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UBC .ReportsRETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED VOLUME 13, No. 7 VANCOUVER 8, B.C. ” DECEMBER, 1967 NEWPRESIDENT HERE JUNE 1 - TheUniversity of B.C.’s president- designate,Dr. F. Kenneth Hare, will take uphis newpost June 1,1968. Enrolment Mr. Justice Nathan T. Nemetz, chair- man ofthe Board of Governors of UBC, has announced that Dr.Hare Warning will assume his presidential office fol- lowing a briefholiday after relin- quishinghis present position as mas- ter ofBirkbeck College of the Uni- Issued versityof London. In the meantime,Dr. Hare will pay B.C.’s three public universities have twobrief visits to the UBCcampus. warned that enrolment [imitations may benecessary in 1968. BANQUET SPEECH Hewill arrive in Vancouver Jan. Dean Walter Gage, actingpresident 21 to address an annual banquet spon- of UBC, issued his warning statement sored bythe UBC Commerce Under- late in Octoberfollowing a meeting graduateSociety in association with of the Senate. theVancouver Board ofTrade on STATEMENT APPROVED Jan. 22 inthe Hotel Vancouver. About half of the 500 guests at the The Senate, andlater the Board of banquet will be businessand finan- Governors,approved thefollowing cial leaders; theothers will be stu- statement, whichwill appear inthe dents. 1968 UBCCalendar: This will beDr. Hare’s first oppor- “TheUniversity reserves theright tunityto address the businesscom- tolimit enrolment in 1968-69 and munity.He will speak on “Business thereafter if its facilities and resources andthe University.” areinadequate. It followstherefore On Jan. 25, Dr. Hare will attend the thatthe University may not be able openingof the Legislative Assembly to accept all candidates who meet the on the invitation of Premier W.A. C. minimumrequirements as laiddown Bennett. Hewill spend two days in - in theUniversity Calendar. This pro- Victoriabefore returning to England. visionapplies both to students apply- Hewill return to Vancouveragain ingfor admission forthe first time late inMarch and is scheduled to and to those applyingfor readmis- address theVancouver Institute on sion.” “UniversitiesUnlimited” on March 30. Dean Gage emphasized that UBC is Dr. Hare’s appointment as president not yet in a position to state whether ofUBC was announcedon June 29 or not a restriction of enrolment may this year. He succeeds Dr.John B. benecessary in September, 1968. Macdonald,who was president for five years from 1962 to June 30 this “However,” headded, “we feel it is year. advisable to warn prospective students Dean Walter Gage is actingpresi- nowthat suchaction may be neces- dentof UBC during theinterim sary in September, 1968, andthere- period. after.” WIDESEARCH DeanGage said theBoard of Gov- Dr. Hare’s appointment as president ernorswould consider the statement climaxed an international, eight-month inthe light of their review of the search by a Board of Governors’ presi- University’sphysical and financial re- dential selectioncommittee. sources. Thecommittee cast its net wide, The Senate ofthe University, he solicitingnominations from the UBC said, wouldthen decide which stu- faculty and other sources. All told, 111 dents it would beable to accept. candidates inCanada, th-e United “UBC’s situation,”Dean Gagesaid, Statesand theUnited Kingdom were “has been made difficult as a result of considered. the fact that our freshman enrolment Dr.Hare brings to his newpost a for the current year was considerably distinguishedbackground as a me- beyond our estimates.” teorological scientist and academic ad- ministrator. FRESHMENINCREASE Anative of England,he was edu- This year UBC enrolled 3,755 fresh- cated at King’s College of the Univer- men as compared to 3,386 the previous sity of London, where he received his year. bachelor of sciencedegree with first class honors in geography. An official at SimonFraser Univer- Helectured in geography at the sity said theirregistration was now Universityof Manchester in 1939-40 - approximately 5,000 and an enrolment and then joined the British Air Minis- limitationwould be imposed in 1968 try as an operationalweather fore- “if necessary.” caster. TheUnivercsity of Victoria’s warn- After the Second World War he came ing came in the 1965-66 annual report to Canada to teachgeography at Mc- of PresidentMalcolm Taylor, who Gill University. Fluently bi-lingual, he wrote:“Unless an increase in funds tookhis Ph.D. in geography at the is forthcoming, we shall be seriously French-languageUniversity of Mont- short of space in 1968, and shall have real in 1950. to consider emergency m e a s u res, He became a Canadiancitizen and among themlimitation of enrolment rose to become professorand chair- in 1968 or 1969.” manof McGill’s geography andme- c teorology department In 1962 he was nameddean of arts and science at McGill, a post he held until 1964 whenhe returnedto Eng- UBC Doctor Joins landto becomeprofessor of geo- graphy at hisold almamater, King’s Research Council College. He was namedmaster ofBirkbeck Dr. Stephen M. Drance, associate College in August, 1966. professor ofophthalmology in UBC’s faculty of medicine, is one of six new WRITESBOOK membersappointed to theMedical Dr. Hare is well known for his work Research Councilof Canada. inthe field of meteorologyand is authorof a widely-usedtextbook on Dr. Drance, who is director of glau- climatologyentitled “The Restless comaservices inthe UBC ophthal- GRADUATE STUDENT PaulThiele uses a Brailleedition of Winston Churchill’s Atmosphere.” mology unit at the Vancouver General history of the second world war as a book rest in the new Charles Crane Memorial He is a past chairman of the Arctic Hospital, will serve a three-year term Libraryin Brock Hall. The Library, used bythe 18 blindand partially-sighted Instituteof Canada, a fellowof the onthe Council, which makesgrants RoyalGeographic Societyand is cur- students registered at UBC, includes the largest private collection of Braille books to Canadian scientists for medical and rently president of the Royal Meteoro- biomedical research. in the world. Details on page four. Photo by B. C. Jennings. logical Society. i. I TRAIN WATER POLLUTION EXPERTS UBC Lake, Parf of lnfernafionalProgram Marion Lake, inthe University of Since 1963, MarionLake has been productionproblems and thetraining “Our aspect of the International Bio- B.C.’s10,000-acre Research Forest near theobject of an intensivescientific ofexperts capable ofdealing with logicalProgram aims to fill this gap. Haney, B.C., isn’t much to look at. study by a task force ofnearly 30 suchproblems. MarionLake is one ofa number of Statistically, it’s a halfmile long, peopleheaded byUBC zoologist-fish- Dr.Efford puts it this way: lakes in variousparts of the world 200 yards across at its widestpoint eries expertDr. Ian E. Efford. “Theusual way inwhich the pollu- that are beingstudied with common and covers just over 32 acres. Its maxi- PUBLISHRESULTS tion -problem is attacked is to ask ex- measuringmethods, agreed upon at a mum depth is 21 feet. Dr.Efford’s research group is about pertsstudyto an already-polluted series ofrecent international meet- Marion Lake,however, is aboutto to publish the first results of their in- riveror lake. Thiscannot bedone ings, so that data can be compared. achieve a measure of scientificfame. vestigation of the lake. The project is without a proper understanding of the “Notonly will we amass abody of It is now includedin the Interna- far from completed,however, and its environmentin the lake before it be- basicdata concerning lake productivi- tionalBiological Program-a50-nation inclusion inthe world-wide IBP will camepolluted. ty, butthe studentswho go through planfundamentalof researchde- givethe research further impetus. “Thebig gap in ourknowledge is theprogram will betrained to deal signed togive man a betterunder- The most importantlong-range ef- that we simplydon’t understand the with waterpollution and fish produc- standingof the biological nature of fectwhich the Marion Lake studies complex problem of the lake’s produc- tion problems.” foodproduction and ways and means will have, Dr. Efford said, is an under- tivity’ and the manyfactors that OTHERBENEFITS of.controlling the balance of nature. standing of waterpollution and fish limit it Therewill beother benefits from theprogram as well,Dr. Efford said. Chief amongthese will be develop mentof methods whichwill increase fish productivity in Marion Lake. Studies carriedout so farby Dr. Efford show that the size and number of fish in the lake are probably limited bycompetition for the .existing food supply. “In termsof fish growth,”said Dr. Efford, “Marion Lake is the poorest of 28 other B.C. lakes for which we have obtained data. ’ “There must be a couple of hundred similar lakes inthe lower mainland area of B.C. which are just as poor in terms of fish production and growth.” Studies carriedout so far haveal- ready given some clues to the reason for this. “Thefish in Marion Lake,” said Dr. Efford,“are of two kinds4,OW Ko- kaneesalmon, whichare landlocked sockeye, and 4,000 Rainbow trout They are, on the whole, ratherpoor speci- mens, measuring upto six or seven inches in length when full grown: “Lakes with a highproductivity in theinterior, say, haveKokanee in themmeasuring up to two feet FOODCOMPETITION “The chief reason for this limitation offish sizeseems to becompetition for the available food supply with ap- proximately 8,000 salamanders which inhabitthe bottom of the lake. Both salamandersand thefish tend to eat the same kinds of insects and bottom organisms,and as there is a limited amount of food the fish grow poorly.” Dr. Efford’s nextproject involves the alteration of various factors affect- ing the food supply. He has alreadybegun fertilizing largeenclosures inthe lake with chemicalfertilizers which increase growth of the food of the bottom or- ganismseaten bythe fish andsala- manders. In 1969 he plans to trap or eliminate many ofthe lake’s salamanders to MARIONLAKE, in UBC’s 10,000-acre research forestnear which is now partof the International Biological Program, measure theeffect of their absence Haney, B.C., has yieldedup these live salamanders andfish is designed to measure the lake’s productivity and will have on the fish growth.