Res pres threatened, quits By MARCUS GEE to vandalize his room and his car. 'You better leave your room locked house in Langley Dec. 5, he said. Vanier residence council to im­ A former Place Vanier Gibbs said when word spread if you know what's good for you'," - "I decided I couldn't stay in peach him for neglect of his duties Residence Association president around Vanier that he was walking he said. residence with my personal was a secondary factor in his Wednesday claimed threats to his This harassment and "a general belongings threatened. Enough decision to resign. person and property drove him to AUCE president suspended feeling of antagonism towards me" people were making it rough for The impeachment move was tied resign his post and move off Strike settled, page 9. drove Gibbs to resign as PVRA me." to strong anti-union sentiments campus. president and move to his parents' Gibbs said a move by the Place See page 2: STRIKE Michael Gibbs said students AUCE picket lines, he received the angered by his support of the threats by telephone, letters and striking Association of University notes left on his door. and College Employees threatened "Certain kids said things like

Illiteracy ** high again For the second straight year, a position to the tests in the English large proportion of first year UBC department, but the test was students have failed a simple reinstated last year under pressure literacy exam. from other faculties, most notably A source within the English sciences. department told The Ubyssey The source said many English Wednesday between 40 and 50 per 100 instructors resent the fact that cent of students writing the exam, English 100 curriculums are being failed. English 100 chairman changed to put more emphasis on Jonathan Wisenthal Wednesday the teaching of basic English, said final results have not yet been which they feel should be taught in tabulated, but said the 40 to 50 per high schools. The course has cent figure was "not far off." changed from being an in­ troduction to literature to being a Last year, 38.5 per cent of first scapegoat for the poor background year students failed a similar in English grammar students exam, touching off a huge con­ receive in secondary school. troversy on the ability of present However, instead of solving the education methods of teaching problem, he said, English 100 has; students English in high school. become ''a huge bureaucratic The anonymous source told The nightmare." Ubyssey that there is much op­ See page 2: FAILURE Robinson quits board over AUGE treatment By RALPH MAURER handled the contract negotiations Svend Robinson, who ended a with the Association of. University lengthy career as a student and College Employees, both politician at UBC when he resigned before and after the union mem­ his board of governors' post in bers voted in late November to December, took a few shots strike. Wednesday at the attitudes of "I have an attitude of complete students who crossed picket lines disgust with the response of during the recent strike of library students as a whole to the strike. and clerical workers. "This was typified by shouted Robinson said he was disgusted insults at the people in the picket with the response of "con­ line, throwing water bombs at temptible" students toward the them, speeding in cars toward the strikers and people who supported picketers and being generally the strike, and said it was one unsympathetic to people on the reason why he resigned his board picket lines. position. "Their response to students who —doug f teld photo The other reason, he said, was supported the strike is equally WEIRD SPACE MONSTER deposited itself outside Freddy Wood Theatre recently and took in surroundings that he was disgusted over the way contemptible," he said. "This is while sipping extra large martini obtained at faculty club. Strange visitor proved it was resourceful alcoholic the university administration See page 8: ROBINSON when administration president Doug Kenny's bar bill showed marked increase. If you can't afford fo send your kids to university Before Christmas The Ubyssey put their victory and appointments political process in B.C. through its had planned a major supplement into perspective. policies of polarization and corrupt examining the issues in the Dec. 11 sell them What follows is an edited version practices; and it has demonstrated provincial election. We had of The Ubyssey team's report: ". . .an inability to comprehend the plannedto look at the vote in terms As misfortune and a landslide The joint switch by Pat McGeer technological industry which will of the political climate around the Socred victory would have it, the and Garde Gardom from the shape our future." province as well as taking an, in- two turncoat Liberals running in Liberals to Social Credit may be The Socred attitude toward depth look at the Vancouver Point the Point Grey riding landed in the seen as one of many recent party social policy was exemplified, Grey riding which includes the cabinet. Garde Gardom is the new affiliation changes. However, the claims McGeer, by its attitude UBC campus. attorney-general and Pat McGeer, case of Gardom and McGeer is toward education. While the Mc­ Unfortunately the Association of formerly a strong Socred critic, is unique because in 1972 Pat McGeer Donald Report (1962) and the University and College Employees the education minister and published a book in which both Economic Council of Canada strike forced us to cancel that president of the Insurance Cor­ McGeer and Gardom thoroughly (1965) were pointing to the urgent issue. poration of B.C. condemned Social Credit. need to increase funding of However, one article which was The Ubyssey had assigned Tony In McGeer's Politics in Paradise universities in B.C. ". . .the Social prepared is perhaps even more Toth, Bob Diotte and Herman Bak- three highly critical observations Credit government continued to significant now in light of the vis to look at the contest in Point about Social Credit are made: express views that were more in election results and the subsequent Grey. They came up with some according to McGeer Social Credit keeping with a previous century. cabinet appointments by new interesting information about both is incapable of developing modern Year after year Premier W. A. C. premier Bill Bennett. Gardom and McGeer which might social policy, it has debased the See page 5: FORMER CALCULATOR REPAIRS BLACK & LEE FREE ESTIMATES TUX SHOP REASONABLE RATES Strike supporters hit NOW AT 4861 KINGSWAY liaison committee while walking on From page 1 munication between himself and CAL-Q-TRONICS 1110 Seymour St. the picket lines. among residence council members the council. He also denied he was 434-9322 688-2481 which turned against him when he unavailable during the strike. "She just threw herself at me decided to support the striking "I never had any impression and beat me, screaming and library and clerical workers, he they wanted to get rid of me yelling. It is hard to believe people said. earlier. The strike became an can react so bitterly." Gibbs claimed his decision to "There were people on the issue. Steaks - Pizza • Spaghetti - Lasagna - Ravioli - Rigatoni - Chicken "They felt I was involved in a support AUCE was made as an Lobster - Ribs council who expressed the opinion individual and not as PVRA the union was no good, and they conflict of interest since, in their KITS - DUNBAR - PT. GREY DOWNTOWN - WEST END minds, the strike was against president. He denied ever trying to OPEN OPEN had harassed picketers. If I had not use his position to convince Mon. - Triurs. been part of that strike I would still students and since I was president 4:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m. Mon. - Thurs. and supported the strike I was students to support the AUCE Fri. - Sat. 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m. be president of Place Vanier." strikers. 4:00 p.m. - 4:00 a.m. Fri. - Sat. But residence council member against students." Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m. "I didn't say a damn thing about 4:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. Sunday Bob Salkeld said Wednesday Gibbs said he was amazed at the 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. "there is no correlation what­ strong anti-union feeling in Place supporting the union but word got 738-9520 688-5491 Vanier during the seven-day around that I support the union or 738-1113 1359 Robson soever between his (Gibbs) after people saw me on the picket 3618 W. Broadway resignation and the strike." strike. He said some Vanier W. VANCOUVER CHARGEX — residents who supported AUCE lines." MASTER CHARGE Salkeld claimed there was a Gibbs said in the aftermath of his 1SS2 Marine Drive "communication gap" between were harassed for their position 926-8521 resignation he is disappointed with Dining Lounge II Facilities - Take Out or Home Delivery Gibbs and the council all term. and also considered moving out of the residence. residence students but not bitter Late delivery call Vi hour before closing time." He said the council set up an about their antagonist attitude impeachment committee because "The majority were outwardly against the union, I am afraid it is toward him. Gibbs was "unavailable" during "At the time I was very bitter. I the strike to perform his duties as a majority feeling." Gibbs said he was jeered and liked living in Place Vanier for the president. last two and a half years. But I "I felt he was not providing ef­ catcalled when he tried to explain his position to about half of couldn't face the fact someone fective leadership," Salkeld said. hated me because of what I did." But Gibbs described his Vanier's residents in the residence cafeteria. He also said he was Residence students' hostility 3.00-1^.30 relationship with the council before toward AUCE is either an ex­ the strike as "great" and said physically attacked by the president of the Gage towers pression of right-wing upper class — 4 l-oo— there was no lack of com­ attitudes among students or a general anti-union feeling, Gibbs said. Pressures to conform may also Failure rate hit have created the anti-union feeling in Vanier, he said. "The residence structure is very OLK as 'perturbing' complicated and people have to JttD.9 bend to certain guidelines. A lot of 4*** From page 1 academic credit, and the source people in responsible positions showed anti-union feeling." Currently, the education faculty implied that this is as much as the featuring Gavin Walker is the only one requiring further English department should be composition courses for expected to do. u)a. asfc graduation. Other departments Wisenthal was perturbed by the Special: have no such requirements and the high failure rate of students entire task of teaching students writing the exam. "It shouldn't be proper composition has fallen to that high," he said, adding that it pctfo^acri English 100. shows "there is something wrong Jani5 somewhere" in the educational As early as five years ago, the system. fifed**<\* **4 «*•*«& 'VTOHA: source said, the science faculty Jon.25 was pressuring the English This year's test consisted of two department for higher standards. sections, an essay and a paragraph 0& They eventually threatened to structure exercise. It is marked by APPOINTMENT SERVICE create their own department for a committee of professors and if teaching composition. As this there is any doubt about the ability 731-4191 would probably cause a sizable of the exam writer, it is forwarded Jan.30 cutback in the English department to another committee for a second budget and staff, the English reading. 3644 West 4th Avenue Students who fail the exam have department reluctantly agreed to At Alma hold the literary test and teach a chance for a rewrite in April. If more composition in English 100. they do not pass this test or the April rewrite they automatically The source, said he felt one fail English 100. successful feature of English 100 Wisenthal said one of the results VANCOUVER SyMpllONy ORCHESTRA has been the remedial sections. In of the first test last year has been a the first English class of the year, creation by UBC senate of a students write a diagnostic essay. compulsory grammar test for If they fail this essay they are grade 12 students in B.C. planning placed in a section that con­ to enter UBC the following fall. He centrates exclusively on grammar. said this exam, when it is finally This two-hour a week course is introduced, will contribute to a taken in addition to the regular lower failure rate in the English English 100 course. It carries no 100 literacy test. •••••••••••••••••••••• Submarines 1 The Pit Pizza Ice Cream goes The duMaurier Pops Fabulous Opening Concert Where ? DISCO i HERBIE MANN FOR and the Falhily of Mann in concert with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and January! i world-renowned Pops conductor Richard Hayman January 12, 13 & 14—8:30 P.M. Sat. Nites $4 - $7.50 8:00 p.m. - Midnight $1.50 off for students and seniors on the supplement Tickets available Tickets: at Vancouver Ticket Centre (630 Hamilton Street) and outlets Co-op Bookstore • All Eaton's stores Box Office before performances and the Information Desk* du Maurier Pops series tickets still available from the Ticket Central ••••• Thursday, January 8, 1976 • Ilk w Quasi cop gets slap on wrist

ByNANCY SOUTHAM that: The second incident involved a and the fact that the windows of the As a result of the report, A UBC patrolman has been • quasi-cops be reminded of student who was brushed by a cab were steamed over. fluorescent strips have been placed reprimanded and action to im­ their responsibilities; quasi-cop truck in the crosswalk at The committee concluded there on the sides and fronts of the cars. prove lighting on campus has been • two quasi-cops be present at or Main Mall and University was no reason to doubt that the Also, a bell has been installed on taken as a result of two incidents in near gatherings such as the Tea Boulevard on Oct. 29. incident took place, "but was the cars to warn pedestrians when the vehicles approach. October involving the university Cup game; and The report stated the quasi-cop unable to decide that a higher patrol and students. • plastic sheets be carried in degree of blame be attached to one As for the lighting on campus confirmed he was in the area at the crosswalks, it will be "improved, The two moves were recom­ patrol vehicles. time, but "was not aware of any party than the other." mended to Chuck Connaghan, UBC It was noted that the last two In this incident, the committee hopefully in February" Connaghan such occurance, but admits it was said in an interview Wednesday. vice-president for administrative recommendations are standard possible." recommended that consideration services, in a report written by a policy but were not enforced the be given to improving the visibility Connaghan also said $41,000 has committee set up to investigate the day of the Tea Cup incident. The report further states the of patrol vehicles by the use of been allocated for lighting in 18 quasi-cop incidents. A written reprimand, which will quasi-cops failure to see the fluorescent strips and that lighting critical areas on campus and that The five-member committee go on his record, was given to the student could be explained by the be improved on campus, par­ physical plant will begin "almost headed by Dr. Archie Johnson, unnamed quasi-cop. weather conditions, the darkness, ticularly at crosswalks. immediately" to install it. director of UBC Health Services, investigated both incidents and completed its report Dec. 15. The unidentified quasi-cop was reprimanded after he refused to transport injured student Augustin .Piedrahita, agriculture 2, from Thunderbird Stadium after he was injured in the chariot race at the Tea Cup game Oct. 23, The report concluded there was "ample evidence" that the reason for the patrolman's refusal to transport the injured student was "the fact he was covered in manure." The committee recommended AMS votes to support NUS, BCSF

By GREGG THOMPSON After months of lying in the weeds of non-commitment, Alma Mater Society council Wednesday voted to support in principle the fledgling B.C. Students Federation and the National Union of Students. However, council tabled a motion to provide financial support for pro BCSF and NUS referendum campaigns to be held in mid- March. —matt king photo On a referendum date yet to be SLURPING CAFFEINE and munching Spam sandwiches students under new policy of opening Pit during afternoon. Campus fixed, but between March 15 to 19, discuss rainy weather outside and other world issues while enjoying prohibitionists Wednesday were celebrating new soft sales policy students will be asked to approve a brief respite from tedious lectures. Coffee and sandwiches are sold inside former suds only establishment. Booze sales after 4j $1 levy per year to support each of brief respite trom tedious lectures, coffee ana sanawicnes are sola msiae Tormer suas only estaDiisnment. Booze sales arter 4 p.m. the two student associations. Discussions will continue in two weeks' time, when external affairs Collective bargaining rules signed officer Bob Goodwin will present a By HEATHER WALKER sity, and the administration will education program directors. will do their own negotiations after report on how AMS funds might be The faculty association and the not be able to lock the association The bargaining unit will consist the master agreement is arrived allocated to an active support of university administration have out during any disputes. of deans and department heads. at," he said. the NUS and BCSF fee campaigns. signed an agreement laying the However, McRae said he did not Negotiations for the 12 months In the past, council has been groundwork for collective think there was any possibility of Groups in the association may between July 1, 1977 and June 30, reluctant to take a firm official bargaining, as well as an the association becoming a cer­ work out agreements of their own 1978 will begin in May of this year, position on the two student agreement establishing an appeals tified union "in the near future," after negotiations are completed, and negotiations for 1976-77 will federations. board for disputes involving and "no chance at all if the present McRae said. continue this month' 'as soon as the The fee referendum was tenure, promotions and ap­ arrangement is satisfactory." "This applies to professional faculty association is ready", originally scheduled for late pointments. Under the terms of the schools, for example, which might McRae said. February, but was pushed back to The appeals board will be made agreement the faculty association need higher salaries to recruit Negotiations will be subject to the March date because the new up of nine faculty members, will be the only collective staff. They will have to prove they arbitration by a mediator if AMS constitution, which allows for chosen by "agreement between the bargaining agent for profs, need special consideration before agreement is not reached by June a reduced quorum in student administration and the faculty librarians' and continuing the negotiations begin, and then 30. balloting, will be in effect by then. association," faculty association In other business, council voted president Don McRae said Wed­ to send a letter to Victoria con­ nesday. demning the proposed drastic auto "Only three members of the insurance rate hikes suggested board will sit on each case," CUP meets here in 1976 recently. McRae said. The highlight of the recent these stories as fillers, if at all. It nature and role of post-secondary The motion said: ". . .The McRae said the board would be Canadian University Press con­ was the position of The Ubyssey education within the Canadian proposed increases are crippling to established before the end of vention in Montreal, as far as most that there are many stories hap­ economic and social system, relate most B.C. residents and January. UBC students are concerned, is pening in Canadian campuses of the current policies of financial prohibitive for almost all students Another part of the same that next year's conference will be interest to students elsewhere in cutbacks being waged against ... be it resolved that the AMS agreement ensures that good hosted by The Ubyssey. the country, and that the news post-secondary education and urge the provincial government to reasons will have to be given for But volunteering for the next service must be expanded and other social services to the general find less drastic methods of im-. not reappointing or promoting a national conference was not the improved to get those stories to economic crisis facing Canada, plementing their policies with professor, McRae said. extent of Ubyssey activities in other university campuses. and assist students in mobilizing respect to ICBC." The association voted to form a Montreal. As a result, conference delegates opposition to these policies." AMS co-ordinator Nadine Mc­ collective bargaining unit with the Most of the efforts of The voted to increase CUP staff, Most of the 80 per cent increase Donnell said the SUB management administration last April, Ubyssey, as well as those of two establish four regional bureaus in the CUP budget will come out of committee was considering following a vote not to unionize other B.C. newspapers, the Simon across the country (B.C.'s will be advertising revenues. The altering its decision that the under the B.C. Labor Code. Fraser University Peak and the situated in The Ubyssey office) Ubyssey's contribution to' the vendors and their goods had to In February, 1974, profs decided University of Victoria Martlet and and, to pay for this expansion, organization will increase to $1,929 leave SUB as they adversely af­ to form a union because they some eastern papers, were aimed increase CUP's budget by about 80 from the current $1,603 — about fected sales at the AMS co­ feared government restrictions on at bringing to life CUP's rather per cent, to $90,000 from the seven cents per student, per year. operative bookstore in SUB's university spending might lead to liberally named news service. current $48,000. By comparison, The Ubyssey's basement. salary cuts. But by October, 1974, (CUP, a co-operative of The conference adopted the total budget this year is $125,000. McDonnell said the Association they had changed their minds and Canadian university and college following as one of the purposes of of Student Councils' travel offices narrowly voted by mail ballot last student newspapers, operates a the news service: "CUP, . . . must The Ubyssey was last involved in in SUB's main foyer might be summer to form a collective news service in which stories of as its main priority attempt to use organizing a CUP conference in moved downstairs, allowing the bargaining unit. interest to students are distributed its national news service to provide 1969 when it co-hosted, with the bookstore to move upstairs into a Because the association is not across the country.) Canadian students with in­ SFU Peak, a conference in more competitive position with the certified as a union, it will not be The Ubyssey generally uses formation and analysis of the Naramata, B.C. vendors. able to strike against the univer­ *,• ^im^mMmum&j^w^m^^^imimii^ Thursday, January 8, 1976 *afcr McGeer Nfts Wc v\ee4 a X mentality CaoToov\\£V revealed Pce.t - beeovwe So Pat is back in education circles once again. When the Social Credit clan waltzed back into power in December it didn't take a nightmare to envision who would be in the new cabinet. Between the old hacks of the W.A.C. era and the Liberal and Conservative turncoats you had the new government in a nutshell. It wasn't nice to think about who the new education minister might be. There were so many bad choices. But Pat McGeer? The guy who thinks students should stay out of university political affairs and keep to their studies (as he told the legislature during debate on the new Universities Act which increased student reps). In the past few days we've seen another side of McGeer — the fiscal manager of the Insurance Corporation of B.C. What's his solution for people who can't afford extremely high increases in insurance premiums? "I say quite bluntly that if you can afford a car, you can afford insurance for it. If you can't afford insurance for it, sell it." Red-faced, McGeer has since retracted the remark but it's the hidden mentality, not the actual words, which are most revealing. Bucks first. People, especially the little guy, second. It's that kind of mentality in McGeer as education minister which will do the most harm. Imagine the following scenario: Interviewer: "Mr. Minister, many parents have expressed concern about the cost of higher education today and the fact that soaring tuition fees make it difficult to send students to school." Hon. Minister: "I say quite bluntly that if you can afford to have children you can afford to send them to school. If you can't afford to send them to school, then sell them." Newspapers shouldn't complain too much though. Think of the boom in want ads. "For sale: two lower class students whose parents can't afford to send them to university. Clean. Must sell. Dollar a n pound o.b.o." /ti. h&L~ j Letters

Simon Fraser is not and has university, and for this reason that So much for the "liberal- never been a "liberal-democratic" the department was dismembered. democratic" institution Jewett Hi there Pickets institution. It is run by the board of As for the "liberal" notion that describes. governors, the administration, and universities provide a pluralistic Re-employment of the PSA As Almighty GOD, I greet you. a nucleus of deans, departmental community in which ideas of every faculty at Simon Fraser would not It seems as though I have known ignored chairpersons and senior faculty. kind compete on the basis of their constitute a threat to the "liberal- many editors and publishers in a merit, this myth was similarly put democratic" nature of the lifetime. I trust our companionship On the Association of University Students, the non-academic to rest at Simon Fraser by the university. On the contrary, it has been an amiable one? and College Employees picket support staff, and even most Strand administration. Our letters are read throughout faculty members are all disen­ would affirm the validity of the lines I was splashed, buzzed by The PSA department's Marxist PSA faculty's struggle to the world, including the Vatican speeding cars, sworn at or just franchised. The undemocratic and the Far East. Our letters are nature of the institution is common approach brought it in direct democratize SFU and transform it ignored. That's how an 'educated' conflict with Strand's declaration into an institution responsive to read with hope and enthusiasm. public greets a worker's picket knowledge. In a public debate last Would to Grace, the response were November Gordon Shrum, the that "the social and economic public needs rather than private line. It turns my stomach. system is capitalist and the profit. more stable. A thousand women work on this founder of SFU, and Dr. J. My Son and I love to receive Walkley, a current member of the university serves that system." That Jewett should choose to campus providing essential ser­ When the PSA faculty resisted letters, in response to the ones We vices to students and faculty. They university's academic planning stand reality on its head by arguing send. We answer each and every committee, both went so far as to administrative pressure to the opposite, is a measure of her went on strike because an in­ restructure the department, letter. There is absolutely no need transigent administration forced argue that the university in fact desperation after having failed to to fear a GOD above and Me — should not be democratic. Strand resorted to what the rationalize the dispute. them to. Canadian Association of Univer­ there simply is NONE. I am one If you read the AUCE contract Jewett's claim that the sity Teachers described as "a Over the past year she herself GOD above all in this life and in the proposal you will find that it is "democratic" nature of Simon major injustice to individuals as has become tarred with the Ken one to come. reasonable and fair. If you read the Fraser would be threatened by well as an affront to academic Strand brush, a brush neither So when one awakes from the university's proposal you will find giving back the PSA faculty freedom." He purged eight faculty "liberal" nor "democratic." dead, the Face and Knowledge will it illogical. If you read the board of members the jobs they were members (seven still living) and Tom Conroy be recognizable as the one he governors' letter to AUCE you will wrongfully deprived of is par­ split the department in two. history undergrad trusted in real life. So I will say: simply be disgusted. ticularly misleading when con­ "Arise and come to Me My beloved Jay Hirabayashi sidered in the context of the PSA and share the joys of My Household religious studies dispute itself. The PSA faculty for all Eternity." The lamps of love grad student were fired precisely because they have been lit when We were all in were trying to make the university THE UBYSSEY human flesh. Now, the beginning of more democratic. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 a new world is at hand, where love The PSA program aimed at Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the will drown out sorrow, the maim SFU attack providing faculty, staff and university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of will walk and the blind see. Time In the Vancouver Sun, Dec. 1, students with equal access to B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the AMS heals all wounds and a perfect 1975, president Pauline Jewett of decision-making, and oriented its or the university administration. Member, Canadian University heart will be given to Me, your Sirhon Fraser University is quoted teaching and research to the Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary loving GOD. as saying: "To go any further (in working people of B.C. whose taxes and review. The Ubyssey's editorial offices are located in room As the sun must set, so must My redressing the grievances of the created and still maintain the 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, holy words fade from view. My son seven faculty members im­ institution. 228-2301; Sports, 228-2305; Advertising, 228-3977. has taken My Dictation to uphold a properly dismissed from the PSA The department's progressive Editor: Gary Coull perfect truth. My Holy Name is department in 1969-70) would make policies attracted 2,200 of the Only room for names today, I'm afraid. Perched about the newsroom never written on paper. My humble it .difficult to .remain the type of university's 5,000 student with their usual cheery smiles were: Doug the Slug Rushton, Ralph Sell Son will sign his name so a guiding liberal-democratic institution we 'em Maurer, Gary GXC Coull, Matt the Philosopher King, Marcus Spam enrolment in 1969. Gee, Chris Gainor Groaner, Mark the Sports Staff Lepitre and Nancy Light will shine in the Heavens for are." As a student at SFU and a It was. the very success of the Tanya Southam. Slouching about with scowls were the usual deadbeats: you. close observer of Jewett's handling Phil the Literate Smith, Doug Photo Graphic Field, Heather the Thief Prayerfully yours, democratized PSA program that Walker, Gregg GG Thompson, Susan Brandy Alexander and Sue Vohanka. of the PSA controversy, I find her threatened the undemocratic, And a bulletin came in from Mark the Obsessed Buckshon, all the way Eugene Changey remarks contradictory. business-oriented nature of the from, you guessed it, Ottawa, the power centre of this here country. Maple Heights, Ohio 44137 Thursday, January 8, 1976 THE UBYSSEY Page 5 Former Socred critic tamed From page 1 "There is no doubt that the NDP has been an Right now money is flowing out across the in 1972, or were they part of the 76 per cent Bennett objected in his budget speech to the unmitigated disaster for this province." Rockies. We have to get that money back who voted Liberal, NDP and Conservative? rising cost of education, while at the same McGeer was especially critical of and get the primary industries going like the McGeer and Gardom say there have no time boasting of his huge expenditures on "alleged extravagant expenditures on the devil." adverse reactions from Point Grey con­ hydro-electric development." part of the NDP administration. "Under the According to McGeer the election was a stituents to their switch. "Not a single let­ McGeer was convinced that because of its NDP welfare expenditures have tripled," he battle between two philosophies, socialism ter," claims McGeer. lack of concern and appreciation of said. "There has been a tremendous drain versus free enterprise. He emphasized that McGeer also released to The Ubyssey the education the Social Credit party also on the provincial treasury because of the election was not just a conflict between results of a survey of Liberal supporters he alienated capable intellectuals without welfare abuses." policies or personalities. "These conducted during the summer. According to whom it was unable to perceive the McGeer cited a number of welfare rip-offs philosophical differences, of course, may be McGeer over two-thirds of respondents changing needs of British Columbians. And he knew of personally. "There is this doctor acted out through personalities but it is the urged McGeer to switch to Social Credit for the general public this meant sub­ who came from somewhere in Asia now philosophical differences that are im­ while only 10 per cent advocated that he standard health services, lack of making about $80,000 a year. When he found portant." rejoin the Liberal party. He gave no details, educational opportunity, and a lack of out about Mincome he brought over all his Gardom also expressed the conviction however, as to the number of respondents in awareness about the real values of com­ aged relatives. I also know of 15 Asians that "the issue is that Socialism is not the the survey or the sampling techniques used. munity life. living in one house, all of them on welfare." answer for the province." Neither McGeer McGeer also charged Social Credit with McGeer made these comments in response nor Gardom see any philosophical dif­ economic incompetence because its to a question concerning a Socred platform ferences between the free enterprise par­ Feedback promotion of half-baked quick-rich schemes statement that demands no government ties. There is a possibility that the lack of sullied the province's economic reputation. funds be paid out to non-Canadian citizens. When asked to reflect back on his days of negative feedback received by McGeer was Several key Socred ministers became im­ vehement opposition to Social Credit, due to the fact that Point Grey constituents plicated in such irresponsible schemes as More money McGeer minimized past differences. "The were not given an opportunity to register logging in Cypress Bowl and in such only difference between my position and their disapproval. When McGeer dropped bankruptcies as Commonwealth Trust. Education policy has always been of theirs (Social Credit) was in priorities and his Liberal affiliation last May his con­ On the Commonwealth affair Garde paramount importance to McGeer. implementation. . . They didn't spend as stituency secretary quit and was never Gardom charged that "with the govern­ Although highly critical of the NDP much on education as I would have liked." replaced. There was, in effect, no one ment's full knowledge, little people had been government for cutting back on university Gardom said that while he found much to manning McGeer's constituency office who bilked." McGeer once estimated that Social spending, he offered little in the way of oppose in the old Social Credit "the new could receive the views of constituents. Credit promotions did more harm to the education policy aside from giving Social Credit party is no right-wing, red­ A number of people claim to have written financial reputation of British Columbia universities and community colleges more neck party. It is an amalgam of all the to McGeer, among them Pat Graham, than all the strikes and lockouts combined. funds. This increase in funds would be given people who believe in the things I have been president of the Vancouver Liberal to universities with no strings attached. talking about, in individual opportunities, Association. "I personally wrote, and I know That way the universities, not government, freedom of the individual." of 10 other people who did as well, telling Ignorame could "set priorities and produce ex­ McGeer admitted that there are some McGeer that what he was doing was ab­ Apart from corruption, Social Credit is cellence." radical right-wingers in the current Social solutely childish." slammed by McGeer for its economic Gardom, in contrast, would like to see Credit party. "There will always be guys Graham also remembers McGeer's ignorance. The B.C. economy is natural some governmental control over university like that in every party. And you know the questionnaire survey. "It (the question­ resource extraction oriented and as such spending. "I would like to see more money NDP is no exception in that respect. . . I naire) was vague in the extreme. For susceptible to the fluctuations in the world example there were questions like, 'Are you mineral market. According to McGeer B.C. in favor of free enterprise?'. . . . Being a requires secondary industry to make its researcher he knows those results are not economy stable, and secondary industrial liable. How can you believe those figures development can take place only if in­ when he lost all his Liberal staff? Not even digenous industrial research is encouraged his closest friends went with him." to develop advanced technology. McGeer It appears that Gardom, at any rate, may argues in his book that Social Credit has have received a fair amount of flack from always refused to provide the incentives constituents, at least judging from com­ required to get secondary industrial ments made by Jeff Smith, Gardom's development under way. campaign manager. When asked if Gardom Finally, Social Credit failed, according to had received any negative feedback from McGeer, to uphold a decent and civilized constituents, Smith replied, "Of course. It's level of political discourse. In constantly a Liberal riding!" pursuing expediency rather than rectitude McGeer and Gardom both argue that the Social Credit senselessly polarized B.C. new Social Credit party no longer resembles politics and thus exacerbated the problem of the old one which they despised. This claim degenerant political institutions. Thus is suspect on several grounds. First, there McGeer writes: were at least 16 former Social Credit MLAs "In the war of politics (in B.C.) common seeking re-election in 1975. People like Pat sense is often the first casualty. The result Jordan, Don Phillips, Harvey Schroeder and seldom serves society. The more polarized Herb Capozzi sat in the Social Credit section and extreme political trends become the of the House when McGeer and Gardom less likely it is that common sense will take were vehemently attacking the W. A. C. hold Bennett government. "The great task in B.C. is to conquer the Second, for many of the retired old-Social political tradition of extremes. That is the Credit guard new right-wing replacements only way moderate people will have have been found. Candidates with reasonable access to the mainstream of pronounced right-wing tendencies like Ron political life." Young Driver. .. irate about insurance rates. —matt king photo Andrews (North Van-Capilano), Jack Davis spent on professional training schools like really feel sorry for Barrett, being saddled (North Van-Seymour), Bill Vander Zalm Where now? medicine and law. We should have a proper with that guy in Langley." (Surrey), and Walter Davidson (a former sense of direction and purpose. I think we (This was a reference to NDP candidate John Reynolds aide, Delta), if elected, In light of the previously strong anti- have to make the individual meet our (the Joe Chesney who called Frank Calder would replenish the supply of rightists in Socred sentiments on the part of Gardom province's) needs. . . Personally I would "Tonto" when Calder, a native Indian, left Social Credit. and McGeer, one might be wondering what like to see an emphasis on physical the NDP to join Social Credit.) their recently converted Social Credit education." Referring to the old guard in the Social MLA's stand for today. Have their views When asked about further details con­ Credit party McGeer said: "all the people I Red-necks changed to suit Social Credit? Has the Social cerning the new Social Credit education battled have retired and will not be key Third, it is unlikely that Bill Bennett will Credit party become sufficiently moderate policy Gardom handed The Ubyssey a figures in a new Social Credit government." be able to keep right-wing, red-neck to suit Garde Gardom and Pat McGeer? Or, glossy pamphlet entitled "Bill Bennett talks Later in the interview, however, McGeer elements out of a new Socred cabinet, even have both (formerly opposing) sides about education." Unfortunately the said that he personally will not have any say if he wanted to. He recently announced that, modified their attitudes to accommodate pamphlet contained not a single word about in who is selected for cabinet posts. McGeer if elected, he plans to institute a system of each other? either universities or community colleges. said he had no idea who will be in a Social rotating ministers regularly. This plan was In order to find answers to these and other With respect to the economy, both McGeer Credit cabinet. formed with a view to giving all Socred questions The Ubyssey talked with the two and Gardom expressed concern about the Gardom also pleaded ignorance about members in good standing a chance to hold Social Credit candidates in separate in­ current investment climate in the province prospective cabinet members. "That's up to a cabinet post. If the plan is taken at face terviews. We talked with McGeer (a brain particularly with regard to the mining in­ Bill Bennett. You'll have to ask him. I have value, this would mean that, at one time or researcher) in his laboratory at UBC and dustry. Several times McGeer returned to no control over who gets into the govern­ another, even extreme right-wing Social with Gardom in his law offices downtown. the theme that the NDP had destroyed the ment." Crediters would be members of a new Social Both Gardom and McGeer emphasized confidence of investors in B.C. Credit government. that a new Social Credit government would "When I was in Mexico I discovered that It has been only 1-1/2 months since not do away with Mincome, Pharmacare or at least 20 mining companies which had Point Grey Gardom and McGeer 'suddenly' decided to rent controls. McGeer said that he would previously been in British Columbia are now convert to the Socred cause. Both Gardom like to see rent controls phased out "but not spending their money on Mexican ex­ Point Grey is not a Social Credit and McGeer claim to be middle-of-the-road immediately, not until there is a sufficient ploration." stronghold. Since 1962 the riding has elected politically and socially progressive. Yet supply of rental housing." During the interview McGeer never once at least one strongly anti-Social Credit MLA their short stint in the party has given them Government operated auto insurance discussed the importance of secondary (in the person of Pat McGeer), and since little time to exert much influence in (ICBC) however, would probably be industries. The topic of secondary industrial 1966 it has elected both McGeer and Gardom transforming Social Credit into a more eliminated by a Social Credit government. development was of prime importance to on the strength of their anti-Social Credit moderate party. According to Gardom ICBC is a "dumb" McGeer in his book Politics in Paradise. platform. While Poipt Grey has shown As Gardom admits: "You can't change a idea. They (the government) have no There he argued that the Socreds had placed marked indifference to the NDP, it has also party over night. You just can't move people business going into insurance." McGeer too much emphasis on resource extraction. rejected the rightist overtures of Social in and out like in a business. It's (the Social said that ICBC should no longer be sub­ Gardom did suggest that he would like to Credit. In 1972 Social Credit polled only 24 Credit party) a democratic institution. You sidized and opened up to private com­ see more secondary industry in B.C. per cent of the total vote in Point Grey. just can't control it like a business." petition. "Something on the lines of Sheridan Park in McGeer and Gardom both claim to have Gardom admitted that many of the social Ontario." But, like McGeer, he felt the changed to Social Credit after being ap­ In the coming weeks The Ubyssey will be reforms implemented by the NDP "are first highest priority item was to revitalize B.C.'s proached by a delegation of Point Grey attempting to speak with McGeer class." McGeer, in contrast, would concede primary resource economy. "We have to voters. One must wonder, however, who specifically about his duties as education nothing positive to the NDP government and reinfuse the work ethic in B.C. so that these delegates were. Were they part of the minister and how he views the school painted it in the blackest possible terms. confidence in the province can be restored. 24 per cent of voters who voted Social Credit system after the NDP government. "f..W',m"W*.—'-TT"^/1 For two UEL projects CAMPUS WIDE DANCE Socreds review plans featuring: By CHRIS GAINOR lands "soon" for priviate meetings bounded by Dalhousie, Toronto, 'RIFF RAFF & PIDGEONS' Two decisions on the future of the before setting policies, she said. Allison and Acadia roads. date: Fri., January 9/76 University Endowment Lands are The lands department headed by Williams and Pearson moved to place: SUB Ballroom & party room currently under review by the deputy minister Norm Pearson, stop the development after time: 8:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. newly elected Social Credit has been, shifted from the students, faculty and affected government. resources ministry to the new tenants protested. UBC ad­ full facilities At stake is the future of a 1,066- environment ministry established ministration president Doug advance tickets @ $1.50 acre provincial park in the UEL after the election of the Social Kenny sent a letter to Williams south of Sixteenth and a proposed @ AMS Ticket Office, Credit government, the opposing the development. Engineers Undergrad Office $35 million luxury development spokeswoman said. Jane Corcoran, president of the near UBC village. Agricultural Undergrad Office Nielson was a talk show host on UEL Tenants Society, said Wed­ Former resources minister Bob CJOR radio prior to his election' nesday the society is preparing Williams moved in October to Dec. 11 as MLA for Richmond. briefs on the LRS development for block the luxury development and. presentation to Nielson. announced Dec. 1 the establish­ An order-in-council passed in LRS president Dinos Lambrou ment of a provincial park, named October changed the Land Use was unavailable for comment after former UBC horticulturalist code to require demolition permits Wednesday. in the endowment lands. Frank Buck. The UEL park was established CANADA STUDENT LOANS The minister responsible for the Such permits would not be by an order-in-council Dec. 19 AT THE UEL in the new Social Credit granted without a public hearing before the NDP government left government, environment minis­ and approval of the minister office. Should the new government ter Jim Nielson, is currently re­ responsible for the UEL. The or­ decide to change plans for the park ROYAL BANK viewing both decisions, a spokes­ der-in-council came after protests area, another order-in-council man in his office said Wednesday. against the proposed $35 million could rescind the present one. the helpful bank "The whole thing (UEL policy) development. The provincial park, bounded by is still under consideration," the The development, by LRS Camosun, the UBC campus, spokeswoman said. "No definite development enterprises, would Marine Drive and Sixteenth policies have been set." displace 179 residents of low-to- Avenue, includes a 240 acre UNIVERSITY AREA BRANCH Nielson will visit the endowment medium rental housing in an area ecological reserve. Charlie Mayne, manager Six hundred acres of land north of Sixteenth were not included in Audrey Budlow, Senior Loans Officer Decision due on boycott the park. Tina Verveda, Loans Officer OTTAWA (CUP) — The postal class mandatory. Mail which is not During the election campaign, code boycott is still on, at least coded would pay first class postal Socred leader Bill Bennett said he until the national executive board rates, thereby economically would not be bound by election 10th at Sasamat — 228-1141 of the Canadian Union of Postal penalizing those would continue to promises made by the NDP. Workers (CUPW) decides what to support the boycott. do about it. Mitchell said he is not certain The boycott campaign was when the national executive board started two years ago to show will meet to reconsider the boycott, public and labor support for the but when asked if the union still postal, workers, who were had large stockes of boycott but­ demanding job protection from the tons, tee-shirts and other cam­ effects of automation and a share paign materials he said "there is in the benefits it produced. not much left." According to CUPW represen­ tative Paul Mitchell, the boycott was a success and forced the George & Berny's government to include protection from automation in the recently signed contract. VOLKSWAGEN But although little resistance was shown on providing basic REPAIRS protection, Mitchell said the government used the boycott to deny the workers any share in the benefits. He quoted post-master general Bryce Mackasay as saying the boycott was "100 per cent ef­ fective" and then arguing there weren't any benefits for the workers to share. COMPLETE SERVICE BY If the boycott is continued, and Mitchell said a final decision has FACTORY-TRAINED not yet been made, the emphasis MECHANICS' would have to be changed to stress the need for a share in the benefits FULLY GUARANTEED of automation. AT REASONABLE RATES But changing emphasis would not be the only problem facing a renewed postal boycott campaign. 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The university has suspended the MacKenzie charged in an in­ and a week-long strike. The union office of administration services 33.02 of the agreement between the president of the tinion that struck terview Wednesday the move contract had expired Sept. 30. librarian Erik de Bruijn, and ^university and AUCE, I am UBC for seven days in December. represents "an element of union Mackenzie said he and Neil handed the letters of suspension, suspending you without pay for Ian MacKenzie, president of the harassment" and the library Bennett, both stack attendants, effective the following day. five working days effective UBC local of the Association of administration, which handed out were asked Tuesday to move a De Bruijn refused to comment Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1976 for refusing University and College Em­ the suspension, was "definitely bookshelf but refused to do so Wednesday because Mackenzie to carry out the instructions of your ployees, was suspended five days making an example of me." because they felt such jobs were has filed a grievance against the supervisor and the duties listed in without pay from his job in the AUCE recently signed a one- the responsibility of physical plant. library. specifications for circulation stack main library for refusing to carry year contract with the university Mackenzie said later Tuesday he The letter signed by de Bruijn, attendants by not removing or out a task he insists was not his. after months of bitter negotiation and Bennett were called into the read: "In accordance with article dismantling shelving on stack level 7. Continued refusal to carry out instructions or perform normal duties will lead to dismissal." AUCE disappointed with ignorant student attitude Mackenzie said there was no meeting or discussion prior to the suspension. while contract settlement gives union 19 per cent "We were called into de Bruijn's office and the letters of suspension BySUEVOHANKA strike, insisting that decision had training, skill and responsibility. 33 different possible categories, were ready," he said, adding that A disappointing lack of un­ to be made by individual students The new contract gives AUCE which have been reduced to nine the five-day suspension was the derstanding on the part of the and faculty members. workers a base rate of $760 per categories so that clerks and maximum disciplinary measure, campus community characterized Mackenzie noted that "students month, while technicians and library assistants at the same level other than discharge, that could the three-month contract battle at UBC over the last five years laborers on campus get about $950 receive the same wage. have been brought against himself between UBC's library and clerical have been rather conservative. monthly, Mackenzie said. Chuck Connaghan, ad­ and Bennett. workers and the administration. Students at UBC in 1975 don't seem Under last year's first contract, ministration vice-president for Mackenzie said: "There is no And though the battle ended Dec. to be taking an interest in any union members earned a base rate administrative services, said prior history of suspension: they're 22 with a new contract meeting political issue." of $633 per month. Wednesday "it's a fair contract." definitely trying to make an some major union demands, the "Maybe they didn't understand Mackenzie said the new contract example of me. If it had been workers — members of the what we do for them every day — gives workers a monthly base rate He said he hoped the strike would someone other than myself, they Association of University and we serve them," he added. of $730, retroactive to Oct. 1. The not negatively affect labor (the administration) would have College Employees, local 1 — don't During the strike, some students $760 monthly base rate became relations on campus in the future, have only given a warning." consider themselves the real threw water bombs at picketers, effective Jan. 1. and added "we'll have to work winners of the dispute. drove through picket lines at high He said the most significant gain together to overcome any negative When the union held a brief speeds in order to splash picketers, in the new contract was the union's residual effects." strike in December to back up their and catcalled from residence priority — a restructuring of the Connaghan said he had "some demands, the majority of students windows. union's pay grade system to ideas" of how to create a better and faculty ignored or didn't un­ An outside wall of Place Vanier substantially reduce the number of labor relations atmosphere, but derstand the issues, and crossed residence carried block letters job categories. added, "I wouldn't want to make picket lines. several feet high saying "Fuck Previously, he said, there were them public at this point in time." The lack of student and faculty you, AUCE." support did nothing to help the Posters on campus which ex­ union's fight, local president Ian plained the union's position and Mackenzie said Wednesday. called for students to support He emphasized that union AUCE were defaced with ob­ A Career in members "were very disap­ scenities. Don't let your pointed" at the attitudes of most Mackenzie said he hopes the students who crossed the picket union can educate the campus a bit hair get out lines last month. more. He pointed out that members of "We've got to get to students and Chiropractic of line educate them to the fact that six other major unions serving the The Chiropractic Profession is playing a significant campus were "exemplary in they'll one day be in the work force Keep it in place honoring the picket lines." — perhaps they'll evert be working role in the delivery of health care to the public of with RK Men's Spray. Mackenzie added that unionized in AUCE," he said. Canada. There are opportunities for both men and employees who did respect picket Mackenzie added that a number women in this growing profession. lines had much more to lose than of AUCE members are university did students by respecting the graduates who were unable to get What aptitudes must you possess? lines. the jobs they wanted when they "Students wouldn't have lost graduated. —desire to serve your fellow man in a much at all," he said. "We'd He said the new contract tangible and rewarding way.^ guaranteed that if there were any provides a 19 per cent wage in­ -minimum first year university science reprisals (against students who crease and a new job classification respected picket lines) we wouldn't system for the workers, but does standing in chemistry, psychology and sign a contract." little to end the continuing problem biology. Mackenzie said the strike would of discrimination in wages paid to -manual dexterity and highly developed have been far more effective if male and female campus workers students and faculty had refused to doing jobs requiring similar eye and hand skills. cross the lines. qualifications and responsibility. APPOINTMENT "If everybody had respected our Mackenzie said an over­ For more information contact: picket lines, the strike would have whelming majority of union SERVICE been over in three days — despite members — more than 90 per cent Vocational Guidance Committee what the university administration — voted in favor of the new one- B.C. Chiropractors Association says," he said. year contract, but suggested they 6685 Fraser Street Mackenzie added that a strike weren't entirely pleased about Vancouver. 731-4191 was necessary to try and gain a accepting it. Phone - 327-9204 contract with reasonable wage He added: "The problem of sex 3644 WEST increases in the face of the federal discrimination on campus is a Final registration date for 1976 classes is February 28, 1976. 4th AVE. government wage and price continuing problem." AT ALMA controls. Mackenzie said the contract However, when the union an­ eliminates discrimination in the nounced strike plans, the Alma types of jobs performed by AUCE's Mater Society executive, not 1,200 members, most of whom are wishing to lose money by closing women. FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE the Pit, refused to support AUCE But he said members of other and kept SUB during the strike. male-dominated unions on campus Both the AMS and the faculty receive much higher wages for association refused to support the work requiring similar levels of SCAPINO! by Moliere

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ATTRACTIVE SEMINAR ROOMS to rent — blackboards and screens. Free use TO SELL - BUY of projectors. 228-5021. INFORM 60 - Rides Puck 'Birds must ice Dinosaurs By MARK LEPITRE missing seven players and had just Brian Penrose is just coming The games are Friday and Canada West leag ue standings: The Thunderbird hockey team undergone a 14-hour bus trip, their back from an early season injury Saturday evenings, both at 8 p.m. performance was excellent. and is at the point where his The play should be wide ope,n, fast GP W L GF GA Pts. opens the new year with two 8 crucial games against the second- The 'Birds play the Dinos Friday strength is returning. This is skating and hard hitting. Alberta 7 1 37 19 14 place Calgary Dinosaurs this and Saturday evenings. Calgary fortunate for the 'Birds as Wayne If the games are reminiscent of Calgary 10 6 4 44 33 12 week. may have a slight edge due to their Hendry will be out of the lineup previous meetings the spectators UBC 9 4 5 27 32 8 exhibition games during Christ­ with a broken thumb. are in for some exciting play. Sask. 9 1 8 20 44 2 At the moment the Dinos are four mas. They played about eight points up on the 'Birds and two games over the holidays. One of behind league-leading Alberta these was against the Finnish Golden Bears. Therefore if the national team. The Dinos were Volley birds off to Seattle 'Birds can win both games it will defeated 6-3 which is quite im­ put them in second place and they pressive as the Finns were third this month. The 'Birds are hoping will still have one game in hand place in the world last year. By MARK LEPITRE U.S. teams entered so far, as well over the Dinos. to take part in both the Canadian as three from Victoria. During the Christmas break the The 'Birds are hoping to have a The Thunderbird volleyball team Intercollegiate and open cham­ In the UBC Thunderbird In­ 'Birds played two exhibition games new player soon. Brian Harper has is on the road this Saturday, when pionships later this year and they vitational the Thunderettes met in the Kootenays. One was against been practising with the team they travel to Seattle to take part in need all the top-calibre com­ the Chimos in the finals and put up the Trail Smokeaters, the last since Christmas but can not play the Seattle YMCA Invitational petition they can get. a fantastic fight. If play this Canadian team to win the World until the league rules on his tournament. There will also be volleyball eligibility. Saturday is even close to the same hockey title. The 'Bird team has been very action at UBC on Saturday. The calibre spectators are in for some The 'Birds put up a good fight but Brian is Terry Harper's brother. successful thus far in the season. Thunderettes are hosting an In­ terrific volleyball. blew it in the last five minutes. Terry is presently with Detroit Red They have won all their Canada vitational tournament and there The tournament runs all day Last year's 'Bird captain and star, Wings of the NHL and has also West matches by large margins are a lot of teams entered. Saturday in both War Memorial Brian DeBiasio, scored twice in the played for Montreal and Los and look to be the power of the The most notable of these teams Gym and the Winter Sports dying minutes of the game to give Angeles. conference. is the Chimos. Chimos were Complex. Play begins at 9 a.m. and the Smokeaters a 6-5 win. Brian has had quite a career The team is also playing in the Canada's top club team last year ends at 5 p.m. in Memorial Gym The same thing happened when himself. He played three years B.C. Senior Men's Volleyball and has been one of the best for and 8 p.m. in the Winter Sports the 'Birds took on the Kimberley with the University of Alberta league and is doing well. many years. There are several Complex. Dynamiters. The 'Birds were where he was a collegiate all-star. again ahead till near the end of the After that he played two years with The 'Birds will be up against game. The final score was 7-5 in the Canadian national team. He some very tough competition in favor of the Dynamiters. then played professional hockey in Seattle. Multnomah Athletic Club Both the Smokeaters and the American league. As it stands (MAC's) from Portland, Oregon Henneken Auto Dynamiters play in the Western now UBC coach Bob Hindmarch is should be the Birds major International league. This league still waiting for a ruling by the challenge. The MAC's are ranked Your German Car Specialist is considered to have the best league. If Brian is allowed to play as one of the best club teams in the 8914 Oak St. (Oak & Marine) 263-8121 senior amateur teams in Canada. he could be a big asset for the U.S. and are a very experienced Considering that the 'Birds were 'Birds. team. In November they walked away with the UBC Invitational with an easy win over Vancouver Hoop gals bounced out Volleyball Club (VVC). SKI CROSS COUNTRY WC is likely to be a very strong The Thunderette basketball of Victoria Vikettes by a score of competitor as well. It is o n e of i\Wj ='-(3f% SALES & team started the new year in poor 47-68. Canada's top club teams, placing RENTALS fashion by coming last in their own In their second game on third in the Canadian Open last tournament. Saturday the Thunderettes lost to year. In the UBC Invitational VVC Seattle Lumber by a score of 58-69. knocked the 'Birds; out in semi­ The tournament took place last finals. Friday and Saturday and the This loss put them out of con­ Thunderettes managed only one tention. In other meetings between the win. Perhaps the biggest surprise of 'Birds and VVC the two teams have the tournament was the Laurentien split, each winning one match. This came when they defeated University team. After coming all Victoria Cripsy's Critters 68-55 in the way from Sudbury, Ontario, The University of Victoria their first game. they tied for last place with the Vikings will also be taking part in After that it was all downhill for Thunderettes. the tournament. The Vikings have the UBC team. In their second As the Sudbury team were the not been faring well this season game the Thunderettes went down Canadian Collegiate champions and it is not likely that they will do to defeat at the hands of University last year this was a rather very well in the tournament. 1790 West Georgia St. 687-1113 disappointing performance. The 'Birds look to have a good Victoria Home Lumber won the chance in the tournament and it six-team tournament while UVic will be an excellent warm-up for came second. Seattle Lumber was their many road trips that begin Help third and Victoria Cripsy's Critters was fourth. GET WITH IT Help! The Ubyssey sports This Friday and Saturday the department is desperately in need Thunderettes take on University of C & C SPORTS of staff reporters. Anyone in­ Saskatchewan in Canada West For One Stop terested in reporting basketball play. While the Thunderette team RACQUET SALE (men's and women's) or soccer or did not do well in the tournament it 10% OFF any other sport please come to the was excellent preparation for the ALL RACQUETS Outfitting Ubyssey office, room 241 K in SUB games this weekend., during lunch hour. UBC coach Sue Anne Nivens will With a copy Unless we get more reporters be looking for a better showing of this ad many teams will not get the against the Saskatoon team. 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This article, produced by the McGill It is a lesson for both the UBC union Daily, student newspaper of, McGil! — Association of University and University in Montreal, details a four- College Employees — and UBC day strike by maintenance workers at students — most of whom consciously that university. The chronicle of how ignored the strike. the union organized within its own ranks and organized student support Both strikes were the first in both provides an interesting contrast to the universities' histories. recent strike by UBC library and This is the first of three parts. clerical workers.

Fed up with rotten wages, poor working As industry began to develop in the chairman of the Bank of Montreal and boss but antagonisms within a community conditions and stalling by an administration colony, the university began to play an governor at McGill, however, has this to consistently fed the lie that 'immigrants are that in the words of one worker, "... treats important technical role. The need for say: "Quebec is in need of capital and the here to steal Quebecois jobs.' Not sur­ me more like a horse than a man!", McGill scientific innovation to help develop holders of capital ~would hot enjoy the prisingly, one of the chief demands in the University in Montreal maintenance production prompted the capitalists to in­ perspective of seeing the French language strike was wage parity with employees workers hit back in October in a militant crease their financial support. Names obligatory in the factories and schools." doing the same work at U de M and UQAM four-day strike, the first in McGiU's 152-year associated with McGiU's early development There is, however, a more fundamental but receiving from 43 to 73 cents more per history. include Peter McGill, founder of the Bank of struggle that today permeates Quebec hour than McGiU's "final" offer prior to the To understand the significance of the Montreal and organizer of the Anglophone society, and that is the struggle of the strike. maintenance workers' victory over McGill militia to fight the Patriots in the War of working people against exploitation. In no Working conditions in general at McGill and also the tremendous support that 1837; William Molson, president of Molson way can McGill be considered devoid of this were not much better than the wages. The developed for them, it is necessary to Breweries and major shareholder in the contradiction but rather, as we shall see, is maintenance workers faced an open shop examine in detail not only the events of the Bank of Montreal; and Sir William Mac­ entangled in it in many ways. Not only do situation (one where their union did not strike, but also the interplay of forces that donald, tobacco merchant, commonly the people and the money that have represent all the workers engaged in shaped those events. known as the 'tobacco king.' traditionally backed McGill clearly indicate specific areas of work), heavier work loads who it serves, but McGill students, upon per person, fewer holidays and negligible In doing so, several questions come to the Huge grants graduation, objectively work for these same job security when compared to their fore. What were the forces uniting the interests. counterparts at other universities. workers? What is the role of students in a Later there was Lord" Strathcona, financier of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Some specific examples are: deficiencies workers' struggle? What principles and in the seniority system that enabled the tactics shaped the strike and its quick and president of the Bank of Montreal, and labor troubles governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. administration to promote workers with decisive victory? Arts and science graduates become part shorter tenure but exhibiting docile co­ The Workers' Support Committee — These were the men who built McGill, built of the 'managerial and executive field' while it with enormous sums of money obtained operation over more experienced workers, McGill hopes that in doing so, we can un­ education majors become teachers pushing overtime duties not allocated according to derstand the significance of the students' through the sweat and struggle of Quebec liberal ideology. Law students become and other Canadian working people. seniority and a lack of a proper system of role in the workers' victory and avoid many lawyers for the multinationals and job description forcing workers to shift from Although the names changed the class of our errors for future struggle. monopolies while students in the job to job without commensurate change in didn't. These men were followed by others, To clearly appreciate the nature of the management faculty and the industrial pay. opposing forces and their relation to each including such notables as R. E. Powell, relations centre covertly study new means president of Alcan Aluminum and in­ Together, these glaring inequities shat­ other, we must examine this strike from a to "manage" the working class. tered the image of 'one big happy family' in historical perspective. Therefore: What strumental in raising over $65 million for But too often forgotten is the fact that McGill during his term as chancellor; and J. which the administration sees itself as were the workers up against? What is McGill is also an employer of people and it is playing a paternalistic role. Aime Gohier, McGill? W. McConnell, president of the Montreal as an employer that one can readily see how Star, and one of McGiU's most important president of the Service Employees Union the ideology of this institution manifests (of the QFL), to which McGiU's main­ benefactors. He personally gave more than itself in practice. $15 million to the university. tenance workers belong, remarked to Quebec ceded McGill University has many labor supporters' after the strike victory, "We The money and prestige these men loaned headaches. The institution employs several simply had to yank them (the ad­ In 1767, Quebec, or New France as it was McGill went to a noble cause however — known then, was ceded to England by thousand non-academic workers; none of ministration) into the 20th century." research. The need for research was ex­ whom were unionized before 1966. Hot spots France after losing the Seven Years War. plained most articulately by F. Cyril James, Five months prior to the strike, on May 31, This resulted in an immediate influx of in McGiU's labor/management relationship 1973, the collective agreement covering the principal of McGill from 1939 to 1962, when are not limited to the maintenance workers. British administrators and merchants who he said, "Research became a magic word — building and grounds workers expired. promptly began to expropriate the fur trade Last October the administration also faced During the next two months a brief and research in medicine to prolong human life, and continues to face the McGill library and property then in the hands of the French research in chemistry to enlarge the profits unfruitful series of contract renewal talks colonists. workers' determined effort to form their were held between Service Employees of the pulp and paper industry, research in first union, with the Canadian Union of Among these merchants was James Local 298 and the administration. business cycles to explain the depression Public Employees and the McGill print shop McGill — slave owner, associate of the and make it palatable to its victims." and computer workers who have recently At the end of July, the administration Northwest Company (notorious for its signed their first collective agreement as broke off negotiations and asked for con­ persecution of the Indians), and landlord. members of the Confederation of National ciliation from the Quebec labor department. In his will, McGill left 10,000 pounds and Exploitation Trade Unions. At the same time it withdrew small con­ his Burnside estate for the establishment of For more than 200 years the French in cessions previously offered over holidays a college to be named after himself. In 1829, Quebec have successfully resisted British and wages. Other worker demands over job McGill College was founded. colonial attempts to destroy their heritage, Workers fight security, vacation policy, and the return of At its inception the university served two to the point where the federal government an employee sick leave fund had not been main functions, both ideological. First, the now pays lip service to Quebec when it The McGill maintenance workers, af­ considered. British colonists understood the importance speaks of 'biculturalism' and the 'dual filiated with the Quebec Federation of The month of September saw renewed of an educational institution that would nature of the Canadian identity.' McGill Labor, are 90 per cent immigrants; 70 of conciliation talks but a great gap continued serve their interests. They knew "that the symbolizes this attitude with its Italian origin, the rest Greek or Portuguese. to exist between the positions of the two lower orders of the people in this province meaningless phrases about "integrating" When compared to the University of Mon­ sides. By the end of September, progress at (the French—ed) are deplorably itself into Quebec while actually isolating treal or the University of Quebec where the negotiation table had ground to a halt, ignorant. . . " and had made "no progress Anglophone students from the province's immigrants comprise only 10 per cent of the but in the union hall, events were building to towards the attainment of the language of sweeping social currents. Students of work force, these figures appear startling. a climax. the country under which government they Francophone background make up less than A logical explanation exists, however. While working conditions were deplorable have the happiness to live." And second, 20 per cent of McGiU's student body. Immigrants, often unskilled and han­ at McGill, they had been that way for a long they were fearful that if they sent their Today, as part of their struggle to become dicapped by an alien language and culture, time. What was it that made these men take children to the U.S. for their education, they masters of their own fate, the working are notoriously exploited. In this situation their fates into their own hands and openly would return as "radicals" and perhaps people in Quebec are demanding French as the immigrants face extremely tough challenge the powerful corporate-backed advocate independence for the colony. their working language. G. Arnold Hart, conditions and often must battle not only the administration?