COME TO THE COME TO THE THE GAZETTE GAZETTE GAMBOL GAMBOL MO NDAY DALHOUSIE GAZETTE MONDAY NIGHT NIGHT America's Oldest College Paper Vol. LXXXII HALIFAX, N. S., FRTDAY, J ANUARY 20, 1950 No. 22 Council Committee Drafts Plans After Board Of Governors Executive Votes To iiJDiscOntinue Compulsory Year Book Levy The Executive of the Board of Governors of the Univer­ sity has decided to discontinue, as of now, the compulsory three-dollar contribution made by each undergraduate to­ Junior Class Holds wards the Yearbook. However, students will still pay the three-dollar fee in their graduating year. This year's levy Important Meeting will be retw·ned, according to the resolution, at the same time A meeting of the Junior Class as the caution deposits. was held in the basement of the The President of the University, Dr. A. E. Kerr, inform­ Arts building last Tuesday at 2 ed Student Council President Art Moreira of the Governors' noon. Andy MacKay, President of decision last Saturday, and it was considered on Tuesday by last year's Sophmore class, and a Council meeting originally called to make appointments to the staff of this year's Junior n~presentative tor Arts and Pha1·os. Science on the Students Council, Committee Appointed was in the ·chair. At its meeting the Council appointed a Committee to look into ways and means of publishing a Yeat·book in any case, although a About 35 Juniors turned up, $5000 budget had shrunk to between $1000 and $1500. The President which is quite good, considering and Vice4President of the Council were instructed to meet with the the numbers that usually appear at President of the University in the meantime as to whether or not the such a meeting. The main topic of Executive of th Board might be induced to change its mind, and to STERLING AREA STUDENTS. Here are four of the sterling area discussion was, whether or not a report back to the committee. The Committee met last night. bursary winners whose names were announced by the Dal ISS Com­ Junior Prom should be held. Due to the financial failure of last Committe .Meets mittee, Wednesday. They are from left to right: W. S. A. Signh, The Council's delegates reported to the Committee last night that Georgetown, Br. Guiana; Ronald Wills, Georgetown, Br. Guiana; M. year's effort it was decided to rule out a hotel danee. A committee they had been successful. They had been advised that the Board's de­ F. Johnson, Jamaica, B.W.I.; S. Tancoo, Trinidad. Not pictured are cision wa., for the time being anyway, finaL A Senate-Board Commit­ D. C. C. Pitt, St. Vincent, B.W.I., and H. Giraudy, Santa Lucia. consisting of Lucy Calp, Joyce Carney, Noel Goodridge and Ed tee had looked into the whole matter of the Dalhousie Yearbook, and Belliveau, was appointed to look had made the following recommendations to the Executive of the into the possibilities of holding a Board:-!. Undergraduates should not h:we to buy a Yearbook; A. and S., Med and Pre-med Students formal in the Gym. 2. Graduates, however, should be levied three dollars each; 3. Year­ books should from now on be less ambitious. The principal reason given This committee will bring a re­ was that voting in the student plebiscite held three years ago had in­ Win BursariesftGiven by I.S.S. port to the next meeting of the dicated no heavy majority of the students in favour of the three dol­ The Dalhousie committee of the International Students Junior Class which will be held lar levy, and that only an overwhelming majority of the student body this coming Tuesday (24th), at 12 ~hould be able to impo, e a compulsory levy on all students. Service has announced the winners of the Sterling area bur­ noon in the Arts building base­ Altentatives saries. Set up by the committee in an effort to compensate ment. Remember 51'er's, it's your Feeling that a majority of the graduating students, at least, fav­ students from £ areas for losses of approximately 20% of Class and your meeting, so it's up our the publication of a Yearbook, the committee decided that one their income through devaluation, the bursaries were won by to you to show some class spirit. should be prepared. The committee then had three alternatives to two medical students, two pre-med students and two students (and it'll be your Prom too!!!). in Arts and Science. consider: the first was a Yearbook to be financed by graduates' fees The two medical students are~•>----------------------------­ only-$1500 at the most. The advice of the experts was that this was W. S. A. Singh, Georgetown, Br. impossible, that a Yearbook simply could not be published for so little. Guiana; D. C. C. Pitt, Saint Vin­ The second alternative was a "Graduation Issue" of the Gazette but cent, B.W.I. Pl'e-medical student this plan was also "rejected on the ground that the Council could not winnNs are Ronald Wills, George­ ve~~ well expect tJ.tat graduates to pay three dollaJ'S for even a large town, Br. Guiana; 'M. F. Johnson, ed1t10n of the GAZETTE while the rest of the student body obtained it Jamaica, B.W.I. H. Giraudy of free of cost. · ~anla Lucia is the Arts winner and The last alternative, not an E>asy one in view of the Council's S. Tancoo of Trinidad the science straightened circumstances, was to publish a fairlv "'OOd Yearbook student winner. costing about $4000 or $5000, is. ue it to the graduate~, ;nd try to mak: The six bursaries will be given up the deficit (primarily to be paid out of the sinking fund) by . alE>;: from the pntire proceeds of a Tag to undergraduates. This latter scheme was adopted, and plans were Day held last fall by the committee drawn up to be ratified by the Council when it meets TuE>sda\'. with the assi>>tance of the girls Meanwhile, the Committee, acting under the powers givE'n .to it h\' from thE' Shirreff Hall residence. the Council, is proceeding with preliminary arrangements and >lE>lect·­ It is one of the objectives of the ing a staff. l.!:;.S. campus campaign this year The Committee has also decided to recommE>nd that studE>nts inter­ to maintain and if possible increase est~d in obtaining a copy of this year's PHAROS be asked to sign over the amount of the bursaries next t~en· three dollars to the Council. These recommendations will bE' con­ term. sidered by the Council on Tuesday night. The Council will also consider The bursary project is part of the President's written report on the circumstances which cau~ed the the revised policy of the Dal com­ delay in the publication of last year's PHAROS. mittee which is undertaking a ser­ In the meantime any student interested in poining the staff of the ies of on-campus p.rojects including Yearbook should apply in person at the PHAROS office in the Gym this year a:-; welt the DP scholar­ between 12.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday ship. of next week. In medicine much the same prob­ Muscat Essay Prize Students Complain lem exists. A fourth year med stu­ dent, it was learned, spends around 40 hours a week in lectures, labs Offered to Students Of Overwork and clinics. In addition to this The UniYersity has announced EDMONTON- CUP - Students around five or six hours are spent that there is to be an essay con­ at the university have no soft life. in travt:'lling between the university test opPn to all !<tudents registered A survey by the Gateway, shows and city hospitals to attend clinics. in thrE't> or more classes in the that a Rtudent at the university is Arts students seem to get a bet­ faculty of Arts and Science. A required to spend almost as much ter deal. Average number of prize, the value of which is $40.00, time at labs and lectures as the hours a week for the arts students is to be offered to the winner of average office employee is expect­ WOW!! is about 18. But one arts student this contest. ed to spend at work. And this pointed out that while the hours of This is the :\1uskat Memorial does not include the extra hours lectures were lighter in this course Essay Prize. The length of the _. ·oTICE N<YI'ICE that must be spent studying the than in any other, the adidtional essay !<hould be from 4,000 to 5,000 The , ·ewman Club will have a course. amount of reading made up for it. words. It should deal with any Communion Breakfast, Jan. 22 at Juniors Attention An investigation into the work subject of national or international 9:30 in the Club Rooms. As many Thet·e will be a meeting of the required for a fourth year chemis­ One agriculture student told the importance. members 11:> po. sible should come Junior Class on Tuesday, Jan. 24, try student shows that a total of Gateway hat he could spend all his This contest is only open to Dal­ becau e there will be a short but at 12 noon in the basement of the 45 hours a week was taken up by time on just a couple of courses out housi(• Students. important m tin after. Arts building. Important. labs and lectures. of the six he is taking.