@prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isReferencedBy "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "University Publications"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-07-17"@en, "1975-04-11"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0117843/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ REPORTS Vol. 21, No. 6/April 11, 1975/Vancouver,B.C. UBC REPORTS CAMPUS EDITION $1.2 million for summer projects More than 400 University of B.C. students will be employed in research and community-based projects this summer under a program supported by the provincial government's Department of Labor. The department has awarded UBC $1.2 million for the employment of graduate and senior undergraduate students in the period May 1 to Aug. 31 under a program entitled Professions for Tomorrow (Careers '75). The program is designed to allow students to undertake research and projects in the community allied to their academic work at UBC. Graduate students, students working toward a second degree, and third- and fourth-year honors students were eligible for support. Graduate students will be paid $750 a month and undergraduate students either S650 or $600 a month. The program will enable UBC students to carry out a wide range of summer work, including provision of legal aid, assistance to rural doctors, and tutoring and translation services to new Canadians. LEGAL AID Students from UBC's Faculty of Law will be involved in a number of summer projects involving store-front and prison legal aid. Students plan to set up legal aid offices in Courtenay and Powell River and in the West Kootenay area of the province. Some 30 second-year UBC medical students will spend several weeks in rural communities working with doctors in family practice. Students from the UBC English department will spend the summer at Vancouver Community College in a tutoring program for new Canadians who are learning English. Students from the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies will work n association with federal Department of Immigration offices in Vancouver providing assistance to Spanish-speaking immigrants. . Here are brief descriptions of some other summer projects: • Two Zoology students plan to compile a layman's guide to animals in Stanley Park; • A Forestry student will carry out a survey of the University Endowment Lands to determine who uses the Lands and for what purposes; • Physical Education and Recreation students will carry out a survey in Vancouver to determine the extent of spare-time physical activity and why some people don't make use of recreation faci ities. • Students in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration will provide consulting services to small, Canadian-owned B.C. businesses for the second year in a row. • A Political Science student will study citizens' groups and their access to and treatment by municipal government departments in tie Vancouver area. • A Religious Studies student will compile a guide to religious communities in B.C. • A Social Work student will work with the Vancouver Resources Board and native Indian organizations in finding foster and adoption homes for Indian children. • A student in Agricultural Sciences will evaluate federal, provincial and municipal inspection systems for meat, vegetables, poultry, fruit and grain. SPECIAL ISSUE PLANNED Have you got a favorite anecdote or reminiscence about UBC's retiring President, Dr. Walter H. Gage? If you have, the editors of UBC Reports would like to hear from you. President Gage, after 52 years of association with UBC as a student, teacher and administrator, will step down as UBC's chief executive officer on June 30. To mark the occasion, a special insert will appear in the annual edition of UBC Reports published in the latter part of May when the University holds its annual Congregation for the awarding of academic and honorary degrees. Included in the edition will be a selec tion of anecdotes and reminiscences about President Gage from students past and present, UBC colleagues and community friends. Send your contribution to The Editor, UBC Reports, Main Mall North Administration Building, University of B.C., 2075 Wesbrook Crescent, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5. We'd like to hear from you not later than May 15. Incidentally, Dr. Gage is retiring only as President of the University. Next year, he will be back at the old stand in the classroom teaching mathematics to UBC Engineers. UBC's Master Teachers for 1 975 are Prof. Abraham Rogatnick. left, of the School of Architecture, and Prof. John McGechaen. of the Faculty of Education. Details in story below. Master Teachers named The University of B.C.'s Master Teachers for 1975 are Prof. John McGechaen, of the Faculty of Education, and Prof. Abraham Rogatnick, of the School of Architecture. They are the 12th and 13th members of the UBC faculty to receive the Master Teacher Award and will share a $5,000 cash prize that goes with the honor. Four other UBC teachers have been awarded Certificates of Merit in the 1975 competition and will each receive a cash award of $500. Certificate of Merit winners are: Prof. Ralph Loffmark, of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration; Prof. Geoffrey Scudder, of the Department of Zoology; Dr. Hanna E. Kassis, associate professor in the Department of Rel gious Studies; and Dr. Jan W. Walls, assistant professor in the Department of Asian Stucies. The Master Teacher Award was established in 1969 by Dr. Walter Koerner, a former chairman of UBC's Board of Governors, in honor of his brother, the late Dr. Leon Koerner. The awards are intended to recognize outstanding teachers of UBC undergraduates. This year a record 43 nominees were considered by a screening committee chaired by Dr. Ruth White, of the French department. The committee is made up of persons representing the UBC faculty, students, Board of Governors and Alumni Association. Members of the selection committee visit the classrooms of eligible nominees to listen to lectures, and department heads or deans are asked to provide an assessment of each nominee in relation to a set of stringent criteria for the award. Prof. McGechaen, who is chairman of the English Education department in the Faculty of Education, instructs students in methods of teac r :, English to elementary school students. He holds the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts from UBC and taught in elementary and secondary schools in the Vancouver area before joining the former Normal School in Vancouver in 1950. Prof. McGechaen joined the UBC faculty in 1956 when the Normal School was incorporated into UBC as the Faculty of Education. He is the co-author of a number of books on reading development and language which are still in use in Canadian schools. Prof. Rogatnick has been a member of the UBC faculty since 1959 and in the first term of the 1974-75 Winter Session taught courses in the basic theory of architectural design and the history of architecture. He is currently on leave of absence from-teaching duties at UBC to serve as interim director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Prof. Rogatnick was educated at the University of Connecticut and at Harvard University. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Architecture from Harvard. He has made a study of the Italian city of Venice Please turn to Page Four See TEACHERS Women encouraged to consider Women were given special encouragement to consider engineering as a professional career during a mid-March seminar at UBC. The seminar, entitled Women in Engineering, was arranged by Dean Liam Finn, of UBC's Faculty of Applied Science, who told the audience that the engineering profession should be investigated by women at a time when they are "exploring ways for development and fulfillment." The engineering profession has a long history of being guided only by economic terms, he said. "But that's all charlged. We feel ... that what we need in engineering is the injection of an entirely different set of values. The kind of values that women hold to a far greater degree, apparently, than men do." KEYSTONE SPEAKER Keynote speaker of the seminar was Dr. Irene Peden, associate dean of engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, who said she believed that women "have some new ideas about ourselves and about the kinds of goals we can achieve. Engineering is in the main stream of this technically oriented society and it's my belief that women are not going to stand outside of the mainstream any longer. And that's how it should be." After describing the difficulties she encountered in seeking her first job as a professional engineer, Dr. Peden DR. IRENE PEDEN described how she set about increasing the enrolment of women in engineering at the University of Washington. "I went to sorne trouble ... to contact the public schools," she said. "I contacted counsellors and science and math teachers." In 1974, there were 155 women engineering students enrolled at the University of Washington, or about 6 per cent of the total enrolment in engineering. SPEAKER SUMS UP Summing up at the end of the meeting, Dr. Peden said: "You don't have to have advanced degrees to be a good, hard-working, well-rewarded engineer. Hard work has been mentioned ..., but look, college is hard work. Engineering isn't any harder. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to be a mechanical wizard." Another seminar participant, the Hon. Graham Lea, B.C.'s Minister of Highways, said the B.C. government had commissioned a task force to enquire into reasons why there were not more opportunities for women in engineering. There is a change happening in the role of engineers in society, Mr. Lea said. People are demanding more say in what happens in the community and, as a result, engineers are having to become more involved with people. Young people, he concluded, both men and women, Selection committees approved Principles for the composition of advisory committees for the selection of deans of faculties have been approved by UBC's Senate. The principles, approved at Senate's March 19 meeting, were recommended to Senate by a joint Board of Governors-Senate committee established following Senate's December, 1974, meeting. The establishment of advisory committees stems from a clause in the new Universities Act, which empowers the Board of Governors, "with the approval of the Senate," to establish procedures for the selection of candidates for president, deans and other senior academic administrators. Under the regulations approved by Senate on March 19, a selection advisory committee would be composed as follows: • At least half the committee would be members of the faculty concerned; • The number of members of the committee to be elected by the faculty concerned would be equal to the number of its members to be appointed by the president; • The committee would be composed of a minimum of 10 persons, four to be elected by the faculty concerned, four to be appointed by the president, and two students who would be nominated from and elected by the registered students in the faculty concerned and graduate students associated with that faculty; • The president may establish a larger committee as long as he follows the principles outlined above and that for every four non-students added to a committee, an additional student member is added; • The chairman of the committee would be appointed by the president and the secretary by the committee from among its own members. Senate rejected a proposed amendment by a student Senator which would have provided for the number of students on the selection committee being equal to the number elected by the faculty concerned and to the number appointed by the president. Senate also approved a recommendation from the joint committee "that deans shall be appointed hereafter for terms of six years renewable at the pleasure of the board on the recommendation of the president." Senate rejected an amendment proposed by Prof. Norman Epstein of the Department of Chemical Engineering, which would have had the effect of limiting the reappointment of deans to one additional term of six years beyond the first six-year appointment. At the end of 12 years, Prof. Epstein said, a dean is a "washed-up rag", regardless how much vim and vigor he or she had originally. A 12-year limit would encourage deans to remain scholars since they would have to return to scholarly life after their deanship, he said. A number of Senators said they approved of the recommendation but not the amendment. Dean Liam Finn, of the Faculty of Applied Science, said that at present deans do not have tenure 2/UBC Reports/April 11. 1975 and remain in their positions at the pleasure of the Board of Governors. In practice, though, it was embarrassing to initiate action to remove a dean and the recommendation would improve the situation. The amendment, he said, "wanted it both ways," since it would mean that a dean would have to be a good administrator and a scholar at the same time, and that he would be willing to push for the goals of the faculty yet be prepared to leave at short notice. New Senate elected Elections designed to reconstitute UBC's Senate so that it conforms with the new Universities Act have now been completed. The only remaining Senators to be named are four appointees of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council (the provincial cabinet). UBC's new Senate is made up of 79 persons, most of them elected by the faculty, students, and Convocation. Student representation is increased from 12 to 17 members, but alumni representation has been reduced from 18 to 4 members. At UBC, faculty representation, as a percentage of total Senate membership, is virtually unchanged. Preferred parking UBC's Traffic Office has begun taking reservations from graduate and senior students for preferred parking space in campus parking lots for the 1975-76 academic year. The reservation system is designed to give students living or working outside the Vancouver area during the summer an equal chance to obtain preferred space with those living in the Vancouver area. Graduate students and students who, by Aug. 31, 1975, have completed three years at UBC or are enrolled in fourth-year or higher courses are eligible to apply for reserved preferred parking. A $1.00 fee will be charged to eligible students who are allotted preferred parking to cover the administrative costs of the program. Students who apply for preferred parking by mail must enclose the $1.00 fee. Details regarding the system are available from UBC's Traffice Office on Wesbrook Crescent. Inventory published The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has published the 1975 Inventory of Research in Higher Education, which contains brief descriptions of 275 research, experimental and innovative projects in progress or completed in 1974. The projects are grouped under six headings: general; administration, finance and manpower; curriculum and teaching; academic and non-academic staff; students; and extension and continuing education. The publication is available from the Research Division of the AUCC, 151 Slater Street, Ottawa, K1P5N1,at$3.00acopy. Under the old act there were 99 Senators. Following is a list of the various categories of Senate membership and the names of those recently elected or designated: The chancellor. (UBC's current chancellor, the Hon. Nathan T. Nemetz, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of B.C., will continue in his UBC post until his successor, Mr. Donovan Miller, is installed during UBC's Spring Congregation in the latter part of May). The president, who is also chairman of Senate. (UBC's current president. Dr. Walter Gage, will be succeeded by Dr. Douglas T. Kenny, former dean of Arts, on July 1). The registrar, Mr. J.E.A. Parnall, who is also secretary of Senate. The academic vice-president or equivalent. (This post is currently vacant). The deans of UBC's 12 faculties. Two Senators elected by each of the faculties: Agricultural Sciences - Prof. J.F. Richards (Food Science) and Prof. V.C. Runeckles (Plant Science); Applied Science - Mr. S.O. Russell (Civil Engineering) and Dr. Muriel Uprichard (School of Nursing); Arts — Prof. Harvey Mitchell (History) and Prof. Peter Suedfeld (Psychology); Commerce and Business Administration — Dr. R.F. Kelly and Prof. Peter Lusztig; Dentistry - Prof. Leon Kraintz and Dr. M.J.A. Smith; Education — Prof. John Dennison and Dr. Roland F. Gray; Forestry — Mr. Peter Dooling and Dr. David Haley; Graduate Studies - Prof. Basil Dunell and Prof. John Stager; Law - Prof. D.J. MacDougall and Mr. A.F. Sheppard; Medicine — Dir. Harold Copp (Physiology) and Dr. R.H. Hill (Pediatrics); Pharmaceutical Sciences — Dr. T.H. Brown and Prof. Modest Pernarowski; Science — Prof. Cyril Finnegan (Zoology) and Prof. Charles McDowell (Chemistry). Ten Senators elected by the joint faculties: Prof. Cyril Belshaw (Anthropology and Sociology), Prof. Charles Bourne (Law), Dr. K.T. Brearley (French), Prof. R.M. Clark (Academic Planning and Economics), Dr. E.M. Fulton (Dean of Women), Prof. Malcolm McGregor (Classics), Prof. B.N. Moyls (Mathematics), Prof. Peter Pearse (Economics), Prof. Margaret Prang (History), Prof. Ronald A. Shearer (Economics). Four members elected by Convocation: The Hon. Mr. Justice J.C. Bouck, Mrs. Beverly Field, Mrs. Betsy A. Lane, and Mr. Gordon A. Thom. Representatives of affiliated colleges: Rev. P.C. Burns (St. Mark's College); Dr. J.M. Houston (Regent College) and Rev. J.P. Martin (Vancouver School of Theology). Mr. Basil Stuart-Stubbs,, the University librarian. Mr. Jindra Kulich, acting director. Centre for Continuing Education. Student representatives (one elected by each faculty and five members-at-large): Agricultural Sciences — Miss Janet S. Ryan; Applied Science - Mr. F. Keith H. Gagne; Arts- Miss Carol V. Goulet; Commerce and Business Administration — Mr. Brian G. Dougherty; Dentistry — Mr. Douglas Bing; Education — Ms. Joan P. Blandford; Forestry — Mr. T. Ross Pascuzzo; Graduate Studies — Mr. Garth B. Sundeen; Law - Mr. Gordon Ji. Funt; Medicine — Mr. John M. Sehmer; Pharmaceutical Sciences — Mr. W. Lynn Corscadden; Science — Mr. Ron M. Walls; members-at-large: Mr. Gordon Blankstein (unclassified), Mr. Ronald P. Dumont (Arts III), Mr. Brian J. Higgins (Arts IV), Mr. Brian A. Krasselt (Science III) and Mr. Gary R. Moore (Commerce III). engineering would now find in engineering a profession through which they could be of service to the community. Mr. George Taylor, personnel manager for H.A. Simons Ltd., a major B.C. engineering firm, said there ' are three different educational levels to be considered by women planning to enter engineering — the Vancouver Vocational Institute for drafting, the B.C. Institute of Technology for the technical level, and UBC for the professional level. Mary Little, a fourth-year student in UBC's Chemical . Engineering department, said she had encountered few problems as a woman student in an almost all-male faculty. She said she at first encountered considerable resistance by industrial firms to employing her in the summer, but by her third-year there seemed to be "almost a reversal in the position of future employers — * they seem actually to be looking for women." SEMINAR SPONSORS The seminar, one of the most successful events so far in International Women's Year at UBC, was jointly , sponsored by the UBC Faculty of Applied Science, the B.C. Department of Highways, the Association of Professional Engineers of B.C., the International Women's Year Committee, and the Vancouver Status of Women. Faculty members to vote Vote planned on contract offer The results of a referendum on a contract offer by the University to the Canadian Union of Public Employees, local 116, will not be known until sometime later this month. The University and the union signed a memorandum of agreement for a new contract on Sunday, April 6, following negotiations under a mediator appointed by the Labor Relations Board of B.C. Both parties agreed that the terms of the proposed settlement will not be announced publicly until the members of the union have been officially informed. Members of the union, which represents 1,300 non-academic workers in UBC food services and Department of Physical Plant, will receive the proposed terms of the agreement in written form shortly and will be asked to vote on the offer in a mail ballot. The results of the vote will be announced at a meeting of the union later this month. The union's contract expired at the end of March and the union has served strike notice on UBC. UBC's 60-bed Health Sciences Centre Hospital, who provides psychiatric treatment, was affected in March by the "withdrawal of services" by members of the Professional Association of Residents and Interns of B.C. PARI members, in a deadlock over negotiations with the B.C. Health Association (the former B.C. Hospitals Association), which was negotiating on behalf of the hospitals concerned, struck teaching hospitals in B.C. between March 17 and 27, when B.C.'s Health Minister, the Hon. Dennis Cocke, referred the dispute to non-binding arbitration. PARI members want parity with terms recently won by interns and residents in Ontario, where salaries range from about $12,000 to $16,750 a year. The University is also currently involved in negotiations under a mediator appointed by the B.C. Labor Relations Board with the Office and Technical Employees Union, which represents 45 draftsmen, engineering assistants and project inspectors on the campus. The OTEU's contract expired March 31. The union has served strike notice on the University. The UBC Faculty Association is distributing ballots to its membership for a vote on three alternative forms of collective bargaining with the University administration. The Faculty Association held an information meeting yesterday (April 10) to discuss three position papers on collective bargaining, two statements describing the status quo for salary negotiations and revisions in the Faculty Handbook, and the report of an association committee outlining the method of balloting on the collective bargaining question and other matters. Immediately following the 12:30 p.m. information meeting, the association held a special meeting to discuss constitutional amendments providing for minority protections for collective bargaining and subsidiary agreements on salary differentials and matters other than salary. The ballot being circulated asks association members to decide among three alternatives for collective bargaining. They are: A: Certification under the Labor Code of B.C. Act; B: A special plan for negotiation outside the Labor Code; and C: The status quo as before Feb. 14, 1974. The ballot is in the form of three paired choices for the pairs AEl, BC and AC. If one of the alternatives obtains a simple majority in both its pairings with the other two, that alternative will be declared the winner. The association's committee on collective bargaining, which drew up the balloting scheme, recommends that if there is no winner on the ballot currently being circulated, the association should hold a mail ballot for a simple "yes-no" vote on certification in the fall of this year. The position paper advocating that the association apply for certification under the Labor Code of B.C. Act was written by Prof. Ian Ross, a member of the English department and immediate past president of the Faculty Association. He argues that certification would give the faculty the broad right to bargain collectively about the terms and conditions of their employment at UBC, and that the agreements negotiated would be legally binding. The position paper says that bargaining in good faith would be required and there would be a viable means of improving salaries and defending the standard of living of faculty members. Prof. Ross's position paper also says that present dismissal procedures in the Faculty Handbook. "could be made part of the collective agreement, and we .could design and negotiate the much-needed steps for resolving grievances or conflicts, according to our own circumstances." The position paper outlining a special plan for negotiation outside the Labor Code was written by Prof. Lionel Harrison, of the Department of Chemistry, and revised by the association's committee on alternative forms of collective bargaining. The paper argues that the status of a faculty member is only in part that of an "employee," and has also an "academic" or "non-employee" aspect by virtue of the faculty member's participation in the governing bodies of the University at the departmental and faculty levels or as a member of the Board of Governors or Senate. Under the special plan proposed in the paper the Board of Governors and the Faculty Association would bargain on economic benefits, but if no agreement could be reached the agreement would provide for establishment of an arbitration board of three persons. The decision of two of three arbitrators would be binding on both parties. The position paper also provides for the incorporation into the agreement of the provisions in the Faculty Handbook regarding terms of employment, tenure, promotion, dismissal, and grievance or appeal procedures. The description of the status quo on salary negotiations was written by Dr. Harold Copp, head of the Physiology department, and that on negotiations on revisions in the /-acuity Handbook by Prof. Peter Pearse, of the Department of Economics. New committee requested UBC's Senate voted on March 19 to request that President Walter H. Gage establish a Committee on Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies. A recommendation to request the president to establish such a committee was made in the report of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies, established 18 months ago. The committee recommended that the proposed president's committee include people whose whole or part-time job would be to facilitate operation of existing interdisciplinary programs, to encourage the development of new programs, to collect and disseminate information on all developments relating to interdisciplinary programs, and to assist students in integrating interdisciplinary studies into degree programs. The committee said that in meeting with individuals and groups on the campus, and as a result of a survey of all UBC faculties and departments, it had found that many courses are offered that can be defined as interdisciplinary. However, the committee found that problems arise in connection with several interdisciplinary programs of larger scope and intention, such as Arts I and Urban Studies. Because few senior faculty members participate in the teaching of such programs, many junior faculty members hesitate to participate "fearing that to do so may adversely affect their chances of promotion and tenure." The lack of regular faculty then necessitates that non-faculty people be called in to teach these programs, the report said, "and this tends to arouse Earlier date for course changes set UBC students who want to change courses in the first term of the Winter Session will have to make up their minds one week earlier in future. UBC's Senate has approved a recommendation from Mr. J.E.A. Parnall, UBC's Registrar, establishing Friday of the second week of lectures in the first term as the last day for changes in courses. Since 1971, students have had until Friday in the third week of lectures to change courses. Mr. Parnall said he was recommending the change as the result of persistent criticism from faculty members, who claimed that entering a course three weeks after it had begun put students at a disadvantage, particularly in the case of IVi-unit courses which terminate at Christmas. He said the original intention was that a student could change courses after two weeks in the case of IVi-unit courses, and after three weeks for three-unit courses. The problem was that students didn't differentiate between the two and the regulation had become impossible to adminster, he said. suspicion and to make these programs appear to be off to the side of the central thrust of University life." The committee said that more than 100 faculty members in the Arts faculty expressed interest in teaching in interdisciplinary courses, but nearly all "recognized the difficulty of creating and implementing programs that do not easily fit into existing structures. The malaise and frustration of this situation was expressed many times to members of this committee ...," the report said. Students express dissatisfaction in various ways with the present offerings of the University, the report continued, "sometimes by a passive and mechanical attitude toward their own education, and sometimes by agitating for changes." The dissatisfaction expressed by students, faculty members and society as a whole reflects "a real failure of the University to address itself to many problems that do not fall into the categories of thought expressed by existing disciplines, and that the existing interdisciplinary programs are not a sufficiently strong response." If the University does not take the initiative in creating a curriculum that educates people for interdisciplinary tasks, the report said, it will fail in its responsibility to society and to students, and the University will lose students to those that are "more responsive than we are to these academic and social realities." In the Senate debate on the report, Dean Liam Finn, of the Faculty of Applied Science, said he was disturbed that the initiative for interdisciplinary programs might be distributed too widely. He said a number of departments might decide collectively against developing a specific area of interdisciplinary studies, but individuals within those departments might be able to muster support, through the proposed committee, for a program their departments had rejected. Prof. Robert Will, acting dean of the Faculty of Arts, said establishment of new interdisciplinary programs would not only require the co-operation of deans and department heads, but also additional funding, unless the new programs were substituted for existing traditional programs. Off-campus law office approved UBC's Faculty of Law plans to establish an off-campus community law office where law students will handle actual cases as part of their academic program and provide free legal advice to persons who cannot afford the services of a lawyer. UBC's Senate approved the new program, to be called "Community Legal Services," at its March 19 meeting. The third-year law students selected for the program will handle cases under the supervision of professors who will be qualified members of the B.C. bar. The students will be assisted by at least one full-time staff lawyer, volunteer lawyers and other UBC faculty members. Between 12 and 20 law students will be selected to take part in the program in each of the two terms making up the Winter Session. They will receive credit for 7/4 units — half a normal 15-unit program — on successful completion of the program. In its proposal to establish the community law office, the Faculty of Law said the objectives of the program were to develop student skills in the areas of interviewing and counselling clients, characterization and analysis of legal problems, research and formulation of legal arguments, trial procedures and practice, drafting documents, negotiation, the dynamics of the lawyer-client relationship, and TEACHERS Continued from Page One with grants from the Canada Council and the government of Italy. Here are brief biographical notes on Certificate of Merit winners: Prof. Ralph Loffmark has been a UBC faculty member s nee 1954. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania and also holds a law degree from Osgoode Hall in Toronto. He is a member of the bar in both Ontario and B.C. In the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, Prof. Loffmark teaches courses in commercial law, tax planning and the government regulation of business. Prof. Geoffrey Scudder was educated at the University College of Wales and at Oxford University before joining the UBC faculty in 1958. His teaching and research specialties are in the field of entomology, the study of insects. In the current year, Prof. Scudder has taught courses in comparative vertebrate zoology, evolution, the geographic distribution of animals, and entomology- Dr. Hanna Kassis joined the UBC faculty in 1964 after studying at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and Harvard University. He specializes in the archaeology of the ancient Middle East and the history, art and architecture of the Islamic religion. He has taught courses in all these areas at UBC in 1974-75 as well as a course in the Linguistics department on classical Arabic. Dr. Jan W. Walls joined UBC's Department of Asian Studies in 1970 after studying at the University of Indiana. He is a Chinese-language expert who teaches basic modern Chinese to UBC students. He also instructs in Chinese literature at the graduate level. The first winner of the Master Teacher Award was Dr. Walter H. Gage, now UBC's president. Other Master Teachers are Prof. Malcolm McGregor, Classics; Prof. Ben Moyls, Mathematics; Prof. Dennis Chitty, Zoology; Prof. Geoffrey Durrant, English; Prof. Moses Steinberg, English; Prof. Bryan Clarke, Education; Prof. Peter Larkin, Zoology; Prof. Sam Black, Education; Dr. Floyd St. Clair, French; and Prof. John Hulcoop, English. Il^ft^fc Vol< 21, No. 6 - April ■ IBfll 1975. Published by the ^J^J^J University of British ______„ Columbia and distributed REPORTS , ,,□/-□ free. UBC Reports appears on Wednesdays during the University's Winter Session. J.A. Banham, Editor. Louise Hoskin and Anne Shorter, Production Supervisors. Letters to the Editor should be sent to Information Services, Main Mall North Administration Building, UBC, 2075 Wesbrook Place, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5. professional responsibility and legal ethics. The faculty's proposal said the number and type of cases accepted by the office would be restricted because of the program's educational objectives. "In the beginning," the proposal said, "the cases accepted will reflect the legal problems of the indigent client-landlord and tenant; consumer protection; social security administration (unemployment insurance, social assistance, etc.); family law; small claims; summary criminal cases." The proposal also said it was expected that many of the cases on which students would work would be referred to the office by existing legal service organizations, such as the Vancouver Community Legal Assistance Society and the Law Students' Legal Advice Program. "Cases will be selected because of their educational value," the proposal said, "rather than the financial resources of the client. In general, however, clients who can afford a lawyer will not be accepted ..." Students taking part in the program will be supervised on an individual basis, will participate in regular group meetings, and hear lectures on problems in legal practice. In the group meetings students will report on the cases they have been handling and will be subject to group scrutiny and criticism. Lett scholarship deadline set May 2 has been set as the deadline for receipt of nominations for the $1,500 Sherwood Lett Memorial Scholarship for the 1975-76 Winter Session. The annual award is made to a UBC undergraduate who displays the qualities exemplified by the late Mr. Lett, who was Chief Justice of B.C. at the time of his death in 1964. Mr. Lett was Chancellor of UBC from 1951 to 1957. The winner is selected from candidates nominated by the UBC Students' Council, the executive of the Graduate Students' Association, the executive of an official UBC undergraduate society, or a faculty through its dean or a school through its director. Details regarding material to be submitted in nominating candidates are available from the UBC Awards Office, Room 207, Buchanan Building. Board approves rates UBC's Board of Governors has approved increases in rentals and room-and-board rates for campus residences. The increases, which range from 15.69 per cent in the Walter H. Gage Residence, where room only is provided, to between 19.84 and 21.22 per cent in the Place Vanier and Totem Park Residences, where room and board is provided, are slightly lower than the increases recommended to the Board in early March by the President's Joint Permanent Residence Committee. The eight-member president's committee, made up of five students representing each campus complex and five Administration representatives, proposed increases of 18.25 per cent in the rental rate for the Walter H. Gage Residence and increases ranging from 22.45 to 23.95 per cent for the Totem Park and Place Vanier Residences. The recommendations for the lower percentage increases in rates were made to the Board of Governors by its finance committee, which had been asked to review the increases proposed by the president's committee in the light of representations made to the Board by students living in residence. The Board also approved a recommendation from its finance committee authorizing the University to apply for exemption from the rental-increase ceiling of 10.6 per cent imposed under the Landlord and Tenant Act. The proposed increases are conditional on the granting of the exemption. The increases approved by the Board would mean that the University would provide an additional subsidy so that housing operations would reach a break-even point in 1977-78, instead of 1976-77 as originally planned. The lower rates would also involve deferment of repayment of a $44,000 Residence Food Services debt. The new residence rates would be effective on July 1, instead of May 1, as originally proposed by the President's Permanent Joint Residence Committee. New room-and-board rates proposed by the president's committee for students attending UBC's 1975 Summer Session were approved by the Board. The increases in summer rates — 25.14 per cent for a double room and 24.95 per cent for a single room — are slightly higher than those proposed for Winter Session students. The higher increases reflect the fact that the occupancy rate in summer is substantially lower than in winter, while certain fixed costs such as labor and food remain constant. The Board also approved increases recommended by the president's committee in rates charged to tenants occupying suites and townhouses in the Acadia Park family residence, coverted wooden army huts in adjacent Acadia Camp, and self-contained suites on President's Row in Acadia Camp. The average increase for units in all these areas will be 3.6 per cent, effective Sept. 1, 1975. The Board also approved a proposal that a surplus of funds resulting from the operation of family residences in Acadia Camp and Acadia Park be designated a contingency reserve to provide emergency repairs to huts and other accommodation in Acadia Camp and Acadia Park, and as a development fund for planning, development and acquisition of future family housing. The proposed 1975-76 rate schedule approved by the Board for single student residences appears below. PROPOSED RESIDENCE RATES SINGLE STUDENT RESIDENCES Winter Session - Proposed 1975-76 Rates* (1974-75 Rates in Brackets) Fall Term Walter H. Gage Residence (room only) Single room $323.34 ($282.22) in high-rise quadrant Shared suite $323.34 ($282.22) in low-rise (double) Totem Park Residence (room and board) Senior single room $600.47 ($501.61) Single room $557.63 ($464.53) Double room $528.05 ($444.96) Place Vanier Residence (room and board) Single room $557.63 ($464.53) Double room $528.05 ($444.96) Spring Term Total $370.89 ($315.10) $370.89 ($315.10) $688.77 ($560.05) $639.63 ($518.65) $605.70 ($496.80) $639.63 ($518.65) $605.70 ($496.80) $694.23 ($597.32) $694.23 ($597.32) $1,289.24 ($1,061.66) $1,197.26 ($ 983.18) $1,133.75(3 941.76) $1,197.26 ($ $1,133.75 ($ 983.18) 941.76) Daily $3.17 ($2.74) $3.17 ($2.74) $5.88 ($4.87) S5.46($4.51) $5.17 ($4.32) $5.46 ($4.51) $5.17 ($4.32) * Proposed 1975-76 rates would be effective July 1, 1975, and are conditional on the University being granted an exemption from the 10.6 per cent increase imposed under the Landlord and Tenant Act. 1974 Summer Session (room and board) Single Room (per day) $5.53 Double Room (per day) $5.29 1975 $6.91 $6.62 4/UBC Reporls/April 1 J. 1975"""@en ; edm:hasType "Periodicals"@en ; dcterms:spatial "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en ; dcterms:identifier "LE3.B8K U2"@en, "LE3_B8K_U2_1975_04_11"@en ; edm:isShownAt "10.14288/1.0117843"@en ; dcterms:language "English"@en ; edm:provider "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en ; dcterms:publisher "Vancouver: University of British Columbia Information Office"@en ; dcterms:rights "Images provided for research and reference use only. 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