"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-12"@en . "1963-03-18"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0125905/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " w\nTHIS\u00C2\u00AE THE WAY IT WAS IN HORSEFLY, B.C.\nBy BICHARD7SIMEON\n., Petitioning?\nIt was like this:\nThere was the bartender who\nrefused to serve one of his customers until he signed the Back\nMac petition.\nAnd the man who wouldn't\nsign because \"students always\nthrow eggs at- Premier Bennett\nwhen he goes to the campus.\"\nAnd, of course, the Okanagan sign-painter who got carried away and began making\nsigns reading \"Vote Mac\" instead of \"Back Mac.\"\nFive hundred students who\ntook the petitions to the interior over the weekend returned to UBC Sunday with\n500 different stories to tell-\nThere was:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 a man who' signed the\npetition in his bathtub;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 a lot of people in the Okanagan who thought \"Mac\" referred to a kind of apple;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 the pensioner who said he\ncouldn't back Mac because he\nwas a Diefenbaker man.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 a petitioner who sat up\nfrom 1 to 4 a.m. trying to get\nhis father to sign the petition.\nHe finally did.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 those who thought Mac is\na communist, and others who\ndidn't sign because of the\n\"atheistic professor.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 the man who said: \"All\nyou have at UBC are booze\nand sex parties and all the\ngirls get pregnant;\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 the nuns at a school in\nKamloops who pinned \"Back\nMac\" cards on their habits.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 the political expert who\nsaid: \"If it's going to get Ben\nnett out of office, then I'll\nsign.\nMost people signed and\nmost people were interested\nin the cause of higher education, said the students returning Sunday night.\nNewspapers all over the interior gave front page coverage to the campaign.\nOne paper had a picture of\nthe mayor and Miss PNE signing the petition.\nEight students went on a\nhalf-hour T.V. show in Kelowna.\nIn Vernon, every employee\nof the Eatons store was wearing a \"Back Mac\" tag.\nRadio stations all over the\nprovince devoted time to the\ncampaign with interviews,\nspot announcements, and news\nstories.\nBut the hardest workers\nwere students themselves.\nThree students took an overnight train from Kamloops to\nMcBride, where they got 600\n(Continued on page 2 )\nSee \"STUDENTS WORK''\nEVERYONE BACKED MAC!\nTHE UBYSSEY\nVol. XLV\nVANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1963\nNo. 69\nMac with\nstudents-\nofficially\n' It's official. Mac backs us.\nPresident Dr. John Macdonald said Sunday he supports the\n\".student campaign for: a fair deal\nfor higher education.\nDr. Macdonald met student\n^petitioners in Brock Lounge as\nthey returned from the interior\n\" Sunday night.\n\"I'm tremendously pleased\nwith the performance of the students, which has been most responsible and a great service to\nthe province,\" he said.\n\"I am fully behind what the\n. students have done.\"\nAs each busload came in, he\nkept saying \"that's wonderful'\nas he was told of the results of\nthe campaign.\n\"It is an amazing achievement,\" he told one girl.\n*'This campaign has had great\neducational value for both the\nstudents and the public.\"\n\"It is making a lot of people\ndo a lot of thinking, and whatever its results now it will have\nvalue for the future.\"\nMacdonald praised students\nfor their good behaviour during\nthe campaign.\n\"The students have proved\nthey can understand the difference between education and\ndemonstrations.\"\nThe president said that his\nspeech at the general meeting\nThursday- had been misinterpreted by the downtown press.\nHe said a Ubyssey editorial\n\"hit the nail on the head\" in its\ninterpretation of the story.\nThe Ubyssey had said that the\nspeelch implied support for the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0<'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0: student action, but that Macdonald could do no more because\n\u00C2\u00A9f his position.\nMacdonald remained talking\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 informally with students for an\nhour and a half.\nIt was the first time most of\nthe students had met the president.\nHE CAN'T VOTE but he probably signed anyway. Freshette\nMerene Ross was one of the thousands of students collecting\nsignatures over the weekend.\nScott wants petitions\nin to Brock soonest\nAll students who still have petitions should return\nthem to the Action Committee Room above the AMS office\nin South Brock. ... _ . .\nMalcolm Scott, co-chairman of the action committee\nsaid final results from the city must be tabulated by Wednesday.\n\"We want to act before the legislature prorogues,\" he\nsaid.\nStudents collect\n200,000 names\nB.C. backed Mac this weekend.\nStudent action committee leaders said. Sunday they expeefc\nto have 200,000 signages when all petitions from the province-\nwide student campaign are tabulated.\nThe total at midnight was 120,000.\nFifty-five thousand were col\nlected in the interior, 40,000 in\nVancouver and 25,000 in Victoria.\nThe remaining 80,000 are ex-\noected to come from the Vancouver _ house-to-house canvas\nand from a block of signatures\npromised by the International\nAssociation Of Woodworkers.\nStudents . embarked on the\nsignature-gathering blitz Thursday. Five hundred students canvassed in the interior, 4,000\nworked in Vancouver and 1,000\non Vancouver Island.\nEVERYBODY CHEERED\nSunday night, a cheer went\nup at a reception in Brock\nLounge.as each.of 11 buses from\noutlying areas returned to UBC.\nThe students, most of whom\nhadn't slept more than a few\nhours since leaving UBC Thursday, were met by Dr. John Macdonald.\nDr. Macdonald described the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ampaign as an \"amazing ach-\nevement.\"\nLargest interior support came\nCrom the Nelson-Trail-Kootenay\nlistrict. Students brought back\n5,087 signatures from the area.\nAnother busload of students,\n'rom the Kelowna-Vernon area\nreturned with 7,268, and one\nrom the Cariboo brought back\n7,076.\n3.400 NAMES\nSeven students in a Volkswagen van which canvassed the\nSechelt-Powell River area gathered 3,400 signatures.\nMeanwhile, largest return ir\nthe city was a block of 14,000\nsignatures collected by Fort\nCamp students in a blitz of\nshopping centres.\nAcadia Camp students turned\nin 3,000 collected at downtown\ntheatres.\nStudents manned every major corner in the downtown area\nThursday: .afternoon to Saturday night.\nPuck title\nto Marlins;\nBirds weep\nBy MIKE HUNTER\nUbyssey News Editor\nKINGSTON\u00E2\u0080\u0094There wasn't a\nwhisper for 10 long minutes.\nSixteen University of B.C. hockey players sat there, glum.\nFather David Bauer stood at\nthe end of a splintery wooden\nbench, staring blankly at an\nempty wall.\nNobody moved. A few cheers\nechoed from the other side of\nKingston's Memorial Arena.\nSomebody winced.\nThe Thunderbirds had just\nplayed 60 minutes of breatb-\nUbyssey Editor-elect Mike\nHunter spent the weekend, in\nOntario covering the Canadian university hockey and\nbasketball championships in\nKingston and Windsor. Basketball story is on page 4. See\nAxemen.\nsucking, board-bashing hockey\nfor the Canadian Intercollegiate\nhockey championship.\nThey had scored two goals,\nand played well. McMaster University Marlins had scored three\ngoals, and played better.\nNothing much you can say.\nGoalie Ken Broderick, superlative in blocking 37 McMaster\nshots, shed his fiberglass mask\nand buried his head in a towel.\nDefenceman Barry MacKenzie, who'd thrown his weight\naround like Mr. Bennett in Kelowna, wiped some blood off his\nface and sniffled. Terry O'Malley cried. The others gnashed'\ntheir -teeth, or scowled, or spit'\non the floor, or just stared at the\nceiling.\nSome guy in a green snap-\n(Continued on Page 2)\nSEE: HOCKEY BIRDS 1 Page 2\nTHE UBYSSEY\nMonday, Ma rch 1S, 1\62\nwin local support\n(Continued from Page 1)\nsignatures in one day! McBride\nhas a population of 800.\nThe petitioners enlisted the\nhelp of parents, alumni, and\nhigh school students.\nFew people were against the\nstudents. One student going\ndoor to door got 200 names in\nseven hours and only three people refused to sign.\nSome people thought the\npetitioners were selling apples,\nor magazines, or were expected to pay something.\n.\"How much do you want?\"\nsaid one man digging into his\npocket after he had signed.\nSeveral returning students\nsaid they signed up people\"\nwho could only write their\nnames, and one had a petition\nsigned with an \"X\" instead of\na name.\nPowell River petitioners got\n200 names from workers as\nthey came off shift at the pulp\nmill there.\nPolitics was part of the. campaign. Several school boards\n' vetoed local schools helping\nthe. campaigners.\nThe television show in Kelowna on which the students\nappeared is regularly hosted\nby the local vice-principal, but\nhe was not permitted to interview the UBC students.\nSo the students did the show\nat-one.\nSeveral petitioners reported\nthat local merchants and businessmen were unwilling to\nsign because they did not want\nto antagonize the government.\nBut one judge got around\nthe problem. When a petitioner called on him, he. refused\nto sign. But he saw the petitioner again later and signed.\nHe explained that as a judge\nhe could not sign, and he had\nnot wanted his friends to see\nhim.\nAnd community r i v airy\nreared its head. People in several communities were unwilling to sign because they objected to the placing of colleges recommended in the Macdonald Report.\n\"We gave up talking about\nthe Macdonald Report and\njust talked about education in\ngeneral,\" said one student.\nIn Vernon, extra identification cards had tp be printed\nInstead of saying \"I Back\nMac\" they said \"I Support\nHigher Education.\"\nStudents ranged as far as\nDawson Creek and Fort St.\nJames in the province-wide\ndrive.\nAs they arrived back to coffee and doughnuts at UBC,\ntheir cards were changed to\nread \"I'm back Mac\"\nnot\nhockey Birds find\nFATHER .BAUER\n. . . tough loss\nEntmnse to\nget tougher\nUBC entrance . requirements\nare to be raised.\nThe UBC Senate approved the\nplan which will require junior\nmatriculation students applying\nto UBC to get a 60 per cent\naverage in English 40 and three\nother terminal courses.\nThe present requirement is\n50 per cent.\nRegistrar John Parnall said\nthe plan would be withheld\nuntil there are new facilities for\neducation beyond grade twelve\nin B.C.\n\"It might be in by 1964,\" he\nsaid.\nThe move comes after a study\nshowed most first year failures\nhad between 50 and 60 per cent\naverages in high school.\nEDITORIAL: Thanks for the help\nIt's not polite to laugh. So just heave a little sigh for UBC's faculty\nand alumni and then forget about them.\nThey were truly pathetic bodies in the campaign for higher education.\nDivided among themselves and for the most part religiously reactionary, alumni and faculty did little to aid the student campaign.\nThey did on paper, of course.\nTake the alumni. They sent out a directive to alumni members all over\nB.C. to give \"reasonable\" support to the students coming into their area.\nThey sent it out through the medium of The Ubyssey. More than 10,000\nextra copies of last Tuesday's paper were printed so each alumni could have\none. And who paid for it?\nThe students.\nThe alumni, although \"backing\" the student action, refused to spend\nany money on the campaign. If the alums were to help, the students had to\nprove they wanted help by paying for it.\nIn like manner, the Faculty Association gave its \"support\" to the\ncampaign.\nFully aware that much of the success of the student campaign\u00E2\u0080\u0094especially in the interior\u00E2\u0080\u0094hinged on students being free from classes for a day\nand a half,, the association passed the following motion-.\n\"In particular, this association calls upon members of the faculty to do\neverything possible to facilitate student participation in the scheme to secure\nsignatures from people throughout the province to a petition to be sent to\nthe legislature concerning the present crisis in higher education in this\nprovince.\"\nMeaning? You figure it out.\nWhat it really .said was that it was up to each individual professor what\nhe did. No real recommendation to aid actively in the student campaign\u00E2\u0080\u0094say\nby cancelling classes.\nAnd on trek day, how many faculty and alums were there? A dozen?\nNo. Half a dozen.\nIt would be wrong to generalize and say that every faculty member\nand alum failed.\nIn the Alumni Association, Dr. William Gibson, Rod Macdonald, Tim\nHollick-Kenyon and a handful of others led a valiant try to get more concrete\nsupport. But it's hard to fight an establishment.\nIn the faculty association, Reg Robson, Robert Rowan, Walter.Hard- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ' . .\nwick, the few profs; who made definite announcements in their classes that\nstudents should support the campaign, and the gritty six who marched, were\nwith the students alp. the way. --,...\nBut a majority in both groups clung tenaciously to the status quo.\nIt was disappointing.\nIt shoudn't have been a problem for students only.\n(Continued from Page 1)\nbrim hat came in and stood beside Father Bauer. \"You guys\nplayed real good,\" he muttered.\n\"You're a team the West can be\nproud of.\" Nobody stirred. The\nguy in the green hat went back\ncut, quickly.\nTrainer Johnny Owen, who's\nseen 'em win and lose for 30\nyears, stood in a corner twiddling a roll of white tape.\nSomebody started to unlace\nhis skates. Then everybody began to change, peeling soggy\npads into heaps on the concrete\nfloor. Father Bauer turned and\nwent outside to speak to the\npress.\n\"Got any old sticks, got any\nold sticks?\" chimed a trio of\nlocal rink rats.\n\"Well,\" said the coach, smiling, \"our best just wasn't good\nenough.\"\nTheir best was good enough\nto make Thunderbirds Canada's\nsecond-best college hockey team,\nand with a few breaks, it could\nhave been the best.\nAfter breezing to a 6-2 victory\nover the University of Sherbrooke in Friday's first game,\nBirds were raring to go at a\nfavored McMaster team which\nhad beaten underdog St. Francis\nXavier only 4-3 in overtime the\nnight before.\nBirds scored first, Ralph Lortie tipping in Dave Chambers'\npoint shot four minutes into the\ngame. But McMaster tied it five\nminutes later when star center\nBill Mahoney, named the tourney's most valuable player, scored from behind the net off a\nskate.\nIt stayed 1-1 until the middle\nof the second period, when UBC\ngot tangled up changing lines,\nand was penalized for having\ntoo many men on the ice. Seconds later, Marlins scored, and\nbefore UBC could get organized,\nthey had scored again to make\nit 3-1.\nBirds scrapped harder than\never, and before the period ended, Pete Kelly slapped in a pass\nfrom O'Malley to make it 3-2,\nbut that's as far as they got.\nThe third period was furious.\nUBC narrowly missed on at\nleast three good chances, while\nBroderick performed larceny on\na couple of McMaster players to\nkeep Birds in the game. *\nBirds pressed, and McMaster\niced the puck continually, but\nthe tying goal never came.\n\"We could have beaten them,\"\nsaid captain O'Malley. \"We just\nweren't sharp like we might\nhave been if we'd had some\ntougher warmup games. They're\nno tougher than Saskatchewan.\"\nBroderick and MacKenzie\nwere named to the all-star team\nalong with Hamada, Mahoney,\nand Sinclair (McMaster) and\nSynishin (Xavier).\nXavier won the consolation\nround with a 7-4 victory over\nSherbrooke.\n'tween classes\nBraithwaHe brings\nwords and pictures\nLecture with slides by Warden\nJohn Braithwaite Monday noon\non the Haney Correctional Institute.\n* * *\nCONCEPT\nSecond Issue on sale Wednesday in Lasserre and Buchanan\nBuilding. Essays, Short Story\nand Poetry.\n* * *\nSPECIAL EVENTS\nSpanish Dancers SUSANA Y\nJOSE. Auditorium noon Tuesday, 25c.\nTHE UBYSSEY\nWinner of the Southam Trophy, 1961 and 1962\nWinner of the Bracken Trophy. 1962\nWinner of the Montreal Star Trophy, 1962\nAuthorized as second class mail by the Pest Office Department,\nOttawa, and for payment of postage in cash.\nMember Canadian University Press\nPublished three times weeKly throughout the University year in Vancouver\nby the Alma Mater Society, University of B.C. PJditorial opinions expressed\nare those of the Editor-in-Chief of The Ubyssey and not necessarily those\nof the Alma Mater Society or the University of B.C. Telephone CA 4-3241,\nLocals: Editor\u00E2\u0080\u009425; News\u00E2\u0080\u009423; Photography\u00E2\u0080\u009424.\nEditor-in-chief: Keith, Bradbury\nManaging Editor ____ Denis Stanley\nAssociate Editor Fred Fletcher\nNews Editor Mike Hunter\nCity Editor Mike Valpy\nPicture Editor 1 Don Hume\nSports Editor Ron Kydd\nREPORTERS: Mike Horsey, Richard Simeon, Ron Riter,\nGlenn Schultz, Sharon Rodney.\nTECHNICAL: Clint Pulley.\nANNUAL GRAD CLASS MEETING\nMarch 21, 12:30, Bu. 106\nAnnouncement of honorary positions\nOutline of pldnned Activities\nVoting on Gift to the University\nAdmission by Library Card only \u00E2\u0096\u00A0Atertrtoyp^Msrflb^i &, >W3\nTHE UBYSSEY\nPage 3\nStudents warm up for signature gathering blitz with \"class\" at courthouse Thursday.\n\u00C2\u00BB\nTrek proves to B. G public\nUBC isn't egghead sanctuary\n-Al B'.ii on.LS photo\nThe Back Mac campaign has\ndone a lasting service to UBC,\nAMS president-elect Malcolm\nScott said Sunday.\n\"Not only will it serve the\nimmediate purpose of obtaining more money for UBC,\" he\nsaid, \"but it will also serve\nto identify UBC with the people of this province.\"\nHe said the campaign had\nshown people that UBC isn't\nan egghead sanctuary aloof\nfrom the rest of the world on\nthe tip of Point Grey.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n''People in the rural areas\nhave been given the opportunity to speak of UBC as 'our\nuniversity' for the first time.\n\"They will continue to think\nof UBC* as 'our university'\nlong after the Back Mac campaign is history.\"\nAnd they will be watching\nthe government closely to see\nwhat action it plans to take on\nthe petition, he said.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\"Every farmer, logger and\nbusinessman who signed that\npetition will be taking this\npersonally.\n\"If the government ignores\nthe campaign, then these people will be thinking their\nnames were ignored.\"\nThe petition blitz began two\nweeks ago, an idea in the heads\nof a few students who felt\nthere was a danger of inaction\non the Macdonald Report and\nan inadequate operating grant\nfor the University.\nOn the basis of what they\nknew \u00E2\u0080\u0094 despite the refusal of\nthe Board of Governors and\nthe University administration\nto release information \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the\ngroup decided some action,\nsuch as a strike or boycott, was\ncalled for.\n*\nThey then began to work\nmore closely with student government officials, faculty association and alumni officials.\nThe boycott became a petition blitz and the trek became\na. reality.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Don Hume photo\nStudents head for interior\n^Mjj^\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Don 1 Jump plioto\nJanitors glumly face aftermath of Back Mac meeting.\n4\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Don Hume photo\nThousands like this girl knocked on doors Page 4\nTHE UBYSSEY\nMonday, March 18, 1963\nin national hoop final\nBy MIKE HUNTER\nUbyssey News Editor\nWINDSOR\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sparked by big\nJohn Cook, Thunderbirds easily defeated Loyola College\nWarriors 75-51 Saturday to\nWin the consolation round of\nthe Canadian Intercollegiate\nbasketball championships.\nBirds lost any chance to\nsnare the national title Friday\nnight, cut down by the powerful Acadia University Axemen\n55-36.\nAll 10 players hit the score-\nsheet in Saturday night's effort but it was Cook who led\nthe way with 15 points.\nCourt Brousson, Gordie Betcher and Laurie Predinchuk\nrounded out UBC's scoring\nwith eight each.\nAfter a shaky first period\nFinal period tells\ntale in prep finale\nA last quarter splurge by the Mennonite Educational Institute gave them a 58-40 victory over Alberni Chieftains and\njtop spot in the 18th annual B.C. high school championships.\n7 A record crowd of 5,078 paid\nfans at UBC Saturday saw MEI\ntake a 15-10 lead at quarter\ntime..\n, Alberni held a slim 28-27\nhalf-time lead but in the third\nquarter MEI got the upper hand\nand regained the lead at 36-35.\nAlberni's defence fell apart\nin the last quarter and MEI\nmoved in to open their lead to\n18 points at the end of the congest.\nTop scorer for MEI was\nSoccer Birds\nnearer to PCL\nwith victory\nBy DANNY STOFFMAN\nUBC Thunderbirds moved\none step closer to the Pacific\nCoast Soccer League Thursday\nWith their second consecutive\n3-1 victory over Columbus Italians.\nJoe Johnson's Birds continued\ntheir mastery over the PCL's\nthird place team before a crowd\nof about 1,000 at Calister Park.\nCoast League officials attend^\ned the game and were impressed\nwith the UB "Newspapers"@en . 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