Livingstone/ Harwood First Candidates In Race First definite announcement of candidacy in the forth­ TfoWifitm coming AMS elections to be held February 5 was made yes­ VOL. XXLX VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16,1947. No. 35 terday by Grant Livingstone and Bob Harwood. Committee They will be candidates for the offices of president and treasurer, respectively, of the Alma Mater Society. Revises In a statement accompanyinaccompanyingg ' F0R TREASURER his candidacy Livingstone, presi­ Denying rumours that he would dent of the UBC branch of the run for president of the council, Canadian Legion, said, "Several Harwood, Junior Member of this Poll Laws representative students on the year's AMS, made this statement campus have expressed the wish President of the LSE will be to The Ubyssey. that I stand for the presidency of elected in future by the whole "I have been asked to comment student body rather than by Liter­ the Alma Mater Society. I deeply appreciate the honor of their con­ on recent rumours that I would ary and Scientific Executive mem­ follow the precedent established bers only, announced Joy Done­ fidence. IMPORTANT YEAR by previous Junior Members and gani, AMS secretary Tuesday. be a candidate for Student Presi­ He went on to say that the com­ AMS Election Committee made dent in the forthcoming AMS elec­ ing year will be a great and cri­ this decision Tuesday because it tions. tical one. It is, one in which a was felt that as the president voted large scale program of student ini­ "In my opinion, the administra­ on matters affecting all students, tion of student affairs, when so his previous election was not suf­ tiative, leadership and effort will many students are older than in ficiently representative. play an outstanding part. "It is my sincere hope that the normal years, can better be hand­ —Players' Photos by Danny Wallace Rules regarding publicity posters splendid work of last year's coun­ led by Grant Livingstone who has for election candidates were re­ Whitehead Paints Joan Powell cil can be continued and will be been drafted as a presidential can­ vised at the meeting. Candidates carried to further achievements. didate, I feel I can best serve will be allowed five large (21 x 28) With the active support of all the next year's Council as Treasurer, and three small (21 x 14) posters. students this will be possible," he bringing to that office continuity Players Cfub Rehearsals Other officers are permitted five stated. fromy this year's Council." small size posters. A section at the north end of the Armory will be Underway For Festival allocated for purposes of election publicity. McGoun Debaters Vie Final rehearsals are underway for the Player's Club pro­ STATEMENTS duction "Solomon's Folly" to be presented at the second The Election Committee recom­ annual inter-varsity drama festival Thursday, Friday and mended that statements by candi­ For Western Supremacy Saturday night in the UBC auditorium. The entry will be in dates be published in the Tuesday By JACK WASSERMAN edition of The Ubyssey and that competition with plays presented by the Universities of Al­ those by seconders of candidates Tomorrow night representatives of the four western uni­ berta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. appear on Saturday. In the past, versities, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and ————————————— ^e festival this year will high- announcements which appeared in Manitoba, meet to determine the winner of the McGoun Cup, light both comedy and drama. The the Saturday Ubyssey were found symbolic of Western Canadian collegiate Debating Su­ dramas include the University of Robin Little, Carol Aitkens, Lois Shaw, Paint to reach a smaller proportion of Fra'ts Given Manitoba's presentation of Mar- students than those in other issues. premacy. jorie Pickthall's "The Woodcarv- At home the UBC team of Rose­ Candidates for president and interfaculty debater and a past er's Wife", and an adaptation ot mary Hodgins and Jim Sutherland secretary will be allowed 150 words premier of the Tuxis Boys' Parlia­ the Bernard play "Martine" offer­ take on Bert Orr and Charles Fete Nights Dewar Code Revisals Put for their announcements, and their ment. Now in third year Arts he ed by the University of Alberta. Archibald of the University of seconders 100 words. The other is in charge of the interfaculty As a result of the drawing at offices are allocated 100 and 75 Saskatchewan in Brock Hall at The two comedies will be the debates. last Tuesday's Inter - Fraternity words respectively. Satements 8 p.m. The resolution is "Resolved University of Saskatchewan's entry Council meeting the following six which are more than five words that Allied troops be withdrawn Judges for the debates are Mrs. Shaw's "The Dark Lady of the To Test At Council Meet fraternities, Sigma Phi Delta, Phi over the limit will be returned to immediately from Greece and Sally Creighton, Arnold Webster Sonnets" and Sidney Box's "Solo­ Delta Theta, Psi Upsilon, Zeta Psi, First amendment and recommendations for further persons concerned for cutting down. and John E. Gibbard. mon's Folly" judged to be the best China." Zeta Beta Tau and Phi Kappa Pi amendments have been presented to Student Council and received of UBC's four Christmas Orr, second year Law student, Mrs. Creighton is a member of will go to the Mardi Gras on the PICTURES play.s USC by Ray Dewar, Chairman of the Revision Committee. is president of the Debating Di­ the Senate of the University of opening night, Thursday, January The amendment to the Discipline Article of the Code Pictures of all candidates, to­ rectorate and has been a member British Columbia and a lecturer in 23. Joan Powell, a first year student, gether with their platforms will of the Parliamentary Forum for the English Department. She is the has the feminine lead as the Queen divorces the disciplinary and the judicial elements of the The remainder of the fraterni­ be published in The Ubyssey's the past three years. In 1943 he was wife of Professor John H. Creigh­ of Sheba in the UBC production. USC, and sets up two separate committees for the respective ties, namely Delta Upsilon, Alpha Tuesday issue before the election. on the winning team in the inter­ ton of the Department of English Playing opposite her are Dick Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Sigma,' Phi functions. The committee decided to wait collegiate against Regina College. and the daughter of Mr. Justice Newman as Solomon and Arnold Gamma Delta, Beta Theta Pi, Under the Code as it has existed, and see what the USC sub-com­ Tony Scott, a member of last year's Denis Murphy former member of Watson as Sofar, Solomon's Scribe. the discipline committee member mittee had to propose on (1) Kappa Sigma and Tau Omega, UBC McGoun entry, describes him the Board of Governors. who charged a student with a supervision of voting and (2) place will attend on the second night, Tickets for the Festival will be as one of the finest student speak­ Mr. Webster is the principal of ISS Invites Clubs crime also served on the court, and manner of voting. It must ap­ Friday, January 24. on sale every noon hour in the ers • in western Canada. Grandview Highschool of Com­ and, in the eyes of many, the err­ prove the procedure of each candi­ A maximum of 500 couples each quad box office. Students' tick­ Archibald is veteran of six years merce and a member of the Parks ing member was convicted as soon date before any action is under­ evening has been set by the festi­ ets are fifty cents for Thursday Board. He has served as president To Noon Meeting as he was charged. taken. service with the armed forces, val icommittee so that fhe appoint­ night, January 16. All other tick­ Prior to this he taught school for of the provincial organization of All clubs on the campus inter­ The amendment, currently being ing of certain fraternities to each ets at seventy-five cents and one The executive will assign certain the CCF. ested in International Student Ser­ 10 years. He graduates this year dollar, are available at Kelly'e on enforced pending the final decis­ hours during which candidates can night was deemed necesary to in Arts with Honors in Education. A history teacher at Magee, Mr. Seymour, and from Player's Club vice have been invited to a meeting ion of the semi-annual AMS meet- be interviewed before elections avoid congestion. When the UBC team of Michael Gibbard, is the president of the members. to be held in Arts 104 at 12:30 p.m. ting, splits the USC into two sec­ commence. Campaigning will begin Tickets for the Mardi Gras ere Creal and Gordon Reed travel to Vancouver Branch of the United today. tions, the judicial and the disci­ at 8:30 a.m. on the Thursday which now on sale either in the Women's Winnipeg one of their opponents Nations Society. According to Dave Philip Evans, sophomore member plinary, and provides for a speedy follows closing of nominations. Two Executvie Room of Brock Hall or will be a holdover from last year's Williams, Parliamentary Forum of Student Council and the member trial by a single judge or, if re­ extra weeks of campaigning will the loby of the auditorium for $3 quested by the court, dependent or victorious Manitoba group which president, who announced the Council Pleads in charge of ISS on the campus, be provided by this new system. each (Dutch Treat). prosecutor, a trial by the judicial made a clean sweep of the con­ judges names yesterday, Mr.