@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 "2016-01-18"@en, "1958-03-11"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0125050/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ STOP PRESS NO MEETING THURSDAY IN FIELD HOUSE VOL. XL VANCOUVER, B.C., TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1958 No. 60 Five Universities Boycotted 21,000 Students Protest Quebec's Refusal Of Aid Thursday, March 6, 21,000 Quebec university students boycotted their classes. The walkout involved live of the six Q uebec universities. The only campus where students attend lectures as usual was Sherbrooke. McGill, Laval, Sir George Williams, Bishops', and the University of Montreal all co-operated in the suspension of classes. • -- — '' The universities which staged > ■ — — FIELD HOUSE WONT SEE ACTION AFTER ALL this coming Thursday .Students' Council discovered Monday that the March 13 meeting was unconstitutional because general meetings must occur between March 16 and March 30 and because the constitutional amendments had not yet been posted as required by the AMS constitution. The meeting will probably i be on March 27. Since CuunCil didn't discover their error until 11:30 p.m. Monday. All remarks regarding general meetings on page two of today's Ubyssey should be given a rain-check for the next two weeks. —photo by Alan Groves Socred MLA Says UBC Administrators Dont Dentistry Faculty Seriously Take A Social Credit MLA Thursday has urged the government to "crack the whip" to make the administrators ol UBC start planning for a denial faculty. Tom Bate made the statement during legislature discussion of a $4,334,000 vote for UBC operations. He saiel he was "amazed" that a dental faculty had been put at the bottom of the list" of UBC building projects, "I don't think those running the university' are taking this matter seriously enough," he said. John Squire (CCF-Alberni), said he didn't agree that UBC had placed low priority on a dental faculty. ATROCIOUS Ron Harding (CCF-Kaslo- Montgomery New WUS Chairman Bill Montgomery was appointed to the WUS committee chairmanship by student's council Monday night. He has worked vvith WUSC for three years, and was winner of a WUSC Scholarship, to the Gold Coast last summer. Two columns per issue of The Ubyssey, starting next year, was awarded UCC by Students Council al lhe meeting. An Editor, appointed by the UCC, but responsible to The Ubyssey for make-up and editorial policy will be responsible for the column. This motion came as a result the \\JCC investigation of club Library Career Day Here Wednesday The British Columbia Library Association is sponsoring Library Career Day on thc UBC campus, Wednesday, March 12. The purpose of Career Day is lo give information about careers in libraries lo sludenis interested in becoming professional librarians, and also lo studenls who might be called upon lo acl as career counsellors. 0 publicity in The Ubyssey. The commiltee claims that clubs who "usually provide the belter class cultural entertainment on campus are, with the exception I of Sludenl Council elections, 2 i>() | the complete political life- and, more important, are the training ground for the leaders on campus and eventually, public Miss Hdli (inlanders from Van- life." couver Public Library will com- , Because of Ihe membership in menlale on the film and Miss ! clubs, I ho commit lee maintained j I he program begins a p.m. in Room 85!) of lhe Library j with Ilm film The Librarian. Slocan), complained that seven eighths of B.C. had inadequate dental services. "This i.s atrocious," he said. During the UBC discussion,, Leo Nimsick, (CCF-Cranbrook) said, "that the university had asked about $1,000,000 more from the government for 1958- 1959 operations. The government would have to do something about this," he said, "if it wanted to avoid an increase in fees. Education Minister, Les Peterson told the House the gov eminent didn't believe in "interfering" with the university administration. During Open House, Mr. Peterson signed a petition at the Pro-Dental faculty display asking the Government for funds for a dental faculty on Campus. Some student comments about the debate, were: Bill Ballentine, new Public Relations Officer for the AMS, "It's hard to say." Barry Tyldesley, 2nd Arls: "In England, tiie government would have given the grant, and told the University to do it. But here, I think we should decide." "I think it should be clone in the quickest way possible. Bul it would bo a shame lo take money from any other pari of the Universily," he said. Songfest On Tonight The 21st annual fraternity- sorority fest will take place in the armouries at 7:30 tonight, The song teams are made up of 14 members for the sororities and 16 members for the fraternity teams. All members are UBC undergraduates. Patrons are President MacKenzie, Frank Read, former coach of the UBC rowing team and Mr. G. Housser, who will present the Housser Cup to the outstanding fraternity. The two-hour show will be adjudicated by Harry Price, musical director for TUTS and director of Mussoc's production, "Call Me Madam." The proceeds of the event will go to the development fund. Aubrey Roberts, assistant to the president of the development fund will be presented with a $4,000 cheque, made up of proceeds from the Mardi Gras. UBC Profs To Discuss B.A. Value Four leading UBC professors will discuss the Value of the Bachelor of Arts degree in a free public forum in Georgia Auditorium tonight at 8:30 p.m. The forum, the second sponsored by the university since the beginning of the year, is entitled "What Good is a B.A,?" Sneakers will be Prof. Walter Gage, of the department of mathematics; Prof. F. M. Soward, head of the department of history; Prof. John Deutsch, head of the department of economies and political science, and Dr. Roy Daniells, head of the department of English. Following the addresses there will be a question period. Answering questions will be Prof. J. O. St. Clair-Sobell, head of the department of Slavonic studies; Dr. John Friesen, head of the UBC Extension Department; Prof. Bryce, of the department of chemistry; Prof. Don Brown, of the department of philosophy, and Prof. Malcolm McGregor, head of the classics department. Purpose of the forum, which will be chaired by presidential assistant Geoffrey C. Andrew is to explain the career opportunities and personal values which can result from study in the humanities and social sciences. Dean Gage will emphasize the role which the humanities play in fitting people for further study in professional schools. "The B.A.," he claims, "servos many professions, and the value of the Bachelor of Arts degree cannot be stressed too strongly." Professor Soward will maintain that the B.A. degree "is as good as the man that gets it." He will also stress that the degree "teaches people to live as well as make a living." Professor Deutsch will emphasize the role which the social sciences play in our increasingly- complicated world. the walkout were picketed, but students were permitted through to attend classes. Official sources said that 99 per cent of the students participated in the strike. Most of the faculty appeared to sympathize with the student action. At a Math class in McGill, only one student attended, and was thrown out by his professor for talking, The ■mass walkout was a response to Premier Duplessis's refusal to meet with the presidents of the students' councils to discuss a brief they submitted to him. The brief dealt mainly with the financial policies of the Quebec government for the universities. Ben Trevino, Students' Council President stated, "The issues at UBC and in Quebec are completely different. Had our fees gone up, or the supplementary requests for grants to meet increases in faculty salaries been refused, we might have entertained ideas of striking at UBC." Premier Duplessis refused to accept any federal assistance for the Quebec universities. His opinion is that education according to the British North America Act, is a provincial matter. Any federal assistance would be an infringement of provincial rights. The Council makes annual grants lo all the provincial universities. Because of Duplessis's attitude, the Quebec universities receive none of this money. The Canada Council is holding the money in trust for the Quebec colleges. The universities 'feel they should receive this money. Students emphasized strongly in special editions of campus ■newspapers that the walkout was not a political demonstration. It was intended to show the public the situation which exists in the universities. The students wanted to emphasize to the Quebec government by the concerted action of 22,000 students the idea recognized by (Continued on Page 3) See STRIKE Tween Closses FilmSoc Presents Old Favorites TUESDAY FILMSOC will be showing an hour of Norman McLaren Ato- stract Cartoons at 12:30 in the Auditorium. * * * PEP CLUB — Cheerleading tryouts Tuesday, March 11 and March 18 in the Armouries at noon. Previous experience is not necessary and everyone inter- ested in cheerleading next year should attend. * * * JAZZOC presents the "Leen Jak" Quartet featuring Wally Lightbody and Jack Reynolds ,, today at noon in Physics 200. * * * JAZZOC invites everyone to attend the Vancouver Ne^ Jazz Society Centennial Jazz Festival, May 25, 26 and 27 in the Georgia Auditorium. Tickets are $1, $1.25 and $1.50 per night and are do* tainable at all JazzSoc meetings and concerts. * * * PARLIAMENTARY COUNCIL — All members of all political clubs; general meeting noon today, Buchanan 106. •k *k *k PRODUCTION CLUB — Trip to Canadian White Pine on Tuesday. All interested meet in H- Gl at 12:15. * * * UNITARIAN CLUB — Program meeting at 12:30 in Arts 103. * * * , LUTHEAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION will hold its regular meeting today at noon in H-Ll. The discussion of Lutheran doctrine will be continued. ■k -k *k VCF presents Mr. C. D. G. Howely, editor of a foremost Christian journal, speaking on "What is a Christian?" noon today in Ph. 201. (Continued on Page 3) See 'TWEEN CLASSES . Gillanders and Mrs. Margaret Brunei Ic will answer quosl ions afler I he film show int.1,. NOTICE Short meeting of the Editorial Board at noon today in The Ubyssey office. and because of Iheir dependence of some imporlanl clubs on paid admissions, and bacause the clubs' position is slroiig, Ihe Ubyssey is obliged lo provide dependable publicity for all clu Lis." Thi1 motion wenl through council by a IB" margin. 'The public relations otfieer and The Ubyssey editors, present and eleel, do noi vole on council, Employment Office Open This Week The National Mm ploy - ment Office will be open at the following times for graduates and undergraduates seeking employment. MEN Tuesday-Friday: I 1 a.m. lo 4 p.m. WOMEN Monday: I I a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday: I I a.m. to 4 p.m, Plato's Repu blic - Rule By The "Inspired" Says Bluck By NEVA BIRD The political setup envisioned by Plain in his "Republic", though totalitarian in nature, did not condone "whal, lolalilarian usually means to us." II proffered instead, rule by "Uu- genuinely inspired," said Richard Bluck, speaking in Physics 200, Monday. Richard Bluck, in Vancouver during hi.s first visit to western Canada, is Ihe author of Iwo books on ITalo. as well as various arlieles in periodicals. Ho is, a I. present, a lecturer al Queen Mary College in Fngland. The Athenian view of the slate as a "moral entity exhi bil ing virl ues and vices" enabled Plato, according lo Bluck, lo accomplish two pur poses: first to gel at the nature of jusl ice. and second to give an idea of what he thought sound government would be. Plato's view of the soul, as interpreted by Bluck, broke it into three categories -— reason, passion and desire which correspond lo three types of citizens guardian rulers, auxiliaries or soldiers, and partisans. Plato saw justice as the result of a proper harmony between these three aspects of the soul, and correspondingly, between tho three types of people. Wisdom in rulers, courage in soldiers, aud temperance in sociely, combined with a sense of juslUio in all, were the essentials of justice as recorded by Sophocles. There were according to Bluck, two kinds of juslice. Jusl ice of the ordinary a'tul justice of the philosophers. Plato's second purpose was to set forth his ideas concerning the structure of "sound government." He felt that the ideal stall1 would result through "associating politics with morality," because, as Bluck explained, only people who understood the norms could adequately guide and govern the citizens. "Plato," said Bluck, "did noi Ihink of hi.s sociely as, strictly speaking, perfect." Judges who were admitted into the commonwealth, knew the meaning of wickedness so "there is lo bc some .sort of wickedness in this slate," he explained. Plato's preoccupation wiih a n elaborate educa I iotisd scheme in. books six and seven., of Ihe "Republic" was, Bluck fell, hi.s allempl lo show lhat the rational nuisl control lhe irrational. Tn Book four, rulers are equated with the rational part of the soul. Bluck, in his interpretation of Plain's categorization of mankind, set forth three kinds of men. The reflective, philosophic type; thc athletic, game scholarship type; and tiie slave- to-appetite type. The usual Greek view of "a decent type of chap" necessitated combination of the first two types at least, and required "education of the mind and body". Plato's conception of the commonwealth as "a closely knit unity under divine guidance" was furthered by his "deeply religious" descriptions of lhe guardians. The guardians were to be arbiters in moral education and censors in moral and religious mailers, or as Plato said, "physicians of Ihe soul", Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, March 11, 1958 THE UBYSSEY Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. - -■—■■•Mi iti MEMBERS CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Student subscriptions $1.20 per year (included in AMS fees). Mail subscriptions $2.00 per year. Single copies five cents. Published in Vancouver throughout the University year by the Student Publications Board of the Alma Mater Society, University of British Columbia. Editorial opinions expressed herein are those of the editorial staff of the Ubyssey, and not necessarily those of the Alma Mater Society or the University. Letters to the Editor should not be more than 150 words. The Ubyssey reserves the right to cut letters, and cannot guarantee publication of all letters reeeived. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. PAT MARCHAK Managing Editor David Robertson News Editor Barbara Bourne CUP Editor - Laurie Parker Advertising Manager Bill Miles SENIOR EDITOR. ALAN GROVES Reporters and Desk:—John Wrinch, Jim Taylor, Mary "Wilkins, Rupert Buchanan, Lois Boulding, Babulal Ram- logan, Audrey Ede. Representative Student Government EfHTOR'S NOTE — These articles were written before midnight. After Councils decision to change date of general meeting they don't make much sense so save them until March 27. A Tired Constitution Before the war the Canadian Federal Government signed a treaty with Japan to the effect that all Japanese in Canada would be treated on the same basis as Canadian nationals. A B.C. trtfde union had a restriction that Orientals couldn't work in the B.C. union mines. The Federal Government forced the issue through the courts on the basis of the treaty. But the courts found that the treaty was ultra vires because civil rights is a provincial matter.' Tho same situation exists today in the field of education. Constitutionally, Premier Duplessis is within his rights. Education is a provincial field, and the federal government has no constitutional right to enter the field. TWltudents are right too. They have a need for money and a meant of obtaining it. But the means aren't constitutional. In, ftritish Columbia, the reverse situation exists. A provincial government is not at all zealous of its educational responsibilities and insists that the field should be under federal power. The provincial government here may be neglecting its responsibilities and creating a political football in the process, but it too is right. Tne simple truth is that the constitution is outmoded, Neither the BNA Act nor the Manitoba Schools decision of 1896 foresaw the growth in needs for education. The precedent set by the Privy Council invalidating the Supreme Court decision regarding Manitoba parochial schools and thereby insisting on the provincial rights in the field of education, i.s a precedent no longer valid as a guide. The question i.s no longer one of Catholics versu.s Protestants as Manitoba and now Quebec have seen it. The question is whether Canadians will be able to educate the students wishing to attend universities in numbers required to meet the needs of the country. The question just can't be resolved by provincial governments -r the money doesn't exist in their coffers no matter what the constitution says. Reticence to change a constitution and petty parochialism are blocking advances in a field that must expand. It may take a student strike to force the overdue changes, but the changes are necessary. By GEORGE MORFITT After many years of growing dissatisfaction with the General Meeting form of full- student participation in AMS affairs, an intelligent, workable proposal has been offered which would retain the basic advantages of the present General Meeting, but which would also provide a more representative democratic form of self- government. The ^proposal which will go before the Spring General Meeting this Thursday for approval, is basically that a Representative Assembly be substituted for the "General" Meeting as we now know it, such Assembly to be composed of: 1. All office holding councillors (both elected and appointed). 2. Representatives from the student body at large selected through the Undergraduate Societies sitting on USC. 3. Representatives from major interest groups (MAA, WAA, WUS, UCC, and Publications). Specific rules with regard to representation, quorum, voting, etc., have been set down and will be explained at Thursday's meeting. CHANGES Just what changes would the Representative Assembly, as it is now conceived, make to our form of student self-government? Firstly, all major interest groups (and I include Undergraduate Societies here) would receive representation based upon student enrollment and participation. As a result, there would be no Assembly which could be "packed" by a single interest group and motions coming before the Assembly would be carried or defeated by a group representing a majority of the students, not a full-throated, packed minority. • Secondly, the Representatives selected for the Assembly would feel a definite responsibility to familiarize themselves with the issues at hand and vote intelligently on such issues. Also because of responsibility in government, a full turnout of representatives would be a surety and "six- minute fiascos" would be eliminated. Thirdly, ruling of the chair as to the passage or failure of motions could be positively assessed because of the orderly system of representative voting. Fourthly, definite representation for those groups which are unable to attend a meeting because of extenuating circumstances (e.g. field trips, off- campus courses, practice teaching) would be assured. Fifthly, all students, whether representatives or not, would be able to attend Assembly meetings and speak to any motion arising from the floor which was not included in the Assembly agenda. This goes beyond usual Reprsenta- tive Government as we know it today. Lastly, Students' Council would not be forced to dig up contentious issues for the sake of ensuring a quorum at meetings as has been done in years past. There is no denial that each member of the Society will not get an individual vote, nor should it be conoealed that pn- ly selected Representatives can speak on matters arising out of the Assembly agenda. But is this not the true meaning of Representative Government? I assert that it is, and that it is time that form of student government was instituted on this campus. A Representative Assembly would not mean the "doing away with the body keeping Council in check" nor would it mean that those in power are "eliminating their opposition", as Mr. Jabour so vehemently stated in an earlier Ubyssey. On the contrary, what in the past was a sham and a vehicle through, which motions by Student's Council could be railroaded would become a strong body which would consider student matters intelligently and render a sound representative decision on them. I am wholly in favor of this change in our form of student government for the reasons cited above and I hope it will receive approval at the General Meeting on Thursday. This Is Democracy? By DAVE NUTTALL (Law III) The proposed change in our student government, substitution of an elected "Representative" Assembly for our General Meeting is a dangerous and daring attempt to assassinate student autonomy here at UBC. DANGEROUS It is dangerous because it has the sanction of a number of leaders we respect: Ben Trevino, Ken Brawner and Brian Williams, (with Jabour, Beck and Longstaffe contre) and even at second glance appears to be a genuine attempt to eliminate our boisterous, long- criticized General Meeting. It is daring because it, in effect, asks us to cut our own throats, the bettor to see that we can't breathe without a sound body. We elect our student council to act in our best interests, and they do, — yet every year they take a resounding defeat cm several of their proposals Why? The General Meeting is the only chance for interested, but normally disinterested, students to have their say in student government. REPUTATION Consider this, the student council has a reputation for being composed of a certain type of man, call him a frat man, society type, or ivy leaguer; he is interested in his job (for a variety of reasons), and usually rises to the "top". He likes fellow councillors and talks their language; we like them, too, so we elect them — but keep the upper hand via a General Meeting. Why elect 238 of them and then give up our control? Dammit, we want to -be heard too, when our rights are affected to the extent that we become interested — or annoyed. The people we want to hear us are fellow disinterested types, not men whose opinions have already been moulded in assembly, or at coffee break, by fellow elected assembly types. It is a darn sight harder to lobby among 1300 unknown .students out of 9000, than it is to contact the slick talkers amongst 238 known delegates, (Quorum 145) many of who will have sundry organizations in common. • To top it all the proposed scheme refuses us lhe right even to speak on any matter already on the assembly agenda. (See Page 12 of the report). In short, we have no guarantee that our opinions will be sought by our delegates, no class time alloted to speak on the topic, no chance to hear the views of the group affected and no guarantee our delegates will vote as class opinion demands, no hope of having them express our views with any force if their view is contrary, (and it will be) and no opportunity to be heard at the assembly. Many of us feel the General Meetings are subject to lobbying — the only faculty having either the size or the organization to lobby effectively being the Engineers. Yet what concessions have they been able to grant themselves? None, not one. They still complain as loudly about their niggardly budget as they did five years ago. On occasions when they have tried to put through a "goof" motion they have been defeated, without exception. We would have no such check on our 238-man student council! It will indeed be a black clay when this campus, with its reputation for student autonomy, substitutes a disguised bureaucracy for a system which preceding generations have weighed and not found wanting — a system which is the epitomy of democracy, and the only way to effectively control a short-term elected body. A bread-knife will do Gaston . South Africa-And The UBC General Meeting Where one freedom is denied the others soon follow. This universal law ot history, already demonstrated in the 'tween wars period of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Franco Spain, is being repeated before our eyes in South Africa today. APARTHEID The policy ' of Apartheid (separation) which has its roots in the denial of economic opportunity to all races lias now been extended to reach into the universities, and academic freedom is being denied with the passing ol the Nationalist 'Government's "Separate1 University Education Bill." Two bastions of freedom remained in Soulh Africa — U. of Capetown and tl. of Witwatersrand; they were known as the "Open Universities" and. their doors were open to anyone who bad the academic prerequisites regardless of their racial origin, Wily was the Soulh African government afraid of the Open Universities and Iheir policy of no racial discrimination? We will lei Dr. Verwoord, Minister of Native Affairs, speak for himself: " . . the school nuisl equip turn (Ihe African) to nicol Ihe demands which the economic life of South Africa will impose on him, It is of no avail for him to receive an education which has as its aim absorption in the European community where he cannot be absorbed. Until now he has been subjected to a school system which drew him away from his own community, to mislead him by showing him the green pastures of European society in which he was not allowed to graze." (Speech, 1954). At these Open Universities European, Indian and African students were gathered together under conditions of equality found nowhere else in South Africa. To the government, this kind of thing presented, in tiie words of former Soulh African Prime Minister IVIalan, "an intolerable situation," REMEDY The situation was remedied by Ihe Separate University Education Bill which set up special Bantu Colleges and prohibiled non-Whiles from attending the Open Universities These Bantu Colleges are government controlled and their staffs are hired and fired hv the government. One can. easily imagine the kind of "teaching" being given at these "colleges". The open universities have put up a magnificent struggle. Faculty members have risked their jobs and their social positions to speak out loudly and indignantly against this infamous legislation. They saw their prized traditions of university autonomy and academic freedom being shattered, but were powerless against a government which has thc support of a majority of the white South Africans (only one quarter of the population, but the only people who have the unqualified right to vote). PROTEST More active than the faculty members, and true to a long and world-wide tradition, thc students of South Africa have protested against universily segregation at every downward step. The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) has fought courageously ana untiringly, and is still fighting today, against tho racial policies of the government. WHAT TO DO ? What can we do to help the light for freedom in South Africa'.' There is only one way open to us. Wc can criticize the racial policies of the S.A. government by expressing our support for NUSAS. The S. A. government is much more sensitive to protest from overseas than it is to criticism at home. The South African situation has attracted world wide attention and student bodies all over the world, including NFCUS, have sent protests to the S. A. government. WE CAN PROTEST We at UBC can add our voice to the rising volume of indignation being generated all over the world. One or two isolated protests can be brushed off but when millions of us speak out in unison we cannot be ignored, At the Spring General Meeting of the AMS, the Committee for the Furtherance of Human Rights in Education intends to introduce a resolution condemning the passing of thc Separate University Education Bill and expressing sympathy with those whose freedoms the Bill will violate, You are urged to support this ['('solution. Yours sincerely, JI1VI DRAPER* STU PIDDOCKE KEN HODKINSON GIRLS! Beauty-Break on the campus! 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