Faculty contract csensiblessays association head

By GAVIN WILSON Although Bruneau said negotiations he new contract agreement werecomplicated by theprovincial signedrecentlyby UBCfac- government’s Compensation Fairness ulty members comparesfa- Act (intended to control wages in the T vorablywith other recent public sector, the act has since been settlements at Canadian universities, rescinded), the settlement pennits ex- says Faculty Association President tension of career progress increments William Bruneau. to more Faculty Association members “Ontario universities,faced with a than inpast years. oneper cent overallbudget increase in“We are nothappy with the direct the current year, are negotiating agree- interference of the provincial govem- mentsof between zero and one per ment or with the effect of an absolute cent,and considering rollbacks in a limit of zero percent,” he said. “But, fewinstances,” said.recognizinghe difficultythe facing gov- The UBC ernments and agreement, “Weare particularly pleased that hepublic right ratified in this ... contract ... hasbeen reached the June by 92 per country, we cent of mem- through the process of negotiation, feel it is a sen- bersoftheas- withoutrecourse to arbitration.” sibleagree- sociation and ment.” and sociation the Board of Govemors, includessal- As well as the general salary hikes, ary increases and improvementsto ma- another three per cent of the total fac- temity leave and the career progress ulty salary base was made available, increment plan. starting July 1, 199 1, for discretionary It covers about 1,900 faculty mem- increases including merit, anomaly bers, librarians and program directors and inequity,and career progress in- with the Centrefor Continuing Educa- crements. tion. Similar increases totallingthree per ‘We a~ particularly pleasedthat this cent took effectas of July1,1992, with is the second consecutive contractagree- a further$250,000 allocatedto topping ment with the Faculty Association that up salariesof thosein the bottom 20 per DIGGING THROUGH TIME: It took UBCarcheology studentsfour weeks to uncover the remains ofwho hasbeenreachedthroughthepmcmof cent of theirsalary range. they believe to be a territorial chief buried under oneof 35 ancient burial moundsfound near Mission. negotiation, withoutrecwrse to arbiha- Most faculty can expectto see retro- tion,” said Dr. William Webber, associ- active payincreases appearing on July ate vice-pident, academic. paycheques. Sacred burial sites unearthed The two-year agreement includesa Improvements to maternity leave, By CHARLES KER side, range in size from small rock Valley,” said Blake.“It has the pten- 3.5 per centgeneral wage increase ret- some of which will require the ap- On a wooded slope where the cairns to huge swellsthree metres high tial to explain a great deal about how roactivetoJuly 1,1991,andaoneper proval of the Unemployment Insur- Harrison and Fraser rivers meet, by 12 metres across. complex societies evolvedhere.” cent general wage increase (based on ance Commission, are also part of the Michael Blakeproceeds to give his Inside two of the larger mounds, Three days later, the UBC arche- salaries at June 30,1991) retroactiveto new agreement. visitor the lay of the land. teams of third-year archeology stu- ology team unearthedthe most April 1, 1992. Bruneau said the agreement also “To the left a is residential zone,” dents quietly dig for human bones. elaborate human burial yet foundin There are no further general wage reaffirmed a minimum salary scale for says the UBC archeology professor, Soil acids may long since have eaten the province: human bones, copper increases in the second year of the sessional lecturers and extended the gesturing to a series of rectangular away anyremains, but the excavators discs, abalone shell pendants and agreement. number of years thatfull professors are depressions in the earth. ‘To the are sure the stone crypts still have a hundreds oftiny beads cut from Bruneau said the association reluc- eligiblefor career progress increments. right, we have a sacred burial area unique story to tell. dentalium shells all wrapped ince- tantly acceptedthe salary freeze in the As well, the two parties agreed to stretching in one great, long row.” ‘Thismightbeoneofthemtimpor- darbark and blankets probably second year in recognitionof the “ex- discuss the administration of the fac- The burial sites, unmistakable tant sites in B.C. because of what itcan made from mountain goat wool. traordinary difficulties faced by the ulty pension plan and the possibility of mounds of earth hugging the hill- tellusabouttheprehistoryoftheFraser See FIND on Page 2 university.” transfer of tuition waiversto spouses. Ashworth wins Alumni Award of Distinchn - OhrnDic snanshot- ProfessorEmeritus Mary Ashworth outside a faculty member’s teaching Q: What well-known UBC isthis year’s winner of the Alumniand research duties. Award of Distinction. The Blythe Eagles Volunteer Serv- professorplayedon the Internationallyrenowned for iceAward for exemplary service to 1948 CanadianOlym- herwork as an English as a sec- the association went to Robert Clark picmen’s basketball ondlanguage teacher, Ashworth (BA ’42). a professor emeritus from team? (MEd ‘67) wasone of fiveindi- the Dept. of Economics. viduals recently recognized by the MichaelGoldberg, dean of theFac- Read our special report AlumniAssociation for distin- ultyof Commerce, received theHon- on UBC at the Olympics guishedservice as alumni, fac- orary AlumniAward for non-alumni pages 4 and 5 of this ulty or volunteers. active in association affairs. on Lloyd Douglas Hayward, profes- Basil Peters (PhD ’82). chairman issue. sor emeritus from the Dept. of Chem- of Nexus Engineering, was the Out- 8 istry, received the Faculty Citation for standingYoung Alumnus Award (answer: Pat McGeer) outstanding service to the community winner. Mographers penrich account of By CHARLES KER ars whose research interests range from fragmented pieces of modem schol- When he arrived on campus two the humanities to the natural sciences. arship together in a compelling and years ago, publisher Peter Milroy was Written for a general audience, its informative manner.” admittedly “uneasy” about a project nine chapterschronicle the social, Professor Timothy Oke, co-editor he inherited at UBC Press. demographic and technological trans- and head of the Geography Dept., cited The task involved publishing a formations that have helped shape the accessibility as one of the key aims of richly illustrated book produced by 19 city, while examining the ecological, the project. geographers working in the same de- economic and political challenges that “Some of the scientists found it partment in about half the normal tuma-lie ahead. difficult to interpret technical material round time. Graeme Wynn, historical geogra- for the general public but we had to “Like all publishers, I have learned pher and associate dean of Arts, said make it readable,” he said. “Our goal to be. wary of collaborative works,” the book was promptedby a growing was totry and getpeople connected to saidMilroy, UBC Pressdirector. uneasiness that as geographers and this place, to realize that they are a part “They can often involve an unfore- other academics become more spe- of it and that the region is changing Seen clash of personalitiesand always cialized, their research also becomes very quickly.” present the opportunity for an expo- more isolated from the public. Vancouver and Its Region wasini- nential expansion of Murphy’s Law.” As chief editor, Wynn wrotein the tially funded by a grant from the Royal Milroy’s anxiety was put to rest book’s preface: “From the first, we Canadian Geographical Society which earlier thissummer with the launch of strove to developan integrated set of allowed the appointment of several Vancouver and Its Region, an all- accessible essays that would conveya graduate research assistants to work An illustrationfrom the book Vmcouver and Its Region pimhzys the encompassing look at Vancouver’s sense ofthe broad range of fascinating on the project. site of the present city of Vancouver as it would havelooked in 1792. past, present and fume. and distinctive perspectives that Ge- Its launch coincided with the an- Fldwed entirely by UBCS De@. ography offers forthe understanding nual conference of the Canadian As- of Geography. the book is a unique of places while demonstratingthe sub- sociation of Geographers hosted by collaboratioa bringing together schol- ject’s capacity to put the increasingly UBC in May. UBC students rank high in number of fellowships granted Forty-three UBC students have The council selected a total of been offered doctoral fellowships 626 Canadiandoctoral students by the SocialSciences and Hu- from a list of 3,126 applicants for manitiesResearch Council the fellowship awards. Each award (SSHRC) to study at the university is valued at $14.436 a ym. in 1992-93. Representingabout 45 disci- An additional two students have plines inthe social sciences and been awarded fellowships to study humanities, the recipients will ei- elsewhere while three more awards ther start or continue full-time stud- will go to incoming scholars. ies leading to a doctorate from a UBC’s fellowship total of 48 is Canadian or a foreign university. secondonly to the University of As the primary federal funding Toronto’s 72. Other totals indude agency for research and training in the University of Montreal, 44, the social sciences and humanities, McGill University, 32, McMaster SSHRC will invest $92.4 million University, 24 and the University for research grants, fellowships and of Western Ontario with 20 fellow- programs this year. -bYJ-N.pl ships. The breakdown of doctoral fel- Impressive headgear Olav Slaymaker, associate vice- lowshipawards by discipline at Giant admof the extinctIrish Elk appear to loom over M. Y. Williams Geological Museumcumtor Joe president of research for the hu- UBC for 1992-93 is one each for Nag& The &IS, which sprrn three metres, were ondisphy for just one &y earlier this month. manities,interdisciplinary initia- philosophy, interdisciplinary stud- tivesand social sciences, said ies, art history, religious studies, UBC’s excellence in these areas is history, anthropology, english lit- often overshadowed by research in erature,musicology, theatre and Find tells of structured society the natural, applied and health sci- linguistics, two in comparative lit- ences. eratureand economics, three in ContinlleafiWllPpgel Thomfoundaperfectlypreserved slate resent one of the most important dis- The fact is that UBC has con- administrative studies and English- Blake said the discovery gives ir- fishing knife packed in clay and sub- coveriesin B.C. archeologysince most sistently been among the top uni- Canadian literature. four in sociol- refutable evidencethat the people liv- merged in shallow water. similar sites were bulldozed long ago. versities whenit comes to social ogy andgeography, five in political ing there were part of an elaborate Called a kwetsel by the Scowlitz, The last burial mound excavated in the scienceand humanities scholar- science, seven in psychology and himhy and not members of some the knife is believedto be the onlyone province wasduringthe Second World ship,” he said. eight fellowships in education. egalitarianhunting and gathering soci- of its kind found witha wooden han- War at Cowichan Bay. etY- dle still intact. The knife has since It is believedhigh-status people were h - “” .. ‘Without adoubt, this demonstrates been sent to the Canadian Conserva- entombedunderthelargermounds,lesser that the present day Scowlitz people tion Institute in Ottawa for preserva- classesunderthesmalleronesandcount- are descendants of ancient chiefs,” tion treatment and a minute sample less hundreds ofcomn citizens buried f How to be a LodHero said Blake, who noted that the skull sent to Florida for radiocarbon dating. in unmarked graves scattered along the Look for ways youcan volunteer and make yourcommunity a features andjewelry found in the grave Along withthe kwetsel, Thom and shoreline. 1 better daceto live. Find out where your friendsand neighburs- indicate a chiefs burial. Kathryn Berwick, a “wet-site” spe- “Whetherthey were built up in are &ing their timeand money and join in. Lying opposite theScowlitz Band cialist, also found bits of basketry and one shot or incrementally, we don’t Be a Local Hero. reserve on the Harrison River east of cedar-bark matting, again perfectly yet know,” said Blake. “Perhaps they Mission, the archeological treasure preserved in th4river bank. were part of an annual renewal cer- A mtlolul pmgrm to marrage sits on land owned by Canadian For- “It was amazing because we liter- emony.” gwmgand vduntmng est Roducts Ltd. It hadbeen sur- ally tripped over all this stuff,” said Working 12-hourdays, five days a veyed in 1963but nothing, aside from Thorn, who will devote his master’s week, the 11 members ofthe UBC 10 small cairns, was noted. thesis to the site. “A lot of it wasjust field school excavated themounds During the first few days of a five- hanging out from the bank.” with metal pailsandtrowels, carefully week, summer field school, UBC re- Blake said the village is one of cataloguing all they found. searchers hacked out a 200-metre about 20 known archeological loca- Before leaving,the human remains swath of bush and uncovered an un- tions in the province to have these were put back anda special ceremony precedented 35 burial mounds and 25 water-logged,organic deposits. In was conducted by elders from the house depressions. addition, there are also four, giant Scowlitz Band toconsecrate the Significant for the mounds alone, crater-like depressions on an adja- ground. the sitehas also produced a myriad of centisland which are of interest Together,all theartifacts and struc- Deadline for paid advertisementsfor the historicalartifacts including clay becausethey resemble Salish tural features indicate the site was an pipes from the Hudson’sBay Co., pithouses more commonly found in important village occupied continu- August 13 issue is noon, August4. musketballs,spearheads and other the Interior. ously for some 5,000years up until the For information, or to place anad, stone tools. As for the mounds, Gordon Mohs, late 1800s. TdBlake andMohs, it phone 822-3131 On a reconnaissance visit to the heritageconsu1tantfortheSto:loTribal represents decades of future archeo- site in March, graduate student Brian Council, said the team’s findings rep- logical research. I UBC REPORTS July 16,1992 3 Head iniurv sufferers Art and science to ioin hads in forest Manual to help caregivers By CONNIE FILLETTI vehicle or industrial accidents. vor to be placed in an extended care “We have the technology to keep Her research indicates that, in ad- facilitywith predominately elderly By ABE HEFTER government-fundedidea as a people alive, but whereis the support dition to the physical care needs of patients. Paid at home caregivers are Four Vancouver artists have em-chance to meld science and art. for quality of life in the long-term?’’ headinjury survivors, the greatest rare. barked on a project to develop a ‘Thoseopportunitiesdon’tcome It’s a question thatSonia Acorn, an problems they face are behavioral, Acorn hopesthe manual will help unique British Columbiatourist around too often,” he said. assistant professor of Nursingat UBC, intellectual and with their communi- family caregivers increase their un- destination which blends culture Munro said Gibson and the three has asked herselffor a long time. Now cation skills. derstanding of the needs ofthe head- with nature in the Malcolm Knapp other artists will be given room to she has an answer. Typically, they experience short- injured family member, and improve Research Forest. create from materials found in the Acorn is producing, with colleagues term memory loss and fatigue, and their ability to cope with caring for The Enviro-Art project is the forest. Julie Flather and Judy Little,the coun- become easily agitated. him or her. brainchild of controversial Van- “Scientists and researchersat the try’s firsteducation and support “They go home after rehabilitation Designed in modules, the manual couver artist RickGibson who, forest are excited about the project manual for family caregivers of head and find that they can’tlive by them- covers such topics as impact on the several years ago, plannedto squash and the chance to work side by side injury survivors. selves,” Acornsaid. “They can’t func- familysystem, impact on the a rat, on canvas, with a cement with local artists,” saidMUIUO. “Increased traumacare means that tion outside the structure of the hospi- caregiver, balance and tasks.life com- brick in the name of art. The finished works will be left head injury survivors can now be ex- tal where they have been cared for munity resources and special issues. He didn’t follow through, how- on permanent display within sight pected tolive as long as anyone else,” around the clock. Very simple things Production of the manual, which ever, because of the public outcry of the hikingtrails and will not said Acorn. “Unfortunately, most of throw them in a tizzy.” will be available next January, was that ensued. requiremaintenance. Gibson be- their care must be provided at home, Currently, the only alternative to funded by the B.C. Health Research What he will do at the Malcolm lieves the project, funded through which is not always the appropriate home care is for the head injury survi- Foundation. Knapp Research Forest should be thecommunity tourism employ- place for the type and extent of care farless controversial. Gibson, ment training program, will add a they require.” KemptonDexter, Caroline Figol new cultural dimensionto the Ma- Acorn attributes the problem to a and LyciaTrouton planto combine ple Ridge area. scarcity of professionals withthe nec- contemporary art with nature and One project Gibsonis looking at essary expertise and training - par- science in a project patterned after is a sculpture thatdeer can eat. He ticularly in smaller communities- to the Grizedale Sculpture Forest in is currently researching theireating cope with the increasing number of . habits and has discovered they feed survivors. “The village of Grizedalehosts on tree seedlings, lichens and ap- “As a result,there is great potential 150,000 tourists throughout the ples. for bum-out, exhaustion and social year, where hikersencounter art in If he goes ahead with the idea, isolation forfamilies whoprovidehead a modem researchforest,” said Gibson will take periodic photos injury survivors with care at home,’’ Gibson. of the exhibit as it is being eaten she said. “I was fortunate enough to be by the deer. Thephotos would Acorn based herfindings on a among them three years ago and eventually form the basis of his province-widesurvey of families approached UBC to see if the uni- work. who were caring for a head injured versity would be interested in de- Gibson said the other three art- survivor at home. The majority of veloping a similar project.” ists are still looking at a varietyof the participants were mothers car- Don Munro,director of the possibleprojects. He hopes the ing for their sons, usually in their phaDbyMcd*scnias Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, Enviro-Artproject will be com- teens or early 20s, who suffered Sonia Acorn hopesto address the difficultiesfming family members said the university embraced the pleted by the end of autumn. head injuries as a result of motor trying to cope with caringfor head injury victims.

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Don’t blame Rio: summit defined issues, Rees says

By GAVIN WILSON lenging opinions have made him our natural assets.” ecosphere is the source “Hey,how do you know all a notable public figure, whether Humanity today consumes more of of all energy and mat- this? ” I wondered. he is speaking in a church base- nature’s goods and services than are ter. “Bill Rees, ” he said ment in Dunbar, at a major con- produced by the world’secosystems, “Theeconomy is - Stan Persky in a Vancouver ference in Washington, D.C., or threatening a global crisis. simply the mechanism Sun column on ozone depletion in the media. Rees points out that the signs are by which we have or- Despiteall of this, Rees rejects the everywhere:the collapse of once ganized to extract the When talk turns to the envi- environmentalistabundantlabel. fisheries, the depletionof products of photosyn- ronment, often the first name on “Environmentalismtends to be too agricultural soils, disappearing for- thesis, as well as min- people’s lips is Bill Rees. rigidly desert- ests, eral resources, for hu- Next to David Suzuki, he is ideologi- the ification, man use. UBC’s best-known advocate for cal.Icon- “We, as aplanetary civilization, thinning of the “We liketo think of the environment. sidermy- are now confrontingthe first ozonelayer. ourselves as the great A professor of resource ecol- beselfto shock ofplanetary angina.” “These are all producers, but in ther- scien- related symp- ogy in the Schoolrelated of Community a scien- modynamic terms, we andRegional Planning since tist, an same the of toms don’t produce anything 1969, Rees investigates the eco- ecologist,” says Rees, who began his problem - over-consumption by ex- - we just consume.” logical basis for economic de- academic career in zoology. He holds cessive human populations,” he says. Despitethe fail- velopment.His research has aPhD in bio-ecologyfrom the Univer- Reescompares current con- ureat the recent taken himfrom the Peruvian Toronto.sity of environment thewithcerns to Earth Summit in Rio Andes to theArctic. Untilthe mid-1980s. the ma- people who abuse their bodies deJaneiro to ad- Rees was afounding member jorfocus ofhis work was the all their lives and then, suddenly dress the key issues of Pollution Probe, establishedin impactof development on the suffering angina, start worrying facing the world to- 1969 as one of ’s first en- Canadiannorth. Since then, his about their health. day - over-con- Rees vironmental groups. attentionhas turned to global “They go through a wholelife- sumption in the de- He was alsoa key memberof environmentaltrends and the idea style change. They stop smok- veloped world and over-popula- ized the concept of sustainable theCity ofVancouver’s task ofsustainable development. ing, they stop drinking, they stop tionin developing countries - development in the mid-1980s. forceon atmospheric change, That much-debated concept does eatingfat. That’s what we, as a Rees believes it wasa worthwhile But at least the Earth Summit which two years ago produced notmean - as some wouldhave it planetarycivilization, are now exercise. crystallized theissues, Rees says, the landmark report, Clouds of - that we can maintain our current confronting - the first shock of It is important to think of Rio as and soon we will see increasing Change.He has served as an economicsystem, he says. Our planetary angina.” the“second major step in global sophistication in the environmen- environmentalconsultant for economyrequires continuous Hebelieves humankind must rec- consciousness-raising,’’ he said, the tal debate and in pressure put on more than 20 years. growth, and as presently structured, ognize that it is dependent on the firstbeing the publication of the governments to “come togrips His outspoken, often chal- this is based on the “liquidation ofnatural world, and that the earth’s Brundtland report, which popular- with reality.” “Citius, Altius, Fortius.” capture the pairs gold. Jackson is one of year belongs to former UBC student The first UBC athlete to take the nine UBC athletes to compete in three Graeme Fell, who will be returning Olympicchallenge-faster,higherand Olympics,havingalsoappearedinMexico this fall, and PaulWilliams, who will stronger- was sprinterHany Warren, City in 1%8 and Munich in 1972. be attending UBC in September. who represented Canada at the 1928 UBC’s most recentsuccess in row- Dr. Doug Clement, co-director of summer games in Amsterdam. ing came in Los Angeles in 1984, with the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Since then, more than 160 UBC Pat Turner and Paul Steele among the Centre, is another three-time Olym- students, coaches and officials have members of the gold-medal-winning pian. He was on the 1956 Olympic worn Canada’s colorsin Olympic com- eights team. Tricia Smith, whoap- track team as a competitor and put in petition, resulting in 50 medals for peared in three Olympics, was a silver an appearance in 1984 and again four Canada. The latest will suit up in medal winner in the pairsthat year. years later as acoach. , Spain, at the games of the UBC’s Olympic hopes in rowing UBC hasalsobeen well represented 25th Olympiad, which run from July this year rest on shouldersofthe Megan on the Olympic front in field hockey, 25 to Aug. 9. Delahantyand Cedric Burger. withmore than two dozen appear- Over the years, the rowing teams Delahanty, a PhD candidate in the ances by UBC athletes and officials. have beenthe dominant UBC Olym- field of biochemistry, will compete in Several UBC Olympians have ex- pic force. More than 50 rowers from the women’s eight, while Burger, celled at more thanone sport. Perhaps UBC have represented Canada in 01- fourth-year physical eductation stu- the most unique was Joy Ward Fera, ympic competition,according to UBC dent, will take part in the men’scox- who, after a career at UBC as an out- from UBC earned a gold Athletics historian Fred Hume, none less four. standing performer with the ski team, medal for Canada at the more successful than the 1956 four- UBC athletes have also excelled in went on to compete in Montreal in 1956 Olympics. oared and eight-oared crews. trackand field, withmore than 30 1976 as arower. Thatyear,theUBCcampuswasawash Olympic appearances. The 1972 sea- On a winter note, Canada’s Olympic in Olympic gold,thanks to the perform- son was a very good one for UBC hockey team at Innsbruck in 1964 was ance of the rowing team in Melbourne, track and field, with six members of basedatUBC,andfeatUredformerUBC Under the auspices of coach the women’s varsity track team and hockeycoachTerryOMalley,andfonnex Athletes sweatit out Frank Read,the men’s fours came away five members of the men’s team ap- Athletics Director Bob Hidmarch, who with the gold medal, while the men’s pearingin Olympiccompetition,along was theteam manager. eights captured the silver. with coach Lionel Pugh. UBC’s latest taste of winter Olym- in Barcelona Eight years later, in , Roger However, despite the numerous pic competition came earlier this year Twolitres hour.an six-hour cycling trials in a tem- Jackson, who later became president of appearances by UBC track and field in Albertville,France, wherealumRick It has nothing to do with speed perature-controlled heat chamber theCanadian Olympic Association, athletes in Olympic competition, no Amann suited up - for the German or distance on the playing field. set at 30C. teamed up with George Hungerford to medalshave been won. The taskthis hockey team. Yet it is a measurement that could During one set of trials, thesub- play a critical role in determining jects replaced lost fluids with equal the success of endurance athletes at amounts of water. During another the Summer Olympics. set, they replaced lost fluids with Endurance athletes, like mars- equal amounts of a saline solution Paige takes the big plunge than runners and long-distance cy- containing sodiumin amounts simi- can lose up to two litres of lartothose foundincomrnercially- fluid an hour during competition. available sports drinks. During the As a youngster, Paige Gordon al- Withtemperatures expected to third set of trials, they completely ways dreamt of taking part inthe 01- reach the 40 degrees Celcius in restricted fluid intake. ympics - as a gymnast. Barcelona during the games, fail- “When drinking either water or Now, seven years after making a ure toreplace lost body fluidscould saline solutions,the subjects’ blood decision to forego gymnasticsin favor be disastrous. sodium levels did decrease, but of diving, Gordon will live out her “Dehydration can result in heat remained within the normal range,” Olympic dream from the IO-metre stroke, whichcan leave a person said Barr. diving board at the 1992 summer comatose and can even result in “Water did the jobjust aswell games in Barcelona. death,” said Susan Barr, an associ- as the saline solutions because there “My sister, Megan, wasthe diver,” ate professor in the School of Fa- wasn’t enough salt in the saline reflected Paige, 19. ily and Nutritional Sciences. solution to maintain pre-exercise “One day I went to the pool, put on The im- blood sodium my swim-suit, and dove. I’m not sure portanceof levels.” I know why I stuck with it, butI did, preventing Barr’s adviceenduranceto H~weverl and began to do well in it.” when the sub- dehydra- athletes is: drink up. Fortwo years, Paige, now a tion during com- jects second-year Arts student, tried her exercise pletelyre- hand at both sports. Then, at the Paige Gordon takesflght has been recognized for some time, strictedfluid intake, both body tem- age of 12, with pressure coming said Barr. However, she added, the perature and heart rate increased above the diving pool as from her coaches to make up her she prepares for the Sum- recent developmentrecent of steadily and only one subject was mind,she made the decision to able to finish the trial. mer Olympics. hyponatremia (low blood sodium drop gymnastics and concentrate ofPhysicalEducationandRecreation. “Five subjectsquit because they levels) in a few ultra-enduranceath- on diving. and her father, Terry. were too exhausted to continue and letes has led some experts to sug- “It was the right decision,” she mendous disappointment.” ‘They have put so much workinto another had to quit because his gest that athletes limit their fluid said. “However, I started as agym- The Gordonsisters have been this moment,” said Paige. heart rate reached 95 per cent maxi- intake. nast and I always wanted to be a competing together “forever,” said Although “this moment” doesn’t mum capacity.” Hyponatremia can occur either gymnast. Even nowI regret quitting, Paige. They were on the Canadian include Megan, Paige is hopeful that Barr said fluid intake kept the as a result of excessive losses of but, my prospects seemed brighter in team at the Pan American Games in the two will be back together again on heart rate stable at around 70 per sodium through sweat, or through diving.” Cubalast summer and have per- the diving platform. cent of maximum - an appropri- diluting blood sodium levels by Paige isgoing to the Olympics fol- formed in numerousinternational And if historyis any indication, she ate level for the exercisebeing done drinking and retaining more fluid lowing her first-place showing in the meets together. may be right. -and body temperaturedown to a than is lost. lo-rnetre diving trials in Winnipeg in Megan will move onto several Eu- Anotherwell-known Canadian near-normal 38C. “It is aserious condition which May. ropean meets before catching toup her divingduo, Wendy and Debbie Barr’s advice to endurance ath- can result in confusion, vomiting Megan, a 21 -year-old entering her sister in Barcelona, as a spectator. Fuller, were confronted with similar letes is: drink up. and convulsions,” said Barr. fourth year in Commerce and Busi- “Megan isthe only one who knows circumstanceseight years ago. In “Elite endurance athletes com- Barr studied eight subjects to ness Administration, needed a sec- what I’m going through,” said Paige. 1984, Debbie qualified for the Los peting in the Olympics don’t have determine the effects of different ond-place showingtojoin her sister on “She cangive me the kind of support AngelesOlympics while sister to worry about taking in too much types of fluid replacement during the Canadian team. that noone else can. It’s important for Wendy failedto make thegrade. fluid because it would pretty well endurance exercise over a moder- She finished third. me to know thatshe’ll be inthe stands However, four years later,they both be physically impossible to stom- ate time period -longer than most “Each competitor had to turn in 14 with my mother andfather pulling for qualified for the summer games in ach morefluid than theyare losing Olympicevents will take, but divesin Winnipeg,” said Paige. me.” . sweat. The closer they cancome shorter than ultra-enduranceevents as “Megan lost itjust bita onherthird-to- Paige says none ofthis would have Paige is confident she and Megan to replacing lost body fluids, the such as ironman triathlons. last dive and just couldn’t make up the been possible without the support of can write a similar script. better they’ll be able to perform.” They each took part in three, lost ground. her parents; her mother, Bonnie, an “Hopefully, you’ll see us both in “She came so close. It was a tre- assistant professor in UBC’s School Atlanta in 1996.” UBC at the Olympics I I Heat afactor for athletes Medicine centre setsup shop in Barcelona r He was among the first. Now, he’s monwealth Games in , Scot-be especially concerned with the heat of equipment to make sure they’re “Like theathletes, Canadian medi- among the best. land, when he was among the first and humidity in Barcelona. ready for any circumstances. cal team members must be prepared Dr. Doug Clement, co-director of groupofdedicatedphysicians assigned “This is something Western-based Jack Taunton knows whatthat‘s like. for anything at these major interna- the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine to travelwith Canadian athletes to Canadian athletes will have problems As chief medical officerthe for Canadian tional games,” said Taunton. Centre, along with four other mem- Olympic-style competitions. adjustingto,” said Clement.“Tem- teamatthePanAmericanGamesinCuba “As was the case in Cuba, heat bers of thecentre, will travel with the Prior to that, there was no such peratures could reach in the 40s and last summer, Taunton ensured that the andhumidity will be an enemy ’ Canadianteam to Barcelona for the thing as a sports medicinedoctor, ex- will present quite a challenge in the Canadian squad arrived in Havana with for the athlete in Barcelona. Early Summer Olympicsas part of the medi- plained Clement. endurance events.” 44 tonnes of waterin tow, since the water adaptationand fluid-electrolyte cal crew. “It wasn’t a service that was ex- Canadian medical teams make a inCubawasunsafeforCanadianathletes replacement will be high on the “When you putit all together,” said pected or necessarily supplied. Health habit of travelling withtonnes to drink. list of priorities for the Canadian Clement, “Canada probablyleads the services were provided by someone medical team.” restof the world in the degree of who was aroundat the time, and per- medical coverage and expertise avail- haps happened to be a doctor.” able to international class athletes. Then, at the 1968 Summer Olym- “UBC’s contribution,certainly pics in Mexico, one isolated incident since 1984, has been huge.” led to the establishment ofan organi- Clement, recently awarded a life- zation that would be responsible for ., ., time achievement in sports medicine medical coverage of Olympic-calibre and science by the Sports Medicine athletes outside of Canada: A Cana- Councilof Canada, and centre co- dian rower collapsed with pneumonia director Dr. JackTaunton, both gradu- during a race. atesof UBC’s medical school, are “That incident became focus a of a acknowledged pioneers in the field of royal commissionon sport, which was sports medicine. set up in 1969to deal with thestate of ” Theywill be joined inBarcelona the amateur sport system in Canada. . by Dr.Don McKenzie, and physi- “Thecommission recommended otherapists Trish Hopkins and Clyde the establishment agroup of dedicated Smith. Physiotherapist Ron Mattison physicians who would travel with will accompany them to a pre-Olym- Canadianathletes to international pic training camp in France but will multi-sport events.” not make the trip to Spain. In Barcelona, Clement will coach LikeClement, Taunton and the distance runners, as was thecase in McKenzie have a wealth of interna- Seoul. He will also likely be called tional experience, Taunton with the upon to provide medical services as field hockey team and McKenzie withwell, since the Canadian team won’t the kayakers. Taunton and McKenzie have a dedicated track physician. have been involved with their respec- Hopkins and Smith were selected tive sports for more than10 years and to the Canadianteam through the were at the 1984 Los Angeles games sports medicine division ofthe Cana- * and the 1988 games in Seoul. dian Physiotherapy Association after c This will be thefourth Olympics writing aseries of exams. They will be part of the central medical staff pro- from the experience of (from lejl) for Clement, a former Olympic runner Ron Mattison, Dr. Doug Clement, and a silver medallistat the 1954 Com- vided bythe Canadian Olympic Asso- Dr. Jack Taunton,Dr. Don McKenzie, monwealth Games. ciation and will work out of a clinic Trish Hopkins and Clyde Smith, His first tasteof international sports that will operate around-the-clock. of 5 medicine came in 1970 at the Com- Clement says the medical staff will wnmmmg uuo gears up for life in thefast lane

I Talk aboutmixed emotions. Draxinger and Turlough O’Hare around the pool that day. Draxinger, they are at their peak. Hefinished 1 lthinthe400-metrek- ThefirstthoughtthatenteredKevin will represent UBC in swimming at O’Hare and UBC swim coach Tom “These two athletes have paid their style at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul Draxinger’smindafterhehadsuccess- the Summer Olympics after posting Johnson came away from Montreal dues.They are experienced world- and will swimboth the 400-metre and fully qualified for the Olympic 200 qualifying times at the national trials with the sobering realizationthatthere class swimmers. There are no ex- 200-metre freestyle in Barcelona, and metre backstroke was: “If I do this in in Montreal in May. wasstillalotofworktobedonebefore cuses.” perhaps the 4-by-200-metre freestyle Barcelona, I’m goingnowhere.” However, there were few high-fives Barcelona. Draxinger and O’Hare met in the relay as well. ‘Turlough and Kevinare going pool as youngsters and have shared “The2OO-metre freestyle is my to have to swim much betterat the the ups and downs of competitive number one event, but I’m not going Olympics than they did in Mon- swimming fora decade. to Barcelona with anyfalse hopes. I’ll treal,” said Johnson, who willact Draxinger, whosefamily resides in swim as fast as I can and hopefully as an assistant coach to the Cana- Kelowna, has lived with the O’Hare advance to the final. That’s every- dian swimmers in Barcelona. family in Richmond for the last five one’s goal.” Physically, they were at their years. Studying as an unclassified O’Hare points out that it’s easy to peak at the trials, but mentally, student this year, Draxinger came away get caught up in the medal trap when they were flat, he explained. with the Bobby Gaul awardas the top assessing an athlete’s performance at “At this level of competition, graduating varsityathlete last yearaf- the Olympics. you havebe focused on nothing but ter completing his Bachelor of Sci- “There’s moreto Olympic lifethan swimming. The trials were very ence. gold, silver and bronze,” said O’Hare. early in the season and they could After battling through an injury- “I hope to break my current Cana- have used a few more hard races plagued Olympic year in 1984 and dian record in the 200-metre freestyle before then. But, they’ll get that failing to qualify for the 1988 games in Barcelona. I’d also like to break chancebeforetheOlympicswith in Seoul, Draxinger, 25, realizes this Peter Schmidt’s Canadian 400-metre meets in France and Fort Lauder-is his last kick at the Olympic can. freestyle record, which has stood for dale, Fla.” However, at the same time, he’s look- 12 years,” he added. Johnson believes O’Hare ing at it as justanother meet. and Draxinger are in the “Simply advancing tothe final is prime of their swimming going to be difficult enough,” said :areers going into the Olympics. Draxinger. “There’s no point putting Stories by %ehas coached both of them more pressure on yourself.” ‘or about eight years. Just as he O’Hare, who turns 23 today, is Abe Hefter realizesthat both need to going into his fourthyear in the School sharpen up, he is also convinced of Physical Education and Recreation. 1 MONDAY.JULY 20 I Heartkung Response Study At rest and during exercise. 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Dr. Patricia Hospital since 1986, and was recently appointed Russellis a founding member and former Vestmp, a nativeof Nakusp, B.C., com- Baird, a professor of to theHuman Rights Tribunal Panelof the president of the union, and has been active in pleted an honors B.Sc. degree in Physiology at Medical Genetics, and federal Dept. of Justice. many other geophysics organizations, both in UBC,where she also receivedher medical formerhead of the The 2 1-member governing council provides Canada and abroad. training. She won the Hamk Scholarship in Dept. of Medical Ge- guidance and direction for the management of He has an international reputation as a scien- Medicine for first place standing her in gmduat- netics,hasbeen all NRC policies and programs. tist, especially for his pioneering work on iso- ing year. awarded the Order of tope geophysics and, more recently, seismo- The Justice Institute of B.C. develops and British Columbia...... e.. electrical effects. He has also served as head of provides training programs and educational Established in the Dept. of Geophysics and Astronomy andas services for law enforcement professionals 1989,the Order of Hugh Brock, an associate professor in the UBC’s associate vice-president, academic. and members of the community, which are BritishColumbia rec- Baird Dept. of Zoology, has received the Young Sci- Russell received the medal in May ata joint designed to improve public safety. ognizesoutstanding entists Award for 1992 from the Genetics Soci- meeting of the Canadian and American Geo- Vestrup was first appointed to the Faculty achievement, excellence or distinction in a ety of Canada. physical Union, held in Montreal. of Medicine’s Dept. of Surgery in 1981. field of endeavor benefitting the people of Brockwas invited to thesociety’s annual the province or elsewhere. meeting at the University of Victoriato receive e...... a Baird was one of 13 British Columbians the award and deliver a lecture on his research. honored from among 230 nominees. He studies how the structure of proteins found Setty Pendakur, a professor in the the School Forest Sciences Pmfessor John McLean Currently, Dr. Baird is chairing the Royal on chromosomes regulates gene activity. of Community and Regional Planning,has been has been appointed associate dean, graduate Commission onNew Reproductive Tech- The award recognizes a notable paper or appointed to the new board of directors of B.C. studies and research, in the Faculty of Forestry. nologies. She is also a vice-president of the series of related papers based on original re- Transit. McLean, who has Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. search in genetics or allied fields and written by The 19-member board, which oversees all been with the faculty a member of the society. transit operationsinthe province, was announced since 1977 as a forest .a*...... The research must be completed and pub- by Finance Minister Glen Clark in June. entomologist, will be lished by the candidate in a refereed journal Pendakur was also one of two ministerial responsiblefor ad- Dr. Ian Tsang, a clinical associate profes- during the 15-year period immediately follow- appointments to the five-member board of gov- ministeringall aspects sor of Medicine, has been appointed to the ing the completion of a first degree. ernors of the B.C. Real Estate Foundation. of forestrygraduate governing council of the National Research Pendakur has taught transportation planning and post-baccalaure- Council of Canada (NRC). ...e..... at UBC since 1966. ate programs. Tsang, who joined the Faculty of Medi- In addition, he will cine in 1980 specializing inrheumatology Don Russell, a professor in the Dept of Geo- ..e...... promoteexternally McLean and arthritis, is involved in continuing re- physics and Astronomy, thisis year’s winner of the sponsored research ac- search studying back pain in astronauts. J.bWilson Medal, awarded annually by the Dr. Judith Vestrup, an associate professor tivities,particularly interdisciplinary projects He has served as chief of staff and as a CanadianGeophysical Union in recognition of of Surgery, has been appointed to the board of involving faculty hmForeshy’s three depart- board member of Vancouver’s Holy Family outstanding contributionsto Canadian geophysics. directors of the Justice Institute of B.C. ments and the rest of the university.

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By DAVID ELKINS could be delivered by institutions Nor wouldFirst Peoples necessar- would undoubtedly need to be shared First Peoples would become an em- ommon to many ofthe fed- without a territorial base. ily be continuous since there might -for reasons of cost or efficiency - blem of apartheid. eral government’s propos- For example, education is not in- wellbe enclaves of non-aboriginal between First Peoples and existing If wholly homogeneousprovinces alsfor Constitutional herently territorial, although we tend settlement within at least some of the provinces. are not desirable and are unlikely to change are at leasttwo im- to think firstof neighborhoodschools. larger parts of this province. And Non-territorialprovinces along occur anyway, need we beconcerned Cplicit assumptions. Yet, territorial provinces have pard-certainly reserves today form“is- these lines wouldhave many benefits about a province which is predomi- First, activity in regard to the in- le1 school systems, whether private lands” within each province. relevant to current constitutional pro- nantly aboriginal, or for that matter stitutional changes will usually be and public, or Catholic and non-sec- Although the reserves are exclu- posals. Some benefits are: predominantly French? undertaken by governments, not by tarian. Thus, the two systems violate sively for aboriginals at the present - these provinces could partici- The short answer is “no”. We do individuals, groups, or other organi- the assumption of exclusive useof time, theyprobably should notbe so pate directly in an elected Senate, notworry about the evil effects of zations. Second, whenever govern- territory. restricted after the creation of First - First Peoples would solve in a overwhelmingly English provinces, ’ ment action is arequirement, affected The same applies stroke the general is- so why worry aboutthese other forms groups which do not have control ofcan to taxes which sue of aboriginal self- of distinctiveness?Perhaps we should a provincial government will receive be classified as di- government and es- wony about how English some prov- less attention or be less able to block rect or indirect and Foraboriginals and the French, Canada was, in . pecially of letting inces are, but until we do, we need not actions by a national majority. also as territorial or different ways, imposed on them: by conquest in one &originalsthem- worry how aboriginal First Peoples If one does not have provincial not. case, by deceitand spread of settlementinthe other. selves worktheout might be. I Regardless, one detailsstatus, as Aboriginals do not,one or if one Regardless, ar- of those The longer answer brings us back does have it but believe that current can expect that La rangements in their to the central focus ofmy specula- provincial powers are inappropriate, Francophonie will find itself behav- Peoples. Furthermore, land claims own areas of sovereign provincial tions. as Quebec does, then one feels threat- ingin some ways more like a national settlements may result in shared, non- responsibility, and The purpose of speculating about ened by majoritarian institutional ar- government than a provincial one. exclusive useof territory, justas the - FirstPeoples and La - or advocating - non-territorial rangements. Thus, the federal pro- Such a province will face the same Cree and Inuit of northern Quebec Francophonie wouldalsoprovideex- provincesforaboriginals or posals can be evaluated from the per- degree of regional diversity that thehave fishing, hunting, and trapping act parallels to other provinces asan francophones concerns theperceived ’ spective of who deserves their own federal government in Ottawa cur- rights outside their reserves in areas avenue to participate in future consti- need to give threatened minorities province and what powers these prov- rently confronts. where Quebec has areas of jurisdic- tutional deliberations, an important their own place to be a majority, to inces need. Distancesand regionally tion.specific demand by aboriginals in particular. have a governmentthat speaks on I pppose to consider two hypotheti- situations mightlead this new prov- LikeCanada and like La I have suggested that we often use their behalf, and therebyto remind all cal new provinces of a non-tenitorial ince to constitute itself asa federal Francophonie, First Peoples would territorial organizations to deal with Canadians of these aspects of our- sort as an avenue towards uncovering system. For example, Acadiamight be very diverse in language, cultures, social problems. Would creation of selves. some implications of proposed consti- convenientlybe one unit, the Ottawa economic situations, and affluence. First Peoples asa province for abo- But there are many minorities in tutional changes. These two provinces, Valleyand the concentration ofIt would therefore have a government riginals constitute a step forward so- Canada. Why then should provinces I believe, would answer many of the francophonesineasternOntariomight which felt the pressures of national cially or wouldit be a form of apart- becreated only for aboriginals and needs of two minority groups whose form another, and the West (includ- diversity currently felt by Ottawa. heid? francophones? waysof life are most threatened in ing northern Ontario?) could become Indeed, First Peoples might be organ- For one thing, I havepostulated Formyself, aboriginals and Canada - Aboriginalsand French- a thirdunit. Of course, La ized as federationa of aboriginal that La Francophonie and First Peo- francophones are the groups which speakers outside of Quebec. Francophonie wouldhave only one nations with quite varied local struc- ples would allow the same voluntary deserve special consideration for a By non-territorial, I mean that the premier, even thoughit consisted of turesgovernance. of mobility nowwepresume for exist- related reason. For aboriginals and minority cannot be given its own several self-governing units. UnlikeLa Francophone, its pow- ing territorial provinces. Eachperson the French, Canadawas, in different exclusiveterritory without movement The second type of non-territorial ers might be defined differently be-can choose where to live, whether in ways, imposed on them: by con- of people on a scalewe would regard cause of the peculiar combination of a territorial province quest in onecase, by deceit and as dictatorial and insensitive. or in a non-tem- spread of settlement in theother. Non-territorialitycomes in at least torialasso- All othergroups have come to two formsin the case of cultural ciation. Canada “after the fact” as it were, minorities: some members of themi- instead of having Canada imposed nority do not reside in the temtory upon them. and so do not benefit from being part For at least 150 years, Canada has of the majority there, and some mem- wrestledwith the political implica- bers ofother culture-groups do reside tions of overlapping social distribu- in the territory and are thus “perma- tionsacross its territory. At the nent” minorities there. I/ present,we face again the need to The first type of non-territorial think creatively about ourinstitu- provincewould consist of tions and about protection of rights francophones where theylive outside and ways of life. of Quebec, and the second would Since the creative useof terri- consist of Aboriginalsacross thecoun- toryhas not provided a perma- try south of 60”. nent solution to our social prob- The francophone province which lems,perhaps the next step in I hypothesize mightbe called “La our political evolution should be Francophonie” to distinguish it from toquestion our single-minded QuCbec. Itwould consist of all relianceon territorial govern- francophonesoutside of Quebec ments and institutions.To do this, wherever they mightreside in Canada. I haveproposed two hypotheti- I assume that, whatever the crite- cal provinces which are non-ter- ria for being a francophone, one is province ritorialin somewhat different free to reside in La Francophonie or could be called First Peoples. Its ba- ways. not, as is the case with existing prov- sis would probably not beindividual, territorial and non-territorial My guess is that most Whether or not these are practical inces. as with La Francophonie, but more aspects. aboriginals now living on reserves possibilities, they should help us to La Francophonie would need very likely land based without assuming Since some reserves are relatively wouldremain and many who now gainsome leverage on institutional special powers, notexactly like those exclusivity, contiguity and continu- affluent and others very poor, equali- live in towns and cities would return changes put forward in the constitu- of aterritorially based province. ity. zation within First People would be to the reserves. But not all of them. tional debate. Hence, one value ofspeculating about If the base were existing reservesor arranged asthey saw fit. Existing Suchopenness and mobility in this province derives from the need to if it were the results ofcmnt compre- provincesshift resources (or not) Quebec has not so far resulted in an shiftour focus from an exclusive hensive land claims, the result wouldbe among their regions and municipali- entirely French province, and not all David Elkins is a professor in concern with federal and provincial similarin type, althoughdifferent in ties, just as the federal government francophones want to live in Quebec, UBC’s Dept.ofPolitica1 Science. This jurisdictions. area.Neither basis assumes a single transfers resources among provinces. which iswhy I have hypothesized La is an excerptfrom a paper published Instead, or in addition, we must contiguous temtory. Thereare currently We should not, however, get hung Francophonie. Whywould we ex- this year by the Centre for Constitu- consider which powers can only be more than 2,000 reserves among over up here on the exact details of which pect a significantly different equilib- tional Studies at the University of Al- administered by territorial govern- 600 bands, grollw historically into 40 services would be provided by whom. rium for First Peoples? If a similar berta. ments or agencies and whichservices to 50 nations. The broad point is that someservices pattern arose, we need not fear that Illustration by Diana Cooper.