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UBC Engineers Win Again UBC Grads Serve Abroad Getting to K .Now VOLUME TWENTY-ONE, N'UMBER FIVE VI - 0 MARCH 19,1975, VANCOUVER, B.C. ru ~ UBC Engineers win again By PETER THOMPSON Toughspecifications. Even tougher because the UBCReports Staff Writer vehiclehad to be built of a Big Ben alarmclock, three wire coat hangers, five paper clips (no larger than size It isn't often that students have the opportunity to number one, mind you), 20 feet of cotton kite string, use their course work to have a bit of fun and win fame glue, and solder. and fortune too. Oh yes. And one straight pin. Well, not quitefortune but somemoney, as threeThe problem was takenup in an engineeringdesign studentsdid inUBC's Facultyof Applied Science. course taught by Dr. Robert McKechnie, assistant pro- The third-year students in UBC's Department of fessor in mechanical engineering. MechanicalEngineering won the international Great In a way,the problem dramatjcallyunderlined the Alarm Clock Race, sponsoredby the Society for Auto- essence of engineering, Dr. McKechniesaid. motive Engineers, with a machine they put together as "The role the students will play in society as pro- part of the coursework. fessional engineers will be to transform what is avail- Theyhad to build a vehicle that wouldtravel able into something useful. They will beasked," he between 100 and 250 feet in a straightline. The exact said, "to use their imagination and knowledge of UBC mechanical engineering studentsFiic Pow, left, Ed distancethe vehicle would have to travel wasrevealed applied science to turn limited resources into products Wong and David Forsyth used their imaginationin the only the night before thecompetition got underwayat field of problem solving and built a machine that won useful to society. the SAE's annual meeting in Detroit, and the vehicle first prize in the international Great Alarm Clock Race "Thepurpose of thecourse is to teach$hem an would have to stop itself at the prescribed distance. in Detroit recently. UBC submitted the onlyCanadian Once it was putinto motion, it couldn't be interfered Please turnto Page Eleven entry. with. SeeALARM.CLOCK UBC grads serve abroad By JOHN ARNETT are former UBC students who .are serving abroad as UBC Reports Staff Writer members of CUSO - Canadian University Service In the tinytown of Wewak, onthe rugged north Overseas. coast of PapuaNew Guinea, Michael Murdock of CUSO concentrates onproviding personal, practi- Sardis, B.C., struggles with theintricacies of learning cal help where it is needed:teachers to work in sec- pidginEnglish to Enable himto communicate effec- ondaryschools and also to train newteachers; tively in hismission as a business developmentdoctors and nursing tutors notonly to cure but also officer. toengi- prevent disease;and tradesmen technicians, Halfway across the world,in swelteringMbereshi, neers to set up local training programs;agriculturists, Zambia,home economist Darlene Tench, of Van- forestry andfishery experts to improve production; couver,teaches laundering, basic cooking and nutri- accountants,economists, marketing and other special- tion totion high-schoolgirls. ists to help developsmall businessesand co-opera- CANADIAN University ServiceOverseas volunteers In isolatedNsjante, Malawi, English teacher Alan tives. &thy Fraser, left, and Steve Haber,second from right, M. Cartwright* Of Invermere,B.c., sits down and pens Over the years, says Vivian Wylie, chairman of the a letter to Canadaseeking funds for a water-driven President's CUSO Committee at UBC, this University find out what to expect when they tiake up teaching mill which, hesays, will grind maize at half the cost posts in Africa later this year from ArtKlassen, second has been one of the most active supporters of CUSO in Canada. In thepast seven years alone, 471 UBC ; from left, CUSO informationofficer andselection Of a diesel-drivenmill. 1 co-ordinator at UBCand Vivian Wylie,chairman of the Thecommon bond among these three,and 80 ' Please turn to Page Eleven cuso committee at UBC. other persons living in remote corners of developing countries in different parts of the world, is that they See NEW INSIGHTS ~~~ Getting to k.now Canada all - to enjoy three summer weeks getting to know By LOISCRAWLEY . Canada and Canadians better. UBC ReportsStaff Writer In British Columbia,the organizational agency is Absolutelyfantastic! The accommodation located at International House on the University of was beautiful and certainly more grand than I British Columbia campus. Colleen Lunde, this year's had anticipated. The food was alwaysgood director of B.C.'s program, is calling for applications and more than plentiful. I had lots of proof _.. from young people all over B.C. before thedeadlineof ten pounds extra! April 1, 1975. Qualificationsfor theprogram are few: partici- .' Thethree people who hosted us in Van- couver are in my opinion three of the nicest pants must be Canadian citizens; must be between 17 people I have ever had the privilege of know- and 24 years old; must write a 300-word essayand must have applied before April 1. ing. The program works something like this. Say you My homestay period-was just fantastic'! live in B.C. and would like to see Newfoundland - or I especially enjoyed I'he day we spent with Ontario or Quebec or any one of the nine CC centres. the Squamisll Indians. - Assumina vour amlication hasbeen acceoted. vou I. .. ~. , UBC's International House is the ,focal point for The camping session was really marvelous! proceed to theregion where you are met by CC Contact Canada, a Canadian government project that Theseremarks came from youngpeople who took peopleorganizing your group. promotes summerexchange of students.Vancouver Part in theContact CanadaProgram last sum^^^. After a brieffamiliarization period, you go to live billets are beingsought by ColleenLunde, centre, Contact Canada is a Canadian government project Contact Canada'sB.C. director, andassistants Nora that allowsyoung Canadians and their counterparts Please turnto Page Eleven Sooner and Lloyd Barteski. from Mexico, Japan, Sweden, Brazil - 16 countries in See CONTACT CANADA 0 UBC's faculty of Education is intensifying it! involvement with the schools of -the provina through a variety of hewprograms forbotf ' students andfaculty members. The new head of, the faculty, ,DeanJohr Andrews, believes thattezkher education "cannoi be conducted effectively in an ivory tower," am in the currentacademic year a total of sever atternative programs arein operation. All are designed,not only to provide studen1 teachers with more ,practical experience in tht schools, but to get faculty members out intc school classrooms, and to provide opportunitie! for school teachers to. spend some time on thf University of B.C,campus. In the articles on Pages Two and Three below Photo by Jim Banham TEACHING, RESEARCH Dr. Tory Westermarkfigures that he is learning as down the wall between two adjoining rooms to give us I believe that I have seen more children with these kind! much as hisstudents during hisyear as an elementary the kindof space that weneeded to workin," Dr. of problems helre than I saw in my last five years as ar school teacher in Tecumseh School Annex, a cosypre- Westermark said. elemelntary teacher in Edmonton in the late 50s." fabricated structure in the 1500-block East 37th in Van- "One of our areas of research is ascertaining the kinds Hesaid these emotional problems range all the wa) couver. of children who makeprogress in anopen-area setting from disruptive classroom behavior to almost total with Areading specialist on UBC's Faculty of Education and what kinds of children do not. While I do not have drawal. "I do not know the reasons for this but perhap: for the past 13 years, and an elementary school teacher the time to analyze any of the data that we have collect- it is symptomatic of a breakdown in parental authority in Alberta prior to that, Dr. Westermark decided that he ed to date,we can see that some children havemade broken homes or other manifestations of our changing would like to take a year off from the University to considerable progress in reading." society. return to an elementary school "just to see for myself Dr. Westermark said that one of the most noticeable what changeshave taken place in the classroom since I aspects of his study is the diiference in the learning abili- last taught, so that my work at the University might be ties of students. "We are finding, for example, that some MORE DIFFICULT morerelevant to the studentteachers with whom I children arecapable of learningand advancing very work." quickly when they have the stimulation and challenge of "I think that because of this, and other reasons too,*' Dr. Westermark credits Dean John Andrews, head of older children to work with. teaching is becoming more difficult. Perhaps because of the Faculty of Education, with sparkinghis interest in television, children seem to want to be entertained more 1 the first place. "Dean Andrews suggested when he joined "We have some Grade 4 students working at a Grade in the classroom. Rather than being actively interested in the faculty a couple of years ago that he would like to 6 level, and vice versa. The one great advantage of the projects they seem content to sit and watch the teacher see more faculty members out working in the schools. I open-area, multi-grade class is that it gives every child do it. They don't seem to have the desire to do things thought that that was an excellent idea. the opportunity to work along at his level ofability, for themselves any more." "Certainly faculty members do get outinto the something that isn'tpossible in the regularclassroom On the other hand, he said the children he is teaching^ schools during practiceteaching sessions with student situation." have better generalknowledge of the world around The advantages to the student are obvious: the bright- J teachers, buttheir interest is centredon the student them and can express themselves orally better than their teacher rather thanthe classroom itself.
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