SHTIW- OTrlLECTION? Minister plans major challenge B.C.'s deputy minister of education told a UBC audience last week that Education Minister Pat McGeer would be shortly throwing out a "major challenge to the three public universities." Speaking at the opening of new additions to the Henry Angus Building, Dr. Walter Hardwick said the public universities would be asked to "indicate how they can extend UBC library degree-completion programs in the academic and professional fields outside the metropolitan areas." surveillance Dr. Hardwick would not elaborate on the statement for UBC Reports at the conclusion of the ceremony. He beefed up said the challenge would be the subject of statements by Dr. McGeer in the UBC has beefed up patrol activities Legislature when it meets in March UBC's chief librarian, Basil in all campus libraries as a result of a and of news releases from his office. Stuart-Stubbs, says in his annual break-in at the Main Library on Feb. 1. Thieves smashed open cash boxes The ceremony last Thursday (Feb. report to Senate that UBC now has a on copying machines and stole 12) marked the opening of the Earle book collection worth $60.7 million $418.65. Douglas MacPhee Executive and has the largest collections in Conference Centre and the Cyrus H. Canada in four areas. See story on Three juveniles and an adult were McLean Audio-Visual Theatre. Dean Page Three. Picture by Tim Morris. arrested by RCMP after the robbery. Emeritus MacPhee is a former dean of The man pleaded guilty to charges of the Faculty of Commerce and Business breaking and entering and being in Administration, and Mr. McLean was Claimsdecline possession of stolen property. He will chairman of the 3 Universities Capital be sentenced on Thursday. Fund in 1964-65. Speakers at the ceremony paid in reputation Library officials have arranged to have cash boxes on copying machines tribute to Dean Emeritus MacPhee for A student senator claims that cleared nightly. A campus patrolman the development of off-campus teaching quality is rarely considered now assists night librarians in closing commerce educational programs. when decisions are made on tenure for the Main Library and remains in the The ceremony, scheduled to start at faculty members and that UBC's building after the staff have gone 3:30 p.m., was delayed until 5:00 p.m. long-standing tradition and reputation home. to allow many guests to attend the of excellence in teaching has declined. funeral of Dr. H.R. MacMillan at 2:30 Law student Gordon Funt makes Increased surveillance is also p.m. these claims in a document supporting planned in branch libraries, including In mid-afternoon, about 200 a notice of motion he made in Senate the Sedgewick Library and the students, some of them carrying on Jan. 21 and which will be debated Woodward Biomedical Library. placards protesting recent increases in at Senate's February meeting tonight Charges are pending against a man I CBC rates, gathered outside the (Wednesday). Angus Building. Numerous speakers at apprehended outside the Student His motion asks that Senate the rally were critical of Dr. McGeer, Union Building with a chair in his recommend to the Board of Governors who is also the minister responsible for possession. that a committee be established to ICBC, for his failure to attend the investigate tenure at UBC with specific The campus patrol is investigating UBC ceremony. attention :o the criteria used in the disappearance of the bronze The rally dispersed at 4 p.m. granting tenure, the relative weights dedication plaque from the foyer of placed on these criteria, and the the Henry Angus Building. The plaque, Council asked for methods used in ascertaining which was bolted to the wall, performance. disappeared last week. proposals on NDU In December, the University Dave Hannah, supervisor of the administration and the Faculty Funding for Notre Dame University University patrol, said there is Association signed a document on in Nelson will come under the traditionally an increase in petty appointment, reappointment, jurisdiction of the Universities Council thievery at UBC at this time of year promotion and tenure which says on April 1, B.C.'s education minister, and warned women not to leave purses candidates for tenure "are judged Dr. Patrick McGeer, has announced. and wallets unattended. In the oast, Notre Dame has principally on performance in both received a grant directly from the teaching and in scholarly research or He said that three duty nurses in the Health Sciences Centre Hospital recently reported that their purses had Please turn to Page Two Please turn to Page Two been stolen. See NOTRE DAME See SENATE to Senate at least once a year, and that SENATE it include "an account of the financial Continued from Page One Board gets provisions made by the Board to give professional or creative work." effect to specific academic decisions of The document also says that Senate." "service to the academic profession, to course list Prof. Belshaw's second motion the University and the community will would require that proposed collective be taken into account." A total of 115 academic courses are agreements be placed before the scheduled during the two-hour Evaluation of teaching by faculty budget committee "for advice on the noon-hour period on Thursdays, members is the subject of another implications for the academic goals of UBC's Board of Governors was told at motion to be debated at Senate the University...." its February meeting. tonight. The same motion asks that existing Science student Ron Walls has The figures were included in a arrangements be reviewed "to asked that Senate strike a committee study of utilization of academic space determine whether there are adverse to examine the need for and make in 1975-76 prepared for the Board by effects on academic goals." recommendations concerning the UBC's Office of Systems Services, implementation of a uniform Prof. Belshaw said at the January which books rooms for lectures in procedure for evaluating the Senate meeting that if this motion fails academic buildings. effectiveness of faculty members in he will introduce a broader motion A regulation of Senate forbids the teaching situations. calling for establishment of a standing Senate committee on the academic holding of classes in the 12:30 to 2:30 Senate's new budget committee is implications of financial and p.m. period on Thursdays. The long the subject of two motions by Prof. administrative arrangements, to report noon-hour is intended to enable Cyril Belshaw, of Anthropology and to Senate on any matters not the campus organizations to plan extended Sociology. primary responsibility of other Senate meetings and other events. One asks that the committee report committees, "and that proposed In recent months a number of UBC collective agreements be reviewed by senators have complained that this committee." UBC United Way academic classes are meeting in this A second motion by Mr. Walls asks period and have asked that steps be that Senate request the dean of taken to stop the practice. contributions up Education to consult with the acting The Systems Services study shows UBC contributions to the 1975 coordinator of health sciences "to that some lectures beginning as early United Way campaign were up 9.2 per examine the feasibility of establishing as 11.30 a.m. continue until 2:30 p.m. cent over 1974. a course in basic emergency medicine" Others are held in the 12:30 to 2:30 Cash and pledges totalled $54,935 which would be available to students p.m. period, while still others begin at in 1975, compared to $50,310 in in all disciplines. 1:30 p.m. 1974. Frank Low-Beer, chairman of the Number changed The courses held in this period cover United Way's professional division, UBC's Office of Academic Planning a wide range of faculties, including said UBC personnel who worked on has now changed both its name and its Agricultural Sciences, Commerce and the campaign did a "terrific job." telephone number. Business Administration, Education, Singled out for special mention were Now known as the Office of Science and Arts. Gordon Selman, of the Faculty of Institutional Analysis and Planning, One member of UBC's Senate Education, who chairs the UBC United the unit's phone number has been wants the Faculty of Graduate Studies Way committee, and John Lomax and changed from 228-2721 to 228-5611. exempted from the Thursday lecture Norman Howsden, of the UBC finance Dr. William Tetlow is director of the ban. A motion exempting Graduate department. office. Studies, proposed by Dr. Harold Copp, head of the Department of Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine, will be debated when Senate meets tonight THE MUSIC BOX (Wednesday). THURSDAY, FEB. 19 to SATURDAY, FEB. 21 8:30p.m. HELLO DOLLY! Old Auditorium. $3and $4. THURSDAY, FEB. 19 12:30p.m. FACULTY RECITAL. Paul Douglas, flute; Melinda Coffey, harpsi­ NOTRE DAME chord; Eugene Wilson, gamba; with special guest Jerry Domer, oboe, play Continued from Page One Music of J.S. Bach, Telemann, Quantz, Vivaldi and G. Jacob. Department of Education. Last year HELLO DOLLY! Old Auditorium. $2. this grant was $1.8 million. 8:00p.m. FACULTY RECITAL. Loren Marsteller, euphonium, plays Music of Dr. McGeer said that in 1976-77 Martin, Horowitz and Brink. funding for Notre Dame "will be MONDAY, FEB. 23 8:00 p.m. GRADUATION RECITAL. Jennifer Grant, french horn; Gordon Lucas, considered as part of the total Arlie Thompson, and David Pickell, piano, perform Music of Emmert, provincial contribution to Danzi, Bozza, Di Domenico and Tate. universities." TUESDAY, FEB. 24 He said he had asked Dr. William 8:00p.m. GRADUATION RECITAL. Y me Woensdregt, composer, plays Music of Armstrong, the chairman of the Woensdregt. Universities Council, to give top WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 priority to recommendations to him 12:30p.m. DUO GEMINIANI. Stanley Ritchie, baroque violin; and Elisabeth on the future of Notre Dame. Wright, harpsichord, play Music of Froberger, Biber and J.S. Bach. THURSDAY, FEB. 26 "It is extremely important," Dr. 12:30p.m. UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Douglas Talney directs McGeer said, "that the future of Notre Music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Copland and Pergolesi. Old Auditorium. Dame University be looked at on the 8:00p.m. UNIVERSITY OF REGINA CHAMBER CHOIR, with Dr. S. Vernon basis of province-wide educational Sanders, conductor, performs Music of Bach, Piston and Copland. priorities and the Universities Council is the appropriate institution to do All performances, unless otherwise specified, held in Recital Hall, Music Building. this."

2/UBC Reports/Feb. 18,1976 Book funds suffer SPORTS mmw UBC has Canada's second-largest library are contained in the annual library collection with a total value of report of Basil Stuart-Stubbs, UBC's just over $60.7 million, and in four chief librarian, to be presented to the WRESTLING - The Thunder­ subject areas — Canadian and German UBC Senate tonight (Wednesday). birds meet Oregon Tech. in the history, Canadian literature, and War Memorial Gymnasium on Mr. Stuart-Stubbs says a recent transportation and communication — Thursday at 2:30 p.m. survey by the National Library of it has the largest collections in the ICE HOCKEY - Weekend ac­ Canada shows that UBC has Canada's country. tion involves the UBC Jayvee second-largest collection of materials These and other facts about the team in matches against Simon in such fields as British and French Fraser University on Friday at history; anthropology; sociology; 8:00 p.m. and against Group looks for English, German, Spanish and on Sunday at 3:15 p.m. at the Portuguese languages and literatures; Winter Sports Centre. underwater booty philosophy; and political science. BASKETBALL - The Universi­ Gold doubloons, crumbling ty of Lethbridge will be here to amphorae, wrecks of Spanish galleons. Despite a four-fold growth in collections over the past 15 years, meet the Thunderbirds on Fri­ These are the things that warm the day and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. heart of an urderwater archeologist. UBC's library is still only of moderate size, the report says, ranking 37th in the War Memorial Gymnasi­ Except in B.C., where the booty is um. more likely to be a large lump of among 81 members of the Association bamacle-encrus;ed coal. of Research Libraries. Which was just what a group from And in terms of growth rate, UBC's J. the Centre for Continuing Education's library has dropped by 48 per cent UBC scientists underwater archeology course found from 11th place to 29th over the last when they began their survey of the study contraceptives four years. "This can be traced to the What effect, if any, does the use of Panther, a vessel which went down fact that funds for the purchase of contraceptives have on future near Wallace Island 100 years ago collections have not kept pace with reproduction in women? loaded with coal from Nanaimo. A inflating prices," Mr. Stuart-Stubbs A research team headed by Dr. similar program in the centre's spring says. Betty Poland, from the UBC '76 schedule has several weekend dive Department of Obstetrics and excursions planned to various wreck The number of volumes purchased Gynaecology, and Dr. James Miller, of sites. has dropped from 162,428 in 1970-71 the Department of Medical Genetics at Some of the members of the to 85,086 in 1974-75. UBC, is conducting a study to answer original underwater archeology group, Mr. Stuart-Stubbs says two this and other questions about including qualified scuba divers and alternatives are being pursued in reproduction. It's the first large-scale others interested in this unexplored solving the problem of housing UBC's effort of this nature in Canada. area of B.C. history, have formed the book collection — construction of The co-operation of large numbers Underwater Archaeological Society of more space, and reducing the size of B.C. of women between the ages of 15 and collections and consigning some 45 is needed. They will be asked to For more information contact Dr. volumes to storage. record details of the contraceptive James McLarnon, Physiology, local method they use, if any, menstrual 4967, or Hank Rosenthal, Centre for He says UBC will adapt and exploit cycles and pregnancies. There are no Continuing Education, local 2181. technology for the storage and special examinations, procedures or retrieval of information as soon as it is interviews. The research team is feasible, including computer storage of New look for signs interested in all women, whether or full texts and the recording of UBC has decided to switch its not they plan to become pregnant, to collections on video tapes or discs. distinctive vertically mounted street give meaningful results to the study. signs to horizontal. He adds that "it seems likely that The project began in April, f974, Jordan Kamburoff, head of the no single medium will replace the and the researchers hope it will planning division of Physical Plant, conventional printed newspaper, continue for another three years. said only road signs will be remounted magazine or book, and that the reader Almost eight hundred women are now because of limited funds to carry out will continue to be faced ... with a participating in the study, but details the work. diversity of media." of 1,000 pregnancies are necessary to Priority will be given to mounting In his conclusion Mr. Stuart-Stubbs properly investigate the effect of horizontal signs on a number of newly says that "every indicator of library different contraceptive methods on named interior campus roads. activity confirms the fact that the future pregnancy. Street names and numbers of UBC library is the chief resource Women willing to join the study campus buildings are now shown on centre for the province." can phone 873-3110 or write to 8-by-12-inch blue-and-white plaques Reproduction Research, Ste. 9, 855 W. over the main entrance of each campus But he adds: "It seems clear the 10th Ave., , B.C. V5Z 1 L7. building. time has arrived when UBC can no The campus system conforms to longer afford to provide services for Illft ^^ Published by the University the block plan used in the University off-campus users at no expense to I IBS I of on Endowment Lands, Vancouver and them." BB II || Wednesdays and distributed ^MW *M9 ^MW free. Jim Banham, editor. Burnaby. The first responsibility of the REPORTS judith Walker, staff writer. However the new street number library, he says, must be to provide for Production assistants - Bruce Baker and Anne will not be the building's mailing its immediate clientele, and only Shorter. Send letters to the Editor to secondarily for others. "At UBC, no Information Services, Main Mall North address. AM UBC departments will Administration Building, UBC, 2075 Wesbrook continue to use a single mail address: solution is immediately at hand, but Place, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5. 2 07 5 Wesbrook Place, Vancouver, ways are neing explored to cope with B.C. V6T 1W5. the conflicting pressures." UBC Reports/Feb. 18,1976/3 FINE ARTS FILMS. Jackson Pollock (color, 10 min­ utes) and Willemde Kooning (color, 14 minutes). Room 102, Lasserre Building. 2:30p.m. LIBRARIANSHIP LECTURE. B.C. Brookes, Universi THIS WEEK ty College, London, on The Theory of Bibliography and the Dissemination of Ideas. Room 835, Main Library. 3:30p.m. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR. G.L. Barfoot, UBC Mechanical E ngineering graduate student, AND NEXT on Spectral Calibration of Oceanic Turbulence Probe. Room A106, Mechanical Engineering Annex. THURSDAY, FEB. 19 4:30p.m. CANCER CONTROL AGENCY OF B.C. SEMINAR. 9:00a.m. PSYCHIATRY CONFERENCE. Panel discussion on Dr. D.M. Whitelaw, on Biology of Hodgkin's Disease. The Acting-Out Adolescent: Etiology and Management. Second floor. Cancer Control Agency, 2656 Heather St. Lecture theatre, Health Sciences Centre Hospital. 8:00p.m. IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR. Prof. Erwin Diener, Uni 11:30a.m. COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM. Dr. John versify of Alberta, Edmonton, on New Conceptsof Cell McKay, Concordia University, Montreal, on A Problem Co-operation. Salon B, Faculty Club. For All Seasons. Room 117, Ponderosa Annex E. TUESDAY, FEB. 24 12:30p.m. SLAVONIC STUDIES LECTURE. Dr. Richard Byrns, 12:30p.m. BOTANY SEMINAR. Dr. Naval J. Antia, Environment language arts department. University of California at Canada, on Darkness Survival of Marine Microplankton- Livermore, on Literary and Folk Elements in the Poetry ic Algae: Temperature Effects and Ecological Implica­ of Alexander Blok. Room 2244, Buchanan Building tions. Room 3219, Biological Sciences Building. HUMANITIES LECTURE. Prof. Mary-Kay Orlandi, PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES LECTURE. Dr. D. University of California, Santa Cruz, on Substance and Dolphin, Chemistry, UBC, on A New Chemical Role for Style in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Room 106, Buchanan. Porphyrins in Biochemical Systems. Lecture Hall 3, FINE ARTS FILMS. Henry Moore: Face to Face. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. (B&W, 32 minutes.) Room 104, Lasserre Building. 1:30p.m. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR. Dr. Madan LOCAL TALENT READING SERIES. UBC Creative Gupta, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, on Writing student Delaney Walker reads from her works. Some Aspects of Physiological Signal Processing With Orientation room, lower level, Sedgewick Library. Application to the Detection of Incipient Cardiac Ab­ CELL BIOLOGY SEMINAR. J. Karim and L.W. Lo, normalities. Room 214, MacLeod Building. Zoology, UBC, discuss Man and His Master Creation - Mutagens. Room 2361, Biological Sciences Building. 2:30p.m. SLAVONIC STUDIES SEMINAR. Dr Nina FILM SERIES: Parts 3 and 4of Alistair Cooke's/4me/7- Kolesnikoff, Modern Languages, SFU, on Bruno Jasien- ca. Lecture Hall 3, Instructional Resources Centre. skiand Russian Futurism. Room 154, Buchanan. FINE ARTS ILLUSTRATED LECTURE. Bill Reid, 3:30p.m. ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM. Dr. Bickford Sylvester, west coast artist, discusses Haida and Other Coast Art­ English, UBC, on The Faustian Dilemma in Poe's Fic­ ists' Works. Room 102, Lasserre Building. tion. Room 599, Buchanan Tower. 3:45 p.m. APPLIED MATH AND STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM. 4:30p.m. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR. Michi Horie, Prof. R.L. Johnson, computer sciencedepartment. Uni­ Chemical Engineering graduate student, UBC, on Time versity of Toronto, on Numerical Solution to Elliptic Dependent Flow of Artificial Slurries. Room 206, Boundary Value Problems Using Fundamental Solu­ Chemical Engineering Building. tions. Room 1100, Mathematics Annex. CHEMISTRY SEMINAR. Dr. AH. Kalantar, Chemis­ 4:00p.m. PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM. R. Conn, Nuclear Engineer try, University of Alberta, on Benzene's Phosphores­ ing. University of Wisconsin, on A Conceptual Fusion cence. Room 250, Chemistry Building. Reactor. Room 201, Hennings Building. 8:00 p.m. BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINAR. Dr. Thomas Perry, Phar- macology, UBC, on Biochemical Studies on the 7:30p.m. WOMEN'S OFFICE LECTURE. Theese Turner on Erythrocytes from a Patient With Pyroglutamic Acid­ Canadian Women Artists. Room 230, SUB. Admission, emia. Garden Room, Grad Student Centre. $2. SOCIAL WORK LECTURE. David Lewis on Social Wel­ FRIDAY, FEB. 20 fare in Canada: In Retrospect and Prospect. Lecture Hall 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. Ad­ 9:00a.m. PAEDIATRICS LECTURE. Dr. R. Haslam, Calgary, on mission, $3; students, S1. Minimal Cerebral Dysfunction - 1976 Focus. Lecture Room B, Heather.Pavilion. Vancouver General Hospital. 12 noon DENTISTRY LECTURE. Dr. Anthony H. Melcher, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 12:30p.m. CANADA COUNCIL POETRY READING. Prof D.G. University of Toronto, on Resorption of Periodontal Jones, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Room 202, Ligament In Vitro. Room 388, Dentistry Building. Buchanan Building. 12:30p.m. BIOCHEMICAL DISCUSSION GROUP. Dr. Huber 3:30p.m. SLAVONIC SEMINAR. Prof. Ralph W. Huenemann, Warner, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, on DNA Me­ UBC, on Russian Involvement in Chinese Railway Build­ tabolism After Infection by Bacteriophage T5. Room ing, 1885-1960. Room 2225, Buchanan Building. 3:30p.m. COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM. Dr Michael MEDIEVAL STUDIES LECTURE. Dr. Michael Harrison, University of California at Berkeley, on Pro­ Sheehan, visiting History professor, on Development of tection in Operating Systems. Room 326, Angus Bldg. the Medieval Theory of Marriage. Penthouse, Buchanan. SATURDAY, FEB. 21 4:00p.m. GEOPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY SEMINAR. Roy 8:15 p.m. THE VANCOUVER INSTITUTE. Dr. David Laidler, Hyndman, Victoria Geophysical Observatory, on Heat economics department. University of Western Ontario, Flow Measurements in B.C. Room 206, Geophysics. on Recent Experiences With Incomes Policy and Its Im­ 4:30p.m. ANIMAL RESOURCE ECOLOGY SEMINAR. Gordon plications for Canada. Lecture Hall 2, Woodward Haber, UBC, on The Dynamics of Wolves and Prey in a Instructional Resources Centre. Sub-Arctic Ecosystem, and Management Implications. Room 2446, Biological Sciences Building. MONDAY, FEB. 23 7:00p.m. FINE ARTS ILLUSTRATED LECTURE. Lionel 12:30p.m. CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE. Aubrey Tingle, Im­ Thomas, Fine Arts, UBC, on Looking Through Glass- munology Unit, Children's Hospital, on Viral-Immune Vitroux. Room 104, Lasserre Building. Interactions in Persistent Viral Infections. Library, Block B, Medical Sciences Building. THURSDAY, FEB. 26 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR LECTURE. Dr. 9:00a.m. PSYCHIATRY CONFERENCE. Panel discussion on Marion Gallis, information officer, UNCTAD, Geneva, Sexual Dysfunctions: Recent Developments in Diagno­ on The Need for World Economic Readjustment. Ball­ sis and Treatment. Lecture theatre, Health Sciences room,Student Union Building. Centre Hospital. Notices must reach Information Services, Main Mall North Admin. Bldg., by mail, by 5 p.m. Thursday of week preceding publication of notii

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