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By VAUGHN PALME RA union jurisdiction dispute will
probably delay the opening of thenew SUB Pit for one year .
Alma Mater Society co-ordinato rJoanne Lindsay told an AM Scouncil meeting Wednesday astrike by 34 pipefitters will mos tlikely delay installation of ven-tilation and air conditioning for thefacility until April — which wouldmean a September opening .
And AMS vice-president GordonBlankstein told council without theventilation the Pit would make abetter steambath than a pub .
The delay centers around astrike by the Vancouver local of th ePipefitters Union against fourinternational ventilation and airconditioning equipmen tmanufacturers .
Because Vancouver accounts fo ronly a small percentage of theindustry's business that disputeprobably won't be settled unti lApril when all contracts betweenthe international union and the
international companies expire ."And the dispute could go on a lot
longer," Lindsay said .Until settlement, . the Vancouver
local has declared "hot" al lequipment manufactured by those
companies including the controlsfor the Pit system purchased butnot installed before the strike .
Ironically, Wilson pointed out ,the 34 men are now working for afifth company, formed by the otherfour companies and they will in -stall air conditioning equipment .
But the work they do for the fifthcompany isn't guaranteed andshould the controls malfunctio nand wreck the machinery the AM Swould have to foot a $60,000 bill ,Wilson said .
Wilson said there are othe ralternatives open to the AMS bu the rejected all of them .
He said the AMS could :* try to pursuade either union o r
management to make a specia lcase of the AMS because it is a non -profit society . But he said bothhave already been approached andthe union is making no exceptionsand management will wait unti lApril .
* declare the project finished inwhich case ownership would revertto the society and the UBC ad -ministration could do the in-stallations . But Wilson said th eCanadian Union of Public Em-ployees; which does administratio nwork, has already said it will hono rthe hot declaration .
* make an application for a ninjunction claiming the hotdeclaration is unduly in-conveniencing the society andpreventing the use of $250,000worth of facilities . But he saidsince the strike is legal it is highlyunlikely a judge would grant suchan injunction .
* open the Pit with only ven-tilation (no air conditioning) whichwould keep some air circulatin gbut when outside temperature sdropped the cold air would wrec kthe expensive machinery .
"We're stuck," Wilson said ."Basically we're a very small cogin an enormous dispute and neithe rside is interested in settling ourparticular problem .
There is a temporary Pi toperating Monday to Friday fro m4 :30 p .m . to 11 p .m . in the SUBballroom .
THE UPYSSEY,Vol . LV., No. 8
VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1973
48 228-230 1
CLEAN SEAS CANADA LTD . workers rake and shovel oil-soakedpeat moss next to damaged British freighter Arawan . Peat moss ,which absorbs 20 times its weight in oil, will be loaded into barrels
—andy garner phot oand removed by tug . Clean Oil Canada is an oil spill clean-u pcompany co-owned by Gulf of Georgia Towing and Burrard Inlet oi lrefineries .
Over beach pla n
Administration unconcerned say citizensBy LINDA HOSSI E
The UBC administration's lack of concer nover the erosion of the Point Grey cliffs wasunanimously condemned at a citizen' s
• forum held under the auspices of thecitizen's council on civic development a tQueen Elizabeth School Wednesday night .
A panel of representatives from theVancouver Parks Board, Swan Wooste rEngineering and the Committee for thePreservation of Wreck beach detailed theirviews on the controversial Swan Wooste rplan for a sand and gravel fill along the cliffsand Wreck beach .
The only concerned parties notrepresented were UBC and the provincial
• government .The university's lack of concern was
blasted by irate citizens trying to stop th eSwan Wooster project .
"If the university is not concerned whyare we spending one-third of a millio ndollars to keep the cliffs from fallin gdown?" one citizen asked . "It alludes me . "
Jim Bolen, who described himself as a n• "eco-freak", said "I don't care if the Ceci l
Green building falls down . I don't care i fthree million dollars of buildings fall down .
"I think we've come to a situation wherebuildings don't count so•much anymore . "
In a highly emotional confrontationcitizens grilled the panel members on theiropinions and ideas .
Ron Blunden, listed on the agenda as aconsulting engineer, described the SwanWooster plan as a "stop-gap measure thatwill destroy once and forever any notion that
the beach is a natural area . "During the question period, Blunden said
he felt the plan would be ineffective incurbing erosion .
"Point Grey is an exposed promontory ,almost by definition an extreme erosio narea," he said .
"If you create the beach there all of thenatural processes are going to work toremove it . "
He said that since the original drafts of theplan Swan Wooster have added stone groin swhich will be placed at 350-foot interval salong the beach .
"I don't consider that natural," he sai damidst applause . He added it indicatedSwan Wooster couldn't have much faith i ntheir plans .
"It's pennies to doughnuts that once youcreate a headland you create a bay on theside of it," he said pointing out it is the bay son the sides of two concrete observationtowers on Wreck beach that are causing th emost serious erosion .
Jack Wood, a Swan Wooster represen-tative, fought citizen reaction with th edetails of the problem and his companiesproposed solution .
"Due to some forces, I guess of thevegetation being taken off the cliffs in thearea of Cecil Green Park, the erosion seem sto be increasing," he said, citing overallerosion at a foot a year .
Wood emphasized that the plan was drawnup in an attempt to "keep the beaches asnatural as possible, to put on a sand beachunderlaid by natural gravel "
The gravel will contain stones up to six
inches in diameter . According to Blundonthese will act as battering rams against th ecliff surface if the sea loosens and carrie sthem in with the tide .
The sand surfaced will be six inches abov ethe highest tide ever recorded, Wood said ,adding that logs washing up on the beac hwould protect the sand from washing awayto a certain extent .
Wood agreed some sand, however, willwash away by the action of the waves andperiodic maintenance of the area will b enecessary .
Art Cowie, Vancouver Parks Boardchairman, said the board would undertak eany maintenance necessary .
Wood said as Cowie has already promisedno road will go in around Wreck beach thi swould mean bringing in sand by barge athigh tide, dumping it and coming back bybarge with machinery to spread the sand a tlow tide .
Citizens at the meeting didn't seem toshare his confidence .
A majority demanded that a guarantee bemade by the university that the necessarysteps would be taken to curb run-off andseepage before the Swan Wooster plan iseven considered .
"I don't think you know what you'redoing," one empassioned citizen accused .
Cowie, who said he was pressing for"minimal access" to the beach, could no tguarantee any maintenance plan . Theoriginal Swan Wooster project called for agravel bed covered with sand extending fora distance of 3700 feet along the beach .
Recently the government put a ceiling of
$350,000 on the project so Swan Wooster wa sforced to reduce the strip of beach to 310 0feet .
Wood would not agree that a smalle rsection could be tested first before the entire3100 feet was gravelled .
"I am definitely not pleased with the cut -backs," he said but refused to state how fa rhe would be willing to reduce the project i fgovernment money were reduced .
"You've got to have enough beach t oabsorb the energy of the wages," he said .
Cowie explained at this point that he ha dfound Wood adamant in refusing to agree toa project covering the beach under an are aof 3100 feet .
The fact that Wreck beach is popular as anudist spot was not a major discussion poin tat the meeting but it did come up .
Cowie said although he himself would goto a deserted beach on one of the Gul fIslands to sunbathe in the nude he did no tfeel the parks board has any complaint sabout nudists on the beach .
Blundon said the scheme rang of "the firs tstages of persecution," and the "first stage sof a roadway . "
The problem of the roadway is still no tsolved .
Cowie said that even if Swan Wooste rbrings their materials and equipment in bybarge a temporary road will have to be buil tfrom the barge dock to the fill area .
Citizens said they felt it was likely thisroad would remain .
As one citizen put it , summing up all th ecitizens feelings, "It's all a bit iffy at th emoment ."
Esso propaganda on tube
—tarry manulak phot o
ESSO TO EXXON . . .but Imperial all the same .
By BJORN STAVRU MA citizens' consumer group has accused Imperia l
Oil of broadcasting "political propaganda" last wineron their Hockey Night in Canada advertisements .
In a brief to the Canadian Radio-TelevisionCommission, the group, the Association for PublicBroadcasting in B .C ., has complained Imperial Oilused the advertising format to "convince the viewingpublic that Imperial Oil had created a great benefi tfor Canada . "
Two specific advertisements are singled out inthe complaint . One concerns the job multiplier effec tof the construction of a new refinery in Edmonton .What the advertisement does not say is refineries inWinnipeg, Regina, and Calgary will be closed, thu scausing loss of jobs .
The association's brief stated the advertisement"drastically overstepped the boundary betweencommon telelvision advertising (objectionable andone-sided propaganda that it might be), on the on ehand, and information on a matter of public concer nand political interest, on the other . "
Many politicians including the premiers of bothSaskatchewan and Manitoba have criticized thephasing out of the refineries because of subsequentjob loss .
The second advertisement lauds the en-vironmental protection work the company carrie dout in the Mackenzie delta . What this advertisementdoes not reveal is Imperial Oil was instructed byfederal agencies in 1971 to suspend certain operationsin the Mackenzie delta because of failure to compl ywith conservation rules, the report claims .
This claim is supported by recent briefs from th eCanadian Scientific Pollution and Environmenta lControl Society, the Federation of Ontari oNaturalists and the Science Council of Canada, th eassociation brief says .
A third item in the complaint asks for a publichearing into the misuse of advertising time forcompany "political propaganda" and of the effects o fadvertising by foreign-owned companies on Canadia npublic opinion and the Canadian economy .
The association has asked for free and equal timeon Hockey Night in Canada to present counter -arguments with the licensees, CBC and CTV ,covering production costs .
"There is nothing illegal about the ads . Theyweren't lies . It's just that a hot political issue wascreated especially in Winnipeg and Regina when they
began to close the refineries," said Vancouve rlawyer, Eric Rice, association spokesman .
"We felt that with the size of the audience in tha ttime slot, advertisements could be very influential ,and that a balanced point of view is highly desirable, "said Rice .
"Because Imperial Oil was guilty of omission ofcertain important facts, their advertisement sbecame partisan and political in nature, andtherefore at variance with the broadcasting policy inCanada," he said .
"What in effect we are asking the CRTC to do is t omake a policy decision on advertising," said Rice .
Asked what the association might expect fro mthe CRTC, Rice said : "It's hard to say . They would becareful about the kind of thing we are asking for'''.They don't like interfering with individual programs .They would be very cautious because their decisio ncould have far-ranging effects .
"When you have a monopoly on prime time ,freedom for everybody to express themselves couldbe affected," Rice said . "We are just asking for equa ltime."
Construction of the Edmonton refinery willreduce the number of employees in Winnipeg to 27from 156, and a similar reduction is expected i nRegina .
Ed Sherry, spokesman for the Oil, Chemical an dAtomic Workers Union in Edmonton, said Tuesda yImperial Oil intends to phase out its Calgary refineryby August, 1974 .
Sherry said he expects some of the Calgaryemployees to be offered jobs in Edmonton, but he sai dthere has so far been no company guarantee . He sai dabout 100 men are still employed at the Calgary plant ,down from a peak of 125 .
Gordon Pollard, Medicine Hat News legislativereporter, said in a telephone interview Tuesday ther eis currently a serious attempt by the remaining ,Calgary employees to buy out the refinery there an drun it on a co-op basis to supply the immediat eCalgary market .
The co-op would produce 15,000 barrels a day ,making it a medium-sized refinery .
"A co-op on this scale would be unique in NorthAmerica as far as I know," said Pollard .
He said Mohawk Oil is prepared to sign a nagreement with such a co-op .
In the meantime, Rice said the association ha shad no reaction from Imperial Oil .
The company was unavailable to comment on thecharges .
Thursday, September 27, 1973
THE
UBYSSEY
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Help sought in replacement9 By JAKE van der KAMP
A presidential selection com-mittee is seeking a replacement fo radministration president Walte rGage following his decision toresign by June 30, 1975 .
And in a letter to the universitycommunity, Beverly Lecky, boardof governors member and chair -woman of the committee, has
asked for help from faculty ,students, staff and alumni to makethe selection .
Lecky said the committeeprefers someone who is under 5 5years old, a Canadian citizen an doutstanding in his or her professio nand a good administrator .
"These are only preferences notbinding rules," Lecky said Wed -
nesday . "We are fully prepared toaccept a non-Canadian who issuited to the post . "
There is no set date for closin gthe nominations. However, thecommittee has said it would likenames in by Oct . 25 .
The committee is also asking fo rviews on what attributes apresident should have .
"We would like to hear wha tpeople think the office of th epresident should be and getopinions on issues likely to face th epresident," said Lecky .
If you are interested innominating someone send a lette rto Lecky in room 107 north ad -ministration building, .main mall .
Your letter should contain as
much personal and academicbiographical information aspossible about your nominee an dshould state reasons for yourchoice .
All letters will be treated withconfidence by the committee ,Lecky said .
"We have not yet decidedwhether to release the names of thenominees after we have screene dthem — possibly doing so could beembarrassing to certainnominees," she said .
The committee held its firstmeeting in the beginning of Julyand is holding another today .
It consists of 24 members, sixfrom the board of governors, thre efrom the senate, four from thefaculty, three from the committeeof academic deans, three from theAlumni Association, one memberof the non-academic ad -ministration, and four students .
The students are Brian Loomes ,president of the Alma Mate rSociety ; Susan Van der Flier, art s3 and Susan Waechtler, a graduatestudent . A second undergraduatewill be chosen to replace MikeSasges, co-editor of the Ubyssey ,who resigned from the committee .
Members include UBC chan-cellor Nathan Nemetz, labo rprofessor Noel Hall, head libraria nBasilStuart-Stubbs, classics hea dMalcolm McGregor, geograph yprofessor J .K. Stager, pharmac ydean B .E. Riedel, science deanGeorge Vokoff and bursar BillWhite .
Committee members were eithe rappointed by the board or electedby faculty, senate or AMS council .
The committee has advertisedfor a replacement in severa lpublications, both in Canada an dabroad .
"We selected publications likel yto be read by prospective can-didates," Lecky said .
The committee has received 54nominations, with only three fro mUBC .
"We certainly hope to get abetter response here," Lecky said .
FORESTRY UNDERGRADS DEEP into their work duringUndercut festivities this week . Engrossing as this all may appear, it i seconomically unfeasible to use coins cut from valuable B .C . timber
for mahogany panelling in theThink bigger boys .
—mark hamilton phot oB .C . parliament building offices .
AMS studies lawyers' report on SUB,say 'you'd win some and you'd lose som e
By'VAUGHN PALME RWould the Alma Mater Societ y
win an arbitration decision in it sdispute with the administratio nover the SUB lease?
Maybe so, say the AMS lawyers .AMS treasurer John Wilso n
won't make public full details o fthe legal opinion prepared by thesociety's lawyers at Wednesday' scouncil meeting because, he said ,the administration might find out .
But essentially the lawyers sa ythe AMS would win some of theirdemands but might lose others ,Wilson said .
The dispute with the ad -ministration first flared this springWhen the AMS failed to gain in -creased supervision and main-tenance of SUB under th eagreement by which they lease thebuilding from the administration .
Over the summer both sidesnegotiated a settlement whichwould have granted societydemands in return for the ad -Ministration gaining a 10 per cen tcut of SUB booking revenues and apriority summer conventionagreement .
Council voted Wednesday topostpone consideration of th eagreement until furtherexamination of the lawyer sagreement .
d they appointed graduates udies rep Bob Angus and law re pGordon Turriff, both advocates offurther negotiations to the AM Snegotiating team .
Turriff told council the lawyerssay the administration would los ethe revenue percentage andconventions agreement in ar-bitration, but on the other hand thesociety might not get its desiredservices .
"It's a question of do we want th eadministration to grant certainservices such as proctors andmaintenance of fixtures, in returnfor a substantial cut in ourrevenue," asked Turriff .
Wilson said the lawyers madequite clear that the booking andconvention clauses represent give-aways on the part of the AMS .
But the lawyers are unsurewhether the administration i sobliged to provide more proctor sand to maintain fixtures which arenot part of the building .
"I agree with council's op-position to the 10 per cent cut,"Wilson said . "If there were someway to get these services withoutthat concession I would say `goahead' but there's no way . "
AMS vice-president GordonBlankstein told council the ad -ministration cut would be about$2,600 this year . But he said at a nearlier meeting he thinks theadministration might use theconcession as leverage for ad-ditional revenue in the future .
Angus had previously tol dcouncil he doesn't think the ad-ditional services represent much ofa concession on the ad-
ministration's part . For example ,Angus said, the administratio nwould provide more proctors bu twould not pay for repairs causedby vandalism while those proctorswere on duty .
Wilson pointed out that an escapeclause in the convention sagreement would permit thesociety to cancel (within 30 days )anytime it wanted to .
He said copies of the lega lopinion will be available shoul dAMS councellors wish to inspect it .
AMS lawyers have estimated it
would cost the society $2,500 to$3,500 if they have to go througharbitration .
In other business, counci lrefused to rescind a motion sen-ding two AMS councillors to theOctober convention of the Nationa lUnion of Students in Edmonton .
Council voted Sept . 19 to sendBonnie Long, AMS external affairsofficer, and Teri Reynolds ,agricultural undergraduat esociety rep, to the convention .
However, Bill Moen, arts un-dergraduate society president,
said the campus would best berepresented by AMS presidentBrian Loomes because the NU Shad adopted an increasingly morepolitical stance than first an-ticipated .
He said Reynolds, a member ofthe Students' Coalition executivelast year, was on the NUS's firstcentral committee and that shewas "service orientated" .
Long is also a member of theStudents' Coalition which durin gthe last election favored studentservices over political issues .
Cheech Chong tickets on sal eTickets are selling fast for the Oct . 20 Cheech and
Chong concert in the War Memorial gym .And when that's over the Alma Mater Society ha s
signed the Beach Boys to play the gym Nov : 4 .AMS special events co-ordinator Gordo n
Blankstein said Wednesday 800 tickets have beenbought for Cheech and Chong after only one day o fsales and the concert could be sold out by theweekend .
A total of 4,500 tickets are available, 3,000 to UB Cstudents at $3 each, and another 1,500 at $4 each fo roff-campus people .
Tickets will be $5 at the door but Blankstein sai dhe doesn't expect any will be left by that time .
But tickets for the Friday Murray McLaughlanconcert in the SUB ballroom are moving slowly andBlankstein said the Alma Mater Society could los e$1,000 on the event .
He said the society would have to take in $2,000
just to break even and only 150 out of 1,000 $3 ticket shave been sold.
The society cleared $550 on the Sept . 14 JohnMayall concert in the gym Blankstein said .
And he said he expects a further profit of $700 t o$800 on Cheech and Chong which would more tha ncover any loss on McLaughlan .
The AMS has an arrangement with a downtownbacker who will take 10 per cent of the net at th eCheech and Chong concert, he said .
The society will get 10 per cent and the remainde rwill go to the performers .
It costs the society $250 to rent the gym and so fa rthere has been no damage to the administration -owned facility, Blankstein said .
Tickets for the concerts are available at the AMSbusiness office in SUB .
Blankstein said tickets for the Beach Boy sconcert won't be on sale for another two weeks .
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UBYSSEY
Thursday, September 27, 197 3
Ooze bluesMonday morning's oil spill that desecrated Amblesid e
Beach brings home some very stark realities .And people have to realize the size of Monday's grand
piss-off is but a speck on the water compared to what wil lhappen when Atlantic Richfield's refinery at Cherry Pointgets operational and the huge oil-tankers start negotiatin gtreacherous Juan de Fuca Strait .
But of course they won't be doing that very often if th eU.S. Senate doesn't approve the construction of one of th egreat non-issues of the century : the Alaska oil pipeline in it supcoming vote on the issue.
In any case, the main thrust of the argument is avoidedby discussing the means of bringing the oil down - for theend itself is unnecessary .
A very good argument can be made for the case that th ewhole damned oil crisis has been manufactured byAmerican and British oil monopolies.
Why? So they can make more and more profits fro mtapping the Alaskan oil fields and bringing them south alon gour coast . Madison Avenue and the oil companies have beentrying to bring this point into the minds of the America npeople and especially their legislators by their incredibl e"oil-shortage" campaign of the past two years - and makin grecord profits in the meantime.
And the end result is another rip-off case of corporateimperialism through the imminent spoiling of our coastline .
What can we do about it? Sweet fuck all really . Thepowers in Ottawa could, but hardly want to do so .
So there is the border protest at Peace Arch park o n
Sunday at 2 :00 to show the U .S. oil monopolies and senate
what we think .So support SPEC and Greenpeace in opposing thi s
barbarism being imposed on us . Be there on Sunday . Busesleave from SPEC at 2007 West Fourth at 11 a .m.
LettersCommend
I have worked for the universityfor 3() years (alas) and am agraduate . Having read the Sept . 20Ubyssey, I thought I should like towrite and commend you on it .
Perhaps some sense is per-colating throughout the world afte rall! I was interested in "The poo rand the super poor" and especiallyin "Women now" . It is encouragingto see some evidence of thinking a tthis academic institution which Ihave found so bereft of thought .Keep it up !
P .S . The other day I resurrectedan Old Ubyssey, 43 years old, fro m1930 . The names of Himi eKoshevoy and Nathan Nemetzappear in the masthead .
Ann McCulloug hagriculture science facult y
Thanks for the letter . If youwould have gone back 44 years tothe 1929 masthead you would haveseen the name M .F. McGregor ,aka Malcolm McGregor, curren tclassics department head - Eds .
Thank yo uThank you to Linda Hossie fo r
her editorial "Women now" in theSept . 20 issue .
In February, 1971 Robin Morgan ,a feminist from New York, spoketo about 1,000 persons at theUniversity of Manitoba . She statedshe would not answer an yquestions from men and any shereceived and suspected were theproducts of a male 'mind would bedestroyed . We cheering female sunfortunately drowned out he rreasons . I can only guess - femalechauvinism? Revenge? Bigotry
This attitude frightens me, notonly for the reasons Hossie stated ,but for the reactions it causes .Fright? Yes - who wouldn't befearful of the embarrassment(publicity?) suffered whe nphysically thrown out of a publicmeeting? This fear shows up i nfrequent interruptions of lecture son campus - "Man was is nowable BEEP! This was not a sexis tremark . Man meaning mankind,
etc ., etc ." Besides wasting m ytime, the profs (curiously male )who do this are, to say the least ,simplifying the issue .
How peachy if women' sliberation simply meant finding anew word for mankind .
Is this a male way of dealing withproblems he wants to avoid or i sscared of - for example, con-centrating on trivialities? Or havefeminists refused to listen when hesaid anything else .
Me thinks the ladies doth protes ttoo much .
Rosemary Lawrenc e
GSARegarding the question befor e
the graduate student association a sto the mandatory assessment ofAlma Mater Society fees upo ngraduate students, it occurs to u sthis is not the question that shoul dbe put before the grad students . Toour view the situation is this :
* Grad students are faced withpaying two fees to two essentiall ysimilar organizations ; the sum ofthese almost equals present UBCfaculty club fees ;
* These two organizations do no toffer services or facilities of anykind a student could not obtain of fcampus or simply not use and stil lcomplete his or her education, i .e .they are not essential in any way ;
* The apathy, and at time santipathy, so abundantlydemonstrated by grad student stoward the AMS and GSC mean ssimply that most grad students, i fthey had their choice, woul dprobably belong to only one of theorganizations - perhaps neither ;
* There is a substantial minority(at least in the department ofmicrobiology) of grad studentswho are married and have smal lchildren . These students have littl etime to use GSC-AMS facilities an dcertainly have no extra money tospend on them ;
* Any position that adult humanbeings (i .e. grad students) shouldbe forced to belong t oorganizations totally peripheral t otheir chosen goal - an advanceddegree - and are not to be truste dto decide whether such mem-berships are in his or her best
interests is insulting anddegrading . It flies in the face of thedemocratic principle wherecitizens should have free choicewherever the public is not in-volved.
We therefore propose gradstudents :
* Disband the GSA and returnour debt-ridden facilities to themortgage holders or allow it tocontinue on a voluntary basis to allwho wish to join ;
* Make membership in AMSoptional for grad students - afterall, grad students could be issuedlibrary cards denoting their lack ofsuch status - and bar them fromusing AMS facilities ;
We believe this would result in afair and equitable situation for all :those who want the benefits ofmembership in non-essentia lorganizations could enjoy themand pay for them, while others whochoose not to pay would have theirown money to spend as they like .
What we want, then, is a GS Apoll to present these two questions :
Would you belong to GSA if youhad a free choice?
Would you belong to AMS if youhad a free choice?
Our personal feeling is the GSAexecutive would not dare conductsuch a poll because the gra dstudents' rejection of GSA woul dbe certain .
So that is it - we challenge theGSA executive to conduct this poll .We suggest all grad studentsfeeling as we do should send aletter to The Ubyssey .
Thomas L . Edward sDenis Maynar d
Mary Gisslo wDale Gregerson
Rob WatsonW . Ramey
Rob McMasterMarion Le e
Mark T . Mullergraduate studies, microbiology
ClarificationA couple of points in connection
with the graduate studentassociation - Alma Mater Societymini-crisis need clarification . Theheadline "GSA may take AMS tocourt" in Tuesday's Ubyssey i shardly accurate . The GSA "may"
problems will be solved by split-ting .
Finally, a letter in one of th epapers last week implied that w ehad threatened to resign if the voteon AMS membership went agains tour recommendation . This ofcourse was a complete falsehood .We stated that we would notpreside over a secession ofgraduate students from the AM Sand that is still our position . Butseeing as last week's vote wa ssimply an opinion poll, we are stilltogether, and we plan to continuein office for the foreseeable future .
Paul Knoxvice-presiden t
graduate student association
The Ubyssey welcomes letters
from all readers.Letters should be signed and, i f
possible, typed .Pen names will be used when
the writer's real name is also
included for our information i nthe letter, or when valid reasons s
for anonymity are given .Although an effort is made to
publish all letters received, TheUbyssey reserves the right to editletters for reasons of brevity ,
legality, grammar or taste .
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THE YSSEYSEPTEMBER 27, 197 3
Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout th euniversity year by the Alma Mater Society of the University ofB .C. Editorial opinions are those of the writer and not of the AM Sor the university administration . Member, Canadian Universit yPress. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentaryand review . The Ubyssey's editorial offices are located in roo m241K of the Student Union Building .Editorial departments, 228-2301 ; Sports, 228-2305 ; advertising,228-3977 .
Co-editors: Vaughn Palmer, Michael Sasges .Gary Coull, Vaughn Palmer, Ryon Guedes, Mike Sasges, Linda Hossie ,
Jake van der Kamp, Dru Spencer, Lesley Krueger, Don Hubbert, and Ric kLymer voted to swoop down on the Tree Boat Race like wolves on the fold .Seizing a huge piece of chintz, perfectly balanced for killing, they pissed i nJamie Craig's Pink Lady and squeezed him into a lovely black straples sevening gown with scoop neckline and transparent crotch panel . KathyBaird, Manse Savaria, Dirk Visser, Allan Doree, Tom Barnes, and Pete rLeibeck could only gaze on in wonder .
also fly to the moon, sponsor pantyraids or commit mass suicide, butit isn't likely. There is nosuggestion whatsoever at this tim ethat the GSA executive plans totake legal action against the AMSor anyone else .
All we are doing is complyin gwith a directive given us at the firs tGSA general meeting of the year -that is, obtaining a legal judgmentof several questions which havecome up. The GSA executive' sposition remains unchanged - w edo not believe secession from theAMS is justified in any way, and webelieve it is only fair that graduatestudents pay their share of ser-vices such as The Ubyssey an dSUB, the same as everyone else .
We hope a legal investigation ofthe situation will clear the air an dtherefore are happy to go throug hwith it .
When we say last week's opinionpoll was a warning to the AMS toshape up, we are not acting from anarrow sectional point of view . It' sour belief that a vote in almost an yundergraduate society would haveproduced approximately the samejob . The vote is more a symptom o fa general malaise within the AM Sthan of any particular graduatestudent grievance. It's for thisreason that we don't think any
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Letters
Changes for UBC women areindeed not coming fast enoughwhen the student newspaper of thi suniversity distributes the sexistrantirlgs of the forestry un-dergraduate society Plank andstudents at this university writesuch offensive material .
It is one of the anomalies of ou rsociety that most sensitive peoplerecognize racism and bigotry andcondemn it, yet so few recognize
• blatant sexism . The offensiv eallusions and derogatory attitudestowards women evidenced in thegreen .sheets in your pape rTuesday should not be condoned .
One could dismiss the paper asjuvenile but it is from such juvenile
By MURRAY McMILLA NThe following is another all-inclusive crap on Recreation UBC ,
an administration controlled body which is charging students $5 fo rany use of gym or recreation facilities .
Rec UBC director Ed Gautschi has said the fee is being chargedbecause UBC has no room for casual athletes .
This is written by one of those undesirable casual athletes, a finearts student and former Ubyssey hack who used to wile away the fla brunning the circuit — until the $5 fee was levied .
The place is filled with masochists .Either that or there are a lot of grotty bodies around who like to
work hard at becoming grottier . They sweat. Everyone does, it' strue, but there are many people around who work hard at it . Theyrun, swim, kick bits of inflated leather around a field . Things likethat .
Those activities seem perverse enough, but now tthere's an extrakink added . They're being charged to do it . Recreation UBC wants $5from you (if you're a student) or $10 (if you're staff or faculty) for th eprivilege of cleaning out your pores .
it's about the same as being charged a dime to . use the toilet in abus station .
Rec UBC was introduced a year ago with the promise of grea tthings . But what do you get for your $5 ?
Use of gym and recreation facilities, use of equipment, som einstruction, some supervision . But in many cases what's providednow is nothing more than what was provided free before Rec UBCarrived on the scene to stick its smelly hand into your wallet .
An example . On the third floor of the gym there exists a chambe rof horrors which is also known as The Circuit . Persons addicted tosuch activities make their way around it grunting and groaning ,lifting weights, running stairs, doing horrid things like sit-ups (with afive-pound weight beind the head) . Disgusting — but some people getoff on that sort of thing .
The circuit's been there for some time . Several years in fact . Upuntil a year ago it was free . Now it's part of Rec UBC . You're sup -posed to have a $5 sweat card to use it . But there's nothing new there .You're getting no new facilities to justify the $5 charge .
In fact, the circuit probably costs less to operate now than it didtwo or three years ago . At that time it was open limited hours and astudent was paid to take the weights and equipment out of storageand set them up each morning and to put them away each night .Even at the rates paid students for such joe jobs, the amount in-volved over a year must have been considerable .
Now the weights and equipment are left out at all times . Tha tlabor cost has been eliminated .
The equipment must be long paid for . There's no rent to pay.If the campus community wants extended services in som e
areas, it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask those who use them tocontribute to their cost .
But to charge students a fee when no service is being provided i sAoutrageous .
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YOUNG SOCIALIST SElection strategy meeting noon SU B212 .
SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETYGeneral meeting, bring dues, noo nSUB 213 .
PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS' UNIO NSteering committee elected an dmembership drive east mall anne x116 .
DEAN OF WOMEN'S OFFIC EFree concert by VancouverSymphony, war memorial gy m12 :45-2 :15 .
AMS ELECTIONS COMMITTE EAll candidates please attend, noo nAMS conference room .
UBC KARATE CLU BPractice gym E 7 :30 p.m . T . Shuto uwill put on a karate demonstration .Final GI collection will be Saturday .
UBC CYCLE TEA MGeneral meeting noon gym foyer .
STUDENT LIBERALSGeneral meeting, discussion o fnational convention . . Noon SU B213 .
UBC WARGAMER SPractice Napoleonics, micro-armou rnoon SUB 119 .
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TROT S"B .C . union of high school student s— which way forward?" panel dis-cussion 8 p.m . 1208 Granville .
SKYDIVER SMeeting for first jump course an drides for weekend noon SUB 125 .
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ALLIANCE FRANCAIS EMeeting noon IH lounge .
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weaving, macrame, banner desig nor batik? Classes are heldWednesday nights at the Luthera ncampus centre running for si xweeks. No charge except formaterials .
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should contact organizer Les Roseat 733-2739 .
Dumont speaksFrench anthropologist Loui s
Dumont from the University o fParis gives the first of thre electures on "Signposts in theGenesis of Modern Ideology"Thursday noon in Angus 313 .
The two remaining lectures wil lbe held Oct . 1 and 2 in the sam eroom .
Dumont, author of 11 books ,wrote "Homo Hierarchicus "which contends that ideologie splay a more important role in th eevolution of society thantechnological or economic factors .
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Women's athleticsBy RICK LYME R
When UBC was first established in 1915 therewere no athletic facilities .
There was, however, a constitution for thestudent body which then contained about 175 femal estudents .
In the constitution there was contained the idea ofwomen's athletics . It set forth that there should be awomen's athletic association and that tth eassociation president be a member of the studentcouncil .
Women's college athletics in B .C. began eve nprior to the establishment of UBC . From 1906 to 1915 ,when university students attended the foundingMcGill University College of British Columbia ,women were active in two sports : basketball an dfield hockey . These teams relied completely on publi cand private facilities . This reliance continued duringthe first session of UBC, 1915-1916, with the addition o ftwo more activities : swimming and ice hockey .
Another important step was added that firstsession, an intermural program . This consisted of onesport, basketball . First, second and third year artsstudents were involved . The approximate femal eenrolment at UBC from 1915 to 1918 ranged from 15 0to 200 .
During the First World War, the women's athleti cprogram deteriorated . This was halted only at thewar's close .
A large factor in the comeback was a rivalr ybetween UBC and the University of Victoria whic hopened as an affiliate . This athletic rivalry continue don an increasing basis . Each year "invasions" werestaged by the visiting university . Damage to the shi pcarrying UBC during an "invasion" ended this era i n1945 .
Lack of facilities continued to hampe rdevelopment of the sports program during the '20 sand '30s . Another factor was the small budgetavailable for sports . In 1925, $182 was the women' sathletic association's budget . This was added to by awoman's rooster club who sold rooster's hats a tmeets .
In 1929 the first university gymnasium wa sopened . It was financed mainly by the students vi astunts, $2 self-imposed taxes and an AMS bond issue .It cost $40,000 . The gym gave UBC teams the chance
to practise more often at much less expense .In 1930, women's sports recieved two boosts . The
women's UBC basketball team won the worldchampionship during the Olympic games held a tPrague . Also during the year, the women's big blockclub was founded .
During the Second World War, women's sport sagain hit a period of decline . Much needed gym-nasium time was taken over by drillingrequirements .
However, in 1942, as part of compulsory war wor krequested by the women's undergraduate societ ythere was one hour a week keep fit class organized b ythe women's physical education instructor . An off -shoot of this was a heavy emphasis and revitalizatio nof the women's intramural program .
After the war, there was a heavy demand byreturning veterans and an increasing student body onthe available facilities . There were several stop ga pmeasures used while the War Memorial gymnasiu mwas being financed and built 1946-1951 .
An RCAF hangar was transported onto thecampus, reconstructed and opened in 1948 as a nathletic fieldhouse for sports such as archery, tennis ,badminton, golf and track . There were also armyhuts moved in and used for dance classes . After th eWar Memorial gym opened, a large outdoor swim-ming pool was added in 1954 for the British Empir eGames .
With the enlarged facilities came a re-organization of the department of athletics . I tevolved into the physical education department i n1945 and began granting the Bachelor of Physica lEducation degree . In 1952 the department receivedschool status .
This year also was important to women' sathletics . The women's athletic committee wa sformed and faculty were no longer on the women' sathletic directorates .
At present, the women's athletic committee i srunning on a budget of $29,600 . Its program is ex-tensive but cramped due to monetary problems . Theyhave about 19 sports ranging from the traditiona lbasketball to skiing . The women on campus ar elooking for expansion, both competitively an dorganizationally .
Sports comments
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By DON HUBBERT1) Why should the women' s
athletic association even have toconsider having fund-raisin gevents in order to get togethe renough money for women's sports ?
2) With all due respect to Da l
Women strongSue Rich, vice-president of women's athletics, said Tuesday th e
teams should be strong contenders again this year .Many veterans have returned and tryouts are underway . She and
president Laurie Wilson hope the upcoming season will equal last year' srecords .
The first big event is the Canada West University Athleti cAssociation field hockey championship at Victoria Oct . 12-14 .
Fencing is being returned to the national intercollegiate level thi syear . Tennis and golf are expanding into city leagues .
In 1972-73 UBC won three of four national championships : swim-ming, basketball and volleyball . This was only the second year the fou rhad been held .
UBC won CWUAA meets in track and field, gymnastics and cros scountry .
releases as soon as they are done .And a belated happy birthday toRuth on her 21st .
4) Our congratulations to theBirds rugby team on their highl ysuccessful tour of Britain .
5) Further congrats to Brinsle yStewart and the UBC cricket tea mon winning the championship .
6) We could use a couple ofphotographers to cover sportsevents for us . Anyone who couldspare some time, once or twice aweek, come on in and sign up .
ApologyWe wish to issue an apology to
the Thunderbird head coach Nor mThomas . We knocked him Tuesdayin Sports Comments for lack of co -operation after Saturday's game .We now know that Norm woul dprefer us to see him Mondays whe nhe is more relaxed . We un-fortunately didn't find out unti lafter Comments came out . Ourapologies .
—dirk visser phot oUBYSSEY SPORTS REPORTER Rick Lymer jumps off one-metr eboard Wednesday as he starts his way to the top of the Empire divin gpool . Lymer will attempt three-metre board Friday noon . Exercisewill prove average campus dork can do anything .
Women 's sportsThis year in women's intramurals we have tried to introduce a wide
variety of activities in an attempt to satisfy the changing needs o fcampus women . We offer, of course, the classic intramural sports suc has volleyball, basketball and badminton . But, hockey, marbles, squashand a bonspiel are among a dozen other activities offered .
At present, there are 25 organizations, sororities and clubs com-posed of 1,300 women participating in intramurals . All female staff ,faculty and students at UBC are eligible for the program .
The women's intramural program is run by the students and funde dby a discretionary grant from the Alma Mater Society . The AMS ha sallocated 12 cents towards this program for each woman on campus .Why not take advantage of your 12 cents and join women's intramurals?
It is simple to become involved in the women's program . One way i sto contact the intramural unit manager of the organization you're in-terested in joining . A second method is to visit the intramural office i nWar Memorial gym 202A or phone 228-5326 .
A third possibility is to attend an organizational meeting of theintramurals which are held noon Fridays in room 213 of the gym . Al lteams must be represented at the meeting to be included in the regula rschedule .
Richards, and his contributions t oVancouver football, how aboutcanning those bloody CFL fightsongs played at home games .
3) Our thanks to Ruth and Joyc ein the athletic office for ensuringthat we get copies of all sports
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Education
PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF FAMILIES BY INCOME GROUPS AND EDUCATION OF HEAD, 197 1
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8 .4
3 .8
1 .8
1 .2
1 .6
0.7
0.8
0 .4
2.000- 2,999
12 .4
6 .5
3.6
2.2
1 .8
1 .0
1 .6
1 .0
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17 .8
9 .3
5.3
3 .5
2 .7
2.3
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1 . 1
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10 .4
7 .4
5 .0
3.5
2 .8
2.2
2.3
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7 .5
7 .9
6.2
4 .8
4 .7
4 .4
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7 .7
7 .9
6.7
5.3
4 .4
5.3
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4 .9
8 .5
7.3
6.7
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6 .8
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4. 7
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5 .6
12 .5
15.5
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16.6
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By ASAD SHAHUniversity of Manitoba
It has been estimated tha talmost two-thirds of the heads oflow-income families have no morethan elementary school education .A university degree will increaseone's life time earnings by 75 pe rcent . In other words, education i sworth cold, hard cash .
Being born to a poor famil ymeans that as a child you mus tlearn to undervalue yourself an dretreat into a smaller world tha thas been ordained for you . Withfew exceptions, the fate of thesepoor children is sealed before theyeven walk across the threshhold o fschools that would have failedthem in any event .
Both hardships of economicsupport while attending aneducational institution, and theincompatibility of the values ex-pressed through the educationsystem with those of the en-vironment in which the poor mus tlive create a contradiction which i sirreconcilable — resulting inalmost every case, in the abortingof the individual's education .
The demand for high educationa lattainment, often unnecessarilyhigh levels, by the employers ,locks the door to opportunity forthe vast majority of the poor . Thesenate committee on poverty foundthat "89 per cent of low-incom efamilies were headed by person swho had not completed highschool . "
Once a family has sunk int opoverty, the chances of the nextgeneration rising out of it are ver yslim .
Now, more than ever, educationmeans opportunity . Educationcosts money and regardless of ho wfree it may be, lower incom efamilies tend to take their childrenout of school at an earlier age andput them to work . Lower incom efamilies are obviously penalizedwhen it comes to higher education ,which in Canada has always beenprohibitively expensive . A recen tstudy indicated that the cost of ayear's university education i sabout $2,800 .
The education levels of thefamily heads were very likel yinfluenced by the income andrelated circumstances of thei rparents ; and their circumstance sin turn are likely to influence thelevels attained by their children .
The richest class has more tha ntwice as many students in theschool as the poorest section of thesociety .
A student from the top 25 percent of the populatio neconomically and of the top 25 pe rcent in ability has 87 chances out o f100 of going to college . A student o fthe same measured ability butfrom the bottom quartil eeconomically has about one-halfthe chance . Further, theeconomically disadvantaged havea much lower chance of evenfinishing college .
The parents of 50 .6 per cent o funiversity students are eithe rproprietors and managers o rprofessionals . These classes for monly 15.6 per cent of the labor force .On the other hand, the parents o fonly 5 .1 per cent of universitystudents are from laborersalthough they institute 20 .5 percent of the labor force. Thus ,chidren whose fathers are in thehighly paid professions have 1 0times as many students in thesample than they would have i frepresentation were equal .
Whereas only 4 .6 per cent o ffamily heads between ages 35-65years had a university degree ,their children constituted 20 .6 percent of the university enrolment .On the other side of the scale, only26 .5 per cent university studentscame from parents havin gelementary schooling, constituting53 .7 per cent of the family heads .
Though there are many reasonsas to why people end up at a par-ticular place in the occupationa lhierarchy, one must look to the
class structure which prevails tofully, or even adequately, com-prehend the persistence of clas soppression and exploitation .
The- present division of labo rserves the needs and priorities o fthe owners of capital and not theneeds of the vast majority of thepeople .
The owners of capital want toperpetuate their rule andreproduce the hierarchical divisonof labor from generation togeneration .
If we are to change this situation ,if we are to create an environmentof equal opportunity, we have to
cashremove those class difference swhich contradict the very basi cvalues of a democratic society .
We must remove the social andpsychological barriers t oeducational opportunity and in -crease the accessibility t oeducational institutions to such anextent that all Canadians cancontribute their full talents .
Only then can our humanresources be utilized fully .
We must also overhaul oureducational philosophy so that th eclass differences are not per-petuated and reinforced at theeducational institutions, but ratherreduced or eliminated .
A NEW WAITING LIS Twill be started October 1 for students wishin gResidence accommodation for the spring term(beginning December 1) .The current waiting list expires November 30. Al lstudents on this list who are still interested mus tre-validate their names for the new waiting list i nperson 11 :30-2:30 Thursday, Friday and Monday .(Please bring AMS card . )Available rooms are assigned each day at 12 :30 tothe first persons on the list present .
OFFICE OF DIRECTO ROF RESIDENCE S
SPECIAL FILM PRESENTATIONS :
PRINCE SIHANOU KOF CAMBODIA VISITSCHINA'S NORTHEAST
also: the celebration of the 23rd anniversary of thePeople's Republic of China .
OLYMPIA THEATRE, 2381 E . HASTINGSSeptember 29 — 1 :00 & 3:00
September 30 — 12 :00
Admission: Donation s
BANQUET: MARCO POLO THEATRE RESTAURAN T90 E . Pende r
$6.50 per perso n
Tickets at China Arts & Crafts Ltd . ,33 E . Hastings
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(A) Lovely diamond in graceful 18 kyellow gold mounting
from $300 .
10% DISCOUNT AT OUR VARSITY STOR EThe students, faculty and administrative staff of UBC will b eaccorded 10% discount privileges on all purchases at our 10t hand Sasamat store .
* 566 Seymou r* 599 Seymou r* Pacific Centr e* 107 E . Pende r* Park Roya l* Brentwood* Victori a* Kelowna* Kamloop s
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
RING DAYSeptember 28, 1973
These exclusive designs were created for the University ofBritish Columbia . One side features THUNDERBIRDS in bol dletters above the Thunderbird . The other side features you rpersonal grad year dates and the official university seal .Many options are available for students to personalize thei rofficial university ring.The centre ring is a signet bearing the official university seal .THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA is spelled ou taround the seal .FREE OPTIO NAll students who place ring orders on the above ring day wil lreceive a free personal option .Your official Josten's representativ eJohn Haines, will be at The Bookstor eFriday, Sept . 28 between the hours o f9 a .m .-2 p .m. to give you personalizedservice .
AVAILABLE AT :
the bookstorei
Varsity Store : 4517 West 10thTel . 224-4432
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