Vol.23, No. 10, Sept. 14, 1977. Published by Information Services, Drive to Universitv~, of B.C.. 2075 Wesbrook Mall. Vancouver, B.C.. V6T 1W5. ISSN 0497-2929. J. A. Banhamand Judith save energy launched UBC has embarked on a major program to save fuel and power. A special committee onenergy conservation has reported that certain measures can cut UBC's annual energy bill of $2 million by 10 per cent in the current fiscal year. By 1982, it says, the savings could be as great as 25 per cent of current energycosts if a more sophisticated program is developed. C. Connaghan,J. UBC's vice-presidentfor administrative services,said a qualified energy-conservation officerwould be appointed before the end of 1977. "We're seeking someone who has at least five years of experience in design and supervision and a knowledge of building mechanical and electrical A huge collection of indoor plants that will go on sale to students, faculty and systems," Mr. Connaghan said. staff next week is kept alive and well by Margaret Coxon, curator of the UBC "The energy conservation officer's Botanical Garden's tropical collection. The inexpensive and specially selected prioritieswill be to develop an plants will be on sale from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 22, 23 and 24 at the Botanical operational program to reduce energy Garden offices at 6501 Marine Drive, opposite the Nitobe Memorial Garden. consumption andan educational Garden staff will give expert advice onthe care of purchases. Picture by Jim program to make all members ofthe Banham. University community aware of the need to conserve energy." Hesaid energy conservation would be particularlyimportant during daylight hours, "when campus demand UBC goes to the Yukon forelectricity can make a daytime kilowatt hour up to 10 times more UBC has gone to the Yukon. Each program will admit 20 expensive than a nighttimekilowatt The firstoftwo programs in students in the initial year. hour." teacher education to be offered by DennisMilburn, professor of Mr. Connaghan said theUniversity UBC in Whitehorse began early this education at UBC, will supervise the has also instructed architects of new month under an agreement between Yukon program, assisted by a local buildings to give special attention to theUniversity and the Yukon program co-ordinator. All courses will incorporating energy-conservation Territorial Government. be taught by members of the UBC measures intobuildings under The Yukon government is bearing construction or in the planning faculty. all costs of the program, estimated at process. $275,000 in the start-up year. Dr. Milburn termed the program Stepshave already been taken to The initial program is a singleyear "truly exciting." He said it is designed reduce lighting levels in certain campus of professional trainingfor would-be to meet the needs of native Yukoners buildings. teachers who already hold university and to prepare them for the special Electrical engineer Martin Kafer, of degrees. problems of teaching in the Yukon. the Department of Physical Plant, said The second program, which will levels in certain classrooms,seminar Hesaid the Yukon has for many begin in January, 1978, is for high rooms and corridors of the Education school graduates or mature students years had a high turnover among its Building and the Buchanan Tower had whowill enrol in a four-year UBC approximately 256 elementary school been reduced afterconsultation with program leading to a Bachelor of teachers. building occupants, Education (Elementary) degree. To be Dr.John Andrews, dean of He saidhe wouldlike comments admitted, students must meetUBC education at UBC, said the Yukon from users of the two buildings about entrance standards. initiative is indicative of the many the reduced lighting levels. Mr. Kafer The first and third years of this programs which car-ry the work of the can be reached at Local 2054. degree program will be conducted in Facultyof Education beyond the He said a survey initiated some time Whitehorse,including in-school confines of the UBCcampus. Hesaid ago of lighting levels in other campus practical training. The students will similar full degree programs could be buildings,including bookable spend their second and fourth years on offered in the Interior of British classrooms, would continue during the the UBC campus. Columbia if funds were provided. fall and winter. UBC's Board approves 1 new policy statement The University's Board of activities byfaculty memberscan Governors approved thefollowing be of substantial benefit to them policy statement on outside and to the University by increasing professional activities at its meeting theirteaching and research on July 5. effectiveness,and canalso be of value to the community. The UNIVERSITY POLICY University therefore permits faculty ON OUTSIDE members to engage in outside PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES activities of this sort, provided that (1)Faculty members are it does not interfere with their appointed on a 12-month basis. It is full-time University obligations. expected that, with the exception (4) Allfull-time faculty of the usual period of vacation members shall inform their heads or First winner of the $500 Frank Gnup (whichnormally will not exceed directors of all their outside Memorial Scholarship to UBC is Chris one calendar month), they will be professional activities. In all cases Thompson, of Richmond, a first-year engaged for the whole of the year involving a commitmentof time Arts student and a member of the in teaching, research, creative work equivalent to more than one-half 1977 Thunderbirdfootball team.I-le or scholarly pursuits, teaching, day perseven day week, the plans to study architectureafter preparation or other University approval of the heador director completinghisArts degree. service. must be obtained. When the Thunderbirds, defending western (2) It is recognized that faculty facilities of the University are used intercollegiate champions, are off to a members share the responsibility anyinoutside professional shaky start this year. Theylost their for the efficient operation of the activities, this fact must be reported Sept. 3 opener 35-25 to the University University toward which the deans, to the head or director. The ofManitoba andmanaged only a heads and directors have a special information given facultyby 29-29 tie against the University of obligation. membersshall be available to the Alberta Sept. 10. 'Birds next home (3) The University recognizes appropriate dean and to the game is a 2 p.m. exhibition match with that certain kinds of paid and president. It shall be treated as Eastern Oregon State College at unDaidoutside Drofessional confidential by the University. Thunderbird Stadium on Sept. 24. Funds for two buildings borrowed UBC has temporarilyborrowed a division, now housed in substandard admissions to the UBC medica! school total of $3,680,500 to construct two space in the Main Library. from the present 80 students to 160. campus buildings. I he new Aquatic Centre, scheduled A total of $50 millionis to be made The funds will beused to build a for completion early in 1978, will cost available for the proposals; half of it newprocessing centre for the UBC an estimated $5,700,000. Funds for Will come from the federal library at a cost of $2,680,500 and to the project have come from a variety government. of sources and fund drives, including enable construction to continue on the a UBC's new dean of medicine, Dr. $925,000 contribution from the Alma new Aquatic Centre adjacent to the William Webber,said plans are being Student Union Building. Mater Society. prepared for additions to Health The largestsingle project currently UBC's temporary borrowings will Sciences Centre buildings that house under construction at UBC is the be funded by the B.C. Educational basic medical sciences departments. Institutions CapitalFinancing 240-bed acute care hospital in the Authority established last year by the Health Sciences Centre. The new Hesaid planning hasalso begun in provincial government to raise funds hospital will cost an estimated $32 conjunctionwith the Vancouver for capital projects at post-secondary million. General Hospital for the inclusion of institutions. Completion theof acute-care clinical academicspace in the new Theprovincial government will hospital will mean that all major units emergency building planned for the advise the universities annually of the of the campus Health Sciences Centre site of the former King Edward amount of money to be requested in will be in place. Other clinical facilities secondary school at 12th Avenue and theiroperating budgets to retire the include the psychiatric unit and the Oak Street. borrowed funds. The sum of these new Harry Purdy Extended Care Unit, Dean Webber also said there would amounts will appear in the estimates whichadmitted its first patients in be clinical academicspace for the of theprovincialof Department of mid-July. medical facultyin the existing Education. The acute-care hospital is part of a Shaughnessy Hospital and in two new The Library Processing Centre is package of proposals made by the units - a children's hospital and a under constructionon a site provincial government in March, 1976, maternity hospital - to be built on the immediately west ofthe Woodward which includes the upgrading of grounds of Shaughnessy. Biomedical Library at the north end of clinical teaching facilities at downtown UBC will also have clinical space in Parking Lot H. The building will house hospitals, additions to basic medical facilities now under construction at St. the 150-member staff of the Library's sciences buildings at UBC, and a Paul's Hospital, including a clinical technical processingsystemsand phased expansion of undergraduate respiratory unit, Dean Webber said. PIUBC ReportsISept. 14, 1977 UBC is seeking new ways to expand Details arealso available from the work in the field of gerontology - the program's central office, Room 203, disciplinethat deals with the WarMemorial Gymnasium phenomena and problems of the:$ging. (228-3996). President Douglas Kenny has Studentsinterested in team reconstitutedand expanded a activities areasked to contact the committee chaired by Prof, Roy sports ceordinator in their respective Rodgers, head of the School of Home faculties, fraternities, residencesor Economics, to advise on avenues UBC clubs. Individual competitors can sign mighttakeparticipate to in draw sheets posted outside the central gerontological studies, particularly in office or simply show up on the day of terms of teaching and research. competition. Thecommittee, throughthe Information on the faculty, staff Facultyof Graduate Studies, has andgraduate student program is received a $1 2,500 grant from Mr. and available fromcoordinator Frank Mrs. P. A. Woodward's Foundation to Maurer,Room IOOF, Hut68 enable it to appointDr.Gloria (228-4329). Gutmanthepsychologyof x** department as a part-time research associate. An 18-month contract that expires Dr. Gutman has already distributed less than seven- months from now has a questionnaire to the heads of various been ratified by UBC and Local1 of UBCfaculties, schools and the Association of University and departments asking forinformation College Employees (AUCE). aboutcourses now offered in Terms of the contract, which gerontology and the names of faculty expires next March 31, provide for an members teaching them or acting as across-the-board salary increase of $54 consultants to community agencies. a month for the period Oct. 1, 1976, UBC patrolman Axel Nicholson A follow-up questionnaire will go to Sept. 30, 1977, plus an additional remindsmotorists that campusspeed outto individuals identifiedin the $37 a month from Oct. 1, 1977, to the limits are now posted in kilometres per initial surveyasking for details about contract expiry date. hour as part of Canada's conversion to their work. The 1,200 AUCE members - the metric system.Speed limit on Dr. Gutman will seek similar mainly non-professional library staff campus is now 30 krn/h, metric informationfrom other Canadian and clerical workers - voted to take equivalent of the former 20 miles per universities, B.C. regional colleges and .the across-the-board increases instead hour. Other speeds to watch out for professional organizations with an of percentage increases of six per cent interest in the elderly. on approaches to the UBC campus are and four per cent. 50 km/h (30 rnph) and 80 km/h (50 Prof. Rodgers said the committee Effective Oct. 1, salaries for AUCE mph). he chairs would look at various models members at UBC will range from $819 monthfor entrance-level clerks to for expanding work in gerontology Energy." Sir George is currently a $1,467 a monthfor senior clerical and identify sources of funds for work director of Great Britain's Royal administrative positions. in this area. Institution. More than a year of negotiations *x* A brochure listing lecturers and preceded ratification of the new Dr.Keith Spicer,former their topics is available from UBC agreement. Commissioner of Official Languages (228-3131 or 228-2181). A major policy change in the for the federal government, and two contract calls for theUniversity to x** Nobel Prize winners will be among the provide specific retraining for any 11 pre-Christmas speakers whowill UBC's intramuralathletic program employee whose job classification address the Vancouver Institute has been expanded this year to provide disappearsbecause of technological starting Saturday (Sept. 17). additional activities for the more than change. The Institute, which has sponsored 5,000 students, faculty and staff free Saturday-evening lectures since memberswho are expected to **+ 1916, meets in Lecture Hallof2 participate. UBC'sWoodward Instructional The men'sand women's program If you're having trouble with your Resources Centre. All lectures begin at gets underway Friday (Sept. 16) with office telephone at UBC, you'll get 8:15 p.m. a two-mile joggers' run that begins at faster and more efficient repair Dr. Spicer, currently a visiting Mclnnes Field adjacent to the War services if you route your call through professor of political science at UBC, Memorial Gymnasium at 12:35 p.m. theDepartment of Physical Plant will speak on the federal bilingualism A complete schedule of events, during normal working hours. program on Oct. 8. deadline dates for entries, and the OlgaLeland, UBC's Sir. George Porter, a Nobel Prize starting date for each activity appeared communications supervisor, asks that winner in chemistry in 1967, opens in "Insight," a publication distributed telephone problems be reported :to theInstitute's fall series on Saturday to students during registration week. A campus Local 2101, rather than by with a lecture entitled "Life Under the similar schedule will appear in dialing 114, the direct line to the 6.C. Sun - The Past and Future of Solar tomorrow's editionof The Ubyssey. Telephone Company's repair service. UBC ReportslSept. 14, 197713 Board approves new deans for

The appointment of new deans to that sponsors Saturday evening head the Faculties of Medicine and lectures on the UBC campus. Commerceand Business Dean Webbersucceeds Dr. David Ad m inistration was approved by Bates, whowill remain at UBC as a UBC's Board of Governors in June and professor of medicine and will July. continue his research in environmental Named to head the Faculty of medicine. Medicine is Dr. William A. Webber, 43, Dean Lusztig, who earned a former associate dean of medicine and teaching award of meritfrom the a UBC faculty member since 1961. Commerce Undergraduate Society in 1975, said his only regret in assuming The new dean ofthe commerce the duties of dean is that he will have faculty is Prof. Peter A. Lusztig, 47, an to give up teaching, "at least for my expertin finance and financial first year." management who joined the UBC teaching staff in 1957. Dean Lusztig receivedhis Bachelor of Commerce degree from UBC in Both Dean Webber and Dean 1957 and his Master of Business Lusztig are UBC graduates. Administration degree from the DeanWebber assumes the University of Western Ontario a year leadership of his faculty in the midst later. He did further graduate work at of an unprecedented period of Stanford University and was awarded expansion in its physical facilities and his doctorate by Californiathe enrolment. university in 1964. A new 300-bed extended-care unit, Before joiningthe UBC facultyin which will alsobe a major teaching 1957, Dean Lusztig wasassistant to and research centre for health sciences thecontroller of B.C. Electric, the students, opened in mid-July, and the forerunner of B.C. Hydro. In 1968-69 Dean William Webber first sod was turned in mid-April for a he studied at the London School of new $32 million acutecare hospital in Business on a Killam senior faculty the Health Sciences Centre complex. fellowship and was visiting professor The expansion also includes the financeof at the Management ~ upgrading of clinical facilities at Development Institutein Switzerland i Vancouver hospitals wheresenior in 1973-74. I undersraduate medical students and I Hehas taught at the Banff School graduate doctors training as specialists of Advanced Management and is on are instructed. the teaching staff of the Pacific Coast All these developments will enable Banking School. He has also taught on the UBC medical school to double a regularbasisexecutive in admissions from the present 80 development programs in Canada, the students to 160. U.S., Italy, Swedenand Switzerland. "It's exhilarating to begiven the He is the co-author, withfaculty responsibilityof heading the medical colleague Dr. Bernhard Schwab, of the faculty at a time when so many things first Canadian textbook on modern are happening thatwill undoubtedly finance entitled "Managerial Finance improve medical care, education and in a Canadian Setting." The book has research in B.C.," DeanWebber said. just appeared in a second edition, a Dean Webber was educated at West US.edition will be published next Point Grey schools in Vancouver year, and work has started on a Latin before enrolling at UBC in 1951. He American version. earned a dozen scholarships and prizes As a UBC undergraduate, Dean as a student, including the Eric Lusztig was co-captain of the UBC Hamber Gold Medal as head of the swimming teamand he coached the medical graduating class in 1958. team from 1956 to 1959. Hewas a He joined the medical school's Dean Peter Lusztig member of Students' Council and Department of Anatomy in 1961 after president of the Men's Athletic interning at VancouverGeneral member of the UBC Senate. In 1974 Association in 1953-54. Hospital and doing postgraduate work hewas one of two professors elected Dean Lusztig succeeds Prof.Noel at CornellUniversity in New York by the facultyto serve a three-year Hall, who stepped down as dean in the state. He became associate dean of the term on UBC's Board of Governors. spring of 1976 to pursue academic and UBC medical school in 1971. Hehas also been active in juvenile teachinginterests. Dr. Stanley Hamilton, acting deansince 1976, DeanWebber has been active in sports activities in the community and resumes his position as associate dean Universityaffairs as president of the this year is president of the Vancouver with redefined responsibilities. UBC Faculty Association and as a Institute, a town-gown organization I. 4/UBC ReportdSept. 14, 1977 nedicine, commerce

Here someare othernotable succeeds Dr. George Woodcock, who appointments approved by the Board. retiredin June after serving as the journal's founding editor for 17 years. Dr.Bernard Riedel,dean ofthe Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Prof. New has resigned as assistant hasbeen named Co-ordinator,Health dean ofthe Faculty of Graduate Dr. Robert Silverman, associate Sciences, succeeding Dr. Harold Copp, Studies. Succeeding him in that post is professor of musicandone of who continues as head theof Prof.Harold C. Knutsontheof Canada's best-known concert pianists, DepartmentPhysiologyof thein Department of French. Faculty of Medicine. will give about 10 performances in the The newassociate dean ofthe Soviet Unionin January. He will In his new post Dr. Riedel chairs Faculty of Education is Prof. Vincent appear both as a soloist and with the co-ordinatingcommittee of the R. D'Oyley,who has been with the various orchestras. Health Sciences Centre, which includes OntarioInstitute for Studies in A recording by Dr. Silverman of the the deans and directors of health Education since 1965. music of Franz Liszt has won the 1977 faculties andschools at UBC. The Grand Prix du Disque in the solo piano committeeco-ordinates the The new head of UBC'sphysics category fromthe Liszt Society in interdisciplinary teaching program and department is Prof. Roy Nodwell, a Budapest. Therecord is available on the clinicalfacilities ofthe Health faculty membersince 1959. He the Orion label (76226). Sciences Centre used for teaching succeeds Prof.Rudy Haering, who Last season, Dr.Silverman toured purposes. joinedthe faculty in 1972 and who WesternCanada as soloist with the NationalArts Centre Orchestra and The co-ordinator'soffice also will remain at UBC. will perform with the BBC Symphony includes divisions continuingof Orchestra London,in England,in educationin the health sciences, Prof. PeterOberlander hasbeen November. health servicesresearch and confirmed as director of UBC's Centre *** development, health systems, and for Human Settlements after serving as Dr.Harry V. Warren,professor hospital administration. acting director for thepast year. emeritus of geological sciences at UBC, Dr. Riedel will also continue as The centre acts as custodian for the was honored in England in June by the dean ofthe faculty he has headed more than 10,600 items that made up InternationalHockey Federation. He since coming to UBC in 1967. the240 audio-visual presentations by received the federation's Award of Dr. Bruce Owen hasbeen named 140countries that participated in Merit, the highest honor bestowed by head of theDepartment of Animal Habitat,theUnited Nations the organization. Science in the Faculty of Agricultural Conference on HumanSettlements Dr. Warren is regarded as the Sciences.He is a former member of held in Vancouver in 1976. The centre "father" of Canadian field hockey and thefaculty at theUniversity of will develop continuingeducation was the first president of the Canadian Saskatchewan, where he was professor programs utilizing the Habitat material Field Hockey Association in 1962. He of animal science, a lecturer in and administer it for teaching and introduced the game at UBC, where he veterinaryphysiological sciences and research programs at UBC and taught from 1932 until his retirement directorof the AnimalProduction elsewhere. in 1973. A UBC graduate, Dr. Warren Research Centre. was named Rhodes Scholar for B.C. in ChristineSamson, former directorof 1926. Thenewdirector of UBC's **I food services at McGillUniversity in WestwaterResearch Centre is Dr. Montreal, takes up a similar post a1 Dr. Hugh Wynne-Edwards,head of Andrew R. Thompson of the UBC law UBCon Sept. 15. Shewas employec U BC's Departmentof Geological faculty. Hesucceeds Dr.Irving Fox, infood service operations at thc Sciences, took up a key position in the who will continue as a faculty member Universities ofAlberta and Victorii federalministry of Scienceand in the School of Community and before goingto McGill in 1975. Technology in September. Regional Planning. In newhispost as assistant secretaryin theministry, Dr. Westwater,established in 1971, Prof. James P. Duncan has resignec carries out interdisciplinary research in Wynne-Edwards will be responsible for as head theDepartmentof oi the universities branch. Muchof his waterresources and has already Mechanical Engineering in the Facult) completed a majorinvestigation of work will be connected with federal of Applied Science, effective June 30, grants to universities for research. water qualityin the Lower Fraser 1978. He will remain at UBC as a ful River. nativeA Montreal, of Dr. professor. Wynne-Edwards was educated at the Dr.Frank P. Patterson,one of Universityof Aberdeen inScotland Prof. Duncan, who joined the UBC Canada'sbest-known orthopedic and at Queen's University in Kingston, facultyin 1966, hasbeen a leadinc surgeons,has been confirmed as head Ont.,where hewas also a faculty figure in the application of computer: of the medical faculty's Department of member from1959 until he joined to machine tools so that objects witt Surgery. Hehas been acting head of UBC as head of Geological Sciences in complex or precision shapescan be the department since July, 1976. 1972. manufactured automatically. The He has received a number of awards The new editor of the UBC journal technique has widespread application! Canadian Literature is Prof. William in industry and in medicine,where il for his work in geology, including the New, who will also continue to teach canbe used to produceperfect limt SpendirovPrize as Canada's in UBC's English department. He replacements for amputees. Continued on page 6 UBC Reportsisept. 14,197715 Continued from page 5 outstanding geologist.He is a former Board chairman elected president of the Geoscience Council of Canada and is the current president of University of B.C.graduate as a provincial government the Association Scientificof and George L. Morfitt, a Vancouver appointee. Technical Societies (SCITEC), an chartered accountant, hasbeen Mr. Morfitt,who will also umbrella organization of some 60 elected chairman of the University's continue to head the Board's scientific,technological and Board of Governors. finance committee, has been. engineering societies. He succeeds Hon. Thomas A. elected Board chairman for the He is also a professional engineer Dohm, QC, who retires as Board period Sept. 1, 1977, to Aug. 31, and a fellow of the Royal Society of chairman after serving the 1978. Hehas served on UBC's Canada. maximum two-year period provided 15-member Board since 1975 as an Dr. Wynne-Edwards has deplored for under the Universities Act. He appointee of the provincial the fact that public support for science will continue to serve on the Board government nominated by the UBC has steadily declined in relation to Alumni Association. other issues,and says that Canadian Mr. Morfitt was born and expenditure on research and technical educated in Vancouver. He innovation is now among the lowest in graduated from UBC in 1958 with the developed worldin relation to the degree of Bachelor of gross national product. Commerce. In his graduating year *x+ he was treasurer of the Alma Mater Jindra Kulich,acting director of Society and was selected as the UBC'sCentre forContinuing outstanding malegraduate of his Education, has received the annual commerce class. awardof the Northwest Adult He was an active member of the EducationAssociation for UBC Alumni Association for five "outstanding contributions tothe field years, serving on the association's of adult education." board of management from 1969 to In making the award,awards 1974 and as association president in committee chairman Carl Sandell of 1973-74. Hewas also a part-time Montana citedthequantity and lecturer in the Facultyof qualityof Mr. Kulich's contributions CommerceBusinessand toboth researchandservices in Administration from 1964 to 1968. international and comparative adult In February, 1976, Mr.Morfitt education. began a two-year term as president In addition tohis work at UBC, Mr. ofthe CanadianSquash Racquets Kulich is a book review editor, foreign Association. wasHe the first publications, Adult Leadership; president in the 63-year history of generaleditor, Monographs in the association to come from Comparative and Area Studies in outside Ontario or Quebec. Adult Education; and is a member of He is a past president of the B.C. themanagement committee of Squash Racquets Association and a Convergence. two-time Pacific coastsquash He will also be book review editor George Morfitt champion. of Learning, a new periodical to be published by the Canadian Association for Adult Education. from Central Mortgage and Housing New York for research on the history Membership in the Northwest Corp. of domestic architecture and its Adult Education Association includes The scholarship will enable Mr. relation to everyday life at various educators from Alaska, Washington, Clarke to visit universities on the periods in the history of Venice, Italy. Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alberta and eastern seaboard of the United States Prof.Rogatnik,who is one of UBC's British Columbia. and a number of projects in the Master Teachers, is regarded as one of x** American west and midwest to review the top architectural authorities on the Prof. David Suzuki of the and document current researchand history, architecture and current Department of Zoology has received design on energy conservation in physical problems of the Italian city. the 1977 Cybil Award of the Canadian buildings, particularly with respect to x** BroadcastingLeague forhis the impact on the form of future Dr.Eric F. Broom, associate outstandingcontribution to residential and community design. professor in the School of Physical broadcasting. Mr. Clarke is also serving as the Educationand Recreation, has Currently on leave from UBC, Prof. architectfor a consortium of returned to teaching duties at UBC Suzuki is host of CBC-TV's "Science companies which has won a National after a two-year period as associate Magazine" and CBC Radio's "Quirks Research Council open competition to deputy minister for leisure services and Quarks." build a solar demonstration house on a with theprovincial government in The Cybil Award wasmade for site in Langley. The solarenergy Victoria. Dr. Suzuki's contributionto making devices to be incorporated into the Dr.Broom was theauthor of a the complex issues of science more house will be monitored by the NRC 1973 study of leisure services for B.C. understandable and relevant to the to test their effectiveness. commissioned by the provincial *x* general public. government. Hewas appointed to *** Prof. Abraham Rogatnik, another implementthe major recom- Robin Clarke, associate professor in member of the School of Architecture, mendations of his reportafter it was the School ofArchitecture, is the has received a $2,625 grant from the tabled in the legislature in February, winner of a $5,400 open scholarship Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of 1974. GIUBC ReportsISept. 14, 1977 I Frustrated researchers get help

Help is herefor frustrated computer to combine those two researchers tryingto ferret out the entries and it will tell me it has 100 most up-to-date results of workin entries. If the researcher wants all 100 their discipline. references they canbe printedout The guide through the bewildering immediately on theterminal here at world of learned journals, government UBC. Or I can ask for, say, only the publications and other periodicals latest half-dozen references. might, at first glance, be identified as a “Alternatively,the referencescan small portable typewriter. be printed out ona terminal in Ottawa It’sactually a computerterminal and mailed to the UBC researcher.” that provides access to dozens of data References in hand, the researcher can bases stored in computers in eastern probably get the needed journals from Canada and the U.S. Four such UBC’s collection. If a publication isn’t terminals are now operative in the availablehere it canbe obtained UBC library system. throughthe interlibrary loan service. With the help of a trained librarian Jvho can ask the computerthe right This simple demonstration masks a questions, researchers now have access highly sophisticated indexing system to theto contents of thousands of that involves a lot of wrinkles known publications. to the librarians who have been trained The data bases cover all major fields to operate the terminals. ”If weask of science and technology, the medical the computer the right questions after and life sciences, a significant number discussing an individual’s needs,we of the social sciences, as well as can prepare a profile of references that businessand educatlon. Data bases in can save the researcher a great deal of history, linguistics and religion are also time andmoney,” says Mr. Brongers. available. The lawdata base provides The NRC computer in Ottawa has access to Canadianand B.C. statutes data bases that cover electronics, and Supreme Court of Canada reports, physics, chemistry and the life sciences among other things. as well as engineering. Two other US. Ann Turner, the head of the serial data base suppliers include a wide publicationsdivision in the UBC range of subjects in the sciences and library, won’t even hazard a guess at social sciences, including agriculture, the number of journals published the environment, pollution, statistics, annually. UBC subscribes to 22,000 of economics, sociology, psychology, them, she says, and the US. Library of Library science division head Rein U.S. government research reports, and Congressmay have 10 times that Brongers and computer terminal. much, much more. number. Another thing about journals. They Because of theglutof serial have a habit of changing their names, With indexes in the computer, the publications, many of the data bases mutatingto produce another, often UBC terminals can produce in minutes are indexed for only six or seven years. more specialized journal, or simply what it might take days or even weeks Others are more extensive; one of the going outof business.One full-time to find in printed indexes. American bases contains 500,000 librarian does nothing but keep track ”For instance,” says Mr. Brongers, references to all doctoral theses of such changes. “suppose you want toknow what’s written in North America since 1861. Theco-ordinator of UBC’s new been published recently on noise Computer-Assisted Bibliographic abatement in diesel engines.” The newservice isn‘t free. UBC Searches (CABS) is R e i n Brongers, Here hebreaks off topick up a researchersget a specialrate, but head of the science division in the phone and dial a number that connects off-campus usershave to pay the full Main Library. him by telephone line to the National costof a search. Costs vary He says you can still find out the Research Council‘s computer in significantly depending on search time contents of serial publications ifyou Ottawa. and the charges set by the companies have patience and good eyesight, since A few simple commands typed on offering the service. most of them are topic-indexed in the computer terminal give him access You can get further information by indexing or abstracting journals which to COMPENDEX, an acronym for calling the following Library divisions: appearregularly with annual Computerized Engineering Index, a science division - 228-3295 or cumulations and, in some cases, with data base containing references from 228-3826; social sciences division - five-year cumulative indexes. 2,150 serials on all aspects of 228-2725or 228-31 55; humanities ”The problem is that you have to engineering. division - 228-241 1; and the law approach an index on its own terms, ”First, I ask the computer tolook library - 228-2275. and languages vary from index to for the word ’diesel.‘ ” Almost before index,” Mr. Brongersexplains. “For he’s finished saying the sentence the MEDLINE,with a terminal in the instance, you won‘t find an entry for computer tells him it has 7,000 entries WoodwardBiomedical Library, ’hovercraft’ in our card catalogue. You on that topic. provides access to the U.S. National have tolook under ’ground-effect ”Then I ask it to look for ‘noise.‘ ” Library of Medicine data base. machines’ because that’s the language The computer says it has 5,000 entries Information is available at 228-2473 of that cataloguing system.” on that subject. ”Now I ask the or 228-4440. UBC ReportsISept. 14, 197717 NEXT WEEK AT UBC Dtices must reach Information Services, Main Mall North Admin.Bldg., by mail, by 5 p.m. Thursday of week preceding publication of notice

IB R A RY TOURSIBRARY 12:30 p.m.VISITING GREEN~~~~~ ~ ~~ SirPROFESSOR. Georae Porter, RoyalInstitution of Great Britain, on eneral orientation tours of Main and Sedgewick libraries will be Science and theHuman Purpose. LectureHall 2, ven Monday, Sept. 19, to Friday, Sept. 23, at 10:30 a.m. and Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. 2:30 p.m. Tourswill begin in theentrance hall of the,pin ibrary. A slidetape show, "Welcome to the UBC Library, will CLASSICSLECTURE. Prof. Richard Clogg, e shown every day in Sedgewick Orientation Room at 11 :20 Byzantineand '' Jern Greek Studies, London m. and 1 :20 p.m. University, r FromAuthoritarianism to Democracy: .ne GreekColonels andtheir XERCISE PROGRAM Aftermath. F.oom 102. Buchanan Building. wo exercise programs for faculty and staff, men and women, 3:30 p.m. STATISTICS WORKSHOP. Prof. J. V.Zidek. re offered by the School of Physical Education and Recreation. Mathematics, UBC, onCSIRO of Australia, a Awareness throughMovement" takes place Tuesdays and Visitor's View of the Statistical Visitor's Program. hursdays from 12:30 to 1 :05 p.m. Theregular exercise Room 41 2, Angus Building. rogram, which begins Monday, Sept. 19, will be on Mondays, HISTORYSEMINAR. Prof.Richard Clogg. lednesdays and Fridays from 12:30 to 1 :05 p.m. Programs are London University, onBritish Policy Toward eld in Gym E on the south campus. Call 3996 or 4479 for more Wartime Resistance in Greece, 1941-1944. rformation. Penthouse, Buchanan Building. -HE COFFEEPLACE COMPUTINGCENTRE LECTURE. Darlene nternational House is operatingcoffeea house during Osterlin, Computing Centre, UBC, gives the second eptember from 6 to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday.UBC of six lectures onIntroduction to Computing. tudents, staff and faculty are welcome to drop by Room 402, Room 310, Computer Sciences Building. nternational House. Licensed premises. Admission free. 8:OO p.m. CENTREFOR CONTINUING EDUCATION. :REDERIC WOOD THEATRE Findhorn and the New Age, film and discussion. , Moon for theMisbegotten by Eugene O'Neill begins the Admission, $5. LectureHall 2, Woodwarc 977-78 season. Thisplay began Wednesday, Sept. 14 and Instructional Resources Centre. ontinues until Sept. 24 nightlyat 8 p.m. except Sunday. hdmission, $4.50; students, $2.50. Reservations, call 228-2678. THURSDAY, SEPT. 22 lANCOUVER INSTITUTE 9:00 a.m. MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS.Dr. Hugh Freeman, 'he firstVancouver Institute lecture is Saturday, Sept. 17, at Medicine, University of California, on Celiac Spruc 1:15 p.m., featuringSir George Porter, directorof the Royal andLymphoma. Lecture Hall B, Vancouvel nstitution of Great Britain, who will speak on Life Under the General Hospital. ;un - the Past andFuture of Solar Energy. LectureHall 2. 11 :OO a.m. PLANTSALE. Friendsof the UBC Botanica Voodward Instructional Resources Centre. Garden present a sale of indoor plants for student! NNDAY, SEPT. 18 atthe Botanical Garden Office (across the roac 3:OO p.m. MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY. The Vancouver from the NitobeGarden). Continues until 4 p.m ChileanAssociation Song Group presents a Faculty and staff welcome. programChileanof music usingtraditional 12:30p.m. GREENVISITING PROFESSOR.John Dunn instruments. Museum, 6393 N.W. Marine Dr. King's College, Cambridge, onLiberalism, thc second of four lectures on Western Political Theor) IIIONDAY, SEPT. 19 in Face ofthe Future. Room 106, Buchanar l2:30 p.m. PHYSICSLECTURE. Norman Feather, professor Building. emeritus,University Edinburgh,of Scotland, 3:30 p.m. COMPUTINGCENTRE LECTURE. Darlenc RutherfordMemorial Lecturer, Royal Society of Osterlin,Computing Centre, UBC,gives thethirc London,on Some Aspects ofthe Alpha-Particle of six lectures onIntroduction to Computing Story, 1903-1977. Room 318, Hennings Building. Room 310. Computer Sciences Building. 3:30 p.m. COMPUTINGCENTRE LECTURE. Darlene 4:OO p.m. PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM. A. J. Berlinsky, Physics Osterlin,Computing Centre, UBC, presents the UBC, onSpin Polarized Hydrogen. Room 210 first of a series of six lectures on Introduction to Hennings Building. Computing.Room 310, Computer Sciences Building. 4:OO p.m. BIOCHEMICALDISCUSSION GROUP. Dr. Derek FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 Applegarth, Pediatrics, UBC, on Biochemistry and 9:OOa.m. PEDIATRICSGRAND ROUNDS. Dr.Keitt Pediatrics. Lecture Hall 3, Woodward Instructional Riding,Department of ENT Surgery, VGH,or Resources Centre. ThoughtsTonsillectomyNew on anc TUESDAY, SEPT. 20 Adenoidectomy.Lecture Hall B, Vancouvel General Hospital. 12:30p.m. GREENVISITING PROFESSOR. JohnDunn, 11:OO a.m. PLANTSALE. Friends of the UBCBotanica King's College, Cambridge, and Cecil H. andIda Garden present a sale of indoor plants for student! Green Visiting Professor, onDemocratic Theory, at the Botanical Garden Office (across the roac the firstof four lectures on Western Political from the Nitobe Garden).Continues until 4 p.m Theory in Face ofthe Future. Room 106, Faculty and staff welcome. Buchanan Building. 3:30 p.m. HISTORYSEMINAR. John Dunn, King's College 3:30 p.m. OCEANOGRAPHYSEMINAR. Dr. A. Hattori, Cambridge, on Practising History and Socia Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, on Science on 'Realist' Assumptions. Penthouse Ammonium Regeneration in ControlledAquatic Buchanan Building. Systems. Room 1465, Biological Sciences Building. 7:30p.m. MUSEUMOF ANTHROPOLOGY presents an evening of East Indian music. 6393 N. W. Marine SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 Dr. 11:OO a.m. PLANTSALE. Friendsofthe UBC Botanica 8:OO p.m. CENTREFOR CONTINUING EDUCATION. Garden present a sale of indoor plants for student Peter andEileen Caddy, co-founders of the atthe Botanical Garden Office (across the roac Findhorn Community, Scotland, on Findhorn and from the Nitobe Garden).Continues until 4 p.m theVision ofthe New Age, an audio-visual Faculty and staff welcome. presentation.Admission, $5. LectureHall 2, 2:OO p.m. FOOTBALL.UBC Thunderbirds, defendin! Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. Western Canada universitychampions, M Easterr WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21 Oregon State College. Thunderbird Stadium. 9:00 a.m. CENTREFOR CONTINUING EDUCATION. 8:15p.m.VANCOUVER INSTITUTE. Prof.John Dunn Peter andEileen Caddy, FindhornCommunity, King's College, Cambridge, speaks on Envy, Fea Scotland, present an all-day workshop. Admission, and Interdependence - The Third World and thl $20. International House, Forinformation, call West. LectureHall 2, Woodwardlnstructiona 228-2181, local 261. Resources Centre. hJBC ReportdSept. 14,1977