'Radical' in As 1St Veep on Recount
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EDITORS RESIGN IN DISGUST-NEVER TO RETURN Thirteen angry young editors l The 13 editors, who with stormed out of The Ubyssey Wayman comprise The Ubys office late Tuesday afternoon, sey's editorial board, left 20- vowing never to return. year-old Wayman and a few "We've had it. We can't take cub reporters to put out to it any more," assistant city day's edition. editor Dan Stoffman said. Typewriters and camera in "We thought we'd get a holi hand, 12 editors and photo day this week but (editor-in- chief Norm Betts stalked out chief) Tom Wayman said we aft or last-minute conciliation had to put out two papers in talks failed. two days." "I don't know who Wayman "It's just another example thinks he is,'' muttered city of Wayman's lying and dis editor Al Donald. "But he's torting," complained news not the only one who has editor Ron Riter. classes to attend and courses "He said we agreed earlier to pass." this year to put out two edi tions during the week of the "He's passing honors Eng mid-term break, but I don't lish and leaves us to do all recall any such agreement." the work 'here." The staff, nearing exhaus Chimed in associate editor tion, had been counting on a George Reamsbottom: "He week with only one paper to (Continued on Page 3) allow time for recuperation, ADAMANT EDITORS Riter said. 'we've had enough' SEE: WALK-OUT leave a sinking THEM ship? Vol. XLVIII, No. 50 VANCOUVER, B.C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1966 CA 4-3916 UBC plan previewed 'Radical' in by faculty as 1st veep More than 300 faculty mem bers saw slides on plans for UBC's future development Thursday. on recount Students were not permitted By ROSEMARY HYMAN to attend this showing because it was a joint faculty meeting. Charlie Boylan was declared AMS first vice-president "Joint faculty meetings are Tuesday night in a 180-vote second-ballot recount victory. never open to students," UBC Boylan amassed 1,923 votes information officer Ralph Daly to beat runner-up Bill Grant said Tuesday. with 1,755 votes. In a first count of ballots, Feb. 9, Boylan defeated Jim The slides, an architectural Taylor, the third candidate, by concept of the campus in years 400 votes. to come, were the result of a The first-ballot recount yes study by a California firm of terday reversed the positions campus planners. of Grant and Taylor, giving UBC president John Mac Grant 1,115 to Taylor's 1,107. donald felt this meeting was a "I am happy that UBC stu good opportunity to give the dents voted for a radical voice faculty an idea of what plans on council," said Boylan after were being studied, Daly said. the count. "The first election He said the plans were not promise I will fulfill is to try yet ready to be shown to the to give the students another public or the students. referendum, another chance on "But as soon as the plans are the SUB. ready, the students will fee the In the recount, votes from first to see them." all 20 polls were counted. The first count saw polls from the • • • —dennibgans photo education building and the CHARLIE BOYLAN ... in the last Daly said the plans shown BLANK SPACE above education caf booth shows where cafeteria ruled invalid. $20 CNIB sign used to be. Poor taste pranksters who took Thursday do not go beyond the Returning officer Jim Taylor it are requested to return sign to A. J. Currie-Smith, who five-year plan, made public last said then there were too many needs it to inform customers he's blind. summer. posters displayed around these CUS surveys They merely filled it in with polls. more detail. At the same time, he dis your minds The five-year plan divided McAfee refuses to debate qualified Boylan for failing to the campus into three areas, submit an expenditure account UBC is to be part of a Can the academic core being the by the required time. adian Union of Students survey area from the flag pole to SUB concept with anyone Taylor said Tuesday the elec on mental health. Agronomy. Road between the tions committee had reversed Every university campus East and West Malls. Student Union building chairman Roger McAfee will across Canada will be studied not debate the pros and cons of SUB with anyone, AMS both decisions. The second area between by its branch of CUS. council was told Monday night. Agronomy Road and Sixteenth "The rules for election are A random selection of 200 Consensus editor Peter Cameron asked McAfee* if he Avenue will include the win unmanageable; they have got Canadian students will be would be willing to debate the concept of SUB with AMS ter sports center already built, to be changed," Taylor said. chosen to fill in questionnaires vice-president elect Charlie Boylan in a future issue of playing fields and more resi according to age, faculty and Consensus. Boylan led Grant by 500 dences. sex. McAfee said he would discuss with anyone the progress votes after the first count Tues The third area, beyond Six of SUB and the plans, but not the pros and cons of the idea day. The second count — trans CUS regional chairman Ed teenth Avenue to Marine Drive itself. ferring votes cast for Taylor Lavalle said the main signifi will be for research. McAfee said open forums would continue to be held to to the second choice — saw cance of the survey will be to Agriculture and forestry will explain SUB to interested students. Grant pick up 640 votes to indicate inadequacies in health use this area for field work. Boylan's 324. services on Canadian campuses. Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Wednesday, February 16, 1966 NO US. REP. Viet Nam viewed at CUS seminar By ANGUS RICKER The North Vietnamese beat the Americans to the UBC conference table Tuesday. A Canadian Union of Stu dents seminar on Viet Nam provided a one sided view of the Vietnamese war before 150 UBC students at Brock Hall. The North Viet Nam view point was represented by Rae Murphy, editor of Scan, a To ronto based leftist monthly. Murphy visited North Viet Nam for three weeks in Nov ember. The United States was not represented. CUS spokesman Daphne Kelgard said her at tempts to invite a speaker re presenting the American gov ernment were frustrated by the — powell hargrave photo American consulate in Vancou PLAYERS HOTSON, MACDONALD, ROBINSON, HARRISON ver. squiring wth protzen Miss Kelgard said, "The con sulate informed CUS that only RAE MURHPY the president and the secretary ... it's a mistake SQUIRES NOT FOR SQUARES of state-could speak on Ameri can policy in Viet Nam. Describing the results of Am "The explanation given was erican bombing of North Viet that events are changing so Nam from his observations dur Students play with sticks quickly in Viet Nam that other ing the tour, Murphy said it gover nment representatives was "a little careless." By ANNE BALF years ago and introduced it proval. cannot foe certain they are "The bulk of the bombing Squires has come to Brock. to his friends. "It's more intellectually wholly accurate," she said. is on communication points Four UBC students were Now a UBC Squires So stimulating than chess and Murhy said it was a mistake and factories. However, we discovered playing the game ciety is being formed to pro more absorbing than bridge," to present the Vietnamese war were shown bombed out hospi of squires Tuesday in South mote interest in the game at said Macdonald. as an east-west ideological tals, schools and apartment Brock cafeteria. UBC. The game is played with struggle. buildings," he said. One of the four, Ian Mac The society will present small sticks called protzen. "This misses the point in un "War will continue until donald, arts IV, learned the its constiution to the AMS If you don't have protzen derdeveloped nations. National some agreement is reached re game in Germany three meeting Feb. 21 for ap- you can use toothpicks or liberation movements are not garding the withdrawal of Am coffee stirrers. always Communist tout they do erican troops and the 1954 LETTER SENT The sticks are arranged in have common aims with regard Geneva Agreement is im some agreed geometrical pat to independence, land reforms plemented." tern and moved according to and industrialization. Murphy warned that unless the rules until one player "American foreign policy has a settlmenet was reached in succeeds in completing a yet to deal with any of these Viet Nam there would be a AMS fights ban closing formation. movements effectively." third World War. Points are given in the game for parallel forma on booze permits tions, diagonals, suspended diagonals, distensions, (sep By DOUG HALVERSON arated formations), protru Ubyssey Council Reporter sions, and the closing forma The AMS is continuing its fight for the repeal of Van tion itself. couver deputy chief constable John Fisk's liquor permit The embryo society is al restrictions on parties. ready planning a tournament The dean is actually held re for March 10 in Brock Fisk announced Feb. 3 that sponsible for taking the lic lounge. licences for liquor at student ences out. functions would have to be Stevenson said the police Teams ifrom SFA and Vic taken out by faculty members. want the assurance that lic toria College have already UBC president John Mac ences are not for stags.