UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Alumni on the go Above Dr Ron Downey avc 64 leads Ih e cheer Live horse dead horse for alumni attending Ihe Fri ends of Universily of Guelph Annual Meeling held in Ihe Sail Lake Hillon Hotel SaIl Lake Ciry Ulah USA Below some of25 alumni and f riends who look pari in Ih e Alumni Fly-in 0 1 Gore Bay 011 Maniloulin Island in June a vc alumni presenl al Ihe fl y-in enjoyed Ihe Irip to Gore Bay so much thaI they are no w plann ing an a vc Fly-in this f all For more dera ils flyers and fri ends should contacI Bruce Duncan a v c 63 Surrounding the prop are sranding f rom the left Barbara (Blair) Runnals Mac 57 (partly seen) N ora Wa tson John Bennetto HAFA 77 Bruce Duncan a v c 63 and Art Agreda aA C 77 Kn eeling Linda Duncan Gabrieile Frank and Louise Collins

GUELPH ALUMNUS Summer 1978 Volume 11 Number 3

UNIVERSITY 0 GUELPH AL M I ASSOCIATIO

HONORARY PRESID ENT Professor Donald F Forster

PRESIDENT Olive (Thompson) Tho mpson Mac 35

PAST PRES lD NT Dr Howard J Neely OVC 51

SENIOR VIC E-PRESIDENT W Ke n Bell CB S 73

VICE PRESIDENTS Rick J C awthorn CBS 73 Dr Thomas R DeGeer OVC 54 John Ecc les OAC 40 Janet (Thompson) McNally CPS 69 Judie (Earle) Meredith Mac 61 D

SECRETARY Jack C Palme r O AC 38

DfRECTORS Robert Esc h C PS 70 Margaret (Player) Ex ley Mac 67 Brad H icks CBS 73 Judith Main Arts 75 Janice (Robertson) Partlow Arts 70 Kathy Sa nford CPS 75 Tom Sawyer O A S9A and 64 D r Geoffrey Sumner-Smith MS c 69 Dr Margery (O Brien) Thornas OVC 6 7 Jackie Wemyss CBS 74

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS John K Babcock OAC 54 DireclOr of Alumni Affairs and Development Gary Beaulne President University of Guelph Central Students Association ( UGCSA) Dr Har vey H Gre nn O VC 58 Prtgtsident OVC Alumni ASSltHiation Chris Hanna President Graduat Students Association Brad Hicks C BS 76 PresIdent College of Biological Sci~nce Alumni Association Pat (Shie r) Mighton O AC 64 President OAC Alumni Association Eli zabeth (MacNaughton) Sandals C PS 69 President College or Physical Science Alumni Association Michae l Streib An s 69 President College of Arts Alumni Association Ruth (Wood s) Wilson Mac 62 President Mac-FACS Alumni Association

TRE AS RE R Jim 1 Elmslie

ASS O IAT SECRETARY Rosem ary Clark Mac 59

The Guelph Alumnus is publi shed by the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development in co-operation wilh the Depanme n1 of information Uni versit y of Gue lph

The Edit orial Committee is com prised of Editor- De rek J Win g Publicati ons Office r Art Director- Erich H Bart h John K BabCOCk OAC 54 Direc tor o f Alu mni Affairs and De ve lopment Rosemar y Clark Mac 59 A sistant Director Alumni Programs Douglas Watersto n Director of In formati on Donald W Jose OAC 49 Assis tant Director of lnfonnation

The Editorial Ad visory Board of th e Uni verSi ty of G uelph Alumni Associ ati on is comprised of W Ken Bell CBS 73 chairman Dr Al lan Austin Dr Donald A Barnum OVC 41 John Bo wles CSS 72 Robe rt Mercer OAC 59 Glenn B Powell OAC 62 James Rusk OAC 65 Sandra Webster Art s 75 Ex- offici o John K Babcock O AC 54 Oli ve Thompso n Mac 35

Undelivered copies sho uld be returned to th e Department of Alumni Affairs and De velopment Univers it y o f Guelph G uelph Ontario NIG 2WI

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Operafon POP Preserving 0 A Cs Past

In a very quiet office in the basement of the

Univers it ys McLaughlin Library archivist

D r Margaret E van s is patiently and

carefully sorting a vast accumulation of valuable his torical material - some of

which dates back to the very beginning of

the O ntario Agricultural College Re porting to the C hief Librarian

Margaret Beckman and working with a

library committee for rare book and archives in consultation with D r Clayton

M Switzer Dean of the Ontario

Agricultural College M argaret Evans has the O A C Archival Collection project well unde r way

Funded by $6 000 grants from the O A C Alumni Association and The

McLean Foundation an Alma Mater Fund donation of $2628 and a matching W intario grant of $14628 the project s purpose is to

organize official records of the original

College its facilitie s and student life which form part of the evolutionary process of the

G uelph campus The collection will be a valuable

research tool for both the academic

community and the general public

Quite often muffled sneezing violate s the blanket of silence that cloaks the area surrounding that lower level room

Surrounded by dusty tomes stacks of

yellowed papers and piles of framed visual record s of the Universitys pas t M argaret Evan s gently blew her nose and explained that for someone with mild hay fever the

job of occasionally handling agricultural

records that smell strongly of the hay lo ft can be disturbing

A g raduate of the University of

Western O ntario Margaret is well qualified for the task at hand

After gaining her Ph D in History with

a minor in English from the University of

Toronto she joined the faculty at Waterloo Lutheran University (now W ilfrid Laurier University) as a history professor She was

Dean of Women there and devoted five

years as a reference librarian organizing government documents

Starting at Guelph s Wellington College of Arts and Science as an Ass istant P rofessor In 1965 she was appoin ted

Chairman of the H istory Department in 1970 - the first woman C hairman of a

hi story department in an Ontario uni versity

Amassed gradually over the years the archival collection experienced a rapid

volume increase in 1974 w hen the O ntario Agricultural College in colla boration with the O AC Alumni Assoc iation celebrated

the entennial of the founding of the College

The event caused many alumni and

friends of the College to unearth and donate historical material that had been stored away

by earlier generations Also it prompted

many faculty on campus to gather artifacts and historical record s that had bee n

collecting du st in basements and sto rage cupboards

To date close to 400 acid-free containers with a total volume of five

cubic-meters have been fill ed with

identified and card-filed material and neatly shel ved Many reque sts for historical information have already bee n received

T here are still many many more boxes

and packages yet to explore in the librarys archival collections area but st ill the word

is more

Margaret Evans feels that there IS

literally ton s of prospecti ve archival material

packed away in attics and trunks in the homes of alumni and friends

Any corresponde nce reports minutes

snap- shots scrap books publications year-books and the like will be gratefully accepted - who knows maybe we can

instigate another campus clean-up 0

Archivist Dr M argaret Evans wirh a dusry tome and with some of rhe archival material

already all the shelves

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From the chaos of a supposed quiet leave

The author at rhe helm

From Professor Keith Ronald Dean College of Biological Science

By courtesy of th e Universit y of G uelph who granted me administrat ive le ave after seven years as Chairman of the Department of Zoology and six year~ as Dean as well as External Affairs and The Nuffie ld Foundation j ve passed from 15- min ute

sc hedules to 12 months of profes sional bliss - ie nothing bu t my own interest s

Se pte mber I 1977 I flew off to the Mediterranean via New York where the

engine fell off the 747 on take off A fter sharing the wealth by dumping 150000 lit res of aviation fuel on the unsuspecting fish we landed again Runways look pre tty when lighted by about 35 fire trucks

By far the most dangerous part of the episode was spending the ni ght in a hotel alongside Central Park

After another try at take-off we arrived in Athens where I had a reed to meet with the ministers of Agriculturc Finance and the Senior De puty of the Environme nt Be ing a day late I had exactly 27 minutes to make the appointment from the a irport - I did The meeting wen t well and we r ceived enco uraging sponsorship for the Firs t Internation al Conference on the

Mediterranean Monk Seal which I would co-convene in Rodas in May

By noon I had also mel with a lawyer to discu ss mon k seals o n the is lands o f Ka lymnos and Patmos and the registration

of a researc h vesse l T he lawyer is abo a guide leader and we have now arranged fo r guides to carry out monk ~ al s urvey~ duri ng their fi eld tri ps - and very successfully too

Th at evening we heard Th eodorakis

was giving the last of his ope n ai r concerts on Mo unt Lyka vertos My wife had managed to ob tain tickets and we ended o ur first day of leave wit h about 15 000 G reeks roaring stamp ing and clapp ing to the junta martyr s m us ic [ can think of no experien ce to equal the eveni ng perhaps je t lag imbued us wit h a little li ght-headedness but I doubt it T his was Greece

We trave ll ed on to Ra dos th e Island o f Kn ight s whe re the invasio n by Sula mein the Magnificen t has left da rk skin black mo ustaches minare ts and luck il y Turk ish baths amongst the Greek arch itec tu re and ruins We travel d on by T urk ish sailboat whi ch carried us into waters not LI~u a lJ y

vi sited b weste rners (or even by Greeks and Turks) where we we re fortunate to obtain the first record of the birth of a monk seal in Kaste lorrizo Greece and a subequent

sighting of we hope the same animal months later grown to 125 metres

T hat same nigh t my western schedule ca u~cd u to sail aga inst a most a trocious Aegean storm I n fact we spent 15 hours batt li ng ex treme weather condit ions in a 14-metre caiqu e T he riggi ng was carried

away several times and we li te ra ll y stood at daw n between two bare masts upon arrival in Rodos harbour We we re the objec t of interest as all ou r planking had mo vecl to show their seams but as caiques were evol ved for these waters - we survi ved the ai r sea rescue personne l did however make a few commen t ~ about we~ tern impetuosity

OLl r rush to reach Roda s was to catch a plane to Iceland to give two papers with my pa middot t po~t - d oc l oral s Nils centrits land of Norway and Jack Terhune (OAC 68) of New Brunswick

Icel a nd wa s as alway fasci nating a coun try tha t phys ically should no t exis t Ho w can geyse rs shoot out of glaciers How can volcanoes continuous ly b ubble away to ha ve the ir effervescence used by the Icelanders to grow tr p ica l fnl it

We had some exce ll ent sessions in Ice lan d bot h scientific and othrwise we vi ired the seat o f the ori gi nal democrat ic parli ament wh ich an nat be described - o nl y visited to com prehend We enjoyed a conv ivial eveni ng with the Mayo r of Reykj av ik and the fo llowing day hoped we would not he exposed to the locill an ti freeze Black Death) e e r again

B~lck to Greece via Sw it zer land [ visited th e Internatio nal Un io n for Conse rvatiun and Nature (IUCN) whe re I head Lip the sea l group in Morges an d on again to the World Wildli fe Fund (WWF)

to Gene va to Athem to anot her ~ess io n

with our sponsor of th May monk seal con ference

I came to halt in Rodos for a week and be fore leaving managed to m ud down a roof to sto p it leaking dur ing the ra ins

Dow n the coa we trave ll ed wi th some In stitu te of Oceanography amI Fisheries biology stu dents from Athens sever l of whom are very good fri ends from past surveys We avoi ded thc d readed si roccos

and me ltemis the African and north winds but so metimes raced past ligh ter craft that wer near broaching to in fo rce seven 10

eight fo[owing seas

We journeyed on into the Death Sea of Tu rkey where I was the o nly one who knew that we we re being bitten by flatwo rm larvae wh ile swim ming in the torr id waters then

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past ruin after ruin of cities one of which

was ancient C nidos where we met Dr Iris Love who had first di scove red black-figured pottery and hence redated the earliest civilizations of the Casian and Lydian coast s

Afte r we ate a knobbly-headed

crustacean with 20 Turks s ipping Pepsi

around the table I chanced to obtain thr e

local s ightings of monk sea ls T he Turki sh military garrison commander promised to

have his men situated along the coast protect these animals

Down the coast even to the land of

Saint icolas and hi s wonderful

fortification we dropped anchor and had to dive to retrieve it because it was stuck in the

ribs of an ancient ve ssel A rip-off artist in

Bodrum with the harbour-master on his side insisted our propeller cut hi s rope It cost us $20 US - the amount low the

principles however wounded Halfway

through dinner in a came market we were forced to the street to buy an insecticide bomb to convince the historic and hysteric

fleas we were not fair game they should go

find a camel

Further down the coast to C as where they grow pistachio nuts we saw some of the fine st rock tombs in the world Here only the dead have re sted as earthquakes

have jumbled the countryside but tombs are

often left on pedestals unharmed We tied up

continuously to grey rocks manned by very efficient Tu rkish sailors who spe nt as much

time under the hosepipe on the warf as we did but my gosh they look efficient

Then back to Rodo s to leave for England where I had decided to write a

book in fi ve months with the co-authorship

of Professor R J Harrison at the School of

Anatomy in C ambridge

Christmas in London Christmas was

St Martin s in the Fields (the fields now being Trafalgar Square) theatres shows

places to see lectures to Part II students in

Comparative Biology talks to the London Zoological Socie ty the European Aquatic

M ammals Association in Copenhagen and

the IUCNW W F group in Faro carrying coals to Newcastle by lecturing on seals at

the Scott Polar In stitute and the British Antarctic Survey as well as the Ma mmal Society in London

We visited Ely cathedral and heard

singing voices ricocheting off the octagonal

lantern - the carols of Christmas at Kings Cambridge with the world listening

Today was wine at John s finding

Seville snuff could easily be addictive and having to know one did not take ma lmsey after port then more lectures to terri bly polite students the elite of E ngland

determined to make them forget their tripos (B A degree examination) and marks meeting Guelph professors all over the place

even at the top of $ 1 M arys lofty church spire and at Churchill College over a

Bally-Ra and monk seal project survey vessel

memorable meal lette rs from Guelph

Telexes from around the world and a visit by an adventurous group who wanted to save the monk seal or La Galite off Tunisia My

God student s are stimulating l

Time to think and realizing that many

of our priorit ies are built on di m evidence of essential need but the clock is running - 1

mus t prepare for Switzerland again 0

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Alumni And Wintario Partners in fitness film funding

Audio VisuaL Services film crew on th e job Editor Ray Pollard cinematographer Norm Lightfool and director Le1 Richards

An average eve noon-hour class

by Mary Dickieson

Se veral o f the Uni versitys on-campus alumni we re recently captured on movie film pe rform ing some rather unusual but effective exercises

The University of G uelph Alumni As sociat ion has joined Wintario 10 provide an S8450 grant to film the activi ties of Human Kine tics Professor John Powel l s noon-hour C ardio- Vascular Cl ub

T he CVC has e njoyed a membership of over 100 old-boys since Professor Po well founded it more than 13 years ago It boasts seve ral charter members among the cu rrent group of University faculty and staff and local businessmen (W ithout an official membership list it s difficult to assess how many me mbers are U niversity of G uelph alum ni but estimates run as high as 40 per cen)

W ith an average attendance of 3S the hardy so uls sweat it out for 30 minutes each day despite a barrage of insults cajoling and corny jokes P rofessor Powells squad describe him as something like a mean army drill instructor but they carryon wi th a smile and mo re importantly they keep coming back for more

The c ve has built a tradition of exercise for those members who may be candidates for heart attack or who simply want to stave off the pressures of the day Because these men ha ve felt the benefits of regu lar physical activity Professor Powell says they feel guilty if they miss a session

T here are also several members who have progressed through the daily exercise program and have joined one of the splinter g roups which jog swim or play soccer Engineering Pro fesso r Trevor Dickinson O AC 61 is an examp le One day about five years ago he decided to go for a noon-hour run and met the eve group on the track Professor Dickinson now runs daily with a group of about eight others and recently joined Professor Tom Bates OAC 51 Land Resource Science Dr Greg W all OAe 67 Agriculture C anada and Dr Tony

Whitworth Assistant to the Vice-President Administration on a relay te am which

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finished 6th in their class at the 5th Annu al Burlington Road Race

T hese runners have also been

enthusiastic supporters of the Un iversitys annual Jog-a-Long event This years

field of 45 included Professor M arjorie

(Wilson) Wall FACS 68 Co nsumer

Studies who started running just over a year ago at the encouragement of husband G reg who admits he probably wouldn ( have

begun a daily exercise program without the

support and the convenience offered by the CVC program

When he calls it a good opportunity to

get away from the pressures of work Greg

is echoing Profe ssor Powells theory that you cant exercise and worry Fun is part of

the daily activity I put laughter as one of the primary aims he says because I m

so full of corny jokes 1 couldnt do it any other way

Professor Doug Hoffman OAC 46

Director Centre for Resources

Development speaks for most CVC members when he says that heading for the

Athletics Centre each noon hour has become a habit for him a 13-year habit He goes because he enjoys the association with

others who also strive for fitness

This striving has been captured in the UGA Wintario film which will be made available to groups and individuals who

wish to view it It will provide the opportunity for those interested to see and

participate in the type of exercise program

Professor Powell commands He design s the activities to promote good circulation mobility and cardio-respiratory fitne ss

Although almost a quarter of the CVC

members have experienced heart attacks a1l

of them have been heart attack free since

joining the group M any members report an

improvement in blood pressure and a loss of unneeded weight although Professor Powell stresses that the CVC is not primarily a weight reducing club O urs certainly isnt

the only way to exercise he says but it

does fulfill a need on campus and it has been successful

CVC members recently showed their

appreciation of Professor Powell s efforts by presenting him with an album of photographs of the old-boys in action The inscription state s that the general

consensus of opinion from members is overwhelming praise for John and a feeling

of well-being both physically and mentally 0

Professor John Powell pUIS em through their paces

Professor Sam Luker Family Srudies - becomes airborne

Wearing the coveted eve T-shirt Professor PoweLl centre shares hi1 lew photo aLbum

lVirh its photographer Ken linde left and Professor Keith Sla ter

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Dr M McCready award winner Gwen (Peters) Tonge Mac 59 and FACS Dean J Wardlaw

uS tOUrs day for camp

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Dr AJan Secord OVC 29 OVCs Distinguished Alumnus 1978 The dedication of Branion Plaza 8

Sidewalk scene dunnmiddot g Mac 75th ceremonies

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Mac gr ads reminisce 9Lunchtime in Branion Plaza

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Students Alumni can make

a significant contribution

by Ann Middleton

CHILD STUDIES

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U~IIVEASIfY Uf bUElPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

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eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

sub-committee s 0

OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

Operafon POP Preserving 0 A Cs Past

In a very quiet office in the basement of the

Univers it ys McLaughlin Library archivist

D r Margaret E van s is patiently and

carefully sorting a vast accumulation of valuable his torical material - some of

which dates back to the very beginning of

the O ntario Agricultural College Re porting to the C hief Librarian

Margaret Beckman and working with a

library committee for rare book and archives in consultation with D r Clayton

M Switzer Dean of the Ontario

Agricultural College M argaret Evans has the O A C Archival Collection project well unde r way

Funded by $6 000 grants from the O A C Alumni Association and The

McLean Foundation an Alma Mater Fund donation of $2628 and a matching W intario grant of $14628 the project s purpose is to

organize official records of the original

College its facilitie s and student life which form part of the evolutionary process of the

G uelph campus The collection will be a valuable

research tool for both the academic

community and the general public

Quite often muffled sneezing violate s the blanket of silence that cloaks the area surrounding that lower level room

Surrounded by dusty tomes stacks of

yellowed papers and piles of framed visual record s of the Universitys pas t M argaret Evan s gently blew her nose and explained that for someone with mild hay fever the

job of occasionally handling agricultural

records that smell strongly of the hay lo ft can be disturbing

A g raduate of the University of

Western O ntario Margaret is well qualified for the task at hand

After gaining her Ph D in History with

a minor in English from the University of

Toronto she joined the faculty at Waterloo Lutheran University (now W ilfrid Laurier University) as a history professor She was

Dean of Women there and devoted five

years as a reference librarian organizing government documents

Starting at Guelph s Wellington College of Arts and Science as an Ass istant P rofessor In 1965 she was appoin ted

Chairman of the H istory Department in 1970 - the first woman C hairman of a

hi story department in an Ontario uni versity

Amassed gradually over the years the archival collection experienced a rapid

volume increase in 1974 w hen the O ntario Agricultural College in colla boration with the O AC Alumni Assoc iation celebrated

the entennial of the founding of the College

The event caused many alumni and

friends of the College to unearth and donate historical material that had been stored away

by earlier generations Also it prompted

many faculty on campus to gather artifacts and historical record s that had bee n

collecting du st in basements and sto rage cupboards

To date close to 400 acid-free containers with a total volume of five

cubic-meters have been fill ed with

identified and card-filed material and neatly shel ved Many reque sts for historical information have already bee n received

T here are still many many more boxes

and packages yet to explore in the librarys archival collections area but st ill the word

is more

Margaret Evans feels that there IS

literally ton s of prospecti ve archival material

packed away in attics and trunks in the homes of alumni and friends

Any corresponde nce reports minutes

snap- shots scrap books publications year-books and the like will be gratefully accepted - who knows maybe we can

instigate another campus clean-up 0

Archivist Dr M argaret Evans wirh a dusry tome and with some of rhe archival material

already all the shelves

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From the chaos of a supposed quiet leave

The author at rhe helm

From Professor Keith Ronald Dean College of Biological Science

By courtesy of th e Universit y of G uelph who granted me administrat ive le ave after seven years as Chairman of the Department of Zoology and six year~ as Dean as well as External Affairs and The Nuffie ld Foundation j ve passed from 15- min ute

sc hedules to 12 months of profes sional bliss - ie nothing bu t my own interest s

Se pte mber I 1977 I flew off to the Mediterranean via New York where the

engine fell off the 747 on take off A fter sharing the wealth by dumping 150000 lit res of aviation fuel on the unsuspecting fish we landed again Runways look pre tty when lighted by about 35 fire trucks

By far the most dangerous part of the episode was spending the ni ght in a hotel alongside Central Park

After another try at take-off we arrived in Athens where I had a reed to meet with the ministers of Agriculturc Finance and the Senior De puty of the Environme nt Be ing a day late I had exactly 27 minutes to make the appointment from the a irport - I did The meeting wen t well and we r ceived enco uraging sponsorship for the Firs t Internation al Conference on the

Mediterranean Monk Seal which I would co-convene in Rodas in May

By noon I had also mel with a lawyer to discu ss mon k seals o n the is lands o f Ka lymnos and Patmos and the registration

of a researc h vesse l T he lawyer is abo a guide leader and we have now arranged fo r guides to carry out monk ~ al s urvey~ duri ng their fi eld tri ps - and very successfully too

Th at evening we heard Th eodorakis

was giving the last of his ope n ai r concerts on Mo unt Lyka vertos My wife had managed to ob tain tickets and we ended o ur first day of leave wit h about 15 000 G reeks roaring stamp ing and clapp ing to the junta martyr s m us ic [ can think of no experien ce to equal the eveni ng perhaps je t lag imbued us wit h a little li ght-headedness but I doubt it T his was Greece

We trave ll ed on to Ra dos th e Island o f Kn ight s whe re the invasio n by Sula mein the Magnificen t has left da rk skin black mo ustaches minare ts and luck il y Turk ish baths amongst the Greek arch itec tu re and ruins We travel d on by T urk ish sailboat whi ch carried us into waters not LI~u a lJ y

vi sited b weste rners (or even by Greeks and Turks) where we we re fortunate to obtain the first record of the birth of a monk seal in Kaste lorrizo Greece and a subequent

sighting of we hope the same animal months later grown to 125 metres

T hat same nigh t my western schedule ca u~cd u to sail aga inst a most a trocious Aegean storm I n fact we spent 15 hours batt li ng ex treme weather condit ions in a 14-metre caiqu e T he riggi ng was carried

away several times and we li te ra ll y stood at daw n between two bare masts upon arrival in Rodos harbour We we re the objec t of interest as all ou r planking had mo vecl to show their seams but as caiques were evol ved for these waters - we survi ved the ai r sea rescue personne l did however make a few commen t ~ about we~ tern impetuosity

OLl r rush to reach Roda s was to catch a plane to Iceland to give two papers with my pa middot t po~t - d oc l oral s Nils centrits land of Norway and Jack Terhune (OAC 68) of New Brunswick

Icel a nd wa s as alway fasci nating a coun try tha t phys ically should no t exis t Ho w can geyse rs shoot out of glaciers How can volcanoes continuous ly b ubble away to ha ve the ir effervescence used by the Icelanders to grow tr p ica l fnl it

We had some exce ll ent sessions in Ice lan d bot h scientific and othrwise we vi ired the seat o f the ori gi nal democrat ic parli ament wh ich an nat be described - o nl y visited to com prehend We enjoyed a conv ivial eveni ng with the Mayo r of Reykj av ik and the fo llowing day hoped we would not he exposed to the locill an ti freeze Black Death) e e r again

B~lck to Greece via Sw it zer land [ visited th e Internatio nal Un io n for Conse rvatiun and Nature (IUCN) whe re I head Lip the sea l group in Morges an d on again to the World Wildli fe Fund (WWF)

to Gene va to Athem to anot her ~ess io n

with our sponsor of th May monk seal con ference

I came to halt in Rodos for a week and be fore leaving managed to m ud down a roof to sto p it leaking dur ing the ra ins

Dow n the coa we trave ll ed wi th some In stitu te of Oceanography amI Fisheries biology stu dents from Athens sever l of whom are very good fri ends from past surveys We avoi ded thc d readed si roccos

and me ltemis the African and north winds but so metimes raced past ligh ter craft that wer near broaching to in fo rce seven 10

eight fo[owing seas

We journeyed on into the Death Sea of Tu rkey where I was the o nly one who knew that we we re being bitten by flatwo rm larvae wh ile swim ming in the torr id waters then

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past ruin after ruin of cities one of which

was ancient C nidos where we met Dr Iris Love who had first di scove red black-figured pottery and hence redated the earliest civilizations of the Casian and Lydian coast s

Afte r we ate a knobbly-headed

crustacean with 20 Turks s ipping Pepsi

around the table I chanced to obtain thr e

local s ightings of monk sea ls T he Turki sh military garrison commander promised to

have his men situated along the coast protect these animals

Down the coast even to the land of

Saint icolas and hi s wonderful

fortification we dropped anchor and had to dive to retrieve it because it was stuck in the

ribs of an ancient ve ssel A rip-off artist in

Bodrum with the harbour-master on his side insisted our propeller cut hi s rope It cost us $20 US - the amount low the

principles however wounded Halfway

through dinner in a came market we were forced to the street to buy an insecticide bomb to convince the historic and hysteric

fleas we were not fair game they should go

find a camel

Further down the coast to C as where they grow pistachio nuts we saw some of the fine st rock tombs in the world Here only the dead have re sted as earthquakes

have jumbled the countryside but tombs are

often left on pedestals unharmed We tied up

continuously to grey rocks manned by very efficient Tu rkish sailors who spe nt as much

time under the hosepipe on the warf as we did but my gosh they look efficient

Then back to Rodo s to leave for England where I had decided to write a

book in fi ve months with the co-authorship

of Professor R J Harrison at the School of

Anatomy in C ambridge

Christmas in London Christmas was

St Martin s in the Fields (the fields now being Trafalgar Square) theatres shows

places to see lectures to Part II students in

Comparative Biology talks to the London Zoological Socie ty the European Aquatic

M ammals Association in Copenhagen and

the IUCNW W F group in Faro carrying coals to Newcastle by lecturing on seals at

the Scott Polar In stitute and the British Antarctic Survey as well as the Ma mmal Society in London

We visited Ely cathedral and heard

singing voices ricocheting off the octagonal

lantern - the carols of Christmas at Kings Cambridge with the world listening

Today was wine at John s finding

Seville snuff could easily be addictive and having to know one did not take ma lmsey after port then more lectures to terri bly polite students the elite of E ngland

determined to make them forget their tripos (B A degree examination) and marks meeting Guelph professors all over the place

even at the top of $ 1 M arys lofty church spire and at Churchill College over a

Bally-Ra and monk seal project survey vessel

memorable meal lette rs from Guelph

Telexes from around the world and a visit by an adventurous group who wanted to save the monk seal or La Galite off Tunisia My

God student s are stimulating l

Time to think and realizing that many

of our priorit ies are built on di m evidence of essential need but the clock is running - 1

mus t prepare for Switzerland again 0

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Alumni And Wintario Partners in fitness film funding

Audio VisuaL Services film crew on th e job Editor Ray Pollard cinematographer Norm Lightfool and director Le1 Richards

An average eve noon-hour class

by Mary Dickieson

Se veral o f the Uni versitys on-campus alumni we re recently captured on movie film pe rform ing some rather unusual but effective exercises

The University of G uelph Alumni As sociat ion has joined Wintario 10 provide an S8450 grant to film the activi ties of Human Kine tics Professor John Powel l s noon-hour C ardio- Vascular Cl ub

T he CVC has e njoyed a membership of over 100 old-boys since Professor Po well founded it more than 13 years ago It boasts seve ral charter members among the cu rrent group of University faculty and staff and local businessmen (W ithout an official membership list it s difficult to assess how many me mbers are U niversity of G uelph alum ni but estimates run as high as 40 per cen)

W ith an average attendance of 3S the hardy so uls sweat it out for 30 minutes each day despite a barrage of insults cajoling and corny jokes P rofessor Powells squad describe him as something like a mean army drill instructor but they carryon wi th a smile and mo re importantly they keep coming back for more

The c ve has built a tradition of exercise for those members who may be candidates for heart attack or who simply want to stave off the pressures of the day Because these men ha ve felt the benefits of regu lar physical activity Professor Powell says they feel guilty if they miss a session

T here are also several members who have progressed through the daily exercise program and have joined one of the splinter g roups which jog swim or play soccer Engineering Pro fesso r Trevor Dickinson O AC 61 is an examp le One day about five years ago he decided to go for a noon-hour run and met the eve group on the track Professor Dickinson now runs daily with a group of about eight others and recently joined Professor Tom Bates OAC 51 Land Resource Science Dr Greg W all OAe 67 Agriculture C anada and Dr Tony

Whitworth Assistant to the Vice-President Administration on a relay te am which

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finished 6th in their class at the 5th Annu al Burlington Road Race

T hese runners have also been

enthusiastic supporters of the Un iversitys annual Jog-a-Long event This years

field of 45 included Professor M arjorie

(Wilson) Wall FACS 68 Co nsumer

Studies who started running just over a year ago at the encouragement of husband G reg who admits he probably wouldn ( have

begun a daily exercise program without the

support and the convenience offered by the CVC program

When he calls it a good opportunity to

get away from the pressures of work Greg

is echoing Profe ssor Powells theory that you cant exercise and worry Fun is part of

the daily activity I put laughter as one of the primary aims he says because I m

so full of corny jokes 1 couldnt do it any other way

Professor Doug Hoffman OAC 46

Director Centre for Resources

Development speaks for most CVC members when he says that heading for the

Athletics Centre each noon hour has become a habit for him a 13-year habit He goes because he enjoys the association with

others who also strive for fitness

This striving has been captured in the UGA Wintario film which will be made available to groups and individuals who

wish to view it It will provide the opportunity for those interested to see and

participate in the type of exercise program

Professor Powell commands He design s the activities to promote good circulation mobility and cardio-respiratory fitne ss

Although almost a quarter of the CVC

members have experienced heart attacks a1l

of them have been heart attack free since

joining the group M any members report an

improvement in blood pressure and a loss of unneeded weight although Professor Powell stresses that the CVC is not primarily a weight reducing club O urs certainly isnt

the only way to exercise he says but it

does fulfill a need on campus and it has been successful

CVC members recently showed their

appreciation of Professor Powell s efforts by presenting him with an album of photographs of the old-boys in action The inscription state s that the general

consensus of opinion from members is overwhelming praise for John and a feeling

of well-being both physically and mentally 0

Professor John Powell pUIS em through their paces

Professor Sam Luker Family Srudies - becomes airborne

Wearing the coveted eve T-shirt Professor PoweLl centre shares hi1 lew photo aLbum

lVirh its photographer Ken linde left and Professor Keith Sla ter

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Dr M McCready award winner Gwen (Peters) Tonge Mac 59 and FACS Dean J Wardlaw

uS tOUrs day for camp

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Dr AJan Secord OVC 29 OVCs Distinguished Alumnus 1978 The dedication of Branion Plaza 8

Sidewalk scene dunnmiddot g Mac 75th ceremonies

Lell t ght fm dbullbullt D Bm Wgd Af IfoJ OAC 33 OAC Dean Clay SWitzer OAC 51

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Mac gr ads reminisce 9Lunchtime in Branion Plaza

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Students Alumni can make

a significant contribution

by Ann Middleton

CHILD STUDIES

STUDIES

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Program 197879

ON1AFlIO AG~I(Vl1U~1 COuHiE

U~IIVEASIfY Uf bUElPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

JO

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

sub-committee s 0

OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

From the chaos of a supposed quiet leave

The author at rhe helm

From Professor Keith Ronald Dean College of Biological Science

By courtesy of th e Universit y of G uelph who granted me administrat ive le ave after seven years as Chairman of the Department of Zoology and six year~ as Dean as well as External Affairs and The Nuffie ld Foundation j ve passed from 15- min ute

sc hedules to 12 months of profes sional bliss - ie nothing bu t my own interest s

Se pte mber I 1977 I flew off to the Mediterranean via New York where the

engine fell off the 747 on take off A fter sharing the wealth by dumping 150000 lit res of aviation fuel on the unsuspecting fish we landed again Runways look pre tty when lighted by about 35 fire trucks

By far the most dangerous part of the episode was spending the ni ght in a hotel alongside Central Park

After another try at take-off we arrived in Athens where I had a reed to meet with the ministers of Agriculturc Finance and the Senior De puty of the Environme nt Be ing a day late I had exactly 27 minutes to make the appointment from the a irport - I did The meeting wen t well and we r ceived enco uraging sponsorship for the Firs t Internation al Conference on the

Mediterranean Monk Seal which I would co-convene in Rodas in May

By noon I had also mel with a lawyer to discu ss mon k seals o n the is lands o f Ka lymnos and Patmos and the registration

of a researc h vesse l T he lawyer is abo a guide leader and we have now arranged fo r guides to carry out monk ~ al s urvey~ duri ng their fi eld tri ps - and very successfully too

Th at evening we heard Th eodorakis

was giving the last of his ope n ai r concerts on Mo unt Lyka vertos My wife had managed to ob tain tickets and we ended o ur first day of leave wit h about 15 000 G reeks roaring stamp ing and clapp ing to the junta martyr s m us ic [ can think of no experien ce to equal the eveni ng perhaps je t lag imbued us wit h a little li ght-headedness but I doubt it T his was Greece

We trave ll ed on to Ra dos th e Island o f Kn ight s whe re the invasio n by Sula mein the Magnificen t has left da rk skin black mo ustaches minare ts and luck il y Turk ish baths amongst the Greek arch itec tu re and ruins We travel d on by T urk ish sailboat whi ch carried us into waters not LI~u a lJ y

vi sited b weste rners (or even by Greeks and Turks) where we we re fortunate to obtain the first record of the birth of a monk seal in Kaste lorrizo Greece and a subequent

sighting of we hope the same animal months later grown to 125 metres

T hat same nigh t my western schedule ca u~cd u to sail aga inst a most a trocious Aegean storm I n fact we spent 15 hours batt li ng ex treme weather condit ions in a 14-metre caiqu e T he riggi ng was carried

away several times and we li te ra ll y stood at daw n between two bare masts upon arrival in Rodos harbour We we re the objec t of interest as all ou r planking had mo vecl to show their seams but as caiques were evol ved for these waters - we survi ved the ai r sea rescue personne l did however make a few commen t ~ about we~ tern impetuosity

OLl r rush to reach Roda s was to catch a plane to Iceland to give two papers with my pa middot t po~t - d oc l oral s Nils centrits land of Norway and Jack Terhune (OAC 68) of New Brunswick

Icel a nd wa s as alway fasci nating a coun try tha t phys ically should no t exis t Ho w can geyse rs shoot out of glaciers How can volcanoes continuous ly b ubble away to ha ve the ir effervescence used by the Icelanders to grow tr p ica l fnl it

We had some exce ll ent sessions in Ice lan d bot h scientific and othrwise we vi ired the seat o f the ori gi nal democrat ic parli ament wh ich an nat be described - o nl y visited to com prehend We enjoyed a conv ivial eveni ng with the Mayo r of Reykj av ik and the fo llowing day hoped we would not he exposed to the locill an ti freeze Black Death) e e r again

B~lck to Greece via Sw it zer land [ visited th e Internatio nal Un io n for Conse rvatiun and Nature (IUCN) whe re I head Lip the sea l group in Morges an d on again to the World Wildli fe Fund (WWF)

to Gene va to Athem to anot her ~ess io n

with our sponsor of th May monk seal con ference

I came to halt in Rodos for a week and be fore leaving managed to m ud down a roof to sto p it leaking dur ing the ra ins

Dow n the coa we trave ll ed wi th some In stitu te of Oceanography amI Fisheries biology stu dents from Athens sever l of whom are very good fri ends from past surveys We avoi ded thc d readed si roccos

and me ltemis the African and north winds but so metimes raced past ligh ter craft that wer near broaching to in fo rce seven 10

eight fo[owing seas

We journeyed on into the Death Sea of Tu rkey where I was the o nly one who knew that we we re being bitten by flatwo rm larvae wh ile swim ming in the torr id waters then

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past ruin after ruin of cities one of which

was ancient C nidos where we met Dr Iris Love who had first di scove red black-figured pottery and hence redated the earliest civilizations of the Casian and Lydian coast s

Afte r we ate a knobbly-headed

crustacean with 20 Turks s ipping Pepsi

around the table I chanced to obtain thr e

local s ightings of monk sea ls T he Turki sh military garrison commander promised to

have his men situated along the coast protect these animals

Down the coast even to the land of

Saint icolas and hi s wonderful

fortification we dropped anchor and had to dive to retrieve it because it was stuck in the

ribs of an ancient ve ssel A rip-off artist in

Bodrum with the harbour-master on his side insisted our propeller cut hi s rope It cost us $20 US - the amount low the

principles however wounded Halfway

through dinner in a came market we were forced to the street to buy an insecticide bomb to convince the historic and hysteric

fleas we were not fair game they should go

find a camel

Further down the coast to C as where they grow pistachio nuts we saw some of the fine st rock tombs in the world Here only the dead have re sted as earthquakes

have jumbled the countryside but tombs are

often left on pedestals unharmed We tied up

continuously to grey rocks manned by very efficient Tu rkish sailors who spe nt as much

time under the hosepipe on the warf as we did but my gosh they look efficient

Then back to Rodo s to leave for England where I had decided to write a

book in fi ve months with the co-authorship

of Professor R J Harrison at the School of

Anatomy in C ambridge

Christmas in London Christmas was

St Martin s in the Fields (the fields now being Trafalgar Square) theatres shows

places to see lectures to Part II students in

Comparative Biology talks to the London Zoological Socie ty the European Aquatic

M ammals Association in Copenhagen and

the IUCNW W F group in Faro carrying coals to Newcastle by lecturing on seals at

the Scott Polar In stitute and the British Antarctic Survey as well as the Ma mmal Society in London

We visited Ely cathedral and heard

singing voices ricocheting off the octagonal

lantern - the carols of Christmas at Kings Cambridge with the world listening

Today was wine at John s finding

Seville snuff could easily be addictive and having to know one did not take ma lmsey after port then more lectures to terri bly polite students the elite of E ngland

determined to make them forget their tripos (B A degree examination) and marks meeting Guelph professors all over the place

even at the top of $ 1 M arys lofty church spire and at Churchill College over a

Bally-Ra and monk seal project survey vessel

memorable meal lette rs from Guelph

Telexes from around the world and a visit by an adventurous group who wanted to save the monk seal or La Galite off Tunisia My

God student s are stimulating l

Time to think and realizing that many

of our priorit ies are built on di m evidence of essential need but the clock is running - 1

mus t prepare for Switzerland again 0

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Alumni And Wintario Partners in fitness film funding

Audio VisuaL Services film crew on th e job Editor Ray Pollard cinematographer Norm Lightfool and director Le1 Richards

An average eve noon-hour class

by Mary Dickieson

Se veral o f the Uni versitys on-campus alumni we re recently captured on movie film pe rform ing some rather unusual but effective exercises

The University of G uelph Alumni As sociat ion has joined Wintario 10 provide an S8450 grant to film the activi ties of Human Kine tics Professor John Powel l s noon-hour C ardio- Vascular Cl ub

T he CVC has e njoyed a membership of over 100 old-boys since Professor Po well founded it more than 13 years ago It boasts seve ral charter members among the cu rrent group of University faculty and staff and local businessmen (W ithout an official membership list it s difficult to assess how many me mbers are U niversity of G uelph alum ni but estimates run as high as 40 per cen)

W ith an average attendance of 3S the hardy so uls sweat it out for 30 minutes each day despite a barrage of insults cajoling and corny jokes P rofessor Powells squad describe him as something like a mean army drill instructor but they carryon wi th a smile and mo re importantly they keep coming back for more

The c ve has built a tradition of exercise for those members who may be candidates for heart attack or who simply want to stave off the pressures of the day Because these men ha ve felt the benefits of regu lar physical activity Professor Powell says they feel guilty if they miss a session

T here are also several members who have progressed through the daily exercise program and have joined one of the splinter g roups which jog swim or play soccer Engineering Pro fesso r Trevor Dickinson O AC 61 is an examp le One day about five years ago he decided to go for a noon-hour run and met the eve group on the track Professor Dickinson now runs daily with a group of about eight others and recently joined Professor Tom Bates OAC 51 Land Resource Science Dr Greg W all OAe 67 Agriculture C anada and Dr Tony

Whitworth Assistant to the Vice-President Administration on a relay te am which

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finished 6th in their class at the 5th Annu al Burlington Road Race

T hese runners have also been

enthusiastic supporters of the Un iversitys annual Jog-a-Long event This years

field of 45 included Professor M arjorie

(Wilson) Wall FACS 68 Co nsumer

Studies who started running just over a year ago at the encouragement of husband G reg who admits he probably wouldn ( have

begun a daily exercise program without the

support and the convenience offered by the CVC program

When he calls it a good opportunity to

get away from the pressures of work Greg

is echoing Profe ssor Powells theory that you cant exercise and worry Fun is part of

the daily activity I put laughter as one of the primary aims he says because I m

so full of corny jokes 1 couldnt do it any other way

Professor Doug Hoffman OAC 46

Director Centre for Resources

Development speaks for most CVC members when he says that heading for the

Athletics Centre each noon hour has become a habit for him a 13-year habit He goes because he enjoys the association with

others who also strive for fitness

This striving has been captured in the UGA Wintario film which will be made available to groups and individuals who

wish to view it It will provide the opportunity for those interested to see and

participate in the type of exercise program

Professor Powell commands He design s the activities to promote good circulation mobility and cardio-respiratory fitne ss

Although almost a quarter of the CVC

members have experienced heart attacks a1l

of them have been heart attack free since

joining the group M any members report an

improvement in blood pressure and a loss of unneeded weight although Professor Powell stresses that the CVC is not primarily a weight reducing club O urs certainly isnt

the only way to exercise he says but it

does fulfill a need on campus and it has been successful

CVC members recently showed their

appreciation of Professor Powell s efforts by presenting him with an album of photographs of the old-boys in action The inscription state s that the general

consensus of opinion from members is overwhelming praise for John and a feeling

of well-being both physically and mentally 0

Professor John Powell pUIS em through their paces

Professor Sam Luker Family Srudies - becomes airborne

Wearing the coveted eve T-shirt Professor PoweLl centre shares hi1 lew photo aLbum

lVirh its photographer Ken linde left and Professor Keith Sla ter

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Dr M McCready award winner Gwen (Peters) Tonge Mac 59 and FACS Dean J Wardlaw

uS tOUrs day for camp

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Dr AJan Secord OVC 29 OVCs Distinguished Alumnus 1978 The dedication of Branion Plaza 8

Sidewalk scene dunnmiddot g Mac 75th ceremonies

Lell t ght fm dbullbullt D Bm Wgd Af IfoJ OAC 33 OAC Dean Clay SWitzer OAC 51

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Mac gr ads reminisce 9Lunchtime in Branion Plaza

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Students Alumni can make

a significant contribution

by Ann Middleton

CHILD STUDIES

STUDIES

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Program 197879

ON1AFlIO AG~I(Vl1U~1 COuHiE

U~IIVEASIfY Uf bUElPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

JO

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

sub-committee s 0

OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

past ruin after ruin of cities one of which

was ancient C nidos where we met Dr Iris Love who had first di scove red black-figured pottery and hence redated the earliest civilizations of the Casian and Lydian coast s

Afte r we ate a knobbly-headed

crustacean with 20 Turks s ipping Pepsi

around the table I chanced to obtain thr e

local s ightings of monk sea ls T he Turki sh military garrison commander promised to

have his men situated along the coast protect these animals

Down the coast even to the land of

Saint icolas and hi s wonderful

fortification we dropped anchor and had to dive to retrieve it because it was stuck in the

ribs of an ancient ve ssel A rip-off artist in

Bodrum with the harbour-master on his side insisted our propeller cut hi s rope It cost us $20 US - the amount low the

principles however wounded Halfway

through dinner in a came market we were forced to the street to buy an insecticide bomb to convince the historic and hysteric

fleas we were not fair game they should go

find a camel

Further down the coast to C as where they grow pistachio nuts we saw some of the fine st rock tombs in the world Here only the dead have re sted as earthquakes

have jumbled the countryside but tombs are

often left on pedestals unharmed We tied up

continuously to grey rocks manned by very efficient Tu rkish sailors who spe nt as much

time under the hosepipe on the warf as we did but my gosh they look efficient

Then back to Rodo s to leave for England where I had decided to write a

book in fi ve months with the co-authorship

of Professor R J Harrison at the School of

Anatomy in C ambridge

Christmas in London Christmas was

St Martin s in the Fields (the fields now being Trafalgar Square) theatres shows

places to see lectures to Part II students in

Comparative Biology talks to the London Zoological Socie ty the European Aquatic

M ammals Association in Copenhagen and

the IUCNW W F group in Faro carrying coals to Newcastle by lecturing on seals at

the Scott Polar In stitute and the British Antarctic Survey as well as the Ma mmal Society in London

We visited Ely cathedral and heard

singing voices ricocheting off the octagonal

lantern - the carols of Christmas at Kings Cambridge with the world listening

Today was wine at John s finding

Seville snuff could easily be addictive and having to know one did not take ma lmsey after port then more lectures to terri bly polite students the elite of E ngland

determined to make them forget their tripos (B A degree examination) and marks meeting Guelph professors all over the place

even at the top of $ 1 M arys lofty church spire and at Churchill College over a

Bally-Ra and monk seal project survey vessel

memorable meal lette rs from Guelph

Telexes from around the world and a visit by an adventurous group who wanted to save the monk seal or La Galite off Tunisia My

God student s are stimulating l

Time to think and realizing that many

of our priorit ies are built on di m evidence of essential need but the clock is running - 1

mus t prepare for Switzerland again 0

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Alumni And Wintario Partners in fitness film funding

Audio VisuaL Services film crew on th e job Editor Ray Pollard cinematographer Norm Lightfool and director Le1 Richards

An average eve noon-hour class

by Mary Dickieson

Se veral o f the Uni versitys on-campus alumni we re recently captured on movie film pe rform ing some rather unusual but effective exercises

The University of G uelph Alumni As sociat ion has joined Wintario 10 provide an S8450 grant to film the activi ties of Human Kine tics Professor John Powel l s noon-hour C ardio- Vascular Cl ub

T he CVC has e njoyed a membership of over 100 old-boys since Professor Po well founded it more than 13 years ago It boasts seve ral charter members among the cu rrent group of University faculty and staff and local businessmen (W ithout an official membership list it s difficult to assess how many me mbers are U niversity of G uelph alum ni but estimates run as high as 40 per cen)

W ith an average attendance of 3S the hardy so uls sweat it out for 30 minutes each day despite a barrage of insults cajoling and corny jokes P rofessor Powells squad describe him as something like a mean army drill instructor but they carryon wi th a smile and mo re importantly they keep coming back for more

The c ve has built a tradition of exercise for those members who may be candidates for heart attack or who simply want to stave off the pressures of the day Because these men ha ve felt the benefits of regu lar physical activity Professor Powell says they feel guilty if they miss a session

T here are also several members who have progressed through the daily exercise program and have joined one of the splinter g roups which jog swim or play soccer Engineering Pro fesso r Trevor Dickinson O AC 61 is an examp le One day about five years ago he decided to go for a noon-hour run and met the eve group on the track Professor Dickinson now runs daily with a group of about eight others and recently joined Professor Tom Bates OAC 51 Land Resource Science Dr Greg W all OAe 67 Agriculture C anada and Dr Tony

Whitworth Assistant to the Vice-President Administration on a relay te am which

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finished 6th in their class at the 5th Annu al Burlington Road Race

T hese runners have also been

enthusiastic supporters of the Un iversitys annual Jog-a-Long event This years

field of 45 included Professor M arjorie

(Wilson) Wall FACS 68 Co nsumer

Studies who started running just over a year ago at the encouragement of husband G reg who admits he probably wouldn ( have

begun a daily exercise program without the

support and the convenience offered by the CVC program

When he calls it a good opportunity to

get away from the pressures of work Greg

is echoing Profe ssor Powells theory that you cant exercise and worry Fun is part of

the daily activity I put laughter as one of the primary aims he says because I m

so full of corny jokes 1 couldnt do it any other way

Professor Doug Hoffman OAC 46

Director Centre for Resources

Development speaks for most CVC members when he says that heading for the

Athletics Centre each noon hour has become a habit for him a 13-year habit He goes because he enjoys the association with

others who also strive for fitness

This striving has been captured in the UGA Wintario film which will be made available to groups and individuals who

wish to view it It will provide the opportunity for those interested to see and

participate in the type of exercise program

Professor Powell commands He design s the activities to promote good circulation mobility and cardio-respiratory fitne ss

Although almost a quarter of the CVC

members have experienced heart attacks a1l

of them have been heart attack free since

joining the group M any members report an

improvement in blood pressure and a loss of unneeded weight although Professor Powell stresses that the CVC is not primarily a weight reducing club O urs certainly isnt

the only way to exercise he says but it

does fulfill a need on campus and it has been successful

CVC members recently showed their

appreciation of Professor Powell s efforts by presenting him with an album of photographs of the old-boys in action The inscription state s that the general

consensus of opinion from members is overwhelming praise for John and a feeling

of well-being both physically and mentally 0

Professor John Powell pUIS em through their paces

Professor Sam Luker Family Srudies - becomes airborne

Wearing the coveted eve T-shirt Professor PoweLl centre shares hi1 lew photo aLbum

lVirh its photographer Ken linde left and Professor Keith Sla ter

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Dr M McCready award winner Gwen (Peters) Tonge Mac 59 and FACS Dean J Wardlaw

uS tOUrs day for camp

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Dr AJan Secord OVC 29 OVCs Distinguished Alumnus 1978 The dedication of Branion Plaza 8

Sidewalk scene dunnmiddot g Mac 75th ceremonies

Lell t ght fm dbullbullt D Bm Wgd Af IfoJ OAC 33 OAC Dean Clay SWitzer OAC 51

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Mac gr ads reminisce 9Lunchtime in Branion Plaza

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Students Alumni can make

a significant contribution

by Ann Middleton

CHILD STUDIES

STUDIES

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Associate

Diploma

in Agriculture

Program 197879

ON1AFlIO AG~I(Vl1U~1 COuHiE

U~IIVEASIfY Uf bUElPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

JO

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

sub-committee s 0

OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

Alumni And Wintario Partners in fitness film funding

Audio VisuaL Services film crew on th e job Editor Ray Pollard cinematographer Norm Lightfool and director Le1 Richards

An average eve noon-hour class

by Mary Dickieson

Se veral o f the Uni versitys on-campus alumni we re recently captured on movie film pe rform ing some rather unusual but effective exercises

The University of G uelph Alumni As sociat ion has joined Wintario 10 provide an S8450 grant to film the activi ties of Human Kine tics Professor John Powel l s noon-hour C ardio- Vascular Cl ub

T he CVC has e njoyed a membership of over 100 old-boys since Professor Po well founded it more than 13 years ago It boasts seve ral charter members among the cu rrent group of University faculty and staff and local businessmen (W ithout an official membership list it s difficult to assess how many me mbers are U niversity of G uelph alum ni but estimates run as high as 40 per cen)

W ith an average attendance of 3S the hardy so uls sweat it out for 30 minutes each day despite a barrage of insults cajoling and corny jokes P rofessor Powells squad describe him as something like a mean army drill instructor but they carryon wi th a smile and mo re importantly they keep coming back for more

The c ve has built a tradition of exercise for those members who may be candidates for heart attack or who simply want to stave off the pressures of the day Because these men ha ve felt the benefits of regu lar physical activity Professor Powell says they feel guilty if they miss a session

T here are also several members who have progressed through the daily exercise program and have joined one of the splinter g roups which jog swim or play soccer Engineering Pro fesso r Trevor Dickinson O AC 61 is an examp le One day about five years ago he decided to go for a noon-hour run and met the eve group on the track Professor Dickinson now runs daily with a group of about eight others and recently joined Professor Tom Bates OAC 51 Land Resource Science Dr Greg W all OAe 67 Agriculture C anada and Dr Tony

Whitworth Assistant to the Vice-President Administration on a relay te am which

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finished 6th in their class at the 5th Annu al Burlington Road Race

T hese runners have also been

enthusiastic supporters of the Un iversitys annual Jog-a-Long event This years

field of 45 included Professor M arjorie

(Wilson) Wall FACS 68 Co nsumer

Studies who started running just over a year ago at the encouragement of husband G reg who admits he probably wouldn ( have

begun a daily exercise program without the

support and the convenience offered by the CVC program

When he calls it a good opportunity to

get away from the pressures of work Greg

is echoing Profe ssor Powells theory that you cant exercise and worry Fun is part of

the daily activity I put laughter as one of the primary aims he says because I m

so full of corny jokes 1 couldnt do it any other way

Professor Doug Hoffman OAC 46

Director Centre for Resources

Development speaks for most CVC members when he says that heading for the

Athletics Centre each noon hour has become a habit for him a 13-year habit He goes because he enjoys the association with

others who also strive for fitness

This striving has been captured in the UGA Wintario film which will be made available to groups and individuals who

wish to view it It will provide the opportunity for those interested to see and

participate in the type of exercise program

Professor Powell commands He design s the activities to promote good circulation mobility and cardio-respiratory fitne ss

Although almost a quarter of the CVC

members have experienced heart attacks a1l

of them have been heart attack free since

joining the group M any members report an

improvement in blood pressure and a loss of unneeded weight although Professor Powell stresses that the CVC is not primarily a weight reducing club O urs certainly isnt

the only way to exercise he says but it

does fulfill a need on campus and it has been successful

CVC members recently showed their

appreciation of Professor Powell s efforts by presenting him with an album of photographs of the old-boys in action The inscription state s that the general

consensus of opinion from members is overwhelming praise for John and a feeling

of well-being both physically and mentally 0

Professor John Powell pUIS em through their paces

Professor Sam Luker Family Srudies - becomes airborne

Wearing the coveted eve T-shirt Professor PoweLl centre shares hi1 lew photo aLbum

lVirh its photographer Ken linde left and Professor Keith Sla ter

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Dr M McCready award winner Gwen (Peters) Tonge Mac 59 and FACS Dean J Wardlaw

uS tOUrs day for camp

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Dr AJan Secord OVC 29 OVCs Distinguished Alumnus 1978 The dedication of Branion Plaza 8

Sidewalk scene dunnmiddot g Mac 75th ceremonies

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Students Alumni can make

a significant contribution

by Ann Middleton

CHILD STUDIES

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ON1AFlIO AG~I(Vl1U~1 COuHiE

U~IIVEASIfY Uf bUElPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

JO

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

team 0

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

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OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

finished 6th in their class at the 5th Annu al Burlington Road Race

T hese runners have also been

enthusiastic supporters of the Un iversitys annual Jog-a-Long event This years

field of 45 included Professor M arjorie

(Wilson) Wall FACS 68 Co nsumer

Studies who started running just over a year ago at the encouragement of husband G reg who admits he probably wouldn ( have

begun a daily exercise program without the

support and the convenience offered by the CVC program

When he calls it a good opportunity to

get away from the pressures of work Greg

is echoing Profe ssor Powells theory that you cant exercise and worry Fun is part of

the daily activity I put laughter as one of the primary aims he says because I m

so full of corny jokes 1 couldnt do it any other way

Professor Doug Hoffman OAC 46

Director Centre for Resources

Development speaks for most CVC members when he says that heading for the

Athletics Centre each noon hour has become a habit for him a 13-year habit He goes because he enjoys the association with

others who also strive for fitness

This striving has been captured in the UGA Wintario film which will be made available to groups and individuals who

wish to view it It will provide the opportunity for those interested to see and

participate in the type of exercise program

Professor Powell commands He design s the activities to promote good circulation mobility and cardio-respiratory fitne ss

Although almost a quarter of the CVC

members have experienced heart attacks a1l

of them have been heart attack free since

joining the group M any members report an

improvement in blood pressure and a loss of unneeded weight although Professor Powell stresses that the CVC is not primarily a weight reducing club O urs certainly isnt

the only way to exercise he says but it

does fulfill a need on campus and it has been successful

CVC members recently showed their

appreciation of Professor Powell s efforts by presenting him with an album of photographs of the old-boys in action The inscription state s that the general

consensus of opinion from members is overwhelming praise for John and a feeling

of well-being both physically and mentally 0

Professor John Powell pUIS em through their paces

Professor Sam Luker Family Srudies - becomes airborne

Wearing the coveted eve T-shirt Professor PoweLl centre shares hi1 lew photo aLbum

lVirh its photographer Ken linde left and Professor Keith Sla ter

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Dr M McCready award winner Gwen (Peters) Tonge Mac 59 and FACS Dean J Wardlaw

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U~IIVEASIfY Uf bUElPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

JO

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

team 0

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

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OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

Dr M McCready award winner Gwen (Peters) Tonge Mac 59 and FACS Dean J Wardlaw

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Dr AJan Secord OVC 29 OVCs Distinguished Alumnus 1978 The dedication of Branion Plaza 8

Sidewalk scene dunnmiddot g Mac 75th ceremonies

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Students Alumni can make

a significant contribution

by Ann Middleton

CHILD STUDIES

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ON1AFlIO AG~I(Vl1U~1 COuHiE

U~IIVEASIfY Uf bUElPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

JO

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

team 0

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

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OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

JO

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

team 0

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

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OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

Students Alumni can make

a significant contribution

by Ann Middleton

CHILD STUDIES

STUDIES

1 0 I 1(

Associate

Diploma

in Agriculture

Program 197879

ON1AFlIO AG~I(Vl1U~1 COuHiE

U~IIVEASIfY Uf bUElPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Information for New Students

of Guelph

how do we T he po st-war baby boom that was responsible for expansion of the school sy stem during the 50s and 60s was

predicted to finish its progress through the

universities by the mid-80 s

The prediction was not correct and a

steady decline in freshman enrolment began to be felt about two years ago

Since uni versities recei ve their funding

from provincial governments on the bas is of numbers of students enrolled the decline

ha s generated intense competition among Ontario universities to attract students

The University of Guelph which offers a number of unique programs and play s a

long-established role in the fields of agriculture veterinary medicine and famil y studies has not been as hard hit as some other universi ties in the province However as elsewhere our enrolments in arts and

soc ial science programs are expected to

decline so mewhat It is in thi s climate or uncertainty that

universities are asking what can be done to maintain enrolments The Council of

Ontario Universities chaired by our President Donald F Forster has a set of

guidelines to be used by universities in

setting up recuiting policies Interpretations

of the guidelines however have varied widely

The P res ident and a number of Guelph graduates were asked how they felt alumni could help to attract students to the

U niversity of Guelph All agreed that

alumni can and do make a s ignificant contribution in their day-to-day contacts with prospective students

The old saw i t s not what you say but what you do is appropriate here As

Ke n Bell CBS 73 a teacher and Past

President C ollege of Biolog ical Science Alumni Association put it what you produce in the community indicates to

pe ople what so rt of education you had However many alumni felt they could

make a greater contribution if they were better infor med on programs currently _

offered at the University of Guelph W ith this in mind the enclosed pull-out pamphlet

was prepared by the newly formed Liaison C ommittee chaired by Dr Jim Stevens

ss istant Vice- President Academic

Dr Ste vens pointed out that alumni can

play an extremely important role in

providing prospecti ve students with

JO

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

team 0

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

sub-committee s 0

OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

eep them coming to Guelph informat io n abou t the University Younger

alumni find it difficult to make financial contributions to the University but are in a

position where they could contribute time by

providing on request relevant information

to high school students about the programs offered at Guelph It is extremely important

that we in volve these people in the liaison

program in some way Dr Ste ven s said

The brochure provides general information on all programs and on-campus facilities but the co mmittee hopes that to

become more completely in formed alumni

will take time to visit the campus and become acquainted with developments at their alma mater

Alumni particularly those in the founding Colleges should be aware and

proud of the fact that G uelph has an excellent ran ge of programs outside the

traditional areas as well as an excellent

learning environment the President said

I think our a lumni can help tremendously in getting this information across to the larger public

Olive (Thompson) Thompson Mac

35 President University of Guelph Alumni

Association is all for that Alumni have to

take every opportunity of advertising the

University she said They must be familiar with the programs and aware of whats going on

Gordon N ixon OAC 37 Chairman OAC Alu mni Fou ndation had a similar

message We have a job to do to make our

advantages as a university better known We should be able to give students information

on scholarships and bursaries the structure

of the Colleges and the programs offered He added that Students are always interested in the non-curricular side of the

campus such as the Universi ty Centre

a thletics facilitie s and the A rboretum G ordon Nixon also thinks we could

make more of some of our distinguished alumni Many of them are graduates who

have made names for themselves in fields which seem unrelated to their spec ific

studies at Guelph This should come as no

surprise to anyone who believes that the function of a university is not narrowly

vocational Both Olive Thompson and Gordon

Nixon urged alumni to keep in touch by visiting the campus regula rl y and to give

their children the opportunity to become

familiar with the Un iversity of Guelph

Pe ter Tron CSS 69 Associate Re gistrar Admissions suggests alumni visit

the University for the special events

organized throughout the year in addition to

a lumni association meetings and reunions College Royal is always an exc it ing lime to bring visitors to campus he says Prospec ti ve students and their parents are

welcomed at M arch Counselling Days held

every year during the high sc hool break

week Students meet with faculty and

counsellors visit classes and tour the

campus Student counselling days are also held every Tuesday and Wednesday from

Octo ber 1 until June 1 r or a real exposure to campus life its

hard to beat Summer Discovery a Sunday in June when prospective students and the ir

families come to campus for counselling

tours a community barbecue and e ntertainment Families can book in to a residence overnight Inform ation on all these

activities is available from the Admissions

Office Level 3 University Centre

The Grass Is Greener At

Guelph The University of Guelph has a well

established liaison program with the high

schools of the province with liaison officers travelling a ll over O ntar io to tell students

about the programs available here Mr Tron sees high school liaiso n as

an area where alumni can be very useful

It s possible that the niversity may develop a program probably on a pilot basis using

alumni to counsel prospective student s who

live in their area Nothing beats talking to prospective

students Personal contact is most

important College of Arts Alumni Association Preside nt M ic hae l Streib emphasized M r tre ib A rts 69 lives in

Aylmer where he runs the largest pheasant

farm in Canada A former high school

teacher who hires a number of high schoo

students every summer he feels the

agricultural back ground of the ni vc rs ity is a big bonus for a ll stude nts He prai ses the

flexibility of a system that allo wed him to

takc a degree in Latin and history and study poultry manage me nt as well

W hen o ther a lumni association e xecutives tal ked about attracting students to

G uelph they a lso stressed personal contact

Sandra (Johnson) Martin Mac 69 Pas t-Presiden t Mac-FACS Alu mni

ssociatio n reme m bered how she was

influenced by friends of her mother who were Mac grad uates Ewart Carberry OAC 44 Pas t-Presiden t OAC Alumni

Association pointed out the ultimate effect of pe rsonal contact - the la rge number of

U niversi ty of G uelph students who are sons

and daughters of alumni The family fee ling that has remained

even thou gh there are no w more than 10000 students attend ing the Un iversity of Guelph

was noted as an important bonus by Dr Ji m M illington OYC 69 Past- President OYC

Alumni Associat ion and Brad H icks CBS 73 Pre sident Co llege of Biological Science Alumni Association who noted also

that students often choose a University for its size and location as much as its

programs

Eli zabeth (Mac Naughton) Sandals CPS 69 Pres ident College of Physical Science

Alumni Associati on said that younger alumni other than teachers often do n t

have much opportunity to talk to high schoo students But it ~ always a good idea to let

people know where you come from she

said a view echoed by G uelph lawye r

M ichael James CSS 72 interim Pres ident

of the newl y established C ollege of Social

Science Alumni Associati o n Mr James fee ls the ac tive response the

new Association has rece ived is indicative

of the positive feelings of alumni who like

to talk about the Uni versity of G uelph

Alumni are not interested in becoming

active unless they had a good experience at

the U niversity he said From the interviews its very apparent

that alumni can bec ome a powerful force behind the drive to attract students to

G uelph

We d suggest you remove and study the

pamphlet between these pages and accept this invitati on to join the alumni liaison

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Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

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OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

Youth Unemployment and the

Universities

Professor Donald F Forster

The Sir Ronald Grieve Lecture presented by Donald F Forster President and Vice-Chancellor University of Guelph to the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds in Toronto June 19 1978 Due to space limitations deletions have been made and are indicated

Thi s lec ture attempts to establish the ea sy optimism of the 1960s and early dimensions of a problem which I and many 1970 s and in so me countrie s r suspect others see as one of the mo st explos ive feed ing terrori sts activity min dless soc ia l and political issues which a majority anarchi stic lashing out at authority and of developed and developing countries are established s tructures which we read about

facing now and will continue to face over daily in the press the next decade It is a truly inte rnational pro blem now

This is a problem of youth recogni zed as s uch as rates of economic unemployment and underemploy ment g rowth in much of the world have fa lte red

Thi s phenomenon is very much with us and slowed and the surge of you ng men and

now in many countries sparking new women into the labour force e xceeds the demonstrations of frustrati on at blasted ability of national economi cs to create new

hopes and expectations sti ll fu eled by the job opportunities

The scope of the prob lem is enormous

and frigh te ning This year the Population

Reference B ureau has es timated that

b tween 1978 and the e nd of the century

the wo rlds labo ur force will increase by 81 1 million peop le Duri ng this period total

world populatio n is e xpec ted to grow from a

curren t fi gure of 4 219 million to some

233 million W orl d popul ation at its present 17 per

cen t rate of nat ural in c rea~c p r ann um w ill do uble in 41 years It is est im ated that 36 per cent of prese nt wo rld population is under

15 years of age and of course in many

deve loping countries the proportion 0 the population in thi s age category is very considerably higher I need not ~ tres that this fact together with hi gh projected ra tes

of growth in pop ulatio n has very ser ious

implications for em ployment cre at ion

espec iall y in the vast areas of the world des ignated traditionally as the T hird Worl d

G ive n exis ting unemp loy ment perhap s

totalling betw e n 300 and 500 mil lio n well

o ver 1000 m illion new jobs wo uld have to

be created by the y ar 2000 to avoid quite mass ive world unem ployme nt wi th a ll the

atten dant socia l and political di fficulties Many would argue th at achievement of such

a goal is totally imposs ible and turn the Ir mind s to musings of chaos and war bull

A famili ar phe nomenon in the

developing world is also occurring more obvio us ly in the developed world Pro fess iona ll y qualified peop le step down

the e mploy ment ladder to acc pt jobs for which they are ove r-qualified T hi s

job-bumping of course affec ts the ent ire

employment marke t and force s workers o ut

of their appropriate places in the pattern of

employme nt and into job openings below th e

level of the ir tra ining and experie nce To some e xte nt these diffic ult ies ar the result

of widely inacc urate manpo wer forecasting a notorious ly inex act sc ience and the too

easy acceptance by uni versity and o the r

educational authorities of wrong or se riou sly

biased forecasts of manpower de mand to which uni vers ity admissions and progra ms

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are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

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OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

are tai lored Thi s phenomenon of course is not unknown in Europe and orth America

T o thi s point I have almost completely

focussed on the developing countries of the Third World and the massive problems they face As I have indicated however the

developing world by no means has a

monopoly in the problem of youth unemployment In the na tions which belong

to the Orga ni za tion for Economic

Co-ope rati on and Development one out of two new e ntrants to the labour force we re

unemployed in the early 1970s co mpared

with one out of ten in the period from 1960 to 1965 Studies by the International Labour

Organi za ti on indicate that the OECD

countries will have to create 48 million new

jobs by 1990 to match the projected grow th in the labour force and of course most of

that grow th is amo ng the yo ung Youth une mployme nt of this

magnitUde an OECD study prepared fo r the

High Leve l Conference on Youth Empl oyment in Paris in December 1977

points out has not occ urred since the

1930 s Faili ng new policy initiatives

youth unemp loy ment (will) continue at excessive leve ls for at least eight to ten years In a study commissioned by the

OEC D Torsten H use n the director of the

Institu te for the Study o f Inte rnati onal Problems in Educatio n a t the University of St oc kho lm observes that as the

elimination of economic and geographic obstacles and the development of mass

educati on enhanced opportunities for furthe r

educati on there occ urred a revolution of rising expec ta tio ns among young people in the less privileged classes Formal equality of access to educati o n was expected to lead

to equality of life changes It is easy to

imagi ne the fru s tration felt particularl y by

these s tude nts o n discovering tha t their

degree leads o nl y to unemployment or at

best to poorly paid j obs pre viously he ld by people with less ed uc at ion O bviously this is the stuff of frust rat io n and discontent

some think it is the stuff of revolution

Experience in this country has not been signi ficantly different from that in other

OECD countri es Between 1966 and 1977

you th unemployment unemployment in the

IS to 24 age g roup rose from 5 6 per cen t to 14 5 per ce nt The com parable adult rate both male and female rose to 58 percent in

1977 according to data produced by Statistics Canada During the same period the labour fo rce in the young age group

expanded by ove r 50 per cent comp ared with

a rate of expansion of about 30 per cent fo r

the ad ult population This massive increase in the number of young people in the labour

force foc ussed attention on the importance of structural and fri c tio nal unemployment in co ntrast to unemployment resulting from

insufficienc y of aggregate demand in the

economy Youn g people on en tering the labour market face higher than J vcrage struc tural unemploy me nt due to lack of

practical work experience a nd unfa miliarit y

with the labour markets and career pro pects Canadian experie nce indicates

that basic job search unemployment among

yo ung people is considerably higher than that for adult members of the work force The major factor rem ain s however the

Universities in this province which have

played a crucial role in research in Canadian

cultural development and in the analysis of the

societal problems we as a nation face are in serious difficulty and we run risks

that the massive public investment which has

been made will be dissipated as we slip back

into the mire of mediocrity

incredibly hi gh rate of g rowth In yo ung

people entering the labour force T hese co untries with the hi ghest re lati ve le ve ls of structural unemployment among yo uth have

been those which experienced the highest

rate of youth labour force g rowt h while

countries such as West Ge rmany and Japan which have had low relative structural

unemployment have had large declines in the youth labour force primarily due to

red uced participation rates A number of o the r structural ri g idities particularly wage

ri gidi ties minimum wage legisla tio n minimum entry wages and ri g idities in

re lati ve wage differential s probably

cont ribute to the extent of the problem but

we must recognize th at with the unusually

high rate of growth in the you th labour

force a v uge level which would clear the

market might be so low as to be completely

sociall y unacceptable to young people today Ass um in g young people have al te rna tive mans of suppon family

sources welfare or unemp[oYtJCllt in surance they may simply prefer not to

work For exa mple oronto was shocked

earl ie r thi s year by a press ciory nvealing that mo re than 27 per cent of we lfa re

applicants in A pri l 6613 o f 24 146 applican ts we re between the ag~middotc

of 18 and 24 O ne fac to r does differentiate the North

American and Europea n experiences In Canada and the United S tates the

propo rtio n of the population between IS and

24 years of age w il l begin to decline after

1981 with num hers in the 15 to 19 age group alread y peaking a nd the 20 to 24 age group e xpec ted to peak in 1983 Similar peaks in

most Europea n countries are forecas t to occur later 111 the ne xt decade Given

projected inc reases in female partic ipation in th e labour force however youth

participation in the employment market will

probably increase slightly for a minimum of

fiv e years T herefore unemployment among young peopl e will like ly remain a serious

problem through to at least 1985 even if the econom y continue s to grow at current rates

a ve ry la rge assumption

In Ca nada during the 196 1- 197 1

period g rad uates from post- seconda ry educationa l institutions tripled in number

from 6 3000 to 195 000 in the 15 to

24-year age group As the economy faltered unemp loyment among those with post-se ondary qualifications increased and

the Job-bumping or under-employment phenomenon became more obvious Still

you th unemployment ac ros s Canada is ve ry

significan tl y hig he r in the IS to 19 year age

g ro up than among those between 20 to 24 years of age th e latter general ly having mo re education more work xperience and

perhaps somewhat different job habits Data

on unemployment rates by level of

educationa1 attainment produced by Statisti cs C anada show that in 1977 the

rate of unemp loyme nt among those who possessed a university degree was 3 4 per

cent In the gro up wh ich had earned a post-seco ndary sc hoo l diplo ma in thi s

province largely graduates of Co ll eges of Applied Ans and Technology the

unemploym ent rate was 53 per cent The

unemployment rate for the group which had

comple ted high sc hool but had not received

any post-secondary education stood at 93

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per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

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OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

per cen t while in the group w hich

possessed o nly primary school qualifications up to Grade 8 in our system the ra te was 94 per cent

It is obvio us then that while

unemployment among young people has

increased substantially those in the group w ho have rece ived more education a re stili

at a substanti al relati e advantage in

secu ring employment altho ugh to an

increasing extent the jobs th ey secure may not fully exploit the ir qualifications

Canadas record in providing educat ional opportun ities for its people is

good by comparison with many

in dustria li zed or de veloped countries By

1970 30 9 per ce nt of the total Canad ian population was enrolled in fu ll- time

ed ucational programs of all type s the

highes t percentage among the ten countries for which the 1976 OEC D report Reviews of Nati onal Policies for Education pre sented data T he comparable figure in France was 242 per cent in the Uni ted

Kingdom 198 per cent in the USSR 258

per cent and in Wcs t Ge rmany 206 per ce nt In te rms of enrolment as a percentage of popu lation and in terms of the allocation of funds to education as a percentage of

Gross National Product Canada by 1970

had accomplished more than almost any developed soc iety Canada ranks next to only the U ni ted States and the S R in

terms of the proportion of the 20 to 24 year age g roup enro lled in post-secondary

educati onal programs

Ne ve rtheless the 1971 Cens us showed

that 937 000 Canadians had le ss th an a G rade 5 educatio n while almost 4 million

others had on ly between a G rade 5 and

Grade 8 ed ucation As one would expec t

th fig ures vary from region to region W hen age groups are considered one finds

that of those not attending sc hool 22 per cent of the 15 to 19 age group and 14 per

cent of the 20 to 24 age group possess le ss than a Grade 9 education in the nation as a

whole In the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland the figu res are much higher

In Ne wfoundland in 1971 42 per cent of

the 15 to 19 year age group had less than a Grade 9 education and no other training

Compa rab le figu res are 48 per cen t in Prince Edward Island 39 per cent in Nova Scotia

and 44 per cent in Ne w Bru nswick T his is

what is known as a regional disparity In terms of employabi lity in curren t

labour markets the implications of these

figures are obvious Despite the hu ge investment we have made in the provision of

educational opportun it ies a very considerable proportion of our young people

are inadequate ly educated and trained for the requirements of our oc iety tod 1nd even

more in adequately equ ip ped fo r deajing with

acceleratin g change in the future As a fin al no te and at another level the

educationa l system in ltl nada has cons i il~ ntly failed to provide suffic ient

training opportunitie s in certain advanced technical and quas i-professional fields whe re

strong market demand existed and to some

extent still exi sts As in countries like

Australia thi s oap betwee n supply and demand has been filled by highly trained immigrant s some from areas of the world to

which their sk ills were crucia l if minimum

Any university which rushes to tailor its

programs to the most recent crystal-gazing

of the manpower forecasters does so at its periL

development goals were to be achieved The federal government ha estimated that

during the 196 1-1 97 1 period ove r 30 000 profes s iona l and technical positions were

fil led by immi g rants because of the lack of suitably trained Canadians

So far then I have attempted to

es tab li sh the dimen sions and so me of the

characteri stics and causes of the youth

unem ployment problem in the developing

world the de veloped countries and more

speci fically of course in the case of Canad~ I hope I have establ ished that the re

is a problem and that that problem has se rio us econo mic socia l and political

implications which must conce rn us al l have a lso attempted to illustrate that despite

massive advance s in the provision of

educationa l opportunities of a ll types in both the developed and de ve loping world there

have been failures and a great deal remains

to be done if we e xpec t to achieve minimum goals in education bull

Concern about the extent of

unemployment among yo ung people and

more spec i fica ll y among those with

post-secondary qualifications has a lre ady had an impact on the universitie s in Ont ar io

It probably played a part impossible to quantify in an enro lment decline in the fall

of 1977 of more than two per cent across the un ive rsity sys tem in thi s p rovince w hen

earli e r projec tio ns had indic~ted mode st

conti nued growth up to 1982 or 1983 when the de mographic fac tor I mentioned earlier

would begin to operate A further dec rease of the same size or large r is now predicted

fo r this fall la rgel y accounted for by a

decline in the participation rate the

proportion of the trad itional university age population which actually e lects to enrol in

university programs Last fall s unexpec ted dec line occu rred both in new entrants and

students already in-course who elected not

to I turn the stop-o ut phenomenon we observed sporadically late in the I 960 s and

early in the 1970 s Pe rhaps students who

were successful in securing summer

employment took the option in the face of ac ute economic uncerta in ty of remaining in

the la bou r force

Another obvio us effect has been a shi ft f rom so-ca lled general education courses to

those which are perceived to teach specific job skil ls o r which lead directly to

emp loy ment opportunities M a ny observers

have com men ted upon the vas t expansion of app li cations and the frantic competition to gain entry to hi gh-level professional

programs like law and medicine although

there is some evi dence now that particularly

in law thi s press ure might ease s ignificantly as c~ree r oppo rtuniti es fo r g rad uates are

thought to be softening These were percei ved as prestige professions with higher income possibilities but there is abu ndant

evidence that income expectations held by most uni ve rsit y graduates a re fa lling rapid ly

in response to conditions in the la bour

market

One of the most dramatic shifts has

been to business administration programs of a ll type s and to economics the dismal science a~ a rl yle put it

T he humanities the traditional he art of

university programs have been hit particula rly hard by thi s tren d toward what

student s think are more practical or

vocationally o riented fields of st udy The implications in terms of staffing _

and curricu la shou ld be quite obvious to you

particularly in jurisdictions like O ntario w here funding from government is a

fu nct ion to a la rge extent of enrolment levels in the system

Supplementing thi s point w hile

uni versi ty enrolment fell en rolment in the

colleges of applied arts and tec hnology in

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this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

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OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

this province rose substantiall y S ince these

community colleges offer more

vocationally-oriented non-degree programs the same unarticulated search for job

orientation appears despite evidence th~ ihe

employabil ity experience of graduates from

such ins titutions is no be tter than that for graduates of uni versities

Renewed po litical inte rest in thi s

province in jo b tra ining and expanded apprentice ship programs is another indicati on of a shift in prio rities a shift

which has seen the rate of increase in uni versity funding in this fi sca l year fall well below the current rate of inflation with

obvious consequences for the quality of

programs we offe r

U niversities in this province which

have played a crucial ro le in re search in Canadian cultural developme nt and in the

analysis of the soc ietal problems we as a nation face are in se riou s difficulty and we

run risks that the ma ssive public investment

which has been made will be dis sipated as

we sli p back into the mire of medioc rity

T here is insecurity resentment low morale and a great deal of angu ished

groping W hile the publi c has not at least in my

judgment become anti-education there is

certainl y more skepticism more doubt about univers ities role and function T oo many students too while profe ss in g throughout

their undergraduate programs that they are studying because of the intrinsic va lue of

education express di s illusionment and anger

when the rather harsh reality of unemployment and underemployment hit the m

I mentioned earlier the most recent

version of the relevance critique and I

rejected it as strongly as I would the notion that univers ities shou ld become the captive

of one ideology Certainly the vocational

element has been a part of universities for hundreds of years and some universi ty

programs do have a more prono unced vocational purpose th an o thers But all universities to some degree share the same

basic objective to equip students to think

critically to analyze and deal with problems and perhaps above ail to cope

with change and if there is one th ing we can safely predict it is that c hange is and will remain the name of the game in all aspects of our societies

Any uni versity which rushes to tailor

its programs to the most recent crystalshy

gazing of the manpower forecasters does so at its peril Incidentally evidence from

Sweden and France where efforts have been made to gear educ ational programs to labour

m arket needs indicates that students do not accept curricula centered on specific

occupational skill s because they feel they risk being locked into occupations from which it

will be difficult to escape when circumstances change as they inevitably will The

uni vers ity function it seems to me is more general and long-term O f course uni vers ities should respond to ne w and emerging social

needs and they do As exa mples witness the interest in the proble ms of the aging the

environme nt and in nutrition all o f which have had an impact on programs and curricula

These then are the objectives but we must

ask the question and ask it honestly whether

universities are in fact meeting them

W hat I am arguing is that we still have

a bas ic civilizing mi ssion unshaken and I hope unshakeable to produce young people

who are learned skilled in oral and written

communication critical responsible and intell ige ntly adaptable

T hese then are the object ives but wc must ask the question and ask it honestly whether uni versities are injact meeting them M any observers of universities and

their development who sympathize with and

accept the objectives as I ha ve stated them believe th at we are nol

W hile I would not go as far as so me of the critics I have come to the conclusion that all universities should launc h a thorough re-evaluation of their undergraduate programs to see whether the innovations

which took pl ace in curriculum plannin g in

the 1960 s did in fact facilitate the achievement of the objecti ves university

pe ople accept as important and ce ntral Both C olumbia and Harvard uni vers itie s have undertaken such studies and they are bound

to be influential in future curriculum

planning thro ughout North America For

examp le Columbia University attempted to identify and deal with the kind of ignorance

which is unacceptable for universi ty

gradua tes Basicall y the message is that

there are some fundamentals whi ch all univ c[gtit y graduates should possess that we cannot have it both ways whe n we

complain for example th at so me of our students do not ha ve the capacity to w rite prope rl yl

As part of this curriculum review universi ties should exam ine the implica tio ns of the ed ucational leave phe nomenon

already common in Weste rn E urop and

likely to be more pop ula r in North America

In terms of employ me nt opportunities educational le ave tend s to expand labour

force requ ireme nts and to prov ide more thorough upgrading and supp lementary skill

trai ni ng than is now possible For univers ities th is phenomenon generates a

new clientele draw n fro m the profess io nal

and managerial group as well as from line workers

In additi on uni versit ies mi ght exam ine

m ore work-s tud y opti ons w here forma l unive rs ity traini ng inclu des professio nal or ind ustri a l exp ri ence Th Univers ity of

Waterloo has pionee red in th is area in

Canada and has demonstrated that such programs can make a s ig nifi cant contribution to easing the trans ition between education and the work force Univers itie s too should examine both the scope and the

ty pe o f guidance and ca reer counselling they

o ffer to their stu oent s I am no t thinking of the traditio nal placeme nt activity as much as the counse ll in g aspect efforts to improve

student s capac ity to launch a succe ssful job

search Supple me nting this universities mi ght take more initiatives in exploring the

possibilit y of expanded interchange programs bet ween univers ities industry and

government by means of short -term

appointments and seco ndments Similar schemes mi ght be explored with the trade

union s You will notice that [ have sa id almost

nothin g about two other important areas graduate studies and research even though

there are serious problems in bo th Perhaps a final word about research The contribution uni versi tie s have made and can

make to the stimu lu s of research and development in Canada while difficult to bull quantify is undoubtedly ery important U ni versi ty rese arch of all type s bo th basic

and applied is crucial to the future deve lopnHnt of the Canadian economy

particul ar ly the manufacturi ng and related sectors For thi s reason it must continue to

be supported at reasonable le vels In my

view this is not the case now 0

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campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

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programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

sub-committee s 0

OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

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Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

campus highlights Honoured at convocation

Dr Margaret S McCready Dr Herbert R Axelrod Dr M argery King

The University honoured two of its own educators a best selling author and a woman who has dedicated much of her life

to ch ildren and youth during four days of

spring convocation ceremonies

Dr Margaret S McCready former dean of Macdonald Institute was named a Fellow

of the University of G uelph

For almost 20 years from mid- 1949 to December 1968 Dr McCready se rved as

Principal and Dean of Macdonald Institute

providing leaders hip t() the College through

its post-war growth period Her predecessor Dorot hy (Lindsley) W alden initiated the four-year degree program at Macdonald

Ins titute but it was Dr McC ready who

g uided the In stitu te through the growth and development of that program

D r McC ready oversaw the planning

an d building of the 195 3 wing of

Macdonald Institute to help meet the needs of the expanded academic program She also

sought a broader base of background and experience within her faculty appo inting

individuals from outs ide the tradit ional home economics area including the first male faculty members

By the time of her re tirement

Macdonald In titute had gro wn to be the

largest and most widely recogni zed program

of its kind in Canada

Not content to rest on her laure ls Dr McCready accepted an appointment as actin g chairman of the home science

department at the University of Ghana in

1969 serving fo r two and a half years Her appointme nt there preceded by a year the establishment of the G ue lph-G hana co-operative project a frui tful undertaking

in international deve lopment between the

University of G uelph and the U niversity of G hana

Herbert R Axelrod best-~elling author

and sussessful publishe r received an

honorary Doctor of Science degree A grad uate in ge netics Dr Axe lrod has

become the be st-k nown tropical fish expe rt

in the world with numerous volumes to his cred it including Tropical F ish as a Hobby which is now in the ninth printin g

He has discovered six formerl y unknown

species of fish Because few publi shers would agree

with Dr Axelrod that more books on

tropical fish would sell he began p ubl ishing

his own soft cover e di tions in 195 2 and T F H Publications w hich he heads now specializes in the pe t field T he firm o ffe rs

some 500 titles printing 20 mi llion copies annually in addition to the monthly

magaz ine T ropical F ish Ho bbyist the

most widely re ad magaz ine in it s field

Dr A xelrod has wri tte n 16 tex ts on ichthyology as we ll as 30 works abo ut the

tropical fi sh hobby and hundreds of popu lar

and scientific a rticles As a scientist exp lor r he makes regul a r

trip to the far corners of the wor ld and has

co llec ted ra re specime ns on every continent for the n it ed States National M useum

(Smithsonian Ins titute) in Washington Last

year he was honoured with the Smith sonian

S il ver Medal for his ichthyo logical endeavors and for the es tab li shment of the

TFH F und

Dr Margery King who recently retired as

exec utive direc to r o f the Ca nadia n Council on Children and Youth received an

D r Fronk Newbould

honorary LL D dcgree A graduate of the University of

Weste rn O ntario and the Un i vers ity of

Toronto Dr K ing worked for a number of

years as a research psychologist w ith part icular em phasis on children In 1954

he ac ted as confe rence organizer for th e 5th Inte rnational Conference on M ntal Health

T he [ollowing year ~he was in vi ted by

U ESCO to assist in establishing the

In te rnational Institute for C hild Study in Bangkok

S ince 1955 D r Ki ng has been

prominent in Canada in various bodies

concerned with mental hea lth se rvices and

with the provision of services for children

and yo uth Dr King has served success ive ly as

executive d irector Canadian Mental Hea lth

Association di rec tor of education and training C anadian Mental Hea lth

Association and executi ve d irecto r

Canadian Co uncil on C hil d ren and Yo uth which she was acti ve in found ing In

addit ion she se rveu fro m 1965 to 1970 as senior staff me m ber of the Commission on

Emot io nal and Learni ng Disorders in

C hildren In that position he was largely respo ns ib le for the designing directing and writ in g of the report One M iflion

Children which has recei ved international recogn it ion Dr Frank H S Newbould OVC 36

recent ly re tired from the Department of

Veterinary Mi crobiology and Imm unology

was made a professor emeritus A n internationally recognized authority

on mastitis of dairy cattle Dr Ncwbould

has cont ributed significantly to the rese arch

16

programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

sub-committee s 0

OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

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Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

18

Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

programs of ove with re sultant benefits for dairymen not only in O ntario but in a much wider sphere U nder his supervision a separate herd of dai ry cows was es tablished a t ove exclusively for mastiti s researc h Professor Newbould was often called on to de liver papers based on his re sea rch at internati onal conferences

After graduation from OVC Frank Newbould operated a private laboratory for a number o f years He next went to the Connaught Laboratories of the Uni versity of Toronto and in 1946 was appointed to the facult y of the OAC lecturing in bacteriology In 1954 he jo incd the faculty of the OVC and began his re search into prevention and control of masti tis

In additIOn to hi s work as a faculty me mber at OVC Dr Newbould spe nt a two-year period as a vis iting scient ist at the National ins titute for Re search in Dairying Shinfield Reading England and a te rm as vi siting profe sso r at the School of Veterinary M edicine Uni vers ity of California D avis

Dr Newbould has bee n a me mber of the National Mast it is Council (Washington D C ) since its inception and a member o r chairman of several o f its

sub-committee s 0

OAC attracting more women

O ne of the most noticeable ch anges in the

stude nt body at the O ntario Agricultural College is the steadily inc reasing numbe r of women students Professor M ike Je nk inson OAC 63 Assi stant to the Dean of OAC recently took a care ful look at the OAC e nrolme nt stati s tics from 1974 to 1977 and came up w ith an interes ting profile on the freshman cl ass Profes sor Jen kinson began wit h the OAC s Centennial Year 1974 in

which the Coll ege e xperienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment with over 2 300 students

T he num ber of qualified applicants has increased rapid ly in the past fou r years notes Pro fe ssor Jenk inson but the number of students enrolled has grown m uc h more slowly d ue to res tric tions o n ad miss io n at the freshm an level In 1977 the last year of re tric ted admissi on total enrolmen t was just over 2 600 students

The character of the OAC fresh man

class has also changed There are many more female student s now increasing from 27 per cent or III of 422 fre shman students in the 1974 enrol ment to 37 per cent or 143 of 389 fres hman stude nts in the 1977 class Professor Jenkinson att ributes part of thi s increase to the growing number of women who enter the program with hopes of being accepted into the O nta rio Veteri nary College as well as women s increaSing intere s t in profession al progra ms (O ntario Veterinary College applic ants are required to have completed at least one year or two semeste rs of a science degree program )

T he 1977 freshman class had a mailer percent age of students from outside O ntario than did the 1974 cl ass partly as a result of the enrolment restrictio ns whic h resul t d in a higher propo rt io n of Ontario stude nts be ing acce pted T hese restriction s notes Professor Jenkinson also had some influe nce on increaSing the number of fres hmen who are current Grade 13 graduate s In 1977364 freshmen were from O ntar io 17 from other provinces and eight from fore ig n countries [n 1974386 fre shmen were from O ntario 29 from other provinces and seven from foreign countrie s

The stati stics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto Durham Halton N iagara Hamilton-Wentworth and

the Cou nty of M iddlesex send the largest number of s tudents to the O ntario Agricultural College yet It is s ignifican t that o ver 60 pe r ce nt of all OAC students have had some farm experience

Althou gh a few count ies are not re present d in the freshman class every county in O ntario is represented in the total OAC student body

O ntario fr shmen a t OAC in 1977 Algoma 2 Brant 6 Bntee 5 Cochrane 2 Duffer in 2 Durham-Ontario 21 Elg in 3 Essex 5 Frontenac 2 G rey 7 Haldimand-N orfo lk 4 Halton 20 Hastings

7 H uron 6 Ke nt 15 Lambton 7 Lanark I Leeds and GIenville 7 M iddlesex 19 M usko ka 4 Niagara 20 North um berla nd 5 Ottawa-Carleton 20 Ox fo rd 8 Peel IS Pe rt h 5 Peterborough 6 Prescott and R ussell I Prine Edward 4 Renfrew 2 Simcoe 7 S to rmont Dundas G lengary 9 Sudbury 7 Thunder Bay 2 T imi skaming I T oronto 55 Vic toria 5 Waterl oo 8 Wellin gto n 11 Wentworth- Hamilton 19 and York 8 0

Arboretum grows Ne w dimen s ions were added to the Umversity s living library the Arboretum la t April Sunny skies prevailed as the J C Taylor Nature Centre was officJally opened

The Nature Ce ntre was named in honour of the late Profe ssor J C (Jimmy) Taylor who was on the faculty of the De partment of Horticultural Science for 37 years and retired in 1973 Professor Taylor was a well kno wn and respec ted horticulturalist and naturalist who was acti ve in the early planning of the Arboretum As a

member of the local a nd provincial horticultural societies he was concerned about nature education T he Ce ntre that now bears hi s name will furt her his life-long inte rest in nat ure apprec iation

A plaque was also unveiled marking the

Colone l John McCrae Natu re Trail This tra il nallled for one of G uelph s most famous sons links the two xisting loop trail systems in Vlc to n a Woods and W ildgoose Woods The new trail passes by the Nature Centre dips through the gravel pit re habi litation area through some majes ti c mature evergreens along a century-old fenc e ro w through a demonstration fores t and past W ildgoose Pond The trail is a tribute from the Unive rs ity to the City on its l50th birthd ay

T he Colone l Joh n McC rae a turc Trail pl aque was unveiled by M middot D D C ampbell of Wate r do wn a niece o f Colonel McCrae and Brigadier Ge nera l DeLalanne G rand President of the Royal Canadian Legion M ont real

Her Ho nour Paul ine M McGibbon Lieutenant -Governor of O ntario and C hancellor of the University was ill and unable to take pan in the ceremonies Her H onour s speech was read by Univers ity President D F Fors ter M rs J C Taylor widow of Pro fessor James C T aylor and Ken neth G M urray OAC 50 Chai rman of the University s Board of Governors offi c iall y opened th J C Taylor Nature

Ce ntre uring the ope ning ce remonies an bull

Engli sh oak tree Quercus robur was plante d to com melllorate the Sil ver Jub ilee of Q ueen Eli zabeth The modest 25 me ter specimen was lifted (offic ially) from the gro unds of W indsor Cas tle and arrived in Guelph via the H igh Comm iss ioner s o ffice o n T rafalgar Square London and Governmelll House O ttawa 0

17

Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

18

Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

Toronto Argonauts on campus Anyo ne who ha s any thou gh ts of an open air job should have watched the Toro nto Argonauts go through their paces during the first two weeks of June on campus Durin g their spring trainin g session in Guelph the fo otball players ran tackled stretched passed and kicked their way through two rigoro us training sess io ns eac h day Competition was kee n - of the approximately 90 hopefuls who started spring training only 50 survIved the cuts before the first exhibition game Before the season officially opened in July the roster was pared down to a mere 33

At least one of the playe rs was very much at home on campus and on Alumni Stadium s turf Ru nning back Mark Brown a Hotel and Food Admini stration student has been coached at the Unive rs ity for the last thre years by his fat her Dick an Argonaut running back from 1955 through 1957

Argo s first choice in February s Canadian Football League draft of coll ege players Mark was well prepared for the switch from amateur to professional fo otball

Sad to relate - Mark was dropped from the roster in the final cut-back of players and is currently playing summer football in Stoney Creek He will return to his HAFA studies in the fall

Spring training went well facilitated by plentiful food in Maritime Hall and co nvenient faciliti es Ex-Gryphon trainer Fred Dunbar who is now trainer for the Argos recruited a Guelph student to assist him during the two weeks Together the y taped ankles and wris ts and generally readied the players for the daily workouts This is the first time spring training has been in G uelph

Training out side the big city has other advantages al though players and coaches said little about the lack of tempta tion for players to violate the suggested 1100 pm curfew

A new feature in the Argos training this season was a regimen of injury-avoidance calisthenics designed by Bill G voich Arts 73 a physical fitness consultant He led the playe rs through a series of stretching bending and lim bering up exercises before and after each worko ut At first the players were skeptical of this approach after their tradition al program of developing speed strength and agility but

18

Argos publicity manager Barry Read said he felt thi s approach is already proving beneficial

A side benefit for the universJty was the income paid fo r the use of its facilities 0

Tennis - on a platform - anyone

If yo ure looking for a game that s prestigious formal and entail s expensi ve equipment purchases - then platform tennis is not for you If however you want to try a game tha t s active outdoors year-rou nd informal soc iable and piles of fun - then re ad on

Platform tenni s - a hybrid of tennis and squash - is rapidly attracting fans throughout the United States Uni versi ty of Guelph students staff and local reside nts were among the first in Canada to have a go at this new game on a court installed las t summer beh ind Lambton Hall The Uni ve rsity of Guelph is the first uni versity in Canada to have a co urt

Funds to purchase the co urt were donated to the University by R A Ba illie President of Rab Engineering Ltd of Miss issauga The Human Kinetics Alumni Association was awarded a matching Wintario grant of one third to cover the cost of installation

Visible from College Aven ue East the court sits above the golf course su rrounded by groves of tree s and offers a vista of the city of Guelph - de finitely a country club locati on Court reservations and equipment rental s can be arran ged through the porter at Lambton Hall according to Doug Dodd Department of Athletics During the summer months he said the co urts can be used from 800 am to midnight or longer if demand develops

Racquets can be rented for 25 cents an hour for students and 50 cents an hour for faculty staff and the general pubJ ic The ball will be prov ided Aside from soft-soled shoes no specia l clothing is needed

Rule s are posted at the court and are available on hand-ollt sheet s from the poner Players will leave suitable identification with the porter while playing with the rental rac quets following the establi shed equipment loan policy of the Department of Athletics

Platform tennis is basically tennis

except that the server has only one serve and the ball can be played off the screens Tennis players wiU welcome this feature because it mea ns longer ra Uies and less time devoted to chasing balls It can be played year-round (sno w shove ls are provided to clean the co urts in the dead of winter) and round -the-cl oc k The sma ll court puts players close enough for verbal exchanges whi le play ing an aspect of the game th at increa clt the fun and good natured co mpewion

r itness addicts will in variabl y inquire about the exerc ise rating of platform tennis Informal guestimates rate the exe rci se intensity somewhere betwee n tenni s and squash 0

alumni news Social Science Alumni Association Graduates of the University s College of Soc ial Science and its former W llington College of Arts and Science are in the process of establishing a College of Social Science Alu mni Association

As many alum ni will be aw are the Universitys Coll ege structure contemplates that each College will form an alumni association of its graduates which in turn will be represented in the Uni vers ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation The UGAA is a general association which directs its activities to intcrest and benefit graduates of the Univer sity as a whole Seve ral Colleges presentl y benefit from strong establi shed alumnI assoc iations

An informal group of graduates from the Social Science disciplines of economics geography psychology poli tic al studies and sociology headed by interim Association Presiden t Michael James CSS 72 have been meeting on a regular basis ably assisted by Joe Brooks CSS 69 Assistant to the Director Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs and De velopment and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Assistant Direc tor Alumni Programs to establish an assoCiation

It is apparent at thi s early stage that the interest and affinit y exi st to support a strong College Assoc iation

It is hoped that a College of Social Science Alumni Association can be both soc ial and supportive of the University and its students while helpin g to fill an increasingly apparent need of alumni for

cont inuing contact with de velopments in thei r disc ipline s

T he in formal group of CSS graduates has formed itsel f into an interim exec utive and se t itse lf a pri mary goa l of taking the necessary steps to form an association A gene ral mee ting ope n to all CSS grad uates students and faculty has been firm ly sc heduled for Homecoming Weeke nd October 14 wi th a wine and cheese fomlat At this meet ing the necessary organizational steps of adopt ing a const itut io n an d by-l aws elec ting pemlanen t directo rs and officers and developing programs can be taken

Full de tai ls concern ing the meet ing are co ntai ned in the first -ever Social Science Alumni Ne ws whi ch was mailed to all CSS graduates faculty and student s earlier th is month

In order that a functio ning associat ion may come into existence as soon as possible the interim executive has begun the task of de veloping ac ti vities and programs An important ste p is the establishment of the CSS alumni news bulletin which w ill app ar regularly at fo ur- mon th intervals Miss Gr tchen MacM illan CSS 70 worked di ligently to ensure that he fi rst issue was both inte resting and informative Discussions are currently being held with facul ty and students with a view to developing projec ts such as a careers night semina rs or guest speakers The pos sibili ty of donat ing a work of art to the University is being inves tigated A broad range of o ther possible activities is under consideration

The ultimate achie veme nt s of the Associ at ion will of course depend on the interes t and support of its numerous potent ia l me mbers Anyone interested in assisting at this early stage should co ntac t Joe Brooks at the Alumni O ffice te lephone 824-4120 Ext 390 1 or Mic hae l James 62 Yamlouth Stree t Guelph te lephone 824-9897 Graduate of Socia l Sc ie nce di scipli nes are rem inded that it is now more important than ever tha t the Alumni Offi ce be made aware of the ir current maili ng address Any grad uate o f the Uni vers ity of Guel ph or member of the Unive rsity community is welcome to take an in terest in the College of Soc ia l Science Alum ni Assoc iation T ho se who are not grad uates of Soc ial Science d isc ipli nes shoul d ask the Alumni Office to place their names on the Associ ation s mail in list 0

Alumni elections to Senate

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Gordon He nry Mary McG illi vray

Following the annu al election for three of the nine alumni seats on the Senate a the Univers ity Gordon B Henry OAC 34 Mary (Robertson) McGillivray Mac 36 and Helen M McKercher Mac 30 have been elected to repl ace those who have ful fi lled thei r th ree-year term

Dr Robert (Herb) Wright OVC 38 had the next highe t numb r of vo tes and w ill sit on Senate unti l August 3 1 1979 compl eting the unexpi red term o f Ron Tayl or HAFA 73 who resig ned his seat on Senate due to a move to Northern On tario

Gordo n B Henry OAC 34 li ves in Ingersoll O ntario He re tired as Manager of the Ingerso ll C heese Co mpany in 1977 a ft er 32 yea rs with the Company

Preside nt o f his class since graduation Mr Henry sat o n the Jnger oll School Board for 20 years was Mayor of Inge rsoll for nine years is honorary advisor to the Ontario Da iry Co unc il and mu nicipal go vernment study co-ordinator for th e county of Pe terborough

Mary (Robe rtso n) McGill ivray Mac 36 resides in Downsview Ont ar io and has middot a trong fa mi ly affili at ion with Guelph She is the daughter of the late John Robertson OAe 14 and Ze lia (Parks) who attended Mac in 1 0 Mrs McGi ll ivrays daugh ter Mrs Dale Fawcett is a Mac68 rad

A past pres ide nt of the Mac Alumni Assoc iation s Tor nto branch and a fo unding me mbe r of the Alma Mater Fund s Ce ntury Club M rs McG ill ivray ha~ a long record of voluntee r work with To ronto hospitals nursery schools and senior ci ti ze n groups Her interest in Senate is prompted by a deep conce rn fo r the qu ality of educat io n

Helen M McKercher Mac 30 li ve~ in Stratfo rd Ontari fo ll ow ing a dis tinguished 36-year career in home economics exte nsion She reti red in 1976 as d irect r of the home econo mic s branch of the Ontario

He len McKe rcher Dr Robert Wrighl

De partment of Agriculture and Food afte r 20 years in tha t capacit y

M iss McKe rcher is a found ing member of the A ma Mate r Funds Century C lub She has served as cl ass age nt and ed itor of her class newsle tter She was awarded the Centenn ial Medal and in 1976 was named by the UGAA as Alumnus of Ho nour

Rob rt (Herb) W right OVC 38 live s in Dundas O ntar io In prac ti ce for 35 years and proprie tor o f the Dundas Ani mal Hosp ital he re tired in 1975

Secretary of his class since graduat ion Dr W right is a life member and past-pr sident of th O ntario Vete ri nary Associat ion served o n the OVA Advisory C om mittee is a me mber o f the CVMA and the A VMA and was OV A member in the AVMA House of Represe nt atives for fi ve years 0

Appointment

Gam el L Nix

Garnet L Nix OAC 42 has been appo in ted a Vice-Preside nt of Canada Packers Li mited Mr Nix is a Director of Canada Packers and has latterly been Ge nera l Manager of the company s York Farms Division

Both he and his w ife Mary Helen (Paterson) Mac 4 1 are fou nd ing members of the A lma M ater Fund s Ce ntury Cl ub MI and Mrs ix live in Wi llowdale O ntar io and are pare nts of three ancy Fred and Peter OAC 70 0

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September 22 OAC Alumni Association Annual Golf Tournament

30 Alumni Apple and Autumn Colour Tour Orangeville area bull October 14 Homecoming cODling Annual Meetings Human Kinetics HAF A Social Science andevents University of Guelph Alumni Associations

15 Deadline for reservations - Alumni Tour to Colombia and Ecuador

25 Alumni Night at Western Raceway London November 10-18 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Toronto

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ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

If the addressee or a son or a daughter who IS

an alumnus has moved please notify the Alumni Ollice University of Guelph NIG 2W1 so that th is magazine may be forwa rded to the proper address

Since the Guelph Alumnus was first published in 1968 weve been concerned regarding the period between our mailing date and the date you receive it

In the Winter 1976 issue mailed at third class rates we printed a cut-out return form requesting confirmation of delivery dates The returns were good but the news was not The best average delivery time in Canada was to alumni in Ontario - seven days The worst was shared by alumni in Prince Edward Island and in Alberta - a depressing 21 days

Faced by the sad facts we approached the Post Office It was suggested that we would save money and improve delivery time by

mailing your magazine at bulk third class rates So we switched The switch involves a pre-sort at the University resulting in direct delivery to the postal station closest to each one of you

We re curious Have we improved delivery time Ollly you can telius Well be grateful if you will record the date of receipt of this issue on the form below and mail to Derek Wing Editor Guelph Alumnus Department of Alumni Affairs and Development University of Guelph G uelph O ntario N IG 2W I

Please make SUfe your mailing label is on your return and your address is correct 0

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September 22 OAC Alumni Association Annual Golf Tournament

30 Alumni Apple and Autumn Colour Tour Orangeville area bull October 14 Homecoming cODling Annual Meetings Human Kinetics HAF A Social Science andevents University of Guelph Alumni Associations

15 Deadline for reservations - Alumni Tour to Colombia and Ecuador

25 Alumni Night at Western Raceway London November 10-18 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Toronto

Were bullcurIous bull bull bull

bull bull bull again GUELPH ALUMNUS Summer 1978 I~Volume 11 Numb 3

1+ Canada Postes Post Canada PoSl19C PlK1 PQI1 Oltw~bull Bulk Ennombre third troisieme class classe 1067 Guelph Ont

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

If the addressee or a son or a daughter who IS

an alumnus has moved please notify the Alumni Ollice University of Guelph NIG 2W1 so that th is magazine may be forwa rded to the proper address

Since the Guelph Alumnus was first published in 1968 weve been concerned regarding the period between our mailing date and the date you receive it

In the Winter 1976 issue mailed at third class rates we printed a cut-out return form requesting confirmation of delivery dates The returns were good but the news was not The best average delivery time in Canada was to alumni in Ontario - seven days The worst was shared by alumni in Prince Edward Island and in Alberta - a depressing 21 days

Faced by the sad facts we approached the Post Office It was suggested that we would save money and improve delivery time by

mailing your magazine at bulk third class rates So we switched The switch involves a pre-sort at the University resulting in direct delivery to the postal station closest to each one of you

We re curious Have we improved delivery time Ollly you can telius Well be grateful if you will record the date of receipt of this issue on the form below and mail to Derek Wing Editor Guelph Alumnus Department of Alumni Affairs and Development University of Guelph G uelph O ntario N IG 2W I

Please make SUfe your mailing label is on your return and your address is correct 0

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I received the Summer 1978 edition of the Guelph Alumnus on