Tempers flare at Int’l House
anarrogantand
insensitive adBy MARCUS GEE
ministrator.
Two
UBC
studentscharged
Saf Bokhari said Smith misused
Wednesday that
the
executive
a
technicality
in the constitution of
director of International House
the
students’
barredthemfrom
running in a international
block his
recent student election because he programcommitteeto
nomination to run for chairperson
disliked them.
of the group.
And thecontroversyaboutthe
“He just wantsto get rid of me,”
alleged election irregularities has
Bokharicharged.“Thatman
led tofurtherchargesfrom
students and from membersof the would stoop to anything.”
Smith admitted in an interview
Vancouver community that IH
executivedirector Colin Smith is he dislikes Bokhari and thinks he
+
I Vol. U(,No. 13
would make a poor chairperson for
the committee.
But he
said
he
disallowed
Bokhari’snominationbecause
Bokhari was not a paid IH member
last year.
Bokhari said his participationon
another IH committeelastyear
was neverchallenged
andsaid
Smith only informed him of his
alleged ineligibility theday before
last week’s election.
Smith reactedbitterlytothe
VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, OCTOMR 13, 1977
“ r s
228-2301
suggestion
that
he rigged the
election.
“If he thinks we are trying to
bbck himfrom runninghe’s crazy.
I am amazed he had the audacity
torunafterthejobhedidlastyear
(as public relations officer for the
IH reception
and
orientation
committee).”
Joe Blell, president of the PanAfrican Union, alleged that Smith
also blocked his nomination to run
for the committee executive.
Blell said Smithtold him he was
ineligible because he had not
renewed his membership.But Blell
said he thinksSmithusedthe
technicality as an excuse to keep
him off the committee.
“The man has been running that
thing (IH) with an iron fist. Since SMITH.. .called ’colonial officer‘
he came in we have come to really come from rentals to $16,000 from
distrust him - our relationship $2,000.
with International House has gone
ButBokhari said Smith’s tightsour.”
money policies have
hurt
InBut Smithalso denied that he ternational House.
wanted to
keep
Blell off the
“Theplace is making money,but
commit tee.
at
whose expense?Thatplaceis
‘‘This man got interestedafter
being
runas a business atthe
the horse left the stable. If he had
of keeping students out.”
the gutsof a weevil, he would have expense
Some members of the comadmitted he wasjust too late,” munity who have been associated
Smith said.
the house say Smith has
BleU. accusedSmith
of being with
discouraged them from becoming
patronizing to foreign students and involved in helping with orienof letting
student
programs
for foreign students.
stagnate in favor of money-making tation
“The
place
seems
to have
enterprises.
can see, strictly
as far Ias
“He acts like a colonial officer become,
said Olive Cuthbert, an
and that is one thing I just can’t business,”
IH
member
for 15 years.
stand.”
“Theplace doesn’t seemto be for
Blen said
Smith
often gives students
anymore.”
bookings for space in the house to
Cuthbert
said
community
inrevenue-producingeventslike
has dropped drastically
wedding receptions and gives low volvement
Smith became director.
priority to some student activities. since
“He’s a dictator as far a s I can
Smith agreed he likes to see the see,”
said. “There. hasbeen a
house turn a profit but denied he great she
decline
in activity and many
has let student activity stagnate.
people have stayed away.”
“My moneymaker
is
rentals.
Smith
said
community
inEven the faculty of commerce is
volvement
has
levelled
off in the
astounded at the way we,putit (IH past
few
years
but increased
..
amounts) together.”.
involvement
in IH
“We’re in theblackthis
year. student
programs has taken up the slack.
Black is beautiful.”
“We haveseenmorestudent
Smithsaidthatsince
he took
activity
and direct participation in
over at .IH six years ago he has
See page 8: TROUBLE
increasedtheaverageyearly
in‘
B.C. ed dep’t
has extra $ $
“ m a t t king photo
MISERABLE MARBLE M0THER”’suffers from
post-nasal drip as she gloomily surveys students on rainy
days and wishessome kind soul wouldlend her handkerchiefor a t least pass Dristan spray to alleviate
discomfort. Someone should tell her t o rest in bed, drink plenty of fluids. . . .
Alberta students fiaht fees
EDMONTON (CUP) - The Federation of Alberta
Students
(FAS)
may
take
Alberta’s
advanced
education and manpowerminister to theAlberta
supreme court over the legality of that province’s
differential fees program.
Delegates to the
federation’s
conference
last
weekend mandatedtheirexecutive
to, “go ahead
withthelegal actionondifferential fees following and
during an informational campaign.”
FAS executive
officer
Brian
Mason saidthe
federation’s lawyer has indicated there is a better
than 50 per cent chanceof winning a challenge to the
legality of differential fees. But the case cannot be
initiated for several months because the federation
under
the
Alberta
must first be incorporated
Societies-Act.
w
Masonsaid thecasecould cost about
$l,OoO.He said
to
that if the federationloses the case and is required
pay
bill will bean additional$700.
. . court costs, the
Mason said these costs
will be met by the money in
the equal access fund, set
up to help students hurtby
differential fees, and by donationsfromvarious
student associations.
The legal actionis a last resort on tlhe federation’s
part to gettheAlberta government to remove the
fees.
‘ Differential fees became effective in Alberta this
fall andrequire foreign students attendinguniversities in Alberta to pay an additional $300 in tuition
fees and thoseattending vocational institutions to pay
an additional $150.
“That’s disgusting. If you added
Rv BILL TIELEMAN
up all the tuition f e e increases it
provincial
The education
$11 million would be less than $11 million. they
departmenthadan
or
surplus last year, but the money should givestudentsarebate
give the universities the money to
into
will not be going back
offset futurecutbacks,” he said.
education.
The education departmenthad
In March of 1976, education
an $11 million surplusfromthe
minister Pat McGeer authorized
1976-77 fiscal
year
operating
an extra $7.5million grant toB.C.’s
post-secondary
budget
for
three
universities
because
they
educationinstitutions otherthan
were unableto meet their budgets.
B.C.’s three universities, associate
Cocke chargedtheextragrant
deputy educationminister
Jack was
a political moveby McGeer to
Fleming said Wednesday.
put
pressye
on the universities to
The money, left overfrom the trim
their
budgets
when
the
budgets of communitycolleges,
education
minister
knew
his
vocational institutes and the B.C. department
was
going
to have a
Institute of Technology,willgo
surplus.
back to the province’s general
“He (McGeer) knew that he was
revenue
redistribution
for
wherever the government sees fit. going to be over the budget,”
Provincial NDP education critic Cocke said.
Dennis Cocke said Wednesday the
Neither Flemingor Jim Bennett,
surplus is typical of the Social McGeer’s
executive
assistant
Credit government’s policies.
could provide a breakdown of the
“This is the bottom line way of sources of the surplus.
doingbusiness. The$11 million will
If the $11 million surplusis
go back into the finance minister’s
1976-77
subtracted
fromthetotal
vault,” he said.
college/vocational
Cocke said $2 million of the community
surplusmaybe
moneynot used institute budget, the net effectis to
from last year’s student aid fund. make last year’sbudgetabout
Education department officials $500,000less thanthe budget for the
couldnot confirm or deny if lef- previous year.
colleges
budget
was intover student aid money comprised The
creased to $106,623,567 for 1976-77
part of the surplus.
Studentboard
of governors from $96,089,616 for 1975-76. But,
reprgenative Moe
Sihota
said subtracting the $11 million surplus
Wednesday the surplus should be from last year’s budget the actual
sum
spent
in 1976-77 was
used to increasetheuniverities’
$95.623.567,or $466.049 less than the
students
a
budgets or to give
1975-76 budget.
rebate on tuition increases.
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Thursday, October 13, 1977
THE
Gays form group
Official U.B.C.
Following the conference, about
HALIFAX (CUP) - Over 100
gay people from the four Atlantic 20of the delegates marchedon the
provinces formed the Atlantic Gay Nova Scotia legislature to protest
human
rights
Movement during the first meetingdiscriminatory
legislation.
of its kind here last weekend.
i'For the first timewe were able
"he gays decided duringthe
to localize the issues and clearly
three-day gathering to strengthen definewhatcanbedone
in the
communication within the region Atlantic to combatoppression,"
initially through the publication of said
spokesperson
a
for
the
or organizers of the conference, the
bilingual
a newsletter
magazine. They also agreed there Halifax Gay Alliance for Equality,
is a need for more gay clubs and
and
the
Atlantic
Provinces
organizations in theregionand
for Equality
Political
Lesbians
thattheAtlantic
should havea
(APPLE).
stronger voice at nationalgay
The newly-formed Atlantic Gay
conferences.
Movement will hold
annual
meetings
on
Thanksgiviqg
"Ie
conference
passed weekends,
and
will host
the
resolutions
calling
for a bilinsal cmlitbn,s
conference in
gaymovement in Canada, con- Halifax in July, 19,8.
tinued sumort fortheNational
Gay Riihts
.Coalition's
intervention in the renewal ofCBC
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UBYSSEY
”
increasesin AMS fees, includingand that the AMs Could getby,”
A referendum
asking
UBC least 15 per cent of the students
one to join NUS and BCSF, failed. DeMarco said. “We felt it was too
in ordertoforma
students whether they want to joinmustvote
soon topropose thef e e increase for
the National Union of Students and quorum and two-thirds of these
DeMarco said the SRA believes m s
the B.C. Students’ Federation will students must vote in favor of any
proposal-involvingmoney in order thereferendafailedbecause
likely be held in February.
students
were
not sifficientlv inIn last Year’s
NUS/BCSF
for it to be accepted.
Alma Mater Societypresident
formed andmade aware of what referendum, which drew a 62 per
cent turn’out, 59 per cent of those
JohnDeMarco
said Wednesday
“But the SRA may vote to amendthe proposals involved.
voting were in favorof joining NUS
thatthe decision recommending the cdnstitution so that something
Although referendum
the
and 52 per cent were in favor of
the referendum was made by the less thanatwo-thirdsmajority
committee
.was
considering
studentrepresentativeassembly
would be needed to
push a proposal holding a referendum to increase joining BCSF.
referendum
committee
Wed- through,” DeMarco said.
NUS isCanada-wide
a
general AMS fees, itdecided to
nesday.
tries to solve
organizationthat
postpone
such
a
referendum
until
DeMarco saidthecommittee
If thereferendum
is passed,
studentproblemssuch
a s poor
next Jw--a r ..
AMs fees will increase by $2. thinks students at UBC Are ready
representation on governing
NUS BCSF referendum
Membershipfees for both NUS And forthe
Of last Year’s
bodies,
housing
and
unemAt the
time
becausetheincreaseinvolvedis
referenda,the SRA saidit would ployment.
BCSF are $1 per student.
SRA will
Inaddition,the
a general lee increase
The
recommendation
will be small.plenty
It uses’ researchers andstaff
of time to fully inform
this year.
voted on at the SRA meeting next have
workers
to fiid out what problems
the students.
Wednesday.
“We felt it wouldbe betternot to are common to allstudentsand
Last year, referenda proposing have
both
referendums
together
how they
can
be solved.
problems.
According to the constitution, at
”“”
and voted Conservativeeven
if
they had previously supported the
Liberals.
NDP MLA Larrv Desiardins
This year, NUS is organizing a
campaign.
lower
theto
disproportionately highunempbymentrateamonguniversity
and college students.
“The goal of NUS is to join all
unversitystudents
in Canada
together and give thema common
vote,” DeMarco said.“It is imto have
portantandbeneficial
contact betweenthe students on all
Canadian campuses.”
me federation .has the=me
basic goalsas the union, but deals
with things on a provincial level. It
helps college student
societies
become
organized
and
does
student
research on various
UBC.comesup with university plan
blamed the media, pkticul&ly the
By MIKE BOCKING
have tocompletetheirdegree
Winnipeg Free Press, forurging
programs in Vancouver.
UBC‘s
proposal
to
offer
degree
his party’s defeat. Both Winnipeg
Before UBC’s proposal is acdaily newspapers wrote editorials programs a t Interioruniversity
centres will be decided upon by the cepted, it must be approved by the
supporting the Conservatives.
Universities Council of B.C. this Interioruniversitiesplanning
has in- month,
Ex-premier
Schreyer
a
UBC senator
said
board which is a committee of the
of
dicated he will not remain leader
Wednesday;
universitiescouncil.Thecouncil
the opposition for much longer. It
will
then
make
its
recomEconomicsprofessorRonald
is possible his long-rumored a p
chairman
of the mendationstotheprovincial.
pointment to the National Energy Shearer,
president’s committee on Interior goverment.
Board will take place.
Among those considered in the programs, told senate the proposal UBC iscompeting with Simon
University
and
the
running to succeed Schreyer are recommends degree programs for Fraser’
veteran MLA Sid Green, who arts, education,social work and University of Victoria for approval
of their program.
polled more votes than any other some commerce instruction.
SFU is submitting a proposal of
election
and
candidate in the
UBC would also offercredit
newly-electedBrianCorrin,a
courses in agriculture and forestryits own to the board and W i c has
former Winnipeg city councillor. to Interiorstudentswho wouldthen made a proposal for a university
educatibn program on Vancouver expensive than a t UBC, on a perIsland.
studentbasis,”
hesaid.
UBC’s
Shearer saidUBC’s proposal was proposal calls for two university
a “commitmenton the partof UBC centres
in
the
Interior.
Prince
to provide
education
for
all
George, Kelowna and Kamloops
residentsinB.C.,”andthat
havebeensuggested
a s possible
educational
facilities
be
to
campus sites.
developed intheinteriorshould
Shearer said “university centres
reflect the needs and requirementsshould be a t community college
of residents in the Interior.
cenlre~,but not under,theiradShearer said the standards for, ministrations.”
graduationfromtheseuniversity’
Thecentreswouldhave
a
“cenlres” will be the sameas UBC residentfaculty which would be
degree requirements.
members of the UBC Faculty
These programs “will not
Association.
used a s experiments in education.
Shearer said the centres
would
or curriculum,” he said.
have adequate academic facilities,
But “Droerams will be more particularly library resourcei.
“We do not propose to skimp on
the library resources,” he said.
Thefaculty
of artsat
these
centres would havesix to eight
departments, each of which would
UBC’s professional librarians are seeking repre- librarians
who operate on a collegiate level and who
;
have three faculty members.
sentation on the
senate,
the
UBC Librarians’considerthemselvespartners
in thepresentation of
The
proposed
departments
the library to people who want to use it,” he said.
Association president said Wednesday.
are
anthropology-sociology,
“We areacademic personnel in this university and Professional librarians a t UBC all hold librarianship ’.
economics,
English,
geography,
we feel that we canmakea
contribution to the degrees.
history political science,philosohy
Simon Fraser University librarianshave.hadrepdeliberations of the senate,” Nick Omelusik said.
and psychology.
He saidtheassociation has sent a letter to theresentation
on the SFU senateforayear, Omelusik *‘lhe centres would alsohavea
senatecommittee on theimplementation of thesaid.
He said UBC librarians donot havethesame
smalleducationfaculty.
But the
Universities Act. The letter asks for representation privilege because nobody has made an issue of it until
proposed Interior campuses would
similar to that given to faculty
members.
now.
in sciences,
not offer
courses
is
Eachfacultyelects two representativestosenate.
According to theUniversitiesAct,senate
Shearer said.
In addition,facultydeans
are automaticallysenateresponsible,
among otherthings,
for library
Altbugh SFU is also submitting
members.
management.
a proposal,Shearersaidthe
;.”,; ,
Omelusik saidheadlibrarianBasilStuart-Stubbs is . Senaterelies on anannualreportfromStuart
competing recommendations were
also a member of senate but the librarians also want Stubbs and on the senate library committee which is 2 , ’. :
not necessarily“mutually exright
the
to representatives.
elect
responsible
for looking
library
operations
at and,
STUART-STUBBS
clusive.” The Universities Council
“UBC Librarians’ Association is group
a
,of 95 changing
its
regulations,
Omelusik said.
.
...automatic senate
reD
may take parts
from both prposals,
he said.
b e ’
librarians seek senate seats’
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THE
Thursday, October 13, 1977
UBYSSEY
”
Reviews ignorant, anti=gay
Wiseman may be stuck with his
idiok are egomaniacs,andall
Re:EmasculatedRodloses
charm and Bulging bods in tender suffer from shrivelled penisesas a prejudices for life. But surely he
result of takingsteroids.
Which can
do
something
about
his
story.
Who is Les Wiseman and who’s motheaten, antiquated medical
ignorance.
text did he get this titillating bitof
Heather Martin
he trying to kid?
information from?
arts 9
Both reviews by thisman,
published in Friday’s Ubyssey,
display a level of prejudice,
tastelessnessandignoranceunmatchedeven by previous issuesof
your publication (quite a feat! ).
If Rod Stewart’s behavior does
AfterreadinglastFriday’s
His review of the recent Rod
conform
to what we
could
granted not
Stewartconcert
is riddled with editorialandtakingfor
expect, to mention it is someone’s
that everybody on thecampus
blatant and needlesslyunsavory
agrees and should take a stand on right (what do you expect from a
anti-gay sentiment. Wiseman’s
human
rights, what a surprise to rock artist, or in fact from any of
prejudices are extended in his
your neighbors? Is itanyone’s
review of Pumping Iron to include find on the samedayinThe
business?)
3ut
if
his
Ubyssey remarks detractingthis
body-builders. Here his thesisis
.
professionalism is not affected by
that thereis something wrong with same issue.
“It usedto be obvious that he it ( a s the critic assures us) then
body builders: those who are not
(Emasculated Rod) would be a let’s ask a question: why should
great guy to share a bottle with, a somebody be afraidof meeting him
real one of the guys, someone you in the toilet?
could really roll in the gutter with.
This is the critic’s problem( who
These days, however, you’d get is he reassuring with hismacho
nervous if he decided to stand at image, equating masculinity with
I picked
up
a copy of The the urinal next to you.”
conceitedness,
vulgarity
and
Ubyssey on Fridayandwas
Assuming that objectivity is the aggressiveness? ) ; andcertainly
pleasantly surprised by the front
main criterion of good journalism,
pagearticle,Gaysprotest
CBC this is not onlv in mor taste but not the reader’s.
a fair,rational
policy. Itwas
denotes biased opiiions based on
Be informative, yes; innovative
discussion of the
problems
of social
stereotypes
that
any
andhumoristic, yes,but whcrneeds
discrimination by the CBC against university
student
should
consubjective derogatory put downs?
the gay community.
Victor Tremblay
demn.(Isn’tpsychologycomarts
The CBC, in its self-appointed pulsoryfor everystudent?No?)
role as watchdog of the public
morals,
decided
has that
Canadians a r e not ready to hear
that sort of thing. The Ubyssey, in
reporting theconflict, seemed be
to
denying that statement.
If indeed ‘Gays are People’ then
I was pleased to see the.editoria1
bloody
Then I turned to Page Friday- in the Friday issue, affirming the to callsomeonea‘raving
fruit’ is no better than to denigrate
and the Rod Stewart review. I was humanrights of an all toooften
maligned minority, the gaypeople someone by calling them a Wop,
confronted by all the stereotypes
Chink, or a niggerbut,perhaps
and cliches that The
Ubyssey, in its of Canada. In the light of the atI was Wiseman would feel no comtitude
expressed
there
support of thegaycommunity,
punction in using those epithets a s
perplexed as well as angrythat
seemed to be rejecting. The review
well.
The Ubyssey would, in the same
was both offensive and pointless.
Jack Andersen
Les Wiseman’s main criticisms issue, include a vicious andminlaw 2
revolvedaroundvariations
of dless slur of that same minority.I
refer to the slanderfound under the
“raving bloody fruit” and almost
nothing onthe contentor quality of byline of Les Wiseman.
The attitude of The Ubyssey staff
Wiseman’ssexualinsecurity
themusic, savewhen it servedas a
rights
and
toward
gay
revealed in the form of a critical discrimination was expressed in
point supporting his thesis:one
be in a public revue of a recent rock and roll the
would not want
on page four of
editorial
a Friday’s paper. The unintentional
show does
little
credit
to
washroom with a performer.
a newspaper whichelsewhereexHomophobia
always
is
slurs in Wiseman’s reviewsapdisturbing neurosis, but to allow a pr&ses a reasonablyenlightened
peared in Friday’s issue d.ue to
of oversights and should not
public display of it by a writer in attitudetowardthespectrum
in any
the same paper that denounces its sexual preference.
way be seen as indicative of the
To rder to someone as a “raving staff‘s feelings on thisissue. The
displayelsewhere,forces
me to
and
a s someone IJbvssey apologizes to anyone who
question
the
sincerity
of The bloody fruit”
“you’d getnervous (about) if he was offended by the references in
Ubyssey’s support of the
gay
community, and their struggle for decided to stand at the urinal next the two reviews.
to you ,” is plainly a stereotype and
basic civil rights.
“staff
Gail Flambleton-Glen a slur.
Editorial contradicted
-
-
Please prepare for unloading
we dock at Horseshoe Bay in 15 minutes.
‘
“
Don’t blame
ferry union
So you couldn‘t getover to the island over the weekend
for your holidays or to visit the folks, and you’re pissed off
a t the ferry workers.
-
Think again.The ferry workersaren’t to blame for the
strike, the government is. The government, through the B.C.
ferry Corporation, is trying to reduceworkers’pay,make
them work longer days for less, and reduce job security. Just
put yourself in the ferry workers‘ place, and the unreasonable
strike suddenly appears reasonable.
Thedaily papers talk about the workers‘defianceof
a
LaborRelationsBoardorder.
But the LRBorder followed
labor minister Allan Williams’ imposition 03 a 90-day ’cooling
off period‘
under
the Railway and
Ferries
Bargaining
Assistance Act, a piece of Socred legislation.
The cooling off period was being used as a ploy to destroy
the workers’bargainingpower,and
so theworkersalmost
unanimouslydecided t o defythelegislation in thefaceof
stiff fines.
Most people expect to receive overtime pay for any time
worked past 7% or 8 hours in a day, and that includes ferry
workers. Butin
the name of efficiency,the
corporation
wants to deny them overtime until they haveeach worked
1,750 hours in a year, and make them work longer shifts on
regularpay. In the shortterm, it means a massive cut in
income for the workersand ultimately denies them a right
most other workershave.
Homophobia
Vicious, mindless slur
I
to,
Prisoner
I.
OJ
0
consczence weeR
The ferry corporation’s attempt to increase the time each
employeeworks without any jobsecurity, to three years
As actingpresident
of the Declaration of HumanRightsisa
from two, plus poor timing and stupidity on Williams‘ part,
fledgling
Amnesty
UBC fine
Qcument,
yet
it
would seem
adds up to a ferry stoppage. Anyone whocan still justify organization, itwas with deepthat high idealsproduceverylittle
blaming the ferry workers can justify robbery.
respect and overwhelming joy that in the “real” world, for most of the
THE UBYSSEY
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OCTOBER 13,1977
Published
Tuesdays,
Thursdays
and
Fridays
throughout
the
university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of
B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the AAIS
or the universityadministration.Member,CanadianUniversity
Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary
and review. The Ubyssey’s editorial office is in room 241K of the
228-2301;
Student Union Building.
Editorial
departments,
Advertising, 228-3977.
Editor: Chris Gainor
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“Alrlght. klddles;” yelled Sylvana - 0 1 Glacomo. “Who can tellmewhlch
Ubyssey staffer was 90 ugly as a chlld hls famliy had to pay someone to be
hls glrlfrlend?””Uh.
Marcus Gee?” guessed Blll Tleleman, hoping nobody
would think It
was really himself. RalphMaurerlooked up from hls work.
“Nah,” he sald. “Everybodyknowsblond
Greeks have n o trouble gettlng
glrlfrlends.” Chrls Galnor
loomed
omlnously. ”If
anyone
says It’s me
I’ll..
hestarted to say but was merclfullyblottedoutbya
speedlng
truck (who knows
where It came from). Steve Howard smlrked. “It wasn’t
me.” he sald. “Everybody knows that taxldrlvers are tremendously popular.”
HIS helper (sorry, don’t knowyour name, sportswrlter)cheered
from the
s1,iellnes. Kathy Ford hoped nobody would find out about her secret past as
Verne McDonald, Shelly Sweeney and Geof Wheelwrlght waited t o see what
would develop and Matt Klng prepared to photograph the former ugly chlld.
Lloyanne
Hurd,
Tom
Hawthorn,
Brad
Felton
and
Gabrlella
Botteselle
Ignored the puzzled staffers. “Try to lmaglne how llttle wecare.” they sald
whlle the former P F co-editor who was the centre of controversy threatened
to wrlte the next masthead.
..”
1
Rights, eachandevery
government in the world to act for .the
immediate release of all prisoners
of conscience.”
Hopefully
this
brief
and
1 l e a r n et hdoaD
ut ra r eD
n te c l a r a t i o ns’isg n a t o r i e s
the- document. inadequateexplanation will clear
organization, Amnesty’ In- regularlyviolate
up some of the confusion about A.I.
ternational,had
won the Nobel This is where A.I. stepsin.Last
year alone, 1,274
A.I.
adopted and prisoners of conscience week.
Peace Prize for 1977.
entire
group
invites
It may be by coincidence only, prisonerswerereleased .- con- Also, the
any
who
wish- to ask
but this week happensto be the crete proof that A.I. is more than people
idealism,but rather idealism in questions, sign thepetition, or just
culmination of Amnesty
Insay hello to come by a booth. Act,
ternational’s
prisoners
of con- action.
for it’s youwho
makethe difAs mentioned
before,
this
is
science year (1977). It is in conjunction with the official Amnesty Prisoners,of Conscience Week for ference!
Amnesty UBC’s next general
International
prisoners
of con- A.I. Prisoners of Conscience are
meeting will be in Buch. 202 at
who
are
imprisoned
science week that Amnesty UBC people
has been running several .in- anywhere for their beliefs, color, 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20.
Fraser Easton
ethnic o r i g i n s, language, or
formation
booths
around
the
science 2
provided
they
have
campus (andwhich will continue to religion,
neither
used
nor
advocated
operateinInternationalHouse,
h
Sedgewick Library, and elsewhere violence. These people make up the
over the lunch hours until Friday majority of A.I.’s cases.
The Ubyssey welcomes lectern
It is during thisweek’s campaign from all readers.
this week).
Now, many people wonder what that A.I. is seeking signatures on
be signedand
Lettersshould
A . I . is all about.
A.I. is a non-profit the prisoners of conscience petition typed. Pennames will be used
at our booths. This petitionreads in whenthe writer’sreal name is also
non-political
human
rights
organization dedicated to seeking part: petitionfor theimmediate included for our information in the
world-wideobservance
of the ‘release of allprisoners of con- letter and when valid reasons for
science: “We the undersigned . . . anonymity are given.
[Tnited
Nations
Universal
Declaration of HumanRights, to urge the general assembly of the
Letters should be addressed to
United Nationsto take swift and the paper care of campus mail or
whichmost
countries(including
steps
toensurestrict
the Communist, African and .South concrete
dropped off a t The Ubyssey office,
Americannations) are signatories. observance in all countries of the SUB MlK.
The UnitedNations
Universal ITniversal Declaration of Human
.
... .....
THE
Thursday, October 13, 1977
UBYSSEY
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unpreparedforthis
revolution
in
their students and professors in both the Arts and
midst. For the most part, they have been Science streams.
interested in their
rank
and
tenure
Moreover, it is the
university which is the
(especiallymediocre ones),theirprivate
microcosmos of the dehumanizing,
imconsultation and lectures,their own little personal
society
around
them.
world of the “in” group.
Technological man has been found wanting
They have givenvery little thoughtto the because he is empty of human and moral
function of university as critic of values, of values. Technological man has been found
of man. They wanting because he is empty of human and
society, of truth, and above all,
seldom reallyreach their students and what
moral
values.
Technological,
onedo is often dull and dimensional
littleteachingthey
man
asks
the
supreme
ineffective and to prove they are the cap- question, “doesit work” or “how much does
tains of the ship they turnbeing
to dogmatic it work,” pragmatic andefficient in its
and irrational.
world of gadgets.
Theirpreoccupation is with “research”
which usually profitsno one exceptthe rank
and tenure committee. Theability to teach
might even be a handicap since they will
Thestupidityandinanity
of thecomfind their time eaten up
by students beating petitive grade system is another factor of
a path to theirdoor. In this area, most student rage. Indeed, the whole system of
professorshaveutterlyneglectedthe
grading (outside of pass/fail requirements
students. They have been too
busy
which seem to be reasonable) is a perfect
producing “think-tanks,” themengeared
reflection of the dehumanized commercial
for
the
industrial-business-technological
andcompetitive economic systemaround
society than to think a wisdom which is the us.
whole essential functionof the university in
Theyknow very well that in Western
society. We have produced the technocrat
society, it is the economic factor which is
not the wise man.
supreme in spite of all the preachy cliches
It is not surprising, then, that academics about human rights and moral values.
These students have seen right through
the phoney humanitarianism of most doctors, who are in the profession for money,
and so milk the public forall the market can
bear. These students know very well that
what is predominant is the written laws of
This attitude seems reasonable until one
not
the land are mostlypropertyrights,
examines the assumptions of the reasoning
human rights, with the result that the then
on what education is all about. Setting aside
mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, could be
for the moment the legitimate complaints
of
universallyapplauded
by theAmerican
students withregard to teachers and lackof
peoplewhen hesaid(andordered)that
teaching, theuniversity as promoter of
looters be maimedand arsonists killed. It is
competion and the“dog eat dog” concept of
only in a society which placesmaterial
survival,thelittle
power exercisedby
goods above human lives thatsuch an order
students over an education which will incould be given and accepted.
fluence them forthe rest of their lives, etc.,
This is exactly the phoniness and
the real problem involved here is thewhole
hypocrisy against which the
students,
natureof what education isall about and,in
are
sometimeswithunacceptabletactics,
function of this, what the university is all
trying to overthrow
and
replace.
Men
about in the context of man’s life.
are infinitely more than what they eat, or
For if we misunderstandthis, we miswhat they wear, or what they drive or live
understand the reasons
for past turmoil and
in; theserights of propertymustbeabmany moreto come on North American and
solutely subordinate to civil andhuman
other university campuses in other parts of
right of people.
The
competitive
comthe world.
mercial system (“You are what you have”)
The students know how much their own
has given us the richest, most affluent but
universities are used and are dependent
dehumanizedsocietythe
world hasever
upon industries
and
other
related
inseen which includes the universities.
stitutionsfor thkse vastsums of money
STUDENT PROTESTS .,. . hit military, industrial links
T h u s , students come to the campus
of the
needed for research, all the way from the
university
wanting
to
learn
something
about
between
the
ideal
and
its
imperfect
are hard-shelled conalmostinvariably
training of espionage agents’ to the
themselves and theworld about them. What
realization
in
society
and
thereby
there
servatives
on
questions
of
university
production of new forms of poison gas and
arises a tension between the university and reform, no matter how radical they may be they want above all else is understanding.
lethalgermsforbacteriologicalwarfare.
They want meaning to their lives of, what
They know that their institutions of higher society,betweenthe “now” andthe “not onother issues.
used to be called in timespast a liberal
As
Hegel
said
with
regard
to
yet.”
This
is
why
turning
over
public
funds
for
leafing now are so dependent upon large
education.
speculative
philosophy,
one
does
not
refute
the running of education to political officials Thechanqes of finding it on the North
grants fromgovernment
and monopolist
except as one replaces it with a better.
is insane. These are the people who conceive
foundations (Ford, Rockefeller, etc.)that
nonIf universityrefuses to exercise its critical universities as a place where students goto American campustoday-isalmost
the danger has become magnified in what
so
caught
up
has
the
university
existent,
function,
it
risks
not
only
abandoriing
youth
study to prepare for their futureso as to fit
former U.S. senator J. William Fulbright
to no direction, no value system, but it also in society by becoming a “productive” been in thesciences, in government conhas
termed
the
industrial-militaryexposessociety
to theconsequences
of citizenmuchas wefita nutonto a bolt which tracts, and advice, etc. It isnoteworthy that
university complex in the U.S.
the overwhelmingmajority of the protesting
irrationalviolence
by informedand
then “fits.” But man is infinitely more than students
are from liberal arts departments,
misguided demagogues (the Nazi atrocities thisandsuch
a conception of education seldom from
the professions.
is a classic case in point) or when this has corrupts education because corrupts
it
man.
The reason is clear and quite simple; the
course, to barbarous repression. No
run
its
The university has prostituted itsfunction
professions “fit”very wellin our society
from a search for truth to research for the police state can existwith a free university;
. is only
while
the
Socraticquestioner
no
democracy
can
survive
without
it.
destruction of mankind (homo sapiens).
is not
regarded as subversive but, worse, he
is
precisely
this
function
of
university
It
Indeed, the veryfunction of the university
The university doesnot exist because it is “productive.” Indeed, the questions such a
which
the
North
American
university
has
has
become
corrupted.
The
present
“useful” it exists fortruth,andtruthis
student asks -what is the
good life? What is
curriculum isnow geared to producing men failed to give, whichis the objectof so much man; therefore, the essential
function of the the nature of justice? Who is man? What is
Man university is wisdom, but how can wisdom
for business and commercial needs, not for studentdissatisfactionandprotest.
thefinalanalysis
by be acquired when the whole essence of the relationship between the university and
the intellectual pursuit
of truth. One obtains lives bywisdomin
the
outside
community?
What
kind
of
meaning
and
signification
of
human
life,
not
today’s university is to produce technocrats society we live in? What is the remedy for
a degree to find “a jot&‘ with business or
industry; public education,then has become by technology. It is precisely here that we to fit the society?
the evils of society? - are usually a bore
of theuniversity which
the biggest ZSubsidy that business and in- havethetreason
When MaxRafferty(former
Superin- and embarrassment to academics.
goes
about,
working
with
government
dustry have ever had.
tendent of Schools in California) called the
works,
where
The insanity of most of our universities contracts and^ public
universities in Californiahavensfor
are
valued
by
what
part
they
professors
curriculum is shown in the fact that 86 per
revolutions, he was right and more correct
cent of the graduates of our .institutions of play in privateconsultation (like Africanists than he thought, butin another way thanhe
These a r e “unscholarly”questionsand
higher learning
never
use
any
of the in the US. working for the CIA) not in im- thought.Revolution
does not necessarily would be beneath the dignity
of most of them
to
their
parting
wisdom
and
knowledge
knowledge they have absorbed during the
mean violence but at its central core, it
to answer. Thestudents who expect a visible
students.
time they have spent in these institutions.
means a radical restructuringof society, its relationships betweenknowledge and acSuch a thing as a searchfortruthand
values and its distribution of power.
tion, getsinsteadpedantryandalienated
meaning of human existenceis shown in the
The only power the university can exererudition or what collegians call bull shit.
way thealumnispendtheirmoneyand
cise is that of critic and truthwith regard to
It has produced the impersonal Madison
time: golf courses, TV, good times, status
Thecontestation of today’s valuesand
the always imperfect society around it. ThusAvenue gimmick man, the slick executive,
seeking . . . not reading, cultural activities, today’s function of the university has now the university isalways
in revolt with the
technocrat
who
knows
how to
the arts.
begun in earnest as witnessed in Berkeley, regard to the status quo and this is seen by manipulatebut
now
how
to think. The
Education is not this and yet this is what S.F. State,Wisconsin, Columbia, the London many as subversive. That is why western university we have today, in the words of
education, presently, ‘isproducing and the .School of Economics and Political Science, manlikes education in order to,as they say, Kristol,, “is very good at teaching scholars
students
violently
protest
this
dePrague, Madrid,Rome,
Bologna, Cairo, “getahead”
( a euphemism for making and specialists, but is very
bad at educating
humanization of man by the universities and Mexico, Chile, but the revolutionwhich it more money) but have always
been and are young men and women.”
colleges. They desire institutions whichwill has ushered in is yet to be done. At present, profoundly anti-intellectualandsuspicious
Negatively,
these
protesting
students
direct their lives into the avenues of truth the students are asking in positive fashion of the eggheads.
object against this function of the univerand meaning and
not
one
in which for representation to committees
that
When you subvert a society’s values, you sity; positively, theywant itto come back to
professors because of advisory capacity on decide the what is tobetaught
in the had better be prepared to replace it with a its originalandvital
function of seeking
influential committeessuggesttopics
of university.
what
our
better, which is precisely
truth
and
wisdom as a community of
do
his/her own interestforstudentsto
and students
The professorsa r e in confusion as witness universities today cannot do
scholarsandstudents. After all, they are not
(particularly third world students).
to students’ are demanding that they do. Can they‘ so.modern in this demand; it was the exact
theircollectivereaction
The truthis that
men do not become better demands. Most have very little
to contribute succeed? It is difficult to say a t this point for mode of thegreatest
of themedieval
by education (understoodhere in the narrow because they have been (and are) totally it will have tobe a collectiveeffort by universities.
technical sense of the western educational
systemtoday)butsimplyefficient.After
all, it was agroup of themosteducated
people the world had ever known
who
dropped two atomic weapons
on hundreds of
thousands of innocentpeople, killing and
maiming women, children, old people and
the sick.
University means universal in the-basic
It has been no surprise to see the
widespread disruptionsof university lifenot humansense of opennesstotheabsolute
to the,
only onthe campusesof North America, but mystery of mananditschallenge
of the
on the campusesof universities all over the student. Thisis the very raison d’etre
university, not the production of the narrow
world during the past few years.
technocrat or the one-dimensional man.
The
older
generation
particularly
is
disturbed because mostof these revolts are Indeed, it is preciselythis failure of the
university which is a t the heart of so much
initiated
and
fomented
by
middle-class
students whose privilege of higher education student protestsince they recognize that the
has been bequeathed to them through the
university is a moral conscience of the
labor, sweat
and
tearsof this
older
human community, questioning its values
generation. These students should be conand systems, perpetually askingdisturbing
tent to simply sitdown and studyin order to questionswhy, which meriteddeathfor
prepare themselves for a useful occupation Socratesforcorruptingtheminds
of the
in society (a euphemism for making a lot of young.
money)
something
which
the
older
Theuniversityis
subversive
a
place
generation had no opportunity or time todo. precisely becauseit calls into question
or at
Hence, thealmost-unanimousclamor
least it should, the stated values of society,
from this older
generation
that
adits practice, and its reality
in function of
ministrators get tough with these students these values. The function of protest is a
and, if necessary, to call in the police to real partof the university, that isa protest
break a few heads in order for the “good”
students to be able
to receive an education.
By JOSEPH BLELL
A look a t universitiesandthestudent
movement by Joseph €#ell, a postgraduate
student in regional planning. Blell, who was
born and raised in Sierra Leone, has studied
for several years in California and at UBC.
where he is active in student groups.
‘
Prostituted
Unscholarly
Confusion
THE
Poae 6
UBYSSEY
Thursday, October 13, 1977
'Tween classes
SOCIALISTS
TODAY
YOUNG
UBC
CLUB
EAST INDIAN
STUDENTS'
ASSOCIATION
General rneetlng, noon, SUB 212.
GAY PEOPLE OF UBC
Informal social satherlna.
noon.
_.
SUB 211.
CHARISMATIC
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
Lutheran
Love feast, 6 p.m..
campus centre.
TYNEHEAD ZOOLOGKAL SOCIETY
noon,
Organlzatlonal
rneetlng,
2361, south wlng blologlcal sclences
bulldlng.
ED RES SERVICE CENTRE
Open house, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m..
Scarfe 102.
MY J O N G K U N O FU CLUB
Practlce and reglstratlon, 4:30-6:30
0.m.. SUB Party room.
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COME TO YOUR
GENERALMEETlNG!
HEBB THEATRE 1230 WEDJ9 O M .
COME ON HOME!
TO UBC
HOMECOMING '77
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Next week is B.C. nutrition
week
and
there
will be related
activities at UBC.
MondaythroughFridaythere
will be a nutritional resources
display in
the
SUB
lobby.
Ge;t
your nutrition questions answered
there.
There will also be threefree
films.Tuesdayfeatures Fad Diet
Circus, Thursday you can see Diet
for a Small
Planet
and
Friday
brings Weight Control just a Step
Away.
All films will beshown inthe
SUB auditorium at noon.
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B
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Douglas
Yeo
speaks o n admlsslons,
General meeting, noon, SUB212.
noon, I R C 1.
CENTRE
WOMEN'S
UBC I N T R A M UI nRfA
oL
rm
Sal
rneetlng, noon,
130.
SUB
Arts 2 0 race, 1 p.m., V G H t o UBC.
UBC I N T R A M U R A L S
women's
Reglstratlon deadllnefor
FRIDAY
,squash and racquetball (practice
UBC FENCING CLUB
only)1
war memoria'
'02.
General
meetlng.
7
D.m.. wlnter
sports centre gym- E.
EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE
PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS'
SOCIETY
ASSOCIATION
Dance.admlssion$1,8
p.m;-12:30
a.m., scallebulldlng lounge.
General meeting. w o n . Angus 24.
I N.T E R~
NA
.
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. IONAL HOUSE
Autumn dance, 8 p.m., iH.
L
CEL UFB
RANCAIS
UBC DEBATING SOCIETY
La conversatlon Informale, mldl. IH.
Meetlng, noon, SUB 113.
Hot
flashes
Nutrition
SCIENCESTUDENTS!
ECKANKAR
Keyto
Speakers, One YearafterOct.14,8
Dlscusslon on chapterone,
p.m.. 1 2 0 8 Granvllle.
secret worlds, noon, SUB 213.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
BAHA'I CLUB
Lee*
Informal dlscusslon, noon, SUB
Bu. 203.
3 - c
A l a .
STUDENTS' INTERNATIONAL
M E DS
C
ISTO
H
TAC
IUT
NID
E
IEO
E
TSN
N
YET S '
Weekly
rneetlng,
noon, Buto
297.
ASSOC)ATION
noon,
Bu.
Mandarln
class,
CHINESE STUDENTS'
2238-2239.
ASSOCIATION
muon.
BU.
KOOTENAY HOUSE
Mandarln
class,
2238-2239.
Sadle Hawklns dance, 8 p.m., Place
Chlnese
instrumental
group
vanlerballroom.
practlce, 7:30 p.m.. SUB 234.
2
Candia Taverna darf'
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SPECIALIZING iN
GREEK CUISINE
& PIZZA
An open invitation to alumni and their friends
to tour the campus, cheer the Thunderbirds, get
together with old friends and dance the night
away.
Saturday, October 22,1977
The music starts at
9 p.m.
with the big band sound
of
Mad Kenney in the
ballroom of the Student
Union Building and the
fast-paced music ofCity
Haul in the partyroom.
~
George & Berny's
VOLKSWAGEN
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The dance ticket price of
$7.50 per person
includes a midnight supper.For ticketscall the
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are your
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- Coming Events
A community gettogether at
Univendty
Hill Church,
University BIvd. and Toronto Road.,
HARVEST SUPPER.
p.m., Friday Oct.
14.
General
a-on
t3.00, trnivewty Students
82.0. School Children $1.00
AI1
welcome.
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value
name
brand
racquets in all
price rangea Reamable rates for
stringing. Phone 733-16ll or visit
Community Sport. at 36113 We8t 4th
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WHITLATHE WALRUS.
THE
Thursday, OAober 13, 1977
Pam 7
UB'YSSEY
.Grid'Birds fly to victory
on Dan Smith's passing
By
DON MacINTYRE
leading
receiver,
Paul
Pearson.
Calgary,
witha4-2-0
mark,
is
the
The UBC ThunderbirdsremainThe
Smith-to-Pearsoncom-team
UBC mustbeat to finishthe
in contention f or a playoff berth in bination struck first on an 85-yard season in second place and qualify '
theWesternIntercollegiate
pass-and-run play
that
gave
UBC a for aplayoffberth,unless
Football
Leagueafter
drubbing
the
lead
never
it relinquished.
Manitoba
wins
its
lastthree
Smith was mod on 11 of 27 Dass games.
UniversitsofManitoba Bisons 22-7
Saturday-in Manitoba.
attempts f i r 301 yards. 'The
If UBC finishes with the same
Six other grads havefound spots
Quarterback Dan Smith led the rushingattack was equal to the
or
points as
either
Calgary
abroad, twoin Japanese leagues Thunderbirds,
throwing
three
task, as Glen Wallacewentover
Manitoba,
UBC
will
win
the
and four in Europe.
touchdown passes, two to tight end the 100-yard mark for the sixth
second-place berth on the basis of
But this year'steamhasits
Evan Jones and another to UBC's time in seven games.
UBC's higher total scores in games
share of talent, with 14 returnees
UBC head coachFrankSmith
among the 40 hopefuls in training
said, "I'm just so proud of them with the respective clubs.
camp.
all."
The
'Birds
return
to
action
The question is, can the 'Birds
The win leaves the 'Birds with a Saturday when they host the
equal
last
year's
second-place
23-1 record, good enough for third Golden BearsatThunderbird
finish in thefour-teamCanada
place in the WIFL.
Stadium. UBC winds up its league
West
University
Athletic
In otherleagueaction
on the play at home againstSaskatcheAssociation?
weekend, the Universityof Alberta wan Oct. 22.
Ross Cory and Jim Stuart, who
Golden Bears were defeated 14-0
attendedthestudentnational
by the
University
of Calgary
team'strainingcamp
this sumDinosaurs.
Despite
the
loss,
mer, will provide
the
'Birds'
Alberta remainsin first placewith
defensive backbone. Ross was
a 4-1-1 record
national
team,
selected to the
which
will
compete
against
European under-23 teams
and
make a six-game tour of Czechoslovakia.
Other returnees include Bob
Sperling and Sean Boyd, both of EVAN JONES. snags TD passes
whom did not play last year.
On Friday the'Birds playedtheir
first intra-squad game, the toneof
which was set when a gold squad
player knockedout a pane of glass
during the pregame warm-up.
The action was fast and furious,
keeping the six goaltenders busy,
8and the golds defeated the blues
Forty hopefuls .crowd
puck '6ird camp
By BRAD FELTON
WhenUBC Thunderbird hockey
coach Bert Halliwell was asked if
he bst any valuable players after
last season,he said "Ron Lefebvre
and
Phil1
Ennos,"
without
reflecting.
Lefebvre, an all-star goaltender,
iscurrently fighting for aberth
withEdmonton
of the World
Hockey Association. Ennos,last
year's captainand a three-time allstarhas already played
out his five
years of eligibility. Buthe is the
'Birds assistant coach this season,
so his talents are not completely
lost.
The UBC OldBoys
were too
muchforUBC'sheavyweight
crew, a s they stroked to victory in
both the eightsandcoxedfour
events a t theVancouver Rowing
Club fall regatta.
UBC did better in the eights race
Saturday at Coal Harbor, butcould
not catch the Old Boys, who pulled
ahead with 100 yards togo and
finished the 1,000-metre course in
3:11, three seats ahead of UBC.
The regatta also included
UBC's
women'steamandclubsfrom
Lake Washington.
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team m n the 19-team Fort Casey
Invitational
on
Whidbey Island
over the weekend.
UBC's team of RobinSmith,
Anne Webster,SheilaCurrie,
Teresa Hugguns and SharonYoung
edged
out
runner-up
Seattle
Pacific on the threemile course.
UBCwill host the Pacific Northwest Invitational Saturday.
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Nineteen playersshared in the
scoring, including assists, in the
hardhittiig match, and no player
accounted for more
than
four
points.
The 'Birds leaveFriday on a
five-game exhibition tour in Port
Alberni, North Dakota and Winnipeg.
'Ihe 'Birds play their next home
game Oct. 28 against the alumni.
They start their %-game league
season Nov. 4-5a t the Universityof
Alberta.
to
Haniwell
said
he
expects
decide on the final 22-player roster
during the swing through North
Dakota.
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From page 1
If a
the last year than ever
before, and out to help thestudents.
student says
he
can’t get inthis is welcome.”
Bokhari charged
Smith
with formation then he isn’t trying.”
Bokhari saidSmithsuppresses
withholding
information
from
studentinitiativesto
set up new
students.
programs
and
to
increase
the
“You can never find out where
the money goes. He doesn’t trust scope of the house activities.
“The students can’t do a damn
students.”
thing over there. We start to do
EbkharisaidSmith
wouldnot
even tell him how many students something and he shoots it down.”
And DaveJiles,
Alma Mater
belong to International House.
Society director of services,said
But Smithcalledthecharges
“nonsense,” addingthat he runs anthe firingof an IH assistant during
thesummerisanexample
of
“open administration.’’
Canadian University Press
on VancouverIsland,the
Lower
British Columbia’s 2,400 ferry Mainland and the upper coast.
VancouverIslandhoteland
workers
have
voted
overwhelmingly to defy a government motel operators are considering
back-to-work order until the B.C. legal action against the union for
Ferries Corporation signs a con- their“flagrantdisregardfor
authority and the public feeling,”
tract with the union.
Ferry workers began the strike which the operators claim hascost
(kt. 5 t o protest contract proposals them 50 per cent of their Thanksby the year-old crown corporation giving Day business.
which would require a set number The ferries corporation and the
of work hours in a year before B.C. government Seem to bein
disagreementover
how todeal
employees are eligible foroverwith the strike, which the unions
time pay.
claims was“forced” upon them by
An overall vote taken from the
management.
B.C. Ferryand MarineWorkers
B.C.
labor
minister
Allan
Union membership showed 97 per
cent of the ferry workers support Williams said his department will
the defiance of the back-to-work not get involved in the dispute
order issuedby
the B.C. Labor because actions“in this caseare to
be taken by the employer.” But a
Relations Board.
ferriescorporationspokesman
The back-to-work order
was
issued after the B.C. government said the corporationanticipates
invoked theRailwayand
Ferry the cabinet will take action.
Williams is scheduledtomeet
Bargaining Assistance Act, which
alsa affects striking employees of this week withB.C. premier Bill
the
B.C. Rail Corp6ration.
Bennett
to consider
ways
to. deal
TheUnitedTransportation
with thedefiant ferry workers.
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Thursday, October t3, 1977
UBYSSEY
to M program co-ordinatorColle&
Lunde, was fired in late Julywhen
she started to push for innovative
new programs at the house.
“Judy was doing a lot of good
workon orientation but this m y
(Smith) put herdown because’shk
was innovative.”
JiIes said Smith’s ,official reason
firing
for
Ince
was
insubordination, butan investigation
into the firing by the university
administrationfoundshewas
improperly
dismissed
and
awardedher a month’s pay a s
remuneration.
B.C. Ferries’workers
vote to defy gov’t
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