conducted by the Alma Mater Society.\nThe three representatives of the Alumni\nAssociation Board of Management on the 1972-75\nSenate, announced at the Senate meeting on April\n26, are: Mrs. Frederick Field, Mr. Frank C. Walden\nand Mr. Barrie Lindsay.\nCurrent student representation on Senate is as\nfollows: Mr. P.A. Insley, Mr. S.J. Robinson, Mr.\nD.A. Swain (terms expire in April, 1974); Mr. S.E.\nGarrod, Mr. G.A. Letcher, Mr. J.A. McEwan\n(terms expire in October, 1972); Mr. A.C.L. Fox,\nMr. S.J. Persky, Mr. A.R. Robbins (terms expire in\nApril, 1973); Mr. D.V. Anderson, Mr. J.T. Sydor\nand Mr. A.P. York (terms expire in October,\n1973).\nJ. A number of members, equal to the number\nprovided in clauses G, H and I, to be elected by\nthe Faculties either in joint meeting or in such\nmanner as the Faculties in joint meeting may by\nregulation determine.\nElected earlier this year under this clause were a\ntotal of 34 Faculty members. They are:\nProf. William M. Armstrong, Professor of\nMetallurgy and Deputy President; Miss Alice\nBaumgart, Nursing; Prof. L.L. Bongie, Head,\nDepartment of French; Prof. Charles B. Bourne,\nLaw; Prof. Donald G. Brown, Philosophy; Prof.\nS.D. Cavers, Chemical Engineering; Prof. R.M.\nClark, Economics and Director of the Office of\nAcademic Planning; Prof. Roy Daniells, University\nProfessor of English Language and Literature;\nProf. Charlotte David, Education; Prof. Norman\nEpstein, Chemical Engineering; Prof. James G.\nFoulks, Pharmacology; Prof. W.C. Gibson, Head,\nHistory of Medicine and Science; Prof. Noel Hall,\nCommerce and Business Administration and\nDirector of the Institute of Industrial Relations;\nDr. David F. Hardwick, Pathology; Prof. James M.\nKennedy, Computer Science and Director of the\nComputing Centre; Dr. Robert V. Kubicek,\nHistory; Dr. Julia Levy, Microbiology; Prof. Ruth\nMcConnell, Education; Prof. C.A. McDowell,\nHead, Department of Chemistry; Prof. M.F.\nMcGregor, Head, Department of Classics; Prof.\nJohn M. Norris, History; Prof. R.F. Osborne,\nHead, School of Physical Education and Recreation; Prof. Peter Pearse, Economics; Prof. R.A.\nRestrepo, Mathematics; Prof. Gideon Rosenbluth,\nEconomics; Dr. Ian S. Ross, English; Prof. Robert\nH. Scagel, Head, Department of Botany; Prof.\nA.D. Scott, Economics; Dr. Dorothy Smith,\nAnthropology and Sociology; Prof. John K.\nStager, Geography and Assistant Dean, Faculty of\nGraduate Studies; Prof. Muriel Uprichard, Head,\nSchool of Nursing; Prof. William A. Webber,\nAnatomy; Prof. William E. Willmott,\nAnthropology and Sociology; Prof. W.D. Young,\nHead, Department of Political Science.\nMEETS TEN TIMES\nThe University Registrar, Mr. J.E.A. Parnall, is\nsecretary of the Senate but does not have a vote.\nUBC's Senate meets ten times during the\nacademic year which begins on Sept. 1 and ends\non Aug. 31. Senate meets monthly except in July\nand August.\nSenate has a long list of duties and powers\nunder the Universities Act, including provision for\nthe government, management, and carrying out of\ncurriculum, instruction and education offered by\nthe University. !t also has power to determine all\nquestions relating to the academic and other\nqualifications required of applicants for admission\nto UBC. Senate also considers revisions in courses,\ninstruction and education in all Faculties and\nDepartments, grants degrees both academic and\nhonorary, approves the establishment or discontinuance of any Faculty or Department,\nawards scholarships, fellowships, bursaries and\nprizes, makes rules and regulations pertaining to\nthe Library and exercises disciplinary action with\nrespect to students by way of appeal from\ndecisions of the Faculty Council.\nSome Senate decisions \u00E2\u0080\u0094 those pertaining to\nthe establishment or discontinuance of Faculties,\nDepartments, or courses, alteration of any\nUniversity rule or regulation and the terms of\naffiliation with other institutions - must be\napproved by UBC's Board of Governors before\nthey have any force or effect.\nUnion Turned Down\nUBC's Senate has decided not to allow the\ncampus local of the Canadian Union of Public\nEmployees to elect five of its members to the\nUniversity Senate.\nA recommendation against opening Senate\nmembership to the union was approved at the May\nmeeting of Senate. It came from a Senate\ncommittee chaired by Prof. John Norris, of UBC's\nHistory department.\nThe request for representation by non-academic\nstaff on Senate was made by Local 116 of CUPE\nin the course of contract negotiations with UBC in\nApril, 1971.\nThe committee which recommended against\nenlargement of Senate membership did so on the\ngrounds that \"membership of representatives of\nthe union on Senate has no functional justification\" and admission of CUPE representatives\n\"would open the door to representation by any\ngroup in the community, whether or not it has any\nfunctional relationship to the academic affairs of\nthe University.\"\nLocal 116, in arguing for representation on\nSenate, said that at present UBC's non-academic\nstaff of about 3,000 persons was \"voiceless,\"\nwhereas faculty members and students were well\nrepresented.\nUnion representatives also argued that the\npresent makeup of Senate \"does not appear to be\ntruly representative\" of the University community\nand suggested that representation should be from\ngroups directly involved in the University, \"including staff, which has hitherto been ignored.\"\nRepresentation by non-academic staff on the\nSenate, the union suggested, might counterbalance\nacademic and other biases, bring a measure of\ncrispness to the form of Senate debate and\ndemonstrate how to expedite business, ensure an\natmosphere of co-operation and provide a voice\nfor employed staff in the use of University\nresources.\nThe committee concluded that the campus\nlocal of CUPE represents its members in matters\nwhich are of immediate functional concern to its\nmembers, the business, administrative and\nmaintenance operations of the University, whereas\nSenate is not concerned with these functions.\nFaculty, students, alumni and government\nappointees are members of Senate because each\ngroup has a function to perform in the academic\naffairs of the University, the report said, and no\nsuch functional relationship has been established\non behalf of the union.\nThe committee made two additional points\nbefore recommending that Senate membership not\nbe enlarged by the addition of union representatives:\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 It is not the function of Senate to satisfy the\ndesire of the union for a greater feeling of being\naccepted in the University community, and\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 The arguments by the union that their\nrepresentatives could bring a \"special expertise and\na superior pragmatism\" to Senate deliberations are\nnot arguments exclusively applicable to the union,\nbut might be applied to justify representation by\nany group on Senate.\nUBC Reports/Sept. 5, 1972/7 ALMA MATER Society President Doug Aldridge and\nStudent Union Building Manager Graham Vance,\nkneeling at left, inspect 20-foot-long knife slashes made\nin SUB furniture by vandals. Most vandalism occurs in\nthe evenings when there are few people in the student\nbuilding, according to Mr. Vance. Picture by UBC Photo\nDepartment.\nDE-HUMANIZATION\nContinued from Page One\nmissives, mutter inwardly and send each student a\ncompleted time-table, a printed reading list, AMS\ncard, parking sticker, library permit, and an invitation\nto the Phrateres annual tea. Joe College need only\narrive on the first day of lectures and make his way to\nhis appointed class. Joe Cool could spend the year at\nhome, reading.\nApart from the chromium-plated efficiency this\nwould introduce, it has one fatal flaw, it would mark\na further step toward the total de-humanization of\nthe University. One of the most compelling criticisms\nof the University made by students \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and faculty \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is\nthat it is impersonal. Outside of the car pool or one's\nimmediate circle of friends or one's own department,\nUBC is an ocean of strangers. It is not uncommon for\na student to spend four years at the University and\nnever speak to a faculty member. (Or to try it once\nand then wish he hadn't.) It is almost impossible for\nmany to establish any sense of identity with the\nplace, to feel that they belong. The much derided old\ncollege spirit had one important characteristic in its\nfavor, it bespoke a sense of community, and one of\nthe things missing from large institutions is just this\nsense.\nAdmittedly the crowds and queues of registration\nhardly create a community, but they do constitute a\nkind of rite of passage in which all students and most\nfaculty participate. By throwing students together, by\nproviding a kind of shared adversity, some sense of\ndifferentiation, of community, is generated. The\nUniversity year begins with registration week, and\nwhen one has gone through the process, one knows\nthat the year has begun, that one is now a student at\nREGISTRATION\nContinued from Page One\nthe first time. Applications for admission to the third\nand fourth years of the Faculty of Arts, where there\nhave been increases in recent years, are running at\nabout the same rate as last year, the Registrar's Office\nsaid.\nApplications for admission to the first year\nprogram of the Faculty of Forestry have doubled to\nmore than 100 for the current year, but most other\nFaculties are holding steady at last year's levels.\nUBC's rredical school will this year admit 80\nstudents to its first year program, an increase of 20\nover the 60 or so students admitted each year since\nthe Faculty of Medicine opened its doors in 1950.\nThe 80 students chosen for entry into Medicine,\nthe great majority of them B.C. students, were chosen\nfrom approximately 700 applicants. Lectures for all\nstudents in Medicine begin on Wednesday (Sept. 6).\nUBC's Faculty of Law, which limits overall registration in its three-year program to 700 students,\nexpects to register 220 students in first-year Law.\nAbout 850 persons applied for admission to the first\nyear.\nthe University. It means as well some personal\ncontact with faculty, however fleeting, and that too\nfunctions as a kind of induction into the community.\nIt may be that the advice offered is trivial or\nperfunctory, but that is the fault of the advisor, not\nthe process. For many the opportunity to discuss a\ncourse or a program is invaluable. Even the badinage\nin the course selection rooms provides some brief\nawareness of the human beings within the University.\nThis and the advisory process also provides students\nwith an introduction to some of the faculty and even\na minimal reduction in the number of strangers is a\nkey requisite for establishing some sense of\ncommunity.\nCENTRE LACKING\nThe nature of UBC is, unfortunately, centrifugal.\nThe campus lacks a centre where staff and students\ncongregate. In the days when the enrolment was less\nthan 10,000, this was provided by the Auditorium\ncafeteria. Subsequent developments isolated students\nand faculty and flung them to the edges of the\ncampus: some to the Faculty Club, or the Graduate\nStudent Centre or the Student Union Building (the\nlast of the great railway stations) and many to the\nlonely confines of their cars in C lot.\nAny opportunity to pull the inhabitants of the\ncampus into closer contact ought not to be lost. Any\nopportunity to provide even a glimmering of a sense\nof community should not be thrown away. The\npresent registration week and its incumbent\ninefficiencies and crowds is one of the few remaining\n\"dappled things\" that keeps the University from\nsubsiding into a vast academic machine, servicing\nindividuals in isolation, making no mistakes but quite\nwithout any of the humane attributes that are, after\nall, one of the main justifications for universities in\nthe first place.\nFrom time to time various Faculty and University\ncommittees have toyed with proposals for providing\nsome collegiate structure for the University. None of\nthese, beyond the Arts I program, has ever been acted\nupon. But the objectives have been similar: to\novercome the mechanical and the impersonal flavor\nof the contemporary multiversity. It may be that the\ncontinued decline in enrolment will raise again these\npossibilities. Until such developments do occur, the\ncourse of wisdom lies in the direction of bigger and\nbetter registration weeks, with more opportunity for\nfaculty and students to meet in an atmosphere less\nformal than the classroom or the office, where there\nis a common concern that removes some of the\nbarriers, even if that concern is only about a shortage\nof cards or long queues in the rain.\nNOT A PLEA\nAll this is not a plea for less efficiency than there\nis. It is, rather, for recognizing the intrinsic value of\nthe process itself, and for recognizing that there are\nother purposes served by the registration process than\nfilling classrooms.\nGrants Aid\nStudy of\nChinese\nTwo research grants totalling more than $28,000\nhave been made to UBC research teams for studies of\nthe Chinese community in Canada.\nThe first grant of $16,858 from the federal\ngovernment's Office of the Secretary of State will be\nused to write a history of the Chinese in Canada.\nThe three-year project will be carried out by two\nChinese residents of Vancouver, Mr. Harry and Mr.\nRon Con, and three University of B.C. teachers: Dr.\nGraham E. Johnson, a sociologist; Prof. Edward\nWickberg, an historian; and Prof. William E. Willmott,\nan anthropologist.\nThe UBC research team has also been awarded an\n$11,505 grant from the Canada Council to research\nChinese immigration and adaptation in Greater\nVancouver over a three-year period.\nAll the UBC faculty members have had experience\nin Chinese studies. Dr. Johnson has done research on\nChinese communities in Hong Kong and Prof.\nWickberg is a leading authority on Chinese living in\noverseas communities and has written a book on the\nhistory of the Chinese in the Phillipines.\nProf. Willmott has published a book on the\nChinese in Cambodia and is an authority on the\nChinese in Canada.\nThe two Chinese members of the team that will\nwrite a history of the Chinese in Canada are well\nknown in the Vancouver area. Mr. Harry Con is a\nbusinessman in Vancouver's Chinese community and\nhis brother, Ron, formerly served as a Presbyterian\nminister in Sudbury, Hong Kong and Toronto and\nsince 1966 has been with the federal Citizenship\nBranch in Alberta and B.C.\nThe history group has begun research using the\narchives of 77ie Chinese Times, which were recently\nhoused at UBC, and the personal papers of the late\nMr. Foon Sien, a long-time spokesman for the\nChinese community in Vancouver, who died recently.\nHis personal papers have been presented to the UBC\nLibrary.\nProf. Willmott said the Canada Council grant will\nbe used to study the effect on Chinese community\nstructure of changes which have taken place in laws\ngoverning the entry of Chinese into Canada.\nUntil 1962, he said, no Chinese could enter\nCanada unless sponsored by a close relative who was\nalready a Canadian resident. The immigration pattern\nprior to 1962 resulted in forms of community\norganization that are paralleled in many overseas\nChinese communities around the world.\nSince 1962 Chinese immigrants have been able to\nenter Canada without sponsorship by relatives and\nthis undoubtedly has had an effect on the Chinese\ncommunity structure. Prof. Willmott said.\nThe UBC research team will study both immigrant\ngroups in detail, prepare a statement about the\nstructure of the older Chinese community and\nexamine the nature of the new immigration and its\neffects upon the older community.\nThe project will look at the new associations that\nhave been established in the wake of large-scale\nChinese immigration and which may actively compete\nwith older associations.\n||HH Volume 18, No. 10 - Sept. 5,\nlllll' 1972. Published by the\nllllll University of British Columbia\nmarmmmmr and distributed free. UBC\nREPORTS Rep0rts appears on Tuesdays\nduring the University's winter session. 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