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Cover: John Brockington painting by Jack Darcus 1 photograph by Martin Dee . Above : Exams at the Armouries . UBC Archives . WINTER 2005 Editor Christopher Petty, MFA' 86 Designer Chris Dahl Assistant Editor Vanessa Clarke Board of Directors Chair Jane Hungerford, BED ' 67 Vice-Chair Martin Ertl, BSC'93 Take Note Treasurer David Elliott, BCOM ' 69 '07 14 Canada and the New World Order Members at Large ' 04 — Don Dalik, I,1,3 ' 76 The world may or may not need more Canada, but Canada Ron Walsh, BA'70 needs more of the world . By Jeffrey Simpson Bernie Simpson, BA64, BSW ' 65, LLB ' 68 (' 04 - ' 05) Members at Large '03 — '05 18 A New Vision for Alumni Affairs Raquel Hirsch, BA8o, MBA83 With a new agreement for alumni services signed, the Alumni Mark Mawhinney, BA94 Doug Robinson, BcoM ' 71, LLB'7z Association and the university get down to work . By Chris Petty Appointments to the Board '04 — '05 Darlene Dean, BcoM ' 75, MBA85 23 Ink-Stained Wretch Marko Dekovic, BA'01 Pierre Berton defined the Canadian identity in the 20th Century, Tammie Mark, BcoM ' 88 ' and did it on his own terms . By Allan Fotheringham Paul Mitchell, BCOM' 78, LLB 79 University Representatives ' 04 — ' 05 Election of Chancellor and Convocation Senators Richard Johnston, BA' 70 Jim Rogers, BA' 65 It's your chance to have your say about the next Chancellor of Executive Director / Associate Vice President, Alumni the university and the Convocation Senators . Read the bios and Marie Earl, AB, MLA(STANFORD) exercise your right to vote. Trek Editorial Committee Vanessa Clarke Scott Macrae, BA' 7t 43 2004 Alumni Achievement Awards Chris Dahl Christopher Petty A look at the 2004 awards. 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Aside from those of the writer and the proofreader (who may well be reading it backwards), few eyes will suck light from the ink sprinkled on those pages. Editors often toy with the idea of embed- ding naughty jokes in the middle of these black holes, just to see if anyone notices. It's not that these stories are boring or unentertaining; good writing can animate the dullest of topics . Nor is it that they are of no interest; stories about machinery (political, social or otherwise) fill maga- zines and papers every day. It may be that they seem self serving coming from a house organ, and readers assume that such pieces will be uniformly congratulatory, full of wind, smoke, mirrors and the unmistakable spank of backs being patted. Well, OK . Guilty as charged . But that doesn't mean the information isn't valu- able, informative and what you need to Through the rain To convocation with President MacKenzie, late 1950s . UBC Archives photo. know. Here's why: as an alumnus of a large, public-money-consuming, influential university, you have a right and a responsi- seems to be happy with the result . If reap profits at the expense of national inde- bility to understand how it's being run, you've ever thought of joining the Young pendence? Simpson's take pulls no punches. who is running it, and what they are plan- Alumni Network, becoming a mentor, ning for the future . For our part, we'll try organizing a reunion or volunteering for a Pierre Berton, BA'4r, died in November, mightily to present the information with a faculty committee, now is the time to jump 2004 . He became part of our Canadian minimum of puffery, a maximum of fact in. Call our offices. identity during his long career in print, TV and as much good humour as we can and radio, and was one of our most illustri- muster. National columnist Jeffrey Simpson served ous grads . His longtime friend and fellow This issue of Trek Magazine contains, a few years on the steering committee for ink-stained wretch, Allan Fotheringham, along with our regular features, a section Green College, UBC . He has a profound BA'54, has written a poignant and funny on how alumni services have been sense of the importance of universities in remembrance of one of our best-known and revamped at UBC . Longtime readers will our society, and has been a strong support- best-loved writers. remember that the Alumni Association's er of the direction Martha Piper is taking relationship with the university has had its UBC. His presentation at last year's annual This issue also contains information on how tribulations over the years, and that we general meeting is both interesting and you can vote for the next Chancellor and have attempted to work out a better way provocative and is reprinted in this issue . Is convocation senators for UBC's senate. to serve alumni more than once . We've globalization really a good thing or is it Please take the time to read the positions of finally done that and, amazingly, everyone just another way for large corporations to the candidates and cast your vote. 4 Trek Winter 2005 UBC ....pr.. 0001 0 TAKE NOTE Look Ma, No Wires We are no longer chained to our desks. Wireless technology and mobile electronic devices mean our offices can be located on a park bench one day, and in the corner of a local library the next . And these new tech- nologies are about to change other aspects of our life as well. A group of researchers led by UBC educa- tion professor David Vogt is exploring how best to develop mobile devices that can react to and provide information about the surrounding environment . For example, imagine listening to a guided tour of an art gallery on your cell phone – a tour that adjusts itself to your pace . Or checking your pda for the location of the nearest grocery store or gas station . Called MUSE (Mobile Media-rich Urban Shared Experience), the project aims "to find the best ways to make your mobile device and your surroundings work for you, together, to deliver the kind of information you need," says Vogt. Vancouver is an excellent location for the project because it already has a high density of wireless hotspots. The group, which is funded by a $' .z9 million grant from Heritage Canada and industry partners, is working on a number of projects including an improved audio tour for UBC's Museum of Anthropology, and an E-scavenger hunt MUSE Director David Vogt says wireless devices will teach us, direct us and even help us vote. based in Chinatown that people can play using regular mobile devices and wireless networks. The Catastrophic Earth slides swallow up neighbourhoods. Another interesting application (funded There was a time when talk about the This might account for the popularity of by Western Economic Diversification weather served as fillers for awkward social an elective Earth and Ocean Sciences course, Canada) will attempt to turn around an moments . But environmental issues and the The Catastrophic Earth : Natural Disasters. ongoing decline in voting among youths. high drama of natural disasters such as This year, the course administrators predict Mobile devices and content especially earthquakes, tsunamis and floods has ele- 'zoo enrollees and, unlike other electives designed for the under-z5 crowd will help vated the level of extreme weather and vio- that tend to lose students after the first few promote political engagement and interac- lent, life-threatening natural phenomena to classes, positive initial reactions usually tion among them, with hopes that more will the level of serious discussion. Hurricanes attract more students through word of show up at the polls. are christened and tracked ; people are mouth . "We firmly believe that science The future, as they say, is wireless . plucked from the sea after days adrift ; mud doesn't have to be boring. We believe we Photograph by Martin Dee Winter 2005 Trek 5 A WORLD, AND A UNIVERSITY, RESPONDS TAKE NOTE can teach the science of disasters – the physics, the dynamics – yet The tsunami that ravaged areas of South keep the whole thing exciting," says course founder and lead Asia on December z6 has affected people instructor Professor Roland Stull . The course has used old news far beyond the Indian Ocean Rim .