Prof. Erich Vogt Resigns to head TRIUMF Prof. Erich Vogt has resigned from his position asUBC’s vice-president for faculty and student affairs, effec- tive June 30, 1981. He will become director of the TRIUMFproject, thenuclear research facility located on the UBC campus, onJuly 1, 1981, after six months of studyleave at similar in- Expand, stallations in the United States and I Switzerland. TRIUMF is Canada’s largest new modernize venture in science in the last decade and is just now entering its most pro- ductive initial years. Dr. Vogt said the opportunity to head theproject is “one UBC-Ass’n of the mostchallenging and interes- The Asscciation of Professional ting to be given to a Canadian scien- Engineers of B.C. says facilities in tist _*’ UBC’s Faculty of AppliedScience Prof. Vogt’sresignation will result shouldbe“modernized and in a rearrangement of administrative expanded” to train more engineers. responsibilities in the President’s Of- And the association, which licenses fice at UBC. engineers to practise in B.C., says it is Vice-president Vogt’s duties as vice- notconvinced thatthe most cost- president for faculty affairs will be effective or desirable approach to in- transferred to theoffice of Prof. creasing the supply of engineers would MichaelShaw, whose title of vice- be the creation of a new engineering presidentfor academic development school at this time. hasbeen changed to vice-president, The association’s recommendations academic, and provost. for upgradingand expanding UBC Prof. Shaw will share responsibility facilities, aswell as for a stepped-up for faculty affairs with Prof. Robert campaign to attract more students in- Smith, whose title of associatevice- to engineering, have been forwarded president for academicdevelopment Tom Moore, production supervisor for film and video in UBC’s audio-visual hasbeen changed to associate vice- tothe UniversitiesCouncil of B.C., services department, was a big winner at the 16th Yorkton International Film which is currentlyconsidering pro- president, academic. posals from both Simon Fraser Univer- Festival in November. He won two Golden Sheaf Awards for a 22-minute color Also reporting to Vice-president entitled Cross Country,” which was judged the best sport and recrea- sity and the University of Victoria for film “Ski Shaw will be Prof. Peter Larkin, who tion film entered in the Canadian film festival. The second award was for the theestablishment of accredited was appointedassociate vice- best original musical score for the film.Moore’s next production, partof which president, research, inOctober. He engineering schools. will shot at UBC, is a film on the training of track and field coaches. Also in the handsof UCBC is a brief be chairs a newly establishedexecutive from the advocacycommittee of committee for research administration UBC’s AlumniAssociation, which and policy. polled 246 engineering firms in B.C. The rearrangement of duties in the to determine whether new engineer- President’sOffice also calls for the ing-training facilities were necessary. future appointment of a vice-provost The committee’s conclusion - the for student affairs, whowill also survey results do not indicate a great report to Vice-president Shaw . need foradditional engineering- PresidentKenny said hehad ac- training facilities. cepted Prof. Vogt’s resignation “with The APEBC report says that the greatest reluctance.” ultimately other engineering educa- Prof. Vogt,he said,“has made a tion facilities will be required in B.C. significant contribution to upgrading and makes a number of recommenda- the quality of teaching and research at tions for development of the “college UBC in his supportive role of aiding feederschool concept”under which faculties and departments in making students at SimonFraser University suitableappointments to the UBC and five community colleges can take faculty.” first-year science andfirst-year And as vice-president forstudent engineering before transferring to the affairs, Prof. Vogt had “been a very second year of engineering at UBC. effective catalyst for ensuring that stu- The APEBC proposes that initially dent services are well managedand UVic and Caledonia College in Prince What this mea-, in short, is we wgcr you to lan pur si>eakers responsive to theneeds of the Universi- George be added to the list of schools that we’re eliminating tht issue of and events in ax vance so they can ty community.” offering first-year engineering and UBCdendar which eurrmtly ap- be submitted in tfme hr our two- A member of the UBCphysics that subsequently colleges and univer- pears as a &#e &et in those week Wing. See the lead item on Continued on page 2 weeks when UBC Repmts ian’t page 4 of this issue for new Please turn to page 2 We’ve had make this deadlines. See ENGINEERING ttublished. to See RESIGNATION . .. Feasibility study for Acadia CampAI pondered UBC is carrying out preliminary in- families,” said Prof. Erich Vogt, vestigations with a view to mounting a UBC’s vice-president for faculty and formal feasibility study for develop- student affairs. There isalso a need ment of anintegrated housing for additional single- student housing package in the Acadia Camp area. close to the campus. “We have a housing problem that is “There’s also another growing particularly acute for students with dimension to the problem, and that is the difficulty in attracting to UBC bright young faculty members because Crane centre of high housing costs in the Vancouver area,” he said. “We also want to look at the idea of some kind of short-term ceremony set accommodation facility for campus A ceremony to markcompletion visitors from outside the city. of the $300,000 recording centre in “Thus what we will be looking at is theCrane Library for the blind a housing project which can help meet takes place in Brock Hall on Friday the needs of students with families, Symbolic book shelving ceremony is carried out in the reading room of the (Dec. 5) at 2 p.m. alleviatesingle-student housing Health Sciences Centre Hospital by hospital nursing director Shirley Mermet, The recording centre, which pressures, and provide somehousing left, and Sharon Young, president of the Health Sciences Student Association provides recorded tdlring boob for alternatives toyounger faculty and and a fourth-year dietetics student inHome Economics. Students raised $400 at the blind and print handicapped, staff members in their low-income’ prexhristmas skit night and turned itover to the campus hospital for the pur- now boasts nine recording ~~dios years. The fact that we already own chase of books and other material for the reading room used by students and and a variety of equipment for the land givesus the opportunity to faculty. editing and duplicating tapes. provide housing which is potentially Crane Library head Paul Thiele more attractive than the off-campus says the recording centre is now the housing market. largest in Canada and contains “A workable solution could make a Record numbers enrol equipment similar to that used in significant contribution to relieving the music recording industry. the chronic rental housing supply in More than 15 organizations have the City of Vancouver. contributed funds for the record- “We want to explore the feasibility for continuing education ing centre, which has been built in of establishing this kind of housing two stages. Contributors include combination at Acadia Camp. But a British Columbians have pushed centre offers a broadly-based, year- three foundations, the federal and feasibility study is just that - a registrations in continuing education round series of activities, including a provincial governments, andthe thorough examination of the needs, programs of the University of B.C. to free summer program forsenior 1977 and 1979 UBC graduating the economics - including the very record levels. citizens and certificate programs in ClasseS. real problems of financing - and the UBC’s annual report on continuing criminology and early childhood The latest gift to the library human factors involved. We don’t education shows that registrations ap- education. The centre’s fall and spr- came from the Variety Qub of want to get anyone’s hopes up for a proached the 100.000 mark in the ing non-credit program includes inter- B.C., which has provided $lO,OOO quick solution to our problems, but we 12-month period to Aug. 31, making national relations, personal growth to aid in the purchase of 18 addi- want them to know we are seriously the UBC program among the largest and development. creative arts, social tional units for high-speed cassette looking at the situation,” Prof. Vogt in North America. And much of the sciences andpre-retirement educa- duplication. The Kiwanis Club of said. activity took place far from UBC’s tion. He added that should such a project -yePmmt-~-~’-:~$8,000 for purchase the of smilar Point Grey campus. The centre sponsors lectures and appear feasible, it would be very im- Of the 94,421 continuing education programs across the province, and in equipment. portant to have it provide student registrations, 49,082 were for “off- the case of the summer program for housing whichwould rent at rates campus”programs - everything seniorsmakesit it easy for the comparable to those presentlycharged from animal nutrition in Vernonto ‘students’ to come to the UBC cam- RESIGNATION Continued from page 1 for existing Acadia Park units. dentistry in Cranbrook or trout pus. Some750 retired peopletook “We wouldalso want the area culture in Kamloops. part in the program this past summer, department since1965, Prof. Vogt developed in stages to ensure that ex- “This is a clear indication that the and they came from Victoria in the played an important role in the crea- isting residents would continue to en- University is serving its province-wide south, to Prince Rupert in the north tion of TRIUMF, a joint venture of joy comparable housing during the mandate,”said UBC President and Revelstoke in the east.