@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 "2015-08-12"@en, "1963-03-18"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0125905/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ w THIS® THE WAY IT WAS IN HORSEFLY, B.C. By BICHARD7SIMEON ., Petitioning? It was like this: There was the bartender who refused to serve one of his customers until he signed the Back Mac petition. And the man who wouldn't sign because "students always throw eggs at- Premier Bennett when he goes to the campus." And, of course, the Okanagan sign-painter who got carried away and began making signs reading "Vote Mac" instead of "Back Mac." Five hundred students who took the petitions to the interior over the weekend returned to UBC Sunday with 500 different stories to tell- There was: • a man who' signed the petition in his bathtub; • a lot of people in the Okanagan who thought "Mac" referred to a kind of apple; • the pensioner who said he couldn't back Mac because he was a Diefenbaker man. • a petitioner who sat up from 1 to 4 a.m. trying to get his father to sign the petition. He finally did. • those who thought Mac is a communist, and others who didn't sign because of the "atheistic professor." • the man who said: "All you have at UBC are booze and sex parties and all the girls get pregnant;" • the nuns at a school in Kamloops who pinned "Back Mac" cards on their habits. • the political expert who said: "If it's going to get Ben nett out of office, then I'll sign. Most people signed and most people were interested in the cause of higher education, said the students returning Sunday night. Newspapers all over the interior gave front page coverage to the campaign. One paper had a picture of the mayor and Miss PNE signing the petition. Eight students went on a half-hour T.V. show in Kelowna. In Vernon, every employee of the Eatons store was wearing a "Back Mac" tag. Radio stations all over the province devoted time to the campaign with interviews, spot announcements, and news stories. But the hardest workers were students themselves. Three students took an overnight train from Kamloops to McBride, where they got 600 (Continued on page 2 ) See "STUDENTS WORK'' EVERYONE BACKED MAC! THE UBYSSEY Vol. XLV VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1963 No. 69 Mac with students- officially ' It's official. Mac backs us. President Dr. John Macdonald said Sunday he supports the ".student campaign for: a fair deal for higher education. Dr. Macdonald met student ^petitioners in Brock Lounge as they returned from the interior " Sunday night. "I'm tremendously pleased with the performance of the students, which has been most responsible and a great service to the province," he said. "I am fully behind what the . students have done." As each busload came in, he kept saying "that's wonderful' as he was told of the results of the campaign. "It is an amazing achievement," he told one girl. *'This campaign has had great educational value for both the students and the public." "It is making a lot of people do a lot of thinking, and whatever its results now it will have value for the future." Macdonald praised students for their good behaviour during the campaign. "The students have proved they can understand the difference between education and demonstrations." The president said that his speech at the general meeting Thursday- had been misinterpreted by the downtown press. He said a Ubyssey editorial "hit the nail on the head" in its interpretation of the story. The Ubyssey had said that the speelch implied support for the ■<'•'■: student action, but that Macdonald could do no more because ©f his position. Macdonald remained talking • informally with students for an hour and a half. It was the first time most of the students had met the president. HE CAN'T VOTE but he probably signed anyway. Freshette Merene Ross was one of the thousands of students collecting signatures over the weekend. Scott wants petitions in to Brock soonest All students who still have petitions should return them to the Action Committee Room above the AMS office in South Brock. ... _ . . Malcolm Scott, co-chairman of the action committee said final results from the city must be tabulated by Wednesday. "We want to act before the legislature prorogues," he said. Students collect 200,000 names B.C. backed Mac this weekend. Student action committee leaders said. Sunday they expeefc to have 200,000 signages when all petitions from the province- wide student campaign are tabulated. The total at midnight was 120,000. Fifty-five thousand were col lected in the interior, 40,000 in Vancouver and 25,000 in Victoria. The remaining 80,000 are ex- oected to come from the Vancouver _ house-to-house canvas and from a block of signatures promised by the International Association Of Woodworkers. Students . embarked on the signature-gathering blitz Thursday. Five hundred students canvassed in the interior, 4,000 worked in Vancouver and 1,000 on Vancouver Island. EVERYBODY CHEERED Sunday night, a cheer went up at a reception in Brock Lounge.as each.of 11 buses from outlying areas returned to UBC. The students, most of whom hadn't slept more than a few hours since leaving UBC Thursday, were met by Dr. John Macdonald. Dr. Macdonald described the ■ampaign as an "amazing ach- evement." Largest interior support came Crom the Nelson-Trail-Kootenay listrict. Students brought back 5,087 signatures from the area. Another busload of students, 'rom the Kelowna-Vernon area returned with 7,268, and one rom the Cariboo brought back 7,076. 3.400 NAMES Seven students in a Volkswagen van which canvassed the Sechelt-Powell River area gathered 3,400 signatures. Meanwhile, largest return ir the city was a block of 14,000 signatures collected by Fort Camp students in a blitz of shopping centres. Acadia Camp students turned in 3,000 collected at downtown theatres. Students manned every major corner in the downtown area Thursday: .afternoon to Saturday night. Puck title to Marlins; Birds weep By MIKE HUNTER Ubyssey News Editor KINGSTON—There wasn't a whisper for 10 long minutes. Sixteen University of B.C. hockey players sat there, glum. Father David Bauer stood at the end of a splintery wooden bench, staring blankly at an empty wall. Nobody moved. A few cheers echoed from the other side of Kingston's Memorial Arena. Somebody winced. The Thunderbirds had just played 60 minutes of breatb- Ubyssey Editor-elect Mike Hunter spent the weekend, in Ontario covering the Canadian university hockey and basketball championships in Kingston and Windsor. Basketball story is on page 4. See Axemen. sucking, board-bashing hockey for the Canadian Intercollegiate hockey championship. They had scored two goals, and played well. McMaster University Marlins had scored three goals, and played better. Nothing much you can say. Goalie Ken Broderick, superlative in blocking 37 McMaster shots, shed his fiberglass mask and buried his head in a towel. Defenceman Barry MacKenzie, who'd thrown his weight around like Mr. Bennett in Kelowna, wiped some blood off his face and sniffled. Terry O'Malley cried. The others gnashed' their -teeth, or scowled, or spit' on the floor, or just stared at the ceiling. Some guy in a green snap- (Continued on Page 2) SEE: HOCKEY BIRDS 1 Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Monday, Ma rch 1S, 1\\62 win local support (Continued from Page 1) signatures in one day! McBride has a population of 800. The petitioners enlisted the help of parents, alumni, and high school students. Few people were against the students. One student going door to door got 200 names in seven hours and only three people refused to sign. Some people thought the petitioners were selling apples, or magazines, or were expected to pay something. ."How much do you want?" said one man digging into his pocket after he had signed. Several returning students said they signed up people" who could only write their names, and one had a petition signed with an "X" instead of a name. Powell River petitioners got 200 names from workers as they came off shift at the pulp mill there. Politics was part of the. campaign. Several school boards ' vetoed local schools helping the. campaigners. The television show in Kelowna on which the students appeared is regularly hosted by the local vice-principal, but he was not permitted to interview the UBC students. So the students did the show at-one. Several petitioners reported that local merchants and businessmen were unwilling to sign because they did not want to antagonize the government. But one judge got around the problem. When a petitioner called on him, he. refused to sign. But he saw the petitioner again later and signed. He explained that as a judge he could not sign, and he had not wanted his friends to see him. And community r i v airy reared its head. People in several communities were unwilling to sign because they objected to the placing of colleges recommended in the Macdonald Report. "We gave up talking about the Macdonald Report and just talked about education in general," said one student. In Vernon, extra identification cards had tp be printed Instead of saying "I Back Mac" they said "I Support Higher Education." Students ranged as far as Dawson Creek and Fort St. James in the province-wide drive. As they arrived back to coffee and doughnuts at UBC, their cards were changed to read "I'm back Mac" not hockey Birds find FATHER .BAUER . . . tough loss Entmnse to get tougher UBC entrance . requirements are to be raised. The UBC Senate approved the plan which will require junior matriculation students applying to UBC to get a 60 per cent average in English 40 and three other terminal courses. The present requirement is 50 per cent. Registrar John Parnall said the plan would be withheld until there are new facilities for education beyond grade twelve in B.C. "It might be in by 1964," he said. The move comes after a study showed most first year failures had between 50 and 60 per cent averages in high school. EDITORIAL: Thanks for the help It's not polite to laugh. So just heave a little sigh for UBC's faculty and alumni and then forget about them. They were truly pathetic bodies in the campaign for higher education. Divided among themselves and for the most part religiously reactionary, alumni and faculty did little to aid the student campaign. They did on paper, of course. Take the alumni. They sent out a directive to alumni members all over B.C. to give "reasonable" support to the students coming into their area. They sent it out through the medium of The Ubyssey. More than 10,000 extra copies of last Tuesday's paper were printed so each alumni could have one. And who paid for it? The students. The alumni, although "backing" the student action, refused to spend any money on the campaign. If the alums were to help, the students had to prove they wanted help by paying for it. In like manner, the Faculty Association gave its "support" to the campaign. Fully aware that much of the success of the student campaign—especially in the interior—hinged on students being free from classes for a day and a half,, the association passed the following motion-. "In particular, this association calls upon members of the faculty to do everything possible to facilitate student participation in the scheme to secure signatures from people throughout the province to a petition to be sent to the legislature concerning the present crisis in higher education in this province." Meaning? You figure it out. What it really .said was that it was up to each individual professor what he did. No real recommendation to aid actively in the student campaign—say by cancelling classes. And on trek day, how many faculty and alums were there? A dozen? No. Half a dozen. It would be wrong to generalize and say that every faculty member and alum failed. In the Alumni Association, Dr. William Gibson, Rod Macdonald, Tim Hollick-Kenyon and a handful of others led a valiant try to get more concrete support. But it's hard to fight an establishment. In the faculty association, Reg Robson, Robert Rowan, Walter.Hard- • ' . . wick, the few profs; who made definite announcements in their classes that students should support the campaign, and the gritty six who marched, were with the students alp. the way. --,... But a majority in both groups clung tenaciously to the status quo. It was disappointing. It shoudn't have been a problem for students only. (Continued from Page 1) brim hat came in and stood beside Father Bauer. "You guys played real good," he muttered. "You're a team the West can be proud of." Nobody stirred. The guy in the green hat went back cut, quickly. Trainer Johnny Owen, who's seen 'em win and lose for 30 years, stood in a corner twiddling a roll of white tape. Somebody started to unlace his skates. Then everybody began to change, peeling soggy pads into heaps on the concrete floor. Father Bauer turned and went outside to speak to the press. "Got any old sticks, got any old sticks?" chimed a trio of local rink rats. "Well," said the coach, smiling, "our best just wasn't good enough." Their best was good enough to make Thunderbirds Canada's second-best college hockey team, and with a few breaks, it could have been the best. After breezing to a 6-2 victory over the University of Sherbrooke in Friday's first game, Birds were raring to go at a favored McMaster team which had beaten underdog St. Francis Xavier only 4-3 in overtime the night before. Birds scored first, Ralph Lortie tipping in Dave Chambers' point shot four minutes into the game. But McMaster tied it five minutes later when star center Bill Mahoney, named the tourney's most valuable player, scored from behind the net off a skate. It stayed 1-1 until the middle of the second period, when UBC got tangled up changing lines, and was penalized for having too many men on the ice. Seconds later, Marlins scored, and before UBC could get organized, they had scored again to make it 3-1. Birds scrapped harder than ever, and before the period ended, Pete Kelly slapped in a pass from O'Malley to make it 3-2, but that's as far as they got. The third period was furious. UBC narrowly missed on at least three good chances, while Broderick performed larceny on a couple of McMaster players to keep Birds in the game. * Birds pressed, and McMaster iced the puck continually, but the tying goal never came. "We could have beaten them," said captain O'Malley. "We just weren't sharp like we might have been if we'd had some tougher warmup games. They're no tougher than Saskatchewan." Broderick and MacKenzie were named to the all-star team along with Hamada, Mahoney, and Sinclair (McMaster) and Synishin (Xavier). Xavier won the consolation round with a 7-4 victory over Sherbrooke. 'tween classes BraithwaHe brings words and pictures Lecture with slides by Warden John Braithwaite Monday noon on the Haney Correctional Institute. * * * CONCEPT Second Issue on sale Wednesday in Lasserre and Buchanan Building. Essays, Short Story and Poetry. * * * SPECIAL EVENTS Spanish Dancers SUSANA Y JOSE. Auditorium noon Tuesday, 25c. THE UBYSSEY Winner of the Southam Trophy, 1961 and 1962 Winner of the Bracken Trophy. 1962 Winner of the Montreal Star Trophy, 1962 Authorized as second class mail by the Pest Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Member Canadian University Press Published three times weeKly throughout the University year in Vancouver by the Alma Mater Society, University of B.C. PJditorial opinions expressed are those of the Editor-in-Chief of The Ubyssey and not necessarily those of the Alma Mater Society or the University of B.C. Telephone CA 4-3241, Locals: Editor—25; News—23; Photography—24. Editor-in-chief: Keith, Bradbury Managing Editor ____ Denis Stanley Associate Editor Fred Fletcher News Editor Mike Hunter City Editor Mike Valpy Picture Editor 1 Don Hume Sports Editor Ron Kydd REPORTERS: Mike Horsey, Richard Simeon, Ron Riter, Glenn Schultz, Sharon Rodney. TECHNICAL: Clint Pulley. ANNUAL GRAD CLASS MEETING March 21, 12:30, Bu. 106 Announcement of honorary positions Outline of pldnned Activities Voting on Gift to the University Admission by Library Card only ■Atertrtoyp^Msrflb^i &, >W3 THE UBYSSEY Page 3 Students warm up for signature gathering blitz with "class" at courthouse Thursday. » Trek proves to B. G public UBC isn't egghead sanctuary -Al B'.ii on.LS photo The Back Mac campaign has done a lasting service to UBC, AMS president-elect Malcolm Scott said Sunday. "Not only will it serve the immediate purpose of obtaining more money for UBC," he said, "but it will also serve to identify UBC with the people of this province." He said the campaign had shown people that UBC isn't an egghead sanctuary aloof from the rest of the world on the tip of Point Grey. • ''People in the rural areas have been given the opportunity to speak of UBC as 'our university' for the first time. "They will continue to think of UBC* as 'our university' long after the Back Mac campaign is history." And they will be watching the government closely to see what action it plans to take on the petition, he said. • "Every farmer, logger and businessman who signed that petition will be taking this personally. "If the government ignores the campaign, then these people will be thinking their names were ignored." The petition blitz began two weeks ago, an idea in the heads of a few students who felt there was a danger of inaction on the Macdonald Report and an inadequate operating grant for the University. On the basis of what they knew — despite the refusal of the Board of Governors and the University administration to release information — the group decided some action, such as a strike or boycott, was called for. * They then began to work more closely with student government officials, faculty association and alumni officials. The boycott became a petition blitz and the trek became a. reality. —Don Hume photo Students head for interior ^Mjj^ — Don 1 Jump plioto Janitors glumly face aftermath of Back Mac meeting. 4 —Don Hume photo Thousands like this girl knocked on doors Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Monday, March 18, 1963 in national hoop final By MIKE HUNTER Ubyssey News Editor WINDSOR—Sparked by big John Cook, Thunderbirds easily defeated Loyola College Warriors 75-51 Saturday to Win the consolation round of the Canadian Intercollegiate basketball championships. Birds lost any chance to snare the national title Friday night, cut down by the powerful Acadia University Axemen 55-36. All 10 players hit the score- sheet in Saturday night's effort but it was Cook who led the way with 15 points. Court Brousson, Gordie Betcher and Laurie Predinchuk rounded out UBC's scoring with eight each. After a shaky first period Final period tells tale in prep finale A last quarter splurge by the Mennonite Educational Institute gave them a 58-40 victory over Alberni Chieftains and jtop spot in the 18th annual B.C. high school championships. 7 A record crowd of 5,078 paid fans at UBC Saturday saw MEI take a 15-10 lead at quarter time.. , Alberni held a slim 28-27 half-time lead but in the third quarter MEI got the upper hand and regained the lead at 36-35. Alberni's defence fell apart in the last quarter and MEI moved in to open their lead to 18 points at the end of the congest. Top scorer for MEI was Soccer Birds nearer to PCL with victory By DANNY STOFFMAN UBC Thunderbirds moved one step closer to the Pacific Coast Soccer League Thursday With their second consecutive 3-1 victory over Columbus Italians. Joe Johnson's Birds continued their mastery over the PCL's third place team before a crowd of about 1,000 at Calister Park. Coast League officials attend^ ed the game and were impressed with the UB