.wui rotiiTcnww * i <r 1 * ** i ** ., * **t** • i , * rf * * tar » *n ^ *s* *l »M * i *qr * *• <?S mm mr * « 8 * "« ««3 « * * *# |Mlt *w *? • * ' »• # • x-m 4 #W B* *3 *BF r *! •» ifttt »t» ^**Jb&WiSf*™ urn* |fl - BiKiiliir ^F *uz ^MrfMm*w%& •^ **«* r » ffiiffi'-^jffjfre «*-* smuiiHKi ^»^M| *i# --'•jjpfejr ** „iT\ AUCC asks •s -^..^arisss*8 cost-sharing i|^*JM 8* ijffpSSSiP*' extension The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) has called Contractor has started excavating new UBC swimming hole for a two-year extension of the current cost-sharing arrangements between the federal and provincial governments for Pool fund drive begins the financing of universities. In a brief presented last week to UBC faculty and staff are being In addition to the on-campus Prime Minister Trudeau, with copies asked to join students in support of drive for funds, donations are being delivered the same day to each the new indoor swimming pool now sought from corporations, provincial premier, AUCC called for being built just south of the foundations, University graduates development of a Canadian policy for Student Union Building. and Vancouver residents who live universities. Doug Aldridge, chairman of the west of Granville Street. It urged consultations between the aquatic centre fund drive, said Aldridge said over-all target of notices have gone out to faculty, federal government, the provincial the fund-raising campaign is $1.3 seeking pledges over a five-year governments and the universities and million, exclusive of the amount period. A campaign seeking support indicated its willingness to initiate pledged by the students and the from staff will be held later this them. University. spring. AUCC contends that a major Students already have pledged Water area of the new pool will shortcoming of the Fiscal 5925,000 toward the S4.7-million be in four sections, so that a Arrangements Act, under which the cost of the pool, through a S5 number of activities ma/ be held at federal government has provided impost on AMS fees. The the same time. financial assistance indirectly to University has contributed an equal Tentative opening date for the universities since 1967, is that it has amount. pool is August of next year. led to a regionalization of Canada's universities. AUCC urges the identification of centres and programs of excellence, noting that in many UBC Board hears briefs fields a large number of institutions There was almost 100 per cent territory' ... and the deputy minister with small mediocre programs is a attendance at the Board of Governors of ... lands, forests and water poor substitute for one or two special open meeting Jan. 15 — by the resources, the only governmental institutions with first-rate programs. Board members. The audience, which entity directly available to us." Although education, under the included reporters, observers and those "Because there is no organized British North America Act, is a presenting briefs, numbered 19. body," said Peggy Bloom, the provincial responsibility, the federal Three briefs had been submitted to spokesman for the proposed government has been involved in the Board before the meeting, but the federation, "citizens must go from one financial aid since 1951, when it made first brief, requesting that the organization to another." a direct grant to each university based on provincial population, at a rate of Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre be Since the federation-proposal 50 cents per person. open for public skating Sunday nights, committee had submitted the brief, was referred to the centre's they had been in touch with other In that year, this represented 12 per management committee when the concerned citizens and at Mrs. Bloom's cent of the universities' total operating author of the brief, Len Rhodes of the suggestion the brief was tabled "until costs, and equalled $7 million for all UBC electrical shop, did not appear at sometime in February" so that the universities in Canada. the Board meeting. committee would have time to gain In the final year under this system, The second brief was a proposal to ideas from these other citizens. The 1966-67, the per-capita grant was $5, form "a representative federation of committee's main area of concern is the total had risen to $99 million and all people who live, work and study on land use on the University Endowment represented 17 per cent of operating the University Endowment Lands in order to bring about a direct liaison Please turn to Paur- Please turn to Page Two between citizens in this 'unorganized SeeBRIF See FINANCING Briefs the federal payments for university wa~nts extended to March 31, 1979, costs in the year ended March 31, with the understanding that a Continued from Page One 1974 — the last fiscal year for which completely new policy for universities costs. statistics are available. be worked out before then. The Fiscal Arrangements Act, also The extremes were Alberta and AUCC delegations are visiting each known as the Pearson Formula, was British Columbia, with Alberta buying provincial premier this month to introduced by Lester Pearson for the the Cadillac. In total federal money discuss the association brief. The 1967-68 year and gave the provinces a for universities, Alberta received $93.9 meeting with Premier William Bennett choice of $15 per capita or 50 per cent million, B.C. $78.1 million. On a is scheduled for Jan. 30 in Victoria. of operating expenses. The money, per-capita basis, Alberta got $56, B.C. Accompanying AUCC president however, went to the provincial $35. Expressed as a per-capita figure Michael Oliver and AUCC executive governments, not to the universities. for residents in the 18-to-24 age director Claude Thibault will be Critics of the Pearson Formula, bracket, Alberta received $424, B.C. President Douglas Kenny of UBC, although conceding that it was a big $277. President Pauline Jewett of Simon improvement over the earlier system, It is this Pearson Formula, which Fraser and President Howard Petch of pointed out that it favored those expires March 31, 1977, that AUCC the University of Victoria. provinces that were themselves prepared to contribute more money to universities. Senator Henry Hicks of Nova THE MUSIC BOX Scotia put it this way in a Senate THURSDAY, JAN. 22 speech in 1973: 12:30p.m. FACULTY RECITAL. John Loban, violin; Robert Rogers, piano; and E ugene Wi Ison, cello, play Compositions of Wilson. "If you can get half the cost of a FRIDAY, JAN. 23 Cadillac provided by someone else but 8:00p.m. WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT. Loren Marsteller, director, with Music you cannot buy the Cadillac because of Hindemith, W. Schuman, Copland and Hoist, you cannot afford the other half, then MONDAY, JAN. 26 you do not get it. So the wealthiest 8:00p.m. GRADUATION RECITAL. Margaret Bluhm, clarinet, plays Music of provinces in Canada ... notably Brahms, Milhaud, Summers and Von Weber. Ontario and Alberta ... have received WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28 the greatest benefits ... while provinces 12:30p.m. BRUNSWICK STRING QUARTET play Music by Hindemith and that could only afford to buy a Smetana. Chevrolet, or some more modest educational vehicle not in the Cadillac . All performances held in Recital Hall, Music Building. class, have been able to draw down in support from Ottawa only half the cost of their reduced programs." The fact that some provinces have New deputy minis* been buying Cadillacs and others Chevrolets is demonstrated clearly in Prof. Walter Hardwick fully "the greatest jobs are in the class­ expects to return to the classroom room," and he adds, a little wist­ at UBC as a teacher after a stint in fully, "This coming year will be the Prizes total $400 the "suffering-servant" role as first once since I started my career Creative writing can be a rewarding B.C.'s deputy minister of education that I won't be teaching." business ... particularly if one's effort in Victoria. comes up a winner in the third annual He's so convinced that the class­ Walter Hardwick comes by his UBC Alumni Chronicle creative writing room is "where the action is in love of the classroom honestly; his contest. education" that he plans to com­ family has been well known in The competition is open to full- mute to UBC once a week for the educational circles in B.C. for and part-time UBC students. Prizes decades. totalling $400 will be divided among rest of this term to lecture to some the winners by the judges. 35 students enrolled in his fourth- His father, Walter Sr., is a former Unpublished original short stories year course in urban geography. principal in the Vancouver school or poetry to a maximum of 3,000 words This despite the fact that he'll be system; an uncle, Frank C. are eligible. Two copies of each entry on unpaid leave of absence from Hardwick, is a former member of should be submitted and only one UBC. The only thing he'll be able UBC's education faculty; and an­ entry by each student is allowed. to claim is out-of-pocket expenses. other uncle, William Hyndman, is a Jan. 31 is the deadline for entries. "Administrative jobs," Dr. former director of instruction for Send them to Alumni Association head­ Hardwick told UBC Reports, "are the Vancouver School Board. quarters, Cecil Green Park, 6251 N.W. what I call the 'suffering-servant' Marine Drive, Vancouver V6T 1A6. Walter Hardwick's brother, David, role. They've lost the glamor and is head of the Division of Paediatric The winning entries become the prestige of the past. property of the association and will be Pathology in UBC's Faculty of considered for publication in the "I would hope to see within the Medicine.