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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1959
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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
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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
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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
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THE UBYSSEY
PAGE FIVK
iUNDERBIRD RALLY THIS SATURDAY
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entering the spring
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Y TONY SHERIDAN
sports car racing season
in May and ends in Oc-
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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
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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
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for
GRADUATES IN
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING PHYSICS
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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.
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THE UBYSSEY
Friday, January 9, 1959
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MU.3-4715
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Gowns and Hoods
Uniforms
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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
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AL. 0339
(Continued from Page 1)
PRODUCTION CLUB—Meeting today in H.G. i§ for distribution of advanced management.
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SATURDAY
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB—General meeting of all members at
12:30 in H.M.2—a film will be
show'n if time permits.
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GERMAN CLUB—Will members please turn out for important meeting today Friday noon.
Plans to be discussed for party
and projects for 1959.
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LIBERAL CLUB — General
Meeting in Bu.204 Friday noon.
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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.
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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.
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MONDAY
THEATRE APPRENTICE
GROUP—Meeting 12:30 Monday Jan. 12 at the Scene Shop
in regard to 'The Birds'.
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VARSITY FLYING SAUCER
CLUB—General meeting in Bu.
223, Monday Jan. 12th at 12:30.
Everyone welcome.
Double-Breastod Suits
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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—Permanent and Summer
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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
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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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