Students to Vote on Technology

THEUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BC REPORT U Find UBC Reporfs on the Web at WWI S Students to vote on technologyfee A student technology fee ofS90 will lw while full-time graduate students would voted on in a student referendum to be pay $30 perinstallment and part-time held April 9- 16. graduatestudents would pay $20 per The university’s Board of Governors installment. The maximumfee payablc by decided to put the fee to a vote a1 its any student is $90 per acadcmic year. March 20 meeting.The board meeting Maria Klawe. vice-prcsidcnt. Sludent coincidedwith theoccupation of IJIK and Academic Services. says 1 hc alloca- President David Strangway‘s office by a tion of funds raised by thc 1i.e wot~ldbc group ofstudents protestingfee increases. decided by a commitlee on which stu- The student technolokv fer. ainled a( dents would have a voting mljority. providing students with betteracc~sx to Klawe says thestudent tt~chnolo~vlw informationtechnology. was rccom- would pay for impro\w~~rntsthat would mended by the Advisory Comnlittce on directly benefit students surh ;IS more Information Technologv (KIT)with in- and better computerlabs. ttia-in ;~c(~ss. put from representatives of the Alma software training and help. MaterSociety andCraduatr Student “It will not be nsed to nirc thr canlpus Society. or to pay for things whir11 arc presently Eflective Sept. 1, 1997. t he proposed paid for by the university.“ says Kl:wr. $90 leewould be payable in two Klawe says the Registrar will IIC rr- installments - September and January sponsible for runningthe rrlrrrtltium - and assessed to all undergraduatcs in which will be carried out using thr klgis- the winter sessionenrolled in a program of trar ‘s Office’s Televotr svslem. 18 credits or more. Undergraduate stw A referendum on an athlrtics andrvc- dents taking fewer than 18 credits in any reation fee has been delerrrd to the nrxl session would be assessed $5 per credit academic year. Opera star, judge to be honoured University of British Columbia gradu-Spring Congregation. May 25-30. and

Charles Ker photo ates Ben Heppner. a celebrated tcnor Fall Congregation, Nov. 20 arid 2 I. All in the world‘s premier opera houses. ceremonies will take place in the new Big Birds and retired B.C. provincial court jus- Chan Centre for the Perfornlit1g Arts. tice Alfred Heppnergraduated Iron1 IJUC’s Curb Ivancic, warehouse supervisor for UBC Press, deals with the weightiest Scow are School of Music in 1979 and gairlcd shipment of books in the press’s 25-year history.UBC Press has distributed among 14 i 11 1 f r 11 ;I ~ almost 3,000 copies of The Birds OfBritish Columbia volume three, along distin- with 1,200 copies of volumes one and two. guished individuals to be awarded honorary de- Ornithologist’s book grees by UBC this year. Promi- nentin the rolls off the presses professions and the com- by Gavin Wilson tory movements and distributionpatterns. mu nity. hon-munity. Heppner “We havewritten these books to be Staff uIritc,r orary degree recipients are rcrognized useful to professionals,” said one of the for lheir distinguished achievcmcntsin For legionsofbird-watchers, TheBirds authors.Ian McTaggart-Cowan,dean scow lanlftl 1 he lheir respective endeavours andfor tht, La Scala of British Colrmbiu is not just another emeritus of Graduate Studies. whosefirst contributionstheir accomplishments Opera one year later. book: it’s an event. book on birds was published in 1947. make to the life of the university and Scow was the firstAboriginal person Andfor UBC Press.it‘s a landmark ”But we also know that most people thebetterment of society.Honorary to earn a Bachelor of Laws (l.l,F3], prac- publication - one of the largest projects who will read thebook will do so because degrees will be awarded duriqg UBC‘s it has ever undertaken. a benchmark in birds are gorgeous creatures.” See HONOUR I’c~gc,2 regional ornithologyand an important The mammoth undertaking began in milestone in the documentationof B.C.‘s 1972 when Mc‘Taggart-Cowan. thena incredibly rich birdlife. professor of Zoology. andhis student “This is one of the largest ornithologi- Wayne Campbell decidedto fill what they cal research projects ever undertaken,” saw as a pressing needfor a comprehen- said UBC Press director Peter Milroy. “It sive work on the province’s birds. has been ongoingfor almost 20 years and ForumThey enlisted the help of thousands of Freedom 3 involves a largenumber of people - bird-watchersandmanynaturalists;through- Issues that divide today’s universities arc open to debate this month about 10,000- in one way or another.” out the province, eventually compiling 1.5 The third ofwhatwill be a four-volume million index cards of information. set was published this month. It covers The initialLearners two volumes, published in Long-time 3 91 species including such common ones 1990. sold out almostbefore theyreached Adults in B.C. learn longer. but do they getto use what theylearn? as swallows and starlings. and is illus- the bookstores. They have now been re- trated with 700 colour photographs. mapsissuedMinds tocoincide with the publicationof Applied 4-5 and drawings.In total. 472 specieswill be volume three.for a combined print runof covered in the lour volumes. nmrc than 10,000 books, nearly half of Feature: More than just gearsarc at work in the Faculty of Applied Science The books (wmprise a complete refer- which were pre-sold before publication. ence workfor birtl-watchers,ornitholo- EdificeThe fourth and final volume will bc Eternal 9 gists and naturalistswith infornlation on published in ahout two years’ time.Milroy history, habitat, breeding habits. migra- said. Forum: Dean ShirleyNeurnan or1 the universe which others call the library 2 UBC ReDOrtS .ADril3. 1997

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Fraternity pub crawl prompts outrageand action The University of British Columbia Bookstore (theBook- Editor: rectify the situation and to re- for the terminally ill store) is the largest university bookstore in Canada and I would like to address the align ourselves with these a seminar hosted at our the 10th largestin North America. The Bookstore provides events of Dec. 18, 1996 when ideals and values, all mem- Chapter House to increase an extensive range of products and services within five bers of the chapter were called some membersof Phi Gamma student alcohol awareness divisions. Delta were involvedin a "Pub to a strategic planning and on campus Crawl" on theDowntown goal-setting retreat and the There will be another 1. Book Division 4. ComputerDivision following action-oriented Eastside of Vancouver. chapter retreat held before 2. Office Products Division decisions were made. Imple- 5. Services Division I would like to formally the end of January 1998, to General Merchandise Division mentation of these new 3. apologize on behalf of the evaluate our progress with committees and programswill members of the UBC Chapter respect to these issues. occur before January 1998. The UBC Bookstore Review Committee, reporting to the of Phi Gamma Delta for any We recognize that Phi Gamma \rice-president, Administration and Finance,is seeking writ- embarrassment we may have a new Chapter Board of Delta must constantly evaluate caused the University of Conduct to discipline herself to ensure that she ten submissions from interested parties. We in\ite you to British Columbia dueto the members whose hehaviour continues to be a positive submit your suggestions, comments and/or opinions on the unfavourable media attention is unacceptable influence on thelives of men who following broad areas: that followed the incident. a new Chapter Community choose to affiliate during their The members of the Pi Relations and Safety enrolment at UBC. Given these 1. The role of the Bookstore in the university community Gamma Chapterof Phi Committee to evaluate all internal changes, we hope to re- 2. The mandate of the Bookstore Gamma Delta hold their chapter events and indi- align ourselves with our own 3. The Bookstore's degreeof success in meeting the needs informal affiliation with the vidual behaviour values and continue to produce of students and faculty university in the highest an increased focus on men of virtuous principles whose 4. Opportunities for enhancing services participation in university life is a regard. Our conduct was not serving the community 5. Quality of the product including a new project to positive force on campus. in accordance with the ideals 6. Quality of service and values of our fraternity or assist with the renovation President, Gamma Chapter Pi 7. Price competitiveness the university. In order to and restoration of a hospice Phi Gamma Delta The deadline for submissions is April 30,1997. Editor: klitor: you keep this incidentin mind If I understand correctly, I am writing to add my if in the future there are any Please address your submissionsto: UBC does not have a formal relations between UBC and Phi ondemnation to the action of Chair, Bookstore Re\ie\v Committee relationship with the frater- his fraternity. whose members Gamma Delta Society. From Arts Faculty, Buchanan 130 nities and the incident did early got some of their own this community's point or view, not take place during school illed, promoted racism/ reparation may be forthcoming 1866 Main Mall hours, and therefore UBC exism against native people, if this fraternity issuedan V6T 1Z1 cannot (at this time) disci- apology and offered some time nd deeply insulted residents Comments may also be submitted pline those involved. f the Downtown Eastside, all or money to an organization in the Downtown Eastside. by e-mail to: petergQhr.ubc.ca I would like to recommend I one evening. that UBC students have to I understand UBC has no Tom Laviolette. Co-ordinator Submissions will be keptconfidential. face student discipline if they irecl authority over fraternities Carnegie Community are involved in such clearly t UBC. I ask, however, that Action Project unacceptable behaviour, whether or not that behaviour takes place during school hours. Wax if

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ADril3.1997 3 Conference tackles academic freedom y Gavin Wilson ways of clarifying issues and resolving conflicts. taff writer Conference organizers have alsosched- Political correctness. Chilly climates. uled ample opportunity for participation harges of racism and sexism. Fears of from audience members, includingwork- ‘ee speechstifled. These issues have shops, discussion groups and question enerated heated and divisive debate at periods after each panel presentation. iany universities- including UBC -in Among the speakers scheduledto ap- ?cent years. pear at the conference are:York Univer- A conference to beheld on campus sityhistorian JackGranatstein: Stan pril 10- 12 will tackle these and many Persky, a Capilano College instructor and ther related topics in an effort to foster political commentator: Carleton Univer- reater understanding among the often sity’s Peter Emberley.author of Hot But- ntagonistic viewpoints. ton Politics;Judy Rebick. former head of UBC President David Strangway called the National Action Committeeon the le conference more than a year ago as Status of Women and hostof the CBC-TV art of the healing process at the univer- program FaceOff: McGillUniversity Prin- ity following charges of racism and sex- cipal Bernard Shapiro, who will deliver ;m in the Political Science Dept. thekeynote address: Lorna Marsden, The conference’s central focuswill be president of Wilfrid Laurier University: ow towelcome previously excluded and former UBC Board of Governors mem- roups to universities.where the new ber Tom Berger. :sues of inclusiveness often clash with Speakers from UBC include: Graham -aditionalacademic principles. said Good. English: StanleyCoren. Psychol- kennis Pavlich, associate vice-president, OB: and George Hoberg, Political Science. cademic and Legal Affairs. nYo speakers. John Fekete, professor ‘The McEwen Report raised a rangeof of cultural studies at Trent University :sues which divided the campus com- and author of In Moral Panic. and Duke lunity. One of those issues was aca- University‘s Stanley Fish,will be featured emic freedomand how that can accom- atthe Vancouver Institute lecture on Iodate the relatively new values the uni- April 12 which is free and open to mem- ersity must adopt in order to welcome bers of the public. ifferent groups to campus.” he said. All are welcome to attend the confer- “1 am confident that the conference ence. Thefee of $125 includes admission peakersand participants will emerge to all conference sessions. dinner onFri- D Thornson DhOtO ith many good ideas about how these day and lunch Saturday. Admission for Under Glass ifferent values can be reconciled.” students is free, butdoes not include Titled Academic Freedom and the In- social events. Fourth-year Plant Science students Katherine Fulcher (left) and Ingrid Hoff lusive University, the conference brings For more information on conference inspect healthy cycadsbeing raised in UBC’s new, state-of-theart horticulture >getherprominent academics, social content, call (604) 822-1460. For regis- peemhouse complex located 2334at West Mall. More than 15 species of cycads. ctivists and commentators to discuss tration information, call (604) 822- 1050. the most ancientplants in exlstence, are on display.Also housed in the 1,OOO- square-metre facilityare anew micropropogation laboratory and undergraduate resource centre. The greenhouse officially opensApril 4. Political Science scholar Lifelong learning on earns top honour Political Science Prof. Kalevi Holsti has theory to explain the causeof war and upswing, st ,rdy shows becomeonly theseventh UBC faculty peace overthe last 300 years. member to be nameda University A significantly higher number of Brit- employer support at 40 per cent, com- Killam Holsti hascontinued to produce ish Columbians are participating in adultpared to 30 per cent of those with a posl Professor, the westhonourbestowed by leading scholarship and his book. latest the university on itsfaculty. education and training programs than secondary diplomaor certificate and only The State, War. and the State of War The designationrecognizes the univer- was recently publishedby Cambridge were a decade ago. UBC researchers say. IO per centof employees with lessthan a Comparedto previous Statistics high school diploma. sity’s most exceptional faculty members University Press. who have distinguished themselves in Canada figures measuring adults’ par- Levels of interest in lifelong learning. Renowned as a teacher, Holsti is teaching. scholarly activityand service. ticipation in education and training, the based on socialization at home. school popularwith undergraduates who Holsti is considered rate of increase in B.C. was more than and work, and structural disparities in nominated him for a Canada’s mostdistin- double the rate for Canada. society at largemay help explain the MasterTeacher “This likely reflectsthe faster eco- inequalities that exist between groups. guished scholar of in- Award. He has acted nomic growth in the province, but may the researchers say. ternationalrelations as a mentorand andhas taught and also reflect growth incommitment of Their report also states that better- graduate supervisorto lecturedaround the adult learning in B.C. relative to Canadaeducated employees may engage in edu- many young scholars. world sincejoining overall,” says Kjell Rubenson, a profes- cation and training programs more fre- A member of the UBC 1961. sor of Educational Studies. quently because their jobsprovide direcl in RoyalSociety of His textbook Inter- Rubenson and doctoral studentGong- opportunitiesto do so and encourage Canada, Holsti is the national Relations: A Li Xu recently completed an analysis of them to invest in theirown development. only Canadian to have Framework.forAnaly- Statistics Canada’s 1994Adult Education Despite the increased emphasis onan been presidentof both sis. has remained in and TrainingSurvey (AETS),the fifth in a industry-led workforce to increase Cana- the CanadianPolitical print for nearly 30 series of questionnaires initiatzd in1986. da’scqmpetitiveness in the global ScienceAssociation years.published in More than 47.000 Canadian house- economy, andgreater participation in and the International seveneditions and holds were sampled for the 1994 AETS, adult education and training programs. StudiesAssociation. translatedinto several He is also a past Na- 4,231 of them in B.C. the report cautions publicpolicy makers Holsti languages. It contin- “Our analysis shows that the highest and employers against focusingonmerely tional KillamFellow. ues to be the leading textbook in the the editorof two leading journals and participationrates in adult education supplying a skilled labour market. field, influencingcountless students and training were associated with those “It is not enough to increase the extenl a former member of the board of the around the world. with a university education, an income of human resource development in the CanadianInternational Institute for Holstifollowed the textbookwith a over $50,000, a white-collar occupation labour force, or to make existing educa- Peace and Security in Ottawa. major monograph entitled Why Nations and working for large employerslike pub- tion andtraining programs more rel- University Killam Professors con- Re-Align Foreign Policy Re-Structuring lic administration, health care and edu- evant,” the report states. in tinue to teach in their disciplineswith the Post-War World In this work, Holsti reduced duties. are administratively cation.” the researchers report. “11 is also necessary to overcome the explored the dynamics ofchangein foreign They also note. however.that once dis- minimalist approach to the utilizationoj responsible to the president and meet policy. drawing on comparative cases to advantaged groups are recruitedto educa- workers’ skills. The real problem mighl as a group with the presidentat least advance a novel theoretical explanation. tion and training. the chance theythat will be ensuring the skills are used and de- annually to discuss plansfor advanc- But perhaps his mostinfluential con- return for further programs increases. veloped at work, rather than simply con- ing the goalsof the university. tribution to the developmeltof intema- The surveyrevealed that 58 per centof centrating on supply.’‘ They are also expected to contrib- tional relations is the book Peace and participants in any form of adult educa- The study was conducted under thc ute to the overall intellectual life of the War: Armed Contests and International tion and training received employer sup- auspices of the Faculty of Education’s university and to serve as academic Order. The book was oneof five finalists port. Overall. 26 per cent of people em- Centre for Policy Studies in Educatior ambassadors. for the 199 1 Lionel Gelber Prize for best Previously earning the distinction ployed in B.C. received some employer- with funding from the B.C. Ministry 01 English language book in international supported training or education. Education, Skills and Training. The com- were Michael Smith. Dr. Patricia Baird. relations. In it. Holsti usedhistorical Employed workers with a university pletereport is availableat http:// Roy Daniells.Charles McDowell, perspective. scholarly description and Michael Shaw andPeter Larkin. degree received the greatest amount of www.ceiss.org/randa/welcome.htm L 4 UBC ReDOrtS .ADril3. 1997

by Stephen Forgacs Applied Science Staffwriter "Fun" earns researcher a sterling reputation Prof. Keith Brimacombe has long had a fascination with how things work. something he credits to his early yearsin spent a farming community in Alberta. This fascination, coupled with whathe sees as an engineer's obligation to society, led him into the swelteringconfines of Canadiansteel mills on a quest tc understand and improve the processes involved in steel production. It hasalso earned him dozens 01 awards, most recently the Canada Gold Cheryl Nlamath photo Medal for Science and Engineering, the Electro-Mechanical Design Engineering students Johnny Patterson and nation's top award in field, the sponsored by the Natural Sciences andEngineering Barbara Irwin are close to completion of a 12-month work term with CAE Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Machinery Ltd. in Vancouver. They will graduate, along with six other "What I'm trying to dois to help Cana- students, with both bachelor's and master's degrees inengineering in May. dian companies beas competitive as possible on a world basis," he says. "These companies pay people, they pay taxes, they make our economy strong, and inci- First class to graduate dentally, they put money into NSERC." Brimacombe, director of UBC's Cen- Brimacombe tre for Metallurgical Process Engineer- Development, said:"Dr. Brimacornbe ha! ing, has forged his reputation in indus- been a major contributorto the economic with double degrees try and academiaby combining complex competitiveness of theCanadian stee mathematical modellingwith fundamen- industry and to the nationwide effort tc The first groupof graduates ever from program include design of an automatic tal studies ofphysical and chemical phe-build productive research linksbetweer the challenging Electro-Mechanical En- dynamic braking and magnetic orienta- nomena, and direct measurements on industry and universities." gineering option will receive two degrees tion mechanism forTRIUMFs cyclotron,a industrial processes. Founded in the mid-Brimacombe's most recent researck each during the Spring Congregation cer-computer-controlled wood strander to pro- 1980s. the centre operates with an an- includesstudies led by Prof. Indirz emonies this May. duce wood strips for composite wood prod- nual research budget of about $2 mil- Samarasekera,who holds the Dofascc Eight students will receive both Bach- ucts for CAE Machinery, designof a device lion. From there, Brimacombe workswith Chair in Advanced Steel Processing, or elor and Master of Engineering degrees for ultra precision machiningof lenses and a team of a dozen or so graduate stu- hot rolling of steel and aluminum. Ho following completion of the five-year pro- othercomponents for the National Re- dents and in frequent collaborationwith rolling is a process through which cas gram that combines electrical and me- search Council, and a displacement sen- colleaguesin other science and engi- metal is converted into metal products. chanical engineering courses with exten-sor and hydraulic testfacility for outboard neering disciplines. Another process research activity in sive work experience. motors for TELEFLEX Ltd. Brimacombemade hismark byputting volves the development of a continuous During the final yearof the program, Students are selected for admission up with the heat and dirt in steelmills to casting mould thatis intelligent. students undertake graduate level re- into theprogram during their second obtain in-plant measurements during the"We're trying to makethis process search and design projects in industry. year in Mechanical Engineering. various stages in a metallurgical process, ;mart. to give it its own brain. We have a The projects last12 months and consist 'The students we select for the pro- such as continuous castingof steel. and :omputationalintelligence system that of an advanced machine design compo- gram must have notonly good academic then using that information to comple- Nil1 take sensor signals as it assesses nent and an advanced instrumentation skills, but also strong communications ment computer models and laboratory tself and the cast product,recognize the component. While the project is underway skills and practical skills suchas design research. nformation. know when thereis a prob- the students operatelargely as employ- 3r even music," says Altintas. "We con- Although ultimately rewarding, work- em and have theknowledge to diagnose ees of the host company, which pays sider a number of factors including an ing in the mills poses itsof researchshare .he problem and provide a remedy on- them for a minimum of eight months, aptitude for teamwork, which is an im- challenges, Brimacombe says. ine ." but are not required to take on work portantaspect of theprogram and of "When you're in the plant,people are A smart process, Brimacombe says, beyond the scopeof their specific projects. most professional engineers' work long inthe business of makingsteel or Kill enhance quality and continuity in They are supervisedby a company engi- lfter they leave university. aluminum or copper and youhave to x-oduction as operators changefrom shift neer as well as Prof. Yusuf Altintas, Thefifth-year projectsare undertaken work around their schedules. You don't .o shift. program director and professor of Me- by teams of two, so the ability to workwell necessarily have the kind of control you He hasalso been working on flash chanical Engineering. with others is vital." would like. That can bea real advantage smelting. a process thatinvolves the ad- "It's certainly been a lot more work At the end of second year, students and opportunity,or a dimculty, depend- Wion of oxygen to nickel, copperor lead than a bachelor program." says Barbara work in industry during a summer co-op ing on how you want to treat it." sulphide concentrates. The ensuing au- Irwin, who, withfellow fifth-year student term. In third year, students take both Regardless of the challenges encoun- .ogenous reaction, one which generates Johnny Patterson, is completing a year- mechanical and electrical engineeringcore tered in gathering in-plant information, ts own heat,leaves a liquid metal or long workterm with CAE Machinery Ltd. coursesincluding machine dynamics, the light it shedson research is invalu- lxide and a gas strong in sulphurdioxide "We've been working on larger projects automaticcontrol, digital logic design, able, he says. - a by-productthat can be used for that are important to the company and system software engineering and atwo- "The combination of in-plant meas- ,leaching inthe pulp and paper industryare key parts of machinery they will be term engineering product design course. urements, computermodelling, and what- lr as sulphuric acid. Brimacornbe lists selling next year." 4t the end of third year students begin ever measurements we undertake in the several key advantages in flash smelting: In fact, Altintas says threeof the four their secondco-op work term. Fourth lab, is very powerful,"he says."We don't .he use of oxygen to trigger the reaction companies employing the fifth-year stu- year involves further mechanical andelec- have to extrapolate manyof our results to mhances ease of operation and control dents will seek patentsfor designs devel- trical engineering courses. In their fifth real life. They are real life." mddoes away with the need for an oped by them. and final year students take four gradu- Brimacombe's contributions to "real additional fuel: the recovery of sulphur The projects currently being completed2te courses and complete the two 12- life" industry have led to numerous awards .hrough the processis an environmental by the students in their final year of the month projects. and recognition. He is an Officer of the ,Ius; and the ability to contain poten- Order of Canada. He has been awarded ially harmful fumes, such as lead va- the Killam Memorial Prize fromthe Canada lours. improves operational hygiene. Women in Engineering at UBC Council, the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial In the lab. usingtwo-colour a pyrometer Fellowshipfrom NSERC andthe B.C. :ustomized by one of his graduate stu- Thefollowing is taken fromthe Women in all aspects of engineering. Science and EngineeringGold Medal. In lents. Brimacornbe can observe tiny par-in Engineering at UBC home page main- A mentoringprogram, developed in 1987. he received the ErnestC. Manning ides of copper, leador iron sulphide, as tained by third-year engineering student conjunction with the Division for Ad- Principal Prize reserved for a Canadian hey are heatedto more than3.000 C. By Rozlyn Bnbela. vancemrnt of Women in Engineering "who has shown outstanding talent in Ibserving the compositionand behav- The first female chemical engineer to and Geoscience, provides female stu- conceiving and developing newconcepts, our of these particlesas they are heated graduate fromUBC, and apparently dents withpersonal contact with procedures, processesor products of po- o the point ofvapourization. Brimacombe the first in Canada. was Rona Wallis women practising engineeringor with tential benefit to Canada and society at :an learn such thingsas how to improve (nee Hatt) in 1922. senior engineering students. large." Earlier this year. he waselected as just recovery in the flash smelting proc- m Women currently make up about 20 per ElectricalEngineering Prof. Rabab a Foreign Associateof the National Acad- :ss to reduce waste. cent of the approximately 2.000 under- Ward became UBC's first female engi- emy of Engineering in theUnited States. "Much of this research gets quite fun- graduate studentsin engineeringat UBC nrering professor in 198 1. Of 123 fac- Theacademy elects onlyeight foreign lamental." he says."But it hasvery strong and arein each of the nine departments. r~lty members, nine are women. associates each year. lractical implications in operation. And Many are among the top students. The Women in Engineering at UBC Web When theCanada GoldMedal was or me.that's always been the fun - m TheAssociation For Engineering sitecanbefound http://at announced March 20, Jon Gerard, Sec- narrying fundamentalsto real life. That's Women (AFEW) is a UBC clubthat www,apsc.ubc.ca/stuserv/ retary of State, Science, Research and vhere all the excitement is." encourages the participation ofwomenwomeneng.htm -"_.- " " - 7"- +

UBC ReDorts . ADril3.1997 5 Engineering change for a changing world

Faculty emphasizes "real life" experience Work and academic experience that will provide students with opportuni- nowseem exceptional for a student ties to gainnot onlyrelevant work graduating with an undergraduate de-experience through co-op programs, gree in engineering could become com-but also international academic expe- monplace as UBC's engineering pro- rience. Meisen saidthat although a grams change with the times. number of international agreements It's likely that within a few years, are in place. the trickle of engineering internationalwork experience and students taking advantage ofexchange problem-based research experiencewill programs is relatively small. grace the resumeof many undergradu- "With the increasing internationali- ate students in engineering at UBC, zation of engineering. our graduates are evenbefore they complete their de- very likely to find themselves in posi- grees, the dean of the Faculty of Ap- tions of either competing with or coi- plied Science said. laborating with engineering firmsfrom "A greateremphasis on research around theworld," he said.'A semester experience at the undergraduatelevel of study inAsia, or completion of a co-op

Stephen Forgacs photo andincreased opportunities to gain work term in Latin America,will prove internationalwork invaluablewhen it The design of a machine to facilitate recycling of aluminum chips, like experience will en- comes to dealing with those heldhere by fourth-year Engineering Physics student Peter Bonac, studentssure colleagues or competi- garnered first prize environmental for innovation in a competitionsponsored graduatingwith a tors in these areas later. by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.Co-recipients, all in bachelor's degree in 'Most of our co-op Engineering Physics, are (1-r)David Moffat.Jeffrey Chang. Craig Wilkinson engineeringare as studentsare being and Vincent Kwong. well equippedas placed in B.C. and in possible for employ- Canada. But I see that mentin industry." changing, particularly said Axel Meisen. in theAsia Pacific and Students solve waste Engineering pro- the Americas, includ- grams, which have ing the U.S. beendeveloped at "We haveto take UBC since 19 15,are advantageofbeing next problem inexpensively continuing to evolve to such a large, tech- to meet the needsof A group of Engineering Physics stu- nologicallyadvanced cylinder a compressionchamber in- industry,society dents has designed a small device that nation." creases readily available air pressurefrom andthe students Despite a high level will encourage therecycling of aluminum 80 to 100 pounds-per-square-inch (psi) enterchoosewho to Meiwn UBC of success in ne- waste chips from machine shops, and to 8.000 to 10,000 psi. As the chips are the profession. gotiatingagreements help reduce the releaseof harmful chemi- compressed, the coolant isforced out of Thereare now morethan 2,200 with Asian partners. Meisen said in- cals in the recycling process. the chamber through small troughs so undergraduatestudents and 700 creasing competition in the region will Thedevice. anautomatedaluminumchip that it can be collected for reuse. Once graduatestudents enrolled in engi- lead to fewer opportunities. compressor for a computer numerically con- compression is complete, a smallpellet of neering programs. These includebio- "I think we'll need to developa trolled (CNC) machine,was designed by compressed aluminum- about thesize resource engineering; chemical engi- secondstring to our bow. and that fourth-year students Peter Bonac. Jeikey of a small stackof loonies - is expelled neering; civil engineering;electrical should be the Americas. They'rein our Chang, Vincent Kwong, David Moffat and from the chamber. These pellets can be and computer engineering; engineer- own backyard and it makes strategic Craig Wilkinson as a course project. Their easily stored, in far less space than is ingphysics; geological engineering; sense. If we don't develop in the direc- design recently won first prize in the 1997 required for the same amount of loose mechanicalengineering; metals and tion of LatinAmerica we'll missa PATSCAN Environmental Innovation Con- chips, untila sufficient amount has been materials engineering; and mining andmajor opportunity." test, as well as the 1997Molson prize for best collected for recycling. mineral process engineering. Increasing political and economic recycling concept. Recycling of compactedaluminum Meisen.who will stepdown this stability in LatinAmerica, and well- The idea for the project came from pellets is more efficient than recycling of summer after 12 years as dean, lists a established business relationships be- student Peter Bonac. whose father oper- loose flakes, as smaller chipswill evapo- number of directions in which he ex- tween Canadian industries- particu- ates amachine shopusingCNC machines. rate as the metal is heated, Chang said. pects the university's engineering pro- larly mining and forestry- and Latin These automated machines commonly are The greatest design challenge the group grams to develop. American partners, make the area at- used to manufacture partsfrom aluminum faced was devising a method of feeding the A greater integration 01 research and tractive for UBC. blocks, using instructionsfrom a compu- compression chamberwith the loose chips. design early on in undergraduate level Other developments inUBC's engi- ter systemwith pre-programmedco-ordi- 'The chips that areexpelled from the programs will introduce students to the neering programs arelikely to include nates to guide the machine'stools. In the CNC machines vary in size," Chang said. sortsofproblemstheymayfaceworkingin mach iningprocess. "But they areoften they "But machiningprocess. growth in the areas of'software engi- industry and give them .the confidence small waste chips tangled into larger into tangled chips waste small neering and bio-sciences.Meisen said. and ability to tackle problems they have of aluminumare 'Tremendousadvances have been "...thechoice to recycle clu~pswhichthYen never encounteredbefore, Meisen said. continually expelled made in the areasof molecular biology have to be fed into He also anticipates a greater shift from themachines. is easy one if there is asmall port in the and genetic engineering," he said. "But an away from discipline-focused researchthese advances haven'tfound great ex- Thesechips.coated money to be made at it." c o mp r e s s i o n towardproblem-focused research, in a coolant used coolant a in to chamber." pression in practice and application yet. such as work on such societal issues control heat in the UBC is extremely well-positioned with To dothis the as unemployment,automation and m achining process, group designed group process, machining -Jeffrey Chang a its multi-faculty expertisein that area." creating a better life for theaged must then be then mustconical col- screw drive, There is also room for the introduc- through the application of technology. tion of a Doctor of Engineering program lected andeither a rotating hollow The developmentof collaborative ar- heavily weighted in course work and disposed of or recycled. cone resembling alarge tapered spnng, that rangements with industrial and aca- having a wider approach than the cur- Problems associated withrecycling the would draw the aluminum chips througha demic partners in Canada and abroad rent PhD research programs, he added. chips includeremoval of the coolant. which namowing passage and theninto the small is costly and toxic but canbe reused, and port in the compression chamber. storage of a large enough volume of chips The costof the device, said Chang,will to make recycling a financially worthwhile be about $2.000 to $3,000. Savings to venture. Available compressors are versa- the user will comefrom the ability to Engineering video wins award tile but are alsoextremely expensive and collect and reuse the coolant on-site. andA video produced for the Faculty of rewards of engineering as a career. large. Chang said. through the eliminationof an intermedi- ipplied Science to encourage high school Themost recent award is aSilver Weset outto designa compressor purely arywho would otherwise perform the hdents. especiallywomen and other World Medal presented at the 39th Ar- for use in CNC shops," he said."It had to be compression and coolant extraction off- lnder-representedgroups to consider nuai New York Festival, an international small, easy to automate, able to run off power site for a price before delivering the pel- rngineering as acareer, has won its non-broadcastcompetition for indus- and air pressure already available in the lets to the recycling facility. tecond international award. trial, educational and informational pro- shops,and inexpensive enough that the "An inexpensive machine capable of Engineering the Future. producedby ductions. More than 1,000 entries were shops could recoverthe cost within a couple facilitatingthe recycling process for lancouver's The Eyes Multimedia Pro- receivedfrom 39 countries. The video of years throughrecychg." smallermachine shops would be ex- luctions. features two UBC engineering won the silver medal in the Career Guid- The device, which will be largely fin- tremely beneficial to both shop owners Sudents.Sundiep Tehara and Victor ance Category. ished by early summer,consists of a and the environment, as the choice to jzabo, as they take viewers on an infor- The video also wona Silver Screen cylinder less than a metre long and aboutrecycle is an easy oneif there is money to nal tour ofengineering UBC. at The video Award at theU.S. International Film and 25 centimetres in diameter. Within the be made at it." Chang said. llustrates and raises awareness of the Video Festival last year. T

6 UBC Reports .April 3,1997 Calendar April 6 through April 19

1 Medical GeneticsSeminar thology. Wesbrook 20 l, 4:30pm. Resident Speaker Series rosis: Slow Progress In A Slowly Sunday, Apr. 6 Molecular Studies of Inversion Refreshments 4: 15pm. Call 822- Rendering The Imagination: The ProgressingDisease. Dr. J. Duplication 8p.Tanya Nelson. PhD 8764. Making Of A Computer Anima- Carter, HC’s Children’s Hospi- GreenCollege Performing candidate. LipoproteinLipasc And tion. Allan Rempel.Computer Sci- tal. GF Strong Auditorium. gam. Conference Arts Group Atherosclerosis: Studies In Mouse ence. Green coilege. 5:3Opm. Call Call 875-2307. Green College Choir Recital, Models. SusanneClee.PhDcandi- Academic Freedom AndThe Inrlu- 822-6067. Green College, 8pm. Call 822- date. Wesbrook 2Ol14:30-5:30pm. sive University. Welcomingreccp- Health Care and tion. 5:30-7pm. Conference con- 6067. Refreshments4pm. Call822-53 12. Epidemiology Rounds tinues to April 12. Non-students. Tuesday, Apr. 15 Complexity In Epidemiolo~gy:Is It $125. To register, call 822- 1050. Time ForNew Methods? Dr. Steve Wednesday, Apr. 9 Medical Genetics Seminar Marion. Health Care and Epide- Monday, Apr. 7 Gene Therapy For Sickle Cell Dis- Orthopedics Grand Rounds Friday, Apr. 11 miology. Mather 253.9-loam. ease. Sharlene Faulkes.PhD can- Call 822-2772. Biochemistry & Molecular Orthopedics Spine Management didate. FunctionalAnalysis OfThe Pediatrics Grand Rounds Werner Syndrome Gene. Richard Respiratory Syncytial Virus - New Bruskiewich, PhD candidate. Information From The Canadian Wesbrook 201. 4:30-5:30pm. Re- Saturday, Apr. 19 Epidemiology Studies. Dr. Elaine freshments 4pm. Call 822-5312. Wan& U of Toronto and Hospital Conference for Sick Children. GF StrongAudi- Best Privacy Practices For Pri- Refreshments 3:30pm. Call 622- Microbiology and torium,gam. Call 875-2307. Wednesday,Apr. 16 vate And Public Sector Organi- 4070. Immunology Seminar Series zations. Robert Betterell, Assoc. 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UBC Reports . April 3,1997 7

HEALTH, SAFETYAND ENVIRONMENT

1 I PERSONAL SECURITY COORDINATOR 1996 YEAR END REPORT

Key Accomplishments in 1996: :ampus, andwill provide coherent, use- b) Compliance with WCB 4. The Alma Mater Society: ulinformation to theadministration “Code Blue“ Emergency Phones & Regulations on Violence in the a) Safewalk Program: Campus Lighting Upgrades .egarding prioritizing ongoing improve- Workplace & Policy nents to the physical plant. UBC “Clothesline Project” by the Development: The AMs sponsored Safewalk program re- The AMs has sponsored three student .:eived $5,400.00 from the 1995-1996 pro- Women Students’ Offke The Coordinatorconducted a risk as- jafety audits: two during the1995- 1996 dncial Safer Campuses Initiative funding to Fixed Route Security Bus sessment in compliance with the WCB icademicyear, and one in December, xpandits operation. In October, 1996, Student Safety Audits Regulations in the fall of 1995 and col- AMs L996. The students responsible for the Safewalk established a second “office”in the 1996 UBC Safety Guideby the L995- 1996safety audits presented theirlected theresponses and entered the Buchanan Building toexpand its operation results in a database in the Spring of Women Students’ Office summary report to the Boardof Gover- For students enrolled in night classes in the 1996. Attached to this reportis a copy of Compliance with WCBRegulations lors at its January 1996 meeting. The xea. The Safewalk program used some of the Risk Assessment Report. The Risk on thePrevention of Violence in the :oordinator and David Grigg, Manager heSafer Campuseshnds to purchase new Assessment Report will be presented to Workplace If Engineering Services, Campus Plan- ackets and rechargeable battery packs for the Administrative Heads and the Per- he volunteers’ flashlights. In thepast, the A The Personal Security Coordinator is re- ling andDevelopment, prepared a writ- sonalSecurity Coordinator will bein- program did not operate dunng the exam sponsible for developing and implement- en responseto the Student SafetyAudit rrolved in the ongoing implementation of period due to a lack of volunteers: however. ingUniversity-wide personal security jummary. trainingprograms and assessments to this year the senice operated during the programs. as well as promoting existing n response to the students’ rerommen-reduce any identified risks of violence to xam period for the first time. The current and ongoing programs. The Coordinator lation that the Universityestablish a UBC employees. Director is hopeful that Safewalk will soon is responsible for coordinating thecollec- .eliable, central reporting systemto moni- use two-wayradios which have accessto the tion,analysis and distribution of per- The Coordinator was activelyinvolved in or the street lights on campusto iden- Zampus Security frequency and thus sonal security information andfor assist- the “working group” processof develop- im- ify burnt out lights, in the Spring of xove theservice and thesafety and security ingwith theresolution of complaints ing a University-widepolicy on Response 1996, PlantOperations supplemented eve1 of the Safewalk volunteers and clients. related to personal security. ts 24-hour “trouble calls” service with to Threatening Behauiour to assist mem- in email addressto report lights out on bers of the Universitycommunity re- b) Safety Commissioners: The Personal Security Coordinator’s resolve incidentswhere people exhibit port on the statusof UBC’s personal secu- :ampus: [email protected]. As The AMs has two Safety Commissioners Yell, the studentsidentified seven areas threatening or violentbehaviour. The rity programs reflects, insofar as possible, Vice Provost has presented theResponse who are responsiblefor increasing aware- all of the activities underway at UBC. This )r issues of priorities and the following nessabout safety issues on campus Ioint form list illustrates the students’ to Threatening Behauiour Policy to the Report provides an overview of current Board of Governors. among the studentbody. The Safety Com- services and ongoing programs; however, x-iorities and the University’s response missioners provide information at cam- programs detailed in lastyear’s report are o their concerns: 2. The Women Students’ Office: pus events and solicit students’ concerns not included in the 1996 Report. 1. WoodwardLibrary/Health Sciences a) “Clothesline Project:” about personal safety and helped with Area: the Student Safety Audit (see paragraph 1. The Personal Security The WSO sponsored theUBC Clothesline 2a). As well. the Safety Commissioners 1 CP&D installed a “CodeBlue” emer- Project, which was displayed in the Stu- act as liaisonswith other campus groups .- Coordinator’s Off ice: gency telephone in the plaza area near dent Union BuildingArt Gallery the week to help resolve student concerns. During 1996, theCoordinator focused the IRC. 3f December 3, 1996 to commemorate the primarily on the following areas: resolu- 1 CP&D has improvedlighting on the deaths of fourteen women at the Ecole 5. Safer Campuses Initiative tion of specific incidents, assisting with north side of the IRC through to Uni- Polytechnique in Montreal. The Clothes- Funding: the development of UBC‘s policyResponse versity Blvd. and on the south sideof line Project is a “powerful visual displayof The Ministry of Skills, Training& Labour, to Threatening Behaviour, and increasing the hospital area and replaced existingt-shirts with graphic messages and illus- .hrough its 1995- 1996Safer Campuses awareness around personal security is- sodium lights with white metal halide trations created by individual women to ‘nitiative,provided $25,000 to everypost- sues. As well. the Coordinator was very lights which provide better lighting. represent her own personal experience of active as a member of the transitional secondary institution in the province to 1 dolence”. Plant Operations has trimmed bushes :ontinue ongoing projectsto improve cam- management team of the department of and undergrowth in the area. Parking,Transportation and Campus rhe WSO will sponsor another displayof XIS safety and to implement other re- the UBC ClotheslineProject in March, Security. Two major campusprojects, l. MainLibrary, Sedgewick Library & atedprograms. Based on a proposal 1997 in conjunction with International the Personal SecurityReview Audit pro- Buchanan Complex submitted to the Ministry by the Personal Women’s Dayactivities, andplans to Security Advisory Committee, the 1995- gram conductedby the Local Safety Com- 1 CP&D has improvedlighting around display the Clothesline Project at other mittees and theUBC Risk Assessment in the Main Library, on the pathfrom the 1996 funding was allocated as follows: post-secondary institutions throughout compliance with theWCB Regulations on Library to Memorial Road, and along $1.200 for thedevelopment of per- the province and Canada. The Clothes- thePrevention of Violencein the Memorial Road from MainMall lo East sonal security workshopsfor persons line Project received $7,400 through the Workplace, were completed and the Co- Mall near the Buchanancomplex. with disabilities: 1995- 1996provincial SaferCampus lni- ordinator is now planning future activi- 1 Plant Operations has trimmed bushes tiatives funding to sponsor the project. $5,400 for improving and expanding ties stemming from these projects. and undergrowth in the area. thestudent operated Safewalk pro- b) Safety Guide and Educator a) PersonalSecurity Review Audit Peer gram; 3. Walking Route from Totem Park: Workshops: Program: $1 1,000for promotional material con- 1 CP&D installed “Code Blue” emergency The WSO continued to sponsor thePeer cerning safety on campus; and Local Safety Committees conducted per- telephones on StoresRoad behind the Educator program, offering “Sex, Dating $7,400 for the UBC Clothesline Project. sonal security review audits of seventy Forward Building,and in the lnforma-&All That Jazz”Workshops on acquaint- campusbuildings in the fall of 1995 tion kiosk in front of the CICSR com- ance sexual assault and Personal Secu- Additional information on the Safer Cam- under the direction of the Coordinator. plex on Main Mall. rity Workshops for students. The WSO puses Initiative fundingis provided in the The results of the 1995 audits were en- CP&D upgraded the lightingin the ”0” reprinted its Safety Guide for 1997. and relevantsections of thisreport. The tered in a database and the Coordinator, Lot behind MacMillan building. updated the version offered on the WSO Ministry has indicatedthat the Safer with the assistanceof a work-study stu- Campuses Initiative fundingwill no longer 4. Residences by First Nations House of “home page”. Both theWSO Peer Educa- dent, is generating a report providing an be available as of 1997. Learning: torprogram and the Safety Guide re- overview of concerns and recommending ceived fundingthrough the provincial 6. Safer Campuses Initiative future improvements which will be for- CP&D installed a ”Code Blue” emer- Safer Campuses Initiative 1996- 1997. warded to Campus Planning& Develop- gency telephone at Gate 6 on Univer- Minor Capital Funding: ment. Many of the Local Safety Commit- sity Blvd. near Place Vanierresidences. 3. Parking, Transportation & In 1995-1996,theMinistryofSkills,Train- tee auditors identified areas of concern CP&D improved lighting on the paths Campus Security: ing & Labourprovided UBC with which the students alsoidentified in their in the Ponderosa complex area. $450,000.00 in minor capital funds ear- audits, and theinformation was relayed Fixed Route Security Bus Service: 5. Student Recreation Centre & GSAB marked for“Safer Campus”projects.These to Campus Planning& Development and Parking Lot: In the Spring termof 1996, through fund- funds were used to improve exterior light- used to establish the priority listfor mi- ingprovided by the office of the Vice ingon campus and to install six “Code ” CP&D improved the lighting in the nor capital projects related to the Safer . President, Student and Academic Serv- Blue” emergency telephones at locations GSAB Lot which services theRec. Ctr. Campuses Initiative. ices, the departmentof Campus Security acrossthe campus, based on a list of The Personal SecurityReview Audit Pro- 6. Route to Fairuiew and Acadia: added a second security bus on a trial priorities identified through the Student gram reveals the need for a consistent, CP&D improved lighting on the path- basis to provide service on a scheduled Safety Audit and the Personal Security measurable audit program that can be way near Fairview Avenue. route from 6:OO p.m. till 2:OO a.m., Mon- Review Auditprograms. These projects used by the Local SafetyCommittees day through Friday nights. The depart- have a visible impact on the perceptionof 7. Parking Lots: and other campus groups onongoing an mentconducted a user survey at the safety on the campus at UBC, and we have ’ basis. The Coordinator’s work-study stu-n In additionto the above-mentioned conclusion of the trial period and deter- received positive feedback from the com- dent is working on developing a compre- projects, CP&D upgraded lighting in mined that the majority of users pre- munity about the lighting improvements hensive audit program with staffof Cam- the parking areas near Ritsumeikan ferred the fixed route service.In the fall of and the emergency phone program. pus Planning& Development and inter- Residence (the“A Lot” on Lower Mall), 1996, the department reduced its secu- The future of minor capital projects re- ested campus constituents. The ongo- andin the parking areas near the rity bus service to one fixed route bus. lated to theSafer Campus Initiative is , ing,standardized audit program pro- Museum of Anthropology and theAn- The security bus averages between one uncertain as theMinistry froze the 1996- vides an assessmentof the UBC commu- thropology and Sociology building(the hundred and one hundred andfifty rid- 1997 minor capital funds earmarkedfor nity’s concerns about the safety of the “Mary Bollert Lot”). ers per shift. “Safer Campus” projects. I t I 8 UBC Reports .April 3, 1997 ;c THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

or efficiency initiatives, and the changing environment in campusfood services. THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Fund-raising communications April 3, 1997 The integration of the Donor Relationsand Communications unitof the Development Departmentwas completed atthe beginning of the1996-97 fiscalyear. The Dear Colleagues: amalgamation means f’ublic Affairs can increasingly support university-wide and faculty fund-raising initiatives. One of this unit’s major projects in 1996 was the Here for your review is the Communications Report 1996/97 preparedby the production of a two-part video onthe openingof the CK Choi Buildingfor the Institute university’s Public Affairs Office. The report outlines communications pro- of Asian Research andUBC’s international programs and facilities. grams and servicesprovided by the External Affairs Division to support administration. faculties, departments and other campus units. Looking ahead We welcome your feedback and comments. UBC’s relationships with its many diverse constituents remain a priority and Public Affairs will support these relationships during the comingby year providing commu- Sincerely, nications/consultation programs for UBC initiatives, including: Official Community Plan (May 1997) Liu Centre for International Studies project (Spring 1997) I Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Opening (Spring 1997) Peter W. Ufford Asia-Parific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum (November 1997) Vice-l’resldent. Exttarnal Affairs transition to a new president (August 1997) expansion of the Public Information Centre and its services (ongoing) updating UBC’s communications planto reflect ongoing changes in the university’s Overview environment (Spring 1997) UBC‘s Public Affairs Office. housed within the External Affairs Division’s University placing an increasing emphasis on the contributions made by UBC faculty, staff Relations Department,is responsible for communicating UBC’s mission, key messages, and research to the province of BC and beyond (ongoing) and values to both its internal communityof faculty, staff and students, and to the providing ongoingcommunications supportto senior administration, and faculties broader external community which comprises multiple audiences.Public Affairs co- and departments for their identified priorities (ongoing) ordinates programs and messages in concertwith other units of the External Affairs Reporting to the community Division, UBC administration, faculties and departments. andservice units. Programs are built on a layerof communications policies and practices, including Messages the Policy on Communications. approved by the Board of Governors in May 1994. UBC’s messages reflect its mission statement and the goals set for the university, which formally acknowledges UBC’s responsibility to keep its many communities including: informed andensure two-waydialogue. Programs arealso built on the UBC UBC is a world-class educational and research institution Communications Plan. finalized in January 1995 and slated for updating in the spring of 1997, which wasdeveloped with widespread campus input and designed UBC is open and accountable, is meeting and serving community needs, and is to respond to the ever-changing environment in UBC which operates. The plan’sfive encouraging input and participation emphases are: critical issues management. public information centre, internal com- UBC fosters and contributes social, economic, scientific, cultural and educational 4 munication, two-way communication. and external cornmunicatiorl. These emphases benefits to society form the basis of Public Affairs’ workplans. UBC plays a leadership role in advancing British Columbia on the provincial, This office provides a comprehensive communications program directedtoward the national and international scene campus community, the general public. government. the business community and UBC’s faculty,staff and students are part of uniquecommunity and their the media. The primarygoals of the office are to keep the campus community iniormed a participation in the universityis valued about developments in universitypolicies, its people, research, teaching, and events: to increase public understanding and supportfor UBC: to provide avenues for the on- Audiences campus and off-campus communityto communicate with the university;to encour- internal (on-campus): faculty, staff, students age public use of campus facilities and attractions: and to promote interaction external (local, regional. provincial, national, international) between the university and the private and public sectors. The office provides the alumni news media with accurate andtimely information about research activities and othergovernment (municipal/provinciaI/federal) matters of public interest, and producesa wide range of publications including the donors (individual/corporate/foundation) tabloidnewspaper UBC Reports,President’s Reports, and brochures. Staff also business/inaustry sector provide public and media relations counselling and other communications services media (print/radio/tv/wire/magazine) to UBC academic and administrative units. public (UEL/regional/provincial/national/international) 1996/97 in review organized labour friends of UBC Several key university initiatives were supportedthe by Public Affairs Office in 1996/ visitors to campus 97, including the Official Community Plan and the Liu Centre for International Studies, and many public issues required strategic communications support, includ-Communications services ing issues suchas: The Public AffairsOffice offers a range of communications services to campus, New president appointed for University of British Columbia including: Funding cutsto have lasting impact onUBC llBC Reports - tabloidnewspaper published 21 times annually; circulation Public Information Centre 37.000, includesUBC Gazette, policy and other inserts Media releases - 200 in 1996/97 publicizing more than 100 research, teaching, UBC’s first Public Information Centre began to take shape in late 1996, with the people and policy announcements establishment of an information line, UBC-INFO (822-4636). and walk-in centre at Phone contact - 200 calls per day the Cecil Green Park Coach House. The centre is staffed on a full-time basis and Placement of UBC’s people and stories- hundreds annually in radio and print provides a wide range of information aboutUBC programs. services andfacilities. as TV. mrdia, both in theLower Mainland and across Canada well as offering directions to campus and information about events.An advertising News conferences * campaign is underway to promotethe centre to both on-campus and off-campus users. The number ofvisitors and phone calls to the centre, and the types ofrequests,Daily clips service - 200 packages annually. approximately 1,000 items will be monitored to identify best future expansion opportunitiesfor the centre. Facts & F‘gures university brochure World Wide Web site World Wide Web Public consultation/public process The Public Affairs Office Web site, which provides on-line access to UBC Reports, Report to the Community - Vancouver Sun and Province media releases, Facts& FLgures, and other communications vehicles, was launched President’s tours in August 1996. The estimated number of people worldwide who can read and Homecoming events I responddirectly to these communications initiatives on the Web is 26.4 million. Contributions to faculty/departmental newsletters = Forecasters predict thatby the end of 1997,52million people will be using theWorld Wide Web. The PublicAffairs Office also completed the ExternalAffairs Division Web President’s Reports site and contributed to the renewalof UBC’s home page and Web site. Speakers Bureau Alumni Chronicle contributions Media relations Media training services The office also initiated a new formatfor media releases in orderto enable it to increase Communications consultation its ability to publicizeand celebrate manyof the achievementsof UBC’s faculty, staff Campus tours .i and students.An increasing emphasis was placed ontelling the storiesof the “people” I UBC experts contact service , UBCof allincommunication materials. Brochures and other publications The Public Affairs Office was awarded a silver medalby the Council for the Support Speech writing services , and Advancementof Education (CASE) for news release writing. I Editing services UBC Reports Congregation . UBC’s main vehicle for communicating with its internal audience on an ongoing basis MLA/MP \isits is the bi-weekly tabloid UBC Reports. While continuing to promote the achiwements Donor publications in teaching, research and service ofUBC’s faculty, staff and students, lour new Personal contact/one-on-one meetings columnswere initiatedto highlight trends in teaching, safety on campus. reengineeringVideo productions UBC Reports . April 3,1997 9 Forum I ne universe (which others call the library) 3y Shirley Neuman sandsand thousands of falsecata- logues, the demonstration ofthefallacy Shirley Neuman is dean of me's pa- 3f those catalogues.. .the true storyof Aty of Arts. She gave the following re- your death,the translation of every narks recently attheopening of the Walter book in all languages, the interpola- 2. Koerner Library. tions of every book in all books.” Some of you will recognize in my title The universe, Borges’ extravagantly .he opening words of Jorge Luis Borges’ developed metaphor tells us, is a li- Short story. ’The Library of Babel.” The brary. With the rigorous reasoning of miverse of Borges’ fiction is no edifice of grammar as our guide,we can turn this :onCrete and glass like the new Koerner sentence around across the copulative Nhich we are celebrating, its shelves de- verb, “is.”The library is the universe, Aoyed in orderly rows, individual carrels whole and entire. Which is to say that zach with its own computer connection mr world is what is known about it. or the aspiringPhD candidates who were Our world is the physical and social, lerhaps imagined as its ideal users. the spiritual and intellectual phenom- Borges’ universe-cum-library consists ma we observe and describe,even when Stephen Forgacs photo If identical hexagonal rooms. Fromeach we cannot explain them;it is our repre- If these hexagons, one can see, “intermi-sentations of those phenomena; and it Consumer behavioris far frombeing based purelyon financial factors says Iably,” the hexagons above and below. is our attempts to interpret them, to Peter Darke. Theassistant professor of Marketingrecently found fairness Tour sides of each hexagon holdfive rows theorize them, to give them meaning. and luck also played an important part. :ach of identical bookshelves. One sideis Whether we are medical practitioners 3ounded by a low railing overlooking an 3r foresters,agriculturalists or law- arshaft; dead librarians are thrownover yers; whether we are businessmen or he railing into an “infnite”fall that proves teachers,engineers or botanists; More to a bargain than .hatthe library/universe is unending. whether we aremathematicians or fie sixth sideof the hexagon opens onto geomorphologists,dramaturges or -1 modest hall. which leads transversely to economists; whetherwe are art histori- professor finds Ither hexagons, andvertically by means money, ansor psychologists,theologians or 1’1 If a spiral staircase to hexagons above social workers; whetherwe are writers by Stephen Forgacs n the earlier studies which suggested md below. On either sideof the hall,we or sociologists, musicians or the archi- Staff writer .hatthe motivation for bargainhunting - u-e told, are two small closets, one that tect of a new buildingcalled the library, -xtends beyond the prospectof financial Retailers who think they can attract mables a reader to sleep standing up- the library is our history, our source, gain or savings. shoppers by simply promising savings ight, the other a latrine. our wholeness. It is the repository of In another studyof consumer behaviour might be surprised to hear that money Theuniverse that Borges’ fictional what in the pastwe thought we knew, It the University of Toronto, Darke found alone is not necessarily enough to make ibrarian describes is an architectureof 3fwhat we thought aboutit and ofwhat hat shoppers tendto attribute good deals to nfinite regression and infinite duplica- we imagine we know now;of our ideals a bargain hunter happy. himess on the part oftheretailer and to luck, Peter Darke, an assistant professorof .ion, populated by books and other li- and aspirations for the future.It holds rather than their own shopping prowess. Marketing in UBC’s Faculty of Commerce xarians. lt is a place of dreams and the data we call facts, and the mean- ‘The most surprisingthingwe’ve found, andBusiness Administration, recently ianger: a place offutilequests“in search ings we have given those facts, as well uas that thepeople in our studiesdid not completed a study thatconfirms that non- If a book, perhaps the catalogueof cata- as imaginings that have nothing to do .ake credit for their success in getting a financial factors - such as the conceptof ogues:” a place of ferocious debates in with what we call facts andeverything 3argain.”Darke said, adding that this fairness - play an important role in bar- vhich, “for every sensible line of straight- to dowith the truths of the human inding is contrary to otherresearch. gain hunting and consumer satisfaction. orward statement, there are leaguesof spirit. The library a is building of many ‘One of the most substantial claims in “We found that shoppers arelikely to be senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles self-contradictory sorts: foundationfor social psychology isthat people bend excited about having got a bargain, even if md incoherences; it is a place of “ex- the scholarlyedifice we erect above it,it wer backwards to take credit for any- there is nopersonal financial gainin- Lravagant happiness.” is also that edifice: structure we reno- .hing positivethat happens to them,even volved,” Darke said. addingthat thismay The library, Borges’ narrator informs us. vate and add on to throughnew discov- when it is impossible that they are re- help explain why peoplewill drive across is analogous to early theologians’ defini- ery, new interpretation, new creations sponsible for their achievement.” town to buy something on saleeven if the tions of God: it “is a sphere whose exact of the imagination,it is also our renova- In the U ofT study, Darke observed the trip virtually eliminates any real savings. centre is any oneof its hexagons and whose tions and additions. reactions of research subjects who were circumference is inaccessible.” Librarians Encoded somewhere in the library, ”People derivepleasure or satisfaction given a hypothetical situation in which may bethe product of chance or of malevo- waiting for us to decipher it, Borges from the idea that they are payinga fair they had to buya TV set for their office, price,” he said. lent demiurgi,” but “the universe, with its argues, isall we know and allwe need with no financial incentives and knowing In the study, Darke and DarrenDahl. a elegant endowment of shelves, of enigmati- to know. The library is our universe, that the hypothetical bosswould be indif- graduate student inMarketing, had sub- cal volumes, of inexhaustible stairways for our university, and is it the measureof ferent to the outcome. jects purchasevideos in a store nearUBC. the traveller and latrines for the seated our minds, our lives. In its labyrinths The results suggested thatpeople de- The subjects, studentsfrom the Facultyof librarian, can only be the work of god.” we may get irrevocably lostor we may rived pleasure or satisfaction from get- Commerce and Business Administration, The library is a place of orderly disorder, spend our lives sitting on the latrine ting a good deal or “fair” price even when disorderly order. One of its axioms is that bent over a single book; we may be led were each given $10 to buy a video. there was nothingat stake. Some studentswere given a financial “the orthographicalsymbols are 25 in up its spiral staircases to infinity or Darke said his studies also indicate incentive to bargain hunt - although number,” anorderly principle if there ever plunge over its low railings to “decay that the percentage discount offered is was one, into which more orderlydisorder is and dissolve in the wind generated by they were not allowed to keep the video another important factor in shopper sat- introduced by an epigram to the shortstory the fall.”Whether its holdings are boundthey purchased, theyweretold they could isfaction. Even if the amount of money fi-om Burton’s 7he Anatomy of Melancholy in precious leather and illuminated in keep the changeleft over after their pur- involved in a discount isrelatively small, which alludes to an alphabet of 23 letters, red and blue andgold, or whether they chase. Other students were told in ad- a higher percentage discount,40 per cent vance that theywould have to handover and, in my reading, by the fact that 1 am include videos, microforms. and com- for example. leads people to infer that citmg froma translation into Enghsh with puterized databanks matters not at all their video purchase and the change, they are getting a fair price. removing any financial incentive. its 26 letters. We may not know howread to to the meaningof the library. ‘This may bewhy peoplelike bargains, it, our Borgesian librarian suggests. but Should the “human species ... be In the video store, subjects received because even if there isn’ta lot of money either no discount on their purchase, a there is no nonsense in the library: “I can- extinguished,” as Borges’ fictional li- involved, at leastthey feel they have been moderate discount or ahigh discount. not,” he says, “combine some characters brarian argues it is about to be, “the treated fairly. And that haspositive mean- Darke and Dahl found that students which the divine Library has not foreseen Library,” he further insists, “will en- ing for people. It’s nice to be treatedfairly, and which inone ofit s secret tongues do notdure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, who receiveda discount when they made it’s terrible to be jerked around, even if containa temble meaning. No one can perfectlymotionless, equipped with their purchase were excited about the there is little money involved.” articulate a syllable whichis not filled with precious volumes. useless, incorrupt- fact that theygot abargain whether they Another findingin the UBC study was had a financial incentive or not. tenderness andfear. whichis not. in one of ible. secret.” The librarywill retain the that even people identified in advance as “When thestudents returned from c these languages. the powerful name of a root meaning of universe: lo be entire. marketing mavens- shoppers who tend god.”The library. in short, is a universe. in whole. But should the library be lost. making a bargain purchase we almost to be proud of their ability to find bar- the root sense of that word, to be whole, then a part of our knowledge of the didn’t needto ask them questions.’’ Darkegains and are likely to tell others about said. ’Their faces would light up even if entire. world goes, and with that knowledge their finds - attributed the discounts ’The Library is total ... Everything: the worldit signifies disappears: the they didn’t standto gain financially. We they received to luck rather than skill. could haverated theirfacial expressions.” .% the minutely detailed history of the fu- universe is no longer whole, entire. The And subjectsin all of Darke’sstudies ture, the archangels‘ autobiographies. library (which some call the universe The UBC study is Darke’s third study seemed to like bargains they stumbled the faithful catalogue of the library. thou-and others the university). in the area of non-financial motives and across just as much as those they had bargain hunting.It confirms his findings figured out. 10 UBC ReDOrtS .ADril3.1997 -: Classified This year’s William G. Black Memorial Prize essay competitiol The classified advertising rate is $16.50 for 35 words or less. Each additional word has been won by third-year law student Mathew Englander. is 50 cents. Rate includes GST. Ads must be submitted in writing 10 days before More than 50 undergraduates were competing for the prize publication date to the UBC Public Affairs Office,3 10 - 625 1 Cecil Green Park Road, which is worth $1,500. 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The faculty's Real Estate Di- tion of yellow-winged blackbirds. a species nearing extinction. vision and theAIC signed a five- Mooney served on faculty at Kansas State University and year agreement recently under the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before joining UBC which UBC will assume respon- in 1986. In 1992 he was UBC's landscape architect responsi- sibility for the delivery of the AIC ble for the restoration and enhancementof the Nitobe Education Program. Memorial Garden. "This agreementwill allow the .... AIC to benefit from UBC's ex- atricia Vertinsky.professor and head of Educational pertise in refining and adminis- Studies. has been named aHooker Distinguished tering professional programs," PVisiting Professor at Hamilton's McMaster University I CommerceDean Michael for 1997/98. Goldberg said. 'The institutewill Vertinsky received her EdD specializing in the social gain a high degree of consist- foundations of education from UBC before joining the faculty ency in its educational programs in 1975. Her research interests include gender relations and " ". ." ...... ~ ... . ". as a result of this move and the social policy, health promotion and policy development and Charles Ker photo facultywill, in turn, benefit from implementation in education, health and physical education. a closerassociation with the She is a Senior Fellow at Green College, an International Tea For Three AIC." Fellow of the Academy of Kinesiology and currently servesas The AIC is the national soci- president of the North American Society lor Sport History. ety of professional real estate Ritsumeikan exchange student Ai Nishiuo and Fumiko .e.. Okudaira and TamikoYoshikawa(1-r) performed a Japanese appraisers. It assureshigh sst. Prof. Douglas has won the 1997 Herzberg tea ceremonyduring the Asian street foods festival at the standardsin the profession Bonn Medal from the Canadian Association of Physicists. C.K. through the granting of Cana- Choi Building. The three women are all students in The medal is given for outstanding achievement in any 14- dian Residential Appraiser(CRA) A the Faculty of Education. The festival continuesApril and AccreditedAppraiser Ca- field of research by a physicist who. in the year of the award. 18 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. nadianInstitute (AACI) desig- is not more than 40 yearsof age. nations. More than 5,500 mem- Bonn has been a faculty member with the Dept. of Physics bers practice the profession in and Astronomy since 1994. He is a condensed matter Canada, providingvaluations experimental physicist who is working in the areaof high widely respected by the courts, temperature supercon-ductivity. real estate corporations, banks UBC faculty from the departmenthave won five of the last nine St. John's College is a new residential graduate college that will and other lending institutions, Herzberg Medals. Previouswinners includeTom Tiedje ( 1989).Ian focus on international research themes and issues. The College as well as by government and Afneck ( 1990).Rob Kiefl ( 1992) and Jeff Young ( 1994). is the realization of a dream held by local and international individuals. alumni of the former St. John's University in Shanghai (SJU)to AIC President AllanBeatty revive the spirit of their alma mater.SJU was operational saidthe agreement will allow between 1879-1952, with a renowned international reputation students across Canadato gain Cenlrally located facilities available as one of the most prestigious and influential universities in consistentaccess to regularly for educational, business and social functions China. Its alumni can be found in key posts on both sides of the offered courses without having from 10-200 people Taiwan Strait, in Hong Kong, Singapore, andon e\wy conti- to travel to attend classes at a nent. Continuing in the tradition of its namesake, St. John's university or college. College will strive to build bridges between different parts of "UBC's proven abilityto com- the world, serving as an intellectual and social centre for municate to individuals in dis- UBC MEDICAL STUDENT AND ALUMNI CENTRE graduate student and senior scholar residents, and for other tancelearning format right members of the Unilversity of British Columbia and wider across the country was an im- 2750 Heather St. Vancouver, B C V5Z 4M2 community whoshare the scholarly objectivesof advanced portant factor in amving at this Telephone (604) 875-5522 Fax (604)875-5528 international studies. Its aim is to create a vibrant international agreement," Beatty said. "And. E-mail: [email protected] community in which students from different parts of the world by shifting the educational pro- will learn from each other in a collegial setting. grams to UBC. studentsand St. John's College is located on the west side of the University employers will benefitfrom of British Columbia campus, close to ocean and forest. The courses combining strong prac- Selection of the College is being developed in three phases, with completion of titioner and academic materi- Phase 1 by Sept. 1, 1997, and anticipated completion of Phase 11 als." Director of the in 1998 and Phase 111 in 1999 on the 120th anniversary of the RobertLaing. executive di- founding of St. John's University. Upon completion, St. John's rector of thefaculty's Profes- Disability Resources Centre College will have accommodation for 170 residents and will sionalPrograms. said courses include several lecture facilities,seminar rooms, as well as will be offered through distance dining facilities, lounge and social areas, and a landscaped education using printed materi- Open Forums open air courtyard. als and the Internet to submit Upon completion of Phase 1, the College will accommodate 35 assignments and access tutors. The campus community is invited to attend Open Forums "The courses covered by the graduate students,post doctoral researchers and visiting with candidates for the Directorof the Disability Resources scholars. In addition to these residential members, there willbe agreement will come on stream Centre. Each candidate will make a 15-minute presentation a number of members from various academic units on campus gradually," Laing said. "We have and from the wider community who will enrich College life as two coursesready to go and on a topic of his or her choice. This will be followedby an non-residential members. others will followduring the next open discussion. Those attending will be asked to provide few years as they aredeveloped written feedback to the advisory committee.All forums are Applications for graduate student, post doctoral researcher and for distance learning." visiting scholar residential as wellas faculty, graduate st~~dent UBC will offer as many as 15 from 12:OO-12:45 p.m. in Room 0017, Brock Hall. and post doctoral researcher non-resiclential membership are courses that meet the basic edu- welcome at any time. Residencyin Phase I of St. John's Collge cationalrequirements for the April 14 Dr. Peter Colebrook will commence on Sept. 1, 1997. AACI designation. April 16 Mr. John Lane "Moreover, it is planned that these courseswill be integrated April 17 Ms. Janet Mee into an applied distance degree April 18 Dr. James Leonard in real estate which is currently in development as a collabora- Other input: Indi\riduals or groupsmay ask to meet with the tive projectbetween the Real candidates. Please forward your request Richardto Spencer Estate Division andthe Open (822-3265 or richard.spencfrQLIbc.ca) University." Laing said. Student exchange proves popular A record 265 students have ing south on exchanges. Other beenaccepted into UBC stu- topdestinations include the dentexchange programs this University of New South Wales vear - 250 in theExchange . Lancaster University. theUni- AbroadProgram (EAP) and 15 versity of Glasgow and Keele in the Group of Ten Exchange Universitv in the United King- Program(GOTSEP) across dom. Canada. Pather expectsUBC's recent Thevi Pather.program co- ;q-eernent with the Sorbonne ordinator. said the numbers mcrtin France will txa popular ad- the goal set in 1989 to have five dition. In total. IJBC has edu- per cent of third-year students cation abroad :1greemrnts with participatingineducationahroad. 54 institlltions in Australia. "Theprogram is open to Iklgiurn. I)c-nmark. France, undergrads and graduate stw Germany. Hong Kong. India, dents but the emphasis is on Japan. Korea. Malaysia. studentsheading into third Mexico. New Zealand. the Phil- year."said Pather. "The ex- ippines. Sollth Africa. Singa- change programhas been alife- pore.Swcticn. Taiwan. the changing experience for many United Kingdomand theUnited UBC studentsas well as for States. visitingexchange studentsfrom The GOTSEI' is an under- afarwho add to thc cultural graduate c~sc-hangrprogram richness of our own campus." with ~lnivwsitirsin Ontario. The EAP program started in Alberta and Qucbcc. 1988 with threestudents ex- For both EAI' and GOTSEP. Attraction Abroad changing with counterpartsat sttldents cancxc-hange for a Mary Stott (right),director of the StudentResources Centre, answers questions about theUniversity of California. term or a 11131 yrar. UBC from a throng ofpotential international students attendingfourth the annualB.C. Pather says that in the last two I'ather says 1-oughly 70 stu- Educational Fair held recently in Taipei, Taiwan. UBC representatives attendedfive years, participation hasdoubled. dents participate annually ina educational fairs throughout Asia to help launch theuniversity's international The University of California separate exchange program run student recruitment initiative. remains the most popular des- by theFaculty of Commerce L tination with 23 students head- and Businrss Administration. Seed fund gives "- We'dlike to personally thank 1 research a boost Promisingresearch at UBC and ising technologyis conceptualized. Chris Orvig, Conference Chair, for 10 other universities in Western 'This new fund will be an inl- Canadagot aboost rec~entlywith portant initial lirlk iI1 thc finan(.- Jing us host the 856 delegates of the the announcementof a $25 mil- ing chain," I'ah said."It will help lion fund supporting early stage ensure that university research 31st International Conferenceon development ofnewtechnologies. discoveries reach the marketplace The WestemTechnology Seedwhere their economic and social Fund will investcapital and benefits can be realized." Coordination Chemistry at the management expertisein emerg- A network of industry liaison ing companies and assistin set- offices at the 11 western univer- University of British Columbia. ting up businesses to develop sities has been formed to help the commercial potentialof uni- buildrelationships among the versityresearch discoveries. The threefund managers and re- Chris and other research ;~ndeduzation conference search groups on campuses. fund was establishedby t he Bank org;lnizers brought over 12,000 dclcgatcs to IiRC last of Montreal and the Business UI3C.s UIID recei\res morethan summer, and in doing so, helped fosrer zoll;tboratlon with Development Bank of Canada. 100invention disclosures annu- Bill Palm, director ofUI3C's Uni- ally. 'I'he office'sF'rototype Develop- other educational institutmns, made ;I uynificant economic versity Industry Liaison Off( :~ rnct1t I'rogrrnm. thefirstofitskindin contribution to the ilniversity comnunity, and created and c11- North Americawhen it was cr?ated [UILO). says researchers summer elnpioyment for over 100 I TBC stucicnts. trepreneurs havetraditionallv hxi ill 1989, shepherds inventions from the hardest time finding ca: ita1 in theI~asibilityst~~Scthroug1~tocom- To ;dl of our 1996 conference orqnizers, thank !m~. in the phasedirectly after a PI(JI I I- mercialimtion.

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