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AT LAST, THEY'RE ALL GOWNED AND OU TIt took them several long years, but they mad e

it.They are the more than 3,500 students who will

get to shake hands with UBC chancellor JohnBuchanan at graduation ceremonies today throug hFriday .

Heading the list of graduates are 112 recipient sof doctorates. They include the six students inUBC's first graduating class in dentistry, who begantheir specialized training two years ago in the firs tdental school west of Saskatchewan .

Among the more than 50 special awards givenduring the ceremonies will be the Governor -General's gold medal for the head of the combine darts and science classes .

But university authorities will have to awar dthe medal in absentia—because winner John Ander-son won't be here to receive it.

"A graduation ceremony is not something Iwork towards," says Anderson .

"I just couldn't think of a reason to go ."

Anderson averaged 98 per cent in his psycholog ystudies this year .

Winner of a Rhodes scholarship is former inter -fraternity council president Rick French, who wil lstudy at Oxford University next year .

Other noteworthy grads include law class hea dArnold Abramson, last place finisher in a seven-man race for seats on UBC's senate last fall, an dformer engineering president Lynn Spraggs ..

Spraggs, a controversial campus figure who wa soften the subject of virulent attack by radical cam -pus elements, was in his eighth year at UBC . Hegraduates with a BASe . degree.

Long-time politico Mike Coleman will graduat eas a bachelor of law . Coleman this year was chair -man of the university clubs committee .

In past years, he has been president of the la wsociety and arts council, and a losing candidate fo rthe Alma Mater Society presidency .

His graduation marks the end of eight prolificyears of regular letters to Ubyssey editors .

Leaving the campus for Simon Fraser Univer -

sity's education course is activist Gabor Mate ,Ubyssey columnist who this year drew vituperativecriticism for his articles on the Arab-Israeli wa rand North American sexual mores .

Two former UBC faculty deans will receivehonorary degrees from the university at Thurs-day's ceremonies .

Dr . Blythe Eagles, former dean of agriculture ,and Dr . A. W. Matthews, former dean of pharmacy ,will receive D.Sc. degrees, along with geophysicis tand Antarctic explorer Sir Charles Wright .

Other honorary degrees :• Dr. Walter Gropius, architect and teacher ,

LL.D . ;• Dr. Hugh MacLennan, Canadian novelist ,

D .Litt . ;• Richard Wilson, University of Victoria chan-

cellor, LL .D . ;• P. A. Woodward, Vancouver merchant and

philanthropist . LL .D . ;• Dr . Adelaide Sinclair, deputy director of the

United Nations Children's Fund, LL .D .

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Vol. XLIX, Graduation Issue

VANCOUVER, B .C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1968

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"Health centreshould pay toreplace huts"

By PAUL KNO X

UBC's Alma Mater Society will ask the board of governor sto replace or relocate residence huts on Wesbrook Crescent, som eof which have been demolished to make way for the new health

sciences complex .Student council Monday passed a motion by grad student

president John Tilley requesting that the cost of the replacemen tbe borne by the health sicences complex .

Tilley said Tuesday he wants the board to replace the hut sbecause over 60 of them have been torn down since the comple xstarted .

He said 15 of the huts had been built aspermanent housing . (Wesbrook huts house dmarried students . )

"When a large division of the universitysuch as housing has to give up real estate t oanother division, there should be a transferof funds," Tilley said in an interview .

"The huts were making money for awhile," he said . "There was little overhead andmany students would prefer to live cheaply ina hut than pay higher rents living in a tower ."

ROHRINGER

UBC housing director Les Rohringer saidTuesday he is in agreement with the AMS proposal .

"We should have compensation for the loss of the huts i fthe health sciences centre is benefitting from having them tor ndown," Rohringer said .

He said while it is possible some of the huts could be move dto another part of the campus, they are not worth relocating .

Rohringer said the only source of revenue the housing ad -ministration has is rents paid by students .

"If the huts cannot be replaced using funds from the healthsciences complex, student rentals will have to pay for theirreplacement . "

However, UBC dean of medicine Dr . John McCreary saidTuesday night the health sciences complex cannot pay for hous-ing because it is financed with funds from the federal and pro-vincial governments .

"The money has been earmarked for medical research an deducation," he said . "The complex has no assets of its own . "

McCreary disputed Tilley's contention that the huts wer eintended to be permanent residences . He said the health sciencescomplex has been planned since 1923 and that the huts were onl ytemporary facilities .

Tilley could not be reached late Tuesday night for com-ments on McCreary's statements .

Meanwhile, plans are going ahead to demolish the last ofthe huts remaining in the health science area .

Rohringer said all tenants will be out of Wesbrook Villaat Wesbrook and Agronomy Rd. by Friday . He said demolitio nof the huts will start next week .

The space will be used as an outdoor therapeutic area fo rpatients in the complex's psychiatric unit, slated to open i nSeptember .

It was earlier thought that the huts might remain standin gTo Page 2

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MONUMENT TO ONE MAN'S interest in higher education, the Leon Ladner bell tower take sshape in a corner of the library lawn . Costing $160,000, it is to be finished by September .Its chimes will sound hourly .

Architecture course chang efollows student class boycott s

students were unprepared and there was repeti-tion in courses .

Architecture head Henry 'lder was sym-pathetic to student demands . :,.k .he time of theboycott, Elder said it was an ex .remely health ything.

"It's the growth of the system, not the col-lapse," he said .

Elder, professional engineers and architect sand two students were members of a nine-ma ncommittee set up to investigate the grievances .The committee's recommendations on reorganiza-tion were passed by senate last week .

Professors allowed students carry out indivi-dual projects instead of completing the courses .They were graded on the projects rather thanon written exams .

Students in first-year architecture began aboycott of classes March 1 to try to force changes .

Main grievances centred around a lack ofintegration, relevance and opportunity for choic ein courses .

Students also complained that professors and

As a result of a student boycott of classes ,42 first-year architecture students have achievedwide reforms in course content .

At its meeting last Wednesday, the UBCsenate approved reorganization of studies in eachof the school of architecture's three years .

The re-organized areas are : architectural his-tory, philosophy and theory ; architectural designand experiment and architectural science andtechnology .

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UBC senate May 22 approved a proposal b ye committee of Arts I students led by Davi d' ;harp to initiate a nine-unit program next yea remiiar to this year's Arts I .

The student committee's plan was containeda senate new programs committee repor t

whose recommendations were adopted by th eBerate .

Arts II is approved only for the 1968-6 9academic year . It will be evaluated by the com-mittee that reported on Arts I . Well before theend of the academic year it will be brought be-fore a committee for thorough study, the senat eannounced .

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after the tenants were evicted and be used a soffice space by the B .C . Medical Research Insti-tute .

However, in the face of criticism from th egrad student association, this plan was dropped .

AMS president Dave Zirnhelt said Tuesdayhe will send a letter to Rohringer asking himto bring the AMS motion to the attention of th eboard of governors before the next board meet-ing June 26 .

In other housing news, a long-range housin gcommittee which met Tuesday voted to ask th eboard of governors to appoint a clients' com-mittee to oversee the development of step 2 o fthe Acadia Park married student residenc ecomplex .

This will be a duplicate of the existingAcadia Park tower, which has about 100 suites .

Included on the proposed committee will be :Rohringer ; a UBC accountant ; dean of womenHelen McCrae; newly-appointed assistant physi-cal plant director R . H. Slipper; and two stu-dents, including a married woman, to be appoint-ed on the recommendation of student council .

AMS vice-president Carey Linde suggeste dTuesday that UBC civil engineering and archi-tecture students submit a tender for the con-struction of the Acadia tower .

"The students could work for less than nor-mal wages to get the tower built," Linda said ."They might even want to work for longe rhours . "

Linde said that by submitting a tender thatwas far lower than those of private companies,the engineers and architects could be assured ofsecuring the contract .

"University officials wouldn't be able t ocriticize the quality of the work, either," Lind esaid .

"If they did, they'd also be criticizing th eteaching ability of their own faculty ."

and instructor in Arts I, was named adviser t othe senate on Arts II .

The theme of the new program will be "th ecity", Ross said .

Twenty students from Arts I will be chosenfor Arts II .

Also during the Wednesday meeting, senatorsagreed to have the committee on admissions ex -amine this year's failure rates to determine th esuccess of its predictions and the effectiveness o fcompulsory counselling for failing students .

Senate also received the 12-page report ofthe committee on the role and organization ofthe senate .

The result of a year and a half's work, thereport proposed major reorganization of thesenate .

Four of its committees should be reconstitute das president's committees, it said . Three other sshould be amalgamated and four should beadded .

Among those proposed to be added was oneon academic implications, but senators voted toeliminate it from the report because, they said ,its existence would be only one more barrierbetween the faculty and the senate.

Another proposal in the report, to requir eevery department and faculty to evaluate it sintentions and to prepare a five-year statementof objectives which later could be compared withits achievements, came under lengthy debate ,but passed .

In considering two applications for newnames, senate approved the reclassification o fthe faculty of agriculture into that of agriculturalsciences. The new name is a more apt descriptionof the faculty activities, senate said .

The school of home economics, however, hadits bid to become known as the school of humannutrition and family sciences deferred .

In advising the senate of this action the newprograms committee said that although it wa ssatisfied that a change of name is desirable, itdoes not favor the proposed name .

'Issue is alive 'The issue of an open senate is not dead, Alma

Mater Society vice-president Carey Linde saidin a report to student council Monday .

Linde said arguments for and against an opengallery had been adequately presented in student-administration discussions in January and Febru-ary, but it remained for the new council to ai rits views .

"Three segments of the university communitystand to gain from an open senate policy — thestudents, the faculty and the senate," the reportread .

Linde said allowing the student to watch thesenate in action would enable him to identifywith one university process .

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'EDUCATION MUST B EA POLITICAL ISSUE 'The Alma Mater Society should make education an issue

and promote educational needs politically, AMS president Dav eZirnhelt said Monday .

"Higher education does not get enough money," he said . "Itmust enter provincial politics and become a pressure group . Theultimate weapon may be the strike . "

A tentative budget surplus of five per cent will be set asid eat the end of the year to be used in promoting the cause o fhigher education, he said.

A plan for this was outlined in former AMS treasurer Dav eHoye's mid-year report on the accepted budget, he said . .

"This might be about $10,000," Zirnhelt said ."We are intending to form a common front involving SFU ,

UVic, Notre Dame and any other establishment of higher educa-tion in the province to defeat the Socreds on educational policy,whether we act through BCAS or as united councils . We mustthink more of ourselves on the basis of students as citizens . "

The Canadian Union of Students can be an effective politica lgroup, he said .

"But I don't see CUS becoming a vanguard of any studen tmovement. CUS should be the representative of Canadian studentsand should remain responsible to its constituents . "

—lawrencewood dPRAISE BE to the Lord God Almighty. Baccalaureate church service held Tuesday

forfor this

Board approves bud getyear's graduates drew 150 worshippers . Highlight was a rendition of Psalm and Glori aPatri led by eminent UBC director of ceremonies Sir Ouvrey Roberts . If nostalgia's your bag,

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• •the ceremony was the last official event to be held in the almost proverbial Brock lounge .

for building additionsA $1 million permanent addition to the biological science s

building highlights a supplementary funds budget approved Tues-day by the UBC board of governors .

A board announcement said the $1,340,000 budget wil lfinance renovations to some existing buildings as well as newconstruction .

The projects include conversion of laboratories in the chemis-try building to graduate research space, $21,000 ; conversion ofspace in the Wesbrook building to house a new electron micro -scope for the biochemistry department, $12,000 ; and conversionof three annexes for the department of mechanical engineering ,$10,000 .

Also, the program calls for the erection this summer of a$240,000 one-storey portable building to provide 14,000 squar efeet of additional space for departments now crowded in th ebiological sciences building.

Acting UBC president Walter Gage said plans have existe dfor several years for a three-wing addition to accomodate th ezoology and botany department and the Institute of Fisheriesand Oceanography .

"We have not been able to proceed with this project becauseof the shortage of capital funds," Gage said. "By erecting a port -able building we will give some immediate relief to these de-partments, and by beginning construction of one of the threepermanent wings we can at least make a start on a long-rangesolution of their problems . "

Also Tuesday, the board announced that the student loung eand cafeteria in Brock, when the Student Union Building opensin the fall, will be used to provide undergraduate study space fo r300 students .

AMS plans election confrontationStudent council Monday night voted to sup -

port an Alma Mater Society financed confronta-tion with Canada's three political leaders whenthey campaign in the Vancouver area .

Council vice-president Carey Linde proposedthe idea after seeing its effectiveness in Winni-peg recently .

During a Canadian Union of Students seminarin Winnipeg, delegates made signs and wentearly to political gatherings where Conservativ eleader Robert Stanfield and Prime Minister Tru-deau were to speak.

Carrying signs reading "50 to 1 He saysNothing" and, in French, "More Federal Dollar sfor Education" more than 100 CUS delegatesargued with people attending the rallies an dforced the political leaders to answer questionson the Carter taxation report, education, andother issues .

Council voted to pay the costs of placardsand renting one bus to carry student councillorsand interested students to upcoming politicalrallies where Stanfield, Trudeau and NDP leade rTommy Douglas will speak .

Stanfield is coming to Vancouver June 12 .Trudeau will make a two-day visit June 2 and 3to Victoria and interior of B .C .

Earlier in the meeting, councillors plunged

into informal discussion about the function o fa student government.

Representatives from the forestry and phar-macy faculties said they could think of little th eAlma Mater Society does for them .

"The only thing the AMS means to us is thatwe have to get permission from it to do thingswe want to," said the pharmacy representative .

But the tone of the discussion to some visitor sseemed to be that the student government canbecome more meaningful if it becomes morepolitical.

AMS president Dave Zirnhelt has advocateda student government elected on a political partybasis .

Pulleyblank to head Asian studiesA world-renowed scholar in Chinese histor y

and linguistics has been named head of UBC' sAsian studies department .

Edwin Pulleyblank succeeds William Hol-land, who resigned as department head lastwinter to devote his time to research andteaching .

Pulleyblank is a former head of the Chinesedepartment at Cambridge University in Eng-land. He joined the UBC Asian studies depart-ment in 1966.

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CHURLS BEFORE THE DIVIN EFollowing are passages from the Chancellor's

Address by John M. Buchanan. The insight intothe reality of a university education by the speaker

is self-evident.

My second year as Chancellor of this rapidl ygrowing university, has been challenging and re-warding. Of course, as in many universities on thi scontinent and elsewhere the uneasy winds of ou rtime have caught our sails and buffeted us aboutoccasionally .

On three successive days, we on this dais wil llook into a sea of youthful faces, each reflectingindividuality of soul, mind and body. Each has com-pleted a course of study with merit. From the samecourse different students extract different value saccording to ability, purpose and outlook .

Today, by a simple phrase, "I admit you", an dby a gentle tap on the head, each of you is changed ,as it were, in the twinkling of an eye from a studen tto a graduate. A cynic can scoff at the ritual andsymbolism of such a ceremony, as he can at manyother cherished traditions — the ceremonial raisin gand lowering of our flag, the opening and pro -roguing of Parliament. and the ceremonial tributeshonouring the dead on Remembrance Day. Butthe cynic is eternally wrong and cyniscism itself i snegative and destructive. Wise men cherish their

traditions, which are to life what music is to song.We are all enriched by them.

Each of you stands at a new gateway — topost-graduate work, to business, to industry, or t otravel . It is primarily upon people that the futureof Canada depends. These people in terms of thenext 50 years are the graduates of our universitiesand our high schools of today .

One cause of general unrest is the rapid chang ein society, to which adjustment is difficult, forparents and students alike . The student's desir efor involvement in all areas of university life isapparent and we must endeavour to understandsuch concern . Student involvement, to me at least,is better than indifference, and we must be receptiveto their suggestions and ideas. We must be careful ,however, not to tear down fences to tinker with newideas before we understand why the fences werebuilt .

We cannot afford to be indifferent to the enor-mous task of reconciling freedom with discipline.It is obvious that freedom, divorced from discipline ,is anarchy ; and discipline without freedom is ruth-less regimentation. Freedom must units to enactjust, respect-commanding laws, backed with sanctionsstrong enough to deter the lawlessness . Let me urgeyou as graduates to throw your full support to thetask of preserving for yourselves and your childrenthe priceless blessing of disciplined freedom .

THE UPlUllPublished Tuesdays, Thursdays and. Fridays throughout the university yea rby the Alma Mater Society of the University of B .C . Editorial opinions arethose • of the editor and not of the AMS or the university . Member,Canadian University Press . The Ubyssey subscribes to the press servicesof Pacific Student Press, of which it is founding member, and Undergroun dPress Syndicate. Authorized second , class mail by Post Office Department ,Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash . The Ubyssey publishes PageFriday, a weekly commentary and review. City editor, 224-3916. Othercalls, 224-3242 : editor, local 25 ; photo, Page Friday, loc. 24; sports, loc.23; advertising, loc. 26. Telex 04-5224.

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No carbon councilRecent student rioting in the U.S., in Germany, and

in France, among its local ramifications, throws intoperspective a change of a less violent sort now simmer-in at UBC . The change so far is peaceful, and will pro-bably remain so, but it is nonetheless dramatic .

For the first time in memory, intensely vocal forceson student council are shaking situations like academicpop bottles to make complaints fizz on faculty and ad-ministration members .

Largely generating this enthusiasm are members o fthe council executive .

Most of these have been hired by the Alma Mate rSociety for varying fulltime periods ranging from si xweeks to the whole summer to co-ordinate and preparefor implementation of their aims during the fall .

Typical of the new viewpoint they bring to respon-sive council collegues was a prompt and unanimouscensure council gave this week to administrative bodiessuspected of misrepresenting plans about housing hutson Wesbrook Cresecent . Realizing that many membersof the administration are cynical about the responsibilit yof students, the sensitive advocates of student respon-sibility are proving themselves by making repeated visit sto administration to convince them .

And it's working. When full-time university staffemployees realize that the young men and women con-fronting them with logical and legitimate complaint swill be persistant, the student leaders become recognized .

This tone of outspoken reminders of students' rightsand handicaps is spreading beyond the campus . Aware-ness that the AMS is not a bureaucratic body, but rathe ra potential weapon and loudspeaker for students, marksthe new council swing.

Cheers, gradsWell, ya done it.Congrats .Again .

Staggering stupidly, staunch stalwarts

struggled strenously. To wit, this paper .

What's more, the nitty gritty are th e

people . Such as, Lawrence Woodd, wh o

photogged about, as it were, taking pic-

tures . In addition, Mary Ussner, who

did things like interview and talk andwrite and so on, which, to be sure ,made things easier all round . And no t

to be outdone, Leo Tolstoy, who didn' tgraduate, but who cares . Godfrey trip-ped out, which means, he fell whileleaving the office . But most, lest weforget, Ann Arky, who visited more thistime than ever before and, furthermore,frittered around . But wait, Hilda came ,

the circumstances surrounding whichwe will not discuss. Finally, the others,who are foisting themselves on the bigcity rags as intelligent and learne dpeople . That's it, so keep a stiff .

EDITOR: Stuart Gra y

Managing Mtke Jessen

News Boni Lee

City Stephen Jackson

Associate Susan Gransby

Wire Paul Knox

Photo Fred Cawsey

Sports John Twigg

Ass't . City Mike Finlay

Page Friday Andrew Horvat

Calm UBC could blow in two year sBy CAREY LINDE

For 10 days this month, representatives from nearly 40Canadian universities met in Winnipeg for a Canadian Unionof Students seminar . The 250 student leaders met to considerone topic: Education in Society, Rhetoric vs Reality . The rhetoricis the worn out phrase : "broadening horizons while searchingfor truth amidst a community of scholars ." The reality of educationin this country is now a system of "degree-mill institutions whichserve the vocational and manpower needs of the society . "

There was soon general agreement among the participantsthat no longer educational institutions remain, but instead trainingareas managed by the corporate elite, who run everything elsein the country as well ; so the seminar quickly focused its atten-tion on the crucial need to bring about the educational revolution .Such a revolution is intrically wrapped up in a general chang ein all of society .

While we were in Winnipeg, both main party leaders, Stan-field and Trudeau, came to town . The participants in the semina rtook buses to the rallies and there confronted the leaders wit ha large demonstration of signs and demands . We recognized thatthe political process in this country, while perhaps not ye tcorrupt, has become involved in advertising techniques, in tha tit is clearly a matter of games and personalities, and no clea rissues . The two main rallies were thus disrupted, and the leader sforced to either give up completely (Stanfield) or face us an danswer our specific questions (Trudeau) .

Under pressure, the Prime Minister said he was against im-plementing the Carter Commission, something students wan tHe was against lowering the voting age to 18, despite his totall yfalse appeal to the youth . (He his since publicly consideredchanging his view on this point .)

Before the 10 days were up, the need for immediate actio non the whole problem of schools and universities was recognize dby most seminar participants. They decided that society and itsinstitutions are so authoritarian and undemocratic, a major changemust come if universities are going to return to the function ofeducating . Tapes of Rudi Dutschke were played, as well as a

series of tapes of the Columbia student demonstrations, brough tby people just up from New York .

France, West Germany and Czechoslovakia are showing th eworld's students the logical result of educational systems tha tare undemocratic and authoritarian . The CUS students concludedthat the University of Toronto, the biggest multiuniversity i nCanada, would sooner or later come to this bursting point . Theirconcensus was that is would be sooner rather than later .

As for UBC, this great hunk of concrete and cubicles, wher estudents are incredibly bored and where administration, faculty ,and student government still thinks in terms of offerign morecoffee machines and incidental services to solve the problem ,well . . . all eyes are on us . It amazed me to realize how awarethe rest of Canada is of the fast that Bennett has virtually afascist government in this province. The executive position ofGordon Shrum on B .C. Hydro and his SFU Chancellorship i svery well understood by eastern campuses, and is regarded as th emost blatant example of the corporate elite putting the screw son education . Eastern Canada cannot believe that the studentsof this province could just sit by and see one man hold th eportfolio of education and labor . The fact that Peterson, afterthis week's changes, now haw law and labor, is an even mor efrightening example of where the society is heading .

What of UBC's future? Events that have occured in th eworld in the past month . and the events that most likely willoccur this summer mean that student awareness of himself a snigger on campus will increase . Greater demands will be madefor a meaningful role in bringing education back to the university .

Students must be given a complete and total capacity inmaking the decisions that affect them on this campus . Facultymembers must wake up to their immense social responsibilit yand stop hiding from facts of life in an attempt to hold on t otheir meal ticket . Student government must immediately sto pplaying around with side issues and face the fact that UBC i sa boring place, filled up by humans who don't want to be th eproducts in a degree mill . Otherwise, this campus will blowwithin two years.


THE UBYSSEY

HOW THIS GRADUATE SCREWED THE SYSTE MBy PERRIN LEWIS

Lewis, 31, is among the hundreds who get theirBA. from UBC today. He graduates with a high secondclass in economics, and has been granted a fellowshipin grad studies at the University of Wisconsin. Heswitched to arts from science after second year at UBC.

This, briefly, is how I screwed the system. Inevery one of my five years on campus there ha sbeen at least one course, often two, in which in-competent lecturers have forced me to do almos tall the work on my own. This has led me to mis snearly all the classes, from October until the en dof the year .

The many evenings that I have spent on cam -pus, with good intentions about working, oftendegenerated into long sessions in the coffee sho por were spent in the library browsing or readin gsomething more interesting than a tedious text-book. Yet I am graduating with a good secon dclass average and going on to a good Americangraduate school on a fellowship.

To be fair, the university system has not actual-ly treated me too badly. It has even put very few

obstacles in the way of me getting an education .Nobody made me come to any bad lectures (al-though I did waste an hour a week for three year sin language labs) and almost nobody insisted tha tessays be handed in on time . I had a library cardand could use it to read whatever I found inter-esting. That reading, wide and almost random ;an ability to write coherent essays ; and a certaincritical ability are the real products of my uni-versity education .

The main way in which the university did le tme down was by letting me drift aimlessly foralmost three years . I entered university as one ofmany students who had the physical sciences heav-ily emphasized in High school and who knew noth-ing of the other fields open to them. As a resultI started in first year science and only later dis-covered that I didn't really like chemistry andfound physics boring.

While I was lucky in having a good lecturerin an introductory course in economics, others ofmy friends were not so fortunate. One failedscience in his first year and after a second, equally

unsuccessful try drifted off to Vancouver City Col-lege to fail there. Another drifted, on a sea ofalcohol, from honours chemistry to a chemistrymajor to a general program and still hasn't gradu-ated .

These people reflect the appalling lack of direc-tion which afflicts so many undergraduates, es-pecially in their first and second years . With hugeclasses, often inaccessible professors and compan-ions who are equally dazed there is nowhere toturn. Except the UBC counselling office, if youdon't mind waiting a week. In my second year,when I was wavering between entering engineer-ing, going on in economics and dropping out, th ecounsellor to whom I talked had little to say ex-cept that one of his friends had graduated in eco-nomies and was now making $35,000 a year .

Perhaps Arts I, if continued and expanded, wil lgive first and second year students the sense o finte llectual dlirection that the often shallow surve ycourses now fail to provide. While a student isultimately responsible for hi.s own education, theuniversity system should not hinder it, as it doe sall too often at present.

Sympathy of unrest in the student revol tUBC assistant zoology prof. Robin Harger examines discontent

at the university in an article written with the aid of French teachin gassistants Virginia Harger and Marilyn Conley .

A university education : this phrase to a graduating hig hschool student holds more than his mind can comprehend . Hereat last he feels that what lies sleeping within him will b eawakened through contact with he knows not what ; sought forand discovered as the first professor topples under the weigh tof a responsibility too great for his shoulders.

The causes of disillusionment are many and varied . At firsta university strips from all who care to listen the patina of hom emorality, religion and attitudes . Ideals are then grasped at; butwho to run to? Without direction most begin to flounder . Often ,however, direction is provided by faculty members who hav ebeen torn apart by their own unrest . Confined by frustration

and poorly adapted abilities to the fringes of their professions ,they may take part in either stripping or worse in savagely re -directing lost souls into the activities of unrest .

The search for meaning is made even more difficult by th e"temper" of today. Within "the establishment" expediency i sthe catchword and integrity is a pale shadow reflected by con-stitutions already buried in the history of nations such is theUnited States of America . Since it is then not possible to trustthe leaders of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth ,how can many professors have something of value to contributethemselves? Most of what is said serves only to prop up some

fairly academic discipline from which a concern for people haslong been lost . Again the question—how can we possibly justif yinstitutions in a human society which do not have any relevanceor meaning to the human condition—presents itself ; and so unrest.

The form of the unrest varies according to the feelings o fthe participant.. Those driven to seek a better world withou tbenefit of a stable ideal use techniques of violent revolutio nand may only later realize that "things done before have noending" (Country Joe) . At this point the frantic bleatings of auniversity administration are put in the same category as th esolemn proclamations of government—no one listens .

A second group seizes such opportunities to relieve the pent -up frustrations of blindness to slash at authority in all its forms .A final few, concerned and considerate, act in accordance withhigher ideals.

What happens elsewhere? Most European universities offe rconditions which are, by contract to those in North America ,suffocating . To most of these students the open vistas of America nschools seem like freedom indeed, and yet, even in these sur-

roundings there is unrest . So in spite of a heavier social yokebut with much more to protest against, students there have atlast taken to the barricades. The sympathy of unrest seems tobe widespread indeed .

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Dr. Maxwell A. CameronMedal and Prize, $100, B. Ed . :Douglas Frederic Cole, Burn-aby .

Dr. Maxwell A. CameronMedal and Prize, $100, B .Ed . :Anthony W. Rogers, Vancou-ver .

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The Ruth Cameron Medalfor Librarianship, B .L .S . : AnnR. Wierum, Vancouver .

The Canadian Associatio nfor Health, Physical Educa-tion and Recreation Medal :Robert G. McGill, Vancouver .

Special University Prize ,$100, B.H.E. : Margaret Eliza-beth Howell, New Westmin-ster .

Special University Prize ,$100, M.S.W . : (Mrs.) NancyLee Stibbard, Vancouver .

Special University Prize ,$100, B.Mus . : Michael M.Longton, New Westminster .

Special University Prize ,$100, B.S .R . : Judith McDonaldCleaver, Kelowna .

The Rhodes Scholarship ,Richard D. French, Clover-dale .

AGRICULTUR E

The Dean Blythe EaglesMedal, Norma Jean Scott,Vancouver .

ARCHITECTUREThe Architectural Institute

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ARTS

The Ahepa Prize, $100 :Mary K. White, Vancouver .

British Columbia Psycholog-ical Association Gold Medal :John Robert Anderson, Van-couver .

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The David Bolocan andJean Bolocan Memorial Prize ,$25: Gregory John Lanning ,Vancouver .

The Canadian Associationof Geographers Book Prize :Douglas John Caruso, Vancou-ver.

The English Honours Med-al: Geraldine Sinclair, Van-couver.

The English Honours Prize ,$300 : Geraldine Sinclair, Van-couver.

Frank de Bruyn Memoria lPrize, $100 : Rosemary Eliza-beth Webber, Montrose .

French Government BronzeMedal: Ellen Janet Hunter,Vancouver.

The J. H. Stewart ReidMedal in Honours History:Harvey Chisick, Vancouver .

Prize of the Ambassador ofS w i t z e r l a n d : Marie-LuiseSchoenfeld, North Vancouver .

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The Anna Margaret Arm -strong Memorial Prize in Metal-

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The Letson Memorial Prize .$100 plus book prize : WilliamR. Clendenning, Vancouver .

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LIBRARIANSHIP

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The Hamber Scholarship i nMedicine, $750: John AllanCairns, Trail .

The Samuel and RebeccaNemetz Memorial Scholarship ,$200: Richard Owen Hooper,Vancouver .

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Bristol Award : David F.Donaghy, Vancouver .

Cunningham Prize in Phar-macy, $100 : Sylvia M. G. Wal-lace, Burnaby .

Poulenc Gold Medal : SylviaWallace, Burnaby .

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PUNY GRANTS STYMIE PLANS ,BUT LEAVE ENROLMENT OPEN

Thanks for the $53 million, Les, but it jus tain't enough .

Presidents of UBC, Simon Fraser Universityand the University of Victoria have all criticize dex-Socred education minister Les Peterson forwhat they called the paucity of the 1968-69operating grants, announced last Thursday .Peterson this week was suceeded by formermines and resources minister Donald Brothers .

UBC received $31 .2 million,SFU got 13 .5 million, and UVic$8.3 million — a general in-crease of about 18 per cent.

Acting UBC president DeanWalter Gage said Thursda yUBC's grant was $3 .1 millionless than the amount requested .

"Our reduced budget meansthat we will not be able toreduce the size of many classes. . . and we will not be able toupgrade . . . some of our obsolete facilities andequipment," he said .

Gage reassured students who last spring wer etold of a possible restriction on enrolment .

He said the $31 million grant will provide aplace for any B .C. student who qualifies under

the admission standards — a 60 per cent averageon provincial exams .

University of Victoria president Malcol mTaylor said lack of money will force the univer-sity to pack up its year-old nursing school an dpostpone the opening of a social welfare school ,slated to open this fall .

"I am at a total loss to understand why thediscrimination against the University of Victori aabout which we protested so vigorously last yearshould be repeated by the advisory committeethis year," Taylor said .

SFU president Patrick McTaggart-Cowan sai dThursday its operating grant is $2 .4 million shortof the $15 .7 million requested .

He said the lean budget will mean cuttin gback on funds allotted to the library and nothiring any new faculty members .

Peterson also named the members of the ne wadvisory committee on inter-university relation swhich is to integrate operations and reduce com-petitions and course duplication among the thre euniversities .

Deputy education minister Neil Perry headsthe committee with UBC board of governor mem-ber Richard M. Bibbs, head of industrial rela-tions at MacMillan Bloedel, representing UBC .

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Bargain services eyedfor campus residents

Student council Monday night took a step towards providin gstudents living on campus with low-cost services .

John Tilley, grad students representative, proposed settin gup a commissary, or low-cost store on campus .

Council referred his suggestion to a committee for study .

At present, about 800 students in university-owned housing ,rented suites in the endowment lands, and in fraternities buyfood and other items at off-campus stores .

By September, 1970 a further 1,200 students, residents in aplanned room-only housing project located behind SUB, will b eadded to that number.

Tilley suggested to council that it acquire the Acadia cam pdining hall, slated for demolition in December, as a location fo rthe store .

A saving in overhead would be obtained lby shorter busines shours tailored to local buying habits and by hiring students an dstudent wives at rates similar to UBC's rates for casual labor .

Other proposals for the subsidiary company to undertak einclude a low-cost day care scheme for married students withchildren and, once the day care centre and commissary are estab -lished, an AMS bookstore, vending machine service and som econcessions in SUB and the residences .

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PUTTING THE FINISHING crunch on fieldhouse removal, bulldozer clears way for SUB sit edevelopment . Tarpaper monstrosity was jacked up and arted off to the vicinity of C lot.Crush for books this September will occur in the armory .

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Board chairman, Mr. JusticeNathan Nemetz said the awardwill be first made in 1969 andcontinued for 10 years.

Gage will be succeeded Sat-urday by Dr. Kenneth Hare,who recently left his post asmaster of Birbeck College, theUniversity of London.

Conditions of the scholar-ship will be suggested b yGage, Nemetz said .

PANGO-PANGO QUNS) —Police to day broke up ad̀emonstration against allegedabsurd mating practices at theuniversity level by an estimated2,500 young blorgs.

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On the occasion of another Convocation at the University of Britis hColumbia, the Government of the Province of British Columbia offers if ssincere congratulations to our largest and oldest university .

On behalf of all the people of the Province the Governmen textends its particular good wishes to the graduating class of 1968 . Itsmembers enter their lifetime careers in an unseffled world which wil ldemand, as it has never demanded before, qualities of leadership an ddedicated service which alone will lead to higher levels of stability andreason . We are confident that the Class of '68 will provide those quali-ties in abundance .

The Government also congratulates the Board of Governors an dSenate, as well as the student body, on the appointment of the ne wpresident. Dr. Hare is a distinguished scholar, scientist, educator an dadministrator. His presence will enrich the University and indeed theProvince as a whole . The Government joins with the University in ex -tending to him, on the occasion of his installation on May 31, a war mand hearty welcome .

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given by Canadian novelist Hugh MacLennan today.

He is also at UBC to receive an honorary doctor o f

literature . MacLennan is a member of the facult y

at McGill University.

I shall speak now as a novelist who work s

with students, who literally swims in hundred s

of undergraduates . I share with them the

discontents they feel with the current society ,

but remembering two wars and the depression ,

I cannot really share their pessimism, though

often I can be pessimistic enough . The best of

them — there is no question at all about this —

have more maturity, originality and dedication

than many I remember in my time, even at Ox-

ford, though I can't say they have an equal

discipline .

What is brewing among them is not the froth

on the surface, nor can they be judged by thei r

extremely competent and highly trained agita-tors. There is something deep and mysteriou s

here, something pretty simple, I think, which i sthe yeast in the ferment . What they are rejectingis a concept of life I had never hoped to livelong enough to see rejected, but which I mysel fhave always rejected .

ECONOMISM IS THE CONCEPT TO BLAMEThis concept was perfectly expressed by tha t

cantakerous American thinker, Albert J . Nock ,some 25 years ago in his Memoirs of a Super-fluous Man . Nock lumped together the meaningof Russian and Western civilization in a singleword which he called "economism", and this hedefined specifically as "an ethic which reducesall the values of life to the production, distribu-tion and consumption of material goods, and themoving of large objects from place to place a tever-increasing speeds" .

Of such a society he wrote, "Economism canbuild a society which is rich, prosperous, power-ful, even one which has a reasonably widediffusion of material well-being . It cannot buildone which is lovely, one which has savor an ddvth, and which exercises the irresistible powerof attraction that loveliness wields . Perhaps bythe time economism has run its course, th esociety it has built may be tired of itself, boredby its own hideousness, and may despairinglyconsent to its own annihilation, aware that it i stoo ugly to be let live any longer . "

THE CURE IS LOVEAs the generation now emerging from univer-

sities, now studying in universities in number spreviously undreamed of, is the one which wil lsave the world or even may preside over its de-struction, I would say that its only chance ofsaving it is to admit a truer and better pictureof itself and of man's potential than many of it sspokesmen now profess .

Psychiatrists and child-trainers have beenasserting for years that the cure for nearlyeverything is love, but the old puritan ethic, orperhaps man's genius for discontent, is still abarrier to love, for the puritans condemned an yaspect of self-love .

In so doing they opened the gates unneces-sarily wide to an unnecessary degree of self-

Programs pop upUBC's Senate has approved new program s

for a master of arts degree in comparative liter-ature and a doctor of philosophy degree in busi-ness administration .

The comparative literature degree will re -quire students to take seminars and readin gcourses and write a thesis . Students accepted fo rthe course will be required to have fluency i none foreign language and a grasp of the rudi-ments of a second .

The business administration degree will offerspecialization in finance, marketing, and organ-izational behaviour.

contempt, which inevitably was projected intoaggression and hatred against others .

SELF-LOVE MUST COME FIRST

John Donne, for all his fascination with sinand fear of damnation, knew better than thi swhen he said, "Do ye first but love yourselves" ,

meaning that otherwise we cannot love our fel-lows . For surely it is only through a self-love,

and a true self-respect, that any man can releas ehimself into others, can forget himself, ca n

escape from one of the most hellish of prisons —

the self-regarding, self-obsessed, dissatisfied self .

In recent years my own profession has been

a horrible example of this vice . While fiction,

like any other art, is often a true reflection of

the times, it can also be a slavish follower o f

fashions, and if the novel is in trouble today, Ithink it clear that it is in trouble for much the

same reason as that which causes many individ-uals to be certified and committed to asylums .It has followed to a dead end this fashion o fbeing totally self-centered . It has confused thethe search for truth with sheer exhibitionism .It has reduced love to various repetitive exer-cises in mechanical engineering. With the acclaimof critics who should know better, it has aban-doned, or turned over to non-fiction writers, itstraditional role of occupying itself with humanbeings of personal value and with affairs of largeand general importance .

NEGATIVE SELF-ABASEMENT A FASHIO NIt seems to me that this current attitude o f

negative self-abasement is not much more tha na fashion, but this does not mean that it canno tbe lethal . It reminds me of that disastrous perio dat the end of the Roman Empire when it becam ethe fashion to execrate Socrates, to banish th esunshine of the classic Greeks, to wear hairshirts and cry mea maxima culpa . This is to yieldto the Death-Wish and to put Eros into prison ,to lock the door on him and throw away th ekey. If more people had been able to laugh inthe fourth century A.D., there might have beenno Dark Ages .

I began by saying that man is a fantasticcreature and in no way is he more so than in hi scapacity to persuade himself of anything . Toknow yourself, for example, does not mean in -variably to know how bad you are . Equally, i tcan mean to know how good you are, which of-ten is better than you think. To be confused fora time does not mean that we are doomed to b econfused forever .

WE LIVE IN A TRAGIC TIM E

Canada, for instance, is far less confusedright now than she was three or four years ago .While on the one hand we live in a period self-conscious in the Freudian sense, we live also inone where it is possible to recognize an objectiv epattern within history itself . We live in a tragictime, certainly . So did Shakespeare . But thereis not a single Shakespearean tragedy which doe snot end upon a note of -renewal . Megalomania ,egotism, and blind wickedness run their course sin Shakespeare, but a Fortinbras, a Montano, aMacDuff, or an Edgar — previously almost bit-players — enter at the end to restore sanity andrecover the state .

MORE WISH TO DO GOOD THAN EVI LIt has nearly always been like this with men ,

because it is the simple truth that however mixe dman's nature is, more people wish to do goo dthan evil . The generation now at college or leav-ing — of this there is no doubt — passion-ately desires the truth . But my own associationwith students in recent years makes me thinkthat far too many of them assume that a thin gcannot be true unless it is bad .

What matters, surely is our attitude towardthe truth, whether we search for it positively ornegatively . The university, which grew over th ecenturies from the Grove of Akademos and th eStoa Poikele, has in this regard a prime duty . Itmust be the guardian of The Word which St .John said was in the beginning and was withGod.

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