By LESLEY KRUEGER Five research and development

officers were told only five weeks before they were fired that their jobs were secure, minutes of meetings between the research staff and deputy minister Jack Fleming show.

The minutes, obtained by The Ubyssey, show Fleming told the staff they would not be fired.

He also’praised their work in two sets of minutes, written by the .research and development staff following meetings on Jan,. 21 and

22, which were called after division head Stanley Knight was fired.

“The deputy minister assured the staff that no one had objected to the quantity or the quality of the work,” minutes of a Jan. 21 meeting in Fleming’s office say.

“He stated that the work was very good, both in quantity and quality and that he recognized that such work was the most difficult thing that any department can do.”

The five researchers Ken Novakowski, Jack Hutton, Marguerite Ford, Jean Burgess

and George Smith - actually were fired Feb. 27, despite Fleming’s assurances.

Novakowski and Hutton have since decided to appeal their dismissals while the other three have taken their case to the public.

They have said repeatedly both education minister Eileen Dailly and Fleming have lost control of the department. Instead, they claim, Socred bureaucrats control the department, often working to shve r t what few policies Dailly brings forward.

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UBC FIREMEN‘S strike will conveniently end anytime there’s a f ire or emergency ambulance call. See story on page 8.

Minutes of the closed meetink” show they made this claim when still employed by the government.

“A staff member suggested that there was a policy conflict and that traditional people who work in the department are not sympathetic to the policy of the government,” the minutes say.

And . in reply, Fleming acknowledged a split in‘ the department and said he held himself responsible, in part, for this split.

“The deputy minister stated that it was his failure as well as anyone else’s failure that a model has not yet been developed in the depart- ment,” the minutes say. “The deputy, minister said that this comment should be taken as him speaking personally, not in his role as. deputy minister.”

“The deputy minister stated that there were serious organizational problems in the department,” the

minuks.saay”at another point. “The number one problem was

to define the role of research and development in relation to the’ department.”

The minutes also reveal a good deal about the way Fleming runs the departmeilt.

He is shown as continually threatening the staff members with dismissal if they made that or any other meeting public.

This came up when the staff members said they had voted unanimously to ask Dailly to review Knight’s firing. ’ “The deputy minister warned that the staff had better resign if it intended to go outside (the meeting room) to say it would appeal the decision to the minister.

“A staff member suggested that the deputy minister was saying that would be grounds for firing. Another staff member asked if the

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Led Zeppelin concert ,on The Led Zeppelin concert will be

held as scheduled March 19 and 20 since the promoter has, withdrawn its advertising from strikebound radio CKLG, it was announced Monday.

The concert now will be presented by the promoter, Con- certs West, and the striking workers at CKLG.

Threats by the,Canadian Union of Public Employees 1.0 refuse to service the concert a t the Pacific National Exhibition had led to doubts the concert wou:ld go ahead.

CUPE local 1004 at the PNE and two other unions involved would have boycotted the concert if CUPE local 686, representing the CKLG strikers, had so. wished,

But CUPE spokesman Ole Johnson said Monday the concert is “definitely on.”

“We felt it was in the best public interest to allow the concert to be held,” he said, “We aren’t in- tertested in hurting the! over 20,000 people who have already bought tickets. ”

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Johnson said CUPE decided to let the concert proceed after Concerts West promoter Tom Hulett agreed with the PNE workers and CKLG strikers to remove concert ads from CKLG.

Richard Hughes, business agent for CUPE local 686 representing the CKLG strikers, said Monday

3 h e local had reached a definitive agreement with Concerts West.

“They (Concerts west) have disengaged all conjunction with GKLG,” he said. “They took back all promotional ties and withdrew all advertising from the station.”

Johnson said CUPE has agreed with PNE management that all future PNE contracts will contain a rider that all promotion and

. -advertising on CKLG must be approved by the PNE. The rider will be in effect till the CKLG strike is settled. .

“The PNE will not accommodate ahyone who does not commit themselves to not advertising on radio CKLG,” he said.

“We feel we have won from this thing. We have, got advertisers off

(CKLG) and a lot of others to reconsider their position.’’

PNE general ~ manager John Rennie said Monday the PNE will approach local 686 to see if the strikers approve advertising by the PNE’s clients on CKLG.

“There is no point in anyone at the PNE advertising on CKLG because the CUPE workers here would boyc,ott them,” he said.

Hughes said his local’s agreement to allow the concert to go.ahead is not a sign of weakness by the strikers.

“This should not be considered as a precedent,” he said. “We are still going after the people who are still advertising on CKLG.

“It (the threat to halt the con- cert) was to let advertisers know we are not fucking around. Until management meets and negotiates in good faith we will direct pressure against those who con- tinue to advertise. They (ad- vertisers) can expect to gain the disfavor of all labor in B.C.”

Johnson said the next move CUPE might take against CKLG‘

Ombudsperson election station.

management could be to picket businesses still advertising on the

Still advertising on CKLG are.

ruled invalid after appeal Kelly-Deyong-Hkse of Stein, Mac’s Milk, The Bayshore Inn,

. Brandee and Wine (clothing). The election of Eileen Brown as student ombudswoman in the Alma Cost Auto,Transmission; Vancouver Brake and Wheel, Low:

Mater Society elections of Feb. 5 was ruled invalid by student court Transmission. Surrev TaY - . _ r’rlday.

by incumbent ombudsman Roy Sarai. B.C. Cancer’Societv; The election was overturned by a margin of four to one affer an appeal (armed forces), Village Shoe Shop, Service, the federal ’ goverkneni

The election was ruled invalid because of the illegal candidacy of UBC bursar and deputy president William White and because Brown was improperly listed on the ballot as being a member of the Student Unity slate.

AMS president Jake van der Kamp said it would be almost impossible. to hold another election for the ombudsman position before the fall and said the position would be filled during the summer by Sarai.

Van der Kamp said a proper election couldnot be held for three weeks, which would mean the election would occur during the final exams.

There is’no elections committee in the AMS at present, he added: Sarai hsd indicated an interest in continuing as ombudsman over the

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Literacy question clouded by teachers’ potshots Shortly before Christmas last year, UBC

English 100 students wrote an exam testing basic writing skills. About 40 per cent failed.

The news provoked a blustery debate about literacy standards .in the B.C. education system, but there were few, i f any, ready answers proferred.

What are the solutions? And just what is the problem? Ubyssey staffer Denise Chong here takes a long, hard look.

By DENISE CHONG Discard any far-flung notion you might

have had of academics, teachers and, theorists raising the battle cry and mar- ching forth arm-in-arm to meet the literacy challenge.

Grade 5 peashooters made up of chetvedup

‘bits of paper and empty ballpoint pens would be closer to reality.

Amid uninformed, misipformed and viried opinions about apparently declining standards of literacy among today’s young people, many of those who would be regarded as education spokesmen in this province are too busy taking indiscrimigate potshots at each other to challenge either problems or solutions.

The universities want to confiscate high school diplomas because kids getting A’s in .high school English can’t read university textbooks or pass university exams. The high schools are saying to hell with streaming, we don’t exist simply to provide good fodder for the university.

But such spin-the-bottle accusations are a

waste of effort, for the literacy problem is not a simple one, nor is the solution obvious.

And despite certain claims to.the contrary from some representatives of the teaching profession, the problem in all its different conceptions cannot and should no6 be dismissed a s either a figment of the imagination. or the product of hastily- rached conclusions.

The evidence suggests a problem of alarming proportions.

111 June of last ‘year, there was the province-wide high school English scholarship examination. The results were termed “catastrophic” in some quarters, whde the Vancouver School Board admitted the failure rate was ‘‘excessive.’’

In January of this year, nearly 40 per cent

of first-year English students at UBC failed a Grade 9examination in basic composition. Embarrassing failure rates for similar tksts were reported at the University of Victoria and the College of New Caledonia in Prince George. *

And silice the disclosure of the UBC disaster, eight other Canadian universities from as far away as the University of P.E.I. and including Queen’s and the University of Calgary engineering department have written to the UBC English department, all expressing faculty concern over apparent inadequate levels of student literacy.

The question seems superfluous, yet is the first of many stumbling blocks in setting up a forum of constructive debate.

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Page 2 T H E U B Y S S E Y Tuesday, March 18, 1975

UBC .library centre goes underground

By DEBBIE BARRON The library processing centre

will probably be located un- derground, adjacent to and north of the main library, a library siting committee spokesman said Monday.

The siting committee will meet with the library’s planning co- ordinating committee today to present findings which stress that the site north of the Main library is the best location, said Ron Walls, the lone student member.

The planning committee ap- proved a site adjacent to SUB in October, but Alma Mater Society council opposed the proposal. A brief outlining council’s grievances, in particular that traffic to and from SUB would be impeded, was sent to the board of

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He said head librarian Basil Stuart-Stubbs and other planning committee members chose a five- man siting committee to review six possible sites and make a recommendation.

Each of the sites was judged according to 15 criteria, the most important ones being campus politics and the extent of landscape destruction, he said.

Walls said an underground addition to the Main library’s north end best fulfills. the proposed criteria since student opinion

~ would favor that location and almost no destruction of green acres or disruption of traffic flow would occur. “That site seems over-all to be the best choice,” he said.

But Walls said the north end site would not solve the long-range space problems of the Main library. The library will run out of space in about 12 years unless it expands and the proposed site would be inexpansible, he said.

“But the site north of the Main library is the solution to the im- mediate problem,” he added. That site would satisfy the library’s needs and would not offend anyone as much as theother proposed sites would, Walls said.

Walls said student protests had a great effect in changing the site from the original proposed SUB location. AMS objections sparked a new consideration of a site. Physical plant director Neville Smith, who chaired the siting committee, received 194 letters and 192 opposed the SUB site, Walls said.

Walls said after the planning committee decides the location the board of governors will be ap- proached in April and the library processing centre could be built within 18 months of approval.

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Atwood: ‘I don’t wear By GORDON ROBACK

Discussing a list of topics that stretched from feminism and writing to explaining passages she read frdm her new novel, poet, novelist and critic Margaret Atwood chatted with about 150 persons in the arts one blue room Thursday night.

Thinner and more petite than her pictures suggest, her tremendous wit, intellect and vitality were clearly apparent, even though she was obviously exhausted by a hectic day of meetings and lectures during her tour of Lower Mainland campuses.

The chapter she read from her still un- completed novel dealt with the double threat facing many young girls - the machinations of sexual perverts and the banality of Brownie indoctrination.

The narrator of the novel confesses that she was so traumatici,zed by her mother’s warnings about strange men that she shuddered when she heard of the “Canadian National Exhibition.”

Atwood explained that in the previous chapter the protagonist wanted to be a butterfly in the dance pageant, but was given the part of a mothball.

“In the Brownies, you try to be the same as everybody else, not better as in the dance class.”

~ When later asked why she chose to depict the narrator as fat Atwood replied, “To be fat is to be safe for a woman. Aside from it being painful and lonely, people leave You alone. One of the problems with our society is that we base all of our aSSUmptiOns On Some ideal we see as the norm: The women tortured on the covers of men’s magazines are beautiful - and this is seen as sexy. If they were ugly it would be seen as grotesque.”

The Brownies, led by an ubiquitous Brown owl, fill the girls with platitudes such as “A Brownie gives in to the older folk, a Brownie does not give in to herself,” and attempts to mold them into the rigid groove of “Vic- torian middle class morality.”

The narrator contrasts the conduct of little boys - a power struggle - with the conduct of little girls - “whispers and conspiracy, no decisive acts, no knock down blows. . . .”

“Little girls are not permitted to be overtly aggressive and thus have to be content with concocting labyrinth manipulations,” Atwood explained.

While the protagonist is subjected to this’ role - tailoring by Brown Owl and ignored by her mother she is also exEsed to the limp flesh of a “flasher.”

Instead of being molested, th’e little girl is given a bouquet of flowers. She promptly throws them away because she knows her mother will not approve. The chapter concludes with Polonious-like advice from the group leader of the Brownies. “There is magic in love, use it every day and see what happens. Bullshit Brown Owl.”

Later when answering questions from members of the audience, Atwood said the greatest problem with her success is that “privacy and time are more difficult to find.”

She explained she is not a feminist in the narrow sense of the word since she does not belong to any group and does not adhere to any specific ideology as, “for example, do the Brownies.” On the other hand she said she shared many of the problems other women face.

“I don’t wear a sign saying I’m a famous writer don’t bother me.

In answer to the question what advice do you offer to aspiring women writers, she suggests they “develop a sense of humor.”

Atwood added that women writers un- dergo many problems not faced by their male counterparts.

“People tend to see a famous man as a leader, a famous woman as a witch.’’

She also advocated a change in critical vocabulary, which she views as, being distinctly male.

“The term used to describe a work of excellence is ‘the work has balls,’ but to

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Atwood . . . peaceful gaze. describe it as female is to put it down as something pale, battered, feeble, silly.”

Atwood said she is upset with comments like “she thinks like a man” when her work is praised. She said the 17th-century viewed the act of artistic creation as a birth, while the 20th-century sees artistic creation as ejlaculation.

a sian’ - - c When asked the question, “Can awareness

change things?” Atwood replied that she lacks glorious plans for mankind. She said she is not a propagandist but a writer of fiction. “If my works bring awareness, good; it’s nice when it happens.”

She also said she plans to elaborate on her thesis of Canadian criticism, survival, by eventually adding another five chapters. She said her basic premise is that we “cannot separate what a society produces from the society itself.”

Asked if she has seen much change in Canadian literature since the publication of Survival she replied there has been a change only in the mobilization of writers by the formation of the writers’ and poets’ union.

Of her work and technique she said it isn’t autobiographical, but that imagery and language, especially the sound of the words, are most important to her.

She also told questioners that she began writing prose and poetry simultaneously, that a book of poetry takes her two years to write, she doesn’t like to do other reading while writing and the influence other writers have on her varies from year to year.

“The greatest influence was during my apprenticeship from 16 to 26,” she said.

Describing this period she said that when she was 18 she began sending out her material and was encouraged by her early publications. She added this was especially important to her since there were only a few literary journals in Canada at the time.

She said she regretted that she could not give the title of her work in progress since it will be decided by her editors. She explained that with Edible Woman the editor rejected the original title, causing a great deal of confusion to the people expecting the first title.

Asked why women novelists seem to deal so frequently with madness - “Why is it that when women novelists peek into a sleeping bag they find a scorpion?” Atwood smiled a special smile and replied, “because there is a scorpion in the sleeping bag.”

Including F. Mahovlich, Mildred Mouse -

Six candidates fo-r arts dean Six candidates, including “F. Savard called the nominated

Mahovlich” and “Mildred Mouse,” group “a very well-rounded list of have been nominated in the’ candidates - we’re very pleased alternative arts dean election, arts with the response.” undergrad society president Stew He said he hopes for a good Savard said Monday. turnout at the election. “There

The candidates also include may be a large number of voting administration president-elect irregularities - stuffing of ballot Doug Kenny, the former arts dean boxes by candidates - but nothing who the election is designed to illegal or immoral. replace, and conservative classics “Nothing a candidate for dean

wouldn’t ordinarily I&.” The winner’s name will be taken

to the boardof governors “who will hopefully automatically ratify the popular choice,” Savard said.

Told in an interview that Savard had filed Kenny’s name for the election, Kenny, after recovering from laughter, said: “That’s amusing.”

If elected, he would give the post

“my deepest consideration.” But he noted that taking both the arts dean position and the presidential one “could involve a bit of a con- flict of interest.”

“I think the other deans would be less than ecstatic,” he said.

In a related development Monday, Alma Mater Society president Jake van der Kamp said in a letter toMcGregor he would be

pleased to take over as classics head if McGregor is elected.

McGregor had promised in his nomination letter to The Ubyssey that he would appoint van der Kamp, a former classics student, to the post.

Van der Kamp thanked McGregor for helping build a student-run university and promoting “the revolution.”

d i s b u r y ‘proud’ of U,S, x-ray vision *I I lUYIl

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head Malcolm McGregor, who is running as “the people’s can- e _ _ r - didate.”

Resnick is contesting the election U.S. newspaperman Hpvvicnn T t hnc 1 n r l tn ttlo wntornnto n m ~ t ; n ; w n ~ L + L nln-.+ rrc :+- ...... _,_. --zJ,-. p . _ l _ .._.

as a right-wing candidate to Salisbury was accused of t counter McGregor’s encroachment communist during the on left-wing turf. Carthyism period, but I

The sixth candidate is Brian himself a red, white an, Loomes, a former Alma Mater nrrtvint d,,,.in

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Leftist political science prof Phil 4 I m I

Society president, now a law school ;le’d~;&~u{ere last week. drowut and the AUS nominee. --*:red as

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scandals but will not finish there, he said. Instead, a new examination of the CIA and the press itself will be a continuation of this process.

“We are taking one pillar of our establishment after the other and holding them up to x-ray ey& to see if they are functioning ac- cording to these principles (of life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- piness) which we really believe

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up to counter the secret, non- Salisbury said the whole And he said this makes him electoral official dean selection revolutionary process, - which - . “enormously proud of my coun-

y.”

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reporting. “They feel there is some

alienation between the people and the press - that there is something wrong with the press as well as with some of these other in- stitutions the press has been in- vestigating.

“And in all justice, if the press is going to dish it out, it has to take it.”

Salisbury .is a Pulitzer-prize winner former Moscow bureau chief for the Times. He was also the first American journalist allowed into North Vietnam

bl lLIJ ...,ig, lecturing !rating the television

aa~lsoury also sala ne eels cnese changes in the US. are creating a climate more favorable to expose news coverage in other countries.

But he told his Friday audience in Buchanan 106 that the , res1 breakthrough will come when the Kremlin allows free news coverage.

He said he doesn’t see that happening in the near future.

Arts elects AU,S hacks today Salisbury said the new trend of exposg’reporting, as opposed to merely reporting what others want

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are Arlene Francis, decision which he said marked the . . . ” .. .. dution.”

More than 4,500 arts students are eligible to go to deadline. The election itself was pos1:poned for 19 released, happily started at tht the polls today to elect a new arts undergraduate days to allow candidates to campaign. same - . . time . . as - the . Supreme ” . Cour _ . society president and four AUS reps for Alma Mater Candidates for AUS president Society council. arts 3; and Mark Porter, arts 3. Francis is a former WiWnlng O* the “rev(

the AUS last had an election, in October, only 133 In the running for people cast votes and no candidate received more incumbent Vaughn than 47 votes.

candidates than that one.

people announced their candidacy before the original Buchanan. the nation’s newspapers.

Whether any actually will is another matter. When AMs and studen’

Donnell, arts 3, fol

This election has sparked even less interest among Wilson, arts 3; Greg E association presiden,

3; David Jiles, arts 1 uaIvI IbILIIaL\Dv,,, r- ~~- -- Nominations had to be reopened Feb. 26 when few polls are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in This was of course reflected ir

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t senator. the four AMS council seats are Palmer, arts 4, Nadine Mc- -mer Place Vanier residents’ t ; Bill Broddy, arts 3; Bruce lailey, arts 1; Hugh Braker, arts onA Pornl n A h o r A m n m 9

by the changing public climate DUL IK S ~ I U US W ~ S caused more

than the actual decision itself. He said public attention had shifted from the so-called Cold War bet- ween capitalist and communist tmwers to domestic issues.

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Wle think of Soereds’- there’s Dailly Why do we keep hammering

away a t education minister Eileen Dailly?

That’s a question many people are asking.

Isn‘t the New Democratic Party government, better than the alternatives? Then people add: Just think of the Socreds.

In most cases, granted, the improvement over the Socred policies is notable. But in this case, the performance of the two ministers under the separate premiers is comparable.

Former premier Wacky Bennett was short on cabinet-level talent when he was in government and ended up with a donut like Donald Brothers as education minister.

Premier Dave Barrett isn‘t that short of talent, but there are some people too politically dangerous (like Rosemary Brown) to put in his cabinet. So he ends up with weak-kneed Dailly as a minister controlled by the same bureaucrats who controlled Brothers.

This naturally led to flak from here: Because a weak minister means

weak policies occasionally tottering out from a department with no real leadership. Just witness education legislation as proof of this.

So it’s time for a change. And indications are that it might come in a cabinet shuffle a t the end of the current session. I f the pressure continues. . And so we keep pounding away to get someone decent in there.

And in answer to our friends in the party: this will also help the party in the next election. A change coming soon will mean a minister

will be able to actually do something before the next election and build up a platform to run on. Dailly has only succeeded in leaving a bad taste in her bumblings and must be forgotten before an election. .

So fire Dailly, give her the boot we say. And prove, that the NDP government wants real change in society that can come about through the educational system, rather than just offering more meaningless panaceas that succeed in only reminding us of the Socreds.

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We take exception to your editorial’s misconceived use of the word “landscaper” (Ubyssey.

ficult to obtain. Upon describing ~ idea because it separates man and the dimensions to a hardware nature. Indeed, anything that is dealer, he immediately became anti-human is anti-environmental. suspicious. i Another disturbing aspect of the

He finally agreed to sell me i t , ‘triage’ idea is its implicit sense of after I persuaded him that I was ~ finality. The threat of over- only making the bomb to fry eggs. : population is minimal when it is

The TNT was the easiest to 1 compared to the threat posed by obtain. All I had to do was to ask a those who seek final solutions to pharmacist for a few packets of human problems. trinitrotoluene, saying that it was “Great hatred, little room, for my throat. Maimed us at the start,

.With all the ingredients r carry from my mother’s womb collected, I followed the recipe and A fanatic heart.” soon had a brand new nuclear Tom Riesterer bomb (as opposed to a used one arts 3 which is verv hard to come bv.) So I discovered-a bomb could be I built. , - -

However a delivery svstem is h c u r m y still needed and with-the postage rates as they are these days I have Prof. Henry Angus sat on the little choice but to keep on using it standing committee on Orientals in to fry eggs. British Columbia. It was formed in As proof of my achievement, I 1941 to inform the federal govern-

am enclosing three radioactive ment of conditions in B.C. relating fried eggs (without salt or pepper) to residents of Asian ancestry. and a photograph of myself during Neither Angus nor the com- treatment for radiation burns and mittee were involved in the radiation-induced terminal cancer. decision to expel the Japanese

I am currently writing a book, from coastal areas. Nor were they soon to. be released, on alternate responsible for the decision to sell forms of nuclear bombs. One Japanese property. model uses coal instead of On the contrary, during the plutonium and can be launched 1930s, Angus was British Colum- from a Japanese freighter. bia’s most outspoken and per-

Another model uses oil but it is sistent advocate of civil rights for just too crude to describe. Japanese Canadiaas. And during,

I suspect it will bomb. the early 194oS, while attached to A. c. Birch the department of external affairs,

physics 4 Angus used his influence within the government on behalf of the Japanese comm-unity.

The first criteria of good jour- YOU have recently been nalism. is accuracy in reporting.

.Pblishinglettersfrom People who Your standards, unfortunately, advocate the despicable ‘triage’ Seem rather low. solution to world famine. The authors of these letters tend to

W. P. Ward

claim environmental concern as an histpry department

excuse for their hardhearted, soft- May we quote from The headed opinions. Canadian Japanese and World War

It always amazes me to hear I1 by McGill sociology prof Forrest ‘triage’ expounded by self- E. La Violette, published in 1948 by ordained environmentalists who the University of Toronto Press?. would suffer an apoplectic rage if “The standing committee on they were told that the pink-nosed Orientals was the officially ap- flying elephant was in danger of pointed and publicly recognized extinction in East Jesus, group serving in an advisory Afghanistan. capacity to the cabinet in Ot-

of his environment if he is so “Thus the first. actions of the brutally insensitive to millions of government after the opening of his own species. Our en- hostilities were taken on the advice vironmental problems stem from of people who were fully cognizant our belief that we exist apart from of conditions in British Columbia rather than as a part of nature. and on the urging of members of ‘Triage’ is an anti-environmental the committee, some of whom

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A person can have no valid sense tawa. . .

MARCH 18,1975 . .

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 writer and not of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Cangian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey’s editorial offices are located in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301: Sports, 228-2305; advertising, 228-3977. Editor: Lesley Krueger

out to honor it. These people did the blowlng: Lesley Krueger, Denise I t was Irish Goatblower’s Day Monday and the Ubyssey staff went all

Chong, Marcus Gee, Chris Gainor. Debble Barron, Cedrlc Tetrel‘, Kin1

goats: Dan Miller, Gary Couil. Matt King, Berton Woodward, Doug McDonald, Mark Buckshon and Marise Savarla. These people were the

Rushton, Gordon Roback, Carl Vesterback, T o m Barnes and Ralph Maurer. .

admission strictly grades and marks. not in favor of such

by academic They were more than happy to TfiS .faculty is send me all I needed and said that I a rlgld Process could use either my Blaster Charge

of selection. or Bombex credit cards for future

Dean The metal tube was more d i f - David V. Bates, M.D.. purchases.

were known as bitterly anti- Japanese.”

Professor Angus was a member of that committee, as you say. If you will reread the editorial, you will see that is all it said, too.

Unfortunately the book says nothing about who was in charge of the pitiful reimbursement the Japanese received after the war. If your academic accuracy is not “unfortunately, rather low” we will take your word that Angus had nothing to do with that.

Incidentally, Angus wrote the preface to La Violette’s book.

Academic accuracy anyone?

Frat? Lesley Krueger and the editorial

staff‘s decision to editorialize in the “letter to the editor’s section” is only one step above Time’s practice of editorializing while presenting the news.

However we are succumbing to these antics by replying to the message that frats and sororities “have little or no relation to reality, but are rather escapist clubs whose members occasionally make the heartwarming gesture of giving a kid a pair of crutches.” (Ubyssey, Thursday, March 13).

Admittedly, there is an emphasis on social activities in the Greek system. However one must also look at the frats’ and sororities’ participation. in intramural programs and sports of all types.

But we are not just another VOC. Do you see other UBC clubs putting on Mardi Grasand Song’festtoraise money for needy institutions?

Our “escapist clubs” have contributed $2,500 -to Sunnyhill Hospital for crippled children assisting them in the purchase of three leg braces at an approximate cost of ‘81,OOO each. Is that the same as a pair of

crutches? In the past years, money has

been donated to the following causes with “little or no relation to reality”: Sedgewick library, Crane library and Cystic Fibrosis. Delta Gamma sorority alone has sup- ported Crane library’s part of its general program to aid the blind.

It has also donated money to Vancouver General Hospital to enable it to buy an instrument used in eye operations.

Does participation, then, in social activities, sports and charitable endeavors make us escapists from reality? Those of us whom you regard as “wallowing in (our) particular mudhole” are obviously more in touch with reality than the majority of apathetic nonenties on campus.

Now Lesley, are you going to print this and then have the last word, or are you going to pretend that you run a grown-up newspaper and let the readers evaluate the letters for themselves?

Delta Gamma Sorority per: Maureen Boyd

honors political science 4 Margot Campbell

English 4 Cathy Herb

law 1

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Tuesday, March 18, 1975 T H E U B Y S S E Y Page 5

Dailly suit dropped ; Barret,t decision pending

Former B.C. education com- against Premier Dave Barrett - missioner John Bremer's slander for remarks he said he. assumed suit against education minister Dailly had made to Barrett, about Eileen Dailly was dismissed Bremer and his work on education Friday by the B.C.-Supreme Court. reform.

Bremerfiled the suit Oct. 23 - at In rejecting the lawsuit, the the same time he filed a libel suit court pointed out that Bremer was

Ombuds ballot errors cited in. court decision

From page 1 s u e r , but Brown would be available only for the first month of the summer, van der Kamp said. "As far as I'm concerned, the position is vacant, but Sarai will stay on

and work on some things," he said. Brown won the election with 1091 votes, White took 632 votes, Sarai, 336

votes and Grnat McRadu placed last with 287 votes. White was nominated by a group of engineers without his knowledge,

and the student court recommended. taking legal action against those responsible for his illegal candidacy.

Brown was improperly listed on the ballot as being part of the Student Unity slate, which swept most of the positions in the AMS elections.

The Student Unity slate endorsed Brown's candidacy, but Brown ran as an independent. Sarai appealed the election on the grounds that many people voted for Brown simply because she was listed as part of the victorious Student Unity slate.

Brown was unavailable for comment Monday. Van der Kamp said AMS-council does not have to decide who will hold

the position over the summer but added council can make recom- mendations on the matter. The election date wiIl have to be set by council at a future meeting.

Sarai was elected ombudsman last year by acclamation.

- STUDENT COURT

Take Notice that the Student Court sitting in S.U.B. 205, March 14, 1975 recommended that: I

Because of numerous irregularities and the presence of an ineligible candidate. on the ballot, the Ombudspersons Election of February 1975 be overturned and a new election held.

II

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THEA KOERNER HOUSE

Graduate Student

Thursday, March 27, 1975 at 12:30 p.m. in the Ballroom at the Centre

NOTICE The Board of Directors will recommend to the membership a change in the Constitution that will increase the fee from $26.00 to $31.00.

NOMINATIONS NOMINATIONS are now being accepted for three positions on the Board of Directors of the Graduate Student Centre. Nomination forms are available a t the Centre office, until Tuesday, March 25, 1975 at 4:00 p.m.

not able to particularize Dailly's remarks and was speculating that the conversation hall even taken place.

Bremer's lawyer, Allan McEachern, said Monday he hopes any evidence against Dailly will come up in the Ba:rrett lawsuit trial, for which a date has not yet been set.

If it becomes apparent during the trial that Dailly may have slandeded.Bremer, Bremer would file his suit again, McEachern said.

Bremer was hired shortly after the NDP came to power in 1972 to work on education reform, but was f i r e d Jan. 14, 1974 by Dailly.

Bremer's lawsuit against Barrett is based on Barrett's remarks on a CBC-television show.

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Page -6 T H E U B Y S . S E Y Tuesday, March 18, 1975

Functional illiterates - A From page 1 ’ .

As UBC English department head Robert Jordan says, the proper -response to the problem indeed begins with a recognition that everyone from the kindergarten teacher on up to the university professor has a stake in student literacy.

But, as a Ubyssey survey shows, the direction in which the university is moving isn’t necessarily the same as that taken by

MacFarlan . . .

other levels of education, and that includes the department of education in Victoria.

Because the recent controversy was sparked by a university-administered~ test, response from other levels has been reluctant, defensive and, from education minister Eileen Dailly, somewhat cautious.

“A lot of generalizations have been made,” Dailly told The Ubyssey in an in- terview, “but it should be made clear that those results are from only one university (UBC).

“A large number of professors marked those exams and came up with the ap- proximate 40 per cent failure rate, but those

’ results were not provided to the department of education.”

Dailly admitted that “there is some sort of a problem” but she warned against making “knee-jerk responses.”

The trend in the university, though it is changing, has been for university professors to shift the blame downwards by claiming they only inherit a problem caused by inadequate high school instruction.

“I’d be willing to bet that if you went back through the last 30 years you would hardly find a September or a spring that university

students couldn’t write an essay and couldn’t read,” says Jim MacFarlan, president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. “They’ve always been complaining about that.”

Nonetheless; the fact remains that the university students enrolled in the intensive composition sections to be taught the fun-

facade of equity in system. .

\ people weren’t complaining that their

damentals of sentence structure, grammar He says that while he isn’t for a moment and punctuation are the same students who saying high school teachers were at fault, received well above passing grades in there is a need for a willing responsibility English 12.

A brief from the UBC English department submitted last- October to the Vancouver school board’s task force on English con- cludes that “many high school students are being wrongly passed as competent in writing when they are actually incompetent.

“If those who go on to university are the best products of the schools, then it is disturbing to reflect on the probable writing abilities of other high school graduates.”

The brief also states that on information offered by students, not only are few written assignments given in high school but what little writing is done is not marked thoroughly by the teacher. ‘

UVic English department head David Jeffrey also complains of the lack of reading and writing in high school classrooms and cited a Grade 10 English class in Victoria where students spent the year discussing television programs.

At the end of the year they made a study of Japan, he says, and their assignments were to write a haiku poem and cook a Japanese meal.

But MacFarlan severely questions. whether or not the university has even the right to make such observations on the B.C. school system.

Professors are a highly inappropriate group to comment on the teaching ability of classroom teachers,” he says. “Most of them would be lost in front of a classroom, They’re a t university not because they’re teachers but because they’re academics.”

MacFarlan says the university people themselves should look carefully a t whether or not they can perform a satisfactory teaching function to meet today’s needs.

“For example, it seems to me one of the skills we should be teaching is how to critically analyze the kind of garbage that’s spewed out of television programs,” he said.

“But the English department isn’t doing that - they’re still teaehing the same English courses in the same way that they taught them 40 years ago - nor have they made an astonishingly good attempt to introduce literacy in non-print sources.”

The university does, however, seem willing to acknowledge that it has been delinquent to a certain extent in its own responsibilities.

Jordan says that in recent years the university has been somewhat indifferent to teaching verbal skills. “We’ve been more interested in teaching literary appreciation. We are after all, a department of literature-

“But at the same time our English 100 program has not placed the emphasis on student writing in recent decades that we recognize now should have been done.

“We’re in some sense ready to recognize that we should make some changes in our attitudes and I think other levels of education should do the same.”

Jordan says the department, in acknowledging its role in the teaching of good English usage is “rediscovering” the importance of fundamentals.

“But in some sense. that’s pre-university training and I wouldn’t want to commit us to teaching that kind of thing forever.’’

for basic training in writing. “Teachers should be encouraged to teakh

more English and by more English I mean more language, not films and tape recor- dings.

“We’re not advocating a return to rote methods of teaching. It’s really a question of the encouragement of a few simple at- titudes, not a tremendous reform.”.

Jordan does emphasize, however, that teachers need to be given the facilities as well, since the teaching of English, unlike many other subjects, is “a very personal, time consuming and difficult task.”

Indeed, a s Linda Wilson, president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers Association (VSTA) puts it, the biggest bugbear is marking.

She estimates that with the typical number of students most teachers have to deal with, to spend five minutes marking one assignment per student per week requires a minimum of 10 hours outside class time in marking alone.

Jonathan Wisenthal, chairman of the UBC English 100 program, says he knows many teachers with 200-225 students who have to stay up half the night marking essays.

“These teachers have to work very hard if they want to teach creative writing. It’s an unfair burden to place on any teacher. With that many students you just can’t do the job,” he says.

The consequences? The amount of writing assigned drops,

says ,VSTA’s Wilson, because one of the worst things that any teacher can do is to give assignments and not give them back.

Wisenthal says the authorities must recognize that teaching English is teaching people to do something, not a matter of simply communicating facts. English has to be taught in small groups, he adds.

But, accordiing to Wilson, making the authorities recognize just that is probably the hardest problem of all.

There is a provincial policy to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio, but Wilson says it disguises the fact that class sizes go down, but go down at different rates by subject.

In a survey of Vancouver secondary schools in September, 1974, the standard academic subjects - English, social studies and math - rank a t the top of the list in terms of the number of overload classrooms with more than 34 students.

Furthermore, to achieve any degree of success at all in the special English classes held for new Canadians, numbers have to be kept low. This in turn drives up the class sizes of the regular English sections.

Meanwhile, well down the list of overload classes are the non-academic courses: home economics, music, ar t and drama.

Yet the minister of education, in February of this year, announced that no additional funds would be forthcoming this year toward the progfam of further reducing the pupil-teacher ratio.

“MacFarlan .., who has- organized teacher delegations to Victoria to appeal the minister’s decision, reiterates that “Dailly promised one year ago in the house and it’s recorded in Hansard, that it was the government’s intention and not just a pipe

dream” to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio b 1.5 pupils in each of the next three years.

“Unless she gives any indication c something different, she has clear1 reneged on a promise,” he says.

Dailly, however, denies the government i backing down from the program. It’s not matter of reneging, she says, just a questio of being realistic.

“The policy is still there. B.C. has gon from one of the worst to one of the best pupi teacher ratios in Canada. But you just hav to stop and reassess what you can do and th pace at which you do it.

“We’ve put tremendous. amounts (

money into education in this province, wit increases this year of well over 25 per cer just to meet normal operating costs.

“We have to ask ourselves, can we affor it? ”

Granted, but maybe what we really out t be asking ourselves is, what price literacy

The Vancouver school board one year ag set up a task force on English to look a t th quality of reading and writing at varioL grade levels, but it won’t have any repol ready or recommendations to make unt April.

The official response from Victoria ha been threefold, one approach’ being th establishment of joint teacher-trainin

In the E

boards. There is also a committee workir; on a general. evaluation program an procedures which should have a report 1: October.

The third study area, to be reviewed in tk fall, involves a major evaluation of Englir: curriculum in the school system and wi look closely at claims made of deficiencit in basic skills.

When this study was first announced t Dailly, she stated only that it would look : the “validity” of claims of studel deficiencies.

The study will hopefully encompass mol than that - task forces can surely do bettc than yes-no answers to a question everyboc already knows the answer to. But, i Wisenthal comments, one can only hope tl department is just being “proper; cautious.”

The curriculum, however, deserves closc scrutiny, if only because it comes undl sharp criticism from those outside tl school system.

Many at the university level, who a1 :rying to cope with functional illiteracy the -freshman level, cite the “pe missiveness” of the current curriculum i being more of a constraint than an incenti7 to improving high school teachir methodology.

The Grade 8 English curriculum in pa ticular comes under attack for allowing tl much scope for the individual teacher, WE giving little in the way of encouragement leadership in the setting of standards applying basic skills.

The evaluation section of the Grade curriculum guide says: “English 8 has bel designed to stimulate creative writing, or presentations and non-print projects a: w( as traditional writing assignments.

“Teachers must be willing to receive a1 give credit for oral presentations, creati writing, and non-print projects such tapes, films, photo-essays, collages, and on.

“For some lower-ability students it m; be necessary to de-emphasize tradition written assignments in order to stimula some alternative responses to language

Wisenthal says the curriculum impli writing is not as important ~. as giving tl

e

Tuesday, March 18, 1975 T H E U B Y S S E Y Page 7

of the status. quo, !dent a sense of accomplishing something. ‘So the teacher suggests the student make f i l m or do something more fulfilling. It’s dents like that who get good marks in lglish.” Jordan’s criticism, of the curriculum is at it does nothing in the way of prescribing mdards nor stating clearly what and how uchof anything to teach. And, he says, the *ade 8 curriculum characterizes the whole rr iculum . His observation from a recent curriculum scussion between the minister and liversity representatives was that Dailly lidn’t seem to be entirely aware of the lplications of the curriculum, namely, the rning away from standards.” When asked about the permissiveness of e curriculum, Dailley said she agreed that some cases it is a little too general. “There is a kind of open-endedness to it ,at leaves it so a teacher would not have to ach basic skills. “It wasn’t during my‘administration but ere was a move toward that, an ac- ?ptance during the ’60s. The curriculum as such that it was left open-ended.” A realization that there were other im- wtant skills besides reading, writing and zlling pulled the pendulum in the ’60s in wor of “social development.”

overused and misused like anything else but all the things that go into a piece of writing have to also go into the production of a short piece of film.

“And if you are doing your job properly, you will not only combine assigpments but insist on writing at each stage.”

As John McGechaen, director of English education in UBC’s education faculty, sees it, the choice is unfortunately seen as one between obscure creativity on the one hand and prescribed mechanics on the other.

“We tend to throw up our hands and say audio-visual equipment and the media are driving out reading and the need for correct, expression,” he says.

“Instead, it increases the need for correct expression and we can make use of this media to our own ends.

“The fact that we urge children to think imaginatively doesn’t mean that we are recommending that we neglect the mechanics and techniques of expression.”

There will be teachers who are a bit negligent or who will place the emphasis on imagination rather than technique, McGechaen says. But although both must be regarded carefully, he says, there will always be children who don’t respond to “back to basics” teaching.

For John Wormsbecker, deputy

Ilrhat matters more than reading and vriting according to this ,philosophy, Nisenthal says is that a child develop good locia1 attitudes and learn to get along with )ther people.

The principle in practice meant werlooking what a child couldn’t do - the dea being that no child need be told he’s a ailure simply because he can’t do one par- icular thing well. Instead he can be-given ;ome other project that he can succeed in.

Those persuaded by this philosophy were :aught up in a trend away from basic skills that began more than a decade ago. However, those on both sides of the pen- julum are forced into an on-going but less- than-open debate today on the use and misuse of such a principle in the classroom.

UBC’s English department says the curriculum in the school system is hanging on to what was “the last gasp of the O OS", a principle the department outgrew 10 years ago.

“The provincial school system, as reflected in their curriculurh, seems to be on a different wavelength than we are,” Jordan says.

For the most part, however, criticism and comment from the universities trespasses on the individual teacher’s sense of professionalism and doesn’t get past the classroom door.

Wilson admits the notion that ‘La good ;teacher is a good teacher” may be a cloak for mediocrity, but she maintains that most of what the universities say is based on impression that reality.

John Calam, director of secondary education in UBC’s educationlaculty, was asked how he thought English is, being taught in the schools. He could only respond by saying that “one has to go to the high schools to find the answer.”

Yet, says Wilson, “if you came into my classroom and found the walls covered with what looks like colorful supergraphics, it would be a mistake to jump to the conclusion that it’s all irrelevant because it isn’t.

“These aids to teaching English are a way of getting students interested enough so that they can respond through their own ex- periences,” she says.

‘‘Films and tape recordings can be

superintendent for the Vancouver school b a r d , that isolates a serious problem particular to the Vancouver school district, the largest in the province with 12.5 per cent of the provincial enrolment.

Wormsbecker’s argument is that without a readiness to learn “you can yap about basic skillsall your life but you’re not going to get very f a r . ”

The university is perhaps not aware of .the severity of the problems confronting Vancouver school district teachers, Worm- sbecker says, citing problems of a socio- economic nature created by the increasing concentration of people in urban cities.

For the Vancouver school board, main- tains Wormsbecker, the changing population mix, due in part to immigration, makes it less likely that previous standards can be kept up.

Immigration - and Vancouver enrolled almost 50% of all non-English-speaking student immigrants who entered, B.C. schools last year - intensifies the learning problems teachers already have to cope with.

The problem of adjustment for foreign- born students is a frustrating one. With increasing needs and already far less than adequate facilities for teaching English as a second Ianguage, many of these youngsters are virtually condemned to failure before they are even placed in classes for special instruction. ’

One local high school principal says that quite often the student’s skills in other subjects progress normally but the student has been unable to upgrade his .ability in English at the same rate.

Yet regular students get shortchanged by the amount of extra time a teacher decides to spend with such a student. So rather than wanting to be held back, which is often the only alternative, the student quits school instead. Those are the realities’ of the situation.

But “the changing population mix” Vancouver school teachers have to contend with is not confined to problems of im- migration.

Outminration to the suburbs leaves behind those a t &e lower end of the socio-economic

scale, many of whom live in multiple or low- rental housing projects.

This is the problem society should address itself to,MacFarlan says.

Instead, education in B.C. provides a facadhe of equity by providing the same kind of schools, the same kind of teachers and the same. kind of materials, but it only per- petuakes the North American myth that if you provide equity in the-school system you get equitable results, he says.

“If the people flogging the literacy issue concerned themselves a little more with overtmming socio-economic problems that beset the kids in society we’d be a lot better off,” MacFarlan says.

Children from disadvantaged home en- vironments and ethnic minority groups tend to bring more serious learning handicaps to school, Wormsbecker says.

“I’m not suggesting there’s anything wrong with our students,” he says. “It’s just that in many cases their home life is less enriching and they need more exposure to the things they don’t have in their homes - books, magazines, films.

“The fact is a lot of these youngsters are deprived of those kinds of things and ex- periences that make it easier to be SUC- cessful in school.”

‘.‘Social development” may be an outdated notion in the opiniop of the English faculty at UBC, Wormsbecker says, but given the special problems of many students, treating kids as individuals and getting back to basics simply can’t be done on an either-or basis.

“My feeling is that a kid has to -feel comfortable about himself before he’s going to bre successful as a learner. You have to comider the culture the youngster comes from and have some respect for that culture.

“A teacher has to be able to help that youngster cross the bridge, into whatever community he happens to be a part of. Then he can be’gin learning, when he sees that it’s

* important for him to able to communicate and be a part of the lifestyle he’s in.

“It may be that the basic skills have been de-emphasized in favor of the concern of self-worth, but I think it’s a matter of establishing some kind of understanding between the university and. the high school about the kinds of youngsters that are coming to our schools and that we’re trying to teach,” Wormsbecker says.

&’hat really raises the ire of high s_chool teachers is the notion that high schools exist as a prepatory ground for potential university-bound students, when only 20 per cent of high school graduates continue to higher education.

Wormsbecker says the responsibility of the high school is to what it can to prepare young people for whatever they’re going to do :in life, but it’s only a transitional point.

“University is only one possible avenue of future endeavor. Some are going to go on to college, some to employment, others to Europe, or maybe they’re going to go down to Gastown to smoke pot.

“I don’t know what they’re going todo, but the point is we don’t take the view that university is going to be the main objective

‘in life,” he says. Wilson says this attitude isn’t an excuse

for shoddy work nor does it mean students shaluld be talked down to or treated as if they were of no value. It may require that a

Wormsbecker . . . sc+l boards seek own soluttons.

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Jordan . . . rediscover fundamentals.

teacher alter the content of her program, though, she says.

“It might be better for example, to’ spend a week of their year examining newspapers, looking at the stock pages, .underStanding the difference between a movie review and an advertisement, knowing where the tide tables can be found.”

She emphasizes however, that high school teachers a re firmly against streaming students, separting the university-bound from the non-university students. This has been encouraged in the past, she says, but now is actively discouraged.

“It has its disadvantages,” Wilson says. “You make the people who are streamed into the bottom level feel they are rejects.”

Yet the universities are in a kind .of dilemma, with 9 much larger enrolment in absolute terms drawn from an even greater spectrum of people, all bringing with them diverse skills and standards.

about it, the universities are undoubtedly intrigued with the idea of holding ,entrance exams to sift out ptential problem students and ,eliminate the need for providing the non-academic, remedial instruction they regard as being pre-university training.

“That’s the way it used to be in the bad old days,” MacFarlan says, “when universities taught only the top five per cent in I.Q. levels and had only 5000 students in their academia, when they’weren’t polluted with 25-30,000 students.”

suffering from their own success,” says Wilson.

the university itself hasn’t adapted to the kinds of kids who are going there and the needs of society.

“They’ve got to get off their academic asses. They,’re still on the same old academic trip they were on when I was there.”

But without wanting to chastise his university counterparts entirely, Mac- Farlan adds. the universities should also realize that the students they’re getting now, besides being the first crop of kinds to have grown up all the way with television, are also products of the worst pupil-teacher ration in Canada, when most classes in B.C. contained more than 40 students.

Society is going to have to wait another six or eight years, in fairness to, the teachers in primary grades where reading and writing ”

skills are first taught, to see the benefits of the recent reduced pupil-teacher ratios, MacFarlan says.

But then neither is the pupil-teacher ratio the beginning and the end of all reform in the school system. Students that the system labels a s functionally illiterate are also the resuIt of inadequate facilities, inferior - teaching methods and teacher training ’

programs. MacFarlan expresses a need for a

carefully-planned program of improving the style of teaching in all students but he says it should start at the university level.

“Our teacher education programs as a general rule don’t prepare young people for

, the classrooms,” he says. . In his opinion, teacher training programs should have practising professionals

See page 9: TEACHERS’

Although perhaps wary of being yocal ”

“I would suggest the universities are ’

The real problem, says MacFarlan, is that I

Firemen protest BCGEU with partial UBC walkoul

University endowment lands does not work for us. Our argume firefighters have stopped all non- is with the union. emergency services to back up “The B..C.G.E.U. will probab demands for separate negotiations accept the contract. The contra with the provincial government. is extremely good for the resfof tl

rescues and ambulance calls,” In Victoria, provincial secreta shop steward Steve Nordin said, Ernie Hall said withdrawal “but we’ve stopped building in- service by firefighters constitut spections, first-aid training and an illegal strike. He did not say administrative paper work. In- he would ask the B.C. lab formation picket% are up in front of relations board to stop the actio the station. But Nordin denied the action

trades and crafts component of the He also said Premier Da. B.C. Government Employees Barrett sent a letter to the unic Union limited their services at saying he will not become involvl UBC, Riverview hospital and because it is an internal unic Transquille hospital in Kamloops. problem.

“We want a contract equal to the Nordin said the withdrawal one given Lower Mainland city services will be “reassessed on firefighters,” said Nordin. “AS it day-teday basis.” stands now, we haye some benefits Bill Reid, staff representati, they don’t have, and they have for trades and crafts component some we don’t have. B.C.G.E.U. was unavailable f

“We’ll answer all full alarms, union,” Nordin said.

A total of 84 firefighters in the illegal.

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“The way to get this is through comment. - separate negotiations within the

union. The trades and crafts component is made up of car- , penters, mechanics and dock- workers, and what is good for them

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Polls Buchanan‘ and Sedge

Election of AUS President

4 Arts (AMS) Reps and

Election of Five Ful,l-time Students

to Serve On Senate as Representatives of

the Student Body at Large The following nominations have been received:

BLANKSTEIN, GORDON (Unclassified)

COLE, COLM P. (4th Year Science)

DUMONT, RONALD PETER (3rd Year Arts)

DeROOY, ,JOHAN P. (4th Year Education)

FRA’NCIS,’ARLENE J. (3rd Year Arts) i

HEENAN, RICHARD G. (3rd- Year Physical Education)

HIGGINS, BRIAN JAMES ( a h Year Arts)

KRASSELT, BRIAN A. (3rd Year Science)

MACKAY, DOUGLAS 6- (4th Year Arts)

MATHERS, W. MICHAEL (1st Year Law)

MOORE, GARY R. (3rd Year Commerce

WILSON, D. BRUCE (3rd Year Arts) and Business Administration)

POLLS WILL BE OPEN AS FOLLOWS

Thursday, March 27, ,1975 1O:OO a.m. to 4:OO p.m.

(Students will vote in their own constituencies only)

Agricultural Sciences - MacMillan Building Applied Science - Civil Engineering . . . . .(including Architecture and Nursing)

Arts - Buchanan -Building . . . . .(including Home Economics, Librarianship and Social Work)

Commerce and Business Administration - Angus Building Dentistry - Macdonald Building Education - Scarfe Building . . . . .-including Physical Education and Recreation) Forestry - MacMillan Building Graduate Studies - Graduate Student Centre Law - Mary Bollert Building Medicine - I.R.C. Building . . . . .(including Rehabilitation Medicine)

.Pharmaceutical Sciences - I.R.C. Building Science - Chemistry Unclassified and Qualifying - Main Library

BRING YOUR A.M.S. CARD WITH YOU (N.B. only full-time students are eligible to participate in this election,

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i.e. undergraduates taking a t least 12 units-(or the equivalent) of courses; al l doctoral students; and all other students registered in the Faculty of Graduate Studies taking a t least six units. It is for this teason that is is necessary to have students vote only in their own constituencies where their names can be checked off on the voters’ list.)

BE SURE YOU NOTE THE LOCATION OF THE POLLING STATION FOR YOUR PARTICULAR CONSTITUENCY

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ELECTION OF ONE FULL-TIME STUDENT FROM THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES TO SERVE ON SENATE FOR THE ONE-YEAR TERM 1975-76.

The following nominations have been received:

BERNARD BISCHOFF (M.A. degree program in Philosophy)

GARTH B. SUNDEEN (M.Sc. degree program in Food Science)

POLLS WILL BE OPEN THU'RSDAY, MARCH 27,1975

10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

GRADUATE STUDENT CENTRE

BRING YOUR A.M.S. CARD (N.B. Those eligible t o participate in this election are full-time Graduate Students defined as: all doctoral candidates and all other students registered in the Faculty of Graduate Studies taking at least six units.)

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T H E U B Y S S E Y

Hot flashes Summer Language Programmes Brief goes has come to the fore because of

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advocating itudent representation represented at all (on tenure and on tenure and promotions promotionscommittees)~,, committees will present a brief to the board of governors staff Haber said the group Will hold committee April 4. further meetings to prepare the

.steve outgoing science brief once al l the information i s

said Monday the brief will contain I I be c i r c u t a t e d t o information on similar situations undergraduate societ ies, a t other Canadian universities as unions and Other

well as an historical background .student groups to get more

representation has worked at These other student groups other universities. will be asked to draft a letter of

"We decided to do this support for the brief as well as because action (on student make suggestions. All students are representat ion), has jus t - invited to work with the group, stagnated," Haber said. "The issue Haber said.

several controversial tenure decisions.

"Students' interest t o A group O f students recognize teaching qualities i s not

undergraduate society president, in- After it is prepared, the brief

h w e I I s t d e student input, he said.

Sale . The lost and found, having a'

surplus of the latter, is getting rid of it today in i t s year-end sale. So, if you have .lost something and haven't got around to retrieving it, perhaps you might consider buying it back.

The sale happens from 11 :30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in SUB 207-209.

offered in Toronto: English Language courses

offered in Toronto at the Scarborough College Summer Language Institute:

French, Spanish and German language courses Ancient Greek and drama courses

offered in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon: French language courses

offered in Mexico City: Spanish language and civilization courses

Bursaries, awarded by the provincial and federal governments of Canada, are available in connec- tion with the French and English language courses.

oops Yeah, we know, we know. The U byssey incorrectly

reported Friday the death of British diplomat James Cross at the hands of FLQ terrorists during the October crisis of 1970.

We are happy to report that Mr. Cross is alive and well. Former Quebec labor, minister Pierre LaPorte, however, is not. M. Laporte's murder and the events that led up to it were superbly recorded by the National Film Board production, Action: the October Crisis.

A I I U byssey staffers, especially proof readers, have been ordered to attend i t s next showing.

enquiries: University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies 119 St. George Street,Toronto M5S 1A9 (41 6 ) 928-2400

'Tween classes TODAY NEWMAN CLUB

WOMEN'S OFFICE Meeting, noon, SUB 105B.

about feminism and lesbianism, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon talk

7:30 p.m.. arts 1 blue room.

STUDENT FEDERATION PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE

Guest Speaker: David MacDonald, P.E.I., MP, noon, SUB 213.

Semi-annual rummage sale, noon , LOST AND FOUND

CHARISMATIC CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

SUB 207-209.

W e e k l y f e l l o w s h i p , n o o n , conference room, Lutheran campus centre.

WEDNESDAY CAMPUS CYCLISTS

Election of next year's officers and budget discussion, noon, SUB 215.

Michael Whitely discusses "you and the missing link," noon, Bu. 216.

ONTOLOGY

SAILING CLUB

CHHlSTlAN SCIENCE Testimony meeting. noon, SUB

SlMS 212.

Meditation, discussion and tape, noon, I R C 9-65.

Tour , 7:30 p.m. Clyde clinic. PRE-DENTALSOCIETY

THURSDAY RECREATION UBC

Annual general meeting, noon,

UBC CYCLING TEAM G e n e r a l m e e t i n g , noon war memorial gym 211.

Panel discussion, noon, SUB 205.

SUB 1056:

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FRIDAY PSYCH CLUB

Election of next year's executive, noon, Angus 24.

Africa Two films will be shown

Thursday on the African national Ii beration struggles currently being fought in Eritrea and Namibia.

The meeting, sponsored by the Liberation Support Movement and the UBC Spartacus club, will

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SDeclal feature about the life and

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- Sleeping Bags, hiking boots, pack sacks, ' cooking sets and many other items

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results in our obtaining a 1 or bedroom suite which will accept hu

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:-Swimmer wins Big Block Trophy By CEDRIC TETZEL -

George Smith, assistant coach of the UBC swimming team, was awarded the Bobby Gaul Trophy by the Big Block Club last Thur- sday at the annual Block Banquet.

The trophy is awarded every year to the most outstanding graduating athlete on campus. The coaches of these athletes apply on their behalf and the Big Block Club makes its selection on the basis of the amount of contribution the athlete has given to the sport and his academic achievements.

Smith was a member of the Canadian national team between 1967 and 1971.

He swam for Canada at the 1968 Mexico Olympics and the 1970 Edinburgh Commonweal th Games.

At the Commonwealth Games, Smith chalked up two wins in the 200 and 400 individual medleys. He was also a member of the relay team that came in 2nd in both the 400 and 800 metres freestyle relays.

At the Olympics, Smith came in 5th and 10th in the 200 and 400 IM events respectively. The relay .

teams finished 4th in the 800 and 8th in the 400.

Smith continued to swim for the national team after all this until he broke his leg in a motorcycle ac- cident in 1971. Since then his only swimming has been with university teams.

A native of Edmonton, Smith left for Indiana in the late s-ixties with a three-year athletic scholarship. He didn’t stay long, transferring into second year zoology a t UBC.

Smith has been feat.ured in the record books in both the age group

and open championships for the past 15 years. He still holds the collegiate records for both the 200 and 400 metres IM events. He also appears in the Canadian national record books as the current holder of the 200 yard IM title.

The Women’s Big Block Club holds its banquet tomorrow when awards will be given to the year’s top woman athlete and the best women’s team in both the junior varsity and varsity levels.

president Walter Gage and in- coming dean of women Margaret Fulton. They will be given special awards to show the women athletes’ appreciation of their support for their program.

The Women’s Block club, unlike its male counterpart does not announce Block letter winners before the presentation.

The banquet will be held tomorrow at the Graduate Students’ Centre at 6:30 p.m. and

Also receiving awards will be the the presentations will follow at soon-re t i r ing adminis t ra t ion approximately 7:30 p.m.

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UBC WRESTLER, GEORGE RICHEY, tackles Elvin Martin in deciding bout of 198 pounds section of Canadian Open Wrestling C,hampionships.

By TOM BARNES George Richey and Ken Izumi

were the only Thunderbird wrestlers to pick up medals a t the Canadian Open Wrestling Championships held a t War Memorial Gymnasium last Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Izumi won a silver medal in the junior 123-pound class in the Greco- Roman competition Sunday.

Richey also took a silver in the Greco-Roman, in the 198-pound senior division. He. took a first place gold in the same class in the freestyle division Saturday.

Richey then capped everything off when he was named Most Outstanding Wrestler of the tournament after the competition had ended Sunday.

Izumi came close to a gold in the. Greco-Roman but lost a very close decision to Leo Reyes of Ontario in-

the final and had to settle for second place.

His performance was part of a strong finish by the B.C. junior team which won the Greco-Roman competition, edging Quebec by six points. Quebec won the overall junior title, ‘however, finishing strongly in the freestyle com- petition.

Richey lost the gold to Terry Shanely of Oregon when Shanely pinned him in their semi-final match. It was the only match he lost all weekend.

In the freestyle event Richey recorded a string of pins to get the gold.

UBC’s Jon Davison picked up a fourth place in the 114.5 pound division to pick up the.only other

‘Bird points in the Freestyle. Gord Bertie of Quebec won EI gold medal in that division. Be:rtie took a bronze medal at the world championships in Instanbul earlier this year, the first Canadian to win a medal in 38 years. , Although the other Thunderbirds didn’t fare as well as may have been hoped, the tournament was encouraging in a number of ways. Most importantly, those who did lose were not swamped by the competition. The lack of seasoning and experience against top com- petition cost more matches than poor wrestling.

Coach Bob Laycoe hopes to improve by recruiting. some good prospects from the high school wrestling -system. -

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Rummage Sale. -at TRIUMF, UBC

south end of Wesbrook Cres.

SATURDAY, MAR. 22 1 1 :AM-3 PM

Great Bargains on Books, L.P.’s, Clothing, Housewares. etc.

‘Birds play well but c.an’t score

The UBC Thunderbirds’ soccer against the Simon Fraser team finally played a good game, University Clansmen last Saturday but it didn’t keep them frofn ending at Capilano Stadium. UP On the Short end Of a 1-0 decision 8 One goal down in the second half, I . I the ’Birds pressed relentlessly for

Peter Mullins’ basketball ’Birds had better watch over their shoulders because Donn Spence’s rugby ’Birds are right behind.

The basketballers’ biggest win of the year was a 114-59 shellacking of the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns. The rugger men may have failed to meet the total score by 11 points but had a wider margin of victory as they hung a 103-0 shellacking on the University of Washington Huskies Saturday.

What makes the-whole thing even more ridiculous is the ’Birds

the equalizer. It never came, but the ’Birds

could have easily scored on numerous occasions. Claudio Morrelli, Darryl Samson, Brian Budd and John Speakman all had their chances, but failed to breach .the Clansmen defense.

As the game progressed, the ’Birds managed to press the Clansmen in SFU’s side of the field and the Cross-Town-Gang had to rely on some vicious tackles and time-w’asting tactics to keep the ’Birds from scoring.

For the last quarter of an hour in fact, the Clansmen concentrated on wasting time more than playing

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Fleming From page 1 ’

deputy minister intended to fire the staff on this issue.

“The deputy minister warned: the staff that they were working in a departmental context and that, i f ’ there is a public airing of the issue, certain courses of action were open to him.

“A staff member said there is a question of a public issue and the’ public right to information.

“The deputy- minister told the staff that, even if they went to the. minister, the minister has no way to reverse that. He said that the staff has every right to go to the minister because of a disagreement with the deputy minister.

“He warned that the staff is walking a very fine line.

“The deputy minister statedthat this was a warning.

“He said that, if the staff goes outside and says, we have had a discussion with the deputy minister, that would be acceptable.

“However. if the staff eoes

demands silence Fleming ha& worked out -no job He also repeated his remarks descriptions for the team. about the capability of later-fired ’ “A staff member asked if the staff members, saying “the work

deputy minister knew the con- of some of them was satisfactory sultants. and that would be easy to verify ~

“The minister replied that he once the specifics could be worked knew Dr. Pederson. but that he had nlxt ’’ asked him to choose the other three and he had chosen them from his faculty. The deputy minister said he understood that the consultants had experience in educational administration and organization.

“A staff member asked what methodology would be used in the investigation.

“The deputy minister said he did not know but would leave that up to the consultants who were hired to do the investigation.

“A staff member asked what the terms of reference were for the group doing the investigation.

“The minister said there were none.”

The minutes of the subsequent meeting, held in the research division office with all support staff

”_. He also said “he had no reason to.

believe that anyone a t this time has performed unsatisfactorily.”

And he later said “he was in a position to verify that some staff members had done good ’work because he was familiar with some of the work of those who had- previously worked closely to his office.”

The minutes of the first meeting were compiled from notes made by research and development members.

Minutes from the second $ere lifted from verbatim shorthand^- notes ’ made by a department secretary during the meeting.

Fleming was not available for comment Mongay, as repeated phone calls revealed he was in a

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The S.U.B. ART GALLERY has oknings for new members interested in curatorial operations of the A.M.S. Art Ga I lery Programs - Committee. for 1975/76. We would like to stress that this is a working committee.

I f you are interested, send a statement of intent to:

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disagreement“ with the deDutv merits made by minister and we are going to t& minister, then that would be unacceptable.

“The deputy minister repeated his warning that the staff cannot say there is a disagreement with the deputy minister to the public. He said that the staff had no right to a disagreement (that is, to make it public).”

Later in the Jan. 22 meeting, Fleming announced he was going to make some specific an- nouncements to the staff assem- bled there, which included the researchers and consultants Paul McGeachie and Gary Onstad.

“A staff member asked if the deputy minister had considered staff development and in-

previously. But he specifically tackled

Knight‘s firing, saying he would explain the reasons for dismissal during grievance procedures. He had said a t the earlier. meeting “Knight was not performing the job satisfactorily.”

Now he replied to a question from a staff member on whether the firing reflected on the staff generally by saying:

“. . .that the dismissal of Dr. Knight was not a comment on the work of an-y staff member, but was based purely on his own per- formance. He said that the action was taken ,on the basis of per- formance and was not a comment on the collective ~ O U D because it-

I volvement in these decisions. was an individuarpr&.cedure.” “The deputy minister rgplied

that he had not.” He then announced the ap-

pointment of integrated and supportive services supervisor John Walsh to replace Knight.

He also said the probationary periods of the staff were to be extended and that a team of four consultants from the University of Victoria, headed by George Pederson, would be appointed to examine the department’s research capability. All facts were known before.

However, the report reveals that

- ECKANKAR - The Path of Total Awareness

Unti l you can see that nothing can happen t o you, except in accordance with the state of your consciousness, you do not have the key to life.

Introductory Lecture 12:30 Tues., March 18

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This Thursday, March 20 a t 12:30, we will have our traditional tree-planting ceremony, across from the MacMillan (forestry) building. Come out and take part so that in 1995 when your kids ask you where your grad class tree is you’ll be able to show them. Also, get your mail ballots for gifts/projects into sub box 118 by this Wednesday. Voting results will be available soon after.