Livermore attacks admin By CHRIS GAINOR

Former Hispanic and Italian studies head Harold Livermore attacked the UBC administration Wednesday, calling the cir- cumstances surrounding his dismissal a s department head a “scandal.”

Livermore made his statements while defending himself in the controversy over his continuing to earn department head wages of $41,000 a year year while he is writing a book and teaching three students.

In a letter to The Ubyssey, Livermore said board of governors member Basil Peters’ “assurance that ‘the dismissal was entirely above board,’ can only be based on distorted information. He didn’t get i t from me.

have missed this exhibition and hope to get a ticket for the next performance,” Livermore said.

The board dismissed Livermore as department head Sept. 7 following complaints that he was a poor administrator.

When asked in an interview Wednesday to expand on the charges made in his letter,

Livermore said, “it’s a scandal. There’s no doubt about it.”

He refused to discuss the matter specifically, except to say: “It’s the procedure I’m complaining about. It wasn’t followed properly.”

Livennore included a general attack on the UBC administration in his letter. “I don’t think I should go further in discussing the short-

comings of the administration at the moment,” Livermore said. “My experience fufily confirms the statement of the minister of education, Dr. McGeer (whom I don’t know) that UBC has some professors who ‘are near the top of their field, but we don’t have any administrators who are world leaders.’ He can say that again.”

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Some res rates up 77.9% next year UBC residence fees will increase next year

by a s much as 17.9 per cent, joint residence committee member John Johnston said Wednesday.

But price increases will vary from residence to residence, he said.

The largest increase is for Gage low rise, where the rent will go from $787 this year to $931 next year. The low rise is an apartment complex for married students.

In Place Vanier, a single room costing $1,355 this year will be $1,452 next year, an increase of 7.15 per cent. And a double room will cost $1,347, a rise of 3.4 per cent over this year’s $1,302.

Rent at Totem Park will be slightly lower than a t Vanier. A single room will cost $1,437 instead of this year’s $1,355, a six per cent in- crease. A double room will cost $1,346, 3.2 per cent more than this year’s $1,302.

But a single room in Totem will rise to $1,572 from $1,460, an increase of 7.6 per cent.

A room in Gage Towers will increase almost $100 to $877, an 11.5 per cent increase over this year’s $787.

Johnston said the committee, made up of one student from each of the five residences, acting housing head Michael Davis and food services head Robert Bailey, used several criteria to decide the price increase for each residence.

The number of people living on a floor, tlhe number of people using each washroom and tlhe availability of cooking facilities were used in determining the increases, Johnston said.

And, he said, the amount of lounge space and the residence’s distance from the centre of campus were also taken into consideration.

Johnston said the increases for Vanier and Totem would have been “substantially larger” if Bailey had had his way.

miley proposed three different budgets to the committee, Johnston said.

The committee chose the lowest, which ask’ed for $1,758,000, he said.

Johnston said Bailey supported the highest of the proposed budgets, for $1,833,000, because it contained a food service improvement fund.

But, Johnston said, the committee rejected the higher budget because the food service improvement proposal was too vague.

“It was rdused because no specific goals were set out regarding how the money would be spent,” he said.

The differential rates are designed to en- courage students to live a t Totem Park, which has always bad trouble renting its rooms, Johnston said.

Totem has a 3.4 per cent vacancy rate this year, according to residence assignment co- ordinator Mary Flores. There a re 18 vacant women’s single rooms, 50 vacant beds in women’s double rooms, and 30 vacant beds in men’s doubles, she said.

The committee will present its budget to the boardof governors for approval a t its February meeting .

Livermore, who had been department head since 1967, said in an interview he first learned of his possible dismissal early this summer, while he was on a lengthy trip in London. He received a letter from administration president Doug Kenny warning him of the impending action.

He said he contacted lawyers and told Kenny he would not cut short his trip to allow dismissal unless UBC paid for the return ticket.

No action was taken until he returned in time for the fall term, Livermore said. This did not allow time to readjust his teaching schedule from the schedule he would have had as a department head.

Livermore said he will be going on leave next year, the first leave or sabbatical he has taken in 10 years.

“I’m in a university of doubtful competence as fa r as ad- ministration goes, and that’s un- fortunate. I’ve got more important work to do. I don’t want to put up with all this rubbish,” he added.

Kenny, meanwhile, issued a statement on Livermore’s current duties. “S don’t think it would be proper for me to comment on the salary or the particular teaching and research duties of any in- dividual faculty member,” said Kenny.

After saying that research and teaching duties vary from department to department, Kenny said, “I can only add that when a faculty member takes on or relinquishes administrative duties which are additional to his or her teaching or research, it sometimes takes a little while ta readjust the

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Results of this week’s senate and board of governors elections will not be available before Monday, a spokeswoman for the registrar’s off ice said Wednesday.

That’s because ballot counters have to check each of the 3,000-0dd ballots to ensure that the student signing it is registered as a full- time student, before actually counting them, registrar’s assistant Mary Raphael said.

Ballots were put in an envelope which was then put inside another envelope on which the voter wrote his or her name and student number .

The registrar runs all student senate and board elections.

Dave Davies, engineering 3, said he would not vote if he had to put his name on the outer ballot en- velope.

“I think it’s a matter of prin- ciple,” Davies said. “I didn’t vote in last year’s election either. Once you take away one liberty it’s one step in the wrong direction.

“I know quite a few people who didn’t vote last year for that reason,” Davies said. “I thought they had solved the problem this year.

Returning officer Christie Jung said voters must put their names and student numbers on the outer envelopes so they can be checked against the master list of full time students.

Only full time students, those taking a t least 12 units, can vote in student elections. But there is no distinction between full- and part- time students on student cards.

Raphael said student cards cannot be marked to show part- time status because many students drop courses and lose their full- time status. She said such a system

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From page 1 would increase the ad- ministration’s paperwork.

Last year’s Alma Mater Society council asked the administration to use a double envelope system, Raphael said.

Last year the voters’ names and student numbers were written on the envelope which contained the ballots, Jung said. But this year the ballot envelopes are randomly placed in a pile after the voters’ full-time status is checked, he said.

Raphael said the student repre- sentative assembly wanted to run the elections and went to senate, but “senate wouldn’t go for it,” because of the difficulty of separating full-time and part-time students.

“We’d be delighted to have you (the students) run it,” Raphael said

The administration asked the

AMS to send a brief about it to the education department last year, she said, because the Universities Act must be changed if students want to run the elections.

Raphael said she has run the elections for 10 years and tries to improve the process every year.

“We’d be most interested in constructive criticism,” she said.

AMs external affairs officer Moe Sihota said the AMS told education minister Pat McGeer it wants changes in the Universities Act for student senate and board elections.

The AMs wants elections run by students, payment for election workers and provision for vacant seats to be filled in mid-term, Sihota said.

Sihota said a priority of the new student board members must be to get the board to agree to let students run the elections.

Sihota, a board candidate, said

Apartheid? So what, if they want money

WASHINGTON (ENS-CUP) - Many of the U.S.’s largest banks and financial institutions are among those lending money to the racially, politically and financially troubled government of South Africa.

Some of the major loans ex- tended by US. banks to South Africa this year include:

e $200 million loanted to Escom ~ a government-owned utility ~

by Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty. Manufacturer Hanover, and Barclay’s;

c) $138 million for a mineral project, managed by Citibank, and

0 $80 million for the South African government’s iron and

steel corporation. That loan is being handled by Citibank, Chase Manhattan and several German banks.

The Private Export Funding Corporation, which is owned by some 50 banks, has $110 million in outstanding loans to South Africa. All are guaranteed by the U S . Export-Import Bank, which is prohibited from making direct loans to South Africa.

And the International Monetary Fund, of which the U.S. is a principal contributor, has also increased its lending to South Africa ulis year with a new line of credit, currently worth $173 million.

Dispute left bad feelings From page 1 Kenny became administration

balance between these different President. responsibilities.” The Ubyssey received an

When read the statement, Iivermoresaid. “that’s the point I made to you. It seems to be a fairly cautious statement.”

In a 1974 dispute over granting tenure to three professors, Livermore was overruled by then- assistant arts dean Robert Will. The dispute resulted in bad feelings between Livermore and then-arts dean Kenny. Will replaced Kenny as arts dean when

anonymous letter from a Spanish student praising Livermore’s work in Spanish history and literature.

“Before he came to UBC, no advanced tuition was available in the department,” the student said. “Professor Livermore remedied this gap and added Portuguese, hitherto not given. I understand that he has not taken sabbatical leave for many years because of the amount of work that has consequently fallen to him.”

vote because ihey refuse to put their names on the envelopes containing the ballots.

“It’s beenan issue for years,” he said .

Jung said election workers are paid five Pit tokens per hour. He said the election will cost the AMS about $360 for Pit tokens and $50 for stationery.

Raphael said workers will be moved temporarily from other jobs to check names and count ballots. The administration’s only costs a r e for printing the ballots, she said.

She said counting duties will be shared by students appointed by the AMs and office workers.

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Thursday, January 20, 1977 T H E U B Y S S E Y Page 3

By CHRIS GAINOR UBC senate Wednesday rejected

establishing entrance exams and unanimously voted down a motion calling for differential fees for out- of-province and foreign students.

The differential fees motion did not even gain the support of mover Joan Blandford, education 4, or Bill Broddy, arts 4, who seconded the motion so it could be discussed.

Entrance exams were struck down on the recommendation of

senate’s admissions committee, which was asked by senate in 1975 to report on the desirability and feasibility of such exams.

Blandford, who first gave notice of her motion in November, ad- mitted that the motion “certainly isn’t going to do much for the university finances.”

She told senate: “I’m bringing this up because two other

the boardof governors can study it. “There are also solme reasons for

not having (differential fees). There a r e some students from underdeve loped coun t r i e s , ” Blandford said.

Economics prof Robert Clark said about seven per cent of UBC’s students come from out of B.C. and another three per cent are foreign students.

committee recommendation on entrance exams after changing the wording.

The change was made after anthropology prof Cyril Belshaw said many faculty do not agree with the committee’s findings. The reworded motion precludes en- trance exams administered by UBC .

The admissions report, in-

complained that the motion was too vaguely worded.

Education dean John Andrews strongly attacked a report on UBC’s building needs which set his faculty’s building needs a s the eighth highest priority. In previous reports, expansion of education space was number one priority.

He said faculty members had participated in lengthy planning

provinces have brought these in. troduced by zoology -prof Cy costi%-$100.000 in5 preparation for askingthat thisbe passed On so students, benefit from having them grades are thesingle best indicator report and ,,unac- ‘‘I think that and Finnegan. said secondary school expanded facilities. He called the

here. I think we have been seen as of success in university, and are a university whose interest superior to entrance exams. cepta ble . ” transcends boundaries.” Senate then passed a motion

A motion from the student endorsing the report but amended Education prof John Dennison r e p r e s e n t a t i v e a s s e m b l y it to ask the board of governors,

said the total cost of all foreign requesting senate to endorse which decides all monev motions,

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Senate endorsed the admissions defeated after some senators expansion. By BILL TIELEMAN

A Vancouver developer’s plans to build two 15-storey luxury high- rises in the University Endowment Lands are dead, a spokesman for environment minister Jim Nielsen said Monday.

The spokesman said LRS Development Enterprises’ plans for the project were rejected by the environment department in June.

“LRS is really an old thing and was turned down last year,” he said.

No proposals from LRS are now being considered by the depart- ment, said the spokesman, who refused to be identified.

But he said LRS is free to submit new proposals to the department at any time.

Any development plans for the UEL must be approved by the department.

The spokesman said the report of thegovernment’s UEL study team, examining proposals for the future of the UEL, will influence the government when a decision on the area near the UBC village is considered.

The study team’s final report, due a t the end of February, will be presented to the government’s environmental land use com- mittee. which will make its recommendations about the UEL to the cabinet. he said. Nielsen is chairman of that committee.

Thestudy team released a report Monday about the progress of its examination of proposals for the UEL.

The report says most of the UEL should be a park, because the area is irreplaceable.

While recognizing UBC’s historic use of the UEL for teaching, research and other purposes, it says building construction should be confined to the campus.

Additional housing should be built on the UEL in response to Vancouver’s need for housing. But it should be low-rise, compact housing built on lands zoned for housing or on campus, the report says.

The report also recommends the park be managed by major in- stitutional and community in- terests.

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‘Ads not business of editorial staff’ By SUE VOHANKA nouncements on its Halifax radio editorial staff should Tiot make have “every right to complain” in

The student administrative station for meetings of the Halifax decisions about what kinds of ads cases in which an ad is itself of- commission Tuesday directed that Gay Alliance for Equality. are carried in the paper. fensive. But he said the CBC ad no advertisements be refused by Tynan’s motion says: “That “I think there are two basic which was refused was not. The Ubyssey without prior per- SAC, on behalf of th’e Alma Mater aspects to The Ubyssey. One is the “The policy of theCBC in Halifax mission from SAC. Society, publisher of The Ubyssey, editorial comment expressed by has nothing to do with the

Services director Brent Tynan, hereby directs that no ad- the staff - that makes up the operation and financial success of who introduced the motion, said vertisement or other paid message content of The Ubyssey and it’s The Ubyssey. The whole thing is so Wednesday it resulted from The shall be refused space in The printed accordingly. We don’t far removed from our operation Ubyssey’s refusal last week to Ubyssey for any reason except interfere with that. here.” carry a CBC ad. those arising from constraints of “There’s also the financial Asked if the SAC motion intends

The Ubyssey was acting in ac- available space, legality or taste as aspect of The Ubyssey. That aspect that The Ubyssey not support cordance with a recent Canadian determined by the publications is the responsibility of the policy motions of CUP when those University Press decision that all manager, or for any other reason publishers, it always is. The AMS motions involve ads, Tynan said: CUP members boycott CBC ads that may be specifically stipulated publishes The Ubyssey,” Tynan “I don’t think the AMS should because the CBC has refused to by this commission.” said. refuse money from the CBC on that carry public service an- Tynan claimed the paper’s “It’s my personal opinion that basis. I don’t think the AMS has . .

not what they were The professions in modern society are in a MacLeod said government legislation has

dilemma, according to the head of UBC’s school of restrained the freedom of manv Drofessions. architecture.

103 that modern professions are suffering from an more embarrassed and insecure,,, identity crisis which has caused a decline in the

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Robert about 50 in Buchanan position of the professions becomes increasingly “As government legislation proliferates, the

ethicaipractices of professionals. This identity crisis has also caused a decline in the quality of services offered by professions to the public, MacLeod said.

MacLeod claimed that in the 19th century professions such as law, medicine, the clergy and the military were regulated by peer groups, and that these professions are currently regulated by the government.

Formerly, professionals were motivated by a genuine belief in their obligation to provide necessary skills and services to society, he said. But, he said, competition is now the main reason people enter the professions.

MacLeod said the public no !longer trusts professionals and professionals no longer trust each other because of the increased legislation of, the professions.

“The ethical climate in which we live and work has declined significantly,” he said.

Legislative complexity, declining ethics, and the loss of trust both among and towards professionals is causing a regression in society, he said.

“As mutual trust and ethical behavior no longer serve as the basis of the professions, our society is breaking down on the very basis on wlhich all of our achievements have been accomplished,” he said.

the functions of the editorial staff and finances are distinct.

“A decision of what constituted legitimate advertising revenues W i S a decision of the publishers and not the editorial staff,” he said.

“It seems to me it goes beyond this particular case and gets into the philosophy of who’s responsible for what.

“I think you should accept our responsibility to make the paper solvent and make its financial operation a success. Once the budget is formulated, the financial aspect of i ts ( the paper’s) operation is more our concern than yours.

“The decision as to whether you’re going to print them (ads) is ours,” Tynan said.

“All ads are fair game - unless otherwise decided, no ad is refused for any reason.”

Tynan said The Ubyssey would

any obligation to accept that. We do support you being members of CUP,” he added.

Tynan added that in cases when The Ubyssey staff wants to refuse an ad, the publications manager should bring it to the attention of the AMS general manager, who should bring the case to SAC.

“We’d have to sit down with you. I believe the AMs’ responsibility to The Ubyssey is to make sure its budget works properly and you don’t go around refusing revenue when you don’t have to,” he said.

The SAC motion will go before the student representative assembly for approval Wednesday. The motion could only be over- turned by a two-thirds vote of the SR A.

“I’d be quite happy to have SRA make a ruling on that,” Tynan said.

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Editorial control attacked ”The Alma Mater Society doesn‘t

mess around with the stuff you write in The Ubyssey - so you shouldn‘t mess around with the income area of the paper.“

That seems to be the attitude behind the student administrative commission‘s motion to prevent The Ubyssey from refusing any advert isements without SAC permission.

Unfortunately, that attitude ignores some vital principles as well as some financial truths.

The first principle which that attitude totally ignores is that the editorial and advertising aspects of any newspaper are closely related.

Brent Tynan, who proposed the motion, is probably expressing what many people think when he says “the functions of the editorial staff and finances are distinct.”

But he‘s wrong. The two work together because

the function of ads in student newspapers as opposed to businesses such as the Vancouver Sun and Province, is to subsidize the editorial content of the paper, to pay for the space for news stories, features and other articles.

However, the aim of newspapers in accepting ads is not to support products or ideas that go against the basic principles or policies held by the editorial staff of the newspaper.

What appears in a newspaper, any

newspaper, whether it is an ad or an editorial, is associated in the reader’s mind with the paper.

I f the paper finds particular things offensive, it tries not to carry advertisements which perpetuate that product or idea or attitude.

For example, The Ubyssey, along with every other member of Canadian University Press, finds sexist and racist ads, stories, pictures, cartoons, etc. offensive.

As a result, The Ubyssey and other CUP papers do not accept advertising which is sexist or racist in nature. That is an integral part of The Ubyssey’s editorial policy - and it is very much involved with ads.

But the SAC motion also ignores another vital principle.

The case which spurred SAC into passing the motion occurred last week, when The Ubyssey refused to run a CBC ad because a t a recent conference in Vancouver, CUP members agreed to boycott CBC ads until the network agrees to carry public service announcements on i ts Halifax radio station for a local gay group.

The boycott was approved by an overwhelming majority of CUP members - and because The Ubyssey is a member it agrees to be bound by decisions taken by the majority, regardless of how the paper itself votes. (We happened to vote for the boycott.)

The boycott decision is an editorial decision that affects advertising. I f CUP papers oppose the CBC’s policy in Halifax, the reasoning goes, it doesn‘t make sense to continue accepting CBC ads. It‘s an example of an editorial decision with ramifications on advertising - an example of putting the money where the mouth is.

Yet, Tynan had the nerve Wednesday to say that although the AMS supports The Ubyssey’s membership in CUP, that same AMS doesn‘t feel bound to agree with decisions made by CUP if they happen to affect ad revenue.

Clearly, this boycott is edit- orial and political. What Tynan in effect is saying is that The Ubyssey can go ahead and make those decisions, but can’t carry them out.

The Ubyssey considers Tynan’s words and the SAC motion as AMS attempts to interfere with The Ubyssey‘s control of editorial policy.

Not only are basic principles of the paper being ignored - the motion reveals that SAC doesn’t understand financial realities a t The U byssey.

For instance, the publications manager, mentioned in the motion as the person who controls ads, is Fred Vyse, the advertising manager. Although nominally responsible to AMS general manager Bern Grady, Vyse in fact was chosen by and is

responsible to The Ubyssey eci:orial staff.

The AMs, it‘s true, approves The Ubyssey budget and provides a subsidy in student fees that amounts to about one-quarter of the paper’s budget.

But even to insinuate that the paper‘s financial solvency is threatened by refusing ads is completely ridiculous.

Firstly, it’s obvious to any Ubyssey staffer who has survived the annual battle with the AMS when it comes time to approve the budget that The Ubyssey is much more concerned with i t s solvency than is the AMs.

And secondly, if an ad is refused, the paper’s budget doesn’t suffer. Advertising revenue is directly related to the paper’s printing costs.

I f the number of ads is reduced, the number of pages drops correspondingly. The AMS doesn‘t enter the picture, because i ts subsidy covers costs that do not fluctuate significantly, such as salaries, photo equipment, honoraria and the like.

It‘ll be the student representative assembly‘s turn to consider this issue a t i t s Wednesday meeting when it is asked to approve the SAC minutes which include Tynan’s motion. We hope the SRA members vote intelligently and leave editorial control where i t belongs - with The U byssey staff.

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Livermore explains department position, attacks administration To correct the impression your

reporter may have given about the department of Hispanic and Italian studies, I came here in 1958 and have tried, despite our limitations, to build up an outstanding department of Spanish of its kind.

There were then virtually no senior courses. no graduate studies, no Latin American studies. no Portuguese and no departmental autonomy.

There a re now some first-rate staff in Spanish, the library is

good. and we have some excellent students.

The publication of UBC Hispanic Studies. which I edited, shows what can be done.

How can this be maintained if we cannot keep staff of the highest quality?

We aren’t perfect, but if things are not better, this is due to the lack of basic academic principles of tne administration.

I am. of course, concerned about the harm that has been done and is

Livermore student speaks You stated in your article on the former head of the Hispanic and

Italian studies department, Harold Livermore, that he had no students in his Spanish 437 course.

I would like to correct that - he had one student in that course, me. It was a 1.5 unit course and is now finished.

still being done in matters directly affecting standards and students.

I have put too much time and work into UBC to want to see it destroyed by poor administration.

A department of Hispanic studies isn’t likely to advance its reputation, either if it is controlled by non-Hispanists or has a head whose academic standing is not generally~recognized, or if it fails to get the quality of support it needs. As regards the statements about

myself, Basil Peters’ assurance that “the dismissal was entirely above board,” can only be based on distorted information. He didn’t get it from me.

The origin of my dismissal is that I refused to resign without being given access to the relevant in-

get a ticket for the next per- formance.

I don’t think I should go further in discussing the shortcomings of the administration a t the moment.

My experience fully confirms the statement of the minister of education, Pa t McGeer (whom I don’t know) that UBC has some professors who “are near the top of their field, but we don’t have any administrators who are world leaders” (Province, Nov. 26).

He can say that again. Harold Livermore

professor, Hispanic studies P.S. I don’t answer anonymous

letters so I won’t reply to the statement of an unnamed member of my department.

Derek Carr is not quite accurate. My book on Portugal was published by Cambridge

Chris Eakin formation. University Press on Dec. 31. The arts4 AS to the reference to anybody Spanish version of my Origins of

THE UBYSSEY JANUARY 20,1977

Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey‘s editorial office is in room 241 K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301 ; Advertising, 228-3977.

Co-Editors: Sue Vohanka, Ralph Maurer “Guess what they did at Simon Says University?” gushed Steve

King from his throne. “Oh no.” moaned Heather Walker. “Here come the Howard, f lushed with success. ”They put together a flush fund,” said Matt

toilet jokes.” A n d so they did. Ralph Maurer said i t was a basic tissue, but Slough Vohanka said it was debasin’. while Shane McCune was tu rd man in w i th some remark about a Leslie Plumber, whatever that is. Krathy Frod toid Paul Vanderham to stuff it, and he said she was sinking to libel, whereupon Sheila Burns said, “Why don’t you sewer?” Vermin McDonald Went down to the bacteria for a snack, while Doug (W.C.) Fields dumped on Drug Flushton f rom great heights with deadly accuracy. Bill Tieleman craned his neck a s Anne Cormack watched Charlie Micallef do his impression of a high-diving plunger. Chris Gainor repeated everyone else’s Puns, and they tr ied to flush him, wi thout success.

“bending over backwards to give Spain and Portugal was announced me a chance” I am sorry to have to me on Dec. 30. missed this exhibition and hope to This doesn’t mean I wrote two

Gears, aggies squabble Recently we came into the

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We would greatly appreciate your assistance in helping us return this object to its rightful owners. Thank you.

Hey engineers. You degenerates are so useless you can’t even keep track of your most prized possessions. We upstanding people in agriculture are doing our duty as good citizens by making every attempt to return this object to you.

However, as the object in its

Pen pals, PZs bersome for even the mightiest entirety would be far too cum-

I am writing in hope that you can help me find a person to write to at UBC .

I’m 19. I like music like the Who, Poco, Steely Dan and Bonnie Raitt. I play soccer but music is my main interest.

My address is 12 Silvaways Close, Cranleigh, Surrey, England.

Dominic Norris

engineer to manoeuvre, wefelt it would be better to arrange the transfer of ownership in in- stallments.

You will be able to pick up the first installment this afternoon in the middle of SUB cafeteria. You won’t miss it.

Brian Jones agriculture 2

books in two days, or, Kathy Ford, that it takes me four years to write a book.

May I take this opportunity of assuring my friends and students that 1 am alive, well and busy.

Still waiting Last November an election was

held in whch, among other things, voters were asked to approve a student activity fee increase.

At that time, The Ubyssey wallpapered the campus with posters depicting a mongrel salivating on a typewriter ac- companied by a caption promising that if this increase was not ap- proved, the paper would be forced to cut back publication to only one issue per week.

Naturally, I rushed out to vote No.

It has now been two months since this referendum, in which you were denied your money. There has been no sign of a decreased publication rate yet, however.

How much longer do we have to wait ?

Glenn Rowe physics graduate student

The Ubyssey welcomes letters from all readers.

Letters should be signed and typed. Pen names will be used when the writer’s real name is also included for our information in the letter and when valid reasons for anonymity are given.

Although an effort is made to publish all letters received, The Ubyssey reserves the right to edit letters for reasons of brevity, legality, grammar or taste.

Letters should be addressed to the paper care of campus mail or dropped off a t The Uhyssey office, SUB 241K.

Thursday, January 20, 1977

Senate candidate explains At the time of writing this letter,

voting for senate and board of governors positions has not yet started.

Tuition fees were constantly being brought forward as an issue in this election.

The people who a r e voted in will take office on April 1, by that time the issue of fee increases will most

likely have already gone through the board. This leaves only Basil Peters to officially fight the issue.

In the meantime, all the remainder of the students can do is try to get the attention of industry and h e general public directed toward our tuition fee problem.

When I started my campaign almost two weeks ago, I noticed

Compelling co’mments Ever since arriving at this in-

stitution of learning in September to pursue my education in applied science (yes,.engineering), I have heard ad nauseum the constant slurring of the engineers at UBC.

With the election campaign (for student senate and board of governors positions) a t a recent end, I feel compelled to comment on the attitudes toward engineers that I have encountered on the campus quite frequently.

The last straw fell when I read Kevin McGee’s penetrating (? ) ,analysis of the engineering faculty’s involvement in student government.

I do not care if McGee is in the faculty of commerce, science, arts, medicine or any other faculty - his comments were prejudiced and poorly founded and researched.

He, however indirectly, admitted a definite lack of association with anyone from the faculty of engineering when he based his evaluation of engineer’s activities on “legends I’ve heard,” and yet he proceeded to use his miscon- slructed stereotype to drive his prejudice home.

Perhaps McGee could use a lesson in scientific method before drawing his conclusions?

McGee offered a few reasons why engineers were unsuited to represent the students at large -

“How sensitive to women’s issues would five male engineers be?”

I would suggest that they would probably be as sensitive as five male artsmen, lawyers or char- tered accountants.

The solution there lies in en- couraging women to run for office and perhaps not to be intimidated by legends, entering the faculty of engineering if they feel so inclined.

Preparation to represent the students in an informed manner?

Well, I hope to run for the senate in two years’ time, and the only reason I am waiting is to become better acquainted with the

students’ needs at this university and the limitations a s well as the scope of such a position.

If two and a half years of preparation is not enough to suit your taste, I suggest to you, McGee, that you do not vote for me, if you are still attending this university.

You might also take note that all theengineers who were running for office had at least two and a half years of experience at this university.

I am, first and foremost, a student here. I also happen to enjoy studying applied science, find most of my confreres to be hard working and interesting, and hope some day to work in that field.

This university has far more important problems than a few drunk engineers (no one seems concerned about the drunk people from other faculties).

We should concern ourselves more with real issues which affect everyone, such as the quality of education, housing, trying to c rea te a less alienating en- vironment on campus, to name a few.

Just in case you did not realize it, McGee. Basil Peters happens to be an applied science student. You might pay more attention to engineers like him, and less to “legends.”

Chris Niwinski applied science 1

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platform that a lot of students; did not care. I decided that general student apathy was the issue and the way to get them to vote was to make them mad.

Your editorial of Jan. 13 said, “.The candidates a r e eager to win and they don’t want to say anything that might offend anybody.”

Somecandidates said they would improve the qualit!{ of education and teaching. They presented the problem, but no solution.

I found a solution that would work, only with a very large amount of government help. No one liked it, so I pressed it.

Differential fees are not only insane, they will never work.

Most of the foreign students at IJBC are from Third World countries, and a large number of them are being subsidized by our governments to attend UBC.

What this really is is the most efficient type of foreign aid that exists.

How can a typical stereotyped engineer be sensitive to women’s issues?

Personally, I have had one glass ‘of beer in the Pit over the last two years and have never flashed a BA.

’I spend seven to 10 hours a week studying the Bible, exclusive of church attendance.

I feel that, in this society, women are being discriminated against from grade 1 until Ithey die.

But how boring would this past campaign have been if I had not committed political suicide. Hopefully, as a result, more than 15 per cent of students will vote.

Kevin McGee, apologize. Gregory Schwab applied science 3

Allegations clarified I would like to clarify certain items in your otherwise well-written

article of Friday headlined ‘Gangsterism,’ pranks clutter campaign trail.

It should be made clear that not only am I not alleging that Gary Moore personally ripped down and defaced posters, but I a m also not alleging that Moore authorized any such actions by his campaign workers.

The point I wish to make in students’ court is that any candidate should be held vicariously responsible for the actions of his or her workers, whether those actions have been authorized or not by the candidate.

This is the only way to encourage candidates to adequately police their workers, and thereby promote a fair campaign.

Dave Van Blarcom arts representative

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General meeting, noon SUB 212.

Film, Twelve Angry Men, 7:30

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Clinic tour, main floor waiting room, noon. MacDonald dental build- ing. P R E S I D E N T ' S C O M M I T T E E O N T H E H A N D I C A P P E D

dents to discuss their problems. Meeting of visually impaired StU-

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The sessions, which began ear- lier this month, are at 7 : 3 0 p.m. in Kitsilano high school, 2550 W e s t 10th.

Recent visitors to China and experienced China experts will speak each week.

UBC's educatlon department is sponsoring a conference Friday about the social responsibilities of teachers.

The conference, called Break- ing the Mould, will include work- shops on women's studies, racism, sexism in schools and society, and working with children from low income homes. Kathleen Ruff will give the keynote address.

The conference will be held in the education building.

TwiggeWner Alan Twigg, prominent Van-

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Cammuses rebel ”

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TORONTO (CUP) - Six of Ontario’s 15 publicly-funded universities have refused to implement a tripled tuition fee for foreign students, despite the withdrawal of a provincial government subsidy of $1,000 per student.

The governing boards of Laurentian University in Sud- bury and Carleton University in Ottawa both rejected differential fees of $1.500 for a two-term university year, while the senates of the universities of Brock, McMaster, and York have recommended their governing boards not implement the hike.

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And a subcommittee of the University of Toronto’s gover- ning council recommended the council reject the fee hike “as a matter of principle.”

Other Ontario universities have agreed to implement the hike, but the senate of the University of Waterloo may reconsider the question. Wilfred Laurier University, also in Waterloo, implemented the hike after the senate refused a student bid to reconsider-its decision, but will work within the Council of On- tario’ Universities to modify the government-initiated fee in- crease.

Pizza prices rise IS%, labor costs blamed

A 15 per cent increase in SUB Food services has made many pizza parlor prices was necessary efforts toattract customers. There to cover labor costs, Cafeteria is a CITR disco every Thursday Services manager Dennis Zomar and live dance music on Fridays. said Monday.

prices were 48 per cent lower than letting people h o w what we have the nearest competitors within the to O f f h % ” he said. Vancouver area, he said, and labor costs were 35 to 55 per cent higher than competitors in the area. He said tooffset high labor costs. food services decided they could no longer take the losses.

Zomar said food services con- ducted a study on the four pizza parlors closest to UBC, which showed that by raising prices 15 per cent, they would still be of- fering students a good product a t a reasonable price.

Prior to the Jan. 4 increase, pizza “We’rekyingtoattract interest by

Zomar said business has in- creased since the re-opening of the Pit. While the Pitwas closed, fewer people came into the building and most students didn’t realize liquor was available in the pizza parlor, he said.

Zomar said other causes for poor business probably include the fact that student loans only came through recently, that students are watching their money more carefully after having trouble getting summer jobs.

Initial installation costs of SUB pizza parlor furnishings and equipment were estimated at $10,000 in November, 1975. Labor cost increases brought the cost up to $13.000 by September, 1976.

Zomar said food services is not trying to recover their losses but is aiming only to break even on a daily basis. He said Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights usually show a loss while Friday and Saturday a r e not busy enough to recover it.

The parlor has not k e n sub- sidized while operating a t a loss, and it will not close d o v even if the loss continues, he said.

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Police arelooking for a man who physical characteristics, any been assaulted by the man, or who has exposed himself at least 10 vehicle involved, and any other has any information about him is times since last fall. pertinent description. urged to contact the UBC RCMP

Corporal D~~~ patterson of the “Then telephone the UBC RCMP station a t 2137. Allison Road, or UBC RCMP detachment said detachment as quickly as phone 224-1322.

Wednesday the “is not just possible.” He said anyone who has your show-and-tell flasher, who exposes himself and is basically Female athletes harmless. This mian has done things that show he’s capable of more serious sexual offences.” gaining on men

He said the man, who operates / - -

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The man has also committed indecent acts such as masturbation and ejaculation, Patterson said.

The suspect is described as. “a white male, 19 to 25 years old, 5’ 8” to 5’ 9” tall, weighing about 150 lbs. He has a round boyish face, and short blonde or light brown hair.”

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He notes that women were not permitted to enter the Olympic games until 1928and points out that women have been steadily gaining ground on their male counterparts ever since.

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U of A, Al.berta gov’t square off EDMONTON ( C U P ) - The

University of Alberta and the Alberta government a re squaring off for a battle this spring over differential fees, the outcome of which may challenge the autonomy of the province’s universities.

The U of A board of governors, which voted Dec. 3 to oppose the government’s proposed twetier f e e structure, has received notice from minister of advanced

education Bert Hohol that fee hikes will be imposed despite the decision.

Hohol wrote board chairman Eric Geddes Dec. 10 recom- mending that the board implement differential fees even though its rejection included a demand for further information before reconsideration.

Geddes wrote back Dec. 22 asking the government to make a specific proposal.

There is “no rational process by which we (the board) can deter- mine a fair or reasonable dif- ferential fee,” Geddes wrote in asking the minister to recommend the size of the differential and to whom it would apply.

When Hohol introduced the two- tier proposal last May he put the onus on colleges and universities to suggest the hike. Since then several community colleges as well as the universities of Calgary

and Lethbridge have recom- mended increases ranging from 150 to 300 per cent.

“The minister seems very fixed in his point of view,” Geddes said in a Jan. 5 interview.

“This is just speculation, but I think they may exercise some over-riding power to make the university institute the fee system.”

Hohol refused to “anticipate my own decision” whether or not the

University of Culgury’s medicine deun denies trying to lure UBC’s Tze to Alberta

CALGARY (Staff) - The medicine dean at the University of Calgary denied Tuesday that the university is trying to lure a key UBC medical researcher to the Alberta campus.

L. E. McLeod said Monday in a telephone interview that the U of C is asking Dr. Wah J u n Tze, head of a medical team developing an artificial pancreas for diabetics, to visit the university to exchange information with fellow resear- chers.

Hut he laughed a t suggestions by UBC administration president Doug Kenny that the U of C is trying to lure Tze to Alberta with more generous research funds.

McLeod said Tze’s visit to the faculty of medicine at the U of C is strictly for an academic exchange of medical information.

“Dr. Tze is coming to the university a s a visiting professor at our invitation to fill us in on his research,” he said.

“Tze and William Cochrane ( U of C administration president) know each other personally. I think Tze studied under Cochrane.”

He said Cochrane is interested in Tze because “he is an ex- traordinary researcher and scientist whose work is beneficial to everyone.”

He said any move by Tze is strictly up to him and no special research grant or benefits have been offered him.

UBC research head Robert Spratley said he is not aware of any move by Tze to U of C. He said Tze’s current research grant of $17.000 is small but that grants have been severely cut back every where.

Tze’s grant includes $5,000 from the Medical Research Council and $12.000 from the Heighway Fund, a private fund.

Spratley said the MRC is a major source of revenue for researchers such as Tze.

Many researchers have com- plained that current grants are meagre and Spratley said the amount of money from MRC has remained almost constant for the past five years.

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“But, like everything else, the cost of medical research is always riSing.”

“The expenses of research have outgrown the resources, he said.

Spratley said 60 to 70 per cent of themoney from organizations such as the MRC goes for technical salaries, leaving only a small portion for research.

Spratley also said researchers

face a huge bureaucracy when applying for operating funds.

Researchers submit a budget and summary of proposed work to the MRC, a board of medical doctors. The proposals are examined further by a committee of Canadian academics and categorized into areas of medical concern.

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numerical code, and an ordered list of projects is produced with a recommendation for grants.

“The council parcels out money to the most worthy project. But, for someone like Tze, his proposal was obviously ranked lower than most. When the dollars were running out, he was below the line,” Spratley said. Awards from the council are down 10 per cent since last year, he added.

boardwould receive a proposal but said Jan. 5, “there will be dif- ferential fees , . . we’re just going into consultation over how much the increase will be.”

Hesaid asking for the hike would not decrease university autonomy because the province’s Univer- sities Act “implies a shared responsibility between the uni- versities and the government.” Section 15 (1) of the act empowers university boards to determine tuition fees but makes the decision subject to approval by the minister of advanced education.

U of A president Dr. Harry Gun- ning said the board has asked the minister “to simply put himself in the position of specifically telling us we must raise the fees. The reasons for this differential are obviously political. All we can do in this situation is state our views; obviously the minister has the ultimate authority.”

Gunning said it would be an “uncommon situation if the minister enforces a ruling on Alberta universities.

“At least I haven’t heard of situations like this while I’ve been here.”

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