@prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isReferencedBy "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "University Publications"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-07-24"@en, "1959-01-09"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0124464/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ STAFF IS ALSO WE UBYSSEY IN HIDING VOL. XLI VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1959 No. 33 ms * ■f^lp : jttjkjjgb .'■'-*f*£ ^f "W f^i* "' ■ ""■■' ,^- i»r*i»? in* p€^iif liiP :*W1 tfflifli-. THIS IS THE UBC LIBRARY AT NIGHT. It is being used to almost its full capacity even then, as can be seen by the plethora of lights shining. Majority of students feel that more library space is needed, or has been needed, for some time. John Helliwell, Rhodes Scholar By ROSEMARY KENT-BARBER Ubyssey Staff Reporter "Can't you make out that I don't really deserve it?" The nicest AMS Treasurer in a long time is genuinely puzzled by the latest honor in an honor-studded career. John Helliwell, 21, will leave . ^ 77 ; : ~ ~ * --. * a -v j ,. Dave, won the Legion Cup in for Oxford, England, next ~" autumn as this year's UBC's Rhodes Scholar. And he is the only person Who's wondering why. A native Vancouverite, John is a graduate of Prince of Wales High School where he edited the Student year-book. At UBC, John overcame a bad attack of polio in his Freshman year to become an active mountain climber, hiker, basketball player and sailor. He doesn't want the polio incident "played-up" because "it wouldn't be fair to all the other people who have had it." It was, however, entirely due to his own persistence and courage that he is leading his active life today. At UBC, John has b e e n a Frosh Council representative, Chairman of the High School Conference, Treasurer of the Commerce Undergraduate Society and one of two representatives to the 1958 McGill Conference. As A.M.S. Treasurer this year he has sole charge of a $350,000 budget and has received far fewer complaints about it distribution than his predecessors. John's hobby, aside from his sporting activities, is debating. Last year he and his brother, .. HOPING TOO the inter-mural debates. A consistent scholarship student, he has won seven scholarships so far in his Commerce faculty. At Oxford, John will study j Philosophy, Political Science and Economics in the Final Honors B.A. programme there. His post-graduation plans are "uncertain." And, (we print this by request), he is currently wearing his arm in a cast because he "broke it cranking a car." CHUCK CONNAGHAN . . "grass roots" campaign '/* .. * 4CM0HH&& <&V»: INSIDE • Editorial Page Page 2 , • Sports car rally . _ pages 4,5 • Club Notes page 6 • Sports page 7 NO ROOM AT THE INN? THAT'S RIGHT. So they study out. What can one do when one has no place to sit down? With more library facilities, it has been suggested, more students would avail themselves of the chance to study between classes. Photo by Michael Sone Lack Of Funds Main Cause Of Dropping Out Seventy percent of students who attended UBC last year, but aren't here now, failed to return for one reason no money. This was tjhe figure estimated by Charles Connaghan, AMS President, from a personal survey he conducted last summer. In light of proposed fee in crease for UBC next year, if the increase comes into effect, not only will return percentage increase, but also the actual number who do not return. In an interview Thursday, Connaghan stated that the large majority of students "do not appreciate the full ramifications of the fee increase." The fees will not increase by merely $20 to $30, but upwards of $100. In order to acquaint the students with the seriousness of the increase, Connaghan is planning a "grass roots" campaign, whereby he will attempt to speak personally to as many students as possible. He will hold meetings with the presidents of the various Undergraduate Societies, clubs, and organizations around campus, including those of Fort and Acadia Camps. He will talk to as many meetings as possible of the difference Undergraduate Societies. Students will be given first-hand information on the situation as it now stands, and be urgently prompted to take "swift action." Today at 3 o'clock, the Students Council will hold a special meeting to enable President Connaghan to explain recent developments in the fee-increase problem to council mjemtoers. However, no policy change on this matter is anticipated. 'tween classes Must Sign Up At Meeting FRIDAY RAMBLERS ATHLETIC CLUB—General meeting in Phy. 301 at 12:30 today. All members who have not signed up for winter and spring sports programme must sign up at the meeting—new members wel- comfe. * * # CAMERA CLUB—Important meeting concerning the Constitution today in Bu. 203. * * ¥ C.C.F. CLUB—General meeting will be held at 12:30 Friday Jan. 9th in Bu. 212. Robert Strachan's visit to campus and other important business to be discussed. * * * INTERNATIONAL HOUSE— Friday night. An illustrated programme dealing with the cultural aspects of West Indian life. There will be a film and question period, live performances of songs, calypsos, folk dancing and a specialty group. Time: 8:30 in the new house. (Continued on Page 6) ,•• See 'TWEEN CLASSES PAGE TWO THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 9, 1959 non illfgirlmbs fcarbon^dum* ^ THE UBYSSEY MEMBER CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Authorized as second class mail by Post Office Department, Ottawa Published three times a week throughout the University year in Vancouver by the Publications Board of the Alma Mater Society, University of B.C. Editorial opinions expressed are those of the Editorial Board of The.Ubyssey and not necessarily those of the Alma Mater Society or the University of B.C. Telephones: Editorial offices, AL. 4404; Locals 12, 13 and 14; Business offices, AL. 4404; Local 15. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, DAVE ROBERTSON Acting City Editor, Judy Harker Managing Editor, Al Forrest City Editor, Kerry Feltham CUP Editor, Judy Frain Features Editor, Mary Wilkins Chief Photographer, Colin Landie Editor, Special Editions, Rosemary Kent-Barber Reporters and Desk: Kim Hardy, John Thiessen, Bruce Taylor, Pat Macgregor, Wendy .Barr, .Wally. Oppal. Education Of Women A Waste Of Money Co-op The University Bookstore has often been criticized — and with justice. Over the years the Bookstore — supposedly run for the benefit of UBC students — has had prices consistently go up and service and convenience come down and down and down. This year matters seem to be worse. Service is. at an all-time low, prices are frankly exorbitant and complaints are more than usually bitter. Just who is kidding who? When numerous students year after year buy their books by mail from British or even downtown bookstores rather than pay diamond-studded prices. When budget-limited students desperately' and repeatedly advertise for second-hand books in an attempt to avoid the Bookstore altogether. '> When there is apparently no co-ordination whatsoever between the Bookstore's choice of books and those recommended by the Faculty for supplementary reading. When urgently needed books are ordered one term and arrive the next. When complaint after complaint is recorded of poor service by Bookstore clerks. Then surely it is time to consider the logical, reasonable, already successfully,tried eisewhere, idea of a Student Cooperative Bookstore along the lines of the College Shop. — R K B At the risk of making a few thousand enemies I would like to ask a question. Is there any good argument in favor of higher education for women? I have asked this question numerous times and I always receive the same stock answers which, viewed in the light of present day affairs, are not good enough. OVER RATED LUXURY First exclude nurses and elementary school teachers from the argument, then consider the overcrowded universities, the increasing costs, the nuisance factor, the cost to the taxpayer and the payment (if any) that society receives in return. I believe that the unprejudiced reader will agree that higher education for women is an over rated luxury. TIME. MONEY WASTED Of all the thousands of women who graduate every year how many actually use the subjects they have studied? The vast majority marry immediately or within a very short period of time and their usefulness to society is therefore zero. Of the few that remain at large a good number take jobs where their studies are of little use to them, these also can be ruled out as so much waste of time and money. HOW USEFUL? Which leaves us with a meagre handful who will actually put their university training to good use. Which raises the question, "How useful?" The exclusion of girls from university would mean more space, lower costs, less distraction and therefore more and better trained male graduates, thus any occasional gap caused by the lack of women would be quickly filled. The number of women holding highly skilled jobs is so smqll that their disappearance would not even be noted. God •Editor, The Ubyssey, Dear Sir: Physics marches on. I read on your letters column of yesterday that Professor E. G. P. Rowe of our own Department of Physics has high hopes that it will be a matter of months only until God is un- jequivocably equated with Physics. What pictures this conjures! Shrum swathed in white linen, a golden cord tied loosely around his girth, annointed and sweating before the altar of God and Physics become One. Ten thousand chanting engineers kneel at his command, murmuring "Glory to atom in the highest, peace on earth, all men cremated equal." Glorious. Glorious. Some students not quite so hard-boiled as our phearless physicists, more accustomed to thinking of deity as something more than a variable in an improbable equation are incensed by Pofessor Rowe's off-handed treatment oi God. Actually, there is no reason why they should be alarmed or even merely surprised. Any intelligent observer must have realized that the science must eventually come to this. Having reduced matter to humming electronic nothingness, and men to the monetary sum of his constituent minerals, it is but a short step to reducing God to a symbol and cancelling him out, dividing by the common factor when he becomes no longer necessary. Einstein said that in his studies he always felt that he was somehow tracing the steps of a great mind, following irrefutable logical principles through the maze of the cosmos. Profesor Rowe, secure in his wisdom assures us that when "... usual quantization methods are employed" and "... real dynamic variables are represented by linear, symmetrical operators" the 'G' factor emerges from the confusion stripped of its experimentally unnecessary properties as a physicists deity to end all physicist's deities: an irreducible representation of all that a gpd need be. Imagine •— centuries of speculation, study, discussion and now, courtesy of Professor Rowe, the perfect deity. No fuss, no muss, no sloppy omniscience, just good old god. Come, come, Professor. If you and your associates find it essential to your study to meddle in such affairs, surely you could have shown the decorum to keep your findings to the laboratory. It is far from ennobling for the venerable Mother of all Science to be caught with her pants down . . . and such gaudy pants! — BRAD CRAWFORD B. C E. Editor, The Ubyssey, Dear Sir: In certain issues of The Ubyssey printed before Christmas, some of your loyal readers took it upon themselves to inform we ignorant masses of how big-hearted the B.C.E. is. They pointed .out that the B.C.E. gives $8,000 in scholarships each and every year. Seen from the tax collectors point of view, therefore, there is no profit in educating women beyond high school. MEN BEST I am not suggesting that women are in any way inferior to men, a woman can do anything a man can do, but it is also true that few women ever excel in any trade or profession. The women who do reach the top are famous because they are so unusual. From hat designing to brain surgery, from teaching to bee keeping, — the best are invariably men. The logical reader must agree that society has little to lose and much to gain from closing the universities to females. HOGWASH APLENTY A great deal of hogwash is being slopped about these days in favor of higher education for women. Such phrases as "Development" and "Broad Outlook" and "Assimilation" are bouncing about like so many ping-pong balls. Some people believe that even if a girl steps straight into a kitchen when she graduates, her training will be of great help to her, will Asian Studies really improve her baking? When little Jimmy asks about the birds and bees, will she quote Zoology 105, or use common sense according to his age and intelligence? Perhaps it improves her conversation, when husband staggers home from a hard days work she will be able to refresh him with a little Slavonic history, perhaps. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY There is also the fact that They give the impression that this puts the B.C.E. almost beyond criticism. I think they are greatly misaligned. I estimate my and my friends' expenditure on the B.C.E. at about $40 per year. By simple arithmetic I multiply this by 10,000 students and the B.C.E. gets $400,000. This is, I believe, a probable maximum that the B.C.E. extorts from us. I would like to point out that the $8,000 in scholarships that they big-heartedly bestow on us is a mere 2% of that gross total. Now the point I make is that most of us work our way through- university or at least pay a goodly share. I think that if the directors of the illustrious B.C.E. are such enlightened members of the U.B.C. Alumni, they should see that we should get a,decent student discount in our bus rates, applicable during certain hours. I realize that these men are in business to make money, not friends, but I find their appalling negativity in this issue astounding. I appreciate the fact that the A.M.S. is protesting the increase in fare, but I doubt it will do any good. If the students of U.B.C. are the rugged individualists that they think they are, I suggest we should have an organized boycott of the B Hope, B.C.) on Saturday n ing to accept late registrat Photo courtesy Sports Car Ch EARLY CARS catch up to late runners at a checkpoi: in the recent Totem Rally. SHIRTS Professionally Laundert 3 for 59c dPH WANTED: one or two fern students or lecturers aged -30 to share house near U: (4100 block). Phone AL 0723-L. Puff affer puff of smooth mild smoking Sportsman CIGARETTES PLAIN OR FILTER The choice of sportsmen everywhere riday, January 9, 1959 THE UBYSSEY PAGE FIVK iUNDERBIRD RALLY THIS SATURDAY hoto by Denny Ottewell entering the spring Calling All Students 497 All-wool Skirts! •Tartans eCarcoats •Tweeds »Coats •Worsted ©Suits -« MIX and MATCH SWEATERS up to 40% off For MEN - •Topcoaats ©Slacks •s^ •Suits »Sweaters ^; •Carcoats •Accessories MICHELLE'S 1022 Robson MU. 4-5523 OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS ^HI^A.: Perfect Fit Guaranteed or HB Money Refunded JC - sec :tivities Y TONY SHERIDAN sports car racing season in May and ends in Oc- sach year, just when most Car Club members are cry from Vancouver. PRECIOUS Student his car is preci- ipecially if he is a sports husiast because money come out of gaspumps. Dre, the Club's activities field has been limited. summer two members I the International Con- ! of Northwest Sports Car Ubyssey Photo by Denny Ottewell JIM MARGELLOS finds that the clearance on his Austin Healey isn't quite sufficient for some of the backroads in the Fraser Valley. Clubs racing championships and found themselves on the starting grid of a few races. SUPPORTED DRIVERS Those Clubmembers still in Vancouver supported the drivers by acting as pit-crews and kept drivers' expenses to a minim(um by assisting in the preparation of the cars. The growing interest in racing from within the Club was apparent at Thursday's General Meeting when Mike Balfe, of the SCC of BC was subjected to a barrage of questions concerning the racetrack his club is building near Port Coquitlam and his personal racing techniques and expenses. RACING TEAM Plans for the formation of a racing team for the 1959 season are already under way. More members are considering racing their own cars and others are willing to act as pitcrew and mechanics. With an organized racing team in operation the Club holds high expectations of having some of its members placed well up in the 195,9 sports car racing championships. 49 Ways To Make Marriage More Exciting The fun of being together fading a bit ? Want to knew what to do about it ? January Reader's Digest reports 49 provocative suggestions to make your marriage more exciting.' Should be at least one idea here to put spring into your spouse's spirit! Get January Reader's Digest today : 40 helpful articles of lasting interest. EATON'S TOGS FOR TEMPERATURE High country and high fashion . . . here are slick s-t-r-e-t-c-h pants for smooth skiing. By Alpine of Vancouver and colors galore to choose from — red, Nordic blue, navy, khaki, beige and black. $39.50 The SWEATER ... a magnificient Italian import. By Fata. $35.00 FOR SKI OR APRES-SKI VISIT EATONS SKI SHOP ON THE SECOND FLOOR. Eaton's Ski Shop Second Floor MU 5-7112 Employment Opportunities IN t CANADA Representatives of our Company will be conducting employment interviews at the University 12th, 13th and 14th January and would be glad to discuss our requirements with graduating students and undergraduates in Engineering, Science and Commerce for both regular and summer employment. Application forms, details of actual openings and interview appointments can quickly be obtained through Colonel J. F. McLEAN, Director of Personnel Services. Du Pont Company of Canada (1956) Limited Personnel Division, Montreal, P.Q. Challenging Careers with ttcrtherh ClectHc for GRADUATES IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING PHYSICS HONOURS MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS Northern Electric as a major manufacturer of Communication Equipment and Wire and Cable offers job opportunities in the fields of: TELEPHONE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING - DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT PLANT ENGINEERING RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT All assignments will be in the Montreal area, with transportation allowance paid. Excellent salary schedules and a formal evaluation program providing ample opportunity for individual advancement are combined with generous employee benefits and good working conditions to make employment with the Northern Electric Company worthy of your investigation. Campus Interviews January 19f 20, 21, 22 For further information and interview appointment, please contact your Placement Officer. Hortherti Electric COMPANY LIMITED PAGE SIX THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 9, 1959 Mqtz and Wojtrty [8 II A 548 Howe St. MU.3-4715 Custom Tailored Suits for Ladies and Gentlemen Gowns and Hoods Uniforms Double breasted suits modernized in the new single breasted styles. Special Student Rates PHARMACY By J.& M. BURCHILL QUESTION: What method did people once employ to hide lost teeth? ANSWER: In American Colonial days, people who had lost many teeth filled out their sunken cheeks with little ivory balls, known as "plumpers", inside their mouths. UNIVERSITY PHARMACY V/% Blocks East of Pool AL. 0339 (Continued from Page 1) PRODUCTION CLUB—Meeting today in H.G. i§ for distribution of advanced management. v *F "5r SATURDAY PSYCHOLOGY CLUB—General meeting of all members at 12:30 in H.M.2—a film will be show'n if time permits. •!• v "T* GERMAN CLUB—Will members please turn out for important meeting today Friday noon. Plans to be discussed for party and projects for 1959. •t* •** *J* LIBERAL CLUB — General Meeting in Bu.204 Friday noon. •X* •!• *t* PHRATERES — ALL-PHI meeting at noon today in Arts 100—nominations for executive positions will be accepted and candidates put forward by the Nominating Comlmittee will be introduced. Your Mind Does Improve With Age People's bodies may grow 'rusty* with age, but their minds needn't. January Reader's Digest tells how people who continue to use their brains are smarter at 50 than they were at 20! Here is scientific evidence that you develop greater mental capacities and better judgement as you grow older. This helpful article is just one of 40 in the January Reader's Digest. Get your copy today. C.C.F. CLUB—Party will be held at 1220 Barclay St. on Sat. Jan"; 10th at 8:30. Members and friends invited. •jl rfi ^f. ELCIRCULO — New Year's Spanish-style house party, Sat. night Jan. 10th. Contact club members or phone Alma 1224-M (Roy) for information. * * * / SUNDAY INTERNATIONAL HOUSE— Sunday Jan. 11th dancing lessons will be given in the house from 7:30 to 8:30. Anyone interested in group singing please come to the house too. CONSERVATIVE CLUB — Discussion Group to be held at 5189 Connaught Drive on Sunday 11th Jan. at 8 p.m. Subject "Role of the Young Conservatives in Politics". Speakers: Jan Drost, President Y.P.C. and Alan Hackett. •!p v v MONDAY THEATRE APPRENTICE GROUP—Meeting 12:30 Monday Jan. 12 at the Scene Shop in regard to 'The Birds'. •jV Sfi Sp VARSITY FLYING SAUCER CLUB—General meeting in Bu. 223, Monday Jan. 12th at 12:30. Everyone welcome. Double-Breastod Suits CO^iVKKTiilJ INTO Nfcvv Sinqlc-Brcostcd Models UNITrD 549 Granville MU. 1-4649 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES With MOBIL OIL OF CANADA, LTD "^ on JANUARY 13 and 14 Mobil Oil Representatives Will Interview Graduate, Senior and Junior Year Students Interested In Careers In GEOLOGY GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING PETROLEUM & PRODUCTION ENGINEERING There are openings for both regular and summer employment Interviews are being scheduled through the Placement Bureau of the University Mobil CLUB NOTES The Conservative Club is sponsoring a discussion group on Sunday, January 11, at 5189 Connaught Drive, the home of Gail Mclntyre, at 8:00 p.m. Coffee will be served afterwards. The topic will be the role of the Y.P.C. in politics, and will be led by Ian Prost, president of the B.C. Y.P.C, and Allan Hackett, the Treasurer. Later on in the term, there will be another discussion group HILLEL HOUSE — Monday Jan. 12th, Rabbi Woythaler will speak on the topic "Can Modern Youth believe in a Living God?" Everyone welcome, Hil- lel House is the hut immediately behind the Brock Hall. V •*• V HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE — Important General meeting Monday noon in Men's Club Room, Brock Hall. •J* v *?• CHINESE VARSITY CLUB— Meeting m H.L.I, at noon today re Basketball Game and Dance. Also, don't forget the "Varsity Ice Skating Spree" at the Forum (Back Rink) this Saturday Jan. 10th from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. on the subject of Provincial Affairs, with the speakers being H. H. Stevens and Dr. Kidd. •I* •** •*• The Conservative Club will be sponsoring two model Parliaments and one election this term. In the first Model Parliament, the Conservatives will introduce the speech from the throie. There will also be a general meeting of the Conservative Club on Wednesday, January 14, in Buchanan 104, to discuss the programme for the spring term. * * * One certain event for this term is the cocktail party for February 8. Members will be notified by mail of all spring term events. El Circulo is having a post New Year's party, Spanish style on Saturday, January 10, at 8.30 p.m. Those interested should contact members. Phone ALma 1224-M for details. El Circulo is also sponsoring a talk and a film on "Argentina Today" on Wednesday, January 15, in Buchanan 205, at 12.30. This will be given by Jorge and Carlos Martin. •tf? Does your Savings Account keep GOING DOWN? Here's a new and simple way to keep your savings buoyant. For paying bills, open a Royal Personal Chequing Account. Keep your Savings Account strictly for saving. Ask about this new Royal Two-Account Plan. THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Near the University at, 10th and Sasamat Friday, January 9, 1959 THE UBYSSEY PAGE SEVEN SPORTS 'N VIEWS By Sports Editor, BOB BUSH Today's sports pages lacks complete coverage of many athletic events that will be held on campus this weekend. This is not the fault of The Ubyssey Sports Staff as they are only students trying to attend lectures as well as attempting the time consumming job of, newspaper work. The ones to blame are various team managers who complain bitterly when no coverage is received. Yet these managers are the same ones who fail to submit game reports or even check to see if their activity is to be covered. If the sports organizations want the adds removed from this page, see to it that your team managers make a point of checking with the Ubyssey Sports Department before and after games so that we will have adequate copy. (:::) An addition to the Athletic Department's services for the athletes is the setting up of a training room in the Memorial Gym. This set up should prove interesting when final arrangements are settled. (:::) SPORTS EDITOR, BOB BUSH WOMEN'S REP.: Audrey Ede, Flora MacLeod. REPORTERS: Ted Smith, Tony Morrison, Alan Dafoe, M. Sone. DESK: Irene Frazer and Elaine Spurrill, Larry Fournier. UBC Almost Downs World Games Team UBC Thunderbirds Basketball Team dropped a close 47-45 decision Wednesday night in a game with the squad that is to represent Canada in the world basketball tournament next month in Chile. An interesting article appeared in a back issue of The Ubyssey. It; seems that in 1953, UBC Students were anticipating the completion of an Ice Arena in 1958. Unfortunately such plans did not materialize. However, rumors now have it that such an Arena, to be started on in the near future, is not an improbability. Such a plant would be a big boom to an Athletic Programme that is already lacking extensive facilities. Maybe other additions such as a new field house, new women's gym, more tennis courts, indoor, swimming pool, baseball diamond, and other additions that would justify such a large University as UBC, could also be more vigorously investigated. -(:::)- Two young ladies who help athletics very much, but who seldom receive credit, are Dorothy Epps and Daryll Pretty, the gals behind the desks in the Athletic Office. Miss Pretty's brother was a member of the UBC Rowers that competed in the last Olympics. ,(:::) A hard working group, the Thunderbird Booster Club, finally found their missing Seven-up bottle that was used in the Homecoming Parade. It appears that some must have been really "hitting the bottle" because it is damaged and someone will have to foot the bill. (:::)- One B. C. city that can be proud of its n?iive sons is Trail. Making up the majority of the UBC Ski Team are ten Trail and district skiers. While on the Thunderbird Swim Team, Co-captain and star, Ernie Berno, also hails from the Interior Capital. And turning out for the UBC Hockey, contingent are seven more Trail and district athletes. Led by the ball hawking talents of guards Ken Winslade and Bnrry Drummond, the Birds piled up' a substantial lead in the first quarter. Playing into the later part of t h e second quarter, the Canadian team chipped away the UBC margin. At the half-tim^e intermission, Canada had pulled ahead by a one point edge, 28-27, on a corner shot by Ed Wild. SECOND HALF In the second half, UBC completely controlled the backboards as Keith Hartley, Ed Penderson, and Norris Martin consistently outjumped MacLeod, Mullins, Krego and company. It was anyone's game going into the final frame. The lead switched hands several times but the representatives for Canada went ahead to stay with three minutes remaining in the contest. Braves Win, Slow Start Coming back from a slow start, UBC Braves went ahead after a half time tie to down Burnaby South Union 63-51 in Junior Men's Basketball played Wednesday night in the King Ed Gym. Burnaby led 13-5 at the end of the initial quarter but UBC scored 23 points to tie the game going into the second half. High scorer for the evening was Alf Davey of Burnaby witli 29 points. Scoring on six field attempts and six foul shots, Ian Mathe- son led UBC with 18 points. Merv Schwietzer picked up 16 points and Barrett 10. SWIMMERS SEEK NUMBER EIGHT Big win number eight is in the eyes of Coach Peter Lusztig and the UBC Thunderbird Swim Team as they open, the, 1959 season with a meet Saturday against the College of Puget Sound in Tacoma. The Birds, last year's,Evergreen Conference Champions have won seven, of tjhe last nine Conference meets. RUGGER SQUAD PLAY OAK BAY Oak Bay visits the UBC Varsity Rugby squad Saturday afternoon in a game that starts at 2:30 P.M. in the UBC Stadium. The game was to have been played last term but was postponed because of a snow covered field. With only one regular from last year's squad graduating, Coach Lusztig has potentially a team that should perform well in any meets this year. The biggest meets being the Pacific Northwest AAU championships at Seattle, January 31 and the Evergreen Conference March 6,7 in Tacoma. Nucleus of the team will be several regulars. Conference Divers Kenn Doolanand co-captain Pete Pellatt will be heading the diving contingent. The squads' other co-captain, Ernie Berno will be a big threat in every freestyle sprint race. Ex-captain Bob Bagshaw, a consistent winner in the freestyle and butterfly events, will also be in action. Many newcomers promise a lot of work for regulars in, trying to obtain berths on the team. Soccer Action This Weekend The Varsity soccer team, fresh back from their California tour, will tackle Alpine in an exhibition contest at UBC Gym Field on Sunday. Game time is 2 o'clock. Varsity split even in its southern two-game stint. The UBC eleven lost 3-2 to California but came back to whip StanfordA-1. Varsity outshot the opposition on both occasions but was unable to materialize on many of its scoring opportunities. -(:::)- UBC students will not be able to see the 'Birds in a home :Basketball game until February 4. Before playing at home ;again, the 'Birds have a rugged series of games south of the line. (:::) Football is still upon us. Foot-notes on the 1958 Thunder- birds show that Roy Jokanivich was given honourable mention on the Little All-American team. And Half-back Wayne Aiken has been under the observation of Hamilton, Edmonton and Calgary football teams. (:::) A very worthwhile project has been started by Mr. Albert .Laiithwaite. ;I#ithwaite has something up his sleeve to try to help with Rugger finances. Those interested may be of help by contacting Mr. Laithwaite. (:::) One strong team in the Second Division Rugby League should be the Football Team. It seems that they pack around a line average of -well over two hundred pounds. PLATT LEADS SKIERS, U.B.C. FINISH SECOND With outstanding performances in every event except one, the UBC Ski Team came close to skiing off with first place honors in the Four-Way International Invitational Intercollegiate Ski Meet held in Rossland last weekend. Falling down in the jumping events stopped UBC from taking the Meet which was won by the Wenatchee Valley Team. Final standings were first Wenatchee 359.19, second UBC 344.72 followed by Montana State. Star skiier from the UBC team was John Piatt who represented Canada in ski meets held last year in Europe. Piatt won the Slalom with a time of 1.03:1. Piatt's time of 1.57:6 was the best college effort in the Downhill. Only other UBC competitior to place in the top three of an event was Roar Jessing who finished third in the Cross-country. Other UBC members competing were Dick Thorpe, Jim Logan, Karsten Holmsen, Don Sturgess, Dave Jones, Pete Miller, Marv Kempston, Bob Miller, Lachlan Brown, Jack Brown,; Bob Davis, Ray Ostby, Jim Haight, and Jim/ Lloyd. Coach Al Fisher and crew will be gunning for the "big one" when they compete in the Pacific Northwest Inter-collegiate Ski Conference. Action Resumes In Grass-hockey UBC teams resume action in the A and B Divisions of the B.C. Mainland Men's Grass Hockey League on Saturday, January 10, at 2:30. Three university elevens see action as Blues meet North Shore A at Chris Spencer Field, Golds play North Shore B on UBC No. 2 Field, and the new B Division entry, Pedagogues, take on Grasshoppers B on UBC No. 3 Field. Varsity has a bye. Blues have been moved up to the A Division while Pedagogues now constitute the second UBC squad in the B Division. FOUR POINT WIN Competing for the first year in the Senior "A" Women's Basketball League, UBC Thunder- ettes continue to improve with each game. UBC, the only local team to beat the Eilers in some years, were stopped 52-48 by the Jewelers in a hotly contested game Wednesday night. Good checking and passing" put UBC ahead most of the game. However, in the final quarter, the Thundeyettes'lagged behind. M. Peterson opened the scoring for UBC early in the game. Gail Leither with 12 points lead the UBC offense. Pat Powers contributed 9 points while Peterson and Lindsay added 8 points each. BOX SCORE Crawford, Boyd, Leitner 12, Lindsay 8, Dalzell, Symons, 5, Walker 2, Peterson 8, Power 9, ■Lyons. PAGE EIGHT THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 9, 1959 WUS. ACTIVE IN THE WEST INDIES By PROF. A. J. EARP (Reprinted from Toronto "Varsity") Professor A. J. Earp, registrar and dean of residence at Trinity College, is chairman of the WUS business and finance committee. He was formerly a lecturer in Classics at the University College of the West Indies in Jamaica. The West Indies, although one of the world's under-developed areas, is not among those countries included in the SHARE campaign, because the few hundred students who attend its only University are a comparatively privileged group for whom the problems which WUS assists are no more serious than they are for most of us. : PROBLEMS ACUTE Indeed, these problems are likely to be much more acute for some of the West Indians studying in Canada, of whom there are now more than a thousand. However, the area is of special interest to WUS of Canada as the site of next year's summer seminar. Staff and students selected from almost every campus in the country will assemble for an orientation period here before flying to the University College of the West Indies in ^Damaica. DISCUSS GOVERNMENT There, in what must surely be one of the loveliest settings of any university, they will meet with their West Indian counterparts, and representatives of other Caribbean countries, to discuss the implica tions of self-government, with particular reference to the new West Indies Federation. Problems of politics and government abound on both the federal and island level. How are islands scattered over a thousand miles of ocean to become a nation and how can they support themselves? The central government for the first five years, at least, has very limited powers and a minimal budget of nine million West Indian dollars (a third of which m(ust go to maintain the university at its present level). Island loyalties and aspirations are strong, especially in Jamaica. Good government alone cannot be relied upon to retain votes in a country with universal suffrage but extensive illiteracy, and its complement of political opportunists. Basic to the -problems of government are those of economics. Through the West Indies it is obvious that much needs to be done; it is not nearly so obvious how the necessary de-1 velopment programmes are to be financed. While there has been some diversification of the economy it is still predominantly agricultural and heavily dependent upon sugar, or in some of the small islands upon other single crops such as nutmeg and arrowroot. DIVERSIFICATION Meanwhile the growth of SHIRTS Professionally Laundered . 3 for 59 S The California Standard Company CALGARY, ALBERTA offering careers in PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION will conduct campus interviews on January 14, 15 and 16 • For Post Graduates, Graduates and Undergraduates in: Law Mining Engineering Mechanical Engineering Chemical Engineering- Geological Engineering Engineering Physics Honors Geology Honors Physics & Geology —Permanent Positions Only —Permanent Positions Only —Permanent Positions Only —Permanent Positions Only —Permanent and Summer —Permanent and Summer —Permanent and Summer —Permanent and Summer Arrangements for Personal Interviews may be made through the University Employment Office Hut M-7 population far exceeds the rate of devtlcpment and emigration outlets to anywhere but the United Kingdom remain barred. In education the main needs are at the secondary and technical levels. West Indian grammar schools have long been noted for their academic competence, but only scholarship w'inners receive free tuition— and the goal of free secondary schooling is not yet in sight. Provision for technical instruction is still hopelessly inadequate, yet a developing economy cries out for trained technicians. University education is a lesser problem since over three thousand West Indians study- ling abroad, mostly without assistance from their governments, but the role of the University College itself is a subject of controversy; should it concentrate upon an elite of academic excellence or should it immediately extend its influence as widely as it can? Again, however, the ques tion is very largely one of financial resources. TOLERANCE The WUS group> which concentrates upon West Indian social structure and cultural activity should find this especially fascinating. What is remarkable is the advance made within the last few years towards a society where color is of no account. In the words of Norman Manlc-y, Jamaica's Chief minister "With us it is ceasing to be a matter of tolerance, as tolerance itself supposes there is something to be tolerated." "It is that we are steadily and rapidly becoming a community in which these differences do not have any significance at all, in which acceptance and tolerance are not the words." "We are truly learning each to be a part of the other without consideration of other than natural human feeling, affection and respect." Canadian students will also see a peasant society which is one of the heritages of slavery, and they will learn the reasons why the social pattern is very different from that which they have come to take for granted. They will see, too, some evidence of burgeoning of West Indian culture expressing itself with a freedom and exuberance by West Indian art- •ists and novelists alike. The real folk songs of the area reflect the colorful heritage of African French, Spanish, and British which is the West Indies. In all these fields the Canadian group will doubtless find much of which they will bt critical. But they will, I think, learn to view these things in a perspective wider than that of their own communities at home and see that in the West Indian context these are not the things that count so much as the determination with which they are being met and the progress, admittedly belated, which is now being made against them. 1 ,1 I i iTT COLLEGE- A i * ATTENTION SPORTS CAR OWNERS AND ATHLETES JUST ARRIVED: THE NEW HOODED SWEAT SHIRT In Four Attractive Colours • Reasonable Prices • All Sizes New Shipment of Gym Supplies BASKETBALL SHORTS - DRILL SHORTS TERRY TOWEL SHIRTS - FACULTY T-SHIRTS WHITE SWEAT SOCKS Lost and Found Sale January 19-23 All Articles Lost during the First Term that are not claimed will be sold. 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