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Volume 29, Number 15 September 7,1983 Late budget means financial difficulties UBC’s president, Dr. K. George quarter of the fiscal year with Council of B.C. announced the division of million rollback in the middle of the Pedersen, continues to carry out an commitments to everything that was in government grants to the three public financial year. UBC’s share of the global intensive round of consultations with deans place at the end of the last fiscal year.” universities. grant is $172,370,508 for general operating and other University officials in order to (The full text of the interview with Dr. In his UBC Reports interview, Dr. purposes, plus 98,342,405 for expansion of resolve what he describes as a “difficult” Pedersen begins on page two of this issue.) Pedersen said it was incorrect to say that the medical school, the same as last year. 1983-84 budget situation. UBC’s current fiscal year began on April UBC will have the same operating budget However. the government has reduced In an interview with UBC Reports, Dr. 1, 1983. However, the provincial in 1983-84 as it had in the last fiscal year. by about $3 million the funds for a wide Pedersen said the University’s financial government did not introduce a budget in The operating grant to the universities range of miscellaneous higher-education difficulties largely stem from the fact that the legislature until early July, and it was for 1983-84 totalled $300,993,292, exactly programs which are designated in the “we are two months into the second not until Aug. 9 that the Universities what was provided last year after a $12 ministry budget as “Operating Grants- Other.” In UBC’s case, a total of more than $2 million has been removed under this category for the support of such UBC won’t programs as Health Care Teaching Costs, the Industrial Education Program, non- lack students metropolitan programs and a project in the UBC library involving computerization of library holdings. in 1983-84 UBC also has to fund permanently a UBC may be experiencing some fund liability of about $1.1 million arising out of shortfalls this year, but there’s one thing it faculty salary increases awarded last year won’t lack in 1983-84 - students. and must provide an additional $800,000 UBC Registrar Kenneth Young says to pay for increased utility costs in 1983-84. enrolment at UBC could increase between These commitments, the president said, 8 and 9 per cent this year -- a rate of total between $3.5 and $4 million and increase UBC hasn’t experienced since the don’t take into account salary increases for 1960s. faculty and support staff, inflation on His guess is based on the number of supplies and expenses and the introduction authorization-to-register forms which were of new programs. issued up to the end of August. This year, “I’m not at all sure that the University 30,813 forms were issued compared to can deal with a problem of (that) 28.367 at the same time last year. magnitude. . . five-twelfths of the way That’s an increase of 2,446 or 8.6 per through the fiscal year. cent. .I “It may be that when we’ve considered The number of forms issued to students everything in the way of options UBC. for classified as new admissions (applicants for the first time in its history, may have to first-year programs and transfers from seek approval of the provincial government colleges and other universities) is also up by to run a deficit.” nearly 20 per cent from 7,566 in 1982 to Under Section 28 (1) of the University 9,024 this year. Act, the provincial legislation that outlines Mr. Young doesn’t have comparable University government, the University’s figures for the number of forms issued for Board of Governors is prohibited from first-year programs as of Aug. 31. incurring any liability or making any However, as of Sept. 15 last year, forms Dr. Roy Taylor, right, head of UBC’S Botanical Garden, was among the first expenditure in a fiscal year over and above had been issued to 4.053 entrants at the visitors to Norman MacKenzie Home when UBC’S new president, Dr. George the total of funds expected from the year-one level. The comparable figure for Pedersen, and his wife, Joan, moved into the renovated house on Sept. 1. provincial government, student fees and the same programs of Aug. 31 this year as Appropriately, Dr. Taylor brought with him a bouquet offlowers from the miscellaneous revenues, “unless an estimate is 4.623, an increase of 14 per cent. of the increased liability or overexpenditure campus garden, which formerly had its headquarters in the house and which has The registrar is quick to point out that has been first submitted to the universities not everyone who gets an authorization-to- moved a stonek throw away to the former Home Management House on council and approved by the minkter (of register form actually shows up to register. Northwest Marine Drive. universities) and Minister of Finance.” He said the “shrinkage” rate in the past The president also expresses concern has varied between 10 and 15 per cent, but about a problem arising out of the last year dropped to 8.9 per cent. Pedersen Exchange provides expansion of UBC’s medical school. He Some quick calculations will tell you that said the position of provincial universities if the shrinkage rate this year is the same minister Dr. Patrick McGeer is that as last, some 28,000 students will register chance to air your concerns sufficient monies have already been for day and nighttime credit programs, an provided to enable the medical school to increase of 8.6 per cent over last year when Dr. George Pedersen, UBC’s new “the exchange allows me to get to know double its intake of first-year students from 25,83 1 enrolled. president, plans to continue at UBC one people in the University community and at 80 to 160. The biggest increases in enrolment are activity he initiated ,while presidentof the same time provides an avenue for the UBC will this year enrol 130 first-year likely to be in the Faculties of Arts and Simon Fraser University. expression of concerns. both positive and medical students, the same number as last Science, Mr. Young said. It’s called the Pedersen Exchange and is negative.” year. UBC received no increase in funds in UBC‘s dean of Science, Dr. Cyril designed to give any member of the on- He said the exchange proved to be both its 1983-84 budget to enable it to consider Finnegan, said his faculty would be hard campus University community an useful and successful when he was expanding the first-year class beyond 130 pressed to accommodate even 100 more opportunity to meet personally with the president of Smon Fraser University. “The students. undergraduate students than the 3.885 who president to discuss matters of concern. bulk of those who took advantage of it The president said he had received a enrolled last year. His problems centre on The Pedersen Exchange begins on were students who had some difficulty with letter from the provincial ministry of a lack of classroom and laboratory space. Monday (Sept. 12) at 350 p.m. in a room the organizational bureaucracy of the universities indicating that if expansion to UBC’s Faculty of Forestry will introduce adjacent to the Librarian’s office in the university.” 160 students does not occur the minister its new four-year program this year, which Main Library. President Pedersen will be Not all those who appeared for the would be forced to reallocate funds from means it will be taking in students directly available until 5 p.m. exchange came with problems. “I found the medical expansion program to the from high school for the first time in its Members of the University community that many people came to tell me how well development of equally important history. who wish to meet with the president should they’d been treated by some campus unit,” programs at other B.C. universities. A total of 129 students have been speak to the receptionist in the Librarian’s he said. Dr. Pedersen also said in his UBC admitted to the first year of the new office, which is immediately to the left of Normally, the Pedersen Exchange will Reports interview that serious consideration program. Students who last year were the main entrance of the Main Library take place every Monday from 350 to 5 will have to be given in the coming year to building. She’ll direct those wishing to see p.m. if the president is on campus. It is placing enrolment restrictions on UBC Please turn to Page 6 the president to the meeting room. cancelled for Sept. 19 because Dr. programs that currently do not have See ENROLMENT “As I see it,” President Pedersen said, Pedersen will be away on that date. enrolment limits. UBC Reports September 7, 1983 AN INTERVIEW WITH UBC’S NEW PRESIDENT Enrolment limitations may be necessary at UBC Reports intemewed UBCj new Each 1 per cent increase in the salary base president, Dr. K. GeorgePedersen, on two is equal to $1.8 million. occasions last month - on Aug. 2, the day 1 should mention, too, that nothing has before he left for meetings of the been provided for inflation on non-salary Association of Universities of the British items, nor for the provision of new Commonwealth in England, and on Aug. programs in pulp and paper engineering 29, shortly after his return to the campus. and journalism, which we would like to What follows is an amalgamated version of launch. the two interviews, during which he So our short-run problem to balance the discussed a wide range of University 1983-84 books is considerable and is problems and activities. compounded by the shortage of time. It may well be that after considering all the UBC REPORTS: On Aug. 9, more options UBC, for the first time in its than four months after the startof the history, may have to seek approval from current fiscal year, the University was the provincial government to run a deficit. told by the Universities Council of B.C. Added to this is a problem arising out of what its operating budget would be for the expansion of the medical school. A 1983-84. In the time that’s been available letter has been sent to me indicating that to you since your return from meetings it’s the position of the minister (Dr. Patrick in England, what have your priorities McCeer. minister of universities) that he been? has given UBC all the funds it needs to PRESIDENT PEDERSEN: Basically, double enrolment in first-year medicine we’ve been trying to understand where the from 80 to 160 students. + And it’s been University stands financially. We’re in a indicated that if we don’t comply with that difficult financial position, largely expectation, resources will be withdrawn stemming from the fact that we are two and applied to programs at the other two months into the second quarter of the universities. fiscal year with commitments to everything So that’s another problem we‘re going to that was in place at the end of the last have to deal with. The problem of the fiscal year. medical school is not an isolated one, even The stories that have appeared in the though there was a clear understanding media seem to indicate that we have the that expansion of the medical school would same operating budget as last year. In not be at the expense of any existing UBC’s case that’s not true. We have the program. same dollars in the general operating UBC REPORTS: In the light of what budget, but in terms of special funding for you’ve said so far, do you think student a number of specific programs, which fees will have to increase? comes under the heading of “Operating PRESIDENT PEDERSEN: The Grants-Other” in the provincial budget, a University has only three possible options at total of more than $2 million applicable to the present time in terms of financial UBC been removed. It appears the support. One is that the government will University is expected to find the shortfall provide increased levels of support; out of its general operating budget. secondly, that the private sector will come UBC REPORTS: Can you be specific to the aid of the universities and provide about the items which have been removed more in the way of recurring under Operating Grants-Other? President George Pedersen support . . . and it has to be recurring, .PRESIDENT PEDERSEN: Most of the because one-time-only money is not shortfall - just over $1.6 million - is helpful . . . and the third option is student budget should be borne by student fees, of the institution and even build on it? accounted for under two headings - fees. There’s no question that student fees ensure that we have an adequate financial That’s a very difficult assignmelrt. Health Care Teaching Costs* in the are going to be reviewed. aid program so that good students aren’t Faculty of Medicine and the Industrial UBC REPORTS: Are enrolment I have a somewhat schizophrenic view of prevented from enrolling and ensure that limitations in programs that don’t now Education program** in the Faculty of fees . . . two views that make some sense to the three institutions have the same level of Education. have them a possibility in the future? me. One is to go to the British or tuition fees. Last year, the funds for Industrial PRESIDENT PEDERSEN: I don’t - Australian system, where there are no fees. The second aspect of this question is how think there’s any question that we are Education were cut in half by the Under this system there are very the University maintains quality of government and this year the allocation going to have to take a hard look at the demanding standards for getting into education and, indeed, builds on it, at the number of students this University can has been reduced to zero. Last year, we university, but once admitted the students same time as it‘s faced with restraint. accommodate. Overall this year the met the other half of our obligation in this ’ pay nothing and no one who has the There are two basic ways one can go. area through surplus funds, but this year number of students eligible to register is up capacity for a university education is The first is to say that we will make we’re not in a position to provide support 8.4 per cent to more than 49,200 and the denied the opportunity to go. across-the-board cutsover some period of from that source. The deans of Medicine numbers eligible to register in first-year The other route is that of charging time and continue to support all areas and Education are looking at these matters programs is up by nearly 25 per cent. considerably higher fees to the student equally on the earlier budget base. I have closely. I don’t think the universities can . . . considerably higher than we now a problem with that. It’s a neat solution continue to admit more and more students The other large reduction is in the charge. This is based on an economic simply to say that everyone has to take a funding for non-metropolitan programs, without increases in operating grants. That argument which goes like this: The present two- or five-per-cent cut, or whatever the doesn’t seem to bother the government too which is vital to our commitment to extend relatively modest level of fees that students required level of cutback. But in the long- programs beyond the Greater Vancouver much . . . the minister of universities is on are required to pay serves as a subsidy to run, UBC will not be well served by that record as saying that too many students are area. approach. UBC REPORTS: What other fiscal those of us who can afford to pay higher going to university in this province. fees to send our children to university. So one has to have time to go through I don’t agree with that given the problems do we have? 1 am an example of an individual who the exercise of knowing where we have PRESIDENT PEDERSEN: We have a percentage of students in British Columbia can obviously pay higher fees to send my strong academic units that continue to get liability arising out of faculty salary who take advantage of higher education daughter to university in this province. In supported and where we have units that increases awarded last year. That liability relative to other Canadian provinces. And effect, what 1 get is a subsidy of the perhaps need improvement . . . where it I think that policy has the potential to be is of the order of $1.1 million and was to difference between whatever level we think would be possible to reduce the be met in whole by not replacing a number difficult for the government in the long would be the right one to set and the complement of people in those units haul, especially when it becomes of retiring faculty members. There remains current levels. without harming them in an academic increasingly evident to more and more a gap of about $250,000 to be found. And That latter view, of course, terrorizes a sense. funds of the order of $800,000 have to be people that they can’t get their sons and lot of people. The corollary that has to be I think it’s important for people to daughters into university. found to provide for anticipated increases in place with that option is a very effective recognize that the restraint problem is not Limiting enrolment is clearly a difficult in the cost of utilities. aid system to ensure that qualified students here just for 1983-84. It’s likely to be with step for the universities to take, but don’t To this point, I have mentioned I aren‘t denied admission on the grounds us for three to five years. As I understand think we have much choice. If we don’t commitments totalling some $3.5 to $4 that they don’t meet the financial it, the provincial Treasury Board is not take that position we would have to million. There is also the question of requirements. expecting an improvement for at least that acknowledge that we have sufficient funds providing salary increases for our teaching We have to recognize that over the period and any improvement in that period to continue to grow without the additional and support staff. Some 89 per cent of our years, universities have allowed the is largely dependent on the government’s support that’s implied as the result of general operating budget comprises salaries ability to get its bill for health services enrolment increases. and benefits, two-thirds representing proportion of the operating budget that’s carried by students to be reduced under control . . . . faculty costs and one-third support sta.ff. UBC REPORTS: you have some substantially and this has created the It‘s my understanding, too, that the Do general philosophy of higher education expectation among B.C. students that their major forest companies in B.C. will not be that underlies your activities as an tuition fees are going to be relatively lower paying any corporate income tax fm the academic and president? than elsewhere. So it’s difficult for them to next three years because they have tax PRESIDENT PEDERSEN: As I reflect *Health Care Teaching Costs pay for UBC accept the idea of substantial increases. losses they can write off over that time. So library and audio-visual space as well as I’m of the view that this is something the there’s no doubt the government has some on the things that have influenced me over the years, there are a couple that come to utility coats at affiliated Vancouver hospitals three universities should sit down and difficult choices to make in terms of where UBC medical students receive clinical getting its own budget in order. mind. One is something that I didn’t training. discuss together and come to some agreement on what proportion of the As far as UBC is concerned, we have to realize until fairly recently, but probably -. - start to do the longer-term planning that’s should have much earlier. It really has to **The Industrial Education program of the necessary to deal with a period of restraint do with my parents, who came to this Faculty of Education enrols 100 students who country as immigrants and started out in + UBC 130 first-year that is longer than just the short run. So in a are being trained as teachers of industrial arts last year enrolled very modest way. They did two things - at the secondary school level. UBC is the students in the Faculty of Medicine. This answer to the question, we may not be only B.C. university involved in the training year, an equal number will be admitted bigger, indeed we may be smaller. But they worked very hard and felt that when of such teachers. The program was because the University has received no the question is, can you reduce size and at you did something you did it as well as you undertaken by UBC in 1957 at provincial- increase in funds to provide for further the same time maintain the existing quality possibly could. government request. expansion of the medical school.

UBC Repom September 7, 198. T 0 Fitness and Amateur Sport - Fitness Canada Grants (14) General Motors Cancer Res. Fdn. - Research Prize (2) 0 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Faculty members wishing more information -- Guggenheim Fellowships (1) about the following TeSeaTCh grants should Hannah Institute consult the Research Seruices Grant Deadlines - Publications Assistance (1) circular which u auailable in departmental and 0 IMASCO-CDC Research Foundation faculty offices. If further information is - Research (1) required, call 228-3652 (external grants) OT 228-5583 (internal grants). 0 Industry Trade and Commerce - Technological Innovation Studies (31) October (application deadlines in 0 lnternational Union Against Cancer brackets) - Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Fellowships (1) 0 Agriculture Canada - International Fellowships (1) - Extramural Research Grant (15) 0 International Development Research Centre 0 Alberta Forest Service -- Education Research Awards Program (30) - Forest Development Research Fund Grant 0 Japan World Exposn. Commemor. Fund (15) lnternational Projects (31) 0 Alberta Heritage Fdn. for Medical Research 0 Juvenile Diabetes Fdn. (US) - Medical Research Fellowships (1) Career Development Award (1) 0 American Lung Association Postdoctoral Fellowships (1) - Training Fellowships (1) 0 Kidney Foundation of Canada - Trudeau Scholar Awards (1) - Research (15) 0 Arthritis Society 0 March of Dimes Birth Defects Fdn. (US) UBC Thunderbird football hopefuls get the word straight from thecoach’s - Associateships & Assistantships (15) ~~ Research (1) mouth. Frank Smith is shown readying his charges for their home opener against - Fellowships (15) 0 MRC: Grants Program the University of Calgary on Sept. 16. - Research (15) Program Grants (1) 0 Association for Canadian Studies Travel (1) - Intercultural/InterregionalEnrichment 0 MRC: SpecialPrograms (15) INSRM/MRC Exchange (1) Loss of key football players 0 AUCC: International Relations Research for Dyskinesia & Torticollis (1) ~ Canadian Studies Visiting Prof in Japan Symposia & Workshops (1) means ‘interesting’ season (1) 0 Multiple Sclerosis SOC.Canada - International Scholarships Post Doctoral Career Development Grants (1) “It could be an interesting football Their 1983 schedule of 10 games began season. on Labor Day Weekend in Helena, (31) ~ PostdoctoralFellowships (1) 0 B.C. Health Care Research Fdn. Research (1) That’s the comment many observers are Montana where they defeated Carroll - Development & Training Fellowship (1) Research Studentships (1) making when discussing the prospects of College Fighting Saints 34-21 in a non- - Research (1) 0 National Defence Canada the Canadian university football champion conference game. On Sept. 10 they open - Research Scholar Award (1) Military and Strategic Studies Program UBC Thunderbirds in the 1983 season. the WlFL slate of eight games with a road 0 B.C. Heart Foundation (10) And rightly so. This season the ’Birds match against the University of Manitoba - Clinical Fellowship in Cardiovascular 0 National Inst. of Education (US) will be defending their Vanier Cup Bisons. First home game for the team will Disease (1) championship, but they’ll be without be Friday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. when they ~ NIE Research Grants (6) 0 B.C. Medical Services Foundation (BCMSF) 0 National Kidney Foundation (US) several key veterans who helped make last host the University of Calgary Dinosaurs in - Research (3) - Research Fellowships (1) season successful. Thunderbird Stadium. 0 Canada Council: Killam Program 0 National Research Council of Canada Last February saw 10 T-Birds drafted by * * * - I.W. Killam Memorial Prize (15) ~ The Steacie Prize (4) the Canadian Football League. Key losses A new bowl game has been added to the - Killam Research Fellowship (15) 0 NSERC: Fellowships Division include allCanadian offensive linemen list of trophies that will be competed for 0 Canada Council: Writing/Public. - University Research Fellowship (1) Pieter VandenBos and Jerry Dobrovolny annually by UBC and Simon Fraser - Translation Grant (15) 0 NSERC: Intl. Relations Division (now with Edmonton and Calgary, University. 0 Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp. - Exchange: Brazil, Czech, Japan, Bulgaria, respectively), linebacker Mike Emery UBC’s Thunderbird soccer team will - Research Grants Type A (to $3500) (29) Germany, U.K., Suisse (15) (Saskatchewan), defensive back Dave Singh meet their SFU counterparts on Sunday 0 Canadian Commonwealth Schol/Fell. -- International Collaborative Research (15) (Saskatchewan) and end Jason Riley (Sept. 11) at 7:30 p.m. in Thunderbird Committee - International Scientific Exchange Awards (Winnipeg). Bernie Glier (B.C.), Stadium to compete for the Diachem Bowl - Research Fellowships (31 ) (15) linebacker Steve Harrison (Ottawa), donated by Konrad Tittler, Sr., president - Visiting Fellowships (31) 0 NSERC:Major Installation running back Pat Cantner (Winnipeg) and of Diachem Industries and the father of a 0 Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Fdn. ~- MajorInstallation (1) George Piva (Hamilton) round out the list Thunderbird soccer alumnus. - Fellowships for Training and Research (I) 0 Osgoode Society of 1982 T-Birds currently in the C.F.L. Organizers of the match hope that the - Research (1) ~~ Fellowship in Canadian LegalHistory (1) Veteran cornerback Mark Beecroft has also annual event will attract as much interest - Scholarship (1) 0 PeterhouseCambridge graduated and will be missed in the as the annual Shrum Bowl football 0 Educational Research Inst. of BC (ERIBC) - ResearchFellowships (25) secondary. competition between UBC and SFU. - ERlBC Research Grant (I) 0 Secretary of State Coach Frank Smith had this to say on The game is the first of two matches this - Canadian Ethnic Studies Program: the departure of so many starters from month. Following the Diachem Bowl, the Professorships (31) UBC. “The players we’ve lost were all great Clansmen will meet the ’Birds in a UBC grad ~ Canadian Ethnic Studies: Research (31) athletes who we’ll really miss. I enjoyed Wednesday, Sept. 14, return match called 0 SSHRC: Fellowships Division coaching all of them as they were the Challenge Cup, to be held in Swangard Jules & Gabrielle Leger Fellowship (1) exceptional individuals. It’ll be extremely Stadium at 7 p.m. gets - LeaveFellowship (1) hard for any future Thunderbird football UBC coach Joe Johnson has been - PostdoctoralFellowship (1) team to surpass the achievements of that tutoring his squad at Thunderbird Park in Vancouver native Betty Keller has been 0 SSHRC: Intl. Relations Division 1982 team.” preparation for the season opening match. named the winner of the University of Aid to lnternational Secretaries (1) The 1983 edition of Smith’s ’Birds “We’ve been practising for more than two features six returning starters on both British Columbia’s Canadian Biography ~~ Bilateral Exchange: China (1) weeks now and I‘ve got the team down to a offense and defence but the newcomers Award for 1982. The award, given ~ Bilateral Schol. Exchange: Japan & reasonable number. Players who haven’t annually since 1952, is for Ms. Keller’s Hungary (1) coming in this season will add depth to the heard about the tryouts can call me at book Pauline: A Biography of Pauline - Bilateral Scholarly Exchange: France (I) lineup. On offense, all-Canadian junior 228-2531 if they’re interested ip a place on tailback Glenn Steele (232 carries, 1,603 Johnson, published by Douglas and ~ Grants to Canadian Scholars to Lecture UBC’s Canada West squad.” McIntyre Ltd. Abroad (1) yards, 16 touchdowns) returns for another All UBC students with valid AMS Cards The UBC award, a silver medal designed - InternationalCollaborative Research (1) season as does senior fullback Peter will be admitted free to the Sept. 11 game. by noted Indian artist Bill Reid, is given Visiting Foreign Scholars (1) LeClaire, third-year starting quarterback For more information, call the Athletic for the best book by or about a Canadian SSHRC: Research Communic. Div. Jay Card and tight end Rob Ros. Office at 228-3917. published in the previous year. - Aid to Occasional Conferences (30) The offensive line. however, has to be * *. * Canadian Literature, a UBC-based SSHRC: Research Grants Division suspect as only returnees Peter Jeffrey and Andre Bleim, and Rob Moretto, a pair literary magazine, said in announcing the -- Research (15) Don Adamic are back from the best front of first-year football players from Notre award that Ms. Keller had succeeded in 0 St. John’s College line in Canada. All other positions are wide Dame high school, have been named as the looking behind the persona that Pauline Commonwealth Fellowship (1) open as newcomers battle for spots. 1983 winners of Frank Gnup scholarships. Johnson showed her public, to reveal her 0 University of British Columbia Last year’s stingy defence has also been In making the announcement, Gnup “deliberateness and motivations, her - UBC-SSHRC Travel Grant (10) decimated by the draft and graduations. scholarship committee chairman Tom personality as it really was. 0 University of Tasmania Another big question mark for the team Thomas described the winners as “the two “The handicap Keller faced was the fact - University Research Award (31) will be the defensive secondary, where outstanding candidates in the applications” that Pauline Johnson’s sister carefully 0 Woodward’s Fdn. (Mr. & Mrs. P.A three key starters are gone from 1982’s and termed Bleim’s straight-A average in destroyed her papers, with what intent it is ~- Foundation Grants (1) unyielding backfield. high school “an outstanding level of not sure . . . . Keller’s accomplishment. in 0 World Wildlife Fund (Canada) In sum, the Thunderbirds appear to athletic scholarship.” have a lot of depth this season, much more the face of such an obstacle, is to have ~ Arctic Grants (31) Bleim is a 5’8” 180-pound running back amassed an extraordinary amount of data General Research (1) than last year. The team is replete with who last year led Notre Dame Jugglers to from other sources, and to have presented talented ball players, but their lack of the B.C. high school football it in a most attractive, readable form.” Note: All external agency grant requests must experience in working within a new system championship. A great talent, he was Ms. Keller was educated at UBC and has be szgned by the Head, Dean, and Dr. R.D. and with new teammates means that there selected the outstanding offensive player at taught drama and drama writing at both Spratley. Applicant ts responszble for sending will be plenty of exciting games in the the 1983 B.C. Lions’ high school the high school and university level in B.C. application to agency. Western Intercollegiate Football League. development camp.

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I Calendar Deadlines SATURDAY, SEPT. 10 FRIDAY, SEPT. 16 FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 L For events in the weeks of Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 , Maranatha Christian Club. Medical Genetics Seminar. Medical Genetics Seminar. material must be submitted not later than 4 The Maranatha Christian Club, in co-operation Neurogenetics. Dr. T. Bird, University of Clinical and Genetic Aspects of Movement p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15. Send notices to with other Christian groups on campus, is Washington, Seattle. Parentcraft Room, Grace Disorders. Drs. D. Calne and M.H. Hayden. Information Services, 6328 Memorial Road (Old sponsoring a welcome reception for first-year Hospital. 1 p.m. Parentcraft Room, Grace Hospital. 1 p.m. Administration Building). For further students and international students. UBC information, call 228-3131. President George Pedersen, AMS President Football. Information Systems Lecture. Mitch Hetman. Chancellor J.V. Clyne and UBC vs. the University of Calgary. Thunderbird The Role of Information in General Systems: faculty deans will be introduced. Graduatr Stadium. 7:30 p.m. Some Informed Opinions on Information Student Centre. 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Theory. Dr. L.M. Ward, Psychology, UBC. MONDAY, SEPT. 19 Salon A, Faculty Club. 4 p.m. SUNDAY, SEPT. 11 Football. Calendar Forms Biology Lecture. Sanka Fun Run. Structure Variation and Inheritance of Maize UBC vs. the University of Alberta. Thunderbird New calendar forms have been printed Sanka is sponsoring an 8km run to support Ribosomal Genes. Elizabeth Ann Zimmer. Room Stadium. 7:30 p.m. and are available by calling 228-3131 or 3219, Biological Sciences Building. 12:30 p.m. dropping by Information Services, Room Canadian Olympic- teams. The race starts at 10 SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 207, Old Administration Building. a.m. at UBC's Thunderbird Stadium. Pre- Plant Science Seminar. registration ia from 8.30 to 9:45 a.m. on race Alcohol and Alcohol Dehydrogenase in Plants. Women's Volleyball. day in the concourse of the stadium. For more Dr. K.J.R. Edwards, head, Genetics. University Grad Reunion. War Memorial Gymnasium. information, contact Ken Black at 228-2503. of Cambridge. Room 160, MacMillan Building 6 p.m. Soccer. 3:30 p.m. The Vancouver Institute. UBC meets SFU to compete for the Diachem Applied Mathematics Seminar. Saturday, Sept. 17 Bowl, donated by Konrad Tittler Sr., president Plate Theories and Saint Venant's Principle. of Diachem Industries. Thunderbird Stadium. Prof. F.Y.M. Wan, director. Institute of The Forgotten Party: 7:30 p.m. The Victim of Crime. Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UBC. The Honorable Mr. MONDAY, SEPT. 12 Room 229. Mathematlcs Building. 3:30 p.m. Justice Brian Dickson, The Pedersen Exchange. Notices . . . Supreme Court of Biochemical Discussion Group The exchange is cancelled this week because of Canada, Ottawa. Seminar. Prrsident Pedersen's absence from Vancouver. It Saturday, Sept. 24 E coli RNAPolymerase: Mechanism of provides an opportunity for any member of China's Race Against Promotor Selection. Dr. Carol Cech, Chemistry, UBC's on-campus community to meet the Exhibit Time: Modernization University of Colorado. Room 4210, Block A, president personally to discuss matters of The Woodward Biomedical Library is currently and Education. Medical Sciences Building. 12:30 p.m. concern. Normally it is held every Monday that displaying reprints of Leonard0 da Vinci's President William The Pedersen Exchange. the president is on campus from 3:30 to 5 p.m. anatomical drawings. The exhibit is in the main Saywell, Simon Fraser in the Main Library. foyer. For information, call 228-4447. University. An opportunity for any member of the on- campus University community to meet with Biochemical Discussion Group Japanese Tea Art Exhibit Seminar. Both lectures take place in Lecture Hall 2 of the UBC's president, Dr. George Pedersen. to An exhibit highlighting the traditional Japanese discuss matters of concern. Persons wishing to Woodward Instructional Resources Centre at Bacterial Gene Regulation. Dr. Law Lindahl, tea ceremony is on display at the Asian Centre 8:15 p.m. meet with the president should identify Biology, University of Rochester. Lecture Hall 4, until Sept. 18. The exhibit is open from 11 a.m. themselves to the receptionist in the Librarian's Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. to 6 p.m. daily and is free of charge. office, which is immediately to the left of the 4 p.m. main entrance to the Main Library building. Daycare Available I FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 The president will be available every Monday TUESDAY, SEPT. 20 when hr is on campus from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Spaces are available in Unit I of UBC's daycare Medical Genetics Seminar. Oceanography Seminar. facility, 2727 Acadia Road, for children aged 17 Drug Exposure As Possible Teratogens, K. Biochemical Discussion Group Atmospheric Tides as Indicators of months to 3 years. The daycare is open from 8 Chan; Incidence of Hypospadias in B.C., T. Seminar. Environmental Change. Dr. Kevin Hamilton, a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and hung: Investigation of Lipoprotein Metabolism Self Splicing RNA: An RNA Mediated Enzyme NSERC University Research Fellow, accepts children on a full- or part-time basis. in Down Syndrome, H. Lui; and Incidence of Like Activity. Dr. Tom Cech. Chemistry, Oceanography,UBC. Room 1465, Biological For more information, call 228-3019 (days) or Twins in Huntington's Chorea, J. Soles. University of Colorado. Lecture Hall 4, Sciences Building. 3 p.m. 261 -8964 (evenings). Parentcraft Room. Grace Hospital. 1 p.m. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. 4 p.m. Chemistry Lecture. Library Tours The Third Age of Quantum Chemistry. Prof. Guided tours of Main and Sedgewick Libraries Henry F. Schaefer 111, Chemistry, University of WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14 will be offered weekdays Sept. 12 through 23 at California, Berkeley. Room 250, Chemistry 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Tours meet in the Volunteer Fair. Building. 4 p.m. Main Library entrance and last about 45 Volunteer opportunities can be explored with minutes. representatives from more than 30 community WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21 agencies and institutions. Sponsored by Fine Arts Gallery Volunteer Connections at the Student Anatomy Seminar. An exhibit of clay sculpture by SaslWcbc*ran Counselling and Resources Centre and the Hormone-Drug Interactions in Breast Cancer artist Victor Cicansky will display Vancouver Volunteer Centre. Continues on Therapy. Dr. J.T. Emerman, Anatomy, UBC. be on dl Oct. 1 in the UBC fine Arts Gallery. Gallery Thursday, Sept. 15. Lobby, Student Union Room 37, Anatomy Building. 12:30 p.m. hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Building. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. both days. Leon and Thea Koerner Lecture. Saturday. Noon-Hour Concert. The Great God Pan. Prof. John Boardman. Valerie Tyron, piano. Recital Hall, Music Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology, Language Programs Building. 12:30 p.m. University of Oxford. Room 102, Lasserre French, Spanish and Japanese daytime, evening Building. 12:30 p.m. Faculty Club. and weekend programs begin the week of Sept. 19. For more information, call 228-5227. Pre-Senate dinner buffet. Cost is $9, reservations Noon-Hour Concert. required. Main Dining Room. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Philip Tillotson, harpsichord; Elissa Poole, baroque flute. Recital Hall, Music Building. Curling Soccer. 12:30 p.m. Beginner and experienced curlers are invited to UBC meets SFU to compete for the Challenge Leon and Thea Koerner Lecture. join a mixed curling league on Fridays at 7:15 Cup. Swangard Stadium. 7 p.m. p.m. at the Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre. Greek Myth in Art. Prof. John Boardman. For information, call John Lomax at 228-2612. Folk Dance Club. Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology, Folk dances and steps from many countries University of Oxford. Room 107, Lasserre Internships Available taught at beginning and intermediate level. Building. 3:30 p.m. Open to students, faculty, staff and community. Study-related, non-paid work experience is Yearly fee is $10 (students $5). No partner Frederic Wood Theatre. available for third- and fourth-year students in necessary. For further information, call Marcia Opening night of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for the Faculty of Arts. For more information, Snider at 738-1246. Upper Lounge, Godot. Continues until Monday, Oct. 3 (except contact the Office of Internship Programs. International House. 730 p.m. Sundays), with the final night marking the Room 213. Brock Hall (228-3022). opening of a UBC Festival of the Arts during THURSDAY, SEPT. 15 National Universities Week Oct. 2 to 8. Tickets Volunteer Connections are $6.50: $4.50 for students and seniors. For For assistance in finding a volunteer job for Psychiatry Lecture. ticket reservations, call 228-2678. Frederic Wood career-related experience or pemnal Factors That Determine Medical Students' Theatre. 8 p.m. satisfaction, contact Volunteer Connections in Interest in Psychiatry: A Three Year University the Student Counselling and Resources Centre, Multinational Study. Prof. P. Ney, Christchurch THURSDAY, SEPT. 22 Room 200, Brock Hall (228-3811). Clinical School, New Zealand. Room ZNA/B, Psychiatry Lecture. Psychiatric Unit, Health Sciences Centre Music Department Ensembles Hospital. 9 a.m. Opiate-Endocrine Regulation in Depression. Dr. A.P. Zis. Psychiatry, University of Michigan. Students interested in pining one of the music Lost and Found Sale. Room ZNA/B, Psychiatric Unit, Health Sciences department's performing ensembles for credit or There will be a sale of miscellaneous items that Centre Hospital. 9 a.m. non-credit should contact the department by the have been unclaimed from the UBC Lost and end of the first week of classes. For details, call Found. All proceeds to University bursaries. Biology Lecture. 228-3113. Room 208, Brock Hall. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Expression of Agrobacterzum tumefaciens T -DNA in Crown Gall Tumors. Dr. Joan C. Museum of Anthropology English Lecture. McPherson. Room 3219, Biological Sciences Exhibits: The Copper that Came from Heaven: Dylan Thomas: A Reappraisal. Professor Building. 12:30 p.m. Dance Dramas of the Kwakwaka'wakw, emeritus R. George Thomas, Medieval English, continues through April, 1984. Calendar Prints: University College, Cardiff. Sponsored by the Faculty Recital. Music of Russell, Chatman and Reimer. Michael Popular Art of India, opens on Sept. 21 and Committee on Lectures. Room A202. Buchanan continues through January, 1984. For details on Building. 12:30 p.m. Borschel, clarinet; John Rudolph, percussion, and Kathleen Rudolph, flute. Recital Hall, museum activities, call 228-5087. Faculty Association Meeting. Music Building. 12:30 p.m. A special meeting will be held to welcome President Pedersen. Lecture Hall 2, Woodward Librarianship Lecture. Instructional Resources Centre. 1 p.m. Come Home, Storyteller: The Library and the Oral Tradition. Alice Kane. childrens' librarian Computer Science Colloquium. and founder, Storyteller's School of Toronto. Is Vision Possible? Dr. Alan K. Mackworth, Room 835, Main Library. 4:30 p.m. Computer Science, UBC. Room 301, Computer Sciences Building. 4 p.m.