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How UBC Got Its Latest Philanthropical Blessing 48 C.f FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1971 -^H^" 228-2301 money By NATE SMITH Instruments and, through the baffling How UBC got its latest shift of corporate structure, TI became Who is Cecil Green and why is he the parent company and GSI the doing those wonderful things for us? subsidiary. This week's issue of UBC PReports Green became a vice-president and proudly trumpets the fact that "former philanthropical blessing director of TI, but remained as president UBC student" (dropout would be a more of GSI until 1956, becoming chairman of precise term) Cecil H. Green, of Cecil the board in that year and honorary Green Park fame, has given the university from a war profiteer chairman in 1959. $600,000 to establish a series of visiting Green is one of UBC's prized professorships. ex-students, a rather unusual state of The story quotes physics department affairs since universities are not known head George Volkoff, chairman of the for their affection toward people who committee to administer the fund, as drop out and move to other institutions. saying he is considering such people as Green's special status undoubtedly "physicists Linus Pauling and Robert stems from the UBC Alumni Oppenheimer" as possible visiting Association's renowned ability to spot a professors under the fund. dime taped to the tip of a passing A course taught by Oppenheimer air-to-ground missile. would certainly be interesting, since "the father of the atomic bomb" has been dead almost five years. (Volkoff is Scraps for UBC certainly up on the physics world.) For Pauling (who is now a chemist, by The Alumni Association probably the way) to come to UBC on funds became aware of Green's wallet first in provided by Cecil Green would be purest 1959, when he gave MIT $2,527,500 irony. worth of Tr stock to finance a 20-storey Pauling is a leader of the American earth sciences building. pacifist movement and a former winner On the very sound principle that if of the Nobel Peace Prize; Green's fortune MIT was worth that much to Green, UBC is based largely on the supply of strategic should rate a few scraps, UBC gave Green equipment to the U.S. military. an honorary doctor of science degree in He is, in fact, a full fledged member in 1964. good standing of the legendary The citation described him as "a leader military-industrial complex. in geophysical exploration whose love for science and higher learning was first aroused in Vancouver." Favors from LBJ It praised him for his efforts to "promote, widen and enrich ... a very Green was a founder of Texas close and understanding bond between Instruments Ltd. and, at the age of 71, industry and the universities." still sits on the company's board of Suitably flattered, Green came directors. through with a grant of more than TI is an international corporation $200,000 for UBC to develop Yorkeen, dealing in transistors, semi-conductors, the former estate of Sen. S.S. McKeen, as computers, the U.S. space program and a centre for "contacts between the sundry other electronic gadgetry, based in university and the community." (The Dallas with subsidiaries in Canada, property had been purchased by the Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, university in 1964 at a price of Taiwan, Singapore, Argentina, Brazil, $103,000.) Mexico, Australia and the Netherlands. prospered from the presence of a Texan So much for the corporation, but what The property, of course, is now known Its products, listed in the current in the White House. about the man? as Cecil Green Park, housing the offices Standard and Poor's industrial directory, During the LBJ years, defence plants Cecil Howard Green was born in of the Alumni Association and being include such items as air-to-ground suddenly began sprouting like weeds Manchester, England and raised in rented out for wedding receptions and missiles and armaments, radar systems, everywhere in Texas and the state's Vancouver. private banquets. military data systems, "target detection defence industry suddenly became the He entered UBC in 1918 to study Obviously, Green is pleased with the and acquisition programs" and undersea second largest in the U.S. engineering, but left in 1921 without results, having now come through with warfare signal studies. (As far as TI, at least, is concerned, completing his degree because, at that his new $600,000 gift. (Imagine the In the past, TI has also developed the changing of the guard in Washington time, UBC had no course in his chosen nervous finance department clerk who guidance systems for the RF4 Phantom, did little to reverse the trend.) specialty of electrical engineering. had to carry that cheque to the bank.) A7 Corvair II and F111A fighter planes. The company did not hesitate in He went to the Massachusetts Institute At the going interest rates, that kind As an example of its profitable showing its gratitude to LBJ for past of Technology, where he got his of money will buy some high-priced relationship with the Pentagon, TI's new favors. bachelor's degree in electrical engineering temporary help. contracts and new extensions of existing When Johnson's closest political in 1923 and his master's the following However, judging from the names contracts from the U.S. Air Force alone associate, John B. Connally, stepped year. George Volkoff and UBC PReports are have totalled $24 million so far this year. down as governor of Texas in 1969, he After graduation, he worked as an currently throwing around as possible Like so many corporations, TI has was appointed to the TI board of engineer for such companies as General Cecil Green visiting profs, the grown spectacularly in recent years — a directors. Electric (Schenectady, N.Y.), Raytheon administration is more interested in growth that is directly attributable to the The move didn't exactly hurt TI's Manufacturing (Cambridge, Mass.) and prestige names for the calendar than in war in Vietnam and the increasing military contacts, since Connally had also Federated Telegraph (Palo Alto, Cal. and any improvement in the quality of purchases by the military. served as Secretary of the Navy in the Newark, N.J.). education at UBC. In 1963, the year before the U.S. early days of the Kennedy In 1930, he went to Dallas and helped Undoubtedly, a course taught by Linus began its major escalation in Vietnam, administration. found Geophysics Service Inc. Pauling, Margaret Mead, Laurence Olivier TI's total sales were $276,476,571 and its Connally, of course, has since left the He held various positions in the or Kenneth Clark (some of the names net income was $13,420,980. TI board to design and guide Richard company's hierarchy, but in the early being mentioned) would attract wide By the end of last year, sales had more Nixon's new economic policy as secretary years concentrated on work in the field attention and might even be interesting than tripled, increasing to $827,641,000, of the treasury and is widely mentioned rather than the executive suite. for a number of students. and net income had risen to $29,861,000. as a possible vice-presidential candidate if However, he donned the grey flannel But considering that such a course will Most of that growth occurred between Nixon chooses to dump Spiro Agnew for suit to become the company's exist only through the generosity of Cecil 1964 and 1968, while Lyndon Johnson the 1972 election. vice-president in 1941 and president in Green and considering the source of Cecil was president. Obviously, the pipeline to the White 1950. Green's wealth, there will be blood stains Like all Texas defence industries, TI House is still functioning. In 1951, GSI organized Texas on the text books. Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 15, 1971 Notice to Graduating Students in 'Tenure system ensures ARTS A meeting will be held in Room 106, Buchanan Building jobs for incompetents' TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19 at 12:30 p.m. CALGARY (CUP) - Steps should be taken to "We don't have a similar situation in Canada," to hear a representative from the Placement Office abolish the tenure system at Alberta campuses, the said U of A delegate Don McKenzie. (Office of Student Services) Alberta Association of Students plenary session "Students should fight the concept as a basic on the subject concluded at their Thanksgiving weekend principle issue." conference. Murphy also advocated the abolition of tenure. GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT An alternate system proposed by U of A "It was once used for the protection of the delegates is the Minnesota system of a three-year academic freedom of faculty members. It is now probationary period followed by five-year used for job security and to hide incompetence," he said. renewable contracts. YOUR PRESCRIPTION . The issue was brought into focus in response to The acceptable causes for revoking tenure now a report on tenure presented to the AAS by Ron are: moral terpitude, discredit to the academic ... For Glasses community, a lack of service, and the unavailability Murphy of the University of Calgary. for that smart leek in glas He pointed out the tenure system freedom is a of funds. In other words, tenured professors can still hangover from the McCarthy era. be dismissed at the whim of administrators. leek to Cable visions seal their lips P>lescUpUon Optical By BERTON WOODWARD essential truth of the impending They believe that through an The Alpha and Omega Amchitka explosion. intricate process of Foundation has uncovered the It has a triggering device. consciousness-raising human The triggering device uses a beings can withstand the effects cable.
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