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wages in the T vorablywith other recent public sector, the act has since been settlements at Canadian universities, rescinded), the settlement pennits ex- says Faculty Association President tension of career progress increments William Bruneau.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. one per cent overall budget increase in “We are nothappy with the direct the current year, are negotiating agree- interference of the provincial govem- ments of 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- Professor Emeritus 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- her work 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 Vancouver 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