REPORTS Vol. 16, No. 18/0ct. 8, 1970/Vancouver 8, B.C.

UBC REPORTS CAMPUS EDITION

PROF. DONALD SOULE

Assistant Arts Dean Appointed

Prof. Donald E. Soule, of UBC‘s Department of Theater, has been appointed assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts.

Prof. Soule will suc:ceed Dr. Harold C. Knutson, who has been assistant dean of the Faculty since July 1, 1969. Dr. Knutson is returning to full-time teaching duties in the Department of French a t his own request.

Prof. Soule will assist Dean of Arts Douglas Kenny in the academic operations of the Faculty. A second assistant dean, Prof. fqobert Will of the Department of Economics, will continue to be responsible for the day-to-day financial operations of the Arts Faculty.

The appointment of Dr. Soule was aplproved by UBC’s Board of Governors a t i ts regular meeting on Oct. 6.

The Board was also informed that Prof. J.A. Keats, who was to have become head of the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts on Jan. 1, 1971, has asked thlat his appointment be cancelled for personal rl- aasons.

Three other well-known members of the UBC faculty have informed the Board that they are resigning their administrative dutielj as of June 30, 1971. All will continue to hold their positions as professors in their respective faculties.

Resigning as department heads are: - Prof. G. Welton Marquis, first head1 of the

UBC Department of Music and a faculty

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What is the mood of the WBC campus in October, 19701

UBC Reports attempted to find the answer to this question, by dispatching reporters around the campus & interview students at random.

They found that the campus mood was basically w l r n and contented with underrnrrrents of concern abut course work, making friends and other dayta-diry

problems of campus life. -Students seemed only peripherally

concerned with campus political i+es,. such &s the recent argument over the use of the Student Union Building as a hostel for transient youth.

A summary of the survey &ults and the comments of some of the students interviewed appear on Pages Two and .Three af this issue of UBC Reports.

UBC‘s LIBRARY now boasts a microfilmed Division of the Main Library, where the collection is

collection of more than 200 underground newspapers housed. For details of the collection, see story on

published since 1965, including five Canadian Page Four by Assistant Information Officer Doris journals. Mrs. Suzanne Dodson, above, inspects one Hopper. Photo by Meredith Smith, UBC Photo of the microfilm rolls in the Government Publications Department.

feelings about it. The majority of you were against using SUB as a hostel.

Just in case you think we fantasized t h e whole thing, we're *printing a sampling of your comments. 'The selection of the quotations is subjective and biased. We've extracted the things you had to say which we found most interesting, Those of you who were too dull for words we've relegated to oblivion.

Female, third year Education: Said she was involved with the Society for Pollution and Environmental Control and was ':doing things to fight pollution. 1 guess I'm more University-oriented. I read about the war in Vietnam or the war in Israel but itdoesn't really sink in. t read about it but it"% happening over there. i f it was in my backyard and I ' could see it I would be .rea@ uptight."

Male, graduate student, Business Administration: Asked how he felt about things this year, immediately brought up the question of the use of SUB as a hostel. He was against it. ''I real.ly have an attitude about SUB being used by transients and it's violent. I pay my $1 5 a year and I didn't pay for transient people to live in the basement."

He doesn't get too involved because of a heavy academic load. He was out for a while and has noted some improvements since returning: Yhey've made some tremendous gains in terms of facilitating things like the payment of fees and advance registration. Finding your way around the library is a lot easier than when I first came here. I've noticed that through student activism and complaint and criticism the administration has perked up their ears and made concessions. There have been some good moves toward making life a little bit easier."

GOOD YEAR SO FAR Male. third year Political Science: Complained

question was "very general." Said it was a good year and he was happy about it so far. Said he thought students would defeat the idea of using SUB as a hostel and added: "I think that's kind of sad."

Other observations: "The middte east situation - that's on my mind. The fact that there are 250 people in all my classes - that's on my mind. The fact that there are a lot of young kids wandering around here looking lost - that's on my mind."

He said that although he gets very concerned about many things, he feels this concern as an individual. "I don't join to achieve a certain end. I feel, but I choose in most instances not to act so I guess I'm not going to be ruling the world in the next couple of weeks. I guess that's the general definition of apathy, but it is not apathy." Added that he wasn't concerned about influencing anyone else a t the moment.

Male, second year Arts: '"They kept the enrolment down this year ,but there still isn't sufficient space to accommodate most of the students who are here. It 's pretty hard to imagine 20,000 students a t one institution to study. Last year, I felt hopelessly alone. You're just a very small part of a very big place.': This year he's "adjusted to it." He's occupied ,with courses and exams, but tries to get out to vote in Alma Mater Society elections and keep informed about issues.

Male, second year Commerce: "It makes me wonder sometimes whether it is worth coming out here when you figure where it is going to get you, but I still come. I don't know why." His concern about "where it is going to get him" relates to employment after graduation. Last year he was surprised a t the amount of freedom he was given at University. Said he took advantage of it. Learning how to handle all the freedom he's been given at UBC and learning how to structure and discipline his own life is a primary concern for him.

Female, Arts studevit: " I went to Capilano College last year and I really liked it there. But I don't like it as weil here. Probably because it's so huge. I don't find it so friendly." She added: "Classes are pretty big. The main thing that is important is just getting through this year. I haven't joined any clubs or anything. Mostly I just come and do my work and then go home."

Male, first year Commerce: The coltege I went to last year was smaller than this so all these people sort of throw me." He added: "I'm mad about the housing situation. There .is not enough room. Not enough residences." Said he was to hitchhike al l the way in from Richmond every day.

Female, third year Physical Education: "I think the teaching is very poor. Too much research-oriented and they don't concentrate enough on teaching students." Said she wasn't very involved in the campus. Usu+ly does her studies and then goes home. Said she was s&alJy interested in her courses.

Mde; third year Geological Engineering: Asked what occupieif him most, replied: "Eight hours of classes a day, That's about it. I f something comes up such as this hostel thing that is going to affect me personally, then 1% take an active part."

Male, third year Civil Engineering: "This year things are really good for me because i've been elected to an office 'within the engineering faculty and I've become m r e involved. By coming out here and keeping your nose in a book you may get an education but you don't b w m a person."

Hctle, third year Engineering: Initial response: "I'm not t& happy so far because nothing's being done yet and the way it looks it is not going to improve." Asked to eWrate: "Student housing hasn't improved at ~ 1 1 . Food Services is still lousy and the prices are going'crp. The general attitude toward students on the part of the administration is still the same. The attitude of the students a t the University still hasn't improved enough. They haven't become aware of the situation outside of the University."

Male, graduate student in Chemistry: "I think that the world is probably in a worse situation this year than it has been in for a while. It has always been bad, but I guess J'm losing faith in the governments of the world. I'm putting more faith in people and what people want. I'd like to see more people educated in understanding other peoples. That's all."

Asked what else was on his mind: "I guess, if I'm going to be honest, trying to create a life which t think is fulfiiling for myself and my wife. To find out what we want from life, such as happiness. Not wealth, but enough not to be bothered by other people tryi us what to do."

Female, second year Education: Classes were he1 primary concern. "Some of the things out here buglme. All the radicals and stuff. Like, a t noon in SUB yesterday, there was this Communist discussion going on. It was like that last year, too. Somebody in there raving about something every lunch hour. It just get: boring. The whole thought of it turns me right off. I think this is a school. It is not a place for radical movements. It is a place to come to learn so that you can go out into the world."

Male, fourth year international Relations: On his way to SUB to oppose turning it into a hostel for transient youth. "Just the hard core Marxists and other radical groups, not very big, that are making most of the noise on campus."

Female, fourth year English: " I came here from a smait college in Ontario and I am so surprised 6 is really great for such a huge campus. My p r o f a ' a l l seem to make an effort to remember who I am. Everybody is so helpful and friendly. For example, a lady in the Library explained how to find the book I was after and I hadn't even asked."

Male, second year Education: "I am trying to prepare myself for some future job. The trouble is, University is geared to what they want to teach me, not what I want to learn. I think a person should have a varied education."

Male, fourth year Economics: Interested in politics generally but not involved in campus politics because it automatically cuts ten to 15 per cent from marks, he said. Predicts a little quieter year this year than last, "if that's possible." +.

Female, first year Medicine: "I'm happy this year. There's a high student-teacher ratio. We get a lot of attention. Many of my friends aren't happy though in their senior years in Arts. I guess it 's the impersonal atmosphere of the University."

Male, first year Medicine: "Everyone says there's a high student-teacher ratio but it isn't true. All our classes are 100 people .this year. Some of the staff are quite good but to me their too establishment-oriented. V e y want us to wear ties and all medical students have to park in 'C' lot.

lot of things to do it. I have to sacrifice some personal things, like the fact that I'm treated like part of the machine. That's a stereotype. It 's really not true. I know some of the profs (in medicine) are really quite nice and concerned. But I do get the impression of going thrmgh the University machine, even in Medicine."

I get mad at a l l the apathetic students. I like the idea of SUB for a hostel for transients as a contingency measure. In a few months we should have a real hostel. Canada should have one. Every other country in the wortd does."

Male, first year Medicine: "They (the transients) should form their own organization to get themselk a hostel without allowing others to do it for them. You

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MORE STUDY SPACE

Top Astronomer to Give Two Lectures at UBC

Prof. Fred Hoyle, one of the world's outstanding astronomers and a central figure in the continuing debate on the origin of the universe, ,will give two Dal Grauer Memorial Lecturesat the University of B.C. on Oct. i 3 and 14.

Prof. Hoyle will speak as follows: - At 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the

Totem Park Residences a t UBC. His topic will be "Stonehenge," the prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in England. In recent years, much research has been done on Stonehenge, and there is evidence that it was an accurate astronomical observatory and a computer for the prediction of eclipses.

- At 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the Frederic Wood Theater, when his topic, will be "The Present Sta te of Cosmology," the branch of astronomy which deals with the origin of the universe.

Admission to both lectures is free. Prof. Hoyle, who is also widely known as a

writer of provocative science-fiction novels, is

PROF. FRED HOYLE

Plumian Professor of Astronomy and director of the recently-established Institute of Theoretical Astronomy a t Cambridge University in England.

He has been the recipient of almost every international award for his wide-ranging research in astronomy, including the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britian and the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Prof. Hoyle is probably best known to the general public for his research in support of the "steady-state universe," a theory which holds that the universe is infinite with no beginning and no end.

The steady-state theory postulates a universe resembling a bathtub overflowing with a faucet gushing forth more water. Put in astronomical terms, this means that new galaxies, or star systems analogous to the Milky Way, are formed as old ones disappear.

Central to this theory is the concept that new matter is constantly being created out of nothing by some process not clearly understood. Many scientists have rejected the theory because it violates one of the basic laws of physics - the conservation of matter.

The other widely-discussed model of the origin of the universe is known as the "big-bang" theory, which holds that some 20,000 to 60,000 million years ago all the material of the universe came into existence a t the same time and in the same region of space.

This "primeval atom," the theory holds, exploded, sending i t s material outward in all directions. Eventually, the debris from the explosion condensed into stars and galaxies in much the same way that raindrops condense from clouds.

FLAW IN THEORY Observational astronomy has tended to support

the big-bang theory since it appears that galaxies which can be detected with telescopes are receding into deep space.

The flaw in the theory is that if the universe originated in a single explosion, all the known chemical elements would have been created a t the time. But physicists say that elements beyond helium could not have been formed in this way.

A third theory, known as the "pulsating universe," holds that the universe is expanding and contracting in some unknown rythmic pattern. Earlier this year a "mixmaster universe" was proposed a t a scientific meeting in England where Prof. Hoyle was a major speaker.

Prof. Hoyle has been a central figure in the discussions of these theories. In addition, he is renowned in the astronomical world for his research on such topics as the evolution of stars, the origin of magnetic fields in galaxies and studies of radio galaxies and quasars, mysterious objects which emit energy a hundred times more intense than ordinary galaxies.

Prof. Hoyle is also widely-known as a writer of science fiction. His best-known novels are The Black Cloud, Ossian's Ride, The Fifth Planet and October First Is Too Late.

He lectured on ecology and population control 15 years before the subject became popular and, as a result of his frequent visits to the United States, became an avid baseball fan.

Dr. Hare Chairs Committee Prof. F. Kenneth Hare, former president of UBC, Prof. Hare was president of UBC from May 31,

has undertaken an important new assignment a t the 1968, to Jan. 31, 1969. Before coming to UBC he University of Toronto, where he now teaches was Master of Birkbeck College of the University of meteorology in the Department of Geography. London in England and for 19 years prior to that was

A t the request of the University of Toronto's a member of the faculty a t McGill University, where President, Dr. Claude Bissell, Prof. Hare will chair a he also served as dean of arts for three years. Presidential Advisory Committee bn the Status and Future of Scarborough College.

Scarborough is a constituent college of the University of Toronto and offers a distinctive curriculum within the framework of a new program of the Faculty of Arts and Science. The College this year expects to enrol 1,900 students.

The 32-member committee which Dr. Hare will' chair consists of academic and administrative officers, teaching staff and students drawn from Scarborough College and the St. George campus of the University of Toronto.

Eastwood, Production Supervisor. Letters to the Editor' should be addressed to Information Services, Main Mall North Administration Building, UBC, Vancouver 8, B.C.

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Two UBC Faculty Members Die Two members of the UBC faculty - Prof. Kenneth

6. Harvey of the Department of Chemistry and Dr. John N. Sandness of the Faculty of Aglricultural Sciences - died in late September.

Prof. Harvey, who was also assistant dean of the Faculty of Science, died suddenly on Sept. 27 at the age of 42.

Dr. Sandness, an entornologist and pesticides expert, died Sept. 25 after a lengthy illness ait the age of 30.

Born in Toronto, Prof. Harvey joined the UBC faculty in 1959 and was co-author, with Prof. Gerald 6. Porter, also of UBC's Chemistry Department, of a widely-used textbook on physical inorganic chemistry. He was also a prolific contributor to chemistry research journals.

Prof. Harvey was named ;assistant dean of science in January, 1969, and was in charge of time-tabling, registration and counselling of the students in the Faculty.

He was a graduate of the University of Toronto, where he received his bachelor of arts degree with honors in 1951, and Lava1 University in Quebec,

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where he was awarded the degree of doctor of science in 1956.

Dr. Sandness, who joined the UBC faculty in 1969, was born in Grand Forks, B.C., and obtained his bachelor of arts degree a t Walla Walla College, Washington, and his Ph.D. a t the Riverside campus of the University of California.

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member since 1958 and, - Prof. James Foulks, the first head of the

Department of Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Foulks, who has been at UBC since 1951, plans a year's leave of absence beginning in July, 1971, to carry out research a t the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, England.

A third faculty member, Dr. J.R. McIntosh, will resign as head of the secondary division of the Faculty of Education as of June 30, 1971,

UBC Gets Microfilms of 200 Underground ,Papers

BY DORIS HOPPER Assistant Information Officer, UWC

The UBC Library has acquired a microfilmed cotiection of all underground * nwspapers published since 1965.

The. collection, which includes all known and wraiiaable imes of over 200 underground papers, some 325 of whieh are now defunct, is the most mmpxehensive record of the underground press phenomena presently in exxiaence,

Five Canadian underground papers are included among the current titles: Vancouver's Georgia Stmight, Winnipeg's Black Cat, Ottawa's &topus, Toronto's Harbhger, and Montreal's Logus.

RESEARCH VALUE, The microfilmed collection was assembled by

Befl & Howell, with the cooperation of the Underground Press Syndicate and with the commendation of the American Library Association.

Although the social arld politicat points of view most consistently expressed in underground papers are often repugnant to many people, it is fe l t that these newspapers have great historical and research value.

A t least one member of UBC's faculty, Dr. Ronald J. Silvers of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, has alreiady been engaged in a research project aimed.at evaluating the underground press and its significance.

Dr. Silvers has been using his own personal collection of underground papers for his research project, but pointed out the frustrations of trying to acquire a complete collection of the papers, many of which spring to life and die agaiin within the space of a few issues.

Dr. Silvers praised the UBC Library's decision t o acquire the microfilmed collection of underground papers.

These newspapers present a whole body of social and political thought that is not available elsewhere," he said. "If a record of these papers and the poipts of view they express are not preserved, much of the flavor of the curr,ent social turmoil that we are experiencing will be lost to history."

Mrs. Suzanne Dodson of the Government Publications Division (which ironically enough is the section of the UBC' Library in which the microfilmed collection is on file) said that the material is contained in 26 reels and is being indexed by title.

The existing index to the microfilmed material l is ts each paper according to the year in which it

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was published, which makes it possible to determine when a particular p a w came into being and how long it lasted.

Also on order to help those who wish to research the papers is the "Alternative Press Index" which indexes 19 of the 2[)t)-add newspapers on microfilm,

&gain overtones of irony intrude. The 'alternative press index, wh'bh is published by the "Radical Research Center" and is dtascribed w ''an index to the publications which amplify the cry for social change and .social justice" was prepared by computer. . surely the very epitome of the dehumanizing technological age which so many of the underground papers decry.

It takes the help of a machine to view the microfilmed material too. The microfihed underground papers can be seen on the two viewing machines available in the Government Publications Division of the Main Library. The Division also has several small portable vi6wing machines which it can make available to anyone with a serious .research interest in underground papers.

The microfilmed material, however, is not the only collection of underground papers maintained in the UBC Library. The Special Collections Division of the Library also has quite an extensive collection of underground papers in actual print form.

Mrs. Anne Yandle of Special Collections explained that the department has been assembling a collection of underground newspapers with special emphasis on local publications since the underground press phenomena began in the rnid- 1960's.

COMPLETE SET Special Collections has, for example, a

complete set of every issue of the Georgia Strulght ever published and representative issues of approximately 100 other underground newspapers in i ts collection.

I don't think these papers will be very available 20 years from now," said Mrs. Yandle. "Too many people say they are just junk and throw them out."

Until recently the underground papers in the Special Collections Division were difficult to use for research purposes because they had not been indexed. Over the summer, however, Miss Ruell Smith of the Library's staff has made a start toward indexing the papers under broad subject headings.

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I Institute 1 Begins Oct. 10

The Vancouver Institute will open its 1970-71 lecture series at the University of B.C. on Saturday, Oct. 10 with a discussion of world population by a Simon Fraser University biologist.

The Institute, Vancouver's oldest lecture organization, meets each Saturday in Room 106 of UBC's Buchanan Building. All lectures begin at 8:15 p.m. There is no admission charge but membership in the organization is available for a small fee.

The first Institute speaker will be Dr. Albert L. Turnbull of the biology department at Simon Fraser University, who will speak on the world population problem.

Subsequent lecturers will include Mr. Stuart Hodgson, commissioner of the Northwest Territories; Dr. Sylvia Ostry, director of the Economic Council of Canada; federal cabinet ministers Ronald Basford and John Turner; Dr. John Young, chairman of the federal Prices and Incomes Commission, and Dr. Donald Chant, head of the zoology department at the , University of Toronto.

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A brochure listing all the Institute lectures for 1970-71 is available from UBC's Information Office,

Following is a complete list of lecturers for the 1970-7 1 series: a

Oct. 10 - Dr. Albert L. Turnbull, Department of - Biology, Simon Fraser University: "Are There Too Many People? A Discussion of World Population."

Oct. 17 - Dr. Walter G. Hardwick, Department of Geography, UBC: "The Post-Industrial Era and Vancouver."

Oct. 24 - No lecture - Homecoming Weekend. Oct. 31 - No lecture - Halloween. Nov. 7 - Dr. V. Setty Pendakur, Community and

Regional Planning, UBC: "Community Planning and Technological Change: Goals and Conflicts for Vancouver."

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Nov. 14 - Mr. Stuart M. Hodgson, Commissioner of the Northwest Territories: "Northwest Territories - People and Prospects."

Nov. 21 - Dr. Robert W. Stewart, Institute of Oceanography, UBC: "The Global Atmospheric e Research Program: A Serious Attempt a t International Cooperation in Science."

Nov. 28 - Dr. Sylvia Ostry, Director, Economic . Council of Canada: "Some New Directions."

Dec. 5 - Hon. Ronald Basford, Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs: "The Consumer Today and Tomorrow."

Jan. 16, 1971 - Miss Mary Southin, Lawyer, Vancouver: "The Common Law in the Age of the Common Man."

Jan. 23 - Prof. Abraham Rogatnick, Department of Architecture, UBC: "Pragmatic Venice and . Utopian Theory."

Jan. 30 - Dr. John Young, Chairman, Prices and Incomes Commission: "Prices and Incomes in Canada."

MASS MEDIA DISCUSSED

Feb. 6 - Senator D. Keith Davey: "The Mass

Feb. 13 - Dr. Donald A. Chant, Chairman, Media 1970-1984."

Department of Zoology, University of Toronto: "Ecology and Technology."

Feb. 20 - Dr. Ara Morradian, Managing Director, Nuclear Research Establishment, Pinawa, Manitoba:

Feb. 27 - Mr. William Nicholls, Head, Department

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of Religious Studies, UBC: "The Self in a Collapsing - World."

March 6 - Hon. John N. Turner, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada: "Law and Order: What Does It Mean?"

March 13 - Dr. Frank Curzon, Department of Physics, UBC: "The Scientist and Society."

March 20 - Mr. Frank G.P. Lewis, National +,

President, The John Howard Society: "Jails and Corrections: Is or Ought."