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-How and where is university going in 5 years? By PETER LADNER more responsive to changing conditions," they say. "Student demand should not be ignored, nor should Ubyssey Senate Reporter The main changes advocated point to more its importance be unduly exaggerated," the report Eighteen months after its inception, the senate possibilities for a general education. They want an cautions. committee on long-range objectives has finally given birth orientation college for first and second year students, a The same approach lurks between the lines when the to a 132-page, one pound-four ounce baby squeezed 4—year college of general education, and a new committee urges specific measures to give teaching ability between two pink sheets. interdepartmental program. an equal footing with research in promotion, pay and The committee, headed by anthropology and They also want the faculties reorj^nizedtotry to even tenure for profs. sociology department chairman Cyril Belshaw and out the number of students in each faculty. They suggest sneaking past anti-calendars (without including ex-student senator Don Munton, presented its The stress on general courses to combat creeping ever mentioning them) to have teacher-controlled final fat report at the senate meeting Wednesday night. specialization comes out again in the committee's evaluation of teaching and curriculum. Students should be The point of this awesome creation is to figure out recommendations on curriculum. consulted "by means of professionally designed where this university is going in the next five years and The recommendations are to study possibilities of a questionnaires" to be passed up to the deans. how it will get there. general education program, and have better explanation of The committee here recommends a unique excursion It reaches into possible changes in admissions policy, existing interdepartmental programs in the calendar. of senate into a sacred domain of the board of governors: curriculum, and educational philosophy, but the gut issue When it comes to students and curriculum, the finances. is its debate between a "federated colleges" proposal and authors are careful not to let the pesky critters get too Recommendation number five (out of 39) advocates reformed "status quo" supporters. much power. including budget estimates in curriculum changes brought A minority of the committee (five of eleven) feels i before senate. only a system of small colleges, with 500 to 2500 students The Belshaw report is expected it have far-reaching In the much yattered about area of enrolment policy, each, can provide an adequate basis for building the ramifications for the development of UBC. Interested the committee says the answer is limiting total enrolment university. students can obtain a copy from the registrar's office. The to 27,500 on the present campus. This mass would consist "The model is one of an intellectual and report will be considered by senate at a special meeting of 22,000 undergrads and 5,500 grad students, the latter cosmopolitan city, rather than a small town," the report Nov. 1, from 9 to 12 ajn. to be let in at a 15 per cent increase per year. says. The majority doesn't want to go that far. Let's retain Ubyssey senate reporter Peter Ladner will present a The main issue in enrolment is: Which should be "the present type of structure of faculties, departments series of detailed examinations of the major issues decided first, resources available or the numbers that and schools... with modifications to make the system contained in the report in upcoming issues. See page 2: CHRISTMAS Belshaw's briefs THE UBYSSEY Vol. LI, No. 10 VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1968 228-2305 SFU under 'McCarthy regime By JIM DAVIES BURNABY (Staff)-Simon Fraser University students are pushing faculty up against the wall. The long-awaited joint faculty meeting at SFU came to a sudden end Thursday when 450 students refused to leave the lecture hall where it was held. SFU vice-president Lalit Srivastava moved that students should not be in attendance at the meeting which was to discuss the strike situation at SFU. The motion passed and the students were asked to leave, but they refused. Upon this refusal, an immediate motion for adjournment was moved and passed. About 250 of the 341 professors on campus were in attendance. A joint faculty meet means students are permitted to attend a general meeting of the faculty, but do not have voting privileges. As SFU president Kenneth Strand rushed from the meeting, students chanted, "McCarthy-Strand, McCarthy-Strand." Strand was off campus and unavailable for comment within minutes after the meeting adjourned. —dirk visser photo Meanwhile, the striking political science, sociology, BOMB SCARE at the psychiatric hospital brought out firemen, campus cops and RCMP just before Dr. and anthropology department has been gaining Victor Frankl was about to speak. Building was evacuated and searched but no bomb was found. additional support. Harold Hickerson, the PSA prof who struck, then reconsidered, has re-joined the strike. He said he has made a final decision on the issue and that is to support the strike. Anti-war campaign halts classes See page 2: MORE PSA A teach-in on the Vietnam war Wednesday at UBC and congressmen. will coincide with a moratorium on classes at colleges The Alma Mater Society council has approved in across the U.S. and at least one Canadian university. principle actions at UBC in support of the moratorium. UBC's teach-in and a voluntary supension of classes at Under the Covers The project calls for a cessation of regular the University of Waterloo are an extension of a U.S. activities—by students, workers and businessmen—to Library extension p.. 3 national campaign aimed at ending the way. discuss the war and its implications. The program at UBC will include a series of speakers PSA gathers support p. 5 during the day in the SUB ballroom and a film on how the It would escalate one day per month until U.S. became involved in south-east Asia. The film will run "significant" peace efforts are made by the U.S. Thus Enrolment figures p. 5 there is a one day moratorium Oct. 15, a two-day hourly from 4 to 10 p.m. in SUB 207. Senate election statements p. 6 The moratorium on classes at Waterloo will be stoppage Nov. 15 and a three-day moratorium to start augmented with marches, meetings and teach-ins on what Dec. 15. Page Friday film special p. 7 can be done to help stop the war by a growing number of The Waterloo action was organized by three faculty and students. professors who explained "there is a growing feeling that AMS budget p. 21 The campaign was originally planned by anti-war academics, including those in Canada, are not doing all The Ubyssey editorial board has arbitrarily declared student organizations in the U.S. and has received support they could to stop the war in Vietnam. Monday a holiday in honor of Irving Fetish. from some 500 students councils, campus newspapers "We feel a day off from the regular functions could Therefore, there will be no paper Tuesday. editors, several administrations and at least 24 senators be a good start," the three said. Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, October 10, 1969 Christmas exams pooh-poohed ~' From page 1 a 65 per cent entrance report published last May. It says should be accommodated? requirement for first year, and the university should strive to The majority recommendation possibly a 60 per cent passmark preserve and extend knowledge, opts for settling numbers first, the for second year. develop the individual, and serve working our how to allocate Then in fall 1970, the the needs of society. resources. committee wants enrolment At the end of the massive This view is blasted by Belshaw quotas set for the first two years report, in a catch-all chapter in a minority report, where he in five faculties, including arts, called "What Else", the reader is calls a 27,500 student limit science, and education. treated to recommendations on "arbitrary and unjustified." He Final decisions on admissions international studies, (needed), prefers deciding how many have to be made by the board of the trimester system (not needed) students each academic program governors. and a standing long-range senate can handle, and then letting that The introductory section on committee (needed). number of students in. the goals of the university remains One interesting section in this Specifically, the report calls for unchanged from the preliminary chapter pooh-poohs Christmas exams, urging instead that the first term's work should be MORE PSA assessed on the basis of term From page 1 assignments and tests. „ Norm Wickstrom, SFU student Standby for complete a joint strike plenum After society president has said he will chapter-by-chapter analysis of the move for a general student strike yesterday, 200 students report in upcoming issues of The at the next council meeting. attempted a mill-in at the Ubyssey. administration building. They were met by campus security guards and pinkertons but the SCIENTIFIC GRAPHICS Professional production of all CURRYHOUSE conflict was short-lived and kinds of Graphs, Charts, Illustra­ invites you to Int. House for students departed without any tions, Maps and Formulations. "HOT CURRY" lunch every Scientific Displays and Advertis­ Wednesday — 11:30. incidents. ing. 3934 Main St. 879-7236 The only violence occurred Ph. 733-4506 (evenings) EAT IN - DELIVERY - BANQUETS —dave enns photo when Hugh Mcintosh, FRANKL . 'a greater cause' photographer for the Peak newspaper, was grabbed and VANCOUVER thrust against a wall by Fred Hope, head of campus security, FILM SOCIETY 'Man thinks of and Pinkerton guard number 423.

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