"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-24"@en . "1946-03-12"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0124538/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " di,\nCanadian\ncampus\nBy Barbara Jones\nWhile thousands of European\nstudents struggled to restore life\nto their bomb-gutted universities,\nCanadian students last week sat\nback smugly in their undamaged\nIvory towers r.nd half-heartedly\nacknowledged their debt to their\ncontinental brothers-in-books. The\nInternational Student Service offered the opportunity for these\nCanadian students to repay their\ndebt for peaceful campi, an opportunity which, in too many cases,\nwas refused.\nThe classic example of this Isolationist indifference came from the\nUniversity of Manitoba where,\nunder pressure of a few posters,\nabout |800 was extracted. Students\nfrankly admitted they \"didn't want\nto worry about other university\nstudents when trying to get a new\nuniversity ln Winnipeg.\"\nQueen's University, traditionally\nrenowned for the enthusiasm of its\nstudents began its I.S.S Campaign\nwith a costume dance and a general meeting at which thought-\nprovoking films of China's and\nEurope's war-haggard populace re-\nsuited in a successful tag day. But\ntdo little co-operation and a too\nlate publicity campaign forced the\npostponement of tha IS.S. Carnival.\nOther reports were slightly more\nencouraging. At the University of\nAlberta where the campaign was\ngetting under way, an Interfaculty\ncampetition was announced with\nan award for the most generous.\nAn Edmonton-wide tag day, circular letters, skits in the rotunda\not the Arts College were planned\nto lead up to the I.S.S. climax,\nThe Club 400 Ball.\nThe University of Montreal nck-\nnowledged no specific I.S.S. campaign but, Instead, adopted the\nUnivesrslty of Caen,, France,\nwhoch was completely demolished\nduring the war. Some 500 food\nparcels and over a thousand dollars had already crossed the Atlantic from the students of New\nFrance to the students of Old.\nFollowing .the efficiency trend of\nthe times, McGill University conducted a Combined Charities Drive\nwhich asked $2 per student. The\nhighlight of the campaign week,\nthe Athletic Festival, netted the\namalgamated project a sum sufficient to cover the I.S.S. and the\nRed Cross.\nBeaver-busy Mount Allison University organisers were set to\nspring the gates on an early March\ndrive that was to net European\nbrethren 12,008. The agenda included stag dances, a tag day and\na formal.\nTwo Ontario universities, slightly\ntinged with pride, renewed concentrated efforts to further their\nfunctional friendliness. London's\nUniversity of Western Ontario had\nsurpassed the original fifteen hundred dollar objective and was already well on its way towards\nsmashing the eighteen hundred\nmark. A mock \"Information\nPlease\" program with four professors as masterminds met favor with\nthe student body as did the novelty\nidea of an admission and exit\nprice. An auction, tags, posters\nkept the student interest alive as\ndid the London Free Press and\ndowntown theatres.\nA newsreel I.S.S. appeal spotlighting University of Toroton's\nChancellor Cody was warmly received not only by Torontonlans\nbut also by theatre-goers in Lont\ndon, Kingston and Montreal.\nThe University of Toronto went\none step farther however. It ren-\ntred its drive around a typical\nco-ed contest which the lipstick-\nconscious Toronto press gobbled\nup. Students dug down, purchased\ntags to gain them admittance to\nthe fun-musi-girl packed elimination program. Social directors\ngrasped the opportunity to organ- .\nize the first edition of the long-\nawaited All Varsity Revue, a composite of various faculty productions. Other features staged: a\njazz concert featuring a topflight\ncampus combo, a fraternity-sponsored Anchor Ball and refugee\nspeakers.\nI.S.S. organizers, for the most\npart, kept their thoughts and disappointments to themselves. Observers noted that men and women\nwho had experienced Europe's\nplight were more liberal with their\ndonations. They also noted a\nslightly selfish attitude among the\naverage Canadian university student and paused to wonedr: \"Is\nCanada slightly high-hatted?\"\nPRE-MED MEN\nTHROW STAG\nMEN OF THE Pre-Med Undergraduate Society will celebrate tho\nInitiation of the new Medical\nSchool at UBC at a stag party at\nthe White Rose Ballroom on Tuesday, March 19.\nTickets are on sale at $1.50 per\nperson. Pre-Meds are requested to\nbuy their tickets before March 14\nto enable the committee to purchase sufficient refreshments.\nTkelufytwf\nvol. xxvm\nVANCOUVER, B.C., TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1946\nNO. 56\nMcLean Heads\nNew Bureau\nESTABLISHMENT of a University Employment Services office\nwas announced Saturday by Dr.\nN. A. M. MacKenzie acting on a\nrecommendation of the joint\nStudent-Staff Committee on employment. '\nMajor J. F.' McLean, Veterans\nCouncillor, was appointed supervisor of the new bureau and set\nup his offices in the Armouries\nMonday. The new supervisor\nstressed the fact that the office\nwill be in continuous operation\nthroughout the year to service\nemployers and students. Provincial wide In scope, it will grow\nalong the lines of employment\nbureaus set up by other Canadian\nuniversities, notably Toronto and\nQueens. As the office expands lt\nis planned to include an occupational testing bureau under Dr.\nW. G. Black, also a Veterans'\nCouncillor.\n\"For the present,\" said Major\nMcLean, \"emphasis will be placed\non summer employment rather\nthan permanent employment, but\neventually we will take over thw\ngreater part of graduate and\nundergraduate student employment placement.\"\nThe office will work in conjunction with present employment\norganizations in Commerce, Engineering and Applied Science.\nThe office was created in response\nto the needs of a large number\nof students at UBC and the increasing realisation among employers as to the desirable type\nof employee to be found on tha\ncampus.\nDr. MacKenzie, commenting on\nthe formation of the Bureau said,\n\"I feel that it is of very grave\nimportance to help the students,\nboth veteran and civilian to find\nemployment in summer work and\non graduatidn. Unless employment is assured, a number of\nstudents will not be able to con*\ntlnue their courses. However, in\nview of the statement made by\nHon. C. D. Howe two or three\ndays ago that' there is liable to\nbe a shortage of labour, our\nproblem seems to be one of locating employment and of placing\ntht: right people in it. This we\nwill do through the Employment\nServices Office,\"\nThe Student Employment Bureau will continue to handle registration for summer work at its\nBrock office between 11:30 and\n2:30 daily.\n\"Students should register foi\ntheir sumnvar employment as soon\nas possible,\" urged Major McLean.\n\"The volunteer Interviewers oi\nthe Student Employment Bureau\nare doing an excellent job but\nthey will have to close the office\nin about three weeks to devote\nsome time to study,\"\nGOOD WORK!\nJOHNNY ALLEN, chairman of\nthe UBC Visitors' Day committee,\nIs being hailed on the campus this\nweek as the unofficial campus\n\"man of the year.\"\nHordes of anonymous and signed\nletters praising Allan's work, who\nwaa responsible for the entire organisation of the Visitors' Day\nprogram, have come Into the\nUbyssey office and many people\nhave approached the staff members\nof the Ubyssey to express their\nappreciation of Mr. Allan's work.\nThe editors of the Ubyssey wish\nto take this opportunity to offer\ntheir congratulations, although belated to Mr. Allan for his professional organization job.\nCafeteria Will\nNot Cash Cheques\nCAFE MANAGER Frank Underhill requests that students do not\nattempt to cash personal cheques\nin the Cafeteria,\n\"We do make exceptions occas-\nsionally, and cash the odd veteran's or other government cheque,\nbut it's not our policy and we\ndon't want to make a practice of\nit,\" says Underhill.\nHe adds that there have been\nseveral cases in the past of personal\nchequec cashed in the Cafeteria\nsubsequently dishonored by the\nbanks upon which they were supposedly drawn.\nOBVIOUSLY RELUCTANT to shell out $3.49 for the Jokers Ball at the Commodore next\nThursday are Bill Duff and Jack Patterson, wno are trying to escape the clutches of pretty\ncoeds Norah Paine and Marta Rolston. But trust in the powers of a woman. The boys will\nbe going to the ball. Doubtless the fact that their money will be given to the Gym fund\nwill reconcile them somewhat. And the mad time to be had by all those who \"Dare to\nCome\" will definitely make them forget the p rice. Tickets can be obtained from all members of the Jokers if you can find them. Jokers, that is). Featured at the dance will be every\nthing from Jokers to \"Wimmin\". By the wa y, the lad under the sign is David S. Fraser.\n-PHOTO BY HAL HARRIS\nISS COLLECTS CLOTHES\nSTUDENTS IN EUROPE and China benefitted from old\nclothes collected on the UBC campus. The ISS Committee\nand the Gamma Chapter of the Phrateres are co-operating\non an Old Clothing Drive starting immediately and lasting\ntwo weeks.\nThe need in Europe and China\nie greater than ever. European\nstudents have had very little in\nthe way of clothes in the last\nseven years.\nEx-servicemen are urged to donate their service kit of which tney\nhave no present need. Any clothing will be welcome, either civilian\nor service.\nStudents who have more personal\ninterest ln sending old clothes can\nsend parcels over to individual\npeople. They can turn in their\nnames to the ISS Committee in\nthe Alma Mater offce.\nThe ISS Committee will meet In\nArts 102 Wedensday at 12:30.\nUBC has only collected a little\nover fifty percent of their quota\nwhich is set at $3500.\nISS is the only international organization which concerns itself\nsolely with the welfare of students\nof all races, religious denominations or nationalities. It promotes\nuniversal solidarity based on common interests, aims and achievements. ISS representatives had\naccess to prison camps and prisons\nduring the war helped prisoners\ncontinue their studies. In China\nthey provided destitute students\nwith food and medical supplies.\nAt present ISS is aiding students\nof Europe who have nothing but\ndestruction to return to. ISS is\nalso reconstructing universities\nand maintaining a sanitorium fcr\ntubercular students,\nThe appeal should receive a gratifying response from students of\nUBC if they stop to think of their\nfellow students in Europe nnd\nChina who must study under the\nmost deplorable conditions.\nFacilities will be provided on\nthe campus for receiving old\nclothing.\nBerkeley Square\nOpens Tonight\n\"OPENING NIGHT\" for th.\nPlayers Club presentation, \"Berkeley Spuare\" is this evening in\nthe auditorium at 8:15. It will be\na five night running performance\non the campus. The play will\nthen bj taken on tour throughout\nthe province and to Seattle.\nPrincipal roles in the cast are\ntaken by Art Hill, playing Petei\nSlandish and Norma Bloon portraying Hebn Pettigrew. Other\nlead parts in the play are takei\nby Beverly Wilson as Lady Anne,\nGeorge Baldwin as Tom Pettigrew,\nand Joycv: Harman playing Kate\nPettigrew. Also taking roles in\nthe play are John Nieuwdorp, Jim\nArgue, Art Alexander, Don Mc-\nDougall, Betty Peyman, Annie\nForrester, Grace Tuckey, Don\nWilson, Joan McCallum, Trish\nRogers and Carol Aikins.\nCost Of Huts To\nUBC Is Tabulated\nFIGURES on the cost of moving\nformer army and airforce huts\nund putting them into use on the\nUBC campus, have been released\nby Dr. G. M. Shrum, chairman\nof the emergency committee.\nPurchase price from War Assets\nCorporation varied between $200\nand $500. Moving them ran between $300 and $750, depending on\ntheir original location. Huts were\nsecured from camps in Point\nGrey, North Vancouver, New\nWestminster, and Boundary Bay.\nBy the time a hut has been renovated, partitioned, and had chairs\nond a heating system installed, it\nis worth in all $1500 as a lecture\nroom. Those huts that have been\nfurther equippedt o serve as labs\nare listed at $2500.\nUBC Coeds Debate\nAt McMlnnville\nA WEEK tonight three UBC\ncoeds will debate in McMlnnville,\nOregon against three students from\nLinfleld College.\nHarriet Hochman and Rosemary\nHodgins are travelling to Oregon\nfor a return debate with Lotti\nMeves and Mrs. Carolyn Andrews\nwho visited here on February 27.\nAdding further strength to the\nUBC team will be Joan Fraser.\nTne three girls will leave Vancouver Sunday morning, debate\nTuesday night and arrive home\nThursday.\n\"British Colonial Policy in India\"\nwill again be the topic with the\nsides unchanged. Though UBC\nwon unanimously in Vancouver,\nthe debate in McMinnvllle will not\nbe a decision affair.\nMarks Given Out\nDuring Summer\nTHE RIGISTRAR'S OFFICE\nannounced today that exam results for lower classmen will\nremain the unknown quantity\nuntil well Into the summer.\nGraduates will have their results\non the 15th of May following thc\nmeeting of the the Senate.\nThis arrangement means students will have no way of knowing\nfor sure that they must study for\nsups. The reason for this delay\nstems from the increased enrollment at the university. An extrb\nburden is thrown on the profes-\nsors.\nPhoning the Registrars office will\nbe of no avail, it is likely that\nthe office will have three shifts.\nTOTEM PICS\nSTUDENTS WHO have not\npicked up their mounted Totem\nphotographs at Russel Studios,\n445 Granville Street are requested\nto do so at once.\nJ. C. Walberer, Totem photographer has been unable to open\nhis office door for the past month\nand has been kept alive by his\nassistant who passed food ln\nthrough the transom.\nUnfortunately die assistant has\ndisappeared under the ever-increasing pile of photos along with\na retoucher who was engulfed last\nDecember.\nUnices someone removes the\npile of pictures Walberer will\nstarve to death. The Society for\nthe Prevention of Cruelty to Photographers requests immediate\naction.\nHaggart Appeals\nCode Decision\nRONALD HAGGART, second\nyear Arts student, went before\nStudents' Council Monday night\nto appeal the Thursday decision of\nthe Discipline Committee, which\ncharged him with violating Section 12, Article 3 of the AMS cod*..\nA statement issued to the Ubyssey Monday by the Disciplin*\nCommittee declares \"In reporting\nnews which he received in the\nstrictest confidence, Haggart vi-\noluted Section 12, Article 3 of the\nAMS code which in effect says\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n'every student using the university\ncrest or representing UBC ln an>\nway shall be responsible to Students' Council for his conduct\nwhich may ba held to affect the\nuniversity.\nHaggart has written a story\ndealing with consumpaon of liquor\nwhich was publisned in the February 22 issue of a downtown\nnewspaper. The matter had been\ndiscussed Informally at a meeting\nof the Discipline Committee, and\nthe reporter attending from the\nUbyssey had been asked by that\nbody to treat the information as\nconfidential.\nHaggart was fined $2.50 by the\ncommittee and his AMS pass was\ntaken from him. This bars him\nfrom all student activities.\nCommenting on the case, President N. A. M. MacKenzie stated,\n\"As I understand it, Haggart has\ntwo capacities: one as a student,\nthe other as a reporter.\"\n\"The students have the same\ncontrol over Haggart as they\nhave over any other student.\"\nWUS ELECTIONS\nTHURS. IN AUD\nWOMEN on the campus are\nasked to attend the WUS elections\nThursday noon in the Auditorium.\nElections will be held come Gym\ndrives or Joker Days, stated Nancy\nPitman, president of WUS. The\noffices of Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer must be elected.\nAll nominations must be handed\nin before Thursday to the AMS\noffice.\nJokers Hold Big\nCelebration On\nThursday Night\nBY AUDREY GARRARD\nSEVERAL HUNDRED STUDENTS who have never\nhad a chance to act unnaturally will get their last chance at\nthe Jokers Ball on Thursday, March 14. Whether you are\nmad as a March hare or simply harebrained, or even just\nsimply brained the Jokers can make you feel right at home.\nSo much so that you will probably be touched for every\npenny you have in addition to the admission price of $3.49.\n PATRONS\nPatrons for the dance will be\nAhkoond of Swat. Contrary to\nthe prevalent rumour that the\nAhkoond of Swat is not, he is. It\nis true that he strove, as has been\nreported, to disregard the message\nstern, but he ahkoodn't.\nThere will be door prizes to be\npresented by which ever master of\nceremonies can first lay his hands\non them. The unhappy winners\nmay be obliged to keep these\nprizes but this point has not been\ndecided on as yet. It is felt in\nsome circles that merely to rob and\nbeat up the customer should be\nenough entertainment for one\nevening.\nNO FORMALS\nAce Joker Dave Hayward has\nannounced that any male who\ndares to appear in formal attire\nwill be burned at the steak. However for patrons who do not care\nfor barbecue, lettuce will be served\nduring the Intermission.\nLOTS OF MUSIC\nMusic will be provided by two\norchestras. Dave McLelland will\nwow them at one end while Ole\nOlson will play in opposition at thu\nother end of the hall. One end\nwill play sweet and the other will\nswing it and vice versa. Who\never wins will be allowed to go\nhome early without any prizes.\nMr. Hayward has expressed it\nas his most sincere wish that those\nattending the Ball with leave their\ncoats and wallets in the cheque\nroom as he, Hayward, expects to\nhave a few spare minutes in which\nto rifle pockets. He has expressed\nit as his opinion that anyone who\ngoes out of the Commodore with\nenough ready cash for street car\nfare will deserve to go home in\na taxi.\nSextet Reviews\nElection Rules\nDURING A prolonged three\nhour meeting of the Students'\nCouncil last week, a motion was\n' made by Hugh McLeod that election rules on the campus be looked\ninto with a view to revising them.\nStatements were obtained from\nTreasurer Garry Miller and USC\nChairman Hugh McLeod.\nA six-man committee is being set\nup to review the question and will\nmeet early this week. It is composed of David Blair, Tony Scott,\nBIU Gill, Bob Morris, Dave Tupper and one repersentative of the\nFaculty of Applied Science. Sidney Flavelle and Nancy Pitman\nwill act as advisers to the committee.\nTreasurer Miller said that with\nthe tremendous increase in the\nenrollment of the student body, the\nold system of election campaigning\nls outdated.\nThe method of presenting the\ncandidates to the electorate by\nmeans of posters being put In conspicuous places does not reach the\nproportion of students that It did\nformerly.\nHand-bills are apparently the\nonly effective alternative. AU UBC\nelection literature for distribution\nIs banned at present. If this ban\nis lifted, the question of committee\nfinances arises.\nMcLeod said that a solution\nmight be to have the number of\nposters permitted each candidate\nraised from the five it stands at\npresent. He said that the length\nof election campaigns might be\nincreased.\nMiller stated that strict regulations would have to be kept of\nthe number of hand-bills printed.\nThis could only be done If each\nelection committee transacted its\nbusiness through the AMS office\nwith the same printer. A set expenditure for printing of five\ndollars is thought to be sufficient\nfor each candidate. This system\nprevails on the campus of the University of Toronto.\nCECIL VIP\nBirdmen Try Out\nFirst Glider Sun\nFIRST test flights of their new\nglider were made Sunday at\nBoundary Bay airport by members\nof the Thunderbird Soaring and\nGliding Club.\nClub President Frank Woodward\nwho made the first 30 second\nflight, reports that test results\nwere \"very successful.\"\nHenry Zitko, instructor, and\nMike Skubay also soloed.\nLater in the afternoon other\nmembers were given \"ground\ntows\" as part of their preliminary\ntraining.\nThe UBC birdmen expect to\nhave weekly flights at Boundary\nBay airport, weather permitting,\naccording to Woodward.\nAt the present time, the club is\nconstructing another glider similar to the one it already has.\nFILMS FEATURE\nTOSCANINNI\n\"TOSCANINNI CONDUCTS,\" a\nfeature of special interest to the\nSymphony society will be a pass\nfeature presentation of the Film\nSociety tomorrow noon in the\nAuditorium.\n\"Life on the Western Marshes\"\nwill be a second short on The same\nnoon hour show, 'fnese are LSE\npresentations.\nUBYSSEY PHOTOGRAPHER\nPASSED AWAY THURSDAY\nTHE DEATH of Cecil Everett\nYip, on Thursday, March 7th,\nmeant the loss of one of the best\nliked and most willing worker*\nengaged in research at the university. Cece was an active menu\nber of the photography staff of\nthe Publications Board, which\nactivity he was engaged In up to\nthe time he caught the cold that\ndeveloped into pneumonia and\nfinally resulted in his death.\nHe was engaged in research\nwork dealing with film emulsions.\nDr. Smith of the physics department speaks very highly of his\nexperimental work on a new type\nof infra red plate developed by\nEastman Kodak Co.\nCecil was president of the University Amateur Radio Association at the tinre of his death, and\nsince the early thirties he has\noperated his own private shortwave radio station, VE560, which\nis known all over America.\nCece was associated with the\nuniversity for a nine year period,\nduring which L. was also a member of the American Radio Relay\nLeague.\nPARADE NETS\n$163 FOR GYM\nSORORITY MEMBERS participating in the Float Parade held\nThursday afternoon, February 28,\nin downtown Vancouver, collected\nover $163 in aid of the War Memorial Gymiasium Fund.\nThe Parade Committee states\nthat it wishes to thank all sororities for their co-operation in the\ndrive.\nl \t THE UBYSSEY, Tuesday, March 12, 1946, Page 2\nEDITORIAL PAGE\nIN MEMORY A FRIEND\nStaff members of the Ubyssey and the\nTotem are mourning the death this week\nof a good friend and fellow \"pubster,\" \"Cece\"\nYip who died Thursday of pneumonia. It\nall started when \"Cece,\" a veteran staff\nphotographer, took cold while covering a\nsports assignment for the Totem.\nYip had a flair for hobbies, and he was\ncontented pottering around physics labs,\nphotography darkrooms, and radio stations,\nHe channelled his interests so they would be\nof benefit to the students. He was the initiating genius of the University Amateur\nRadio Society and has worked for the Publications Board for two years.\n\"Cece's passion for research and recognized ability in the field of physics led him\nto be entrusted with the most \"sacred\"\nequipment in the physics department. He\nwas acknowledged by instructors in that department to be a brilliant student.\nAlthough 33, \"Cece\" had a kid's passion\nfor gadgets. His beloved camera and amateur radio sets were seldom out of his sight\nfor any length of time.\nTouchingly enough, \"Cece's last thoughts\nwere for the Totem. Shortly before he died\nhe sent his brother out to the Publications\noffice with a roll of undeveloped film so that\nhe might meet a Totem deadline.\nWe'll all miss Cecil Yip, one of the most\ncheerful and competent co-workers the\nmembers of the Publications Board have\never known.\nRESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESS\nThe practise of sniping is a poor one, and\nwhen indulged in by a newspaper it wastes\nthe time of the reader unless he be one of\nthe few who revels in that sort of thing.\nHowever, it becomes increasingly imperative that some clarification be offered to\nthe students by the Ubyssey on the recent\naction taken by the Discipline Committee\nagainst a newspaper reporter, and their\nreasons for doing so.\nA section of the downtown press, obviously fancying itself as a \"protector of the\nright,\" has seized upon the incident, snatched up an editorial sword, and has gone\ncharging gloriously off to the crusades to\nslay the dragon of student government\nallegedly \"paying lip service to democracy\"\nbut \"bordering dangerously on Fascism.\"\nThe only thing resulting from the battle is\nsmoke screen, and although the whole affair\nis very distasteful and would have been\nignored by this newspaper, the resultant\npublicity has been so much more distasteful\nand exaggerated that, distasteful as the subject may be, it must be reviewed correctly\nfor tiie first time.\nThe whole affair, originally a domestic\nmatter, began when a Ubyssey reporter\n\"covered\" a meeting of the Discipline Committee. Information regarding supposed\nliquor consumption, at a campus affair discussion of which was not on the agenda of\nthe meeting, was brought to the notice of\nthe disciplinary group during the hearing.\nThe Discipline Committee, which has aa\nmuch rght to \"in camera\" sessions as any\nother court in Canada, informed the reporter\nthat the information was confidential. He\nreported this to the editor-in-chief in the\nhearing of three downtown correspondents,\nstudents of the university and staff members\nof this newspaper. They were requested to\ntreat the information, which they overheard,\nin confidence.\nThe following day the confidential information appeared in a downtown news\npaper and the downtown reporter responsible was summoned before the discipline\ncommittee for reprimand because he had\nviolated the \"in camera\" confidences of that\ncourt. He twice refused to appear until he\nhe was charged under the nebulous Article\n12, section 3 and fined $2.50 along with deprivation of his AMS pass.\nDiscipline Committee made a great mistake in this regard. Although a student\ncourt such as we have at the university has\nevery right to reprimand a student for\nviolation of \"in camera\" confidence, it cannot legally fine a reporter for lacking ethics.\nThe fine slapped on the student for violation of Article 12, section 3, has unfortunately given his newspaper ample opportunity to wave the hackneyed newspaper banner of the \"freedom foueth estate\" in their\nfront and editorial pages and the impression\nhas been conveyed that the reporter was\n\"intimidated\" because \"he wrote a news\nstory that might bring bad publicity to the\nUniversity of British Columbia.\"\nThis is not so. If the story had concerned\nfuture purchase of tiddlywink sets the confidence of the Discipline Committee would\nhave been violated to as great a degree.\nThe Ubyssey itself has never hesitated to\nrun stories \"which might bring bad publicity to the university.\" But the editors\nchoose to respect the confidence of student\ncourts and student leaders. In doing so we\ndo not feel as if we are being \"intimidated\"\nand victimized by \"Fascist\" tactics.\nUnder the heading of \"Bad Publicity\"\nthe newspaper runs an editorial concluding\n\"This (Discipline) Committee would be\nshowing better judgment if, instead of putting reporters on trial, it asked one of its\nhistory professors to conduct a seminar on\nthe evils of censorship.\"\nInstead it might be more fitting if newspaper reporters conducted a seminar on the\nevils of violation of confidence. Although\nnewspapers are above all laws they are not\nabove all responsibilities.\nThe \^aSSail Bowl by Norm Klenman\nTHE RIGHT SPIRITS\nTHE DESIRE to go places and see things\nis like a chronic illness; every now and then\nthe delerium of adventure hits us, and only\na diversion off the main highway to see the\nstrange and unique can cure it.\nSuch was our condition Sunday night\nlast when Friend Laurie led us to a Spiritualist meeting.\nWe arrived slightly after it began to find\nabout thirty people, most of them on the\nfar side of 60, congregated in a small room\nsinging hymns. One of the ladies presented\nus with hymn book and response cards, and\nwe joined in. Led by a very lovely soprano\nand accompanied by a piano, the hymns\nproved most enjoyeble.\nThe next hour or so was accupied with\na lecture by a slim, trim, and prim lady of\nfifty who wore her white hair and black\ndress with dignity. She told us that evil\nthiughts are harmful because they radiate\nvibrations to the astral world, from which\nthose same vibrations will someday return\nto us. The best and happiest life, she added,\nwas one lived according to the Golden Rule.\nThe spirit world, she said, definitely existed; it is there for anyone who is ready to\nbelieve. Moreover, a great many persons\n(she quoted herself and many of her\nfriends) possess the faculty of contacting the\nastral plane, to exchange greetings and advice with the departed.\nAfter the lecture, she and one of the\nother ladies at the head-table each took a\nshort turn contacting spirits, describing\nthem, and delivering messages to different\nmembers of the audience.\nThough we sensed nothing out of the\nordinary present in the room, the ladies\nassured us that several inhabitants from\nbeyond the veil were standing close by.\nAmong these were mothers, friends, relations, two or three Indian chiefs, a Hindu,\na Spanish Senorita, and W.C. Fields' double.\nShe began by asking if anyone knew\n\"Alice.\" The name \"just came\" to her head,\nshe explained. An old gentleman's face\nbrightened. The seer had hit pay dirt, as\nthey say in mining circles, and she swung\nher pick-axe again with a message from\nAlice to the effect that the old gentleman\nshould watch his health. The old gentleman thanked her.\nGazing about the room, she spotted\nspirits everywhere, delivering of each a description and from each a suitably vague\nmessage. To another old gentleman of\nabout 70, the clairvoyant said \"Your mother\nis standing beside you; she is wearing a\ngrey dress; she says that you should be\ncareful of your kidneys.\" The old gentleman just grunted, but several ladies sniffed\ninto their handkerchiefs.\nSpotting us near the door, the madame\nsaid she saw beside us (1) a deceased airman\nof 25 (2) a child of six who may or may not\nbe a relation (3) a white-haired, white-\nbearded gentleman of 50 whose first name\nmay or may not have been \"Jimmy.\" With\na little digging, it might be possibel to associate these spirits with people we've\nknown, but none of our departed seem to\nanswer the descriptions.\nYet the general opinion of the onlooker\nmust be both fair and dispassionate. We\nsearched for evidence of insincerity and\nfaking, but could find none.\nOn the other hand, no one can deny that\nSpiritualism offers a good Christian moral\nand ethical code, though this column does\nnot presume to judge such matters. The\nhappiness on the faces of the people who\nreceived messages from friends, relatives,\nand Indian Chiefs, however, could quite\neasily justify the cult even to skeptics.\nWhether or not these ladies really do\ncontact and chat with spirits, we cannot say.\nBut we concede this much: they put on a\ndarn good show.\nPeople Being What They Are\nBy JACK FERRY\nWHEN SEVERAL of our fellow\ncolumnists sounded off recently on\nreduced street-car or bus fares for\nvarsity students, to be . followed\nclosely by the Legion request to\nthe B.C. Electric, we suspected\nthat it might be helpful, and perhaps more to the point, to look\ninto our transportation problem's\nbackground.\nThe findings somewhat convinced\nus that despite the desire to ease\nthe strain on the student pocket-\nbook, our desires being as keen\nas anyone In this respect, those\n* *\nTHE UNIVERSITY circuit has\nalways been the ugly duckling of\nthe bus lines and is far from being\nthe \"milk run\" as it was described\nby one of the other columnlrts.\nWhen UBC opened at Point Grey\nin 1925 the provincial government\nasked the B.C. Electric to run a\nbus lis into the area. With a 2000\nstudent registration and a very\nsparse resident population in the\narea in those day* the company\nentered into the agreement reluctantly.\nBetween 1925 and 1935 the line\nlost |158,000, most of which was\nmade up by the government.\nIt had been the experience of\nthe operators flat the run was\neconomically justified only between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. So, for\n* *\nTHE DIFFICULTY lies in the\nfact that even during the morning,\npeak period there are times when\nseveral buses are idle, bringing\nin no revenue but piling up considerable overhead. The campus\nline is unique among the city'*\ntransportation systems in that it\nhas but one great, money-making\npeak during the day, whereas all\nthe others enjoy two. To give us\nservice we require in getting to\nlectures at al! hours and to provide busis for special events in\nthe evening means considerable\nweakening of the so-called gravy.\nConsidering these angles, plus\nthe fact that university students\nand faculty already enjoy a 40%\nreduction from the regular bus\n* *\nTHE LEGION request is based\non their survey of student-veterans' costs, which in many cases\nare not covered by the |60 or $80\ngovernment grants. It seems to\nus that the most logical hope is\nto support their campaign for a\nboost in grants, In that way cever-\nwho were once again casting covetous eyes at the utility corporation's fabulous profits had wee\nagain, in a very real sense, missed\nthe bus.\nTheir demands upon the big.\nbad beastly electric company had\ntaken the form of two suggestions:\nnamely, (1) to cut out the\nthree cent bus fare by extending\nthe street-car transfer privileges,\nor (2) as in the case of the Legion\nplea, granting collegians half-fare\nrates similar to those enjoyed by\nhigh school students.\n* *\nseveral years after 1935, the government ran its own buses after\nhours and on high days and holidays. Unfortunately the Victoria\ntreasury suffered even more under\nthis set-up, so they once again\ngot the private utility to operate\nthe whole show.\nUntil the war years the line lost\nmoney steadily. Only with the\nexpanded residential area and the\nrecently bulging halls on the campus has it made any profits. Students whose most vivid memories\nof the buses are of those t-arly\nmorning trips when standing room\nis a desirable acquisition may be\nsurprised io find that last month\nthe operating profits, before taxes,\nwere only $688.\n* *\nfares, makes it rather obvious that\nfree bus rides off a street - car\ntransfer is hardly justified.\nFurthermore, it is understood\nthat should the line make any\ngreat profits the provincial government would feel understandably\nrighteous in demanding a share\nto offset the losses it made up in\nthe past.\nThe plea to grant half-fares on\nthe street-cars is meeting with thc\nresponse from the company that\nif grown men and women, as\ncollege students, want a reduced\ntransportation rate they would\nthereby be justified in asking for\nreduced rates for every other good\nor service offered for sale In\nVancouver.\n* *\ning the transportation costs.\nAdmittedly that would do nothing to help the non-vet under-\ngrdautes. Their problem ls a\ngeneral one that can hardly be\nsolved by asking for further\npreferential treatment from the\ntransportation company.\nLETTERS To\nThe Editor\nThree, Please\nCLASSIFIED\nNOTICE: AU girls interested in\nintercollegiate basketball (girl's\nrules) turn out to practices every\nThursday, 7-8 p.m. in the gym.\nDear Madam:\nI noticed your pulchrltudinous\nadvertisement in \"Time\" magazine.\nI'll take three please\u00E2\u0080\u0094second from\nthe left, fifth from the left, and\nthird from the right, in that order.\nOrchids to the girls, a dry (Martini) toast to the showmanship ot\nwhoever was in charge and the\nback of my hand to all the close-\nmouthed Vancouver boys I met\nin the service. They extolled the\nbeauties of the B.C. climate, the\nscenery, the five cent street car\nrides, but never once mentioned\nth long stemmed lovllness of the\nVancouver female.\nA question if you please \u00E2\u0080\u0094 has\nBilly Rose called yet?\nMy best wishes to your proposed\nThunderbird stadium.\nSincerely,\nA. Katz,\n127 Bannerman Ave.,\nWinnlpe, Man.\nOrchids to Johnny\nDear Madam:\nI believe that there should be\nsome recognition of the man who\nplanned and co-ordinated \"Visitors' Day\" into the grand success\nthat it has been. Mr. John Allan,\nthe chairman of the Visitors' Day\nCommittee spent many long hours\nencouraging the various Departments with their displays, advising\nthe Carnival Committee, preparing\nprograms, organizing sufficient\ntransportation, providing parking\nareas, allowing for guides, organizing dances and many other problems too numerous to mention.\nOne has only to look at the program to realize the immense job\nit was.\nThere has been no other day\nlike it in the history of UBC. Mr.\nAllen has laid a firm foundation\nfor future successful Visitors'\nDays. For myself, I would like to\ncongratulate Mr. Allen for a job\nwell done.\nGarry Miller.\nNOTICE: The twenty-five cent\ncardboard class cards are being\npassed around again and are due\nin soon.\nMEETING: Archery Club meeting Tuesday, March 12, 12:30, Arts\n103. Everyone out.\nMEETING: Pre-Architeture Club,\nMarch 12, 12:30, in the Auditorium.\nFilms on architecture in Spain and\nSouth America. Everybody welcome.\nMEETING: Any ex-students of\nSeaview School wishing to attend\ntheir dance at the Commodore,\nMarch 28, contact one of the following: Les Garule, Don Gunn,\nCharlie Freeman, Tommy Tull,\nBill Uarcoe for tickets.\nMEETING: Students' wives are\ninvited to an organization meeting\nto be held Wednesday, March 13,\nat 3 p.m. in Brock Lounge.\nTHANKS\nPHRATERES wish to acknowledge thanks to the following for\nfood supplied their booth in the\nVisitors' Day Carnival last Saturday: Aristocratic Hamburgers\nLtd., Dairyland, Honeycream Do-\nnuts Ltd., Orange Crush Ltd., Bon\nTon Confectioners, Dad's Cookie\nCo. (B.C.) Ltd., UBC Dairy, Window Bakeries Ltd.\nFor your\nPRINTING\nor\nENGRAVING\nStationery Supplier\nFountain Pens\nSlide Rules\nScales, etc.,\nior the present term\n\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Clarke & Stuart\nCO. LIMITED\nM0 Seymour St\nVancouver, B.C.\nPhone PAciflc 7311\n*1Ue ViufUey\nOffices Brock Hall - \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Phone ALma 1B4\nAuthorised aa Second Class Mall, Pott Office Department, Ottawa\nFor Advertising: KErrledale 1811\nIssued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday by the Students'\nPublication Board of the Alma Mater Society of tht\nUniversity of British Columbia\nEDITOR-IN-CHIEF \u00E2\u0080\u009E MARDEE DUNDAS\nGENERAL STAFF TUESDAY STAFF\nAssociate Harry Allen Sen,or Ed,tor ' ' Jean MacFarLwe\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E_ ...,., \u00C2\u00BB Associate Editor . . . Helen Worth\nPhotography Director . . . Pat Agsigtant mtm Audrey\nWorthington Garrard and Helen-Mary Gowans\nCUP Editor Don Stainsby Reporters . . .\nCirculation Manager .. Phil Ashton Shirley Chishold, Laura Haati,\nSport, Editor Luke Moyls ^l uClark' ,M\"y J*\"\"*\nPhil Ashton, Bill Idsardi.\nTOTEM SALES\nStudents! The Totem is coming.\nYou don't want to miss It, do you?\nThis year's annual will be as good\nor better than ever before. The\nTotem has won the AU American\nHonor Rating for the past four\nyears.\nIf you haven't met the Totem\nyet, come down to the Publications\nOffice and get acquainted. Bring\na dollar just ln case you should\nwant to place your order right\naway. Totems are also being sold\nin the AMS office and in the quad,\nby announcement.\nLOST: Four keys on a gold chain,\napprox. Saturday, March 2. Please\nreturn to Men's Gym office.\nURGENT!!!\nKAYE LESLAY\n3969 West 12th Avenue\nLearn popular piano music\nEasy method. Free trial lesson.\nEnquiries invited. AL.1510R\nWe'U Meet You\t\nAt The\nTUCK SHOP\nfor Snacks and Lunches\nBoulevard and Allison\nFOUND: One Waterman's fountain pen with name \"R. G. Mc-\nCutcheon\" engraved on it. Please\nclaim at Men's Gym office.\nFirst with tha Late*\nand the Batti\nClassical,\nStandard,\nPopular\nR.C.A. 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