'Loans Provincial Duty'

'Loans provincial duty' Teri Ball and SFU student Credit government said the possibility." over $1,000 during the summer By LORRI RUDLAND vacation, he said, but at The implementation of the society president John Maffett regulations were federal and The new loan regulations the federal government therefore they couldn't change require a student applying for Dalhousie University, the only new Canada Student Loan medical school in that Regulations is the respon provides the funds but it is up them. a loan to submit photostats of to the provincial government "Now the provincial birth certificates, income tax province, the summer vacation sibility of the provincial and was only two weeks long. not the federal government, to decide on implementing the government will have to re returns, social insurance justice minister John Turner regulation. examine its role," he said. "We cards, marriage certificates, The new loan regulations said Thursday. "So far we've been getting are trying to set up a meeting and motor vehicle registration were drawn up at an Ottawa Turner told Alma Mater the old runaround," said with education minister Eileen forms. meeting of provincial Maffett, "the B.C.' Social Dailly to discuss this If a student is not "in education ministers held in Society external affairs officer dependent" as defined by the March. B.C. had no regulations, his parents also representation as Donald have to submit their income Brothers, the former education tax form or a signed minister, didn't attend. declaration that they cannot Although Brothers did not give financial aid to the agree with all the regulations, student. there was no attempt by the "Turner said that students Socred government to defer THS U8YSSEY from other provinces haven't their implementation, Maffett Vol. IIV, No. 9 VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1972 228-2301 complained about the new said. regulations but he is in error," "We wrote to the superin said Maffett. tendent of post secondary "At the national student education, A. E. Soler, to conference on the financing request a deferral." post-secondary education held But Soles replied that "to this summer, David Dick, change our procedures at this UBC, Russ Freethy, U.Vic, Bill juncture almost certainly Wells, U.Sask, and I brought would create serious delays in up a resolution that the im providing financial aid to a plementation of the regulations great many students who have should be deferred for one already submitted applications year. for assistance." "We received support from Maffett said that loosening most of the Canadian cam up the regulations could not puses, particularly in the delay students receiving loans. Maritimes," Maffett said. "A much greater delay comes The regulations have been from the time, required to implemented without proper examine the new documents consideration. submitted and some loans are In Nova Scotia a medical being delayed three to four student was expected to earn weeks longer than before." UBC students well off, urban By BERTON WOODWARD Your are the average UBC student. Your parents are well-off. They both have high-school diplomas and live in a large city. Your father — and you are almost sure to have one — works at a managerial, professional or sales job. You have two siblings, one older than you. If you are an American, you had a better chance of being accepted at UBC than a Canadian student from outside B.C. These are some of the key findings of a UBC senate com mittee survey of the backgrounds of 4,000 undergraduates who applied to UBC in 1970. The portrait given is taken from the median average of the responses. The most telling figures are those detailing the percentages of students' parents in income brackets ranging up to $20,000 or more, when compared with the figures for Canadian married couples with three dependants. While 2.8 per cent of UBC students' parents make under $3000 per year, 10 per cent of the Canadian parents are in that bracket. And although only 4.5 per cent of the Canadian parents make more than $20,000,13.1 per cent of students' parents do. The median average of students' parents is between $10,000 —kini mcdonald photo and $12,000. Fifty-seven per cent of them make between $6,000 NOTHING LIKE A FRIENDLY KISS between Alma Mater Society vice-president Gordon Blankstein and and $15,000. president Doug Aldridge. That's leadership as exhibited at chariot race between engineers and aggies Another way of looking at it is that while 30.7 per cent of the Thursday. Engineers surged to the lead and won for the 100th time. No injuries. Canadian parents make over $10,000, 57.3 of the students' parents do. Fifth-one per cent of the students' fathers are in managerial, sales or professional jobs and an additional 11.3 per cent are No students on board skilled workers. Two former UBC students and the Alumni who also got 31 votes — and a "radical" student The managers' kids have by far the best chance of being, Association president were elected by the slate. accepted at UBC — 94.3 per cent of those applying made it. The senate to the board of governors Wednesday. On the student slate were science senator second highest acceptance figures are for sons and daughters of Svend Robinson, who with 29 votes topped Aho communication and transportation men at 81.1 per cent. Lawyer Ben Trevino, Alma Mater Society The greatest number of rejections were suffered by farmers' President in 1957-58, topped the field of eight and landed just below Walden and Williams, and Staif Persky, the more radical of the two kids — one third of them were disappointed. Next highest rate is candidates with 50 votes and Alumni who received 18 votes. for children of now-deceased fathers at 32.1 per cent. Association president Beverly Field came The senate is comprised of 11 members, six If your mother is a manager you're laughing — 97.8 per cent second with 42 votes. appointed by order in council of the provincial of managerial mothers' children were accepted. Chuck Connaughan, president of the Con government in power, three by senate and two The other interesting acceptance figures in the study deal struction Labor Relations Association and 1958- because of their positions as president and with students from outside B.C. 59 AMS president landed the third of the three- chancellor. Of the 293 Canadian students from outside the province who year spots with 40 votes. Before leaving office, the Social Credit applied to UBC in 1970, 27 per cent were accepted. Of the 104 - They comprise what Ubyssey columnist Art government filled its complement of appointees American students applying, 39 per cent were accepted. Smolensky labelled the "liberal slate (read also by giving Beverly Leckie, Paul Plant and Thirty per cent of all foreign applications were accepted, large D" in the election. Thomas Dohn seats on the board. with the figure falling to 25 per cent when American students Smolensky placed the three between a But education minister Eileen Dailly an are discounted. conservative slate — engineer Aaro Aho, who nounced two weeks ago her intention to revamp The study was commissioned by the senate in December got 55 votes, David Williams, previous senate the Universities Act to seat students, faculty 1969, with academic planning head Robert Clarke acting as appointee on the board who got 31 votes, and and university non-academic staff on the committee chairman. Three student senators were on the Frank Walden, Socred public relations man board. original 11-member committee. Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 13, 1972 Alternative offered Kazuyoshi Akiyama By BRENT THOMPSON inspiring concerns. From this incongruous A group of UBC students and professors kernel now pops the self-paced learning takes over have initiated an alternative to the strict lec program. ture format of science and engineering Self-paced learning is not new. It is gaining programs. enthusiastic disciples in Canada and in They call the alternative self-paced lear ternationally. University Hill school on the ning, a name suggesting a more responsible, endowment lands has been developing the less rigid approach to course structure. program. Its success in Canada is acclaimed by "The student may ask for the required educators and students. content outline of a course at the beginning of With the UBC faculty of engineering, the year," graduating engineer Mark Spowage professor M. S. Davies is preparing to launch said last week. his interpretation of self-paced learning. "Utilizing seminars and lectures he may "In the second term, 70 students from work at his own speed. The rigid, rote lecture departments other than electrical engineering method can be transformed into a more ef- will take a one and half units electrical I'icienct and interesting experience." engineering course," Davies said Wednesday. The program is a product of the teaching and learning committee The committee is He said the students will be given a com the sound of the symphony comprised of concerned engineering students prehensive outline of the course. and professors. "I will be available for at least four hours a 20th century style The dean drew up the terms of reference and day to allow the student to confer with me." Concert two the committee is responsible to him, and the "I don't want the course to be irresponsible SATURDAY OCTOBER 21st terms of reference place the balance of power so I will give five exams, paced during the 8:30 p.m. in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre heavily in favor of the professor and ultimately term." the dean.

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