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by Cheryl Niamath

UBC needs to hire more women, physically challenged people and people of colour ac- cording to a report by a UBC com- mittee on employment equity.

The President’s Advisory Committee on Employment Eq- uity based its recommendations on data collected through a sur- vey distributed to approximately 7,000 UBC employees in Febru-

The survey, which is now routinely sent to new university employees, asks respondents to identify themselves in terms of gender and asks ifthey are physi- cally challenged, an aboriginal person or a person of colour.

The overall response rate to the census was 65.6 per cent, with 72.4 per cent of female employees and 59.6 per cent of male employ- ees responding.

Sharon Kahn, director of UBC’s Employment Equity pro- gram said the university is trying to balance representation. W e have been publicizing that we

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Dr. Sharon Kahn.

welcome women and minorities, and we’re trying to make the workplace more hospitable.”

Kahn cited a recent career advertisement which states that the university is “concerned about the under-representation of women in administration” and encouraged applications “from qualified women.”

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Kahn added the university has improved safety features such as new outdoor lighting, emer- gency telephones and a security shuttle service.

The report attributes the cur- rent employment “short-fall” of women and minorities at UBC to the under-qualification of these groups. Through organizations

such as the First Nations House of Learning, the Women Student’s Office and the Disability Resource Centre, however, more women and minorities will be encouraged to earn the graduate degrees to qualify them for academic careers at UBC.

“If we’re hiring able-bodied white men, maybe it’s because they’re the only ones applying, maybe it’s because they’re the best qualified for the job,” Kahn said.

The low numbers of women and minorities working at UBC may be partly due to the employer’s prejudices, Kahn said.

“I think sometimes we think of the person who’s going to do the job as a man, as an able-bodied person, and we have to question the relevance of the images. We have to examine our stereotypes.

“Even though we may not look worse than other universi- ties or large employers, we still want to do more.

UBC wants to advance the potential of women and minori- ties and still hire the best people for the job,” she added.

Ruth Warickofthe Disability Resource Centre said UBC‘s Em- ploymentEquityprogramisavery positive step. “The work to date is a useful starting point. The next step is to look at hiring policies of the university to see if there are any systemic barriers to people with disabilities.”

According to the report, only 1.5 per cent of university employ- eesareFirst Nations people. Ethel Gardner, assistant director of the First Nations House of Learning, said the employment of First Na- tions people may not have been a priority at UBC.

“I don’t see that there’s really an active recruitment, specifically directed to First Nations, so you don’t see First Nations anywhere on campus.

“I think there’s still tremen- dous under-representation. I don’t see First Nations working in ser- vice areas or in janitorial areas.

“For the positions we have here [at the First Nations House of Learning] we fought tooth-and- nail.”

against counselling by Christina ChaLi Chen

Despite drizzling rain, about 50 women and 15 men showed up to a near-empty campus to pro- testcounsellingcutsin the Women Students’Office (WSO) located in Brock Hall.

Demonstrators demanded that all counselling be reinstated, and women of colour and First Nation women be hired as coun- sellorsfor the WSO. Many carried signs reading “No Cuts to Coun- selling” and “Hire Women of Colour” on Monday’s rally-turned- sit-in.

The cut-backs occurred after the office’s new director Marsha Trew was hired by the university administration to replace former director June Lythgoe, who was redirected to the Faculty of Edu- cation as the director of profes- sional programs.

The WSO had been the only source of feminist-based counsel- ling for UBC’s 14,000 women on campus.

Marianna Unser, a single- mother, said she had been using one-to-one counselling service in- termittently for ten years. She claimed she would never have completed her degree in music if the service was unavailable. She received financial and emotional support and was encouraged to come back to school after several years of absence.

“Everywhere I went, counsel- lingwasverymale-dominatedand sexist. There was certainly not much support for a single-mother and her child,” Ussner said.

“The Awards (and Financial

Aid) Omce could not understand how difficult it is to raise a child with student loan, and work and study at the same time.”

Ussner re- counted an inci- dent of being di- rected to pam- phlets for “help” after seeking ad- vice and support at Student Counselling.

“Most places just referred me to somewhere else for help, but this (WSO) is help.”

C o l l e e n Haney, a former counsellor who recently com- pleted her in- ternship at the WSO said many “potentially good a c a d e m i c (women) stu- dents” will be lost with the counselling cut Students protesting cuts to couseiiing file into Women backs. Students Office to begin sit-in.

She said the ofice was always packed on days she counselled at ited the office for ten consecutive President’s Review Committee’s the WSO. “One-to-one counselling sessions and made noticeable recommendations which strongly dealt with serious issues such as progresses. “They gain more con- supports WSO’s one-to-one coun- incest,sexualabusebyboyfnends, fidence and feel better about selling function and advised i t to sexisttreatmentbyprofessorsand themselves. They also focus bet- expand its advocacy function. other students.” ter on their studies.” However, the WSO director

Haney said in serious cases, Some controversy centres on has cut counselling to meet this some women students have vis- Trew’s deviance from the calling for advocacy.

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“The office is too visible for the administration. Using advo- cacy to cut counselling is just an excuse” said a woman demonstra- tor. “Anyone in counselling will know that with counselling comes advocacy.”

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MUSIC FOR A SUMMER'S EVENING A series of FREE CONCERTS, these are cham- ber music recitals featuring Vancouver's finest chamber musicians. All concerts take place at 8:OO on Tuesday evenings in the Recital Hall of the UBC Music Building. All Summer Session students, their families and members of the general public are welcome to attend.

Tuesday, July23 - Music Building Recital Hall, 8:OO p.m.

Piano Trio music of Mozart, Prokofiev and Schumann, performed by John Loban, violin, Eric Wilson, cello, and Lesley Janos, piano.

SUMMER SOUNDS FREE OUTDOOR CONCERTS AT LUNCHTIME! These concerts will happen daily on the South Plaza of SUB, and there will be music to suit everyone's taste. Bring your lunch and a friend!

Friday, July 19 - Hollyburn Ramblers

Monday, July 22 - Penguin String Quartet

Wednesday, July 24 - Fantazea

SUMMER SCREEN FREE FILMS, open to all Summer Session students, their families and members of the general public. All films are shown in Lecture Hall 2 of the Instructional Resources Centre, (next to Woodward Library) beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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f r j d a y , July 26 - Ghost

Fraser Valley waits for university by Rick Hiebert

The BC government will not make a firm commitment to a new public university in Chilliwack despite the fact that Fraser Valley College has been given degree granting status.

Advanced education minister Peter Dueck announced July 5 that the college wouldbecome the fourth collene in BC to =ant university

college makes sense because the post-secondary participation lev- elsin the valley are about the same as the Northwest Territories,” Jones said. “Probably the most practical way to do something now about the issue has been done by adding onto FVC.

“There will be a need for an- other university in the region re- gardless,” the Burnaby North MLA

degrees, but wozd only promi& &d, pointingoutthat government further governmental study onthe statistics estimate the region will possibility of creating a university increase over 550,OOOinpopulation there. over the next 25 years, necessitat-

MLAforChilliwack,hasprompted Jones said Dueck may have critics to argue that the an- made the promise of a new uni- nouncement is geared towards versity in his riding for political boosting his chances in the forth- reasons. coming provincial election. ”I think it’s no coincidence that

The government plans to form they’ve appointed Peter Dueck, the two advisory committees; one will MLA from the region as advanced address trades education and one education minister. We had a will”providecommunityinputinto minister before that [Bruce the creation of a new university,” Strachan, from Prince George Dueck said. South] trying to save his seat by

“The new university college havinganew university-the Uni- will address the immediate needs versity of Northern BC-in his for third and fourth-year riding,”he said. programmes in the eastern end of “I’m not saying this is a wrong the Fraser Valley,” he said. decision, but the timing, shortly

Fraser Valley College (Wc) before anelection, is suspect. We’ve will begin to admit its first third- had a lot of public input, so there year students in the fall of 1992. needstobe someexpertinput, some Meanwhile, the college has to be- concrete planning to set up a uni- gin planning for a $10 million ex- versity.” pansion and negotiating accredi- Students are generally tation and programme content pleased. with B.C.’s public universities, Fraser Valley College Student acting college president Dick Bate Societypresident Wilf Vicktor said said. he was very happy with the uni-

“ThisispartofwhattheFraser versity college announcement. Valley needs to work on its post “There are three people that I secondary educationalneeds,”Bate have great respect for: a single said. mother, a 45 year old man with

Dueck’s announcement is four children and a pergon who is welcome, argues NDP opposition disabled. They all have a dream of advanced education critic Bany getting a university degree and Jones, but the timing of the an- they wouldn’t have been able to nouncement is suspect. without this announcement,” he

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The position taken by h e c k , ing 6,300 new university spaces.

“I think the new university said.

Brad Lavigne, chair of the Canadian Federation of Students- BC (CFS), called the new univer- sity college “a step in the right direction” yet was also critical.

“The CFS hopes that this is part of a plan, but we’ve yet to see their long term-access strategy,” he said. “hey have to show that there’s aplan, a strategyfor access

for all British Columbians and that this all isn’t political expediency.”

The Fraser Valley University Society, the lobby group pushing for a university in the valley, has been invited by Dueck to partici- pate in planning the proposed new university.

“I just want to make sure that this isn’t rhetoric and that action

will follow,” said society president Karen Yong, adding that the group would come up with its concrete proposals for the new university in the next month.

“This came m n e r that we actually expected, which is good- the work of the society was evi- dently quite influential,” she said.

Urban Images: The urban Native woman by Christina Cha-Li Chen

Low wages and a lack of ad- equate social services such as daycare and housing form enor- mous hurdles for Native women seeking employment.

But more Native women suc- cessfully secure jobs after at-

tending a 15-week job training session offered by Urban Images for Native Women (UINW) lo- cated at Broadway and Main Street.

“At $6 an hour, the incen- tives for them to go out and work while paying for day care, a

wardrobe, andtransportationfees are just not there,” said UINW employment facilitator Diana Day.

The training session consists of nine weeks of classes followed by six weeks of work experience. UINW pays 17 women $5.00 an

Acadia residents protest rent hikes by RaQi Paschiera One of the grievances on their are international students who,

While the Association of Col- leaflet is that “[there are] families while working on their masters or lege and University Housing Of- who own homes in Vancouver a n d doctorate degrees, try to provide ficers-International (ACUHO-I) or make in excess of $40,000 ayear for their families. held their annual conference, a (and) live in Family Housing.” Many of the residents had group of demonstrators and their A proposal offered by the dem- their children alongside holding families staged a rally protesting onstrators is the creation of a rent up signs and providing some sup- the five per cent rent increase at system basedonthe income ofeach port to the parents. Acadia family housing, Monday of the families. This would mean As the crowd of ACUHO-I morning. that families pay what their in- delegates thinned, the protesters

Bearing plastic-wrapped and comes can afford. marched to the office of Student home-made signs, the protestors Mary Riseborough, director of Housing. They were carrying a stood in the rain and in the path of Student Housing and h o s t petition asking for the elimination some ACUHO-I delegates and committeechairofACUH0-I, said of the rent increase and for the handed out leaflets that outlined the rent scaled-bincome would administration to pursue other their complaints with UBC student not be effective since most stu- rental payment systems. housing. dents in housing would not want Over 350 people, about half

“Onepersontookthepamphlet the financial burden of having to the Acadia residents, signed the and said ‘Good. I’ll take this to the support other students. petition, which was presented to administration meeting I’m going UBC’s rent policy is to have the staff. to right now.’ She was very en- rentsat75percentofmarketvalue, After handing over the peti- thusiastic,” said Pam Rogers, but according to Rogers, “Our in- tion, they headed over to the Pon- single-mother and resident of comes are 25 per cent of market derosa cafeteria next door to rest Acadia residences. value. There are families who live and get warm.

But not all delegates were as on subsidies that amount to only Askedhowhethoughttherally sympathetic. $13,000 a year.” went, Michael Gabriel, father and

“There were people saying, The demonstrators pointed Acadia resident, said, “I think it ‘The higher the rents, the better,’ out that many of the families liv- went well. We came to make our and others just crumpled the pa- ing in family housing sacrifice 65- point and we made it. I thinkit was pers up in front of us and threw 75 per cent of their income to pay a real success.” them to the ground,” Rogers said. for rent. Many of these residents

hour to attend classes and $5.60 an hour to work. Past employers have included the Canadian Im- perial Bank of Commerce, Sand- wich Tree and several city hospi- tals.

The programme, sponsored by CanadaEmployment, wascreated seven years ago after a group of concerned Native women discov- ered disturbing results in their study of Native social conditions, which include poverty, unem- ployment, limited education, dis- crimination and inadequate daycare.

Day and UINW instructor Freda Hoppington-Scott said the lack of self-confidence was the biggest obstacle for some Native women seeking an education and employment.

“Many drop out in high-school because it is a struggle to concen- trate and study. They have no quiet time available to themselves, and not much support from family and community members,” Day said.

According to programme co- ordinator Darlene Kelly, about 70 per cent of the participants com- plete UINWs programme and 70 per cent of the graduates find jobs.

The most beneficial aspect of UINWs job-training programme is the support participants receive from their Native peers and an all-Native staff.

“All Natives here have an im- pact (on one another). It doesn’t matter where you are from, so long as you are Native. We break

the stereotype images ofincompe- tency and laziness,” Hoppington- Scott said.

A powerful tool in the programmeisthemedicine wheel. Everyday, instructors and par- ticipants sit in a circle and prac- tice role-playing and use body language to demonstrate assertiveness.

“It helps them build their ego, FFdheighten their self-esteem and motivation,” she said. Eventually they become confident enough to pursue their goals.

The prejudice of some em- ployers toward Natives is based onignoranceandalackofrespect. They focus on false assumptions such as ‘Natives are lazy, unreli- able, and slow,’ Day said.

Before participants enter the work period, Day speaks to the employers to break stereotypes.

Native women face social ob- stacles that few people under- stand, Day said. The lack of edu- cation and work experience, peer pressure, racism, and family structure make i t difficult to set and achieve goals.

Kelly’s revisions to the programme for 1992 have been approved by the Canada Employ- ment and Immigration Commis- sion. UINW will offer two 20-week programmes a year in place of the three existing 15-week programmes. “I feel the partici- pants will gain greater benefits if they stay with us longer,” Kelly said.

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by G. Davis

HE exclusive supper club 1 was splendidly decorated, quaint and inviting, with every table having a reasonable view of the stage.

I sat amongst the fashion- able crowd, chatting and sipping cocktails, waiting for the revue to begin. The performance tonight was Cowardy Custard, a tribute to the words and music of Noel Coward, which at the very least promised to provide some sublime amusement.

foppish gentleman but a some- what graceless writer from The Ubyssey, and this was not some suave cabaret but the Dorothy Sommerset Studio. The charm and flavour of Mr. Coward's words and music were cheerfully presented by the UBC Summer Players.

But wait! I was not a 1930's

!rHEATRE UBC Summer Players Cowardy Custard Dorothy Sommerset Studio in repertory until August 2

Noel Coward, famous wit and playwright, was ever so wicked and cheeky in his presentations of upper class and artistic pretensions.

little songs, yet the sweet, melodies concealed dastardly barbs and sharp comments about society and those in socialite circles.

Tunes such as I Went To a Marvellous Party, The Passenger's Always Right and Why Do the Wrong People

He also wrote many catchy

Travel are prime examples of this style.

The cast included three leading men in top hats and tailcoats, three leading women in formal evening gowns, and a spiffy piano player providing the tinkling sounds. The men took turns at being Coward himself, delivering snappy comments with the cool detachment and condescending attitude for which the man is famous.

When they weren't Coward, they played the role of some cynic or fool, a character from a play or a song. The women played the debonair debutantes engaging these sophisticated rascals in risque verbal interplay which would eventually lead into a song. The players did not have the bite of old Noel himself, but they at least left their teethmarks on the audience. I I

The singing flowed along smoothly, a difficult job at the best of times, and the ability of this novice company to deliver solid vocal lines must be com- mended.Particularly strong were the numbers Mrs. Worthington, London Pride, Cockney Songs, and London at Night. The revue also included such recognizable standards as Mad About the Boy, and Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

One cannot say much more about such delightful fluff, and though the wit was at times scathing, the production never aspired to do more than merely entertain. The performance was not quite as slick as it could have been but the enthusiasm and sense of fun generated by the cast and atmosphere rendered the evening most enjoyable.

The University of British Columbia ENGLISH COMPOSITION TEST

FRIDAY, JULY 19 , 1991 From 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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Photos by: PAUL GORDON (top three) MA CHIA-NIEN (bottom three)

Show of colours and tradition by Erne Pow

U NDER grey skies last Saturday afternoon, at least 350 cos-

tumed Native Indian dancers tapped their feet, shook their bells and feathers, and moved to the beat of eloquent drums and songs.

This was the scene of the 17th international Pow-wow last weekend in Mission, BC. The social and

Besides traditional beading and decoration, the costumes were made of resourceful materials such as multi-coloured scarves and scraps of cloth.

One of the styles of dance featured the jingle dancers wearing dresses with rows of small cones sewn on the fabric. The result was a delightful sound that complemented the drum beat.

packets of caps for toy guns outside their trailer, and the sound of mock gun shots filled the air before the dancing began.

Eric Robinson, non-Natives were warmly invited to dance and be participants of the celebration. By then it was late afternoon, the skies had cleared and the sun finally shone on an event that warmed the snirit.

Cajoled by master of ceremonies

celebratory event was dedicated to The contrasts between the revived memories and shared the Elijah Harper, MLA for Rupertsland, beautiful Native tradition and urban regalia of the Native people.

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Manitoba. commonplace were prevalent. Many Harper and other honoured of the dancers wore their running

dignitaries led the Grand Entry, a shoes instead of their moccasins parade that commenced the Pow-wow because of the damp grass, and people and sessions of dancing. The Grand had orange pop with their bannocks.

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Concern for students makes a great university

Residents of Acadia Park family residences are facing a five per cent rent increase in August. This increase is not substantial, probably amounting to about 30 to 40 dollars, and the newer tenants have already begun paying the higher rent.

The diEciculty, however, is that the present tenants cannot afford any increase at all. They simply cannot pay any more. Already 65-75 per cent of their income is dedicated to paying their rent, so for them any increase, however small, is too much.

The UBC administration initiated the rent legally, the tenants were served with the notice correctly and within the proper time constraint, but when confronted with the resentment and protest of the residents that many families cannot afford the rent increase, they offered to investi- gate the problem.

If the administration can implement the rent increase without “investigating” the impact of the higher rent on the families who live there, why do they feel they have to “investigate” now that the rent has already been instated?

Since the university did not investigate appro- priately, protesting was the only means for the residents to have a voice.

This week they protested in the wake of an international university housing conference, and sent a petition to Student Housing demanding the increase be halted. These demonstrators feel pow- erless because they do not think anyone will lis- ten.

The situation is the administration has be- come too distant from the people it serves and who serve it. Like an irresponsible landlord, they do not know in what conditions their tenants are living, nor do they act quickly to help the tenants.

The people at Acadia Park residences are trying to be heard and, most importantly, trying to be understood. It is the responsibility of the uni- versity administration to know under what con- ditions their tenants survive and how their actions will affect them.

It is about time UBC listened to the concerns of its students. A university is not measured by its research and profits, but by the quality of students it produces. If it does not even adequately address problems of its students, then it is a poor univer- sity by all standards.

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It was hoc damn hot. We‘d been stranded on this deserl island for too long. But then again, any length of time is too long ..... It all started when the skipper of our cruise ship, Rick Hiebert, ran it aground in the middle of this godforsaken ocean. The bouncer from the ship’s club, Martin Chester, beat up the captain and then proceeded to wail at the sky, until he passed out from exhaustion. As the passengers disembarked from the sinking ships, Sharon Lindores, Chris Batchelor, Chung Wong, and Ernie Stelzer stepped, not over, buton the strewn bodies of the bouncer and captain. But then began the war for supplies. Like all politically correct individuals, (Big John from the Courier and Big Tim from the OP) they acted as such, individuals. None of this collective shit, said Charles Nho. As Sara Patton and Cheryl Niamath watched on Michael Booth, Mike Coury, Yggy King, and Don Mah struggled for dear life; or at least for food and water. Soon, after the aforesaid combatants annhilated each other, Effie Pow, Hau Li, Helen Willoughby-price and Greg Davis scooped up the food, burped periodically and lived happily ever after.

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WSO battles mal

insensi’ e :ivity

Theinsensitivityofmen to women’s l ives and women’s realities on this campus was given clear ex- pression in a Vancouver SUN interview of UBC vice- president Daniel Birch Monday.

Said VP Birch: “...The University believed there was an overlap in the fimc- tion of the women’s centre (the Women Students’ Of- fice in Brock Hall) and the administration’scounselling office run by Ken Kush ....” The statement was made as an indirect quotation in a story on women’s counsel- ling services at UBC.

Women students, Birch implies, can certainly be counselled by men in a cen- tre ”run by Ken Kush.” The comments in this news story once again tell us that men know best what is good for women, and that men are best suited to consolidating counselling services in a male university campus.

The statement makes mockery of women’s lives, which are too often the tor- turedresultofmen’sdecision to “run things.”

I write this letter to the Ubyssey today as a counsel- lor of 18 yearsin the Women Students’ Office. If vice- president Birch can go pub- lic in the Vancouver SUN with his beliefs, I feel I have equal right to go public with my beliefs. I, too, am a tax- payer of many years in the province of British Colum- bia; I, too, have spent many, many years on the Univer- sity campus.

You are wrong, Dr. Daniel Birch of the President’s Office, in as- suming that Ken Kush can take care ofthingsfor women students on this campus. He cannot. And nor, apparently, can the President’s Office take care of things for women, for this male office is removed by an infinity of experience from women’s lives.

I realize that in Tuesday’s news story you were caught by a good re- porter and that you tried honestly to answer her questions. I honor your hon-

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esty, for i t brings out to pub- lic scrutiny an agenda that the President53 Office at UBC has long held that agenda is to bring down a 70-year old women’s service office at the University.

It is the destruction of the mice that I deplore, not your candid statements. We needed your words to clear the air and bring out the issues.

Nancy C. Horsman Women Students‘ Office

The Ubyssey biased,

onesided As a casual reader of

the Ubyssey I am appalled by the biased reporting in the article by Christine Cha- Li Chen, Vounselling deci- mated.” There are no facts and figures, the tone is over- emotional and the content presented is one-sided.

I would have thought the WSO office is for the benefitofallwomenstudents and not those in crisis who probably represent only about 2%. The issues for women students are larger than individual cases: the views of the engineering faculty for example.

So counsellors have been reduced. Your article sounds as if the self-interest of this group predominates. One of them, Horsman, is quoted as saying “elimina- tion of one-to-one counselling ... will obstruct the ofice from achieving its goals.” Nonsense! The ser- vice is being reduced, not eliminated and because of that, i t could be possible that the office will achieve its goals for the benifit of the many rather than the few.

The WSO office does not exist to keep a few counsel- lors in business.

Jennifer L Craig Medicine

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like to establish a pen- friendshipwithyoungpeople from your country. I hope you will help me.

Something about me? I like sports (ice hockey, sod- cer, tennis, skiing, roller skate), music, languages (English, German, Russian, Spanish). I want to study at the medicine faculty next year. (Both my parents are doctors.) I have a brother. I like all that is funny. I like travelling.

Sincerely, Jan Kastner Nyanska 14 Pilsen-1 32326 Czechoslovakia

Childcare centres

comfortable Childcare at UBC has a

long, and for the most part, successful history. For over twenty years, even while housed in buildings con- demned by the fire marshal, the parent run co-operative centres enjoyed a reputation for delivering quality care that was second to none in British Columbia. The ma- jor reason for the continued excellence has been the rela- tionship between staff and parents with the individual centres.

Having been involved in childcare at UBC for the past seven yars and having been involved in the negotiations with the University for a li- cencetooperateinthepresent facilities I was angry and bitter, though not completely surprised, when the President’s Office droppedits edict to vacate the premises or turn over the licenses to the University for them to operate the centres. As Jim Carolan noted, ”the Univer- sity in general can’t make good toast.”

Having said all that, and being somewhat of a prag- matist, I look to the future. Childcare advocates have longbeenclamoringforlarge industry and business to be- come involved and to operate on-site childcare. We have before us the perfect oppor- tunity to provide a working model for other universities, business, and industry to follow. What is required is continued parent participa- tionandvigilanceandforthe

University to pay careful consideration to parental in- put. Parents performing duty time or participating in work parties will not be working for the university any more than they were before (we werealwaysfinguniversity buildings and landscaping University property), they will be working for quality and accessible childcare.

Since the University’s bullying tactic of its letter of eviction it has, to its credit, shown a willingness tolisten to parental concerns, at least in regards to childcare ser- vices staffing. In the search for a childcare administrator there was only one Univer- sity representative while there were two childcare and staff and two parent repre- sentatives. Having been in- volved in the selection and having had the benefit of several interviews with the successful1 candidate (some- thing other parents had the opportunity to do, however only one other parent showed up in the 2 hours that the candidate was available. So much for all that parental concern). I am completely confident that the new Ad- ministrator, Darcelle Cot- tons, understands the abso- lute need for parental and staff involvement in staf€se- lection.

For the most part the staff of the centres are com- fortable with the decision of the University. At last they may be recognized as the professionals they are-There was concern that the staf f wouldbeassimilatedintoone oftheexistingbureaucracies. Again, to the University‘s credit, the childcare staffwill be able to maintain their re- lationship with theirexisting small and childcare specific union and those centres that arenonunionizedwillremain soiftheysodesire.Withthese facts in hand, it is my under- standing that there is an in- creased sense of security among the staff that look af- ter our children. This can only make it easier to keep and recruittopqualitypersonnel.

Finally, a word on “cost- recovery.” This phrase is bandied about as though the daycares didn’t have to re- cover their costs prior to the takeaver.

Chris Taylor Grad Studies

B/THE SUMMER UBYSSEY July 18,1991

Parents in daycare a must

I would like to briefly com- ment upon an incident that has occurred at one of the daycare fa- cilities on campus. Recently, a parent witnessed a caregiver sit on a child (not quite three years o1d)inordertodisciplinehim. This was apparently not the first tome that this had occurred. It unfortu- nately required the parents to be- comeinvolvedinashamefulbattle with the employees union and the parents and staff at the centre to ensure that this form of discipline would stop and that the caregiver concerned would resign.

The parents of the child con- cerned have expressed interest in a suggestion that a Parent Board be set up to help other parents with confidential and contentious issues related to the daycare pro- vided by the University of British Columbia. Members of this board should be selected by parents with children attending daycare. Each centre should be represented by parents who do not presently have a child enrolled in the centre they represent but have in the past had achildenrolledatthatcentre. This wouldallow parents more freedom to speak out by not having direct involvement in

with at the centre. Recent events are stark evidence that a confiden- tial andinformed external board of parentsis needed. The parents who wished to complain about disci- pline procedures sought assistance from daycare's executive or "centre parent advisory" and said that despite other parents having wit- nessed the same staffmember dis- cipline the same child by sitting on himher on another occasion but they felt unable to come forward for fear ofjeopardizing their child's safety. The interim Childcare co- ordinator may feel that the inci- dent has been resolved by that employees resignation however, the problem goes beyond a junior staff member's inappropriate be- havior.

There have been other in- stances at the same centre which demonstrates that the discipline policy was created and condoned by the supervisor who has some- how avoided a review of her posi- tion. F'rom my own experience at that centre, having spent many months attending to my own and others parent duty, I have wit- nessed similar forms of discipline being meted out to children by the

supervisor fo

with the rou- tine of the centre having previ- ously attended that centre. There should be at least two representa- tives for each centre. As far as the three-to-five centres are concerned many student parents whose chil- dren have gone onto kindergarten continue to live on campus and are therefore still part of the commu- nity which the daycare serves. They would meet promptly once they receive a complaint and re- port th e complaint to the Univer- sity Childcare coordinator, other parents and staff and the centre concerned andor the MSSH and/ or the provincial licensing offer.

Parents need to be involved in the management of the daycares their children attend in a more meaningful and significant way than they have thus far been pre- scribed by the University. On May 23, the University proposed that a Daycare Council be (rekreated which would have three parent representatives and five Univer- sity employees, one community representatives and one AMs rep. Up until July 1, the daycare coop- eratives had approximately 550 parent representatives actively involved in managing the daycare facilities. The University's sug- gestion hardly seems REPRE- SENTATIVE of the number of parents involved in a dozen inde- pendent daycare centres. It was suggested that it should "operate as a consultative body for parent bursaries; fundraising activities; issues from centre parent adviso- ries, etc..." The Daycare Council would repod to the Child Care Administrator.

This proposal clearly does not address the fundamental role that the parents have had and continue to have in the operation of daycare services on campus. Parents have, in the past, had difficulties in at- tending to complaints about staff behavior as they are to be dealt

required to

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nap at noon. They are each given I matsandparentssupplythe sheets and quilts. The room is reasonably comfortable and quiet and eigh- teen toddlers usually settle down for a good rest. However, there are children who no longer require a nap and are instead very active during rest period. There are also children who are suffering from slight illness such as nasal conges- tion or a cough and i's unable to sleep. In such instances children havebeenforcedtosleepandharsh methods have been used such as: a half body press with one arm re- straining the child, both legs of the individual. pressed across the child's back , and flipping a child by one arm over onto its tummy then holding i t onto the mat. At the time when I witnessed this behavior, I suggested that the su- pervisor go outside the nap room. The supervisor insisted on con- tinuing trying to enforce a nap with a child who was restless and clearly did not want to sleep at that prescribed time. I had later ad- dressed the issue with the parents ofthe children concerned and with the president of that centre at that time but they felt unable to ad- dress the issue. At that point, I withdrew my daughter from daycare.

Although these practiceshave taken place in the past perhaps the supervisor no longer practices this form of discipline with the children. However, after recent events she must at least condemn it. I hope that the Childcare coordinator will consider the creation of a parent advisory board and review the po- sition of the supervisor of that centre. Parents have thus far helped to create some of the best childcarefacilitiesin Canada Ihope that we can continue to do the same in the future.

Margaret Rasheed Arts 4

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Application forms are available in SUB Room 238 and must be returned by Wednesday, July 24, 199 1. Questions? Please call Martin Ertl at 822-3961, or drop by SUB Room 254.

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Downtown counselling available by Sharon Lindores fice is not duplicated here."

The two offices have different The Women's Resources Cen- mandates. WSO serves women on

tre (WRC) located downtown of- campus and is part of student ser- fers counselling services, but not vices. WRC is a community ser- many UBC students may know vice for women and is part of UBC's about it. Centre for Continuing Education.

WRC offers free drop-in coun- Students can use the services sellingandarangeofprogrammes. atWRCandsomesubsidiesavai1- Some of the staff at WRC are able to cover any costs. Sigal said graduate students doing their WRC does not have the extensive practicums. knowledge of the campus (that

Considering the counselling WSO does), however, WRC can cuts at the Women Students' Of- help students with their needs. fice (WSO), Ruth Sigal, director of Services by graduate students WRC wants students to know are free. The programmes offered other services are available. "My are especially designed for women concern is that students are unat- and some are available to both tended. They get lost in a shuffle women and men. Continuing and they shouldn't, because there Education programmes range in is a resource here. price (generally $50 or less) and

"I wish the WSO wasn't specialarrangementscanbemade changing, but womenneedtoknow for students when necessary. there is a place to come," Sigal Although WRC does not do said. "The Women Students Of- long-term counselling, they make

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referrals and offer help in the in- terim, Sigal said.

Sigal has been speaking to K.D. Srivastava, UBC's vice- president of student and academic services and WSO director Marsha Dew, about the future.

"My understanding was that Srivastava would like to see us working closer together," Sigal said. don't know what Dew's mandate is."

Trewsaidherintentisalsoto workcloser with the resource cen- tre. "I can't tell you how, specifi- cally," n e w said, "but hopefully I will know in the near future."

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