1,400 students celebrate first ever Fall
I
Longregation
By ABE HEFTER
Congregation is for the students
he flowing robes, who have worked long and hard
to obtain their degrees, as well as
intricately
the
for their families and friends.”
carved mace and
It’sthefirsttimesince
1964
theChancellor’s
procession are symbols of tra- that UBC has conferred degrees
ditionthathavebeenemin a Fall Congregation, with those
braced by the more than1,400
studentswhohavecompleted
studentseligibletoreceive
theirdegreesoverthesummer
theirdegreesduringtoday’s
months taking part inthecerespecial
Fall
Congregation
mony. For Slonecker and his asceremony, celebrating UBC’s sistant, Joan King, Congregation
75th anniversary.
is viewed with mixed emotions.
To Dr. Charles Slonecker,
It represents the pinnacle of the
director of UBC’s ceremonies university’s
75th
anniversary
office, the desire by students
celebrationsandthey’reboth
and their familiesto regale in
happy to see it happen, butsorry
thepompandpageantryof
to see
the
75th
celebrations
Congregation ‘may be reflecend.
tive of a change in attitudes in “The administrative leadership
today’s world.
of UBC is pleased that this 75th
Photo counesy of UBC Archive!
“I denotearealsenseof
anniversary campaign has helped
The Class of I927prading out of the Main Library during Congregation ceremonies.
pride here,” said Slonecker.
“I
theuniversityreachouttothe
see pride in the accomplishas student,
a
staff
member,
to business,education andathlet- ing the Congregation,UBC
public,” said Slonecker.
mentsofthesefinestudents
alumnaandsupporter:William
ics in B.C.
Threehonorarydegreesare
Chancellor Leslie Peterson and
and pride in this university.
Theceremonywillalsoinalso being conferred, bringing the White,whoisaformerUBC
President David Strangway will
“The costs associated with
vice-president and bursar who re-clude the presentation of 75th an- presideovertheceremonial
numberofhonorarydegrees
earning a university degree are UBC has bestowed since1925 to
tired from the university 1983;
in
niversary medals to75 members
lighting of the giant sequoiatremendous,bothfinancially
of the UBC community for ex451. The degrees are being con- and W. Maurice Young, a longdendrontree in frontofthe
and scholastically,” he added. ferred on Helen Belkin, who has time supporter of UBC who has traordinary service and commitMain Library, to mark the be‘‘People are recognizing that.
madeoutstandingcontributions
ment to the university. Followlong been associated with UBC
ginning of the holiday season.
ITI
UBC researchers receive $90 million
Research grants increase
Montreal students remembered
UBCfaculty, staff andstudentswilljoinUnionBuildingandFacultyClub.
Dec. 6 in observthousands of other Canadians
research funding at UBC, “ said Robert Miller,
By GAVIN WILSON
ingtheanniversary of thedeaths of 14women
The Ladnerclocktowercarillonwillring at
vice-president, Research. “It demonstrates the con- Engineering students murdered at L’Ecole PolMore than $90 million in grants and contracts
1 1 5 5 a.m., just prior to the beginning of afterwere awarded to UBC researchers in the 1989-90 tinuing excellenceof research here.”
ytechnique
Montreal.
in noon
exams.
During
time,
this
minute
one
of siAlthough federal government agencies conacademic year, according to figures released by
lence willbe observed.
the Officeof Research Services and Industry Liai- tribute the greatest share of funding, the single
To commemorate the tragic event, members
largest increasein the past year was from provin- of the Office for Women Students will place
son.
The university will also lower to half-staff
cial government sources. Funding from all proThe total is an increase of $10 million, or 13
wreaths in their office, the main library, Studentthe flag at the north end
of Main Mall.
vincial sources was $12.8 million, up from $7.7
per cent, over the previous year, and caps three
million the year before.
years of dramatic growth in grants awarded to
“There has been a big increase in provincial
university researchers. The1986/87total was$65
government support,” said Richard Spratley, dimillion.
rector of Research Services. “It is part of their
“I am delighted to see the steady growth
in
b
overall science and technology strategy for the
I,
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province.”
The Department of Medicine received more
funding than any other department in 1989/90,
with grants and contracts totalling more than
$8.5
By GAVIN WILSON
ver architect Arthur Erickson, who won numermillion.
One of Canada’s finest collections of Euroous awards for his design of the main museum
Six other departments - Chemistry, Patholpean ceramics goeson display at UBC when the building, which opened in 1976. The wing conogy,Physics,Biochemistry,Microbiologyand
Koemer Ceramics Gallery opens for a public pretainsthe4,200-square-foot
Koemer Ceramics
Health Care and Epidemiology
-exceeded $3.5
view beginning Tuesday, Dec. 1 1.
Gallery as well as a teaching laboratory, library
million in research grants and contracts.
The gallery in the new wing of the Museum
of
and curator’s office.
of fundFaculties receiving the greatest amount
Anthropology will provide a permanent home for Construction of the wing was made possible
ing were: Medicine, $34.2 million; Science,
$24.1
the collection, donated to the museum
in 1988 by
by a gift from the estate
of the late Maj.-Gen. and
million; Applied Science,
$1 1.4 million; and
Arts,
longtime UBC benefactor Walter C. Koemer as
Mrs. Victor W. Odlum.
$5.1 million.
part of the university’s fundraising campaign, A
The Koemer collection dates from the 15th to
UBC researchers applying for Social Sciences World ofOpportunity.The gallery’s official open- 19th centuries and includes examples of Italian
andHumanitiesResearchCouncilgrantshave
1.
ing is scheduled for Feb. 199
Renaissance ceramics, Anabaptist ceramics made
had the highest rate of success among the major
The collectionaddsasignificantEuropean
by the ancestors of today’s Hutterites, and Renresearch universities over the past four years, said
dimension to the museum, which is known priaissance and baroque ornamental tiles created for
Spratley.
marily for its Northwest Coast Indian and Asian
decorated ovens and stoves. The stove tiles began
“UBC is very good, in general, in attracting
art.
as simple omamentationof a practical household
See MEDICINE on Page 2
The new west wing was designedby VancouSee CERAMICS on Page 2
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Inside
Exhibit marks preview
OJ new ceramics gallery
UBC researcher discovers link between
irregularities in ovulation and osteoperosis
was measured.
marathon.
ond that estrogen is the only important female
By CONNIE FILLETTI
One-third of the women were training for a
Dr. Prior hopes to continue her research to
A studyby a UBCphysician has revealed that hormone for preserving bone, and thirdly, that
marathonrun,one-thirdwererecreationalrundetermine why certain women occasionally fail
training for a marathon causes loss of menstrual
youngwomenwhoexperiencedisturbancesin
ners and one-third did less than an hour per week to ovulate.
ovulation may be at increased risk for osteopero- cycles.”
of aerobic exercise. All of the participants had
“Women can leam to observe their ownbodDr.Prior’sstudy,recentlypublishedinthe
sis after menopause.
ies,” said Dr. Prior. “If the flow begins and they
New England Journal of Medicine, found that the normal ovulatory cycles at the beginning of the
The study by Dr. Jerilynn Prior, a professor
of
study.
realize they have not experienced lateral breast
failure to ovulate (which meant
low production of
Medicine,disputespreviousmedicalassumpDr. Prior and her research associates found
tenderness, it is likely they did not ovulate that
progesterone) was associated with loss
theof bone
tions
that
normal
menstrual
cycles
have
that those women in the study group who experi- cycle. If the periods are not precededby normal
mineral.
normal
hormonal
characteristics
and
that
enced as few as one non-ovulatory cycle during
premenstrualcycles,thenseekingadvicefrom
The studyinvolvedchartingthemenstrual
strenuousexerciseresulted
in thinnedbone
your physicianis a good idea.”
of four per cent
cycles of 66 pre-menopausal women, who ranged the study period, lost an average
mass.
Funding for the study was provided
by Health
of bone from their spinal column in that year.
in age from21 to 42, over a one-year period.
The
“This study casts doubt on three well-estabandWelfareCanadaandtheDairyBureau
of
Bone loss and ovulatory cycles were not more
womens’ exercise and dietary habits were also
Dr. Prior.“First,
lishedmedicalbeliefs,”said
thatregularcyclesarehormonallynormal,sec-monitoredandthedensity
of thetheirbackbonescommon
in thewomenwhoweretrainingforaCanada.
Medicine big winner in research funds
Commerce tops
grant competition
TOTALRESEARCHAWARDS
ResearchAwards
By ABE HEITER
UBC’s Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration has tied for first place in the Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council’s 1990 grant competition for business schools.
The faculty garnered 14 grants totalling $276,049.
The University of Waterloo also received 14 grants from
NSERC, totalling $377,950.
Dean of Commerce Peter Lusztigsaid the Commerce
Faculty at UBC is a young one and the average size of
the NSERC grants isa reflection of the maturity of UBC
business scholars.
“In addition,” added Lusztig, “Waterlooisn‘t really a
traditional business school. This is not to take anything
away from Waterloo, but it’s more of a management
science school and is more targeted to NSERC as a
result.”
Lusztig believes that among the traditional business
schools on NSERC’s list of 18 that received grants in
1990, UBC is number one.
The University of Toronto, McGill, McMaster and
Carleton universities were next with sixNSERC grants.
Among them, U of T received the most funds, totalling
$96,543.
NSERC grants are awarded to business schools across
the country for research in areas includingstatistics,
managementinformationsystems,transportationand
operations research.
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research funding, and does very, very well atSSHRC
gettinggrants,”
he said.
Research grants to the Commerce and Education faculties have
nearly doubled in the last two years, while funding for researchin
the Arts faculty has increased nearly 35 per cent during the same
period.
Spratleyaddedthatthe1989/90researchgranttotals
do not
include anyof the funding received from the federal government’s
Networks of Centres of Excellence program.
UBC’s total research funding should top
$100 million in the
1990/91 academic year when Centres of Excellence funding and
anticipated increasesin other researchgrants are added to the tally,
Spratley said.
Ceramics collected over lifetime
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item but gradually became elaborate
works ofart in their own right.
Koemer acquiredthe 600-piece
collection over the span of 80 years,
beginning when he wasan 8-year-old
schoolboy livingin what was then part
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now
Czechoslovakia.
Encouraged by his mother, he began collecting decorative ceramic objects, usually plates and jars, created
by peasant potters and sold on local
market days..
Fleeing the expansionof Nazi Germany, Koemer emigrated to Canada
in
1939 where he and other family members became major figuresin the B.C.
forest industry.
A leading philanthropist,he previously donated a private collection of
Northwest Coast masterpieces to the
museum, a gift that was instrumental
in getting a federal grant leading to
constructionofthecurrentmuseum
building. He hasalso made significant
contributions over the yearsto University Hospital and the UBC library.
UBCPresidentDavidStrangway
HSCI (0 9%)
1989/90
UBC researchers head three
of the 15 national Centres
of Excellence networks and are involved in nine others. Under
the program,
B.C. universities and research companies, with UBC leading the
The provinway, will receive$44 million over the next four years.
cial government has provided an additional$20 million to support
the networks.
The top contributors to research funding
at UBC in 1989/90 were
federal granting agencies, at$46 million, followed by B.C. provincial granting agencies, at $9.1 million, Canadian health sciences
foundations and non-profit agencies, at $9 million and federal departments and agencies, at$7.5 million.
More than $5.6 million was contributed
by the Canadian private
sector. Funding from the United States and other countries totalled
$5.8 million.
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75th Anniversarv
rr bash a hit
By RON BURKE
’41.
theCapilanoIndianReserveinNorth
Vancouver.About20
of UBC’s own
More than 600 alumni, students,
chiefs and elders attended, along with
faculty and staff attended the gala, which
Native leaders. The photographs are on
featured a slide showof UBC memodisplayatthe
museum until January,
ries and a dance following
n
1991.
Homecoming Week followed on
the heels of Discover Summer.
“The 75th anniversary gave us an
opportunity to develop a first-class
Homecoming celebration,” said Deborah Apps, executivedirector of the
AlumniAssociationand
chair of the
HomecomingWee,k committee.“I think
we did that with greatsuccess, thanks to
thesupport we received from the administration
and Alumni
the
Association’s volunteers and staff.”
To draw alumni back to campus,
organizersputtogether21classreunions, as well as general alumni events,
such as receptions and mini-open houses,
in 18 faculties and schools. More than
1,700 alumni attendedthe reunions and
over 2,000 participatedinthegeneral
the dinner.
events.
The following Sat., Sept. 29, the
Homecoming was the most tradi- AMS put on a pre-game barbecue at the
tional of the major 75th anniversary cele-Blue and Gold Classic football game at
brations. In fact, theuniversity’s offlThunderbirdStadium. Only 500 fans
cial 75th birthday fell within the week,
attended the game, but the T-Bird gridon Sun., Sept. 30.The celebrations were
ders sent them home happy with a win
over the Universityof Manitoba Bisons.
further steeped in history by the return
of some of theparticipantsinUBC’s
The morningof UBC’s 75th birthmost important student event, the Great
daysaw over 1,600 participants relive
Trek of 1922.
the GreatTrek in their own way, foot,
on
Organized as a protest against
in the A r t s ’20 relay race from VGH to
government delays in completing the
UBC. The annual event was moved to
Point Grey campus, the Great Trek fosSun., Sept.30 in honorof the university’s
tered an enduring spirit among the stubirthday.Followingtherace,an
estident population. Thousands of students
mated crowd of 2,000 people enjoyed
marchedorrodeinvehiclesfromthe
someorall of theofferings on Main
temporary classrooms at Vancouver
Mall, including a pancake breakfast,
tended a May exhibitionattheAsian
General Hospitalto the Point Greycambirthday cake, live entertainment and a
site. About1,100peopletookadvanCentre.Thedisplayshowcasedworks
pus, which was still under construction.
barbecue. Just down the hill, about 300
tage of the opportunity to tour the forest’s
That spirit was celebrated on Thu., Sept.people attended the Alumi Association’s
by six Vancouver Asianartists, special12 displaysites, each highlighting a difizing in Asian themes and techniques.
27, as 27 enthusiastic trekkers boarded
a
75th anniversary tea and awards
cereferent area of research.
bus to retrace their journey of 75 years
mony.
The Centre for Continuing
Food Services got into the act with
Traditional events Just Desserts,
Education’s Summer Program for RePicnics on the Point. Poor weather gave ago. Later, they were honored in a spetired People was a big hit. More than
cial ceremony in the Old Auditorium.
recognizing outstanding faculty and
staff,
theservice a slow start, but by July,
Joan King, assistant to the
director of
500 students, some coming from as far
andMeet the Brass, an informalgetpeople were enjoying a variety of preaway as Calgary, participated in lectures pared picnics at the campus location of
ceremonies and one of the event’s ortogether for studentsandmembers of
ganizers, was touched by the scene of
theadministration, rounded out the
and discussions on topics ranging from
their choice.
politics to Picasso.
old and new stuIf one day provided a focal point
dents together.
Music filled the campus during
for Discover Summer, it was the UBC
“When
the summer as never before. The first
S.U.P.E.R. Sale in July. S.U.P.E.R.
the
Great
weekend of May brought morethan
stood for Special University Project to
Trekkers came
3,500 of B.C.’s top hgh school musiEncourageRecycling,andrecyclethe
cians to campus for thePacificCoast
marching in to
campusdid,asdepartments,
student
the sound of
Music Festival. The two-day event feagroups and alumni set up booths fullof
tured competitionsin concert band,con‘Hail,UBC,’ it
donated items and educational material
cert choir, vocal jazz and jazz combo
made your spine
on MacInnes Field. An estimated 5,000
tingle,” she said.
categories.UBCwas
so popularas a
people attended the sale, browsing
for
venue that festival organizers are conbargains and learning about campus re- “To see the students of 1915
sidering itas a permanent site.
cycling programs. The sale raised
The UBC SummerStrings, a
$39,000, which went to the departments being so well
chamber orchestra composed
of 15string
received by the
and to cover expenses.
players, was a special program for the
students of 1990
Co-organizer Norm Watt, direc75thanniversary.Thegroupgavesix
was a special
tor of Extra-Sessional Studies, said
moment.”
performances in May, drawing smallbut
thesalewas
a winner. “We received
appreciative audiences.
That evetremendoussupportfromthecampus
Two traditional summer music
ning, the highandthe community,” he said. “I think
programs were enhanced for 1990.
profileevent of
thesaleshouldcontinue
- maybe
Summer Sounds offeredfree, noon-hour
Homecoming,
once
every
three
years,
like
Open
concerts of pop-rock, classical, country
the
Gala Great
House.”
and jazz outside SUB and Main Library
Trekker
Dinner, took place at the Hotel Homecoming schedule.
The last Discover Summer event
This year’s Homecoming organduringJulyandAugust.Music
for a
was the openingof a photo exhibit at the Vancouver. Each year, the Alma Mater
Society bestows the Great Trekker
Summer’s Evening drew standing-room- Museum of AnthropologyinAugust.
izershopetheyleave
a legacyand a
Award
upon
only crowds, totalling3,600, to 13 chama
UBC
graduate
for
service
benchmark
for
subsequent
celebrations.
Our Chiefs and Elders: Photographs by
bermusic concerts in the School of
to
the
university
and
the
community
and
“A
team
effort”
is
Deborah
Apps’ deDavid Neel, Kwagiutl, features formal
Music Recital Hall.
for achievingeminenceinhisorher
scription of their efforts. “That’sthe
portraits of Native leaders from across
Another enhanced program was
only way to achieve this kind
of sucB.C. A special preview, which included field. This year’s recipient was author
the Theatre Department’sSummer Playand broadcaster Pierre Berton, class of
cess.”
a potlatch, was held in early August at
Organizers of UBC’s 75th anniversary celebrations were hopingfor big
things during 1990, including attracting
members of the community to campus
in record numbers- and they got what
theywanted.
Discover Summer and
Homecomingweretwo
of the year’s
greatsuccesses,drawingthousands
of
visitors and alumnito campus.
David Vogt,chair of the Discover
Summer Committee, wanted to let the
wordoutabout
summer activities on
campus.
“I’ve always enjoyed summer at
UBC,and I hopedDiscover Summer
wouldhelpexposeboth
on- andoffcampuspeople to allthe good things
here during that season.”
Summer started early at UBC this
year, when more than 3,000 visitors at-
ers. A company of 22studentsperformed three evening productions Cole, Filthy Rich andThe Strange Case
of Dr. Jekylland M r . Hyde - on a
repertory schedule inthe Dorothy Somerset Studio andFredericWood Theatre. In total, the company gave65 eveningperformancesto
an audience of
3,500 and garnered enthusiastic reviews.
Bob Eberle, production manager
of the Frederic Wood Theatre, termed
the program a complete success. “The
studentcompanyproducedsomevery
good shows, the response from the public was good and the participants had a
tremendous learningexperience,” he
said.
TheSummer Players also performed theatrefor children outsideSUB
three times per week.
Outdoor theatre performances
were scheduled toco-
National study on genetic diseases launched
By CONNIE FILLETTI
The Canadian Genetic Diseases
Network, headed by Dr. Michael Hayden, professor of Medical Genetics,
has begun a nationwide collaborative
researchprogram in humangeneticallytransmitteddiseases.
Supported by $17.5 million in federal funds, the network is part of the
$240-million Centres of Excellence
Program for scientific research,
launched by O a w a in 1988.
In addition, the network will also
share in a commitment of $20 million
from the Government of British Columbia.
Twenty-twoscientistsfromeight
universities, working with several industrial partners, will conduct leadingedge research on genes that directly
cause or predispose peopleto disease.
Dr. Haydensaidapproximately 60
per cent of Canadians will develop or
die from a disease witha genetic com-
ponent including cystic fibrosis, muscular
dystrophy and
certain formsof
cancer and heart
attacks, which
are amongthe
focal areas of
study for the
network.
“Genetic diseases can require extensive
and long-term
care, repeated
hospitalization,
corrective surgery,
institutional
training
and
physicaltherapy,”said Dr. Hayden.
“We are at the beginning of a revolutioninunderstandingandbeingablethepublic.”
to preventseriousgeneticdiseases.
The
research
canied out by
this
sible for the
status
of
women,
said
onbehalf
of
Science Minister William
Winegard that
the Centres of
Excellence
represent a remarkable
range of initiatives
and
a
unique opportunity for scientists to work
together in a
coordinated
world-class system of health care for
all Canadians.”
Dr.Martin Hollenberg, dean of
UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, said advancement of the network was a tremendous step forward.
“It is the key to our success in developingstrategiestodeal
with genetic diseases. We are determined to
succeed,” saidDr. Hollenberg.
Dr. David Shindler, managing director of thenetwork,addedthat
in
providing funding for the network, the
federalgovernmenthasgiven
a tremendous boost to genetic research.
“Canadian scientists are recognized
as leaders in the field of genetic research.” Shindler said. “The
clearchalnetwork will have a significantim- lenge
pool resources
effort.
to
is cooperate
and
pactonthehumanandeconomic
“The cohesive, interdisciplinary ap- in order to maintain an expand worldburdenscurrent ly beingborne
by
proach of the centres is significant,”
class research.”
Collinssaid.“Our p o d s of research
The Canadian Genetic Diseases
Mary Collins, associate ministerof
excellence are scattered.
We must find
Networkwas officially launched at
national defence and minister respon- ways to worktogethertoensure
a
UBC Nov. 13,
New title Human Resources
Disabilitv Resource Centre
UBC
restructures
to open in January,1991
Personnel Services
work closely with a number of deUBC has restructured Personnel
shop
Services to make the department morepartments to provide “one-stop”
ping for human resource services.
responsivetothehumanresource
“Instead of having to contact sevneeds of the university, said Bruce
eral individuals to resolve basic huGellatly, vice president, Administramanresourceneeds,UBC
departtion and Finance.
ments and individual faculty and staff
To reflect the department’s
will need only to contact their service
broader scope, itsnamehasbeen
team,” said Greene. “Eachservice
changed to Human Resources. The
team will coordinate any human rename change reflects the more
stratesource services q u i r e d , such as regic role of the department in the rapcruiting, employee relations and beneidly changing human resource management environment, said Gellatly. fit queries.”
An advisory committeeof departWayne Greene, acting directorof
ment representatives willalso be esHuman Resources, said themain
tablished to provide ongoing advice
thrust of the new design will be the
to Human Resources.
creation of service teams which will
Rick Hansen, Special Consultant to the President on Disabilities, at his UBC office.
By CHARLES KER
work in conjuction, the fellowship
barrier-free
access,
advocacy,
is separatefromtheDisability
employment, information, service
ResourceCentrewithitsown
and research.
Rick Hansen plans to put UBC
mandate and funding.
“We will essentially be a comunder a microscope when the Disability Resource Centre swings into mando unit,” Hansen said from the As first incumbent of the fellowship, Hansen will continue to
full operation in January.
centre’stemporaryheadquarters
work as an advocate on behalf of
“UBC is probably as good as
beside Brock Hall. “Traditionally,
mostuniversitiesrightnowbut
universities have reacted to disabil- thedisabledonanationaland
international
basis.
priority
A
ity issues by providing the basic
ratedfromwherewecould
be,
for Hansen is to see the integraservices, but they neglect look
to at
there’salongwaytogo,”said
disabled
tion
of athletes
at
Hansen, chair of the centre’s advi- the big picture. That’s what we’re
multi-sportcompetitions likethe
sory committee.“OnceUBCis
after.”
and
Olympic
Databases of national and inter- Commonwealth
brought up to speed, then we can
Games.
national contacts are being estabbegin to’work on a plan to move
Another fellowship initiative is
lished to help locate information
outside this campus andstart interIndependence ’92, an international
acting with other universities and
on a variety of issues dealing with
colleges.”
disability and post-secondary edu- congress on disabilityscheduled
for Vancouver in April, 1992. The
Top priority for the 16-member cation. In addition,information
event is expected to draw close to
staff will be an evaluation of UBC packagesaboutthecentrehave
8,000 participants from around the
been sent to 170 universities and
to examine how the university
deals
world.
colleges across Canada asking for
withphysicalandfunctionalacHansen stressed that the centre
their input.
cessibility,employmentequity,
is a resource, not a service-based
Hansen hopes that within in a
curriculum, research and a variety
organization,and is designed to
fewyearsUBCwillbehosting
of other disability-related issues.
promote better networking, staffregularconferences on disability
Theobjectiveistoeventually
ing and financial support for matmakepost-secondaryeducation
relatedissues.AnInternational
ters relating to disability.
across Canada more accessible to
Conference on Post-Secondary
Financed through a$6.4 million
students,faculty, staff and visiEducation is alreadyplannedfor
endowmentfund,thecentre
will
tors.
1994-95 and is part of a series of
move to a permanent location
in
Butfirst,thepartiallystaffed
initiatives of the Rick Hansen Nathe new Student Services Building
centre must find a director and six tional Fellowship.
in 1992.
co-ordinators to oversee areas
of
Althoughthetwoprograms
Celebrate the Holiday Season with
a
Traditional Christmas Dinner
at the
Subway Cafeteria
FRIDAY, November 30 ..................................
11:30 am to 1:30 p m
TUESDAY, December 18 ..............................
ll:30 am to l t 3 0 p m
4:30 p m to 6:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, December 19 .......................
.11:30 am lo I :30 p m
at the
Ponderosa Snack Bar
and the
Barn CoffeeShop
WEDNESDAY, December I 9 ........................
11 :30 am to 1:30 pm
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UBC REPORTS Nov. 29,1990
Assistance unveiled
for post-secondary
Native education
doctoral fellowships success rate has
likewise fallen from3 1 per cent to22
per cent.
Wither the Social Sciences?
These figures are discouraging
inEvery so often one encounters disressing information concerning the deed. Surely it is time to take action
lack of support for social science re- forscholars in the SocialSciences
search. Dr. Paule Leduc, President,
and Humanities, themajority
of
Social Sciences and Humanities Re- U.B.C. faculty and graduate students.
U.B.C. has made commitments
search Council, in an addressin Quein this
bec City at a recent Social Science
direction, with the University’s MisFederation of Canada Conference onsionStatementandStrategicPlan,
approved by the Senate in 1989, statScholarly Publishing,provided the
Following information:
ing “A special effort will be made to
in
campaign for federal and provincial
SincetheCouncil’screation
government support for reasearch in
1978, the volumeof demand for rethe
humanities
and
social
scisearch grants has increased by more
han 150 per cent. Last year, under
ences.”
I note with pleasurethatthe
3ur Strategic Grants programalone,
budget
for
1990-91
we received over 600 applications. university’s
BUT DURING THIS PERIOD, THE
provides for the appointment ofan
COUNCIL’S BUDGET-IN REAL
associatedvice-president for social
TERMS-HAS REMAINED ESsciencesandhumanities.
SENTIALLY
UNCHANGED.
In
However, decisions arebeing
the latest competition underour Remade in the next few weeks bythe
search Grants program, wehadto
Prime Minister’s Cabinet ‘Priorities
tum down 40 percent of applicants
andPlanningCommittee’onlongwhose projects had been approved
termfunding of SSHRC. I would
encourage all concerned people, fac3y the adjudication committees and
recommended to Council for fundulty, graduate students, and othersto
ing. As a result of the dramatically write to the appropriate Ministers now
Increased rates of demand under this concerning theimportance of inprogram and the lackof commensu- creased funding forthe Council. The
rate increase in theCouncil’s budget, Social Science Federation
of Canada,
the dollar success rate
has gone from along with many others, hasbeen
62 percent in 1980-8 1 to 3 1 per cent requesting that thebudget of the
in 1990-91. Similarly, the applicant SSHRC be doubled and that the funds
success rate has fallen from 77 per
from the Matching Grants Programme
:ent to 37 percent. During the same be integrated into the base budget of
period, the dollar success rate under the Council. That wouldbe a start.
the Strategic Grantsprogramhas
Kenneth D. Craig
gone from 42 per centto 30 percent,
Professor
mdthe applicantsuccessratehas
Department of Psychology
jropped from64 to 43 per cent. The
University of British Columbia
Editor:
’
5
By GAVIN WILSON
Theprovincialgovernment
has announced a strategyto
improve post-secondary education access for Native people in
B.C.
The strategy is based on recommendations made by t h e
Provincial Advisory Committee
on Native Post-Secondary Education, under the Access for All
initiative.
“It is commendable that the
provincialgovernment is prepared to support
the post-secondary initiatives of First Nations peoples,” said Vema Kirkness, director of UBC’s First
Nations House of Learning.
“We have never been short
of ideas of how to improve our
situation, but we have been short
of financial resources. So if this
means dollars, I believe we will
see a dramatic shift towards parity in a few years,” she said.
Advanced Education Minister Bruce Strachan said his ministry would “actquickly” on the
recommendations contained in
the report, which was produced
a year earlier than anticipated.
Included in the strategy:
- Financial support for Native
post-secondary institutions.
- Counselling and support
services for Native students attending public post-secondary
institutions.
- Programs based on priorities identified by First Nations
throughout B.C., such
as literacy, adult basic education,
cross-cultural awareness, native languages and transitional
support.
- Native language teachers at
B.C. universities, including
UBC.
- Cumculum materials for
Native learners to be developed
and coordinated by the Centre
for Curriculum and Professional
Development.
- The designation of the First
Nations Congress Education
Secretariat to become the official advisory body to
the
Kirkness
ministry.
- A special ministry advisor
on native programs who will
work with post-secondary and
Native institutions todevelop
and revise programs.
The 19-member committee
was co-chaired by ChiefGordon Antoine, of the Coldwater
Indian Band, and Peter Jones,
president of Fraser Valley College.
UBC conducts campus-wide review
of employment equity practices
By CONNIE FILLETTI
unitstoexaminehowtheycan
UBC has completed an employ- eliminate bias in their own practi-
ance evaluationsforbothfaculty
and staff.
ment systems reviewto ensure that cies,” Kahn added.
Documentsconcerningunion
all existing policies and procedures
Employment procedures for both and non-union positions indicated
are job-related and do not discrimi-academic and non-academic posithat the lack of benefits for partnateagainstwomen,aboriginal
tions were analyzed by three subtime and short-term work, differing
people, persons with disabilities andcommittees of the President’s Adpolicies on professional and educavisible minorities.
visory Committee on Employment
tional development, and the setting
The four designated groups wereEquity.
of minimum qualifications, may disidentified by the federal government The review was based on an excriminateagainstthefourtarget
in the Canada Employment Equity aminationofemploymentdocugroups.
-Review of selection tests.
Act of 1986.
mentsproducedbyHumanReMaterials used in hiring clerical
-Provision of benefits to part“We knowthat certain groups of sources, bargaining units and acaand secretarial staff showed a potime and short-term employees.
people are disadvantaged when they demic departments on campus.
tential disadvantage to employment
-Developmentofpoliciesand
apply for jobs
or seek advancement,
In addition,informationwas
equity group members in recruitprocedures for research technicians
but it is sometimes difficult to see gathered on current hiring practices ment practices and the use of skills who are not in a bargaining unit.
how bias enters into hiring and proin Human Resources.
tests.
In all, 16 recommendations were
motion practices,”explained Sharon
A review of materials related to
Information gathered by Human made to the President’s Advisory
Kahn,DirectorofEmployment
academic, library, continuing eduResources on its currentemployCommittee on Employment EqEquity.
cation and management and profes- mentpracticesfornon-academic
uity.
“This review is a necessary step sional appointments concluded that staff positions revealed four areas
“UBCneeds to operationalize
in UBC’s efforts to improve work- the designated employment equity
of concern:
theserecommendations by detailing conditions for all faculty and
groups could be disadvantaged in
-Active recruitmentof members ingwhatwill be done, by whom
staff. An important next step will
several ways, including recruitment of the designated employment eq- and when,” said Kahn.
be for individual departments and and hiring practices and performuity groups.
Shewillbeanalyzingtheem-
ployment equity census data over
the next few months to determine
howUBC’sworkforcecompares
with thenumber of qualified women
and minority group persons in appropriate labor pools.
“These efforts are part of UBC’s
commitment to employment equity
- fair and objective employment
procedures,” said Kahn. “Such procedures enable all to achieve their
full potential.”
Employment
systems
review
guidelines were provided by Employment and Immigration Canada.
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SUNDAY. DEC. 2
C
Geophvsics
Seminar
. -
Solutions Of FluidAnd
Mass Transport Problems
By Reduced Basis Methods.Dr.AllanD.Woodbury,GeologicalEngineering,U.ofManitoba.
Geophysics/Astronomy 260 at 4pm. Coffee from 3:45 pm. Call 228-3100/2267.
Now we need your help to solve a
Ethics Workshop/Lecture
MoralDilemmaandDecisionMaking-A
ChristianPerspective.Rev.Dr.Terry
Anderson.SponsoredbyUniversity
Hill
United and VST. Epithany Chapel, VancouverSchool
of Theologyfrom910:15am. Call 224-1311.
Orthopaedics Grand Rounds
ToBreakOrNotToBreak-That
Is The
Discussion. Chairman: Dr. R.W. McGraw.
Guest:Dr.R.D.Beauchamp.EyeCare
Centre Auditorium at 7:30am. Call 8754646.
"The Mysteryof the Missing Donors"
Paediatrics Research Seminar
Weknov I
you're out there!!
You've given in
the past
so please
hand in your
pledge cards!
Nutritional Support And Visual Development O
f Premature Infants. Ricardo UauyDagach. Research Centre 171 A at 12pm.
Call Dr. Josef Skala at 875-2492.
c
Cancer Research Seminar
iiiq
V-Ras
Oncogene:
RelationshipsBetweenTransformationAndDifferentiation.
Dr.
N.
Auersperg,
Anatomy;UBC.BCCancer
Foundation
Lecture
Theatre, 601 W 10th Ave. from 12-lpm.
0.
Call 877-601
Biochemistry Seminar
ImmediateEarlyGeneExpressionIn
Baculovirus.Dr.DavidTheilmann,Agriculture Canada. IRC #4 at 3:45pm. Call
228-2142.
Economics Departmental Seminar
Macroeconomics Of TheGreen House
Effect. PeterSinclair, Oxford U.Host:
AngelaRedish.BrockHall351from45:30pm. Call 228-2876.
I
TUESDAY, DEC.4
i
@
United Way
Philosophy 1990 Fall Colloquium
Series
Analyses Of Ethical Environmental
Responsibility
TheoriedAdvocacy Of A
Love-Based
Ethics.
Cliff
Hooker,U.ofNewcastle.
BuchananPenthouseat
20m. Call 228-3292.
CALENDAR DEADLINES
For events in the period Dec. I6 to Dec. 29 notices must be submitted by UBCfaculty or staff on proper Calendarforms no later
than noon on Tuesday, Dec. 4 to the CommunityRelations Ofice, 6328 Memorial Rd., Room 207. Old Administration Building.
For more information call
228-3131. The nextedition of UBC Reports wil he published Dec. 13. Notices exceeding 35 words
may be edited.
Economics Departmental Seminar
Economics Departmental Seminar
Social Welfare Functionals With Priorities:
GeneralFormsAndSomeDualityand
Socially Optimal Proportions Of Population And Welfare: Dual Characterizations.
Leonid
Polishchuck,
UBC/Novosibirsk
StateU.,USSRAcademyofSciences.
Brock 351 from 4-5:30pm. Call 228-2876.
Topic to beannounced.
ShelaghHeffernan,City
University, London. Host:
Angela
Redish.
Brock
Hall351from4-5:30pm.
Call 228-2876.
Position Effect Variegation In Drosophila.
Dr.ArthurChovnick, GenetidCell Biolo g y , U. of Connecticut, Storrs. Hennings
202at8:30am.Coffeeat8:15am.Call
228-531 1.
,
1
7
;
.
-.W. : L1.1
E: r:,
PaediatricsResearchSeminar
Series
Lectures In Modern Chemistry
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Cancer Research Seminar
.'
TheRoleOfRadiationTherapyInBone
MarrowTransplants.Dr.C.J.H.Fryer,
RadiationOncology,BCCA.BCCancer
Lecture Theatre from 12-1 pm. Call 8776010.
r
Pharmacology Seminar
Differential EffectsOf Cimetidine On Rat
HepaticCytochromesP-450.Dr.Thomas K. Chang, Pharmaceutical Sciences,
UBC.FriedmanLectureHallBfrom
11 :30am-l2:3Opm. Call 228-2575.
,
hrn.- 11. r;
Psychiatry Academic Lecture
Bisexuality,DivorceAnd
Aids.Dr.MichaelMyers,
ClinicalProf.,Psychiatry,
UBC.UniversityHospital,
ShaughnessySiteD308
from
8-gam.
Call
228-
mil
7756.
Microbiology Seminar
AdenovirusProteinsThat
Prevent CTL And TNF Cytolysis And That Stimulate
The EGF Receptor-Role In
Adenovirus Pathogenesis?
Dr. WilliamS.M. Wold, Molecular Virology,St. Louis U. Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri. Wesbrook 201 at
12:30pm. Call 228-3308.
Physics Colloquium
Microbiology Seminar Series
Molecular Genetics With Trees: Of Primers, Probes And The Primeval. Dr. John
Carlson,ForestSciences,UBC.Wesbrook 201 from 12:30-1:30pm. Call 2282376.
Proximal
Femoral
NonUnions.
Chariman:
Dr.
R.N.
Meek.
Eye
Care
Centre
Auditorium
at
7:30am. Call 875-4646.
Astronomy Seminar
Cepheids In Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters.Dr.MarioMateo,Observatoriesof
theCarnegieInstitute
of Washington,
Pasadena.
Geophysics/Astronomy
260
at4pm.Coffeefrom3:30pm.CallH.
Richer 228-41 3412267.
,
,
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.-
"
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NephroticSyndrome:NewConcepts,
NewerTreatments.JamesCarter,AsSOC. Prof.
BCCH.G.F.StrongRehab.
Centre Auditorium at gam. Call 875-21 18.
Philosophy 1990 Fall Colloquium
Series
The
Naturalization
Of Reason.
Cliff
Hooker, U. of Newcastle. Buchanan Penthouse at 2pm. Call 228-3292.
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UBC/SFU Public Forum
South Africa In The 1990s. A joint UBC/
Medical Genetics Seminar
""
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B
i i
Confined
Placental
Mosaicism
And
GenomicImprinting.DagmarKalousek,
Ass. Prof. Pathology, UBC. Hennings 202
at8:30am.Coffeefrom8:15am.Call
228-531 1.
SFU forum featuring Fatima Meer, biographerof NelsonMandela.SFUHarbour
CentreRm.1900,Nov.30at7:30pm.
Call 228-431 5.
Shop-In-The-GardenChristmas
Sale
-
Microbiology Seminar Series
Pediatrics Grand Rounds
Exotic QuantumEffects In
One-DimensionalAntiferromagnets.
Ian
Affleck,
Physics,UBC.Hennings
201
at
4pm.
Call
2283853.
~
I
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Orthopaedics Grand Rounds
Physics Colloquium
RitodrineEffectsInThe
Fetal Lamb. Marlene Van
de Weyde, ObstetricslGynaecology,
UBC.
Research
Centre
171A
at
12pm. Call 875-2492.
Neuroscience Discussion Group
FunctionalStudies Of LateralSuperior
OlivaryNeuronsInRodents.Dr.Paul
Finlayson, Opthamology Research Group.
UniversityHospital,UBCSiteG279at
4pm. Call 228-2330.
Biochemistry Seminar
Structural Studies Of TheAnionTransportProteinFromHumanErythrocyte
.......
..... - .......
Membranes.
Dr.
Reinhart
Reithmeier,
ij.) Ili,,!ll ,, [f.
0 ':
Medicine, U. of Toronto. IRC #4 at 4pm.
B R ~ ~ I E I I I 1 L i ~ l l ~ ~ t ~ l l i l S l l l l t W'l l l l U l i ~
Call 228-61 73.
Christmas Wonderworld
Xerox Lecture. Chemical Process Technology In The ManufactureOf Microelectrgnic Devices. Prof. Dennis Hess, ChemicalEngineering, U. of California, Berkeley.
Chemistry 8250 at Ipm. Refreshments
from 12:40pm. Call 228-3266.
sign Concept For Digital Communications
Systems. Andrew Viterbi, Prof. Electrical
Engineering, UCSD; Vice Chairman/Chief
Technical Officer, Qualcomm Inc.. Scarfe
100 from 1 -2:30pm. Refreshments from
12:30pm.Call228-6894.
UBC's United Way campaign volunteers are still searching for donors to help the campus reach this year's goal of
$240,000. At press time, just over $21 7,000 in donations had been raised through the generous support of almost 1,400
staff andfaeuhy. Pledges and contributions may be sent to Financial Services. If you need a pledge form,call Edifh Luck
at 228-8905 or Cecelia Knowles at 228-8763.
Medical Genetics Seminar
University Chamber Singers sponsored by the UBC
FacultyWomen'sClub.
Boutique,Luncheon,$7.,
Life
Memberships.
Reservationsrequired.Cecil
Green Park House at 9:30am. Call 2221983.
CICSR
Distinguished
Lecture
Series
Forward Error-Control As A Central De-
Topicto beannounced. Dr.
JackSaddler,ForestSciences,
UBC.
Wesbrook
201
from
12:30-1:30pm.
Call 228-2376.
New from the UBC Botanical Garden: table centres
and
wreaths
(dried
or
green) made by Friends of
the Garden;seeds from its
plants, dried flower bouquets,books,baskets,
pots, toolsand
some gifts for children. Open 1 lamdpm
at 6804 SW Marine Drive. Parking adjacent. Call 228-4529.
Carpool Matching
School of Nursing Study
Send both your home and
work addresses and both
telephonenumbers;your
working
hours;
whether
you have a car and if you
to
smokewhiledriving,
Karen Pope, Dean’s Office, Applied Science. When a carpool match is found, the
information will be sent to you. Call 2280870.
Volunteers needed fw study of couples/
family adjustmentto a breast cancer diagnosis.
Women
and
partners.
Involves
interviewdresponse to questionnaire. Call
Dr. Ann Hilton at 228-7498.
Executive Programmes
Oneho day business seminars. Dec. 35: Logistics Management, $895. Dec. 45:
Employment
Law,
$450.
Dec.
5-6:
Executive’s Computer, $550. Dec. 10-1: 1
Time Management,$450. Call 224-8400.
School of Nursing Study
Couples are needed who are bothin paid
employment (over 20hrdwk) and have at
least one child under eighteen months of
age.Involvesfilling out aquestionnaire
twice (10 minutes each time). Call Wendy
Hall at 228-7447.
Diabetic Clinical Study
StatisticalConsultingand
Daily Rhythms Study
Volunteers neededto keep a daily journal
(average 5 min. daily)
for4 months, noting
patternsinphysical/socialexperiences.
Call Jessica McFarlane at 228-51 21.
Stiange WaysHereWe
Come.
Works
by
New
York artists Donald Moffet
Study
School of FamilylNutritional Sci- Pregnant women, concerned about their
blood pressure, are invited to participate.
ences Nutrition Study
Thestudycomparesrelaxationtraining
EnergyMetabolism.Femalevolunteers
withstandardmedicaltreatment(own
needed, age 27-38 with no history of diet- physician).CallDr.WolfgangLinden
ing.Must be able to attendUBCclinic
228-41 56.
monthly for a short follow-up visit, for 1
year. Call Sara Pare 228-2502.
at
Post Polio Study
Sat from 12-5pm at UBC Fine Arts Gallery. Call 228-2759.
Sports Medicine Study
SurplusEquipmentRecycling
Facility
W
-
Allsurplusitems.Every
Psychiatry PMS Study
UniversityHospital,Shaughnessysite.
Volunteers needed for a study of an inPsychiatry
Depression
Study
vestigational medicationto treat Pre MenUBC Speakers Bureau
Participants needed for restrualSyndrome.CallDr.D.Carterat
Would your group like
to know more about
search study using new an- 228-7318.
to
topicsrangingfromVoiceDisorders
tidepressant
medication.
AcidRain?Morethan
500 topics to
Depressionsufferers,18choose from; most speakers are available
Sleep Disorders Study
65 years. Call Doug Keller
freeofcharge. Call228-6167,Mon., Wed.,
Volunteers
18-45
years
at 228-7318.
Fri., 8:30am-I2pm.
suffering from Chronic Insomnia needed for a study
Our Chiefs And Elders
onsleep-promotingmedication
(hypnotics).
Must
Portraits of BC Native lead- Psychiatry Personality Questionbe availableto sleep overers, chiefs, chief counselnaire Study
night at a lab for five nights. Call Carmen
lors and elders by Kwaguitl Volunteers needed to complete two 90Ramirez at 228-7927.
photographerDavidNeel.
minute sessions. Stipend, $20. Call JanContinues at the Museum
ice at 228-789517057.
of Anthropology. Call 228Hypertension in Pregnancy
5087.
Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition
Re-
Counselling Psychology Retirement Preparation
Volunteers, female, age 18-35 needed to
participate in study on Exercise and the
Menstrual Cycle. Fit, healthy, having normal menstrual cycles and not currently on
oral contraceptives. Physiological testing
provided.AllanMcGavinSportsMed.
Centre,JohnOwenPavilion,UBC.Call
Dr. Connie Lebrun 228-4045 or 980-6355. 228-5345.
VolunteersinterestedIn
planningtheirretirement
needed for research project.Discussiononretirement-related
issues
included. Call Sara Cornish
BadmintonClubForFaculty/
Diabetics who have painsearch Laboratory
Staff
ful neuropathy affecting the SCARL is operated by the Department of
Thursdays
from
8:30legsneeded to volunteer
Statistics to provide statistical advice to
10:30pm and Fridays from
for 14-week trial of an infaculty and graduate students working on
6:30-8:30pm in Gym A of
vestigational new
drug.
researchproblems.FormsforappointRobert Osborne
the
CallDr.DonaldStudney,
ments availablein Room 210. Ponderosa
Centre.Clubdues,$15
Medicine, University Hospital, UBC Site at Annex C. Call 228-4037.
plus library card. Call Ber228-71 42.
nard 228-6809 or 731-9966.
Persons with polio needed for functional
assessmentandpossibletrainingprograms. Call Elizabeth Dean, Ph.D., School
of Rehabilitation Medicine, 228-7392.
Multiple Sclerosis Study
Persons with mild to moderately severe
MSneededforstudyonexercise
responses.
Call
Elizabeth
Dean,
Ph.D.,
School of Rehab. Medicine, 228-7392.
Duplicate Bridge
Every Wednesday except Dec 19/26. Informal game opento all. Admission of $2
per person includes coffee/snacks. Facurty Club at 7pm. Call 228-4865.
Agricurl
Sexual Harassment Office
Twoadvisorsareavailable
to discuss
questions and concerns on the subject.
They are preparedto help any member of
the UBC community who
is being sexually
harassed to find a satisfactory resolution.
Call Margaretha Hoek or Jon Shapiro at
228-6353.
Late
afternoon
curling.
New plus experienced curlers welcome. Thunderbird,
Tuesday evenings, 5:15 or
7:15pm. Call Alex Finlayson at 738-7698 or Paul
Willing at 228-5468.
Submissions On Race Relations Fitness Appraisal
Physical
Education
and
Recreation
At UBC
throughtheJohn M. BuchananFitness
Have you had special experiences which and Research Centre, administers a physiwill help identify areas to promote sound
cal fitness assessment program. Students
race relations? Are there any special rec- $25, others$30. Call 228-4356.
ommendations that you or your department,unitorgroupmayhavedevised
Neville Scarfe Children’s Garden
which will serve as effective models for
Located west of the Edureference? Submission deadline is Dec.
cationBuilding.Freead15/90. Call Kogila Adam-Moodley, Chairmission. Open year round.
person, Race Relations Committee at 228Families interested in plant431 5.
ing,weedingorwatering
the garden, call Gary PenVolunteering
nington at 228-6386 or Jo-Anne Naslund
To find an interesting and challenging vol- at 434-1061
unteerjob,get in touchwithVolunteer
Connections,StudentCounsellingand
Botanical Garden
Resources Centre, Brock 200. Call 228$
r
Open
every
day
from
381 1.
1Oam-3pmuntil M&. I5/91.
Free admission. Call 228Narcotics Anonymous Meetings
3928.
EveryTuesday(including
holidays) from 12:30-2pm,
UniversityHospital,UBC
Nitobe Garden
Site,Room311(through
Open Monday to Friday, loam-3pm until
LabMedicinefromMain
Mar.15/91.Freeadmission.Call228Entrance).Call873-1018
3928.
(24-hour Help Line).
Perrv recognized for contributionsto world peace
d
By CONNIE FILLETTI
U.S. Army Captain Thomas Perry
couldn’t believe his luckback in 1945
in Germany when he first heard that
America dropped the nuclear bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. H e knew i t
meant the end of World
War I1 and his
return hometo his wife and a comfortable medical practice in Los Angeles.
But that thought quickly turned to
one o f what could he do to prevent
nuclear war fromever happening again.
“I realized very quickly how
selfish
my initial
response wasto the devastation and loss o f l i f ein Hiroshima and
Nagasaka,” said Dr. Perry. “1 knew I
had to do
something about it.”
Forty-five years later, Dr. Thomas
Perry Sr., professor o f Pharmacology
and Therapeutics, has been awarded
the firstVancouverCitizens
Peace
Award in recognition o f his contributions to world peace at a community
level.
“I felt verygood and pleased about
receiving the award, but Iwasalso
surprised becausethereare
literally
dozens o f people in the community
who have done at least as much if not
more than I have”, he said.
Dr. Perry immediately becamea
vigorous opponent o f nuclear weapons
testing upon his return to California,
speaking to groups across the state.He
has also been active in several peace
groups throughout the years,including
Canadian Physicians for the Preverntion o f NuclearWar and Veterans
Against Nuclear A r m s . In addition, he
has been an appointed member o f
Vancouver’s Special Council Committee on Peacesince it was formed in
1985 by citycouncil.
Trained as a pediatrician but interested in neuroscience, Dr. Perry was
eventually recruited by fellow peac’e
activist Linus Pauling (who won the
Noble Peace Prize for his anti-nuclear
war efforts in 1962) to work withhim
at the California Institute o f Technology. Dr. Perry was able to pursue his
professional interest in scientificresearchatthe
Institute from 1954 to
1962.
Ironically, his own anti-nuclear
a r m s activities brought Dr. Perry under the close scrutiny o f the F B I and
CIA.
“Pauling told me not to count on
my joblasting at Cal Tech,” Dr. Peny
explained. “He said they would eventually get rid of him and as soon as
they did, I’d be next. He told me to
keep looking foranother job.
Dr. Perry followed Pauling’s advice and received offers from the Albert Einstein Medical Schoolin New
York and from Stanford Universityin
California. Both offers
were rescinded
when he refused to abandon his peace
efforts.
his scientific reUnable to further
search work in the United States because of his stance on nuclear weapons, Dr. Perry emigrated to Canada
with his family the same year Pauling
received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr. Perry joined UBC’s Facultyof
Medicine in the Pharmacology and
Therapeutics Department in 1962. He
officially retired twenty years later but
has been working in his lab on a fulltime basis without salary for the past
eight years, researching the biochemical basis of neurological diseases.
He remained a strong and vocal
adversary o f nuclear arms testing after
his arrival in B.C.. He also became an
opponent o f the Vietnam War and
embarked on efforts toreduce hostilities between Canada and the Soviet
Union.
As a member of Vancouver’s Special Council Committee onPeace, Dr.
Perry has opposed nuclear arms warships being invited into the Port of
Vancouver and won a motion presented
to city council in 1989 to have them
banned. Although the Port of Vancouver i s federal jurisdiction and i s not
legally bound by the ban, no warships
have entered thePort o f Vancouver so
far this year.
Dr. Perry was also invited to tour
the Soviet Union in 1986 and take part
in discussions with Sovietofficials
about their unilateral moratorium on
nuclear weapons testing.
In 1987, he was invited toan international forum on the prevention o f
nuclear war and the preservation o f
humankindconveyned by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Kremlin. Dr. Perry was one o f six Canadians
- along with former Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau - to participate out o f
one thousand delegates
representing 87
countries.
The crowningachievement for Dr.
Perry and his peace efforts since coming to B.C. was organizing the Vancouver Centennial Peace and Disarmament Symposium in 1986. He was
able to attract celebrated peace activists from around the world, including
John KennethGalbraith and Helen
Caldicott, to take part in the fourday
symposium held at Vancouver’s Or-
pheum theatre.
“Eventhoughyou
are forcedto
leave your own country, I feel you
have to try you have to do the same
socially usefulthings in your adoptive
country,” Dr. Perry said.
TheVancouverCitizens
Peace
Award was presented to Dr. Perry by
Vancouver Mayor Gordon Campbell
in a civic commemoration o f the UN’s
International Dayo f Peace, Sept. 18.
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T H EU N I V E R S I T Y
O F B R I T I S HC O L U M B I A
REPORT ON EMPLOYMENT
EQUITY REVIEW
PreparedbytheOffice
of Employment Equity, Sharon E. Kahn,
Director
The Federal Contractors Program
(FCP) requires UBC to ensure that all policies and procedures are
job related and to
determine if any existing policies or procedures might have an adverse effect on the
employment opportunitiesof women, aboriginal people, visible minorities, and personswithdisabilities.Toachievethese
goals, the FCP requires UBC to complete
an employment systems review, comprising:
recruitment
selection
training and development
upward mobility
job evaluation
compensation
benefits
conditions of employment
lay-off, recall, disciplinary action, and
termination
A. J. McClean,AssociateVicePresident, Academic; Eileen Stewart, Director of Personnel Services, andI agreed
that the first phaseof UBC’s employment
systemsreview,whichincludesemployment procedures for both academic and
non-academicpositions,shouldbean
examination conducted by the President’s
Advisory Committee on Employment Equity of employment procedures identified
by Personnel Services and the Office of
the Vice-president, Academic. In order to
examine central administration policies and
practices, we established three directives:
ices as an important step in ensuring that
job postings match job descriptions and
are based on actual job duties. As well,
this project will create structures to ensu
a match between salaries and actual job
duties.
The following report, prepared for me by Sharon E.
Kahn, Director of Employment Equity, describes the employment systems review, a major step in UBC’s employment equity program.Thepurpose
of the reviewis to
ensure that UBC’s employment policies and practices do
not disadvantage members of four groups designated by
theFederalContractors
Program-women,
aboriginal
people, visible minorities, and personswith disabilities. The
result of this review will be improved working conditions for
all UBC faculty and staff.
I urge youto discuss thereport with your colleagues
and exploreways yourdepartment or unitcan participatein
this important University initiative.
Yours sincerely,
David W. Strangway
President
Report of theFacultyAssociation
Steering Committee on Employment
Equity (March 17, 1988)
In reviewing these documents, the
subcommittee concluded that the designatedemployment-equitygroups
may
experience
discrimination
from
three
sources:
Inadditiontothedocumentsreviewed by the subcommittees, I reviewed
three other sets of materials. The first set
of these documents was drawn together
byAssociateVice-presidentforFaculty
Relations,J. C. Dybikowski, who requested
that all deans, heads, and directors of fac
ulties, departments, and schools send him
copies of writtenproceduresrelatingto
appointment, reappointment, tenure, and
promotion. Of eighty-threeresponses,
sixty-eight departments replied that they
hadnowrittenprocedures.Fifteendepartmentssubmittedinternalpersonnel
documents. In addition to the documents
provided me by Dr. Dybikowski, I also reviewed documents produced by Personnel Services concerning employee benefits,aswellasdocumentsproducedby
Occupational Health and Safety concerning hazardous materials. A Challenge ’90
student,JeevanSinghDeol,assistedin
this review.
B. Gather
Information
from
Personnel Services
The Director of Personnel Services
assigned a personnel officer, Peter Godman, to assist in gathering information on
currentemploymentpracticesfornonacademicstaffpositions.Usingemployment systems review guidelines provided
by Employment and Immigration Canada,
Godman and the Director of Employment
Equity developed a semi-structured interview format, and subsequently, Godman
conductedinterviewswiththefollowing
senior officers and managers
in Personnel
Services:
A. Review Documents: review language
Reviewingthesedocuments,the
usage in selected employment documents
produced by Personnel Services, bargain- subcommittee addressed their potential to
differing policies on professional or
ing units, and academic departments; iden-disadvantagedesignatedemploymenteducational development
equity
groups
in
four
ways:
tify potential effects of policies and praclack of benefitsforpart-timeand
tices in these documents on designated
short-term work
recruitment and hiring practices
groups.
E. Stewart, Director
setting of minimum qualifications
performanceevaluationsforboth
B. Gather Information from Personnel
faculty and staff
W.Greene,Director,Occupational
Services: gatherinformationoncurrent
Health and Safety
The subcommittee noted positively
thecomposition of personnelcompractice in Personnel Services.
that the CUPE 2950 collective agreement
mittees
C. Bucar,Manager,Organizational
uses terminology that is inclusive of sex
Development and Staff Planning, an
the conditions on leavesof absence
C. FormulateRecommendationsfor
and
race, includes sexual orientation
in its
M. Sprecher, Manager, CompensaUBC’s Employment Equity Program:
section
on
discrimination,
and
allows
leave
tion
and Benefits
compare the review information with guideIn the area of performance evalufor adoptive parents. The Amendment to
P. Lee, S. Gorham, B. Milne, and W.
lines prepared by Employment and Immi- ations, the subcommittee noted the progthe CUPE 2278 collective agreement also
Wong, Senior Personnel Officers
gration Canada for employment systems
ress of the Faculty of Commerce and Busi- includes adoptive parents in its section on
reviews; recommend actions to enhance
ness Administration. Their internal docuL. Laturnus, Personnel Officer
maternity leave.
UBC’s employment equity initiatives.
ment acknowledges unconventional career
progresswiththestatement:“neither
A thirdsubcommittee(A.AnderThe interviews demonstrated that,
A. Review Documents
chronological age, nor length of service at son, W. Hunter, V. Kirkness, L. Nicol) rethrough
several
current
projects4ob
UBC, nor time in rank, nor time since the
viewedthefollowingdocumentsrelating
EvaluationandClassification,Benefits
Studying documents to determine
receipt of degrees will be considered rele- to clerical and secretarial positions:
Communication, and Training and DevelUBC’semploymentsystemsprocedures
vant to [personnel] decisions.” Such stateopment-UBC is revising its employment
was the work of three subcommittees of
ments may facilitate the accommodation
Application for Employment and Inpractices. These projects, as well as the
thePresident’sAdvisoryCommitteeon
of different career paths, which reflect the
ternal Application Form
internalrestructuring ofPersonnelServEmployment Equity.
experiences of many female and minority
ices,arebeingcarriedoutwithspecific
Clerical
Skills
Inventory
persons. For example, women may return
awareness of the requirements of UBC’s
Thefirstsubcommittee(A.PiterGuidelines for Personnel Administra- policy on employment equity.
tograduateschoolafterchildbearingor
nick, M. Russell, J. Thiele, J. Weinberg)
tion
immigrants may do so following a move to
reviewedthefollowingmaterials,all
of
Canada.
Office Skills Tests for clerks and secManyofthesameconcernsexwhich relate to academic, library, continuretaries
pressedbythesubcommittees
of the
ing education, and management and proAnothersubcommittee(A.AnderPresident‘sAdvisoryCommitteeonEmOffice
Skills
Tests
Administrator’s
fessional appointments:
son, 8. Kadey,G.McLaughlin,L.Nicol)
ployment Equity were reiterated by memManual
reviewed the following documents relating
bers of Personnel Services and are covConditions of Appointment for Facto union and non-union positions:
Wonderlic Personnel Test for clerks
ered in the recommendations in this reulty
and secretaries
port. Specifically, the interviewed staff of
Collective Agreement for CUPE 11
6
Conditionsof Appointment for LibrariWonderlic Personnel Test Manual
PersonnelServicesagreedtofourconans
Collective Agreement for CUPE 2950
cerns:
Conditions ofAppointmentforProCollective Agreement for CUPE 2278
Thissubcommitteenotedthepoactive recruitmentof members of the
gramDirectors in theCentre for
plus Amendment for Non-credit Ses- tentialdisadvantagetoemployment-eqdesignated
employment-equity
Continuing Education
sional Instructors
uity group members of recruitment pracgroups
tices and the useof skills tests for clerical
Handbook for Management and ProCollective Agreement for IUOE
andsecretarialselection.Onapositive
review of selection tests
fessional Staff
Guidelines for Personnel Administra- note,thesubcommitteerecognizedthe
provision of benefits to part-time and
Memorandum fromA. J. McClean on
tion
Job Evaluation and Classification Project
Academic Appointments (February
6,
short-term employees
currently undertaken by Personnel ServNon-union Technicians’ Handbook
1990)
REPORT ON EMPLOYMENT
EQUITY REVIEW
Currently, the Faculty Association and the
University administration are engaged
in a
jointeffort to removesexistterminology
from the Framework Agreement and Conditions of Appointment for Faculty: When
In addition, those interviewed sugrevised,thesedocumentswillserveas
gested five improvements:
positive examples of gender-inclusivelanRecommendation 6. Tomonitor
able accommodation for faculty and staff
recruitment
of
applicants
from
the
four
desguage.
with
disabilities. In particular, UBC should
standardization of therecruitment
ignated employment-equity groups, UBC
to
consideracknowledgingwillingness
process, to include reference checkThe
revision
of
written
materials
should
track,
to
the
extent
feasible,
the
make
reasonable
accommodation
on
the
ing procedures and applicant tracknumberofindividualsinthedesignated
also should include the removal of domiapplication for employment form. Othering
nant-culturebias.Anexample
of domigroupswhoapplyforfacultyandstaff
wise,theapplication question-”Do you
increasedtraining in humanrights
nant-culture bias can be found in the CUPE
positions.
haveany disability or healthcondition
and employment equity for all UBC
116 collective agreement that establishes
whichmayinterferewithyourability
to
faculty and staff engaged in recruitRecommendation 7. UBC should
a paid “special holiday” before Christmas,
performthejobapplied
for?”-may disment, selection, and hiring
review the qualifications for every position couragepersonswith
but makes no specific provisions for nondisabilities from
at the time of recruitment to ensure that
majorityreligiousholidays.Otherexapplying for work at UBC.
standardization of career progress
inthey reflect bona fide job requirements.In
formation and the distribution of merit amples of this dominant-culture bias can
addition,theassessmentofapplicants’
be found in the use of terms ‘Yamily” and
Recommendation 9. Thelength
increases
abilities
should
reflect
actual
job
require“immediate
relatives”
in
collective
agreeof
leaves
for maternity should be consisoptions for flextime to accommodate
ments. Personnel Services should review
mentsectionsoncompassionateleave,
tent across employment groups, and the
care-giving responsibilities
the use of the Office Skills and Wonderlic tenure clock should be stopped for one
bereavement, or access to fitness faciliimprovedaccessibilityforpersons
tests for clerical and secretarial positions.
ties. For some groups, these terms may
year
for
faculty
who
take
maternity
with disabilities.
include a different setof kin than that pro- Such tests may unfairly and inaccurately
leave.
screen out minority applicants. The Wonvided in thedocuments.Termssuchas
derlic
is culturallybiased.Forexample,
“funeral”
and
“pall-bearer”
in
a
multicultuRecommendation 10. TheprocC. Formulate
Recommendaitemsrequireindividuals to useimperial
ral environment are restrictive: “memorial
ess by which supervisors determine that
tionsfor UBC’s Employment service” and “mourner” may be more ap- measures andto know that Elksis a serv- management and professional staff have
Equity Program
ice organization. In addition, in the manupropriate.
remained“current”duringmaternityor
als accompanying the Office Skills Tests
other leave should be clarified.
and the Wonderlic, normative datais proRecommendation 3. Every docuThe information gathered through
mentonconditionsofappointmentand
vided for Blacks and Hispanics, but not for
the review of written materials and interRecommendation 11. In recognicollectiveagreementsshouldmakeexother ethnic groups that make up the
pool
views was compared with Employment and
tion of family care-giving responsibilities,
plicit reference to UBC’semployment
from which UBC selects employees.
ImmigrationCanadaguidelinesforemUBC should investigate steps toward proequity policy in a conspicuous place, prefployment systems reviews. These guidevidingfacultyandstaffoptionssuchas
Whatever tests are used in seleclines ask the question: Does this policy or erably near the beginning.
part-timework,reducedworkload,job
tion,PersonnelServicesshouldcollect
practice promote or hinder equality? Spesharing, day care, and paternity leave.
Recommendation 4. Allpersonnormative and validity data on UBC emcifically, we reviewed documents and curnel committees, including those for recruit-ployees.AndUBCshouldbeable
to
rent practices according to the following
Recommendation 12. All emment, search, and evaluation, should seek administer these tests to applicants who
criteria:
ployee groups should have access
to writto include representatives from designated are hearing- or sight-impaired.
teninformationconcerningpoliciesand
employment-equity groups.
1. Does the policy or practice conform to
procedures relatedto their employment.
Recommendation 8. UBC should
human rights and employment laws?
Recommendation 5. Recruitment
continue to improveaccessforpersons
Recommendation 13.
UBC
for all academic and non-academic posiwithdisabilities to theUBCcampus, to
2. Is thepolicy or practiceapplied in a
should offer its employees more informations should include active measures diPersonnel Services, and to job postings.
consistent manner?
so thatindividuals
tiononcareerpaths
rected toward the four designated groups. In addition, UBC should consider reasoncanestablishemploymentgoalswithin
3. Does the policy or pracUBC and identify the skills they
tice have a negative impact
must acquire to-achieve these
on any designated group?
goals.
development of policies and procedures for research technicians, who
are not in a bargaining unit
~~~~~~~~
4. Does the policy or practice accomplishits predictive
or evaluative function?
5. Is thepolicy or practice
based on bona fide occupational requirements?
6. Is thepolicyorpractice
necessaryforsafeandlor
efficient operationof UBC?
To redress the effects
of systemicdiscrimination
identified in our review, the
President‘sAdvisoryCommitteeonEmploymentEquity recommends the following:
Recommendation 1.
Employment
practices
shouldconformto
British
Columbia’s
human
rights
legislation andUBC’semployment equity policy. UBC
shouldprovidefacultyand
staffinvolved in hiringwith
more trainingin human rights
practice and gender, cultural,
and disability issues.
Recommendation 2.
Both academic and non-academicdepartmentsshould
review their own employment
policiesandprocedures to
ensure consistency with the
University’sobjectivesand
policies. The resultsof these
reviews should be submitted
to the vice-president responsibleforthedepartment.
A
brief guide to facilitate individualdepartments in their
employment
systems
reviews is attached to this report.Thereviewofwritten
materials should include revision of sexist terminology.
Departmental Checklist
The President’s Advisory Committee on Employment
Equity recommends that each department review its
employment policies and procedures to identify potential negative effects on designated employmentequity groups. This checklist covers relevant points.
1. Whatarethestepsinanemployment
systems review?
4. Areapplicationsfromdesignated-groupmembers encouraged?
5. Do selectioncommitteeshaveanemployment
equity perspective?
6. Are selection criteria and pre-screening fair and
consistent for all applicants?
B. Training and Development
A.Reviewdocuments,departmentalpolicies,and
practices for discriminatory language or intent, includ- 1. Is informationabouttraininganddevelopment
ing sexist terminology and dominant-culture bias.
programs disseminatedto all employees?
B.Identifysystemicdiscrimination(institutionalized,
2. Do all employees have accessto developmental
oftenunconsciousdiscriminationagainstwomen,
or advancement training?
aboriginal people, visible minorities, and persons with3. Are training sites accessible?
disabilities).
C. Remove barriers to equitable employment.
C . Upward Mobility
ll. What are the criteria?
1. Are opportunities for promotion communicated
to all employees?
2. Do all employees have equal access to internal
promotion routes?
A. Is the practice legal?
B. Is the practice applied to all employees consistently?
C. Does the practice impact adversely on any group? D. Performance Evaluation
D. Is the practice truly valid?
1. Are rankings and evaluations fair?
E.Doesthepracticedealwithjob-relatedrequire2.
Is pay equity a consideration in evaluations?
ments?
F. Is the practice necessary for the operation of the
E . Work Environment
department?
Ill.Whataresomeemploymentsystems
issues?
A. Recruitment and Selection
1. Are position descriptions and advertisements unbiased?
2. Does recruitment go beyond “word of mouth” or
other informal processes?
3. Do short-listsincludecandidatesfromgroups
other than those of present employees?
1. Are rules, such as dress/appearance codes, applied to all employees?
2. Are minority group religious holidays respected?
3. Is the workplace accessible to employees with
disabilities?
4. Are health and safety issues (e.g., VDT’s, emergency evacuation routes for the disabled) considered?
5. Are child-care and parenting issues (e.g., flexible
work schedules) considered?
6. Is overtime distributed fairly?
Recommendation 14. In
facultypersonneldecisions,
departments
and
faculties
should be reminded that where
there is a lack of department
orfacultyexpertise
in newly
developing, collaborative, and
interdisciplinary fields committees
should
supplebe
mented.
Recommendation 15. Policies on professional-developmentleaveshouldprovide
moreopportunitiesforUBC
facultyandstaff to pursuedegree requirements at UBC and
otherpost-secondary institutions. In recognition that some
faculty and staff are not geographically
mobile,
UBC
shouldinvestigatemeasures
it can take to enhance opportunities for professional development
leave.
In addition,
UBC
should
consider
greater
flexibility in allowing leave for
the
improvement
of basic
qualifications.
-
-
Aswell,UBCshouldconsider curricular implications for
employees’ educational benefits. For example, at the present time, an employee who
receivespersonalstudybenefits is not ableto pursue graduatestudiesfor two reasons:
the benefits do not extend to
graduate
coursework,
and
graduate
programs
require
some full-time study.
Recommendation 16. Becausemanypart-timeand
short-term
employees
are
members ofthedesignated
employment-equity
groups,
UBC
should
consider
offering
benefits to these employees.
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Missing mural subjectof oneperson Sleuthing mlsslon
clue
Another
World-renowned opera singer, and UBCgraduate, Ben Heppner was named
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campus art failed to1980.
locate
inteaching
it hospitals.
The mystery of the missing mural
“I haveafeelingsomebodymay
Binkertknowsthe
Alma Mater
has puzzled June Binkert for the past
Society owned canvas was rolled up
know where it is,” she said. “It may
decade.
andstoredwhenthestudent
group
well be hanging somewhereandbeing
Ahuge,10-by-20footpainting
bymovedtothenew
Student UnionBuild-admired
by people.Ican’tthinkit
in 1972. She also discoveredrec-wouldbethrownaway.”
artistRolfBlakstadoncehungpromi-ing
nently in the
main concourse
came to her atof Brock Hall,
tention during
backwhenthe
spring’s
last
original student
Open House,
centre wasthe
whenthe
Stuhub of campus
dent Resources
life. But it
Centre used the
droppedoutof
UBC
Archives
sight after being
photo, reproput into storage
duced here, as
in the 1970s.
partofits
disNow, the secPlayretary to the
Binkert obPresident’s
tained a copy of
Committee on
the photo and is
University Art is
nowusingitto
makingalasthelp her search.
ditch effort to
It shows a styllocate it.
ized forest scene,
“I’mretiring
painted in shades
mom counery of UUL ~ Z ~ C N V ~ S
at
the
end of Archive photo showing missing mural on Brock House wall.
of pink, red,blue
Juneandbefore
I leave, I’dreally
ordsthatshowitwasinstorage
in
and p e n , with a pair of lovebirds in
like to close my file on this painting,‘’ Physical Plant in 1979.
the top left comer.
said Binkert, who also serves as the
There has beenno trace of the muBinkert asks anyone who has any
secretary of theFine
Arts departral since, but in thecourse of her sleuthinformation onthe mural, or knows of
ment.
ing, Binkert has heard rumors that it
Room
its whereabouts, to contact her
at
The whereabouts of themuralhashas
beenseen hanging in aUBCfacil-401A,LasserreBuilding,
or call228beenonhermindsince an inventory of
ity off-campus,perhaps in one ofthe
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The committee
advises federal ministers on the scientific
contentandpublic
policyrelevance of
the National Stateof
the Environment Reportpublishedlast
year byEnvironment
Canada.
report,
The
Rees
and
companion
a
volume of environmental data published
by Statistics Canada, outlines the current
state of Canadian resources.
Committee members also adviseon periodic reports by Environment Canada on
specific environmental issues.
A $340,000 donation from
the Real Estate Foundation of
British Columbia is funding the
first academic
programs
in
Canada focusing on real property development andplanning.
“The programs will develop
a broad, comprehensive perspective on land development
issues,” said Alan Artibise, director of the School of Community and Regional Planning.
The Master’s level programs,
which will be offered through
the planning school and the
UrbanLandEconomics
division ofthe Faculty of Commerceand Business Administration, will begin next fall.
“If you’re a planner, ‘you
can’t be unaware of finances,”
Artibise said. “Ifyou’re a financial planner, you have to be
aware ofthepoliticsandthe
planning process. Students will
gain a comprehensive understanding through this innovative initiative.”
pactthatdevelopment
local citizens.”
In addition to the teaching
programs, the funds will
be used
for research and professional
development programs.
Artibise hopes that environmental issues will also be tackled.
Real property development
is a multi-billion dollar industry in B.C., whichcreates housing, commercial and industrial
centres, and recreational and
cultural facilities, said Stan
Hamilton, chair oftheUrban
Land Economics division.
“We want to play a role in
moving the development industry into developing environmentally sensitive projects,” he
said.
“It has very significant consequencesbecause it’s the process by which youalter the landscape of the community,”
Hamilton said. “You only have
to look at the resultsof the most
recent elections to sense the im-
The foundation’s donation
includes a $40,000 one-time,
start-up grant. The $300,000
endowment will be matched
through
UBC’s
fundraising
campaign, A World of Opportunity.
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I
Favorite f o r location filming
UBC campus ‘discovered’by Hollywood
Empire Pool was decorated to resemble
the faceof a hydrodam.
Lights!Camera!Action!
“It took about a week to construct
MGM?Nope.UBC.
the set and another day or so to jhoot
Thanks to UBC’s lush,natural
beauty, along with the university’s Ivy the scene,” Johns said.
Danson, Isabella
Rosellini
and
Leaguelookthatmanyfilmmakers
screen-veteran Lloyd Bridges were part
appear tobe seeking, UBC has been
in
of aweddingscenefilmed
at Cecil
demand by silver-screen types in both
Green Park in Dec.. 1988. The scene
CanadaandtheU.S.inrecentyears.
took six daysto set up all the bells and
And the campus has
been the settingof
several feature films, television series, whistles that go along with a wedding
ceremony, and another seven days to
and made-for-TV movies.
shoot, said Johns.
The university‘s link to the celluloid world is Arlene Chan, office super- “About 30 Vancouver residents
wererecruitedforthescenetoporvisor in UBC’s Community Relations
trayfamilymembers. It wasahuge
Office.Anyshootingrequeststhat
cast.“
call for a UBC setting must
go through
The UBCcampushasalsobeen
her, along with the countless film and
used as a setting for a number of teletelevision scripts that Chan must pevision series, including
2 1 Jump Street.
ruse to make sure the university can
MacGyver and Danger Bay.
meet the demandsof location managOne script that has been on Chan’s
ers.
desk is The Euphio Question. by Kurt
She has seen the likes of Robert
DeNiro and Ted Danson pass through VonnegutJr.,one of themorethan
half-dozen shooting requests the unithe UBC gates 111 two separate Paraphoto murtesy of Paramount pictures
versity has received since October.
mountPicturesproductions.DeNiro
UBC’s Empire Pool is turned into the face of a hydro dam
for the filmingof a sequencefrom the movie We’re No Angels.
Chan, however, is quick topoint
shot a sceneon campus, at the Empire
tumed off inthe men’swashroom of
toplungeoveracliff,withthecliffwantedtodressupatelescopeatthe
out that this movie-star stuff isn’t as
Pool, in May of
1989 for the film
We‘re
of Anthropologyobservatory,butwouldn’tdivulgespethe chemistrybuilding,alongwithbehindtheMuseum
glamorous as it sounds.
No Angels.
the
removal of the
paper
towel
disselected
as
the
location
for
the
cific
details.
“There are a lot of variables that
One scene in We’re No Angels
Greater
However,
penser.
Vanshoot.
the
a forwas
scene
“It
the out
turned
moviecalledFleshGordonandthe
called for DeNiro to save a young girl have tobe considered before any shootChan said shooting requests somecouver Regional District stepped
in and
Cosmic Cheerleaders, a pornographic
ing can actually take place,” said Chan.times call for more than just the refrom drowning in a lake. Vancouver
decided the stunt was too dangerfilm.” she said. “Needless to say, the
One episode of The KidsareAll
resident Kirk Johns, who acted as the
moval of a paper towel dispenser. One ous.
request
was turned down.”
Right called for thethewatertobe
locationmanagerforthefilm,said
espisode of MacGyver called for a car
Chansaidonelocationmanager
By ABE HEFTER
Across the Nation
Engineer shortfall predicted
CanadafacesapossibleshortfallofPrinceEdwardIsland,
8.2 percent intend
Newfoundland, 4.2 per cent inNew
30,000 engineers by the year 2000, a
Brunswick and 3.4 per cent inNova
conference in Ottawa on the future of
the profession was warned.
Scotia, but increased just one per cent
A study by the Canadian Council
in both Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
ofProfessionalEngineers
said that
unless a trend to lower enrolments in
Canadian engineering programs isreversed, there will be over 15,500 untilled student places during the next
Women received more than halfof
decade.
the bachelor’s degreesawarded by
Halfthestudents
who currently
Ontario universities in 1988.
complete engineering programs
do not
Statisticsreleased by theCouncil
actually work as engineers after they
of Ontario Universitiesshowthat
graduate, often because they are ofwomen were granted 55 per cent
of
feredbetterpay in non-engineering
bachelor’s degrees, 45percent
of
positions.
master’sdegreesandalmost
33 per
Meanwhile, a $50,000 scholarship
cent of doctorates. Twenty years earfund has been created at the University
lier, women earned onlyI8 per cent of
of Windsor to encourage women to
master’s degrees and six per cent of
study engineering.
doctorates.
Women earn more
degrees
General enrolment
up across Canada
For the eleventh consecutive year,
full-time undergraduate enrolment at
Canadian universities has increased.
Student numbers are 3.1
up per cent
across the country, according tosura
vey early this autumnby the Association of Universities and Colleges.
Maritimes universities showed the
most growth, with prairie institutions
reporting the least. Enrolmentrose by
3.3 per cent in B.C., 3.9 per cent in
Ontario, 2.2 per cent in Quebec and
1.8 per cent in Alberta.
Enrolment jumped 8.5 per cent in
MBA fee hike
studied
classone or twodaysa weekand
have their tuition paid
by employers.
Businessprogramsarealogical
place to implement
privatization
because of theirlinkstothebusiness
community,saidfacultydeanRoper
Wolff.
wm-mw
DELICIOUS
GIFTZDEAS
FROM““UBC BAKESHO
Fulbrights now in
Canada
TheFulbrightAwardsarefinally
coming to Canada.
The Canadianand U.S. governments will spend $227,000 a year, for
the next two years. to fund the CanadaU.S.EducationalExchangeFoundation. The foundation ispart of the
Fulbright program, aU S . government
teaching and research exchange program operating in 130 countries.
The Fulbright
program
awards
about 4,700 newgrantseachyear
around the world. More than 167,000
scholars have participated in the program since it began in 1946.
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Items from the Christmas Bakeshop canbe ordered liom
November 2 8 h to December 14th. Last pick up day is
December 20th.
To order by telephone call 228-5717. Orders are takcn
Monday to Friday between 1O:OO a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Last
The University of Toronto Faculty
ofManagementhasproposedthat
about half of its MBA students pay the
FEMALEVOLUNTEERS
full cost of their studies as part of a
REQUIRED
long-term strategy to privatize educaTo test anew birth control
tion.
date LOorder by telephone is December 14th. Orders may
be picked up from the Subway Cafeteria Bakeshop Counter
betwecn noon and 500 p.m. Monday to Thursday and
between noon and 3:OO p.m. on Fridays.
The proposalwouldintroduceto
full-time MBA programs practices
currently found in executiveMBA
programs at other universities throughout the country.
In executive MBA programs, students are full-time employees who at-
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