By JAN NICOL Education minister Pa t McGeer

has said tuition fee increases for UBC students could be prevented if the university administration changes its budgetary methods.

In a letter to administration president Doug Kenny, McGeer also indicated he does not approve of the $2,400 salary increase given to Kenny and his four vice- presidents this year.

McGeer’sletter, delivered to The Ubyssey Thursday by his son Rick, is a response to a letter from Kenny opposing tuition fee in- creases and urging an adequate budget increase for UBC next year.

McGeer suggested the ad- ministration change its budgetary

methods by moving the start of the faculty contract year from July 1 to April 1. Because the government gives -UBC its operating budget .4pril1, it would then have enough funds to pay salaries without falling short during the April to July period, he indicates.

McGeer said: “. . .it is the ex-

pectation of the government and the department that each university will adjust its budgeting procedure to coincide with the government’s fiscal year.”

He goes on to say “the purpose is to avoid any contractual arrange- ments being made which assume

an increase in the flow of operating grants.”

Then, in capital letters, he said: “By following this procedure there should be no difficulty in holding student feesat their present level.”

“I would consider a fee increase unfortunate and I would urge you and your board to take all

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measures possible to prevent one,” he added.

The$7.5 million special. grant the government gave universities last year - UBC received $4.5 million - will not be renewed, McGeer said. The grant was given to the universities so they could pay faculty salaries not accounted for in their operating budgets.

McGeer said the grant was given to the universities on the condition that in the future “they would always know the size of the government grant in advance of contractual settlements with their faculty and staff.‘‘

But UBC bursar William White said Tuesday that without the $4.5 million grant next year, UBC will face serious constraints. “Dr. Kenny will have to look to other sources of revenue,“ he said.

McGeer also said: “That compensation received by senior administrative officials in all our universities is higher than that received by the premier, the membersof thecabinet, and senior provincial civil servants.”

.*Indeed, this pattern applies right down to the level of some school superintendents.“

The board was recently criticized for approving a $2,400 mcrease in administration salaries this year, at a time of restraint in university spending.

.‘I know that all those associated withour universities will recognize the necessity of showing restraint in view of the difficult economic circumstances of the province,” McGeer‘s letter concluded.

SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME, Arthur Erickson’s convention Endowment Lands. Plan is part of Socred government’s promise to centre will be centrepiece of $100 million, 3,000-unit luxury make use of UEL, whose natural trees, bush and swampland render condominium/townhouse/convention centre slated for University it useless. Poor people will not be welcome in development.

Board opinion split on tuition hikes By BILL TIELEMAN

Members of the UBC board of governors are divided about. whether tuition fees should in- crease next year.

Board chairman Thomas Dohm said Thursday no board members favor a tuition f e e increase - but two board members said they do.

And Dohm criticized The Ubyssey for making an issue of tuition f e e increases. “You people spoil our leverage in dealing with the government,” he said.

Board members Gideon Rosenbluth and George Morfitt said Thursday they favor tuition

- Fees should be raised and the

university’s student aid program bproved so students from lower income groups wouldn‘t be af- fected by an increase, Rosenbluth said.

.‘Fees are now unreasonably low because of the inflation factor,” he said.

He said that because tuition fees have not increased in 12 years the effect of inflation has been to reduce the actual cost to students.

A $150 to $200 f e e increase would not hurt that much to most students, Rosenbluth said.

Rosenbluth also said he favors higher tuition fees for foreign

- “I don-t see why we should

subsidize foreigner::,“ he said. Morfitt also said he feels some

tuition fee increase is necessary. He said Thursday he believes

there should be a gradual increase in fees.

Morfitt said he wants to see what the national trend in tuition f e e increases is before making any specific decisions.

Morfitt said in general principle he is against disproportionate tuition fees for foreign students.

The board of governors has the final power to decide if fees will be increased and by how much.

Board members. Pa t Chubb,

E’etersall said Thursday they were against any tuition fee increases.

But Peters said he believes tuition f e e increases are inevitable next year.

“I’m against any tuition f e e increase but on the board I think the best thing I can do is to fight for minimal increases,“ Peters said.

“There seem to be indications that we won’t be getting nearly as much money from the government as we would like,“ he said.

However Dohm said he believed tuition fees won‘t be increased next year.

Board members Ian Greenwood, Sadie Boyles and William Webber

f e e increases. students. George Hermanson and Basil See page 2: BOG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.~~~~~~

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By VICKI BOOTH A sampling of education students

interviewed Thursday said they aren’t satisfied with the training they receive to teach English.

Students were asked to comment on their courses after some teachers surveyed in a report to the provinclal education depart- ment expressed dissatisfaction with their university training.

The report also found that grade 8 and 12 students had problems with sentence structure, sentence clarity, punctuation and para- graph development, and urged teachers to spend more time teach- ing those points.

But it seems that UBC’s teacher training program isn‘t stressing these points.

“People are expected to know basic grammar when they graduate from high school,” said Karen Bourassa, secondary education 5. “There is no review in university. A teacher ends up having to relearn 75 per cent of what they have to teach students.

“Methods courses dwell on how to teach, not what. They assume by the time you reach fourth or fifth year, you‘re supposed to know what to teach. . See page 2: BASICS

By ARNIE BANHAM The Social Credit government will build a

$100 million convention centre and luxury housing development on the University Endowment Lands, The Ubyssey has learned.

A source in the provincial environment ministry said the government will com- mission Vancoufer architect Arthur Erickson to design high and low rise housing for about 3,000 people on natural forest south of West Sixteenth. The provincial govern-’ mentamed B.C. Development Corporation will develop the project.

“They’re hiring Erickson to make sure the development blends in with the natural environment of the UEL,” the source said.

The convention centre will have capacity

for 5,000, a 23-storey hotel with revoyving restaurant and underground parking for 1,500 cars on the area just south of the housing development and adjacent to South- west Marine.

A shopping centre will also be constructed to service the new housing development. Two department~stores, a supermarket, 25 specialty stores and a theatre will be in- cluded.

The government made the decision on the recommendation of a secret task force set up during the summer which submitted its report Monday. The cabinet must overturn an order-in-council establishing the UEL area as a’park in order to hake way for the development.

The source estimated construction of the

project will begin next September and will be finished by fall of 1980.

To accommodate the development an extensive roads construction and expansion will be undertaken, King Edward will be extended to Wesbrook and widened to four lanes through the UEL.

Tentative plans for the housing part of the development are for three lastorey apart- ment buildings with about 230 one and two bedroom units. The rest of the Wacre IJniversity Village will be taken up by low rise condominium and town houses.

The high rise suites will rent for $700 to $1,000 and sell for an average of $120,000.

UBC faculty will get first choice of the 600 l’ow-rise units, the source indicated, and administration officials may get options on

a few single-family units on a special cul-de- sac near the university.

A portion of the low-rise housing will be allocated to middle-income seniors, the source said. “The government wants. to make sure this is an integrated development for all ages.”

But there will be no subsidized govern- ment housing in the project.

“Everyone has to pull their own weight.” The source said UBC professor and poet

George Woodcock has . offered to create names for the streets in the development in return for a suite in the senior’s complex.

Education minister Pat McGeer, MLA for Point Grey, is said to be a driving force behind the development and has pushed for

See page 2: UEL

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I UEL plan wms praise From page 1

theconvention centre to named after former B.C. Hydro chairman Gordon Shrum.

RCMP Sgt. A1 Hutchinson, a known expert on vandalism, has been commissioned to prepare a study on security for the housing project. Access to the project will probably be limited to residents by security check- points at all the roads leading into the project, on the model of Daon Develop- ment's Woodcroft development in North Vancouver.

An informal poll conducted by the secret task force on the UEL showed most UBC

private school on the UEL for the children. So the government will build Gaglardi College, an elementary and secondary school, on Camosun Bog.

- UBC administration president Doug Kenny said of the proposed development: .'It sounds like a very nice idea to me. Margaret and I are looking forward to a townhouse with a view of the mountains."

Malcolm McGregor, UBC head of ceremonies, said he approves of the idea but is disappointed that Woodcock, and not he, will name the streets.

"The project's outline bears a strong resemblance to Thebes a t the time of the

faculty want the government to build a Peloponnesian wars and

I Basics needed I From page 1 l e a r m g more. A lot of the time

"There is no course a t UBC that they're just wasting our time." teaches grammar, as far as I ~.I 've a lways been good in know." grammar, but this year especially,

She added most of the English I feel I haven't gained much." she has taken were Craig said she thinks course ef-

romantic Doetry or novel courses, fectiveness depends on individual . 'I thnk-there should be a whole p r o ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ n o t h i n g in the practical

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"My methods courses aren't very helpful," she said. "1 learn

Other students said individual f a r more from my sponsor

.restructuring On the part the hackground," said Wendy Evans, department and the swondaryeducation 5. "I've taken education department. should offer fundamental basic the faculty of education. courses for English teachers along with required literature courses."

professors, rather than the fpnphpy * -

university or the education faculty, L~~ White, secondary education are responsible for the un- 6, he was satisfied the satisfactory training. course he had taken.

"Course content is dependent on . . I took an advance composition the individual instructor," said course,'' he said. "You have to be Jane Creelman, elementary fairly competent in grammar to

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names would have been most appropriate." Political science professor Phil Resnick

said the decision shows the Social Credit government is dedicated to protecting the vested interests of an economic elite.

English head Robert Jordan said the project is long overdue. "We've had campus developments like this in the States for years."

Soil science professor Jan de Vries is organizing a campaign against the development. He said he will lie in front of the bulldozers if necessary to protect the UEL ecological reserve. He has asked that people interested in joining the campaign GEORGE WOODCOCK

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BOG members differ on fees

Dohm charged that publicity secondary low income groups not to get post- ahout the tuition fee increase . Student aid should be increased nuestion was hurting the board's negotiating positiin with the p government.

..You people spoil our leverage in dealing with the government," Dohm told a Ubyssey reporter.

Hermanson said he was against a proposal to increase tuition fees for foreign students to a higher rate than that paid by students from B.C.

..I think those are regressive steps. I'm completely opposed to that," he said.

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Rosenbluth said the fact that OBC students are stiII drivlng their cars despite insurance increases is proof they can afford a tuition increase.

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Ont. students hit by fee hikes TORONTO (CUP) - Ontario

college and university students face tuition f e e increases of 30 and 17 per cent next year, the provincial government announced Thursday.

Harry Parrott , colleges and universities minister, also an- nounced operating grant increases for each type of institution of only 8.7 per cent and eight per cent.

Community college students will pay an additional $75, pushing fees to $325 from $250. University students face an increase of about $100, pushing their tuition fees to about $700.

The provincial government cannot order the f e e increase, but by cutting back on operating grant increases, institutions will be forced to levy fee increases in order to meet costs.

Parrott said the funding program is designed to make students pay a larger share of education costs. ”The increased costs faced by universities and colleges should be borne in part by the students who use them and in part by the taxpayer,” he said.

Parrott also announced in- creases in the budget of the Ontario

student assistance program to $74 million from $61 million next year. However, students must still take out a $7,000 loan before receiving provincial grants, he said.

Parrott said higher tuition fees will be taken into account when students apply for financial assistance. ”As in the past, students who can’t pay their full shareof education costs may apply for financial assistance from OSAP,” he said.

Ontario’s 22 colleges will receive a total of $250 million in operating grants, up from‘$230 million, while universities will receive $713 million, up from projected ex- penditures this year of $651 million at theprovince’s 15 publicly funded universities and other post- secondary institutions.

Next year’s increases a re down from this year’s operating grant increase of 14.4 per cent, and follow a trend set by the provincial government in recent years of steadily decreasing post- secondary operating grant in- creases.

For the 1975-76 academic year, funding for universities and colleges increased 16.9 per cent, a

Loan backlog due to red tape

Most students will have to wait at ..Because of budget constraints, least two months from the time we can’t afford more than two they submit student loan requests people to work on the applications. until the time they receive loans. It is also the reason for the backlog. UBC financial award’s officer of work.” Hender said.

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Byron Hender said Thursday. Pam Sherwood who works out of Hender said the are spakeasy in conjunction with the caused by ’low processing at UBC awards office to offer advice to and at the Victoria awards office. troubled student loan applicants, But Hender said the said Thursday that sinceNov. 1 she

was sent in. The earliest date for problems, the applications was July 1 and the

when the has assisted 30 students with loan

drop from the 19.6 increase the previous year.

According to Parrott’s figures, university students will pay 15 per cent of their education costs while college students will assume 13 per cent after the increases are in effect.

The Ontario Federation of Students called an emergency session of its member campuses for Sunday to decide strategy for dealing with the tuition hike.

The four-year-old federation has concentrated on opposing tuition f e e hikes and imDrovintz student

aid policies since it was formed in 1972.

When university fees were in- creased $100 at that time, the federation organized a tuition fee boycott. The boycott was followed by a four-year freeze on tuition fees.

deadline for first term requests She said most of the problems was Oct. 8. He said many of the anddelays are due to the bureauc- HOCKEY PUCK THAT WAS LEFT in over too long? Casserole t h a t wasn’t quite success it was planned to forms came in as late as Oct. 5. racv and red taDe in Victoria. be? Neither - it‘s new Sculpture in fine arts qallerv. in main librarv basement.

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- To date, Hender‘s office has

processed 6,200 B.C. applications and about 500 for out of province student tario.” loans, “mostly from On- SfU divided on Winegard proposal

,.

~. - ” . ”Mast of the loans should be CanadianUniversity Press report. If SFU rejects it, the in-

cleared by November‘s end,” he Simon Fraser University faculty stitution will be set up in- said. members are divided about dependently.

Hender estimates the total whether SFU should accept the Several facultymembers were in amount of money to be allocated Winegardreporton post-secondary favor of accepting a recommenda- this year will match last year’s $10 education in non-metropolitan tion from the SFU senate com- million. areas ”but many are interested in nlittee on academic planning,

loans and about $3.5 million is for Interior. “SFU is willing to accept the non repayable grants. They want more time to consider responsibility of offering

Hender said about 7,000 UBC the proposal, and assurances of university programs in non- students share in the financial aid, adequate funds for a further study metropolitan areas and is and women‘s awards would be of the report and funds for any prepared to appoint a director and slightly higher because their need programs the university sets up. appropriate staff to develop is traditionally greater due to their The report, submitted in Sep- specific plans by Dlecember, 1977, lower income. tember, calls for the establishment provided that funds for such

Two people currently process the of a multi-campus post-secondary development will be made loans at UBC. But during the institution in the Interior ad- available by the provincial summer during the application ministered by SFU. The SFU government. crunch, eight staff members administration has until the end of “ h y programs implemented by handled the forms, Hender said. the year to accept or reject the SFU would require prior approval ~ ~ : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ‘ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ : . ~ ~ ~ ; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . ~ : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ : ~ ~ >. .x,.< ......_... . . . . . . . :~~~~~~~~~~~~ :%:$$$;<,

Of this figure, $6 million is for helping set up a university in the which reads:

AUB haunts A W E talks After two days of mediated talks, UBC’s ad- Lawrence said the next meeting with the mediator

ministration still refuses to directly discuss wage will be Dec. 7, four days after an AIB hearing in proposals with the library and clerical workers’ Ottawa when an AIB case worker will present union, a union spokeswoman said Thursday. AUCE’s 1975-76 contract to the board.

Association Of University and College Employees ne AIB will then decide whether to roll back any of spokeswoman Jean Lawrence said the ad- the 19 per cent wage increase AUCE gained in last ministration negotiators won’t discuss wage increase year’s contract, proposals in excess of Anti-Inflation Board guide- decision of the AIB will affect o u ~ thinking lines .

Provincial mediator Jock Waterston began union,s wage proposals were based u y ~ n the union,s one way or another,” Lawrence said. B,ut she said the mediating the contract talks Tuesday, after three philosophy, months of negotiations. The administration has of- fered the mion a six per cent wage increase, the “We don’t think we should be paid less than others maximum increase permitted by AIB guidelines. doing jdbS Of the Same Value,” Lawrence said. The

Lawrence said no agreement has been reached union is seeking wage parity for grade 1 assistant about grievance procedures and employee definition. technicians with campus workers of the Same She said the union wants to resolve the way workers categoryin the CanadianUnion Of Public Employees. are rehired on the basis of their seniority. “We’re interested in finding out why the university

Lawrence said temporary employees are treated thinks we’re worth less,” Lawrence said. AUCE differently than part-time and full-time employees. claims the administration discriminates against the “We want everyone to be thrown into the same union in wage payments because more than 90 per barrel,” she said. cent of unign members are women. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ; ~ ~ ~ : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

by the senate and the board of governors together with assurance of an appropriate level of funding.”

The committee report said this proposal “accepts the com- mitment in principle but in- troduces a clear opportunity for S F U to terminate its involvement after the senate and the board of governors review detailed plan-. ning proposals rather than adhering to consideration of the proposals of the Winegard report.”

Interdisciplinary studies dean Robert Brown said the university should opt for this motion in order to gain needed information.

the question is very difficult to consider because we don‘t have all the variables before us,” he said.

Education professor Sandy Dawson said that “half our operations (those of the education department) are already in the Interior and if we lose control of that we are wiping out half our faculty.”

And, he said, the government intends to establish an institution in the Interior regardless of SFU’s position.

He said this might sound like a negative argument, but the Winegard proposal “offers an opportunity to do some very creative things.“

Faculty association president Cliff Lloyd said an arts faculty meeting Wednesday indicated arts faculty members conditionally favored accepting the report.

”The overwhelming majority of arts faculty are interested in being involved provided the new university is separate from us and that all work is done on a con- tractual basis,” he said.

Kenji Okuda, economics professor and chairman of the

senate budget committee, said the government should be forced to assess-the full cost of an Interior program before work begins.

“All indications are that the budget will force us to spread our already limited resources,” he said. Okuda said he favors the academic planning committee’s proposal, which rejects the position that SFU should assume direction of the new university operation, but offers assistance in setting up the Interior university.

In addition, he questioned the role of the Notre Dame University faculty if the campus forms part of the multi-campus university.

SFU administration president Pauline Jewettsaid the legal rights of the remaining NDU faculty are not entirely clear. The NDU faculty association says they have exclusive successor rights to any institution to be founded on the NDU site as stipulated in their contract.

Blology professor David Baillie said he has taught in the Interior and found it “quite harmful to me in my research career.’‘

He said people in the Interior generally favor the Winegard report “provided it (the new university) is going to be autonomous; eventually they would prefer their own univer-

Jewett said she was concerned that the government provide guarantees of sufficient funding before the university embarks on any course of action.

“My own feeling is that we wouldn’t dream of getting upper level courses under way without financial guarantees on explicit level (of funding) and an indication from the NDP.”

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A letter from Pat McGeer In a letter to administFation

president Doug Kenny, education minister Pat McGeer says he is sincere about trying to hold down tu ition fees.

The le t te r on ly con f i rms suspicions that the Social Credit government will force the university to increase fees by severely limiting i ts funds in April.

McGeer starts the letter - a response to a letter from Kenny opposing tuition increases - by saying that the university, not the government, decides whether tuition fees will go up.

But in fact the government makes the decision because it is the government that holds the purse strings.

I f the government hands a shoestring allotment to UBC, the university has two alternatives: it can increase tuition or severely cutback courses and let the quality of education drop.

But the meat of the letter comes further down when McGeer suggests that student fees need not increase if the university just adjusts its fiscal year a bit.

Here‘s how it works. One of the university’s largest. expenditures is faculty salaries. Now, the faculty association’s contract year runs from July 1 to June 30 every year.

On the other hand, the university’s fiscal year begins April 1 and ends March 30. So when UBC signs an agreement with i t s faculty it

only pays them for the last nine months of its fiscal year - from July 1 to April 1.

Because of the discrepancy between the fiscal year and the contract year the university has always had to pay the faculty for the first nine months of their contract year from one budget, and for the remaining three months, from another.

And in the past it has always had the bucks to do so. But with the Socreds in power it can’t count on getting a budget big enough to cover the three month shortfall and so last year UBC needed a $4.5 million infusion of funds to live up to i t s agreement with the facultv.

This year the university/ won’t’get that special grant.

McGeer wants UBC to rearrange

the fiscal year to eliminate this perennial shortfall. But it won’t work. Profs start work in July to prepare for the coming year, so that is the logical time to start a contract year.

So what McGeer is telling the university in this letter is to hold the

line on faculty and staff wage agreements.

fees? No tuition Sounds familiar

N DP education critic Dennis Cocke‘s remarks Wednesday about tuition fees should be taken with a grain of salt.

Arguing in favor of eliminating tuition fees, Cocke said: ”I believe in education as a right, including post-secondary education. Anybody who has a yearning for higher education should have access to it. A tuition fee increase runs counter to this argument.”

Sensible enough. So sensible, in fact, that the.provincial NDP party adopted it as standing policy - in 1965.

Some of us will recall that in the interval between 1965 and now, the NDP were actually in power, for three years. Tuition fees were not eliminated, or even cut. In fact, shortly before the NDP lost the December election, Eileen Dailly was making the kind of education cutback noises Pat McGeer is now making much more loudly.

A sound policy, Dennis. But we‘ve heard it before. Dailly’s problem was that she did not carry out NDP policies as minister. Do something to indicate to us that you would be any better.

THE UBYSSEY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1976

Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey‘s editorial office is in room 241 K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301; Advertising, 228-3977.

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wondered who the he l l this Arn ie Banham guy is.

In a rage over parking at Gage I’m pissed off! I‘ve just had my

car towed away by the traffic and security department for the second time. I’ve had to pay $38 in penalties just for the “privilege” of occasionally parking my car within a reasonable distance of my home.

I live in Gage Towers and I have a B Lot sticker which entitles me to park in SUB lot- overnight. But at the crack of dawn, the boys in blue swoop down and seize my car and demand ransom payments.

It isn’t so much the fact that they’ve nailed me for violating the rules and regulations; it’s the way they add insult to injury by taking a totally insensitive attitude toward the whole issue.

The members of the president’s advisory committee on traffic and parking just shuffle uncomfortably in their seats each time the issue is presented to them. Dave Hannah, the acting superintendent of traffic and security just hands me a copy of the rules and regulations and tells me to obey them.

None of them is willing to recognize that Gage residents actually LIVE on campus while faculty and staff, who get first priority in everything, are mere daytime visitors.

They make us ca r ry our groceries across the campus or

else ticket us for parking near our homes to unload them. They don’t seem to care that our cars are smashed andvandalized in B lot at night.

Who the hell is running this show, anyhow?

Dave Climans

Stamp out killer minks I wish to complain about the I was returning to my

atrocious conditions under which automobile after having the minks of this campus are being celebrated the reopening of the Pit kept. with some friends when I was

The administration of the accosted by a half-starved mink university, in a general at- foaming at the mouth and sitting mosphere of budgetary restraint, on the roof of my car. Closer has not seen fit to provide adequate examination revealed a pack of the monies for the proper care and little beggars peering out with feeding of the animals. Con- their beady little eyes from un- sequently these wretched derneath my car. They obviously creatures have been forced to intended to make me their main scavenge for their existence. I COW^^. Luckily I had retained my have sighted these packs of half- COPY of the favorite campus rag crazed killer minks on a number of and bolstered by a sufficient occasions recently but the most quantity of bottled courage from frightening experience occurred the Pit, I was able to rout the little last Tuesday evening. devils.

Selective morality The latest Chinese nuclear explosion was accepted a t UBC with a

lack of reaction and protest which is difficult to explain. Suddenly, all the normally dedicated activists, like the “non-violent” Pacific Life Community, lost their tongues . . . and remain silent.

Thereare, however, some questions for which I cannot find rational answers. We have heard much about the possible danger from the Trident base to the environment and people of Canada. American and Canadian protestors twice smashed into the base in a “non-violent” demonstration . . . prompted (we are told) by their fear of en- vironmental radiation poisoning, and a sincere commitment to halting the spread of nuclear weapons.

Now, suddenly, these people and their supporters have lost both their zeal and their fear of radiation. Strange, is it not?

I was always under the impression that Chinese and Russian radiation is as radioactive as American. Perhaps I’m wrong . . . or maybeit is just another question of selective morality?

V. Brandwajn graduate student, electrical engineering

If this intolerable situation is not corrected immediately then I fear further attacks will be unavoidable. In closing I urge all students who have sighted this pack of killer minks to express their outrage at this situation. Only effective student opposition can save these animals and make the campus a safe place once again.

Vern Gentry electrical engineering

The Ubyssey welcomes letters

Letters should be signed and from all readers.

typed. Letters should be addressed to

the paper care of campus mail or dropped off a t The Ubyssey office, SUB 241-K.

Friday, November 26, 1976 T H E U B Y S S E Y Page 5

On tuition, Jobs and cutbacks

By NICK SMIRNOW Canadian University Press

Delegates to the three-day B.C. Students' Federation conference in North Vancouver left Sunday with plans for major campaigns in the ooming months.

In the weekend workshops at Capilano College, 36 delegates from 13 institutions developed strategy to organize students and pressure the government in three major areas: student summer unemployment, anticipated tuition f e e increases for universities and possibly colleges and the lack of rights of vocational students.

Debate about the need for such campaigns was sparse, probably because of increased awareness about tuition, cutbacks and unemployment after National Student Day activities 10 days earlier.

Vocational students had little problem recognizing that they lag far behind university and college students in basic rights. Few have proper representation on student councils and others have to rely on the good will of their ad- ministrators for student fee collection.

The tuition campaign will begin with a petition letter, similar to the letter camDaien recentlv run bv

same - to increase accessibility," one delegate summed up.

The tuition letters will be presented to McGeer when the BCSF executive and student council representatives meet with him Dec. 13.

Delegates took a small step UBC's Alm; &ter Soci&. towards dealing with the question 6,000 students signed the letter, of taxation. which urges education minister Simon Fraser University Pat McGeer not to increase tuition delegate Patrick Palmer said fees. there are problems with singling

out tuition increases in isolation Delegates split from the tax structure. ~~~~ ~~~~

"The monev for tuition will have Delegates were split Over to come from somewhere," he

whether the campaign should said. "With the present System, it attack fee increases or tuition fees certainly won't come from those themselves. who can afford to pay."

The BCSF has consistently But a motion "recognizing the argued that tuition fees represent a need for a Progressive tax barrier to post-secondary System" Was replaced with one education by keeping low income rKOgnlZlIlg that "1neqUitieS" in people from attending colleges and the tax system exist, because especially universities. delegates couldn't come up with a

Gilbert Tessier said: "We should Progressive..'' aim for the removal of tuition fees, ( ~ o g r e s s l v e taxation is based instead of expending our energies on the ability to Pay - those.who in keeping increases low." earn more also pay more - like

But other delegates countered that the federation could not ignore l a x Systems impending increases. The cam- paign was amended to include both graduated income tax. The op- arguments. posite is "regressive'' taxation

"We'regoing tolook silly with an whereby a tax is the same for 'abolish tuition' campaign after all everyone regardless of how much the campaigns in B.C. recently they earn andcanafford. Any fixed have been against the increases," fee, such as sales tax and tuition UBC delegate Paul Sandhu said. fees is regressive because they are "Let's get on with this battle. It's more of a burden for poorer all part of the same war.'' people. 1

Delegates agreed to amend the The motion called for the campaign to include both the long recognition of tax inequalities to be term goal of removing tuition fees, included in any federation sub- and the short term goal of stopping missions to the government. increases. "The reasoning behind The federation also scheduled a keeping the fees low and campaign to deal with student eliminating them completely is the summer employment, geared

Capilano College delegate satisfactory definition Of "truly

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mainly at convincing the provincial government "to continue and expand their student employment progra,m."

"We have information that in- dicates the provincial government bas no plans to continue the 'careers' program,' ' outgoing chairwoman Lake Sagaris told the conference. By now, she said, planning for the programs would normally be well under way.

government provides funds for organizations and business to hire students. In the past three sum- mers, about 12,000 students a year have been hired through the program, Sagaris said.

A provincewide student em- ployment survey, modelled after a survey conducted. by Carleton IJniversity's student union last summer, is planned for January. Individual councils will administer the survey on their campus with I3CSF staffers collecting the results.

"We need that information when dealing with the government," Sagaris said. "Reliable figures just aren't available. It obviously isn't in the government's interests to gather statistics when unem- ployment is high."

Under the careers' program, the -

The Carleton survey found that first year students, women, and students from low income families oonsistently had to look longer for jobs, earned significantly lower wages and found work for shorter and students from wealthier families. Most students got jobs through personal or family con- nections.

Grievance list The vocational campaign will be

centred around a long list of grievances for vocational students, most of whom take courses less than a year in length and who are largely unorganized.

A vocational committee struck at the conference plans province- wide .distribution of a leaflet outlining the grievances and a letter petitioning the government to make changes.

An at tempt by the UBC delegation to have the BCSF work for bus passes for post-secondary students was rejected by the conference.

Delegates spoke strongly against the .'special interests" motion.

BCSF spokeswoman Debra Lewis said: "It will only make us look like spoiled students. If we're going to worry about bus fares, we

should consider everyone who can't afford it."

Delegates endorsed a National Union of Students position calling for a public inquiry and debate on post-secondary education.

"The federal government wants to play a stronger role in education," eaid Ross Powell, BCSF's liaison with NUS. "The unanswered question is: 'what direction will they take education?' ''

The federal government has agreed to the inquiry but won't reschedule the Fiscal Arrangement Act negotiations to wait for the results. ' The act is the cost-sharing agreement between the federal and provincial governments governing education, health and welfare, and is being renegotiated. NUS has repeatedly been denied access to the negotiations.

The federation plans a $32,000 budget for next year, but un- collectable fees from poor member unions combined with the recent defeat of the UBC membership referendum will produce a $7,000 deficit, according to outgoing t reasurer Moe Sihota. Sihota recommended appeals for grants from various institutions, in- cluding UBC.

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Arg. thrives at V.E.C.C. By GREGORY STRONG

In a city like Vancouver, the growth in the number of theatres leads to a heightened sense of place and it is a sign of a stimulating intellectual environment as more people become involved and in- terested in their culture.

Within the last few years , several new theatres have been established in this city: the York Theatre, the City Stage in 1972, the shor thed Yolkstheatre in 1975 and the highly successful Vancouver East Cultural Centre in 1973.

The V.E.C.C. is housed in a lilac stucco buildmg with stained glass windows and interrupted pyramid roofing. It has become a thriving station for the performing arts.

This curious building on four lots at the juncture of Victoria and Venables Streets and across from St. Francis elementary school has’ its own curious legacy. It began as a Methodist church in 1909 and reputedly is still haunted by the ghost of one stubborn congrega- honer. It finaltv closed in 1969 as

of the United Church with a proposal to use their church as a theatre.

Wootten had managed two dance companies in New York and on his return to Vancouver decided to ameliorate the city’s shortage of performing space by creating a new sophisticated theatre in the small and intimate space of the church.

The council granted him a three year rent free lease providing that he pay the annual $6,000 property tax and insurance fees.

And in 1973, Wootten and Skuce worked under LIP, municipal and provincial grants to convert the old Crandview United Church into theatrical space.

A $126,000 renovation restored the walls and flooring while the plumbing, wiring and acoustics were improved. The red stained glass windows of the church were replaced, a stage succeeded the altar and the building was repainted.

The V.E.C.C.,was organized as a

Protestants to-immigrant Italian and Portuguese Catholics.

Intercity services ran the building for several years as a “free university” with a library and rental space for community groups until the municipal Government closed down their operation.

The theatre began in late 1972 when the present V.E.C.C. director Christopher Wootten and a photographer Murray Skuce ap- proached the Metropolitan Council

cluding alderwoman Darlene Marzari and local playwright .Jeremy Long.

But the actual operation of the theatre, the co-ordination of events, administration, technical drection and publicity is presently conducted by a six person team managed by Wootten.

Thetheatre facilities now consist of a small open stage surrounded by a semi-circle of 300 seats on the main floor and the three sided balcony.

VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE.. . a t one time a church d e r y l mogg photos ”

Two small actor dressing rooms and a tiny kitchenette are just offstage. These rooms are currently being, remodelled to provide the actors with washrooms.

There is a small adjacent lounge which in conjunction with the City Artists Gallery exhibits work by local artists.

4 s part of a further renovation in 1976, a basement has been dug under the building, eventually to be used as a practice room for the

Tamahnous Theatre ensemble which has since become the resident company of the V.E.C.C.

The programming for the Centre is about 40 weeks of theatre, (Tuesday through Saturday with a runof three weeks for most plays), four weeks of dance each season, 50 different concerts and an in- ternational film series every Monday.

The Centre presents Sunday afternoon entertainment for children, a Midsummer Crafts

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Fair and a Christmas Market. Weekday school matinees are also held for eight neighborhood schools.

The V.E.C.C. rents the per- forming space at a minimum of $50 against 20% of the gross box office receipt to a maximum of $150 at each performance. This low rental pricing is part of the Centre‘s philosophy that by keeping their prices lower, they can open the theatre to many different per- forming groups and still make these performances accessible to anyone in Vancouver.

The Centre’s current operating budget is projected a t $208,000 of which $101,000 is box office income and the remainder supplied by grants, $38,500 from the City of Vancouver, $44,500 from the B.C. Arts Board, $13,425 from the Canada Council and $10,000 from artistic foundations and private corporations within the city.

Not content with their present successes, the V.E.C.C. set aside $33,550 of their budget for two very exciting projects. One project was the staging of Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna which brought the entire castanddirectors from Toronto for an acclaimed four week run. The other project was the Centre’s contracting of a play to be written by a local playwright. This play will be based on the life of the 19th century B.C. politician Amor de cosmos, and it is now at the New Play Centre for workshopping, final redrafting and rehearsal.

The final plan for the Centre is to get government aid in buying the building at an estimated $210,000 from the Metropolitan Council of the United Church.

Having Lots of fun in the country By MERRILEE ROBSON

It’s sunny occasionally here in Vancouver, even in winter. And now when you feel like getting outside on a sunny day, you won’t have to put off your trip until the next weekend.

The Mountaineers, a group from Seattle, and their Vancouver counterpart, Mountaincraft, have brought out a new guide to short walks in and around Vancouver.

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The Mountaineers are well known for their trail guide series but they have always devoted themselves to books for serious hikers and climbers.

This book, 109 Walks in B.C.’s Lower Mainland, is aimed at those whose h s y schedules or physical condition would not allow them to participate in the strenuous hikes usually described in the Moun- taineers’ books.

Most of the trails mentioned in the book take about two hours to complete, although some can take a s long as five hours. The area you are expected to cover in this time varies with the difficulty of the trail.

The first walk listed in the book is a walking tour of UBC, including such stops of interest as the Nitobe Gardens and the Museum of an- thropology.

.4 few other walks a r e equally a s close and familiar: Spanish Banks, .Jericho Beach, the University Endowment Lands. All the trails in the Endowment Lands are named

and clearly marked, which is useful because many of these trails can be easily missed in aimless wandering.

A short drive will bring you to the trails in Burnaby and the many possibilities of the North Shore, such as Whyte Island, Cypress Falls and Hollyburn Lakes.

The area covered in 109 Walks ranges a s f a r north as Pemberton and as far east as Hope.

109 Walks in B.C.’s Lower Mainland has numerous inspiring photographs, clearly drawn maps and written descriptions of the location, interesting aspects of each walk and difficulties.

Most of the trips mentioned in the book a r e listed as “good all year” so you can start exploring rght after your last exam and by summer you might be ready for the rest of the Mountaineers’ books.

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Warhol battered by press -

By JUDITH INCE Warhol’s-face is thinner and more ascetic Andy Warhol, culture hero of pop art, held looking than before. His eyes still retain the

a press conference Tuesday at the Ace hypnotic quality of the past, but shyness Gallery which is currently showing his rather than defiance emanates from behind American Indian Series until Dec. 31. his hornrimmed glasses.

The Wild Warhol of the 1960s is no more. Always a slight man, Warhol’s physical The moment he entered the gallery it was fragility now suggests psychic apparent that the legendary, outrageous vulnerability. Warhol stood surrounded by behavior associated with this maker of reporters like some timid and defenceless Brillo Boxes and Campbell Soup Cans, and deer hedged in by merciless hunters. films like Empire and Fuck exists now only The contradiction between the myth of as a legend. It is no longer relevant to Warhol’sarrogant posturing and the reality Warhol’s current persona. of his painful humility was startling. His

The metallic, dyed silver hair and the newly acquired passivity is as shocking to anemic skin remain the same, although one anticipating Warhol-as-freak a s his

ANDY WARHOL . . . ”nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois“

audacious, often offensive behavior must have been in press conferences of the 1960s.

Warhol’s behavior has radically changed but the rcsult is the same: as powerfully as in the past, Warhol’s unexpected behavior jolts the press and public out of their preconceptions.

Warhol seemed ill a t ease answering questions from the press, nervously toying witlh the sleeve of his duffle coat as he replied in a barely audible voice. Warhol’s whispered answers and his Buddha-like impassivity demanded attention and silence.

Warhol declined to speculate on the significance of his recent works being shown at the Ace Gallery, preferring only to comment that the subject of the 13 works is a friendof his, “a very nice guy from-Dakota’’ who is also a leader of the American Indian Movement.

MIarhol suggested that he sign posters advertising his show;so that each member of the press could have a souvenir of the afternoon. For the rest of the 20 minutes Warhol was a t the Ace, he busied himself autographing the posters, pausing oc- casionally to doodle on the back of the odd one. He most frequently chose to draw the infamous Campbell Soup Can which established his reputation as the definitive pop artist a decade ago.

The reason for Warhol’s metamorphosis from the dynamo whose sexual intrigues both scandalized and fascinated a prurient public in the sixties, to the super-sensitive, reticent artist of the seventies, is open to speculation.

The dramatic transformation is perhaps rel;.ited to his close brush with death in 1968 when Valerie Solanis, an actress in one of his films, I, a Man, shot and critically wounded Warhol.

After recovering from his injuries Warhol said, “Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me.” On Tuesday, it was this image of an other-worldly, spiritually oriented person that Warhol projected, a complete reversal of his raunchy, ear- thbound persona of the 1960s.

Eecause Warhol has always perceived the “cool” role and played it accordingly, with a mastery any actor could have envied, the cynical observer a t Tuesday’s press con- ferlence would likely suspect that Warhol- the-mystic is merely another role this enigmatic man has adopted in order to stay in step with the times.

While the campy decadent image of the 1960s was appropriate to that stormy and rebellious era, the passive role is what the avant-garde of the L970s, with its more spiritual concerns, demands.

Whether this new mysticisp is simply another persona Warhol has adopted in order to protect his real identity from the prying eyes of the press, or whether it is a sincere reflection of some profound spiritual change, is of course impossible to determine in ,a brief press conference.

VVarhol himself once commented on the ambiguity of his personality, saying, “I’m

trying to figureout whether I should pretend to be real or fake it.”

Although Warhol is not the outrageous living art form he once was, an artist he remains. Using the combined processes of silk screen and painting, Warhol has produced six portraits of an American In- dian.

Although each work is based on the same silk-screened photographic likeness, Warhol alters the feeling evoked by each canvas by painting Over each ‘photograph’, varying the colors and amounts of paint used.

In contrast to his earlier portrait series such as those of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, where he wanted to make the artist as anonymous and remote as possible (he didn’t call his studio ‘The Factory’ for nothing), these recent works clearly betray the artist’s presence in the unconcealed brush strokes used to lay on thick layers of paint.

The fact that Warhol is no longer using the mechanical process of silk-screening ex- clusively, but has returned to the use of the paint and brush, which forces the artist into a more intimate relationship with the canvas, reflects a change in Warhol’s ar- tistic concerns. His work is now less slickly commercial and more expressive than before.

Warhol’s drawings are more satisfying than his painted works, however. Each of the seven drawings offers a different per- spective on the man who is ultimately represented in the painted works. These magnificent drawings powerfully convey a sense of the subject’s dignity, but at the same time exhibit a linear, decorative quality.

Whatever he may be as a person, mystic or masquerade, Warhol’s integrity as a suuerb artist cannot be challenged.

Martinu treat at VSO concert By ROBERT JORDAN

Perhaps the most musically satisfying concert so far this season greeted the ears of those VSO concert-goers lucky enough to be there. This satisfying musicality could not have been more appropriate: the Monday night performance of the fifth trio of VSO Main Series Concerts fell on St. Caecilia’s Day. St. Caecilia is the patron saint of music.

Simon Streatfeild, the associate con- ductor, first guided the orchestra through Dvorak’s Symphonic Variations, Op. 78. Dvorak is akin to Tchaikovsky in at least oneaspect: he is a gifted melodist, but not so gifted a structuralist. Nevertheless, OP. 78 is one of his more solid works, its most obviom affront possibly being the ex- cessively long Coda. This is characteristic of Dvorak, though, and the spontaneity of the music has great appeal.

This was a lovely performance with ob- vious concern for detail and the essential Czech spirit of the work. Though the piece

was not whipped into as much of a frenzy a t the end as certain others might have done, the attention given to these musical details and coherence along the way more than compensated for this.

Bohuslav Martinu, whose Piano Concerto No. 2 was next on the prog.ram, is one of the most affable, warmhearted composers of this century. To hear a work by him on a VSO program was a pleasant surprise. Unfortunately, the second Piano Concerto,

though structurally sound enough, is un- memorable melodically. One is hard pressed to recall any musical ideas from the piece once it is over.

The pianist, Rudolf Firkusny, cares very much for the piece. He is as technically sure a pianist as can be found and he appeared to be in fine fettle Monday night. The or- chestral players lent themselves to an ac- companiment which framed Firkusny’s admirable performance quite ap- propriately. Vancouver was fortunate to hear it so sensitively and capably rendered.

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After the intermisslon (the highlight of VSCl concerts for many), a performance of Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind In- struments gave the orchestra’s “jewel-in- the-rough” wind section its chance to shine. This is not an outlandishly difficult piece techlnically, though it is tricky rhythmically. Any discrepancies in intonation are im- mediately apparent and balance is critical. .4n exemplary performance could be described as hard and glittering.

k1d it was. After beginning with a few slightly tottery bars, the players steadied to produce some of the finest wind ensemble playing heard for a long time in Vancouver. The brass was harsh when loud, and Mr. First Oboe might be cautioned to modify his tone slightly when he has a subordinate line, but in sum, this was superb playing indeed.

The concert concluded with a sparkling, enthusiastic performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9. Hayd- nestpe humor pervades the fast movements and the buffoonerisms of the first and third

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movements were most appealing, as they were never overdone. The meditative second and fourth movements with their long woodwind solos were exceptionally well rendered.Ronald de Kant (clarinet), Kathleen Rudolph (piccolo) and Chris Millard (bassoon) each displayed amazing control in their treacherously extended solos. Lively tempos and tight playing saw the symphony to a crisp .finish and the performers to-some well-deserved curtain calls.

Not a great many curtain calls, however, as this was not a concert designed to thunderously overwhelm.. It was an in. teresting program of a less-frequently heard, yet thoroughly pleasant repertoire and it was extremely well played.

Fairness would seem to dictate a com- promise and this concert went a long way toward proving that orchestral concerts (anywhere - not just in Vancouver) need not be-soexclusively comprised of the music of Richard Strauss, Brahms, Respighi et al, to be thoroughly enjoyable.

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Carrie is a scary screamer By VERNE McDONALD

Brian DePalma has constructed a near perfect movie in Carrie. The particularly significant thing is that he accomplishes this by being almost uniformly bad.

By the time the picture was half over, I was convinced that it belonged at some all night drive-in, as the third or fourth feature. Every cliche of modern horror movies had been dragged out and beaten to death.

Carrie Directed by Brian DePalma Denman Place

Carrie is a timid, insecure child. Her mother is a nasty religious fanatic who locks her in closets and makes her hate herself.

Everyone hates Carrie. The girls a t school make fun of her and are cruel to her because she's dif- ferent. And so she is.

There's something strange about Carrie. She can make things move with her mind, and she's not telling anybody. You just know she's going to get back a t everyone.

Are you scared? Or, more likely, asleep? If you were watching DePalma a t work right now, you'd be laughing. He paints his characters not with a wide brush, but with a roller. Scenes are played so broadly that they come across like sluts from the Carol Burnett show.

SISSY SPACEK . . . victim of mother's knife attack I hooted, jeered, and sneered

watching this movie develop. And

S k i tale repugnant By GRAY KYLES

The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about the 1970 ascent of Mt. Everest by .Japanese skier Yuichira Muira and his large team of climbers and his subsequent ski-fall down a portion of the mountain.

The original film was made in .Japan but for some reason it was never released anywhere else. Canadian producer Budge Crawley, who is becoming known as a film scavenger. Durchased the

ventures of the climb are very exciting to watch. The narration, by veteran Canadian actor Douglas Rain, is often useful though it tends to get a little bogged down at times due to the &me-store philosophy espoused by s h e r Muira in his diary.

But there is a pall hanging over the story that makes Muira's achievement less than admirable. About halfway through the picture six Sherpa climbers are killed in an avalanche.

movie and all Guskh footage. The skier writes that he is With a team of editors and a new saddened by this tragedy, for him

screenplay written by his wife, he there can no longer be a happy restructured the picture into a 90- ending. Yet he trudges On the minute Canadian documentary. mountain.

The Man Who Skied Down Everest offensive sequence in which the Produced by Crawley Films leaders of the expedition convince Park and West Van Odeon the remaining Sherpas to stay on Theatres with them. They ape in fact asking

these men to risk their lives for one

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In many ways the film is en- ambition and motivation and the joyable. The photography and moral issues involved. natural locations are breathtaking They could have attempted to and many of the details and ad- explain why this man believed that

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It was a stiff, however, until it man's-ego trip,

his mission to ski down 8,000 feet of mountain for two minutes was worth the deaths of six people and the suffering of many more.

But instead they treat the subject with the kind of naive "because it's there" philosophies often found in juvenile real-life adventure books.

So despite all the excitement and visual beauty and the technical expertise involved in its making The Man Who Skied Down Everest is unsatisfying. It offers a hero and an outlook that are repugnant.

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I, like everyone else, was perfectly manipulated by the director.

At first you laugh a t what seem to be obvious mistakes by director and cast. Then DePalma takes you further down the garden path by blatantly playing for laughs. But at the end of the path he gets you firmly by the throat.

The incredible impact of the end of this movie is made possible by lulling the audience into a com- placency and belief that they're not really going to see anything scary.

Piper Laurie evokes nothing but amused disbelief with her por- trayal of Carrie's fanatic, sexually- repressed mother. She borrows her style in this movie from the Harvey Korman school of Ham acting.

William Katt rivals her for cardboard character of the year award by playing a golden-haired school sports star. Stereotypes, cliches, heavy-handed symbolism -- they're all there in generous amounts, turning the movie into an excellent parody of the modern horror show style.

Then, just when you're gathering up your coat and umbrella; con- vinced that you've seen a comedy masquerading a s a horror movie, DePalma, as the proverb has it, scares the living shit out of you.

He 'gives you a terror and adrenalin rush such a s I've never experienced in my long experience of falling asleep a t horror shows.

The whole movie was made for that moment and it has the necessary impact to carry it all. DePalma finally delivers, to leave you shaking a s you go out the door.

Lf you like satire and light comedy, you'll like Carrie. And if you like to be scared, you'll love it.

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Set In the steamy jungles of the tropics, this torrid tale of sweaty- palmed iove and libidinal liberty has aroused the ire (and somnolent sex drive) of Reichbureaucracy censor Puce Malvillian.

Rumor has it that the floppy- eared man who visually assaulted lovely starlet Mariaz Wider by exhbiting the sparse attire and miniscule equipment concealed beneath his plastic raincoat, was none other than Reichminister of Truth Rat McSneer. Ms. Wider said she found the experience underwhelming.

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L-evesque gains power By SHANE McCUNE

Peter Desbarats must swear under his breath each time he glances at the dustjacket of Rene. There, centred on the back, is a quote from the text:

“The idea of Rene Levesque negotiating the future of Canada with Pierre Trudeau is too far in the future to be anything but wildly speculative - but how potent that prospect is! *‘

‘Rene: A Canadian in Search of a Country. Peter Desbarats. McClelland and Stewart. $1 0 , 223 pages.

When Desbarats wrote those words last July, in his introduction to the book, he knew that the release of the book would coincide neatly with the Christmas book rush, and perhaps with a provin- cial election in Quebec.

He had no idea, of course, that by the time his book hit the stands the quote so prominently displayed would appear so foolish.

It would be a pity if that quote dissuaded the public fom reading Rene. As a detailed political biography of Levesque, and a fascinating account of his relations with Trudeau and the federal Liberals from Quebec, it is all the more relevant now that Levesque is the premier of Quebec.

Desbarats‘ prose is neither lyric nor academic. It is fluid, readable journalese - just what one would expect from someone who spent 11 years writing about Quebec in sundry newspapers and magazines across Canada.

Nevertheless, the book is’ more than an annotated collection of interviews with Levesque and clippings from Le Devoir; Desbarats makes frequent use of dramatization.

The first chapter, for example, is a reconstruction of an informal meeting in Gerard Pelletier’s Wetmount home. Present were Pelletier, then editor of La Presse, Andre Laurendau, editor of Le Devoir, labor leader Jean Mar- chand, law professor Pierre Trudeau, and Quebec Natural Resources Minister Rene

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Levesque, the only one of the group holding high political office.

Their meeting broke up when the oneof five FLQ bombs planted that evening exploded near Pelletier’s house.

From this opening, Desbarats moves to a well paced summary of the political actions and intrigues of Quebec in the 1960s, con- centrating on Levesque‘s career in the Liberal cabinet of Premier Jean Lesage.

As with any worthwhile book of this genre, the most interesting sections a r e the personal ex- changes and private asides emerging from conflicts between politicians. In 1962, following Levesque’s successful bid to nationalize Quebec Hydro, Levesque and Trudeau discussed nationalization one evening at Jean Marchand‘s apartment. Trudeau

sniffed that nationalization was merely bread and cirnuses for voters who were starting to look critically at the Llesage govern- men t.

.‘Levesque had exploded. He had told Trudeau that his ironic, Socratic pose was nothing but a joke. Trudeau had retorted that it was impossible to have a serious discussion Kith a small-fry party hack.”

Levesque would later describe Trudeau a s having “a natural-born talent for getting slapped in the face.”

Dasbarats is constantly mining political speeches and private discussions for his account for the rise of nationalism in Quebec, and he frequently strikes rich veins of irony. Did Jean Drapeau, in 1959, really rail against the neocolonial economy of Quebec, warning that,

“We are tending more and more to become a proletarian people’?’’ Did ‘Trudeau write in 1956 that, “Self- government is an admirable aim, of course, provided a people really intend to govern themselves?”

Even more revealing are the quotations from increasingly shrill editorials in the English-language Montreal press, as Levesque and the separatists gained popularity. One week prior to the 1970 provincial election, an editorial in the Montreal Star warned against “the propensity of Quebec leader, throughout history, toward authoritarianism and dic- tatorship.”

Desbarats, like so many English- language journalists in Quebec, is drawn to Levesque‘s personality but distrusts his mastery of economics. There are several references in Rene to Levesque’s

“political journalist’s skimpy familiarity with economics and government finance.‘’

But the point is also made - and forcefully - that Levesque proved himself a fast learner in the treacherous school of politics in Quebec.

An appendix to Rene is an in- terview with Levesque which Desbarats wrote for the Canadian Magazine in 1969, in which they discussed what Quebec would be like in 1977, following an election victory by the P.Q.

Desbarats was paid for the ar- ticle, but it was never published. On the advice of the editors of the ~ o n t r e a l Gazette, The Canadian

shelved the interview on the grounds that it lent unjustifiable credibility to Quebec‘s separation and would create needless division in Canada.

Rohnzer treats mindm body By GEORGE BAUGH

The most fascinating book you could read this year would be Separation, the latest opus of Richard Rohmer.

It is ostensibly a book which presents a series of hypothetical problems that lead to a drastic solution; the separation of Quebec from Canada. “To read it only on

this mundane level is to do a great disservice to the author and to the work.

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Separation is much more than that.

Dealing with the mind-body problem in allegorical terms (English Canada of course repre- sents the mind; Quebec a vivacious body), Rohmer sets the philosophical crowd on their collective heads.

It is his contention that, contrary to Plato, the body existed before the mind and may well exist after the mind dies. In terms of the allegory this is seen to be true. Every school kid knows that New France was founded before the English settlements in Canada. After separation Quebec might also stand a better chance of continued existence than a frac- tured and divisive Canada.

In a moving and poignant scene Rohmer caps his theory with these words :

. . .she tightened her grip on his

testicles, pulled down,and with her right hand brought the switchblade in a slicing motion through the top of the scrotum cleanly severing the testicles from his humping body.

Rohmer has deliberately in- cludedcontradictions in this scene. He says that it is the body which has been wounded but what he means is that the mind is an in- competent judge of its own func- tions. Another complication, the reasons for which may seem ob- scure, is that the two people in- volved in the scene are neither Canadian nor Quebecois but are in reality an Arab and a Palestinian.

Separation is not for those people who want to turn their minds off and “have a good read.” To make sense of this book one must be prepared to undergo the most fantastic, mental gymnastics.

It is heartening to find that at least one Canadian writer is writing not for the moment or for mere gain but in search of more lasting truths which will be remembered long after both Canada and Quebec, and even Richard Rohmer, are forgotten.

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Stanley and Roy booze up By VERNE McDONALD

Stanley Burke and Roy Peterson are back with another tale from the Swamp, that mythical land of beavers and frogs that keeps sounding suspiciously like Canada.

It 's ostensibly a children's book, with big print, wonderful illustrations by Roy Peterson, and a text that any 10 year old or first year university student could read.

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It 's also got 50 pages retailing at $5.95, which means it's not going to he bought by 10 year olds or university students. It's Christmas time, as it usually is when Burke and Peterson release their fables, and time to catch the gift market.

But, as can be expected when a journalist known internationally and an awadwinning cartoonist get together, the result is not all child's play.

Burke lines up and gets some shob away a t hockey in general, big business hockey in particular, and the Canadian way of life.

Though on the whole Burke succeeds with his satire, as well a s writing an enjoyable children's book, there still remains a schizophrenic quality that harms the thrust a t both levels.

It is difficult to review because of this indecision on whether it is indeed aimed at children, or their elders who would appreciate the satire.

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authors shortly before publication of the book, meaning to clear up some of the problems that I had in discerning the purpose of the book.

I cleared most of it up, but my notes from that evening are scribbled and beer-smeared, so I can only give you an ap- proximation of what was sald, along with some help from Peterson, who maintained the highest level of sobriety.

It turns out that Burke is, indeed, concerned with the serious aspects of what he has written. "Everyone on earth laughs a t themselves, the English, the French, the Scottish . . . Canadians take themselves too seriously. I'm hoping that books like this will help Canadians laugh at themselves."

-.Canadians see themselves as sensible people. Of course, we must bemore sensible than anyone else, right? Yet we proudly say that one of the most violent sports on earth is our national sport."

Eurke's main cri t icism of hockey, however, is its sellout to "the megabuck society," both in terms of what it's done to the sport and what it implies about Canadian values.

But can such a slender volume of whimsical humor bear the weight of such concepts? Of course not. But it hints a t them sufficiently to provide it with some depth beyond Burke's light humor.

And regardless of the schizo- phrenia resulting from a serious journalist writing humor for children, the whole thing could be carried effortlessly by Peterson's "

drawings, for which he should receive an award for beaver caricature of the year.

In the end, it's all rather trivial. .4fter alast attempt at saying some profound thing about the book at the interview, Peterson stopped us and said, "look, we've written a nice little book that's rather funny and we think your kid'll love it, and it'll be just great for stuffing stockmgs with, all right'?"

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Cottage houses horror By EVA FLYNN

Night Must Fall is a thriller, Tuesday night's premiere audience gasped aloud at the climactic point of this 1930's murder drama. The nervous laughter and looming hushes suggest this Studio 58 student production is a more than adequately executed piece of theatre.

Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams Starring Heidi Archibald and John Bryden Directed by Antony Holland Until December 9 at Studio 58, Langara College

The murderer, Dan, is like the boy next door. He is blonde and taunting, a boyish ladies' man. But underneath all his wit and personality he's a psychopathic killer.

Mrs. Bramson, his next victim, is a selfish hypocritical old invalid. She constantly badgers her quiet but observant niece, Olivia, and her two maids, the simple minded Dora and the stick-thin, quick and snappy Mrs. Terence.

The action of the play takes place in Mrs. Bramson's sitting room in Essex, England. The inhabitants' seemingly, uneventful life is disturbed by Dora's pregnancy and Dan, the father, is called to the house by Mrs. Bramson whose intention is to have the two righteously married.

Instead Dan interests her. He moves into the bungalow and events proceed from

there. A murder has been committed in the village and it is not long before the audience discovers that Dan is the murderer and nervously awaits the murder of his next victim. The plot becomes apparent soon enough, but it is the development of the characters Olivia and Dan that proves in- triguing.

O h i a watches with progressive interest and subsequent horror as Dan makes his moves. His true identity is revealed to the audience at the same time.

Heidi Archibald a s the unassuming victim Mrs. Bramson, Marianne Gregor a s the placidly observant Olivia and Jon Bryden a s the killer Dan, display in-depth and sincere developments of character much to be commended in this student production. The ever present comic relief balances the build of tension. Credit is especially due to John J . Moffat as theoverwhelmingly polite English gent who's walked upon and shook out like a r@ throughout the course of the show. Also worth mentioning is Earl Klein who brings a polished and sophisticated Inspector Belsize to life.

Drew Borland's set once again suitably enhances the play and characters. It is a comfortably shoddy country cottage with warming fireside and floral decor.

Antony Holland has a fine student cast to work with (he is double casting and will alternate the cast throughout the run of the show) and has directed them in a most pleasing performance of Night Must Fall. HEIDI ARCHIBALD . . . principal figure in murder thriller

By RICHARD CURRIE natural hallucinogens. Another, Hosanna ends this Sunday at the Quintajimultic, is about a five-day

Vancouver East Cultural Centre. for the new year! and

a ma tinee saturday a t :30. processionillustrating the passions Tickets are $3.50 or whatever you of Christ. The Christmas Market is can afford on Saturday. open starting Dec. 3 continuing

eouver Youth Orchestra a t 2:OO. On Jingle Bell Jungle conceived by Monday, An Infinity Studio Evelyn Roth and Sharon Halfnight presents Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum, is at the Burnaby Art Gallery. It Buddhist films of Karma Dundrup features a 40-foot Santa suitable for Chimpel (Byron Black) and Lama climbing, a musical staircase by 'Thinly Drubpa. Show is at 8:00, Helen May, banners, sculptures tickets $2.00. and workshops. On Saturday and

In a moreserious setting is a film Sunday are music workshops at and lecture Mayan Cult and 2:30 for people, bells, and chimes. Shamanism by Georges Payashe Sharon Halfnight will be showing and Claudine Viallon. There are slides and examples of her work three films. One, called Brujo, decorating the hangars a t Habitat deals with the medicine of the Forum using a variety of Mayans including the use of techniques including batik and

Showtimes a r e 8: 30 each night with lastly, Via Dolorosa about a

Sunday afternoon is the van- until the 19th. Info a t 254-9578.

applique on Wednesday night at 7:3O. Everything is free, but bring yer own bell!

Chile Show, an a t tempt to publicize the invasion of human rights by the military junta after the coup in '73, is free for the viewing Dec. 1, 2, 4 at 8:OO. The show will consist of harrowing moments, humor, absurdity, poetry and Chilean folk music.

Mars finishes with a great im- plosion this Sunday. .You can see this history-making event a t the planetarium. At the Centennial Museum is Native B.C. Art. In the auditorium is a l?estival of Kwakiutl Films.

Shawn Phillips and Michael Palmer are a t the Old Roller Rink until Nov. 2 8 . Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee show up through Dec. 36. For info and reservations call 986-1331.

The Cecellian Ensemble returns to Christ Church Cathedral a t 8:30 tonight. Their show is called La Guerre des Buffons and the special

guest is David Skulski who plays baroque oboe. More info at 224- 1438.

If you happen to be at the Van- couver Public Library this Sunday at 2:30 you can hear B.C. poets Daphne Marlatt, Carole Itter and Edwin Varney. If you want to stay home, listen to CFRO-FM 102.7 because the readings will be carried live . . . besides you can listen to Pajama Party at 1:OO.

At Rohans on West 4th this evening is Berrycup with old rock 'n' roll, blues and boogie. Be there or be square!

The Fine Arts Gallery here on campus in the bowels of the main library is presenting Eduoardo Paoiozzi, British sculptor.

The Heritage Crafts Guild is presenting a Christmas Crafts Fair from Dec. 3-8 at the Peter Pan Ballroom, 1636 West Broadway 11-9 daily. There'll be a wide selection of top quality, reasonably priced crafts along with live folk and jazz music in the evenings. Donation at

the door for the Christmas Cheer Fund.

Launie Wong-Mitchel exhibits color prints using the ciba-chrome process at the Helen Pitt Gallery, 163 W. Pender. The show is entitled Woman by Woman and is her first major show since her graduation from the VSA in 1971. Preview is Nov. 29 a t 8:OO, exhibit is Nov. 30- Dec. 1.

The Sofia, a new restaurant featuring international folk- dancing and cuisine is having a special on North America. Tonight at 9:30 is bluegrass music with Casual Acquaintances Orchestra and John Malone calling. Saturday they're featuring swing and jazz by the Lunatic Fringe alongside Hannah the belly dancer from San Fran.

If you'd like to see something in Vista, perhaps something you think we have missed, then find a crayon and write a note. We'll find someone who can read and maybe it'll get in the column.

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Sikose Nji, a 21-year-old student from Soweto, and John Makatini, Afr ican National Congress representative to the United Nations, will try to explain the confrontation a t a speech Tuesday a t 8 p.m., in the Christmas Seal auditorium a t Tenth and Willow.

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Friday, November 26, 1976 T H E U B Y S S E Y Page 15

T'Birds bury down under side By PAUL WILSON outboarded their Australian op-

star basketball team were no The 'Birds collectively pulled match for the UBC Thunderbirds down 46 boards, 35 of them at the as they were trounced 84-60 defensive end of the court to the Tuesday night in War Memorial Aussies 35. McKay pulled down Gym. nine and Bohn came up with eight

The Aussies were dominated rebounds while Australian Colin throughout the game bv the much Varian got seven.

The Australian universities all- posites, who were both 6')''.

bigger 'Birds. ?he ou*tcome was In thg points department, Bill points, 10 of them in the second never in any doubt from the Berzins led the 'Birds with 15 half', and Bruce Wright came up

their 6'11'' centre Mike McKay and free throw, shooting an even 50 For the Australians, D a v i d 6'9" forward Jan Bohn consistently percent in both. McKay got 12 Stiliman from La Trobe University

' opening tip off. The 'Birds' led by points on seven field goals and one with 11.

Rasslers even record af I-1-1 The Thunderbird wrestling team

evened its season record at 1-1-1 when they split two contests with the Washington State University Cougars in dual meet action Nov. 19.

The first match was conducted under American collegiate rules and the Cougars won 24-15. The second match was held under Olympic freestyle rules and UBC came away with a 26-16 victory in that one.

Peter Farklas (134 pounds), Ira Chitlow (142) , Lee Blanchard (158), Mike Grist (1671, Craig Delehunt (190) and George Richey (heavyweight), al l won their matches for the 'Birds.

On Saturday the 'Birds travelled to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho to par- ticipate in the North Idaho College Tourney. George Richey led the way for UBC by taking first place in the 200-pound weight class. Delehunt (180) and Mike Richey (la), both captured seconds. Rob

Jones (135) picked up a fourth. Led by the veteran George

Richey, his brother Mike and the returning Delehunt, the 'Birds are once .again very strong in the heavyweight classes. But the difference is the maturity and depth that has been gained in the lighter classes.

The 'Birds next action will be 2:30 p.m. today in W a r Memorial Gym, when they talke on the Central Washington State squad. Central Washington is a Derennial

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power that UBC-has met h each of the last two seasons. Each team

shot a high GO percent for 13 points. Chris Lane got 12 points, all of them on field goals.

The Australian team had only one day to recover from a 24-hour flight, this may account for their poor shooting accuracy - they oniy shot 36 per cent. They at- tempted 80 field goals and sunk 29. The 'Birds did somewhat better coming up with the same number of attempts for 37 baskets a fairly consistent 46 per cent.

"I think this has been a very valuable first game for our tour. 'Your style of play is somewhat different than ours and we took some time to adjust," Australian coach David Major said after the game.

At half time the 'Birds had a commanding 41-25 lead. But the Australians in the second half were only outscored by eight points, 43- 35, rn the second half.

.'In Australia basketball is still

start first season UBC's women's rowing team

took part in its maiden outing Saturday In a regatta in Seattle, hut with modest results.

Eleven members of the two-. month-old crew made the journey to the annual Green Lake Fall Regatta where they eptered the novice four and novice eight events against a number of collegiate crews from Oregon, Washington and B.C.

Stirk, a former coxswain with the men's crew.

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The team is still looking for new members and can be contacted throu& the athletic office in War

Rowing in the four were Leslie Memorial Gym Clough, Sandra Harper, Nancy Hunter and Sheila Root. Joining Harper and Root in the eight were Susan Baiton, Janice Swan, Star Mahara, Val Cooper, Susan Zygmunt and Jennifer Thomsen.

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very much a recreational sport," Major said. "Most of our courts are still outdoors. But the Australian national team did show a great deal of improvement a t the last Olympics. Our university players do not even play in a league against each other. They all play local men's league teams."

About half of the Australian players are from two universities in the Adelaide region and play on the Southern Australian State team. On this year's tour are six returnees from previous Australian all star teams.

Tuesday's game was the Aussie's only appearance on the, west coast. They left Wednesday for Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Next in UBC's league schedule they play the Lethbridge Pronghorns. Last weekend in Leth- bridge the Pronghorns split a pair of games with the Calgary Dinosaurs, losing 81-65 and win- ning 85-77. In the 'Birds' season opener against Calgary they went down to defeat twice by three and IZpoint margins.

The games are 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in War Memorial Gym.

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