Vol. LXIII, No. 38 Vancouver, B.C. Friday, January 9,1981 ° ^ ^ » 4 228-2301
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THVolE. LXIII, No. 38 UBYSSEVancouver, B.C. Friday, January 9,1981 °^^»4 228-2301 Y George & Berny's U.B.C. DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT HOUSING Invites Applications for VOLKSWAGEN Ti SENIOR RESIDENCE ADVISORS FOR 1981-82 FREESEE REPAIRS Walter Gage Residence, Place Vanier Residence, Sponsored by The Women Students' Office Totem Park Residence With the support of The Leon and The ideal applicants for these positions will be students who are in their final undergraduate year, are unclassified, or are graduate students and who have Thea Koerner Foundation substantial experience living and working in residence. These postions will be attractive '.o those who have skills and interests in working in an extensively people oriented field. Major responsibilities include the following: THE LONG SEARCH (al Supervising the residence's Advisors (b) Being the contact person between the Department and the Residence Association Jan. 13 - Feb. 17 COMPLETE SERVICE (c) Ensuring that proper standards of behaviour are maintained. FULLY GUARANTEED Those interested in applying for one of these positions should submit a Every Tuesday, 12:35 p.m. AT REASONABLE RATES resume and letter explaining their reasons for being interested in the position to Dima Utgoff, Coordinator of Residence Student Affairs, at the Ponderosa SUB Auditorium Free Housing Office (mailing address: 2071 West Mall, University Campus, Van 731-8644 couver, B.C. V6T 1Y9 on or before Wednesday, January 14, 1981). Please •W All Students, Faculty and Staff are invited. ^ phone Dima at 228-5778 for further information about these positions. 2125 W. 10th at Arbutus RECREATION U.B.C. INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMMES TERM II - 1981 Registration for all Recreational Instruction Classes will begin Monday, Memorial Gym. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00-4:00. January 5,1981 and proceed until Friday, January 16,1981, as long as Instructional Classes will then begin the week of Monday, January 19, space permits. The registration will take place at the Intramural- 1981. Thank you. Recreational Sports Programme Office, located in Room 203, War PROGRAMME SECTION DATES DAYS TIME PLACE COST Strength Training I Jan. 19-Feb. 13 Mon-Wed-Fri 5:30-6:30 p.m. Universal Weight Room $5.00 War Memorial Gym 11 Feb. 23-Mar. 20 Mon-Wed-Fri 5:30-6:30 p.m. Universal Weight Room $5.00 War Memorial Gym Circuit Training I Jan. 20-Feb. 12 Tues-Thur 5:30-6:30 p.m. Circuit, War Memorial $5.00 Gym II Feb. 24-Mar. 19 Tues-Thur 5:30-6:30 p.m. Circuit, Wai' Memorial $5.00 Gym Badminton I(Beginner) Jan. 19-Feb. 25 Mon-Wed 1:30-2:30 p.m. Gym Floor, War $5.00 Memorial Gym ll(Intermed.) Mar. 2-Apr. 1 Mon-Wed 1:30-2:30 p.m. Gym Floor, War $5.00 Memorial Gym DynaFit I Jan. 19-Apr. 3 Mon-Wed-Fri 6:30-7:30 p.m. Gym B, Osborne Centre $10.00 Basic Skating I Jan. 20-Apr. 1 Tues-Wed 9:45-10:45 p.m. Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre $5.00 Jazz Dance I(all levels) Jan. 20-Apr. 2 Tues-Thurs 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tues.: Gym E Thurs: Gym B Osborne Centre $10.00 Karate I(all levels) Jan. 22-Apr. 2 Thurs 7:30-9:30 p.m. Gym E, Osborne Centre Modern Dance l(Beginner) Jan. 19-Mar. 30 Mon 5:00-7:00 p.m. Room 208, Armoury $10.00 H(Beginner) Jan. 20-Mar. 31 Tues 1:30-3:30 p.m. Room 208, Armoury $10.00 III(Beginner) Jan. 22-Apr. 2 Thurs 1:30-3:30 p.m. Room 208, Armoury $10.00 IV(lntermed.) Jan. 19-Mar. 30 Mon 5:00-7:00 p.m. Room 208, Armoury $10.00 V(lntermed.) Jan. 21-Apr. 1 Wed 7:30-9:30 p.m. Room 208, Armoury $10.00 Tennis I(Beginner) Jan. 19-Feb. 23 Mon 8:30-10:30 p.m. Armoury $5.00 H(Beginner) Jan. 19-Feb. 25 Mon-Wed 12:30-1:15 p.m. Armoury $5.00 Hl(lntermed.) Jan. 20-Feb. 27 Tues-Fri 12:30-1:15 p.m. Armoury $5.00 lV(lntermed.) Jan. 21-Feb. 25 Wed 8:30-10:30 p.m. Armoury $5.00 V(lntermed.) Jan. 24-Mar. 28 Sat 9:00-10:00 a.m. Armoury $5.00 VI(Advanced) Mar. 2-Mar. 30 Mon 8:30-10:30 p.m. Armoury $5.00 Vll(Advanced) Mar. 2-Apr. 1 Mon-Wed 12:30-1:15 p.m. Armoury $5.00 VHI(Advanced) Mar. 3-Apr. 3 Tues-Fri 12:30-1:15 p.m. Armoury $5.00 VlllI(Advanced) Mar. 4-Apr. 1 Wed 8:30-10:30 p.m. Armoury $5.00 Yoga 1 Jan. 19-Apr. 1 Mon-Wed 4:30-6:30 p.m. Rooms 211-213, War $5.00 Memorial Gym Women's Self Defense I Jan. 20-Mar. 31 Tues 7:30-8:30 p.m. Gym E, Osborne Centre $5.00 NOTE: Due to prior bookings of some facilities for special events, some classes will have to be cancelled. Class participants will be notified in advance. Weight Room Mon.-Thurs. 3:30-5:00 p.m. (War Mem. Gym) Fri. 2:30-4:00 p.m. Gymnastics Gym Mon. Tues. Wed. 12:30-1:20 p.m. (Osborne Qre.) Mon. Tues. Thurs. 2:30-3:45 p.m. Mon. Wed. Fri. 7:00-9:00 p.m. Page 2 THE U BYSS EY Friday, January 9,1S61 Boys and girls, today's lesson is. „ v j^^^ti/^jj 7P"ii Tl_r^^ Jr M/mW-— r^MLV ^f^^^^/ G iris use what boys inventi•• By LORI THICKE are often effectively prevented from doing so and knit in preparation for home and hearth characters in limited but highly sterotyped I'll bet you never realized you learned it in by the restrictive dresses that are still the re (or at best a career that approximates this roles. school. That men are assertive, independent quired uniform in some Vancouver schools. ideal). A number of studies have documented and capable, that women are passive, weak Girls soon discover that being a girl is not Meanwhile boys learn a variety of career- discrimination against women in children's and dependent was, in all likeliness, trans as much fun as being a boy. oriented skills like woodworking, drafting, literature. A comprehensive study of sexism mitted to you in the classroom. Boys receive more attention in the metal working and power mechanics. in children's books called Dick and Jane as Sure your parents — and other adults — classroom than girls do, reinforcing notions Not to be outdone in the field of sex-role Victims, published by Women in Words and probably helped. And television, books and that boys are more important. Numerous stereotyping, many physical education classes Images, a New Jersey feminist organization magazines did nothing to contradict these studies have documented the fact that al stress inside activities such as dance for girls, surveyed 2,760 stories in 134 books and dis edicts about the nature of the sexes. though boys are yelled at more by their teach and reserve more active outside sports like covered male protagonists outnumbered fe But by and large, no social institution has ers than girls, they are also listened to more, baseball for boys. male protagonists five to two, there were six worked as hard as the educational system — and receive more praise and instruction. But discrimination against women is at its from pre-school to post-grad — to teach In a comprehensive study by Lisa Serbin it height — or depth — in textbooks ranging males and females their "proper" places in was revealed that boys received eight times from children's readers to college required society. more individualized instruction than girls, ex reading. It starts in nursery school. A spate of re cept when the classes were involved in tra Girls and boys pick up many clues about cent studies have revealed how both male and ditionally feminine activities, like cooking or the relative importance of each sex by their female teachers from pre-school on unwit sewing. exposure to how language is used. The com That women are ranked lower than men is mon use of the allegedly gender-generic terms demonstrated by virtually every social insti (using "he" instead of "he or she") conveys tution, and the educational system is no ex the impression of female exclusion to child ception. The social relationship between men ren, as it does to most people. and women that children most often observe Children tend to interpret things literally, in school is that of the usually male principal and the masculine pronouns are more likely to the usually female and subordinate to be interpreted as referring exclusively to teacher. According to the status of women males. Moreover, their confusion is com committee of the B.C. Teachers Federation pounded by the fact that there are no rules in B.C., despite the fact that 95.5 per cent of about when "he" means "he," and when it means "he or she." elementary school teachers are female, only times as many male as female biographies, 10 per cent of the elementary school princi When presented with words like "police man" and "fisherman" children have prob and there were twice as many male animal pals are women. stories as female animal stories. Is it surprising then that as children ad lems believing that such terms include the vance through school girls experience a grow possibility of a female fishing, policing, While boys are presented in a variety of ing sense of inferiority while boys do not? Al fighting fires or delivering mail.