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VOLUME XXXVIII SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1955 THE UBYSSEY COME INTO MY PARLOR Open House - Grin, Groan Sweet-Talk And Sweat . By MARIE STEPHEN Like Robinson Crusoe strand cerning publicity, protocal and ed on a desert island—that's Just finances. how Jade Barueau felt after By October, thirteen student* being chosen for the job of Open had been persuade* and other House Chairman. wise ahanghied into accepting positions on the Open House Diplomacy, cast-iron nerves committee and offering) tha and a dash of imagination are sweat of their brows for the qualifications for the position greater glory and renown of Barbeau was singled out by Student Council to fill last UBC. spring. Public relations was a consis tent problem facing the group. While others basked in theKeepin g sub-committees func summer sun, Jack spent long tioning smoothly and bending hours at UBC thumbing through over backwards to please—and dusty files to learn all he could sometimes disuade—over eager about his duties as organizer of exhibitors proved a full time Open House. occupation. Choosing staff was a difficult! Many innovations and spon j job, the select few had to be Itaneou s "brainwaves" of the capable of handling the neces-| committees have been introduc sary responsibility of coordina- ed into this year's Open House [ ting all the displays as well as,progra m to put UBC prominent solving special problems con ly in the public eye. Student Help Much Cheaper
Long hours were spent for ( In an effort to cut costs the example, arranging the ways | committee employed students and means of sending an issue wherever possible. Recruits of "Ubyssey"' into every home have been called in to act in with a copy of the daily Prov the capacity of guides, parking ince. As part of the pubicity attendents, baby sitters and campaign one issue of the "Sun" j diaper changers. weekend magazine was devoted j Friday, Barbeau and Vice* exclusively to articles on UBC It's a project fer the Army, madam - designed to eliminate the draft. written by student journalists. This week's Variety Show which spotlighted the talents of j campus clubs in music, songj THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH and dance was an idea to stimu late interest, in club activities i and show the public that lifei behind the ivy-covered walls What Do You Think Of Us? has its lighter side. ! Club exhibits formerly shown , Have you got litt'e more From drinking to studying, operates. But you won't find in the Library are located this I Chairman Walt Young, are year in the Field House. The I than contempt tor UBC stu rioting to organizing, it pres a display on a cramming, spending several hours person dents? committee decided it would be ally reviewing exhibits to make ents an unvarnished picture starving scholarship student, of UBC students. We think more satisfactory to separate: sure all the finishing touches We're not saying you or an indolent, dissipated student and faculty display*: ' it is an accurate picture — are in order. Committee mem haven't the grounds for such "college joe." if the plan is a success it will be bers will be on hand today we tried hard to make it so, an attitude, but if you under a permanent innovation. Giv to keep the various departments to present every aspect of stu stood, us better, your contempt You'll find the descriptions ing the clubs added floor space running smoothly and to deal dent life with the right em might be replaced with mild in this edition, however — also permits them to indulge in with any crisis which might phasis. irritation. which is, incidently, the only more original presentations. arise. With this edition of The Open House at UBC pro u n censor e d Open House Ubyssey, we think you will vides you with an interesting 'Ubyssey' edited by Ubyssey Do Not Forsake Us Lie. able to make a better judg demonstration of what the editors. When the tramp of feet fades tee have received nationwide ment. University dots and how it in the distance and the last' acclaim, You can learn about stu i weary visiter leaves the campus Every member of Open House the Open House committee be- dent autonomy, what goes on committee deserves an equal ON THE INSIDE in the lecture room, life in the gins another important phase share of the credit for over- dormitories, drinking, gamb of its work. Pictures 3 Our Bus 12 ling, fraternities, athletics Letters of thanks must be mailed to all participants, dis and all the other parts of Editorial, Columns 4 Off the Campus 13 plays will be dismantled and the student life at UBC. 1 grounds resored to their former On The University 5 Student Activities 14 state of neat respectibility. On page five you will find Two Profiles 6 Student opinions ou what a university Detailed records of the com- should be and do, written by , inittee's work will be filed for Dormitory Life 7 Government 15 President MacKenzie, a pro the reference of future Open House staffers. This year Bar Noon fessor, a student, "and a par Working Students 8 Lectures 15 ent. You will no doubt have beau is collect inf.; every scrap s,n a UB your own ideas on this sub- of UBC puhilicity to be readily Lectures 9 ' ' * C 16 available for eventual national j'Tl. The Faculties ..... 10 The Greeks 17 magazine layouts. ra. If you have, then you can Re(|tiesls tor detailed plans of cumini: almost insurmountable The B M Working and '9 °" 18 read this edition, take in the UBC's Open House or^au r/ati: >ti difficulties in firin^ing fre--h Loafing 11 The Little Man 18 University's Open Mouse ex have aire,id\ been received from imagination and enthusiasm In a hibition*, and then determine M(('iill and sever.il American projeet that ..hows ever, prom- Our Bookstore 12 Athletics 19 whether UBC is living up to Univer.-cl ies Thc efficicllcv J'iid ise et l Jo tlfUL t Visitors, Alumni and Students University of British Columbia The Government of the Province of British Columbia congratulates our University on the fine contribution it has made to the develop ment of this Province. Of all the resources of British Columbia we count as greatest our youth, educated in the cultural traditions of our past and trained in the science and technology of the present. Your Government, through its Department of Education, is most concerned that our high school graduates enter the University well pre pared for a higher education. Only is this possible if we have sufficient able and dedi cated young men and women training for tea ching. To al! who are suited in ability and personality, we commend the profession of teaching. . W.A.C. BENNETT HON. RAY WILLISTON 'remter Minister of Education ISaturday, March 5,1955 THE UBYSSEY Page Three PICTURES IN PASSING* A PERENNIAL STUDENT CRUSADE is the drive for better campus housing. This time a float in the annual Homecoming Parade wends its way through the downtown streets, proclaiming ''UBC's shame."—Quan photo. MAKING THE AUDIENCE whistle, stamp and howl like dogs, a curvacious coed kicks up her heels in the Mardi ANNUAL FASHION show, Gras chorus line. The annual party, held on two successive sponsored by the Women's nights in January, is known as the "best bash on campus." Undrrgraduate Society, —Quan photo. brings the latest .creations to the campus.—Maze photo. TRYING HER REGALIA on for size, a curvacious fresh ette prepares for the annual fall orientation week. First year students are required to adopt outlandish dress and defer to upperclassmen so they will soon "feel at home," at university.—Maze photo. ANOTHER DRIPPING FRESHMAN is hauled from the engineers' wooden ducking tub A HEROE'S REWARD is offered to Engineering Faculty thoroughly soaked and suitably punished for his crimes. Tho redshirts switched from head Dean H. F. Gunning for parting with a pint of his the lilypond this year in a "sale and sane" move. The annual horseplay is seen on blood. The campus blood drives, hold twice \ early, net campus every autumn as regular as falling leaves.—Quan photo. nearly 5000 pints from students.—Quan Photo. -"•fSfBSEI^Pra ti-a-^^ .ras-sr^isnygfseas Page Four THE UBYSSEY Saturday, March 5,1955 After reading the New York had seemed at first to be a er, I am sometimes sophisticat simple, checked shirt with ed for as long as three days. short sleeves. That's why he's THE UBYSSEY My Up curls and my eye staring at me, I realized. His hoots MEMBER, CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PRISS brow arches as i regard the shirt. Authorised ai second clan mall, Poet Office Dept., Ottawa. tall figures in the advertise Below, the small type ex Mail subscriptions $2.90 per year. Published In Vancouver through ments with secret understand plained: "This shirt is made in hell out the university year by the Student Publloattona Board of tho ing. These people are like of Indian Madras, which -Alma Mater Society, University of British Columbia. Editorial me, I think. It is all wonderful HATHAWAY imports from By PETER SYPNOWICH opinions expressed herein are those of the editorial staff of The therapy for the ego. India. This is the real stuff, ty no mass-produced shirt can Ubyssey, and not necessarily those of the Alma Mater Society or But it was different the other woven by Indian cottagers on ever aspire to." the University, Business and advertising telephones are Alma 1880 night. I was flipping the pages their handlooms." I rushed to the closet and * or Alma 1231. Advertising Manager is Geoff Conway. and toying with the thought I read the part about "real pulled out into the light the of buying new cuff links colored sport shirt I had EDITOR-IN-CHIEF—PETER SYPNOWICH stuff" with dismay. I didn't Managing Editor—Ray Logie Newt Editor—Rod Smith (something in French enamel, doubt my shirts originated bought a year ago. Bright as CUP Editor—Jean Whiteside Sports Editor—Ken Lamb perhaps), when I saw this fel with machine waste and dis the label had guaranteed. I Copy Editor—Stanley Beck Executive Editor—Otoft Conway low staring out off an ad at carded surgical dressings. cursed its callow immaturity. •Staff Writers: Dolores Banerd. Val Haig-Brown, Sandy Ross, me. My gaze returned humbly He was standing before an "Each piece is only eight to the man with the black Pat Russell, Marie Stephen, Judy Thormahlen. Indian palace, wearing a trim, yards long — enough for three eyepatch. I could see he had sandy mustache and a topee— shirts," it continued. "The just left the maharajah after and a black eyepatch. He held pattern never repeats itself, so obtaining a few tips on tigers you will never see another man his chin high, and his one good in the vicinity, probably over wearing the same shirt as your eye was levelled at me in tol a Pimm's cup garnished with own." erant contempt. cucumber. Judgment Day Sold down the river. There Only the night before, I re In what adventurous way was no offer of mutual super- membered, I had seen another did he lose his eye, I wonder* cilliousness in this man's stare. fellow (the ninth) wearing a ed? I had once broken my You'll find the contents of this edition He plainly regarded me as shirt identical to my three test. nose, but I did it running into of The Ubyssey are preoccupied with stand several castes lower than a They had seemed so distinctive a gym wall. At worst,. this leprous untouchable. Uncom when I bought them. man had got in the way of a ards - moral or otherwise. That's because fortably, I pulled my sleeves "The natural dyestuffs used croupier's rake at Monte Car we like the idea of you passing judgment over my soiled cuffs. by these Indian cottagers aren't lo. A Leica hung from his shoul completely color-fast — they His good eye coldly bored onus. der, and his knuckles rested fade a little, with washing and into me. He knows, I thought, on his web belt and spotlessly sunshine. This gives the shirts damn him. He knows I have We hope that, in appraising the uni whipcorded hip, below what a look of breeding and maturi- no Hathaway shirt. versity as exhibited by Open House and our ' looked in the hastily-educated This chain mail bursary of news columns, you will be led to show more ray hgh modern young man. fers leadership in return for interest in us. — Trench digging and other al almost everything else. But lied skills were indicated as what's longlevity compared to part of this academic missing- free tuition — particularly Many people regard the university with link. And they just may have around now? indifference and contempt after watching ITS LIKE something there. Imagine the antics of clowning students in cafes and Twentieth Century universities Actually what is more dis THIS grinding out men, expected concerting of all about the mili nightclubs, or after reading of rioting engi- to become responsible citizens, tary's chain letter is its per YOU KNOW WHAT'S in without so much as a clue to verted sense of incentive. neerng students, or after working for a sum valuable for later life but is not Sten gun assemblage. Shades As I recall from History 101, mer with a lazy and dull-witted student. included in the university cur of Brock Chisholm. riculum? there was a time when young The letter arrived in the post sters used to trip off to every But not enough people are aware that Military training — that's exactly two days before sec corner of the earth to defend what. the university is making a tremendous con ond term fees were due, of any given country. If not this, At least such is the case ac tribution to the community even apart from fering to guide the financial at least in defense of the cording to the COTC. and other destinies of the pov Crown. Or maybe even an at its job of educating. The above information was erty stricken student. tractive piece of bunting popu- touted in the punch line of the As you can see the note was larily known at that time as Not enough people are aware that UBC militiamen's bi-annual frosh about as subtle as a John Fos The Flag. students have spent more than a million dol letter. According to the cam ter Dulles ultimatum with as lars erecting buildings you should have paid pus minutemen Canadian Uni many hitches as the Marshall But now, if the letter's in- for, and are also making heavy contributions versities have for years been Plan. uendo reads right; more im turning out underdone gradu But the letter went further by mediately lucrative incentive to community charities. ates. offering potential dog-faces the is needed. In this materialist It seems students have been glory of Monday night route age a financial carrot appears More than anything else, however, UBC literally forced on the out marches with absolutely no to prove more Effective than students are preparing to assume much of side world, halt-educated sav harm done to the trainee's sec- the old-fashioned, more intan the leadership of the future - they are be ages, to muck up civilization's cond class average. gible bait that once hung from well-oiled organization. Read- Apparently the training the stick. coming educated, in other words. in', writin' and 'rithmetic just schedule is designed to accomo It's one thing to knock off isn't enough nowadays it ap date the more intellectually in a few good enemies for the Admittedly, there are many indolent pears. terested trained killers. Sort Flag, but wield a Webley- Vick- 'Good-time Charlies' on this campus, but the The letter hints at some for of a genocideic athletic schol ers for your second term fees mass of students are making conscientious gotten aspect—some intangible arship — with hand grenades is a jackboot of another color. value — that has been over for beenbags. efforts to learn, and many are working with Geronimo kiddies. a fierce dedication. We once knew a stoop-shoul are tomorrow's leaders, facing dered accountant named Gould an uncertain future with a We hope all this is now more evident who was a pretty sad case. laugh and a song on their lips to you. However, we don't imagine that you We mean, nobody liked him; And Gould was deeply mov My Dog Has for which you can't blame ed, and chried, 'What a cynical are left unable to find fault with us. them, and with women, he bitter old fool I've been." and never even got to first base. resolved to mend his ways; he Fleas . A look at the university during Open started doing nip-ups and up- Although once he was round By ROD SMITH House - and particularly student life as pre nips. ing third accompanied by a And SANDY ROSS sented in this edition of The Ubyssey - must one-armed lady banjo-player With loud huzzahs, have provided you with many objections. from Omemee Ontario who He resolved to become a sort "Starp it, starp it ! ! ! !" liked the way he whistled of March 5th Santa Claus. But still the free-loaders We welcome them. We want you to "Alabama Bound," So he placed an ad in the came, like Assyrians or wolves But just when he thought he paper inviting everybody to an on the fold, And our hero was judge us. " was about to make Coopers- Open House at his house just apoplectric; Purple was Gould. to prove that he wasn't an This is your university - not just ours. town, she left him for a drum Finally they left, still munch* mer named Herb whose theor island unto himself, And when ing on food from his refrigera Your voice should initiate any reforms you ies.of harmonics were far from the great day came, everybody tor and complaining about the believe are necessary, whether they are con sound came except one of the alder- lousy party Than those of Gould ment who was away investigat- cerned with student behaviour or the status ingtraffic lights in Guelph, And Gould went back hat Who got fooled ing people and attacking re They came in droves, and of the humanities. And Gould became bitter, ligion and Canadian youth, And decided that he hated trampled his petunia bed, and got mud on the carpet and one day even assulted a UBC has been ignored by the public far everybody, and started to lady policemen whose name And laid waste to his modest attack everything from the happened to be Moriarty. too long. It has suffered by being denied the younger generation and re wine cellar, and pulled the cat's discipline of an informed public opinion. ligion to the neighbour's baby tail, and pointed to Gould and MORAL:— So go ahead and condemn whatever you sitter. said, "Who's that little shrimp," People who live at the tip Until one day he read about until Gould, who had grown up of Point Grey should be satis will, and the louder the better. We want you Open House at the University, in Brooklyn, jumped up and fied if the general public stay to be interested in us. and how B.C.'s clear-eved youth down with rage and cried, away. Saturday; March 5,1S55 THE U&Y#fr«Y PageTh* Asking what the contributions and fuhttiQnffcf * Campus Cross Section Views a university should be and how UBC stands^ the light of them, reporter Pat Russell collected the views of the President, a professional edi>' University's Place In Society cator, a parent and a student. Too many people think many specialized faculties, number of electives to satis there is little suppression of that, students come to universi above the level of a trade fy any aspiring Einstein — or political or religious opinions. ty mainly for its social and school. Bannister. But, because of the In fact all groups are encour athletic opportunities, or as an Success in any specialized out of proportion teacher-stu aged to express and compare escape from ditch digging. field demands more than a de dent-facilities, ratio, most beliefs. They are wrong. We seek, in gree awarded for the master courses are watered down After all, "true" values are university, preparation for the ing of technical terms and There is a tendency towards developed and strengthened, world into which we must procedures. The diversity of production line education: lec only through comparisons. eventualy enter. scholastic and social oppor tures seem more like assemb And whether the student is The ideal university pro tunities is the university's lies, and students frequently a McCarthyist or a Bolshevik, vides all the elements — liter study, not for the sake of he can also learn to write, ary, cultural, political, athlet knowledge and self-improve speak, act, dance, broadcast, ic, psychological — of that Phil Greenberg ment, but for the next exam. make friends, and meet that society in which we live, and Second Year Arts This, unfortunately, will exist prospective spouce, without to which we must contribute. until facilities and staff catch stepping off campus. Its curricular and extracur THE STUDENT up to, and keep pace with, We all want to be a suc ricular program must be suit student enrollment. cess in life. U.B.C. is not an able for students who will prime contribution to the stu U.B.C.'s social contributions i Aladdin's lamp that will guar soon be responsible citizens dent. It enables him to re are excellent. In the clubs, antee success. It doss provide charged with important social late curricular experiences to societies, and teams on cam " a sound scholastic and social and political obligations. the off-campus world of prac pus, every interest, every facet background with the added It is this program which tical affairs. of society is represented. For Phil Greenberg suggestion: tuum est. rai.ses the university, with its U.B.C. offers a sufficient example, on the student level. .- The rest is up to us. Presumably parental hopes, Canada and a further link training merely focuses this minds and to feel the friendly fears and. intentions for their with world conscience and capacity and equips it to deal touch of some truly great university student children world knowledge. It is a with specialised problems. It' minds. It is a good place to vary rather widely. I have no young, growing and vivid in the broad base of the univer grow through the excitements fears; only in acutely abnor stitution, making a reputation sity, its fundamental concep of social exchanges, and to mal cases can university years rather than living on one; and tion of learning, is sound, its learn the patterns of adult be other than advantageous to any student who attends the specialised faculties will be life through student activities. a child. I have no intentions; school should sense this and sound. And I believe the fun- The UBC campus seems to pro those are for the child itself, live proudly in it. My under vide such opportunities in full and the university may play a standing is that the univer measure. I am not convinced large part in forming them. I sity's scholastic standards are that the students have yet de have one hope: that the uni high, and I have heard it Roderick Haig-Brown veloped among themselves the versity will help my children spoken of as "the best under exciting and creative intellec become broader, stronger and graduate school in Canada." Author & Magistrate tual climate that is the ulti more inquiring individuals. These points are of greater mate mark of a great univer equipped to search for sound interest to me than the THE PARENT sity. Perhaps this also is a opinions, make informed de strength or weakness of the matter of growth and it is cisions and act fearlessly upon specialised faculties. The unfair to look for the full them. greatest purpose a university damental conceptions of the virtues of maturity on so To me the University of can have is to create thinking UBC at the present are ex youthful a campus. But it is British Columbia is the con men and women, who can bear tremely sound. a point about which all stu centration and expression of Roderick Haig-Brown an honorable part in any issue, Any university provides an dent organisations would do all that is best in the province, abstract or concrete, that faces opportunity to mix with the well to search their minds and a link with all that is best in them in life. Professional best contemporary student souls. A modern university exists We have remembered what ences or in the disciplines of Columbia? to extend knowledge and to Stephen Leacock pointed out the professional Faculties can An observer sees and Engin develop skills. An ideal mod out: that educational maturity •sometimes mean the deepest eering Faculty finding (not ern university exists to back can come by being smoked at kind of individual cultivation. easy,) a place for more courses knowledge and skills with wis in dim and private places. Ideally, a University means « in English, perhaps one day dom. The true function of a Uni a fusion of minds into mind, in Philosophy and History; The University tradition is versity is training of mind and with intellectual nourished sees perhaps in the Arts De one of humanity's rich lega multi-laterally. Ideally, in a partments increased intellec cies. The arts and sciences of modern University, the Engin tual hospitality towards the life, nourished since early Arthur H. Phelps eer, (man or woman) and the sciences and the so-called prac times by men and women English Dept. Arts man (or women) have tical disciplines, eager for learning and soli THE PROFESSOR common ground. Among the students an ob citous to preserve the culture The peril for the modern server notes what on the sur of the spirit (involving mind enrichment of personality. University lies in department face seems (the lush climate?) and body) have been the pe- Without knowledge, the lat alization. Segregation into undue dispersion of interest in cular care of universities. ter tends to shallow idiocyn- parts makes, not, as Roger multiplied "activities," in The Canadian University cracy; without wisdom, the Ascham said, two parts to a "sports" and "societies"; what, tradition has profited by its former tends to short sighted man, but. today many; and ?{ on closer analysis, may mean, trans-Atlantic origins and its practical efficiency. A course each part potentially a for- i if properly used in relation to Usonian neighborhood. We in liberal arts can sometimes lorn nonentity. A university focused studies, an awareness have learned to respect mean no more than a kind of stands for the whole man in of the variety and complexity "know - how" and we have bloodless isolated preciosity the generic sense. Prof. A. L. Phelps which make up the nature of not forgotten wisdom. a course in the natural sci- The University of British man. The Universities arc Ideally in one way or another serve The scientists increase our food estry, fisheries, pharmacy, ag "communities of scholars." us or make it possible for us supply, our sources of power, riculture, teacher training, chemistry, physics, economics, That is, places* where men and to live and work. our wonder drugs, and now women interested in learning atomic and thermonuclear and all the other subjects in and research find time "and The food we eat, tire clothes energy. These are but illus cluded in a great modern uni opportunity to carry on their we wear, the cars, planes, trations of what they are versity. activities. Their functions are ships, and trains we travel in doing. But perhaps our most im to act as guardians and cus — the roads, bridges, and rail portant work is that of edu todians of the knowledge and ways, are all based in part at cating the 6000 students who are in attendance, not only in wisdom of the race that has least upon the study and re N. A. M. MacKenzie been handed down from gen their professions and in these search of men and women practical fields, but in res eration to generation. In them- over successive generations young men and women are President, UBC pect of standards of values, who have lived and worked in in human relationships, in the taught to become "educated our universities. Our doctors, THE PRESIDENT history of mankind, about our human beings," members of dentists, lawyers,, preachers, society and how it functions, the learned professions, scien about the world we live in, tists, and research workers. and engineers are all products of universities. Members of The University of British about man himself, and his place in the universe. They themselves, have pro these professions have some Columbia is, like her sister These are some of the reas duced most of the basic re part in practically all the im institutions participating in all search on which the world of the activities and serving ons why we are glad to invite portant events in our lives — the people of the pro our friends to visit us at open and our modern society de- "birth and death, marriage, rlepends and exists. In every President N. A. M. MacKenzie vince and of Canada in house — and why we believe field of activity and at every travel, health, enjoyment of all these fields. In medi we are all important to the stage in lite, the universities our property and all the rest cines, in law, engineering, for- people of British Columbia. roge owe T«l * If • ¥-*'*«-¥ Saturrfay, MtqrchS, IftSS JOE COLLEGE ON CAMPUS Clubs, Committees, Coffees Best Wishes to the UBC By JEAN WHITESIDE The downtown public have ctey, from the Brock to the Have you seen that fellow him in mind when they refer Caf, to the Library, to meet rem in the tweedy sports jacket to "smart-aleck college kids," ing. and grey flannels hustling and high school co-eds hold A day with this fellow around the campus? him ia awe as a "college man.' would leave you dizxy. Vp He is what the popular So ' far: as extra-curricular in tho morning, he tries to B.C. Pf ST CONTROt LTD. mind cohcieves as the typical activities go, tnis f*Wowis the attend eU Iris lectures, not al "university man,,' better busiest guy. around. Up to ways stMceeding of course, Western Canada's Leading Pest Control Service known as "Joe College," thc his ears in culb and committee with the pressure of extra busiest man on campus. work, he roams the^sampua all curricular activities interfer ing. After morning classes he'll make a quick trip to the li brary to contact a fellow committee member, and to pick up a few books, then he Is off to a meeting. His zeal and enthusiasm are overwhelming, and he is constantly recruiting people to serve on committees, and donate their time to campus functions such as Homecom without ing, Blood Drive, , Charily Drives, Open House, Fund- raising campaigns, sports events and dances. Campus affair.? form the nucleus of his life and take mo-it of his time, But don't get the idea that this fellow is going to flunk his courses because of his advocations for he Ls often a scholarship student. Certainly our inductrious student leads a far more interesting and well-balanced life than his opposite pictured below, but although we would nol label him as merely a SUCCESSFUL STUDENT in AMS ol'i'ice symbolizes Joe 'joiner." it seems that with College: he has short hair-cut, tie, tweed jacket, healthy hi.s numerous extra-curricular he is not making the most of grin and ability to mix business with pleasure. his academic capabilities and —Dolman Photo opportunities. LONELY LAD AT LECTURES Classes, Classes, Classes By JEAN WHITESIDE go to college." ciety, Civil Liberties Union^ To the average observer, He is not distinguishable Student Chrstian Movement, Joe College's opposite may . by his clothes, for he may Jazz Society, United Nations, not be immediately recogniz wear the Enginee's redshirt, Club—never heard of them. able. But outside the lecture the lawyer's blazer, or the He just isn't interested in room, this student is conspicu nondescript Artsman's uni campus affairs; university to ous by his absence from cam form, arvi he may have the him is strictly lectures and pus affairs. athlete's amble, the scholarly final exams. But then he But he fits in well outside gai;, or he may drive a car. pays his money, so he takes the university — the public He is the student who "just his choice. thinks of him as the "fine, sits there," uninterested in From a "happy college serious, university man," or what's going on around him. days" angle it's a pretty dull "a decent kid even if he does No clubs for him: Musical So- choice. Usually this student commutes to the campus every day, as he ei'ther boards out or lives at home. He ar rives in time for his 8.30 lecture, being a fairly con scientious student. From lec tures he'll go to the library, where the only difference be tween him and the others is that to him the library is not a social rendezvous, but a place to study and day-dream. Few of his friends go to Varsity, so his social life is not connected with the uni versity. This fellow (or girl) then, is ylrictly for the degree, BA, Bright NEW Outlook:,! B, App. Sc, B. Comm , or whatever it may be. Not ne Excitingly different... Unbelievably soft. .. sorter than cessarily brilliant, he does a pussy's purr .. . cool! enough studying to make a Full-fashioned, hand-finished/ respectable showing at exam shrink-proof, moth-proof. New time. But unfortunately his academic record will be the bouquet of colours, at good only thing left to show that shops everywhere ... also he ever attended UBC: In TFtettttS&Il, Cashmere-treated lambswool all his years on the campus he classics. $6.95, $7.95, $8.05. has not realized that there is Orion more to getting an education SWIATERS by 6UNAVK. LONELY STUDENT walking toward bus stop carries thn just studying. Hds aca look for the name "Kitten" battered but trusty notebook, turns up jacket collar to demic efforts are. admirable, keep warm and heads home to study for next day's lec but they result in a lop-sided tures. —Dolman Photo existence. Saturday, March 5,1955 THE UBYSSEY Page Seven We Appreciate Economy, EUROPE But Oh, That Dry Rot By JUDY THORMAHLEN Apart from comradeship of a haphazard collection of LAST CALL! Dormitories do more than there is the all-important ad old army huts. keep the rain off. vantage of economy in the Sail Ma 28 or A brief nlstory of the Aca STUDENT TOURS class o?n ss June 14 tourist Living in residence is as residences. From the finan dia and Fort Camp huts serves lm\ rClvc «! 1«*X - Homeric from cial viewpoint, university liv OO UAIJ ?I,IAO Quebec on special conducted much a part of university to point out their inadequacy. tours limited to Students. A week in London, Holland, in life as lectures, and its re ing accommodation rates high, They date back to the depres cluding Volendam and Isle of Marken, Brussels, Cologne, wards are as valuable a part with room and board supplied sion of the 30's when they, the Rhine by steamer, motor tour of the Black Forest, of your education. at an average cost of $55 a were used o house unemploy Liechtenstein, Austrian Tyrol, Bavarian Castles, Dolomites, month. Venice, Adriatic Coast, tiny Republic of San Marino, Rome, For out - of - town students ed militia men of the reserve the Hill Towns. Florence, Italian and French Rivieras. French "living in" is a chance to Most university housing, force. Alps, Switzerland, Paris. Motor tour of Scotland, English make new friends, while for with the exception of three Lakes, North Wales, Shakespeare Country. Exmoor, Glorious Later they were used as foreign students it is an op ultra - modern dormitories Devon. Returning tourist class on the S.S. Homeric arriving a forestry camp and just before Quebec Jujy 26 or August 12, respectively. portunity to learn the Can built for the women students the Second World War the Ex adian way ot life first-hand. four years ago, takes the form tension Department of UBC pressed them into use for the University Travel Club Ltd. Youth Training School. 57 Bloor St. West, Toronto — WA. 4-1139 Even after this hard use the huts were not deemed Management: J. F. & G. H. Lucas ready for retirement but were converted into living accom modation for the surplus en rolment which followed the war. Ever since that time the university has been trying to CONGRATULATIONS repair the ravages of time up with Increasing demands to the and, at the same itime, keep for more housing, UNIVERSITY In the summer months holes are drilled in hut floors to combat dry rot. Huts are re- from pain tied, some are stuccoed and leaky roofs and faulty plumbing are repaired. Students at Fort Camp have come to call their home-away Sharp & Thompson from-home "Dogpatch," and one particularly bad hut "Stal- ag 17." Here, in cramped rooms broken up by pipes Berwick - Pratt overhead that double as a closet rack, students study Architects to the University and "relax." On January 6 the Housng Administration offered some alleviation of the problem in the form of two "semi permanent" dormitories which will be built within the next two or three years. The proposed new dormi tories will not be in the same class as the huts. Present PILLOW FIGHTS are part of the fun in the three luxur plans, according to Dr. Shrum, ious women's dormitories near Fort Camp. Beautiful new. call for buildings of cement buildings contrast sharply to stark army huts. and pumice-block construc —Dolman Photo tion, fireproof and sound proof, that are expected to provide adequate housing for OUR BEST the next 20 years. One professor, living with his family in the tiny Wes WISHES brook huts, discoursing on university housing, or lack of housing, blamed conditions FOR A SUCCESSFUL existing at UBC on public apathy. "Some people have come up the hard way and through the UNIVERSITY WEEK depression. Their attitude is that what was good enough for them is good enough for students today," he claimed, An admirable thing about the camps is their lack of supervision. This tradition started with the veterans and has continued long after their departure. Only discipline is supplied by two young dons 'in each camp and camp coun cils composed of students. At the "dorms" rules are more elaborate although when first opened there were no rules. The latest rule demands an explanation* to the don for staying out past 2 a.m. Students from 30 nations, including South America, China, the Netherlands, Ni geria, Poland, South Africa, India and many others, agree Montreal Trust Co. that the camps and dorms ARMY HUT residences at Fort Camp have provided make leave little to be desired as shift housing for out-of town students since the war. a democratic university resi t $ i \ I I, . s . —Dolman' Phodb. dence. "'afy^^^' Pag»? Eight T HE UBYSSEY Saturday, March 5, 1955 LOAFERS DISAPPEARING AN Work And No Way To Pay For Education By JEAN WHITESIDE to a limited number of stu doing, and average about S25 dents who have a good schol a month. Jobs are normally Eighteen hundred students astic standing and can show limited to ten hours per week at UBC don't depend on that they arc in need of some to avoid interference with "pop's" cheque book to pay financial assistance. studies. for their university educa tion. Students worR ln the lib Many upper-year students not listed under the self-help These students ha v e rary as book clerks or help to program earn money as lab found tlu.i uiey can still p.iy set up the weekly displays in instructors, exam and essay the expenses of a university the showcase windows. The markers, and as assistants to education by putting in extra bookstore also hires several professors. hours at a part-time job. students as sales clerks. .Nearly every student works Many jobs are available as Campus jobs can't be found during the four summer dishwashers in thc Cafeteria for everyone, of course, and months, but for the student and Brock coffee shop, as well at registration time last Sep as the kitchens at Fort and tember nearly seven hundred vvlup must put himself through CAR HOPPING is one way 1800 .students work their summer earnings are not en Acadia Camps. Students also students had found part-time way through UBC. Part time work is needed to help meet ough, with the average work as janitors in the main jobs off the campus. Clerk amount made being about tenance department, which ing in department stores and bills. —Dolman Photo >>c\' wi hundred and twenty serves all campus buildings. libraries, doing housework, dollars for men and three Out of the three, hundred baby sitting, driving a taxi. versity, p'-iyirv. all his expen- twelve students varying in age hundred foriy-four for wo and seventy-eight students workng in mills, reporting ses himself. from 16 to 60. who applied for campus jobs for downtown newspapers, are men. Frnnk is studying for his the personnel office was able a few of the jobs that students These jobs pay Frank's tui Recognizing the needs of MA and has an assistantship to place one hundred and do throughout the school year. tion fees, his room and board, such students, the university in the Sociology department. ninety-three. and all other living expenses. personnel service has insti Frank Darknell, a graduate His work there includes help tuted a "sell-help" program. Students in these jobs re student at UBC, is one of the ing to set and mark exams, He took three years out This program offers part-time ceive the regular wages paid hundreds of students who is helping to mark term essays, from school after getting his employment ,on the campus for the type of work they are working his way through uni- keeping a class file, and mak- BA in 1950, in order to earn I ing himself generally useful. enough monev to finish his I It pays him $200 a year. education, working as a writer for various newspapers and He also holds down a job radio stations. He hopes to Punctuality is Important! j as a higli school teacher where complete work for his M.A. I he teaches Social Studies to next year. YOU'LL RELY ON A STURDY, DEPENDABLE HBC WATCH. THE GEO. H. HEWITT CO. LIMITED 732 Homer St. Vancouver, B.C. CASH for your OLD JALOPIES! We Need This Sc ro p I ron! We buy any type of Tin or Scrap Iron for our Baling Press. Finest Bailing Instaiation in Canada. 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It isn't hard to keep up A grey haired alumnus most of his time in the caf working of intricate problems A UEC student can spend and unless he is enrolled might regard you with tears drinking coffee, they form his by the instructor, while the anywhere from 15 to 2A.weeks in a highly competive faculty in his eyes if you ask him: most intimate connection with students scribble furiously to in lectures depending ctt his like law, where loaning notes "What does University mean university life. • keep up. or a class discussion is unheard of. the UBC student to you?" But to the average The average UBC lecture is of some theory or ieda with jocsn't suffer any pangs of undergraduate it largely means 53 minutes long, a common the professor acting as chair conscience when lie decides on one thing; attending lectures. characteristic. But it may be man. The professor himself a coffee instead of a disserta And whether he dilligently delivered in a ramshackled may hold degrees from tion. attends all his classes and army hut or a monolithic hall. a dozen universities or be only He does suffer financially a graduate student, working on though. A three unit course his Masters' Degree. entails three lectures a week TAtlow 6S81 TA. 8581 A student enrolled in the and costs $45. which brings sciences .s usually only a the cost cf each lecture to 50 figure in a mob, or a name on cents, and means that Ihe price Sound ^•Scriber an attendance sheet. He has of that cup of coffee is 60 o i < i * r i n no connection with his instruc cents not ten. tor and unless his work is A mention oi exams at al BLAIR-BEHENSEN LTD. 872 Richards St. either outstandingly good or, most any time during the bad may never even speak to acac.emic year is tv.ough to L him! bring on lits of eye rolling and In the humanities, generally cries ef "I don't know what smaller classes make the I'll do il 1 don't get to work We Join to Welcome You to the student teacher relationship soon". more intimate. But the old Most students pass however. problems of,inadequate facili LECTURER POUNDS pod The university won't re ties and too little money re ium, getting wrapped up in lease the failure rate in thc UBC OPEN HOUSE sult in overcrowding and mass subject. higher years claiming "pos instruction here as well. faculty but en aver;1";, of 18 sible misinterpretation" but 17 per cent of the freshmen University officials are un is par for the course. class fails each year. Approxi happy about the situation and The regt! atioria in the uni mately 30 per cent of the re would like to see more person versity calender, -tate ih;.t a Samifoo "Terrace mainder fail in one or two sub student must a.lend s< ven- al contact between student and jects and only slightly more "CHINESE CUISINE AT ITS BEST" eights of hi.s classes or he teacher. But the days when than h«lf have a clear stand a student could corner his automatical tails ing Internationally known and acclaimed too. in Chinese professor in a pub and thrash Those are the classes he The high failure rate Cuisine, hospitable service and exotic Oriental out the problems of the world should attend; whether he amongst freshmen can be over a pint of ale seem to be does or no; is another matter. decor—tiulv a Restaurant of Distinction. explained by the nerve wrack ing nature of exam sessions. Reservations: MA. 1935 155 E. Pender St. DIRECT FROM GERMANY As any senior student will testily, exam writing is an Novelty Gifts, Fancy Work, Pure Lambs Wool Sweatersets, - Jersey Knit Suits and Dresses by Bleyle; Knitting Wools tfl.1 —an ar. most freshmen h..ve no skill at. HOMECRAFT IMPORTERS Three hours of writing 2348 West 4th Ave. Ph. 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Every minute of every day, the dollars uniiHUiil fashion pieces, singly «»r as a set. you give to the Red Cross are hanl at Oval Hroock, 5.00 Kin-rings; pair 2..r>0 work . . . saving Uvea, relieving suffer Miniature Locket mid Chain. 3.00 BIRKS ing, restoring minds ami bodies. Bracelet, $10.00 Fashion Jewellery Department KEEP YOUR RED CROSS READY I Citnuiliun Hi'ri Cross Satiety Vancouver Branch Granville at Georgia MA. K211 fessg^ Page Ten THE. UBYSSEY Saturday, March S, 1055 Dressmaking and Tailoring to your own SEMINARS TO SURVEYS individual suggestions. Parisian Ladies' Dress Shop Opposite Safeway en Tenth Avenue There's More To It "COME IN AND SEE OUR SEPARATES" Than Just Lectures By STANLEY BECK De Graff generator for nuclear physicists to Hour after hour of lecture' is perhaps the the disection of frogs for biologists. most common conception of academic life. As in all other courses as the student Nothing could be farther from the truth. advances the work advances and a science From the Faculty of Agriculture to the student may be doing research on his own Faculty of Law lectures form only a 'small by fourth year. betti ctf heAtcif part of a student's studies. Work outside the lecture room receives In the great majority of faculties lectures particularly heavy emphasis in the Commerce PHOTOGRAPHER serve only as the hub around which the wheel Faculty. of academic life revolves. A first year accounting student has an Essays, theses, term papers, book reports, assignment every week in addition to a cases, seminars, field trips, teaching, surveys, 'practise set'—an actual set of books of a projects, research and many other academic small business that must be kept up by the activities combine wiith lectures to form student and turned in at the end of the year. 2932 Granville CE 1314 the academic life of a university student. In the upper years of Commerce the Lectures play perhaps their largest part case system is relied on hsavily. Case books in the largest faculty—Arts and Science. go with such courses as corporate finance, But as any student who has earned his policy, budgeting, accounting, and market or her B.A. can testify, essays, book reports, ing and as much as 40% of a student's final term papers, field trips and theses are part grade may depend on his facility in handling and parcel of the degree. these actual problems of the business world. From the time the Arts student enters Engineers are kept so busy that if it first year English or History he is beset with weren't for their occasional escapades in dun GRAPHIC INDUSTRIES LTD. assignments of various natures. king freshmen or holding smokers the rest of By the time the Arts student reaches the student body wouldn't be aware of their 54 WEST HASTINGS ST. third year he has decided which subject he existence. is going to major in. If, for instance it is Crim Building scale models of such engineer inology a large part of his last two years will ing feats as the Cleveland Dam, surveying Vancouver 4, B.C. PA. 4174 be spent doing work in the field. around the campus, summer surveying trips, Research trips to Oakalla and the B.C. labs, year projects and research form the Penitentiary; interviews with inmates and greater part of an engineer's academic life. actual case studies and numerous research The young co-ed in Home Economics is papers plus a comprehensive graduating the so well trained she can't help but keep her sis plus lectures and discusion seminars pre future husband happy. sents a fairly accurate picture of the third Labs in cooking, washing, sewing, biol Compliments to the UBC on and fourth years of a student majoring in ogy, chemistry and interior decorating; re Criminology. search papers on such subjects as soap, mixers Their Open House And so it is with English, history, inter and the history of home economics; lectures national studes, philosophy, psychology and and numerous other assignments keep the numerous other Arts courses. co-eds busy for four full years. In the sciences, chemistry, physics, biol In Architecture it's the building of scale Granville Plastics and ogy, biochemistry, physiology and many oth models and endless projects. In Teacher ers, it is not unusual for more hours to be Training it's six weeks of actual teaching •Specialties ltd. spent on work outside than inside the lecture in city schools. In Pharmacy it's a fully equip room. ped drug store in the Biological Sciences An endless round of 'labs,' the bane a Building to simulate actual practise. budding scientist's existence, begin in first AncJ so it is in all faculties—a crowded 356 West 2nd Ave. Dl. 6737 year and end only with graduation. and diversified academic life in which lec Activities range from work with the Van tures play only a minor role. Ktlt. Cjilbett fymtt fait & Mitchell IT'S ALWAYS \\ OPEN HOUSE" Stuart Keate Arts '35 IN OUR NEWS COLUMNS Publisher FJUtJBCNEWSj Best Wishes Brue* Hutchison LL.D. (Brit. Col.) Birtoria Eailti ftitnea Editor Jaturday, March 5,1995 THE UBYSSEY Page Eleven JTUDYTBUGS' WANTED Canteen Manager—Fort Camp—Beginning '55 '5t term Mutt be Married UBC Student Apply to Secretary, Port Camp- Before Feb. 25. 1155 Stating ••• Some Burn Midnight Oil Qualifications By STANLEY BECK tious students devouring book verslty library is just too darn early. Wnen it comes to burning after book, making note after "We waste two whole hours midnight oil, UBC students note. of studying," complain eager To thc University . . . consume as much as anyone beavers. anywhere. It is not unusual to hear You'll find the study-boy , Every day and night of the some complain that the 10 buried in the Library stacks, EVERY SUCCESS week you will find conscien p.m. closing time of the uni* behind long rows of dusty, and some not so dusty, books. You'll see him bent over his bulging note book in the Li B.C. District Telegraph brary reserve room, loan desk room, or reading room, fur iously writing out by hand and Delivery Co. what he is reading by eye. You'll trip over him as you 355 Burrard St. MA. 4141 walk through the basement of the Library. He is sitting there with a sandwich in one hand, cigarette in the other, »Ti» "Open House" for all those who care and a book propped up in his I Oi how our youth, ar* today taught to fare; lap, reading, munching, and * This is your chance — to come and tea smoking. "Open House" at our UJB.C. Should you take a walk 'Tit not just tho buildings — tha old and tho now, around the campus you'll see Como out and tee — just what students do hordes of campus Joe's and There's wealth galore in all that they learn — Yes. this is a chance that on* shouldn't spurn. Jill's hunched over books in the many, old and dull, new Unlike days now past — whon a man could gain and shiny cars that spot the Whatovor heights that h* would attain. With a littl* learning — plus determination. landscape. Today on* must hav* — a good sound education Take the university bus to * the gates, and like as not you The tremendous advance since the jcentury turning. will be sitting next to a be Was only possible — through advanced learning* For an unlearned youth — no matter how smart — spectacled student busily read Without sound knowledge — cannot play his part. ing as he rides. But buildings alone — tho' equipped up-to-date, Time is too precious to Are nol what has made our U.B.C. Great waste: there are books to be 'Tit those who are teaching — and staff members loo. All working together — and a hard-working crew! read, essays to be written, lectures to be attended. Now — won't you come out — and see what you can L-JILV...ii, MUUI wilt nut allow a single distraction, so Students have to meet as Of modern-day training, of woman and man? this turtle-necked student munches on sandwich while rest The place is Wide Open — as will be your eyes — many deadlines as a news When you vision our youth aa TODAY'S ONLY PRIZE! of the world goes by. —Dolman Photo. paper reporter. BEST MIMEOGRAPH CO. LTD. 'LEARNERS FROM LIFE' PHOTOSTAT, SPIRIT, MIMEOGRAPH, LITHOGRAPH British Columbia's Only Complete Duplicating Plant! 151 West Hastings, Vancouver 3, B.C., TAtlow 3742 • •• Some, Both Candle Ends FOR 8 YEARS SUPPLIERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF By STANLEY BECK licensed premises of the Geor-< serpent like coffee line wind- ; BRITISH COLUMBIA OF: LAW CASE BOOKS, LAB gia Hotel, a pub, its habi ing down the aisle. i ORATORY MANUALS, GRAPH PAPERS, ETC. "We learn not in school, tues claim, also unparalleled but in life." said Seneca in in Canada, lend themselves to The same early morning ' the year 4. B.C. a great deal of learning from sight is seen in each faculty's Si And in the year W55 A.D. life. coffee house — Bleary eyed UBC students arc still busily students sit and stare, as they demonstrating the tru.h of the Or, if you prefer to be force down their coffee in ancient Roman's proposition. pedantic — wasting time out the Brock Hall snack bar, The At least that's what a stu of lectures and the library. Bus Stop, The Campus Cup dent engaged ih nothing more The cafeteria with its chica- board, and the War Memorial than idleness may claim to an ry flavoied coffee and spine Gym. indignant fees-paying parent splitting wire backed chairs —-"I am learning from life." is the hub of campus life. The bridge fanatics arrive The spaciousness of UllC'i Any iv.w»i.jig at 8:30 wili early in the morning, troop campus, unparalleled in Can find haL-:mply lecture rooms faithfully to Brock Hall's club rooms, remove tattered decks ada, plus the salubrious cli in thc Arts building and a SALUTES of cards from shiny loose- mate, plus the nearness of the jam-packed cafeteria with a leafs, pick their partners and play until it is time for their car pools to leave at 5 p.m. Day after day the bicker ing and bidding continues as U B. C. if Culber;son's was the only exam they had to pass. On sunny clays the idle ON THE OCCASION masquerade as nature lovers and stroll hand in hand or on its hands in pockets, as the case may be, around the campus. In late March as spring and exams approach the beauty TRIENNIAL of the Botanical Gardens is discovered anew as the 'learn ing from lile' continues in OPEN HOUSE earnest. But spring or fall, exams or midterm, the most diligent learning from life takes place in the dim but delightful Geor gia beer parlor. Here old friends become enemies and vice-versa, intel lectual problems of the high est pursuit are pursued, dis cussions on the lowest level fhuliti* are engaged in and one and ^^ MAKERS OF YOUR FAVORITE BISCUITS all allow the mellowness of (JAKkt'tiEE LOADING and small talk goes on all day in FOR OVER 75 YEARS a "brew" to ease thc weari the cafeteria where these students enjoy a co-ed's story. ness of the caf out of their —Dolman Photo bones. Page Twelve THE U^£**Si'Y Saturday, Marcfc », tMSt -i-^r zine By RAY LOGIE "Saturday Night," "Harp ventures out-lures politics. ers", "New Yorker" — the Poetry just doesn't sell. A When male studenls tire most obvious campus favor few heart throb magazines are of pouring over exacting text ites — however, are low on sold to women. Child care books they invariably turn to the reader's list at UBC. is confined to pretty well to rugged adventure epics for a Comic books are not sold the bookstore adjacent to mar rcBt. at the bookstores and thc. cam ried quarters. Women students stick true pus appears relatively barren to form by devouring the ac The fact that a healthy of them. cepted n a tional "women's stock of "Modern Brides" is The odd political paper or magazines." kept in one bookstore could leaflet is read by the more Three campus bookstores be indicitave of something politically conscious of stu catering to students' extra-cur about the women students at dents; but in the main, ad ricular reading, give evidence UBC . . . to the popularity of "men's magazines" among the males. "Saga" and "True" are ihe types of light reading UBC Students Find Fun students peruse. Next in line are the cheup paper-bound classics now be Outside The Gates ing sold at newsstands. By DOLORES BANERD place it with more efficient INTELLECTUAL SCHOLARS, typified by the reader "Life Magazine" and "Sat rick-shaws drawn by able urday Evening Post" rate a Three years ago a movement COTC'ers. pictured above, are well suplied with knowledgeable lit poor ihird with Mickey Spil was instigated by Les Armour, Needless to say, the move erature. Most popular magazine sold by students' book lane and his ilk following Ubyssey editor, to remove the ment failed. Tbe BCE an store include latest adventure and sex pulp. closely. BCE Varsity bus line and re- tiques still rumble up Chan cellor and probably will for many years to come. >FARLtJS' :0*DlCk v The UBC bus route is ap parently the .Valhalla for all buses which have endured the hardships of downtown travel. If the bus trip can be en dured, one can safely expect to stand-up to six hours of lec tures. However, from the man at the wheels point of view the Varsity bus line is definitely a paradise. As one driver explained, "The route isn't like those in some parts of town; where most of the passengers are feeling the pangs of old age. Rheumatism has indisposed them to such an extent, he added, "that most of the driv ers' time is spent in aiding the aged to mount the steps that "They didn't used to make so steep in the good old days." Out here it is exactly the opposite. Many the student has been nipped in the bud of a blossoming career by a door that closed before the final leap through the portals had been completed; The chivalrous knights of old have turned into a grim fairy tale. "Seldom," said a driver, "have I ever seen a male stu dent step aside and let a co ed enter first." The tradition of a seated TO THE student holding texts for one less fortunate, has also faded into the past. This, however, has not made any noticeable difference in the amount of space allotted UNIVERSITY per student per six cents. The Varsity gates would be unrecognizable without the usual throng of hitchhikers there each morning. pWJfL The hitchhikers increase as the warm weather arrnves. Most student budgets at this time, do not usually permit the extravagance of a six cc.'it EATON'S bus fare. FRANCES MURPHY DANCE SCHOOL BAyvlew 9421 Private Instruction Rhuinha - Tango - Samba Fox Trot - Waltz. Jive Old Time Beginners - Brush Up Advanced Courses If no answer CEdar 6878 Alma Hall. 3879 W. Bioadway Saturday, March 5,1955 THE UBYSSEY Paje Thirteen .HI l| ll » t, M'M' i— mm? ...i.-.m. ,..v,**n *•; A?»V. "• * Dims Fine Foods Mellow Whip Ice Cream 10th & Sasamat ALma 2596 * 38 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, ITS FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES. THERE'S A REASON STATIONERY AND PRINTING CO. LTD. POPULAR HANGOUT and traditional for UBC students RELIEF FROM lectures and library can be found by book- '"ONt PAc !< Ol 71 is Georgia beer parlor, known to habitues as The Pub. weary students at places like Wreck Beach, where this 103S Seymour St., Groups discuss everything but lecturers over a glass of pretty co-ed lets her hair tumble in spring sunset. Vancouver. B.C. suds. —Dolman Photo -r^Polman Photo Hangouts Beckon At Lectures' End QoinqJvodtuta^kA and £ut WIA/UA By JEAN WHITESIDE perhaps, is he popular Geor gia pub, where almost every Everyone has hi.s favorite campus meeting ends up. FOR THE SUCCESS OF YOUR OPEN HOUSE hangout, and UBC students Even Student Council has are no exception. As soon been known to adjourn there. as classes are over, (and ON MARCH 5, 1955 On Saturday night every sometimes when they're not,) one goes to the Commodore everyone tries to get as far Cabaret where nearly all big from away from lectures as pos campus dances are held. sible. But for a whole weekend, And everyone k n o w s nothing can beat a party Dean's Cafe and Nick's Grill, "up the hill" at the VOC ski B. C. Equipment Co. Ltd. where students go after a lodge on Moun: Seymour. visit to Wreck Beach or UBC students are notor TRACTOR DIVISION: 306 Industrial Ave. MAIN OFFICE: 551 Howe St. Spanish Banks, which take ious of course with the good over where Mount Seymour people of Bellingham, who, MArine 4441 Vancouver, B.C. MArine 2511 left off at the end of the ski many times have mourned ing season. the loss of The Leopold Hotel More a part of the cam after a UBC football invasion pus than ny lecture room weekend. MacDonald's Prescriptions Ltd, Medical-Dental Bldg. YOUR HOUSE is OPEN Professional Pharmecutical Service EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR FREE CITY OELIVERY And Every Day of the Year the UBC Alumni Association BEST WISHES TO THE U.B.C. FROM Seeks to Serve All Former Students and All Friends of the University. WELCOME TO OPEN HOUSE J. R. WILLIAMS & SON ASSAYING AND ORE TESTING Come Over to the Brock - Room 201 - Rest Your Feet ond Hove A Cup of Tea Metallurgical Work Exclusively and Ut Us Have Your Address If You're a 'Lost Soul' 580 Nelson St. MA 5821 »„*•* Page Fourteen THE UBYSSEY Saturday, March 5,1955 ut i^iuunui un an assignee! trequency the Kadio Society EDITORIAL RUMBLINGS can be heard night and day in Brock basement as students provides mid-day music for the Brock Hall lounge, put out The Ubyssey in one of most time-con suming extra-curricular activities. —Dolman Photo —Dolman Photo. SASAMAT CABS Art To Zoology, Over 60 Alma 2400 ALMA'S COMMUNITY TAXI Clubs Cover Any Interest 24-Hour Service 10th and Trimble By ARCHIE Mac RAE clubs for soliciting member cil is usually cutting UCC's The much maligned Ameri ship. budget and enlarging the can housewife would find "Club Day" invariably Men's Athletic budget. And so UBC close to her idea of para turns into a three-ring circus. at each fall general meeting dise — there are more clubs What with barkers, tumbling the student body is asked than she could join. exhibits and dance routines, settle the hassle. UBC, for a day at least pays For Ihe approximately 4000 The largest clubs on the Munshaw Colour Service Ltd. tribute to Barnum's genius. students who are active in campus are the Players club, Each active club is allotted 3233 HEATHER STREET some campus club or organiza Mamooks, Musical Society, a yearly budget by the Uni tion the big problem is choice. Mock Parliament, United Na VANCOUVER, B.C. versity Club Committee. Bud Sixty clubs, covering every tions Club and the Varsity gets range from a liberal $50 avocation in the book, govern Outdor Club. ed by the University Clubs to a conservative $5. Extend Congratulations to the University Committee and numerous oth But you can't please every Mamooks are responsible for er organizations, exist on cam body and it is the unusual club the multitude of signs which For Their Open House pus. that doesn't ask for more mon decorate the campus. Profes Early each September dur ey. Which in return leads to sional instruction is offered to ing the traditional "Frosh UCC asking Students Council anyone who has the talent Week," a day is alotted to for more money. But Coun- and time in air brush tech nique, silk screen painting and oils. Mock Parliament enables the campus political clubs to sound off without making nuisances of themselves. House of Common conditions are simulated and the club meets four times a year, to al low five polictical clubs — Liberal, Conservat.ve, CCF1., Social Credit, and LPP — to form a government. Through weekly meetings and many planned activities the United Nations Club simu lates interest in world affairs, The UN program during the year includes staging an UN model general assembly, UN day on campus and a UN regional conference in Brock Hal! as well as the presenta tion of numerous prominent speakers. Radio Society has thousands of dollars of equipment — enough in fact to enable them to run a broadcasting station •.C. ILICTRIC is busy these days In the rugged mountain on an assigned frequency. Rad country north and west of Harrison Hot Springs on a $9,200,000 soc members hope the day is project which will provide an alternate route for Jinking the not tar away when they will become the Radio and Tele Lower Mainland with its largest single source of electricity— vision Society. Bridge River's 248,000 horsepower. This 2nd Bridge River Line is one more step in a continuing B. C. Electric program to bring you plenty of low-cost electricity and to safeguard your service, Aptitude Testing JOHN W. A. FLEURY Personnel Consultant, Industrial Psychologist 606 Stock Exchange Building TA. 7748 trmmmMn\l)tim r««^«1»1f*Sfi Y Page Fifteen AUTONOMY AND ENTEftPWSE Progressive : By VAL; HAIG-BBOWN AMS fees. charge of the College Shop The Co-ordin?.tor of Activi Also on Council are the Scc The AMS executive is the which sells Student insighia ties has the Job of co-ordinat retary, the Presiden. of the' 3N»e*'iref «nterprisfr means Student Council which is ••and-:; srtaor >aia>Mer- 'items, as ing hundreds of bookings for Women's -UndergracUt to So-> to the businessman, student ejected •aeh year in Febru weli as Aitt^*egiu»r vice-presi campus functions. cieties and the First and Sec-V atftanomy means to UBC. ary by the members of the dential duties. The- Presidcntof the Men's ond Members-at-Large who as-' Society, End Women's Athle ic Associa sist the Council in a general Students have been fight The treeswer of the Soci 1 ing, arguing, and debating for The Student Council is com ety administers a yearly bud tions also jit on the Stude.it capacity. Tiie First Member and about self-government prised of twelve elected and get of nearly SiOOOOO. Council and tre responsible also has the Job of managing!* from 4ime immemorial. And two appointed members. The President of the Uni for all athletic activities. all Homecoming activi.ies. UBC has achieved it .to its The first of these is the versity Club* Committee is The Chairman of the Under Thc first of the eppointed graduate Societies Commitee members of Student Council fullest extent. President who presides at responsible io--the Student ; Student affairs are govern meetings, is an ex-officio mem Council for -tbe activities of co-ordinates the activities of is the Public Relations Of- ed by the Alma Mater Soci ber of all Society committees nvxc,r sixty campus clubs. His the Undergraduate Societies, ficer and the other is thp Edi ety, an association of which and undertakes all other nor committee is composed of each of which is composed of tor-in-Chief of the Publica all -students become members mal presidential duties. seven councils in which clubs members of a single faculty tions Board. Both of these on 'payment of ihe compulsory The Vice-President is in of similar aims Rre united. or school. are ex-officio Student' Council lors. The Council each year ap points a student court to deal with the matter of discipline. This court has he power to levy f'wve dollar fines or nis- pcr.d AMS priviled3es of of fenders. It can also rmko re commendations to the Faculty Council Committee on Student Affairs. • UNIQUE Where Else Is Noon So Essentia!? By ROD SMITH i UBC may have the finest setting of any North American universnyi but its most unique feature is the noon hour lec ture. In a manner unknown any where else students munch their lunches and listen -to disserctions by renowned poli tical leaders, downtown busi nessmen, and even t;.e odd professor — pressured into At Trail, B.C.'s biggest furnaces burn the year rounu ... We feed donating a little of his time for free. them concentrates and coke, btast the charge with compressed air Perhaps the most im and melt, out over 450 tons of lead a day. portant feature of the-e sc •; At Trail, Cominco smelted Canada's first lead ... built the world's sions is the fact that they give first electrolytic lead refinery... and today B.C.'s biggest furnaces students a chance to absovb smelt 99% of the nation's refined lead. the challenging cul.ural social and polictical ideas implied in thc word "'university." TAO/\M/\0 BRAND LEAD SERVES YOU*. For the average student is rarely offered really stimulat ing material in his lectures. IN TRANSPORTATION—Tetraethyl lead is In the fuel of Too much emphasis must nec essarily be placed on back modern, high-compression engines. Lead is also essential ground and history. Lucra to automobile storage batteries and to manufacture of tive is never as live on the rubber tires. printed page as when spoken or read. But over the course of the winter, undergrads are offer ed poets like W. H. Auden, or IN COMMUNICATION—Lead sheathing protects telephone in the past, Dylan Thomas, and power cables, assuring uninterrupted service to homes, reading their own work. Th? farms and industry. Julliard string quar.ei and Suzzane Block perform in act mission free concerts, and Drama workshop groups pro duce the work of Shaw, Shakespeare and Sophocles. IN OTHER FIELDS—Lead is an important element in the glass Credit for these outsand- of TV picture tubes. It serves as a stabilizer in certain plastics. ing presentations must be It is an ingredient in high grade paints. It provides a safety shared. The University itself, shield against radiation in production of atomic energy. the Special Even's inmni'ltee. (responsible for most of the big names in Drama and Mus ic), the Parliamentary Forum, and the 70-odd campus clubs and societies working indi vidually c o m b i n e t o fill a real cultural vacuum in North American education. As one enthused student THE CONSOLIDATED MINING fk SMELTING COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED put it, "Those lectures are an education in themselves." Page Sixteen THE UBYSSEY Saturday, March 6,10J Expert physcologlsts now agree that Czar Nicholas II of WENCHING. DRINKING, GAMING 0 CCVIMA With Jks Russia, who murdered over two million people, was basically insecure. Sin Skulks In Corners V MP 1 By RAY LOGIE ation of lounge lizards. theivery there is a more in The Dean of Women regis nocent — and ubiquitous —t DRAUGHTING Frowning on the sinning tered the same complaint with form of petty theivery exist I Ml A ways of UBC students has al regards to Womens' residences ing on campus. That is the INSTRUMENTS ways been popular with Mr. rapid disappearance ot any raoH 110.00 last year. OffaAA. -- and Mrs. John Q. Citizen — But the most illegal semi- text book left lying around T-SQUAREI. PROTRACTOR! but they can hardly be blam open sinning occurs on cam unguarded for more than ten • A GOOD SET SQUARE! ed. pus during the many annual minutes. Downtown papers long ago dances. Few are the students that recognized the reader appeal INCOME MECHANICAL ENGINEER! The university constitu pass through these portals AND furnished by student carous tion specifies a "dry" campus without "losing" fat least one • ROOM TO POIYPHAfE ELIDE RULE! ing. at all times. tex. book. The infamous UBC engin However, in practise this Embarassed lecturers at the eers play no small part in RISE ZIPPER RING BOOK! Complete with Sheets and creating this aura of sinful Index ness drawn around he univer • A SECURE sity student. 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BANK or MONTREAL The Secretory of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, MERLE C. KIRBY Manager 602 Stock Exchange Building PA. 32S4 Your Bank on !h# Campus... In the Auditorium Buildiaa WOtKINO WITH CANADIAN! IN CVtSV WAIK OF UFI SINCE 111/ HURRY— The 1955 University Courses Commence rn Mid May Saturday, March S, 19S5 THE UBYSSCY Page Seventeen FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES Greeks Influential- The Canadian Bank of Commerce For Good or Evil? takes pleasure in congratulating the Faculty, by SANDY ROSS Teachers and Student Body on their note The Greek Letter Societies, which are probably the most worthy progress during the past three years. influential organization on the This bank now has two branches in the Uni campus, are certainly the most controversial. And they prom versity Area to serve you, conveniently located ise to remain so for a long time. at . . . Greek Letter Societies for the information of the uniniti ated, are fraternal organiza tions for University student* The fraternity movement be gan in the Southern United States about a century ago, and is now so strong that few North American campi are 5796 University Blvd. and 10th & Sasamat without them. G. C. Hull R. E. McKinnon Many Greeks praise their Manager Manager organizations as arsenals of democracy and brotherhood, and strongholds of the Canad J ian way of life, which provide a healthy Christian environ ment for the lad* at university and instill in him a sensibility to the fner things of life. The fraternity man, it is said, quick ly acquires a dazzling veneer The B.C. Corps of Commissionaires of social poise, and immedi FRATERNITY LIFE surrounds & student with a sound, ately gains profitable business healthy environment and a feeling of real companionship, contacts, a stable outlook on life, and about forty-two life according to fraternity members. The fraternity house is Congratulations to the University long friends. their "home away from home." On the other hand, much racial and religious discrimina from the National organization. criticism levelled at fraterni tion. Up to a few years ago, And this no UBC chapter is ties and sororities range from most fraternities had clauses in willing to do; the fraternity charges of neo - fascism and their constitutions which re comes first. white supremacy to the widely- Commissionaires' Service Available—PA. 7626 stricted membership to "male Instead, UBC fraternities held conception of a worthless, Christians, of full aryan blood." well-dressed crew of lazy want to remove the clauses by slow, constitutional methods drunkards living off Daddy's Today, all but three fraterni while external pressure—such money, with nothing more ties at UBC have succeeded in as the Ubyssey exerts—forces pressing on their minds than removing the offensive clauses, them to take a stand one way the party on Saturday night. but in their stead, a subtler device is used: "gentleman's or the other. A recent Inter- Both extremes are equally agreements." By this technique, Fraternity Council discrimina silly, and as usual, the truth the clauses do not appear in the tion survey was indicative of BEDFORD'S lies severely mangled, some-, constitution, but are secretly their attitude to discrimination; where in between. maintained by a tacit agree its approach was timid, but its YOUR HOBBY SHOP To be sure, fraternities do ment between all chapters that recommendations were sound. represent the more conserva no non-aryans will be admitted. It revealed that many greeks— 518 Seymour St. Vancouver tive elements of campus opin It would be hard to conceive but still too few—are sincerely ion; greeks are more well-to- of a more hypocritical, more interested in removing the of do than the average University contemptible practise. It is fensive clauses. And in time, student. Bu< at UBC at least, not known how many UBC it is hoped, all vestiges of un the era of the fraternity play fraternities are bound by these fair discrimination will be re* boy who spends his summers agreements, but it is a certain moved. COMPLIMENTS OF ty that some of them are. in Europe, or clipping coupons Meanwhile. Greeks continue in Daddy's bank is just about At UBC, Greeks are unani to function as the most power over. The average Greek to mous in publicly voicing their ful faction on campus. They day spends his summers in disapproval of the clauses: they continue to make themselves the same way as his "independ Hewer Hardware claim that their hands are tied useful through philanthropies ent" fellow student; working in —$2000 for Multiple 6clerosis 4459 West 10th Ave. AL. 1552 since the Southern chapters a mill or logging camp to pay have more votes at their Gen each year, plus various scholar his University — and fraterni eral Conventions. But this ships and projects—and by pro ty — fees for the coming year. amounts to merely paying lip viding accommodation for several hundred students. And Greeks are not wholly service to nondiscriminatory concerned with what is tact principles: for if fraternities But good or bad, they cannot fully described as the "social sincerely opposed discrimin side of University" — mean be ignored: the Greeks are here Best Wishes for o Successful ation, they would merely secede to stay. ing weekend bashes at the - Open House Commodore and mid - week bashes at the fraternity house Today's fratman is at least BEST WISHES FROM equally concerned with getting through his courses; indeed, he instrument Services Laboratories Ltd. might well be accused of being a pretty dull fellow. Stability, Imperial Optical Company Ltd. 21 W. Broadway EM. 3361 not frivolity is stressed in Fra ternities today, and as a result, WHOLESALE OPTICAL LABORITORIES most Greeks are models of con Toronto, Canada formity, They are eager to make their BRANCHES THROUGHOUT CANADA mark in the world of business —most of them major in Com RuAkant merce—and common sense, and sound business principles Photographer and Camera Sales are their highest virtues. COMPLIMENTS OF 453« West 10th Ave. JACK RUSHANT Sorority girls, of course are (Opposite Saiowav) ALma 2404 something else again. With a few notable exceptions, they're i You may never graduate again .. • all uot to catch a man before CAMPBELL AND GRILL LTD. they graduate. 124 West 16th Ave. KEEP IT WITH A PORTRAIT Most criticism of fraternities centers around the question of JT3T Page Eighteen THE UBYSSEY Saturday, March 5,193 HE RUNS, watched by thousands, as the autumn sun COMPARISON AND CONTRAST smiles on another opening game of a UBC football season. There is glor;y, joy, drama, sorrow, and very few wins. But there's always next year.—John Robertson photo. We Have The Big Man e • e The world of sport is a be taken with a grain ot salt, of them become executives of strange thing. and need qualification. those committees and often And most of that strange But there Is still a sort of dis they wind up with a seat on ness comes from the very var tinction about, UBC sports. It's students' council. iety which surrounds athletics. not a class distinction, and there Any generalizations which are many variations which Even if they do not go that one could make pertaining to confuse the distinction, but cer far, they are always noticeable SPORTS EDITOR - KEN LAMB the various sports and the dif tain types of athletes in cer about the campus, strolling ferent athletes in them must tain sports have a tendency to through the library, drinking definitely run to form. coffee in the cafeteria or the Take the football and basket Brock, or merely striding • e e ball players, esnccially those along, conspicuous because We Have The SmaH Man their faces are known. The. other type of athlete of the Thunderbird, or number one, teams. then, and here too the general It is an interesting problem. ization musi have some quali The majority of the players Are they wheels, moving in the fication, must be the "little belong to one or another of the wheels' clrcV*. beca&se they man" of athletics. fraternities. Many of them be play the big time sports, or do These men who play the long to various committees on they play the big time sports minor sports, often with more the campus. because they would be success but less publicity than Sooner or later a number '"wheels" anyway? the "big men", often work just as hard, and practice jusl as long. In contrast to the more lial-: VISIT OUR lowed athletes, they seem to keep out of the business and VANCOUVER STORE social campus whirl. Instead, they devote most of at their time to their studios, off- campus activities, and their 560 Richards Street sport. Like the 1 one 1 y runner for alongside, Ihey often practice by merely running to keep in shape. DRAWING MATERIALS The picture could just have been easily taken on Ihe grass ARTISTS' SUPPLIES of university boulevard, and would have presented a scene CUDyFVINft IMTPIEMFNTS outgoing students see every day, lliat of sweat-suit clad figure jo;;oin'.>, along tiie t.fi ZEISS MICROSCOPES miles from the campus to the gates. Some of them run long REPRODUCTION SERVICE hours, in any kind of weather, ^pounding along just to be in THE condition for a single event,' or for a weekly game which has no great spectator satis HUGHES-OWENS 1 faction, but only personal satis- COMPANY LIMITED faction. Vancouver - Edmonton - Winnipeg - Hamilton - HE RUNS alone In them the ancient idea—of sport—still seems to have a Toronto - Ottawa - Montreal - Halifax -Brian Thomas photo. root. Saturday, March 5,1955 THE UJBYSSEY Page Nineteen We're Not Patriotic, We Lose, But We Still Hope By KEN LAMB UBC entered the Evergreen basketball schedule, because Conference not only to play the States' colleges do not shut Spring, 1916. football but to engage in bas down till June, extend beyond UBC's student body, confi ketball, swimming, golf, tennis, our May 1 closure, and we can dent in the prowness of its take part only in exhibition football team, and disgrunt series. led with the Western Inter Then we come to football collegiate Football League, and basketball—the two major which was becoming both too sports of the conic, enee, the expensive and too disinter- two sports that attract the esting, passed a motion to largest crowds, and the two enter the Evergreen Confer sports the conference schools ence. use to pay for their athletic Thc Western League, with budgets. the los-; of Manitoba, had de generated to the three team And it so happens to be in league of Alberta. Saskatche these two particular sports that wan, and UBC The games were UBC is, to use a trite but •fit poorly attended, and the Thun ting expression, the league derbirds were having little doormat. Every year we have trouble cleaning up the opposi managed to finish at the bot tion. tom in both sports, though in basketball last year we at least With travel costs steadily ris had company in the form of ing, thc trips had become more Western Washington. and more expensive, and the gates had failed to pay tor the , And occasionally we win a expenditure. The players, be football game. cause of thc long trips, bad been losing valuable study This spring n referendum time. was given to the students, ask ing them if they would be in The basketball team was al favour of rejoining the old ready playing in an American Canadian league, at a cost of conference, and not only play ing, but running away with it. $6 per student. They voted The American schools were two to one against the idea. much closer—the expense and Pro:;.-\bly most of them voted travelling time would be great because of the cost, for stu VARIETY. The Harlot Globetrook rs (ali.s the Jokers dents, being among the poor ly reduced. Club) meet the engineer* in intramural basketball. est of the members of tiie Most people concerned with economy. athletics were confident UBC Our foo'.ball gates were also a* a real Canadian collegiate power when they held Toronto could hold its own in the . , . AND some other team* Those who profess to be in small, though the deficiency to a 5-3 win and could have American league, and decided the know, and who walk in the was made partially by a sus just as easily won. there would be little difficulty track, and baseball. The golf, circles of the supposed pected cause of poor gates — in adapting from Canadian to swimming, and tennis, we have "wheels" were actually sur television. We still think our basket American football rules. won a lot more of than we've prised when as many students Even the Kovemb er 2 0 ball team is the best in Canada. lost. The conference track and So the decision was made. voted in favour of the motion. games with the University of The Canadian champs last j They had expected a virtual Toronto drew a disappointing year were the Winnipeg Paul- I tidalwave of balloting opposi- gallery. ins. But the Golden Bears of ! tion. the University of Alberta, the And so it has gone this year. strongest the university ever Best Wishes to the University j But they were also surprised The athletic budget has ap had, beat the Paulins. at the little response to proached a deficit. The sports from the vote shown by down that should have been making And wfcat did the Thunder towners. Because it is the money failed to make enough. birds to to the Bears? It may outside attendance than can There is only one real reme be past history, but we still , make or break the athletic dy, and that is increased in gloat a little over how easily Addressograph-Multigraph budget, those of us interested terest from the public. they took them to the cleaners, in sports are always watching which by some calculation However, before we can, ex- the barometer of public opin v would set us up as Canadian pect that, we must provide ion. champs. of Canada Lid. something to interest the pub In th»s case, however, it lic. But we still can win many didn't even make a bubble, games (2 this year) in the con 525 W. Georgia St. Vancouver, B.C. either up or down. Could it And there is nothing to ference. Of course, we can be, we thought, that the sports arouse public interest like win still hide behind the hackneyed fafis have lost interest in our ning teams. A look at our ''well, it's the toughest small athletic endeavours? Has our basketball and fooiiiall Ever college loop in the USA" sob. poor record in the major sports green Conference record won't but even at that we're not so lost the interest of the down find many of those. fond of taking the easy way town people But it's not as though those out. It might be. The basketball teams are bad. On the con crowds have been some of the trary, we feel they're pretty Nor do we warn, to give up smallest in years, especially good. It's just that the confer while we're down, and quit the paying kind. Many of the ence is too tough. the conference. The first thing •few hundred spectators have Our rower's record speaks to happen would be a lower been there on passes given out for itself. The football team ing of standards. We mi^ht win to attract interest in our sport redeemed much of it's lost a lot more games, but we'd lose and hope to build up crowds. honour and established itself a lot more pride. •\ INTERNATIONAL RUGBY OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE XV vs. U.B.C. 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