'Board Easy on Moonlighting Profs' the UBYSSEY

Students hold key in Quadra election By BILL TIELEMAN he would run again but Manning, didate can be found. unless they register themselves. And Joe Clark's help in the UBC could become one of the busy as big cheese with the pro They also say that the UBC stu Essentially the lack of enumera campaign can be directly main electoral battlegrounds of posed stadium and up to his neck dent vote will be a key to the tion will disenfranchise many measured by the number of jokes the country as the three main par in debt after being a candidate for riding. students. floating around campus about the ties struggle for the hearts, minds 23 months, said no. Bruce Ralston, who ran NDP That could put a major crimp in hapless Tory leader. and votes of students in the Van So did May Brown, former candidate Alan Bush's campaign the hopes of the Liberals and Still, Clarke is clearly the fron- couver Quadra riding. alderman and mayoral candidate, in May and challenged Bush for NDP, who desperately need a trunner. The Liberals' nominating Although the Liberal party despite strong support from city the nomination for this election, massive infusion of student votes meeting is scheduled for Jan. 18, seems in total disarray in the Liberals, including lawyer Frank says the student vote will go to the in the riding to pull off an upset leaving their candidate less than riding, two key Liberals believe Low-Beer, who lost running in New Democrats, not the Liberals victory. four weeks to campaign. During lacklustre Conservative MP Bill Quadra for the Liberals in 1974. under the no-longer-youthful A second factor is Bill Clarke's that time the party will have to Clarke could be bumped off in a In fact none of the prominent Pierre Trudeau. Ralston said in campaign. Ralston says Clarke print and distribute signs and close race on Feb. 18. Quadra Liberals seem interested May the NDP won several of the will have to run a much tighter campaign literature. Unless the And the NDP also thinks in running. Low-Beer said no polls where married students live ship this election to be confident Liberals can find a big name can Clarke could be in a run for his thanks and Peter Pearse, the UBC and expects a strong campus vote of victory. Clarke, despite the didate, some one like UBC presi money — but with them, not the economics professor and board of for the party this time. powerful finance committee chair dent Doug Kenny, they can't Liberals. governors member who fought Complicating the student vote appointment in the House, totally mount a serious challenge. Currently the Liberals are in Low-Beer for the nomination and question is the government's deci lacks any public profile. He's in The best indication of Quadra's serious trouble in the riding. lost in 1974, says he's "not sion not to enumerate voters no fear of losing the traditional fate will come when the registra Wonderboy Paul Manning came seriously considering" another at before the election. This means upper-crust vote of the Point Grey tion deadline for voters is reached out of the Ottawa backrooms to tempt. that students who weren't of establishment but a strong this month. If Quadra suddenly lose to Clarke in the May 22 elec But Low-Beer and Pearse insist voting age, were living in another challenge by one of his opponents has 8,000 or more voters who tion by several thousand votes. that Clarke is ripe for the picking riding or now live in residence combined with a heavy student weren't in the riding last May, The riding association had hoped — if the "right" Liberal can won't appear on the voter's list, vote could cause concern. anything could happen. 'Board easy on moonlighting profs' By PETER FERGUSON The board of governors' new policy on outside jobs for professors is meaningless in its present form, student board member Glenn Wong said Thursday. The new board policy requires university approval when outside pro THE UBYSSEY fessional activity becomes "substantial." "I'd like to see what their definition of substantial is," said Wong. 228-2301. "UBC is under pressure to put a lid on outside activity, but if they really Vol. LXII. No.38 Vancouver, B.C. Friday, January 11,1980 want to tighten up it depends on the definition of substantial." The board has left it to individual faculties and professional schools to regulate themselves. In the ab sence of such regulation a limit of one-half day per seven-day period will be considered substantial, the board report states. The board report also states ap proval will be required for the use of universities and facilities for out side professional activities, but Wong said this should be obvious. "If it's not like that (now), why the hell isn't it?" Former faculty association head Richard Roydhouse said the faculties and schools should reg ulate themselves and should not be subject to regulation from other bodies. "The units within the university are capable of governing them selves," he said. Roydhouse said outside jobs for professors were of benefit to i UBC. "The quality of teaching in the professional schools and in general does depend on people, having con tact with the real world." The issue of moonlighting arose three years ago when the outside jobs of former applied science dean Liam Finn came to light. "The university felt collectively that it was under attack at the time," Roydhouse said. "I think we overreacted." Election called for Jan. 28-30 UBC students will go to the polls Jan. 28-30 to fill five at-large ex ecutive positions on the student representative assembly, the SRA decided Wednesday. — kevin finnegan photo All students will be eligible to IRATE FACULTY MEMBER expresses icy concern over board of gover But "considerable" work on movies lost this man of learning his tenure. He vote for five positions in the at- nors' new moonlighting policy. Already snowed under by massive doesn't care, though. Show business is a better deal anyway — all the bull large elections required by a recent workload from first-year philosophy, professor decided to uphold public is out in the open. ly amended Alma Mater Society image of his department by taking spare-time job as horror movie extra. constitution. Students will elect a president, vice-president, director of finance, director of adminstra- 'Happy New Year—your tuition's going up tion and co-ordinator of external affairs. OTTAWA (CUP) — Not too ed a general 7.5 increase in universi tial $137 increase, dentistry students "Soon schools will increase their SRA approved the election call many New Year's resolutions in ty tuition next year. Individual in $158. tuition by the additional 10 per with an amendment making the clude a 7.5 per cent increase in tui stitutions can now choose an addi The federation is opposed to the cent, especially in those faculties elections illegal should the registrar tion fees. tional 10 per cent hike for certain increase not only for its size, but the that have limited enrolment," he of companies find the changed con But university students in On programs. manner in which it is being im said. "Those will be the profes stitution unacceptable. tario had no choice. And they could General arts students could now plemented. sional faculties — law, engineering Nominations are open until Jan. face another 10 per cent hike next face a $126 increase in tuition, if "This change (the optional 10 per and architecture. 25 and may be filed at the AMS year. both increases are implemented, ac cent increase) will create two classes "Those faculties will now be business office. 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