Th e.Pub . THE : UPY$SEY Need s

YO UVOL. LXVII

VANCOUVER, B .C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959

No . 3

'Fascist Tactics'; Charges BarrettBennet Socred Government

Ex-B.C. Civil ServantUpholds Democrac y"The /Bennett government recently used fascist tactic ,

when it dismissed one of its civil servants . "This was the opinion as ex- I

First year students voted Wednesday for these pretty freshettes competing for the Fros h

Queen crown . One of them will be crowned Saturday .by President Norman MacKenzi eat the Frosh Reception. Eagerly awaiting the announcement are, rear row from left t oright: Pat McLean, Joan McDonell, Rosemary Hager, Liz McLennan, Valerie Clark, an dfront row, from left" to right: Carolyn Carey, Barbara McClatchie, ;Bonnie Waugh, FernOwen, Allison Rankin .

*Freshette Queen To Be Honoure dBy President At Dance Saturday

Some unsuspecting girl wil lbe given a thrill at the FroshReception Saturday .

Results of the Frosh Queenvote taken at the Big BlockSmoker and the Big Little Sis-ter Banquet will be announced .

President Norman MacKenzi ewill crown the Queen before a nexpected 1,200 students .

The Frosh Queen and her twoprincesses will also be presente dwith cups .

Students will have a chanc eto meet and talk with the fac-ulty deans at the reception .

President MacKenzie and thedeans will greet the students i na receiving line and later mingl ewith the dancers .

Ted Lazenby and his JazzsocOrchestra will provide dancemusic and fanfares .

Dress will be Semi-formal .

Students are urged to buytheir tickets soon as the ducatsare selling fast .

DON'T DESPAI ROver 60 eager types ap-

peared Tuesday to write forthe Ubyssey.

If you are one of them, andyou weren't called to workyet, don't die . You will be.And that's a promise .

Tickets will be sold in theAlma Mater Society office, loc-ated in the south wing of BrockHall .

The Frosh Reception winds u pFrosh Orientation Week an d

According to a downtow nnewspaper Jazzsoc had booke dLouis for one thousand dollar sto put on a noon hour concert i nthe Armouries .

According to Jazzsoc ther ewas a verbal agreement thatLouis would come here if ther ewas no advance publicity .

Buildings and Grounds Admin-istration complained that theArmories could not be bookedfor the concert as it had bee npreviously reserved for a LittleSister Banquet .

promises to be the biggest fresh

social affair this year .Price is $2 for freshmen an d

$2.50 for all others .

Dancing starts 8:30 p .m .

there been better arrangements .

The student council vote dMonday to rejoin the EvergreenConference .

There is no need, however,for the backers of the all-Cana-dian conference to panic—th edecision has no effect upon ath-letics .

Last year UBC withdrewfrom the Evergreen Conferenc eof student councils as well asfrom the athletic union .

It was felt that associatio nwith the small colleges making

up the conference was of no

pressed by Dave Barrett afte ra public meeting here sponsoredby the UBC-CCF .

Mr. Barrett was recently firedfrom his job as Personnel Train-ing Officer of the Haney Correc-tional Institute for alleged poli-tical activities .

Mr. Barrett, who joined theCCF party early this year, ha smade a number of public ap-pearances as a candidate for .theCCF nomination in the Dewd-ney constituency .

The present MLA for Dewd-ney is Labor Minister LyleWicks .

Mr. Barrett said that in a de-mocracy every citizen has boththe right and the duty to parti-cipate in politics . He chargedthat several civil servants wereallowed by the government torun for Social Credit nomina-tions .

Mr. Barrett stated he has foun da new job with-the John Howar dSociety .

Mr . Barrett, who graduate dwith a M.S .W. from U. of Wash-ington, called for a complet eoverhaul of the present crimina lrehabilitation program .

He advocated the use of socia lworkers instead of isolating cri-minals in institutions. This wouldsave the taxpayer money andwould also prevent the break-ing up of homes .

Mr. Barrett also demande dattention be paid to preventingcrimes by paying more heed t oworkers .

In the question period follow-problem children . He advocatedwide use of qualified socialing the meeting, he referred t ocapital punishment as outdatedand useless . He said if carriedto its logical conclusion, capita lpunishment used as a deterrentwould lead to the hanging. ofmurderers at half-time at B .C .Lions' football games .

Mr. Barrett charged that n o

benefit to UBC .This decision was reconsid-

ered Monday, and it was decidedto rejoin the conference.

The hope was, according to a

council spokesman, that larger

U.S. colleges, such as Washing-

ton State, could be persuade d

to join the union.

Such a union as this woul d

be influential in the Pacifi cNorthwest and the membershipwould undoubtedly be beneficia lto UBC .

party other than the CCF is in.'terested in finding answers forthe problem of rehabilitation ofcriminals . Records kept by in•stitutions are inadequate, hethought, because no one is reallyinterested in finding out whathappens to criminals .

He stated that he did not knowexactly how effective the pro•posed policies would be, bu tsuggested that even a success in10% of all cases would be betterthan nothing .

The 29 year old politicianstated that only the CCF was in- ,terested in finding real solutions to social problems .

His meeting was the first of aseries of public meetings sporesored by ,the UBC-CCF club.

'Tween Classes }

Tumblers MeetMonday At GymUBC Gymnastics Club

There will be a meeting of allthose interested in any phase ofgymnastics, novice or "pro", inthe Memorial Gym, Room 211 ,12 :30 noon, on Thursday, Sep-tember 224 .

AQUA-SocAn organizational meeting of

Aqua-Soc will be held Friday atnoon in the club room, 157 BrockExtension .

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Ramblers Athletic ClubThe Ramblers Athletic Club

is now accepting memberships.All campus athletes wishing tojoin the Ramblers should cometo Room 363 in the New BrockExtension and fill in an applica•tion form as soon as possible .

UBC Curling ClubCurling is going again! All

last year's players and new mem-bers interested in curling arereminded of the membershipmeeting on Friday, September25, at noon hour in Buchanan220 .

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Camera ClubArrangements for Club's bay

display to be finalized. All in-terested please attend, 12 :30 to•day in Buchanan 203 .

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N.C.C.N.C .C. general meeting today

at 12:30 in Buchanan 205. The(Continued on Page 8)

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SATCH IS SNATCHE DWE SING THE BLUE S

Louis Armstrong nearly came to U.B.C. Wednesday .U.B .C. students missed out on Officials commented tha t

the chance of a private audience Loui swith the world 's Jazz King .

He did not come because of adowntown newspaper colum-nist's advance publicity and th eBig and Little Sister Banquet .

Confusion surrounds the sup -posed visit of Satch to th eU.B.C. campus .

might have come had

STUDENT COUNCIL .REJOINS EVERGREEN

Rod and Gun Clu bwill be held in Buchanan 1 203at 12 :30 Monday, September 228.This important meeting concernsclub's day and it would be ap•preciated if all members wouldattend .

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THE UBYSSEY

Thursday, September '24, 1959

:.

YSSE- :10MEMBER CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

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'Published three times a week throughout the University yearIn Vancouver by the Publications Board of the Alma Mater Societ yUniversity of B .C .

Telephones : Editorial offices, AL. 4404; Locals 12, 13 and 14 .Business offices,_AL . 4404; Local 1-5 .

Acting Editor : Elaine Bisset tSenior Editor : Irene Frazer

Reporter and Staff : Kerry White, _Brad Crawford, Bob Hendrick -son, Wendy Barr, Mike Hunter, Pat McLean, George Raiton ,David Parkin, Joe Bolduc, Jill Harker, Ron Kydd, Mike Allison ,Bill Pickett, Fred Fletcher, Ann Pickard, Mary Ann Sturdy ,

Allan Springman, Bob Ciminoli and Diane R.

N

essThe creation of the Vancouver International Festival ha s

been a surprising achievement considering the size and age

of this city .

Some productions associated with the Festival in its initial

two years have been of such notably high calibre that mor e

are indicated. •

In future, the nucleus for the direction and support of thi s

„) .'estival will come mainly from the present undergraduates o f

;this university. In this connection it might be noted that the

original stimuli are the professors of this university, and unless

the exodus of some of the best men in all faculties is stopped ,

this will not be the case .

But the price of tickets for these Festival production s

have been so high that the majority of students have not been

We to attend performances. The financial burden student s

must bear to attend the university already considerably limit s- istheir monetary resources .

The initiators of the Festival have succeeded in bringin g

to the city outstanding cultural entertainment.

With a shorter term outlook than it has at present, th e

Festival committee will be able to ensure for itself financial

and academic security .

Would not a long-term view on ticket distribution ensur e

the Festival of financial and administrative support in sub-sequent years?

Whither Arts.Amid the hurly-hurly of

registration, hazing mixed upparking, freshettes, more fresh-ette, there are a few topics ofsobering interest . One of theseConcerns the future of the Artsand Science UndergraduateSociety, .with an expected 250 0to 2700 members this year, th elargest undergraduate society

' on campus .Since its "rebirth " in 1952,

A.S .U.S. has been only a weakreminder of a formerly (2 0years . ago) ,powerful society . Itsexecutive and members wer ewidely recognized as power-ful fgxces in student politics .Now few Artsmen even kno w

:who their President is (hi sname is Bruce McColl) an dfewer care . To this a further

. symptom of the undersprea ddisease of student apathy, orcan fault be laid at the door -step of the A.S .U .S . Executive ?

Experiments were tried las tyear to inspire interest . Mem-bership cards were distribute d'but little use was made of them .'A new constitution was in-troduced (to be basis for anover-all campus system of re -presentative government, theweak link in which was Arts )introducing an Arts Council of48 persons who were to befocal points of interest and ac-tivity .

Those thirty or so who wereeventually "elected" (i .e . nom-

' mated) did serve to show therewere some persons ready t odevote som time and energy to

'ah apparently hopeless cause .'Speakers and 'debates were

Thanksfrom us

Nothing is more encouragin gto this staff than to be offeredassistance. The Ubyssey has sen tout calls for aid, and so far re-sponse has been most encourag-ing .

More than sixty interestedpersons appeared at the Ubysseyoffices on Monday noon to offertheir services . We are able to usethem all, and are very gratefulfor their help.

In this connection, we kno wthat there are other studentswho would like to add theirknowledge and ability to thatof those first sixty, but are un-able to spare the time. We woul dbe most anxious to accept aridstudy any suggestions that theymight care to make .

This paper is the property o fthe students of this university .It is up to them to say what theywant, and then, one way or an -other, but to the best of theirability, to help the paper get it .

Mike Sinclair ,Critie's 'Editor

By the number of notice stacked on the notice boards infront of the bus depot and in thequad U1C students love to ad-vertise .

-Their notices however fall off ,

get obscured by other noticesand disappear in many myster-ious ways.

Ubyssey notices are clear andreadable and do not getlost'be-fete being read by a large num-ber of students .

Students are urged to use th eUbysses low-cost classified add sfor buying, selling, lost an dfound .

Simply drop by the publica-tions office located in the northcorridor of Brock Hall .

Mike BrownPres . ASUS, '58-'5 9

those having lockers there mus tcome to the A .S .U.S. office inBuchanan 115 to pay for th eprivilege .

We hope he is using theoccasion for suitable benefit .

Togetherness Needed

Dear Madam,

Transfering from a small ,neat, friendly, university to amonstrous, sprawling, imper-sonal institution presents mor ethan one dilemma .

Not the least of these are th eincomprehensible and unpro-nounceable names of the organ -izations of this campus .

After having wracked mybrain for many troubled hoursI have to admit defeat . Couldsomeone kindly explain to mewhat MAMOOKS, MUSSOC,FILMSOC, ASUS, CUS, IFC ,WAA, WUS, and MAA standfor?

And I must confess som ecuriosity as to the activities ofthe Players' Club .

Certainly it would add to thedignity of the university ifthese names could be under -stood and respected by an out-sider . This improvement migh teven promote some much-needed "togetherness ."

I would also like to knowwhat are the exact function sof the A .M .S ., how many mem-bers it has, and what are theresponsibilities of each mem-ber . Since no-one has been abl eto enlighten me on this subject ,

I might well be led to believ ethat the A .M.S. does nothingat all .

Any response to this ple a

will be more than appreciated ,and I sincerely hope that theUbyssey will print this inform-ation for the benefit of all .

Sincerely yours ,ANNE ONIMOUS

Arts 3

Thanks to Frazer

Editor, The Ubysse yDear Sir :

I would like to congratulateand thank Irene Frazer for herfeature in the last copy of th eUbyssey .

Everybody should see thing sabout Mr . Khruschev as clearlyas she does .

Mr. Khruschev told the truthmaybe for the first time in hi slife saying that the SovietUnion wants to get the wholeworld red.

Armed with the "philosophy"of dialectical materialism, andwith a skin several inche sthick on his face, he goes stepby step towards this goal .

We should realize that unde rthe sheepish grin of Mr . Khru-shev the worlds' most evil men-ace is hiding .

EDUCATION GRADUAT E

A Pail For a Peel N. N

Editor, The UbysseyDear Sir:

On all our fair grounds thereis not one garbage pail . I wasthinking of something far mdr eimportant this morning, at thesame time, peeling an orange tdfeed the "chariot 'of the Soul. "

When I 'wanted to throwaway the peel, much to my an-noyance I found I had to arisefrom my thoughts in order tosearch for a ruddy pail or some-thing for the peel .

Not even after becomin gfully conscious of the outsideworld could I find one .

By the time I had dumpedthe pel in the Buchanan Build-ing I had forgotten my lofty -thoughts .

God knows what great ideashave been lost for the lack o fa trash pail .

Respectfully ,MAXINE GADO L

sponsored, some well-attended ,some poorly, and some not atall . Even insuch a large bodyit was found difficult to de -centralize. leadership .

For the irst time since the1930's, A.S .U.S. even attempt-ed to hold a dance, the un-fortunate problems of publicityplagued the affair, and it canonly be described as a failure-although a beginning .

President McCall must cal lfor the election of a new ArtsCouncil within three weeks ,according to his constitution .What will the reception be ?

Without the support of AS .U.S., which has under its win gabout one-quarter of the cam-pus population, the Under-graduate Societies Committee scan hardly be called a usefulbody. Unless Mr. Husdon of th eUSC and Mr . McCall put thei rheads together to arrive a tsome solution to these ills ,Artsmen will remain what the yare now—alarge mass of un-cared for and u n c a r i n gstudents.

It should be mentioned ofcourse with such widely dif-ferent courses of study an dsuch widely spread out build-ings ASU's problems are fa rmore difficult than those o fsmaller undergraduate soc-ieties .

But excuses are not solu-tions .

McCall has begun by obtain-ing "the `concession" for Buch-anan building lockers and all

Foreign StudentsPlan Busy Weekend

Thursday, September 24, 1959

T H E U B Y S S E Y

Page Thre e

Three international events will take placeweek.

in the coming

NFCUS Seminar Concludes RCMPOnly Valid National Symbol

WHAT IS A CANADIAN?This was the key question asked at the Second National NFCUS Seminar at the Universit y

of Montreal this September.

A tea to honor University o fBritish Columbia students frommore than 60 countries will begiven on Sunday afternoon from3:30 to 5:30 by the Internation-al House Association at Interna-tional House.

N►cKILLOPTO SOUTH

An attractive UBC co-ed ha sleft for Berkeley, California, t ocompete in the Miss Footballcontest .

Merren McKillop will com-pete with 16 other contestantsfrom other Canadian and Amer-ican universities .

Miss Football will be chosenSaturday at the Coronation Ballin Hotel Claremont .

A five-man board will choos eMiss Football for her beauty ,poise, photogenity, and her at-tributes as a typical co-ed .

The contestants will be takenon a tour of Disneyland and willwatch the Parade of Light sthrough downtown Berkeley .

A Bay Area sightseeing tourwill also be organized, and thecontestants will lunch with th eFootball Writer's Associationand various service clubs .

Winner of the title will mak ethe first kick-off in the openinggame between California's Gol-den Bears and the Iowa Hawk-eyes .

Mary Helen Eaton of Kansa sState University was last year' swinner in the Berkeley Jayce esponsored contest .

Hostess Queen, Carol Kava-nagh, of the University of Cali-fornia, met the contestants a tLos Angeles to assemble thegroup and guide them on thei rlast lap of the trip to Berkeley .

The parade of more than 10 0floats, bands, and marchingunits, will be viewed by ove r150,000 people .

Berkeley's Mayor Claude B .Hutchison greeted the arrivin gcontestants Tuesday .

Other contestant's names are :Suzanne Jackson, Arkansas ; JanGriffith, Baylor; Gayla Shoe-make, Kansas State; $carlet tVeris, Maryland ; Dianne Tillot-son, Michigan State ; Gail Aber-nethy, Mississippi ; Jerre Teter ,

Missouri ; Betty Bowles, Okla-homa; Diane Myers, Oregon

State; Margie Moore, Rice In-stitute; Carolyn Lehman, South -

ern Methodist ; Linda DeFuria ,Syracuse; Patricia Van Scoy,

Tulane ; and Charlotte Castetter ,Utah .

Totem CravesStaff Members

' The Ubyssey is not 'the onlycampus publication that needsstaff .

The Totem, the campus' year -book and annual, is also enter-ing fervent pleas for persons in-terested in putting out the 196 0book.

No experience is necessary ,and the variety of jobs availabl emake is possible for freshmento learn the business of annualpublication thoroughly .

Any and all who would liketo lend a hand should attend th eorganizational meeting in th e

:potem's offices, Friday at 12 :30 .

Welcome will be extended byDr. Guy Dutton, .Associatio npresident, and Miss Mary Fal-lis, vice-president . Mrs. GordonSpaulding will be in charge o fthe tea room and Miss ElizabethSmith the serving. Other teacommittee members includeMiss Isabel Marr, Miss Kath-leen Sharp and Miss Norah Fa-rina .

Presiding at the tea table wil lbe representatives of FROS, theUnited Nations of Canada, Van-couver Branch, IHA Board o fDirectors, UBC faculty and th ewives of Vancouver and Mar-pole Rotary Clubs members .

The World University Servic ewill entertain with a dinner i nInternational House Recreationroom Thursday evening in hon-or of Exchange students.

The event will provide oppor-tunity for two students fromGermany, one from Japan, onefrom Jamaica, one from Nigeriaand one from Malaya to meetmembers of the UBC committe efor WUS and members of th efaculty and their wives . Mr .Norman Gish is chairman withMr. Rod Dobell assistant .

Several members of the Van-couver Consular Corps will b eentertained at a luncheon to begiven in Salon B of the Facult yClub on Friday by the Execu-tive of the International Houseboard of directors .

Following the luncheon, dea nof the corps, Consul-Genera lLouis de Laigne of France, willunveil the newly donatedFrench coat-of-arms on the in-ternational screen in the mainfoyer of the building.

Late SchoolIn Arts, Ed.

The U.B.C. night school pro-gram is under way again withtwo faculties offering mor ethan fifty courses .

Credit courses are offered t opeople working toward a Bache-lor of Arts or general educatio ndegree and for those desiring el-ementary or secondary teachin gcertificates .

Instruction will begin short-ly on the campus, inBurnaby ,North Vancouver, Abbotsford ,Haney, Mission, Chilliwack an dSurrey.

Interested persons shouldcontact Evening Credit Courses ,University Extension Depart-ment, U.B .C., Tel : AL 4600 .

KOERNE RFUND GROWS

The Koerner memorial fun dhas received more than $1500 ,Dr. N. A, M. MacKenzie sai dTuesday .

Mrs. Koerner and her hus-band Leon, established the fun dfor projects and scholarships inthe arts, education and research

The Koerners also gave $600,-000 to the university develop-ment fund for the constructionof the faculty club and socialcentre .

The formal theme was "TheInfluence of the Various Cul-tures on Canadian National De-velopment," but discussion keptreturning to the question of Mr .Canadian and his identity .

Those at the seminar unani-mously agreed that Canadianshave distinctive characteristics .However, the RCMP proved t obe the only valid national sym-bol suggested .

Canadians, it seems, have no

Located 36 miles east of theUBC campus near Haney, theforest is used as a trainin gground by students and as aresearch center by the faculty o fforestry and other departments .

It was first leased to UBC i n1945 and granted to the univer-sity in 1949 .

Since then 23 miles of roadsand nine buildings have beenbuilt ,

It is estimated that the forestcould be sold for almost $1,000,-000 .

The forest provides an idealstudent training ground becauseof the variety, maturity and ageclasses of the trees .

The students spend a monthat the forest on completion o ftheir third year .

UBC ToursFor Fros hParents

Parents of freshmen will beinvited to tour the campus fo rthe first time Oct . 17 .

The University of B .C. Devel-opment Fund Department, aide dby the Alma Mater Society, wil lmail out 2,000 invitations toparents .

The parents will first hear awelcoming speech by Presiden tNorman -MacKenzie, and talk sby Dean Walter Gage, i ncharge of scholarships and bur-saries, and John McLean, direc-tor of student services, at 9:45a .m. in the auditorium .

Any questions parents mayask will be answered by th espeakers .

Volunteer senior students willconduct the parents on campu stours .

Parents will be invited to at -tend the Pacific Lutheran-UBCfootball game during the after -noon .

A buffet lunch will be serve dlater in Brock Hall .

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More than 60 research pro-jects are under way at the pres-ent time dealing with such sub-

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provement of wood quality .The forest is operated on the

sustained yield basis, whichmeans that cut 'balances growth .

Future plans include comple-tion Of the roads over the entireforest, fireproofing of logge dareas and rehabilitation ofbrush areas.

mistaken for an American or aBriton .

In short, a Canadian may notknow exactly what he is but hedoes know that he is distinctl yCanadian.

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UBC 's giant classroom, a 10,000-acre research forest, ha scelebrated its tenth anniversary .

national appearance, no flag, except when angered by bein gno true national anthem, andno truly distinctive language .

We haven't even a nationallegend like George Washington .

Despite this lack of a concreteidentity (a source of bewilder-ment to immigrants), the semi-nar decided there is a distinctiveCanadian .

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UNIVERSITY THEATRE DEPARTMEN T

January Student Production

"ARMS AND THE MAN "By George Bernard Shaw

CASTING OPEN TO ALL STUDENT S

Introductory MeetingsFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25—AUDITORIUM, any time be.

tween 2 :30-5:30 .'MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28—FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE

-12:30 noon.

Casting Try-Outs

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, and WEDNESDAY, SEPTEM-BER 30—AUDITORIUM, 3 :00-6 :00.

PAGE FOUR

THE UBYSSEY

Thursday, September 24, 1959

CAUCUS CAUCASIANCRITICISM A N

EDITOR: MIKE S

NEW CANADIA

By DAVE BROMIDGEThere have been those who

have criticised the SummerSchool of the Theatre for em-ploying a modified `star-system 'when casting their major pro-ductions . This is a school, thesepeople argue, and thereforestudents rather than instructorsshould be allowed to play the ,leads. At first sight this argu-ment seems sound, particularl ywhen one considers the 195 7production, "The Tempest", inwhich such village worthies asPeter Mannering, Ian Thorne ,Robert Clothier, John Thorne ,and Lee Taylor snaffled th ebetter roles, forcing the aspirin gmimes of Speech and Acting tobe hewers of wood and drawersof water—the actual Calibans ,one might say, at the mercy ofa goodly number of prosperin gProsperos . Ostensibly this sys-tem was employed to give OldVic . director Douglas Seale some-thing to get his teeth into—andcertainly he displayed his fang son several occasions—and in thehope that the students wouldlearn by watching their profes-sional older cousins in action;which indeed in some cases the ymight have done, but surely no tas much as they would have ha dthey played themselves . Thirdly ,it is undeniable that the produc-tion is made more enjoyable forthe poor, paying audience by theinclusion of at least some actorswho know their stage-left-from .from their stage-right .

What is the solution? "Th eTempe t" seemed an unhappy ,or let us say unfortunate com-promise . Either let as see a ftxll-fledgedhprofessional production(i .eh, one -where everybody, get spaid) or a cast, comprised com-pletely of students . Which bring sus to the point of all this : Thi sSummer's production of "TheCaucasian Chalk Circle", whic hgave us a modified version ofthe latter answer : an all-studen tcast plus Leo Ciceri playing adouble lead no-one at the schoo lwould have been able to satis-factorily carry . True, first Mich-ael Goldie and then DonaldSoule, non-students both, werecast as Chorus, a role whichmight well have been assigne dto one of the dedicated ; but thi sis a minor point . One hopes thatthe Summer School staff willfollow this intelligent solutionin future years .

For this year, as we havealready said, the casting of LeoCiceri as both Story Teller an dAdzak was satisfactory ; his per-formance in these roles was ex-cellent. His Story-Teller, relat-ing a story he has told `over an dover again', had just the righ tblend of weariness, cynicism ,and compassion ; his diction im-peccable, his pace measured, en-abling the audience to catch eac hword and thereby ensuring tha tthe somewhat tortuous plot wasfully explained.

The first scenes present amontage of chaos : Brecht's tragi-comic view of revolution, imply-ing the impermanence of mater-ial wealth, as the Governor i soverthrown and executed an d

Ian Thorne, the well knownVancouver writer and director ,will once again be producin gthe Fall play for the Players 'club. Auditions for the play,

.., .whiche is to be `Romanoff andJuliet', will be held from Octob-er. . 1st to- . :October 3rd, . in thePlayers' Club green room„ in theauditorium. Mr . Thorne asksthat, experienced or otherwise ,

- - you turn out -for these auditionsif you-'have an interest in acting .

his household scattered through-out the land . Gradually, we real-ise that 'we are to follow th efortunes of a particular girl ,Grusha, a servant-girl whoadopts the Governor's babywhen its mother abandons it i nher haste to escape the Gover-nor's enemies. This is a role thatcall for an interpretation of quietcourage, peasant doggedness ,humility and self-sacrifice : thi sgirl is surely one of the mostsympathetic heroines ' of alldrama. Sophia Skirl took herpart very well : a little too prettyin her playing at times, but gain-ing strength as the play progres-sed, and convincing in the finaltrial scene when she and thechild's real mother 'battle forthe custody of the boy .

Helen Marmo, the Governor' swife, the mother in fact andname but not under Azdak-Brecht's human justice, playedsurprisingly well a woman twiceher own age: a consideration notusually to be mentioned in re-viewing, but necessary this once ,one feels, since Miss Marmo i sonly sixteen. One point sheshould bear in mind, however,with reference to the openin gscene of panic and flight : realanger on stage is always em-barrasing to the audience .

Azdak, the rogue-judge thrown

up by the revolution, was rom-ped through most happily andyet precisely by Leo Ciceri inPart II . This is a glorious role :the judgement he hands dow ndelights as witness the actionfor rape brought by the nubileLudovica against a stable-boy,which Azdak disallows on th egrounds that the girl's hind- -quarters constitute a danger-ous instrument, and the manne rin which she carries them in-cites to riot .

Among the supporting player sGil Bunch gave us a most note-worthy draft-dodger ; Bill Milli sa relaxed `double' as Fat Prince

and Hungry Lawyer; Etta Mur-phy a wholly credible (and ,thank goodness, audible) Mother -in-Law. Mike Magee, always in-teresting on stage, is hampere dby a .strained and high-pitchedvocal delivery : a pity, since theronshirt he played has some ofthe best Iines of the play : "Lady ,(to Grusha) . . . are you enter-taining illicit relations with theenemy? where is he hiding ?What sort of movements is hemaking in your rear?" And sobawdily on .

For this is, of course, a bawd yplay. Brecht wrote of and fo r`the people', though just who arethese days is hard to tell . Bawdy ,foolish, warm, compassionateand slightly cynieal, his char-acters and their words exposethe human heart in all its flawedbeauty. The cast of the Summe rSchool's production of his playlacked in most cases the tech-nique to do justice to theirauthor, but seemed to have theirhearts in reproducing Brecht' smap of that symbolic organ, an dfor this we must thank directorRobert Loper .

His (and Milton Howarth's )sets were praiseworthy, thoug hthe bridge would have beenmore convincing if longer an dat a forty-five degree angle t othe proscenium, and the cos-tumes, were it not for the sus-picious `newness' of the peasant s 'dress, pleasingly correct .

One cri de coeur: if your act -ors can't dance, you won't makethem: cast: people who can, o rcut the dance scene . It seemssad that the last picture we car-ried away with us from thismoving and. nearly suceesfu levening should be of presum-ably relaxed and naturally light -hearted wedding-guests awk-wardly posturing or self-con-sciously flitting all over th e

Auditorium stage .

Here we have a magazine tha tis written by professionals an dexperts, that is professionall yproduced, together with an at -tractive layout—there are som eexceptional lino and wood cut s— and which contains an ex-ceedingly well-balanced set o farticles catering to the taste ofboth layman and scholar . It i sa magazine about Canadia nwriters, poets, and even othercritics, but manages to avoid

'excessive provinciality becaus e1 its contributors come, not onlyfrom Canada, but from the otherAmericas, and from Europe .

Reading this quarterly I a m

aware of a pulling together ofCanadian literature, rather tha n

a sundering, which might wel lhave been the case with such acritical journal . Articles such a sthose on Duncan Campbell Scottand Gabrielle Roy enhance our

understanding of key figures inour literature, rather than op-

press us with a national inferi-ority complex, so often preva-lent in Canadian criticism .

American writers such a sDwight Macdonald, who brutall ycondemns evidence of national

self-consciousness- in the five

magazines which he reviews

But, what of the material ?The article which I most enjoyedwas Roderick Haig - Brown's ,THE WRITER IN ISOLATION .This is a sympathetically writ -ten work which shows a deepand personal understanding ofthe intellectual problems which

confront the immature writer.His thesis that no writer ca n

experience complete isolationbecause he is of necessity a ma n

sensitive to influence has awider significance in the sphereof Canadian literature itself . It

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ness of old soda-water ; yet it i sthe very self-consciousness ofsuch a magazine which will helpcounteract the wishy-washy imi-tations to which Macdonald re-fers . I cannot help but agreewith Gerald Tougas who writesin this issue that—"La litteraturcanadienne—nous semble arriveea un developpement qui legi-time la fondation d'une revu ecritique, destinee a eclairirer samarche, desormais assuree . "

Aunt Nellie's shoulder is not all you'll see when you at -tend the Players' Club production of HER SCIENCEMANLOVER in the Auditorium at noon on Friday and/orMonday$ Sex, shocks, and sniggers punctuate this Eric

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day, September 24, 1959

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PAGE FIVE

E REVIEW S:LAIR

J CRITICISM

THE BLASTED PIN EBy RUPERT BUCHANAN

"With glowing hearts we see thee rise ,The true north strong and free. "

(Old Song)vites the unimpressed critic

But strangely enough theto call it "bad good bad verse,"but I was impressed . Thesepoems were a crudely expres-sive as a swear word or slap ata mosquito .peculiar facility for re -

and drawing our atten-the forgotten Canadian

-e . This is a task whic hi neglected by magazine s

our attention to onlyliterature in contempo-blications . F. W. Watts ,;ante, reminds us tha thas her own Western

in the works of RalphPutting these novel s

orical perspective, Wattnat Connor was at once

and a moralist, a sortBunyan of the CanadianWatts' article succeeds

ad hag you, as it did me,out the Connors' novels ,azine will have gone ay towards justifying it s

sm of Duncan Campbel lA. J . M. Smith is deeptratjpg in an attempt t olast ounce of meaning

poetry, but I wonder

if it is a little too academic forthe general reader . The rich-ness of Smith's own language ,poet . Perhaps the article couldtions, confuses the critic with thetogether with numerous quotahave been lightened by more bio-graphical detail .

Hugo Macpherson is the mostreadable of the critics, havingsuccessfully avoided the ponder-ous style of the others with amore general approach to hi ssubject—Gabrielle Roy .

The various reviews whichmake up the second half of themagazine are mature, succinct ,and readable, giving a fairlycomprehensive coverage of re-cent Canadian literature .

Taking everything into ac -count, I have no hesitation inrecommending this magazine t othe more serious student ofliterature.

—Rita Denson-Dart

This sort of thing was verymoving in grade six but nobodybelieves it wholeheartedly an ymore. It soon turns out tha tJohn A. drank and Mackenzi eKing talked with the spiritworld . More recently the peo-ple affirmed that kindly, court-ly Louis St . Laurent had beena dictator and that Americansowned our land.

With true patriot love in sucha weakened condition, one mightthink it dangerous to pick up anew volume, "The Blasted Pine , "described by its compilers, A . J .M. Smith and F . R. Scotyt, as"an anthology of satire, invec-tive and disrespectful verse,chiefly by Canadian writers . "

"The Blasted Pine, is certain-ly strong stuff . The most gener-ally accepted dogmas come un-der the strongest fire, wit hclericalism' and capitalism head-ing the list of targets .

The anger of the settler poetswas directed against their en-vironment . The compilers cal lit "good bad verse," which in-

F. R. Scott's is the finest ofthe modern verse, a perfec tblend of message and estheti cappeal . His "W.L.M.K. is ter-ribly true, and in "Lest We For-get" and "Brebeuf and hi sBrethren" he writes attractive-ly without blunting his sharpsense of injustice .

Raymond Souster, though no tthe equal of poets like Earl eBirney in lyrical and technicalskill, has terrific drive and dar-ing. In a wartime poem based o none by Stephen Spender, hesays:

"0 young men, 0 young . - _comrades

It is too late now to leav ethose house s

Your fathers built for you rweekend drinkin gparties ,

Your sexual horseplay . . ."

book doesn't deepen one's disil-lusionment about Canada, butrather strengthens one's apprec-iation of it . For the root of acountry's strength is in hertensions .

The Christians draw powe rfrom the barbs of the unbeliev-ers ; capitaism gets its drivingenergy from the envy of th enot-so-rich for the rich . Whetherthe disruptive force of Frenc hCanadian nationalism can b ejustified on this basis is a littl edoubtful, but it has had one goodeffect : the poems of A . M. Klein.His "Political Meeting" (for Ca-millien Houde, former mayor ofMontreal) is a powerful, fright-ening poem .

On the whole, "The Blaste dPine" serves as an excellentcounter-example for Irving Lay -ton's stanza in his poem, "FromColony to Nation . "

"A dull people, withoutcharm or ideas, settlin ginto the clean empty lookof a Mountie or a dairyfarmer as unto a legacy ."

EDESTRIAN PRISMcher of the circus .

I can't say I enjoyed the re-maining verse and prose. Quitefrankly it irritated me. *TakeHenry Kreisil's "The TravellingNude" for an example. Here isa writer who has a competentstyle, deliberately drawing outthe agony of a fantastic, unlike-ly plot . On the other hand Eliz-abeth Luckhurst's "Their sim-ple minds skin to skin," has in-:teresting subject matter but iswritten in soliloquy with somany inverted and awkwardsentences that it is practicallyimpossible to interpret the nar-rative . Consider :

"Later I took up to the hove lon my tongue the bitter pang ofsimple fruit salad when even theemotion of taste is pitched highand also carried some fruit sal -ad for your family ."

The longest work in the wholemagazine is the "Merchant ofHeaven" by Margaret Lawrence .The plot isn't exactly grippin gbut there are some delightfu lmacabre pieces of descriptionwhich encourage one to rea don .

"Brother Lemon 's skin wasvery white and smooth—it re -minded me of those sea pebble swhich as a child I used to thinkwere the eyeballs of the drown-ed" or "Suddenly I saw Broth-er Lemon as a kind of .soul pur-ifier sucking in the septic soulsand spewing them back one hun -dred percent pure ."

Prism, volume one, numberone, is definitely an interestingmagazine, but it requires a great 'deal of patience and concentra-tion to get out even a small partof what has gone into it .

Ed Ahoe, this year's editor ofRAVEN, announces that firstissue will be put out in Novem-ber. No major changes areplanned in either form or con-tent, except that the issue willnot resemble a snow storm.

He asks that all contribution sbe put on his desk, above theA.M.S. offices in Brock Hall .

WI is not the sort ofe 4you would want tothe bus. Not that thatfrom it in any wayas this is a serious

e , publishing the sortinative writing whichtagazines neglect .• is the most often ne-tf the literary forms ands it is understandabl e;t of the contributors tore- poets . Fortunatelygreat variety of subject ,d verse form. Despiteety, however, I am leftatmosphere of coldnes s

sr .worldliness that put sind of a dozen other firstliterary magazines .warmth and colour andare generally absent ,e some conspicuous ex -which also I feel corn-

te best works in thise .i Hall writes with a ma-syf prose style. Usingperson and charged wit hing cynicism, Hall sue -giving a most realistic

on of the relations be -two post -graduate stu

an American Univer-this is indeed chapter

lsnger ndvel it is to betat it will eventually b ed . -Birney ' s Bankok Boy"f the more enjoyable ofas. This colourful, pie -poem is individualize d

'usual verse form echo-oriental music which isind to his theme .

more outstanding po-fried Watson's "Lauren-

• is worth a secondboth for its theme an dme . His theme?—theof New Canadian ma n

!r God's call, "Let there..Rough diamond when

'pear, it needed the de vi and Irvi'rig Layton toee process of sophistiea-

sef the "Imperator impersonal'contrasted with Franz, the sket-

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Thursday, September 24, 195 9

The State Of The Intellectual ICanadaA NARROW MINORIT Y

What the majority shall read ,or see, or hear, rests in the handsand minds of a narrow minority .There is one commandment ,"Thou shalt obey," and to dev-iate is to commit intellectualsuicide . I maintain that this stat eof affairs is deliberately foster-ed and encouraged by the fewwho shield our youth from allthat is healthy in their intel-lectual capacity, and stuff themwith the rot of this false "Can-adianism . "

There is a deliberate and cal-culated conspiracy to produc ework of the rough-shod, "home-grown" variety . The verses ofPratt and Birney are typical .Children in school are not in-troduced to work of a truly in-ternational outlook, though theirmentors insist that they are . No ."David," and '"Reverie on aDog," are intersperced with suc hindigestible pieces as "The OldVicarage, Grantchester," an dthat is as far as the internation-alism goes .

At the University these sam echildren, their minds alreadystunted, and. their immaturityand obediance permanently ass-ured, are fed a hotch-potch o fEnglish and Philosophy courses ,and are then sent into the world ,to earn a living in a field whichhas no place to offer them, be-cause their Teachers haveappropriated those positions tothemselves . But, because of theirobedience to and acceptance o fthe Oracle, these young peopleraise no cry of anger, but turntheir talents to other fields, fo rwhich they are totally unfitted ,both by nature and by training.

INNER CONCLAVE

However, the Inner Conclave ,the Gathering of the Gods, isclever enough to see that all of

the people can't be fooled all ofthe time. They know that the ycannot rush these semi-educate dpeople into the cold waters ofoblivion, without getting a littlewet themselves. Therefore, at;fairly regular intervalls, the yraise the cry of "Wolf" .

"What has happened to theArts in Canada?", they ask ."Why is there no distictive Can-adian Point of View? "

Immediately, a Writers', orArtists', or Humanities' confer-ence is convened, and the Fed-eral Government is eventuall yprssured into donating largesums of money to support thisunreal Canadianism that is sup-posed to exist . And it seemsthat every time the cry is raised ,more money is forthcoming .

GODS RETURNThe Gods then .return to their

seats on this vast Olympus ofignorance, the money dissapearsin an abortive attempt to founda periodical devoted to thepoint of view of the "Intellectua lin Canada, or some simila rmethod of dissemination of non-sense, the rabble is quieted, th eearthquake rurdblings cease .

If you think this to be absurd ,.consider the lady who was re-cently paid, by means of jus tsuch a grant, to give a series o flectures on various prominentnovelists . One lecture 'was de -voted to an outline of the workof Daphne DuMaurier, who i scertainly not prominent for herintellectual capacity and dept hof perception, and another, sup-posedly on Joyce's "Ulysses" ,was waster, because the lecturerspent her time telling her listen-ers why Joyce was too difficultfor them to understand .

ABILITY TO ENJO YOnly a person of her training ,

she suggested, was able to enjoyhis subtletiesand nuances. As for"Ulysses," why, she didn't men-tion the book . I dare say thatfew people in this country haveever insulted so many, and go taway with it . However, this ladylecturer is one of the immortals ,though of a lesser degree tha nmost, and is therefore above re-proach .

Well then, what is the rem-edy? Indeed, is there one? Canwe hope to erase this growththat has developed in the shad-ow of our ignorance? Yes, ther e

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This is as unfortunate as it istrue, because it gives an hones tmeasure of the intellectual cur-iosity of the "Average Cana-dian." The. intellectual who isnot "Canadian" in outlook andoutspokenness will soon fin dhimself tarred and feathered onthe pen of one whose word i sliterary law, and whose mustytruths are gospel.

"WE STAND ASIDE""Yet," cry these Pharises ,

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Yes, we know that, and Go dalone can help the poor fello wwho stretches a leg unthink-ingly beyond the pale of .,thosehopes . He is ostracized. TheWord goes round, from one cock-tail party to the next, what so -and-so has presumed, or slipped,or faded, and then the very airof freedom is forbidden him . Hemay not write, or paint, or com-pose, until he has recanted fullyin that narrow, over-subscribedjournal, the University period-ical .

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Most of you folks have heard of the thousands of peoplewho fight with great personal danger to escape the persecutio nof those countries behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains.

But have you given much thought to those people whoflee from their country with absolutely no personal danger ?

Refugees from Communist countries are admittedly en-ticed with fabulous promises, and this is evidently the metho dused to lure the second type mentioned above .

The only difference between the two situations is thatwhile the communist countries do their best to hold theirpeople, this other nation does nothing .

The second type of refugee is leaving, not because of per-secution, but because of neglect.

The country they are leaving is Canada ; the refugees, dis-couraged genius—artists, actors, engineers, scientists, doctorsand professors.

An outsiders could get the impression that - the countr ydoesn't need these people and therefore couldn ' t care less abouttheir future .

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His impression must be correct, for the leaders of thecountry in question appear to lack initiative and to be neglect-ing their responsibility to the nation 's future .

This country seems to be in the process of a Great Purge ,as if by design .

This Great Purge could become disastrously complete if .thr mass migration isn 't stopped by applying the necessaryantidote . . . and fast .

Before the antidote can be applied, we must find theperson or persons to apply it . Who then, is at fault4

The obvious answer is everybody—and some to a greaterextent than others .

It should be the Dominion Government's responsibility tocorrect the national wrong. That is, our Olympic and Pan-American teams should not be forced to turn to charity . Ourbrilliant scientists, whose talents are needed to build thecountry, should not be forced to .leave . Our talented artists ,writers, and actors should be able to find suitable and rewa:pi-ing work, if the nation is to have a culture .

It should be the Provincial 'Government's duty to kee pmen like Dr. Khorana where they are needed and provid ethem with the facilities and incentive to carry out their work .

Why did Dr. Khorana decide to leave? Why did Dr.Deutch and Dr. Corbett leave ?

Dr. Deutch certainly did not leave for monetary reasons ,or because of position. His recent handling of the cripplingIWA strike proves his worth to the province, if nothing else.Could the fault lie with someone at the University ?

There are even rumors that more men of merit are plan-ning to leave UBC for greener or more congenial fields .

e!Thursday, September 24, 1959

?`AE' U"B -YSSEY

PAGE SEVEN' .

LADY LOCKED IN LAVATORYCOURT OF APPEA L

SAYERS V. HARLOW URBA NDISTRICT COUNCI L

The following is an actualcase report from the 195 8.TimesLaw Reports, May 7, and is re -printed by courtesy of The Ad-vocate .—The Editor.Before the Master of the Rolls ,

Lord Justice Morris, and LordJustice Ormerod .

Their LORDSHIPS reserve duntil tomorrow judgment in thisappeal by Mrs. Eileen Sayers ofParsonage Leys, Harlow, Essex ,from a 'judgment of Judge Law-Son Campbell at Bishop's Stort-ford County Court on Novembe r25, I957, in favour of thedefe--dents, the Harlow Urban Dis-trict Council ; oh the plaintiff sclaim for damages for allege dbreach of contract and negli-gence when she was injured inattempting to get out of a pub-lic lavatory after being locke din by reason of a defective lock .The defendants 'denied negli-gence and pleaded contributorynegligence on the part of th eplaintiff .

On January 13 (The Times ,January 14, 1958) the Cour tgranted leave to the plaintiff t oenter notice of appeal out oflime .

Mr. J. J. Davis appeared forthe plaintiff; Mr. John EIton forthe council .

THE ISSUEMr . Davis, for the plaintiff ,

said that the ground of appealwas that the Judge was wrongin holding that the plaintiff wa snot exposed to danger in beingTrucked in a lavatory and thatin attempting to climb out ha dpndertaken a hazard such as to

be the author of her own mis-fortune.

The Master of the Rolls . Whatis said is that she should neverhave tried to escape at all andthat she panicked. What wehave to decide is whether whenthere is negligence it is a matterconsequential that the plaintif fshould make attempts to escape .

The Court was referred tophotographs of the publi lava-tory in question .

Counsel said that they showedthat since the accident there wa sno box for the penny on thedoer . The penny was no longer,charged and they were now free .One minor consequence of th eaccident was that two tropicalfish which the husband (of theappellant) was taking to sell inLondon died . The wife knewthat they were likely to die ifthey did not get there soon .

IRRELEVANCE O FTROPICAL FISH

The, Master of the Rolls . Peoplelocked in places are apt to geta sort of claustrophobia and donot act with the calm reasonwhich in ,the cold light of da yone thinks they ought to do ; butunless there is some advantageto you we will forget about thetropical fish . You say that sh edid the sensible thing, havingshouted and found that nobod ytook the slightest notice. She

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Mr. Elton, for the council, sai dthat the Judge had found thatthe plaintiff had rested her footon a toilet roll which, it wasobvious to her, was an extremelyinsecure foothold .

Lord Justice Ormerod. It de-pends on how secure a footholdyou require . If you have a pip eand the top of of the door t ohold on to, it may be that youwould not require a very firmfoothold .

The Master of the Rolls. The.fall was only a matter of two o rthree feet . I should think sh ewasvery unlucky tohave brokenher ankle. (To counsel) — Yo umust have fallen off a chairwhen you have been hangin gpictures .

Counsel . But the lady was al-ready spreadeagled with on ehand behind her .

HUSBAND'S DILEMMAThere was no evidence, eoun -

sel continued, that she was in Counsel . I trust—although Iany panic or that there was any i do not know whether I am th eclaustrophobia er any sugges- reasonable man in the Clapham •tion that she had been othe rthan calm and collected abou twhat she did . Her husband knewwhere she was .

The Master of the Rolls . Heknew where she had gone, bu thow was he to know that shehad not got into conversationwith someone? —I realize tha the might have gone to the plac ethat he knew she was . But it isnot easy for a man to invade aladies' lavatory to which his wif ehas gone .

Counsel. The only conse-quence which was going to fol-low from the defendants' negli-gence was that the appellan tand her husband would havehad to wait for one hour for th enext bus to get to the Bird Showat Olympia, and that possiblyher husband might have been abit cross .

The Master of the Rolls . Ifyou could imagine such an un-enviable experience, what wouldyou have done if you wer elocked in such a cubicle and ha dtried vainly to attract attention?Would you just sit there, light acigarette, and wait for someoneto come along?

urinal—that I would not haveput my weight on a revolving -toilet roll .

The Court intimated tha tjudgment would be delivered to-morrow .

Solicitors — Messrs . Bailey ,Breeze, and Wyles ; Messrs . VanSommer, Chillcott, Kitcat andClark for Messrs . Trotter, Chap-man' and Whisker . Epping .

'Reported inthe London Times,May 7, 1958 .

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a meeting in Buchanan 218, on 9 :00 to 1 :00, on Friday, Sep-Thursday at 12 :30. ~ tember 25. Admission will b e

35c for Frosh and 50c fo rothers .Newman

Men's Intramural SportsMeeting of representatives

Friday, Sept . 225, 12:30 noon ,Room 216 of the Memorial Gym-nasium .

Women's Big Block ClubA short meeting of the club

in the Women's Gym, Friday at12 :30. This meeting will includeboth Big and Small Block hold-ers .Splash and Dance

A Splash at Empire Pool fro m6 :30 to 9 :30, then a dance in th efoyer of the Men's Gym from

A tea, Friday, September 25 ,from 12 :30 to 2 :30, in the New-man Club Lounge, St . Mark' sCollege . All Catholics are in-vited to attend .

UBC Players' ClubThere will be a general meet-

ing of all members Tuesday,Sept . 29, at 12:30 in the GreenRoom .

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Winner of 8 Academy Awards

"From Here to . Eternity "(Adult Ent . Only)

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TH1; UBY S

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The University of British Columbia has started its winte rsession and for some of us the work has started and for other sthe fun is about to begin .

Since the most obviously confused element among us i sthe freshmen it is to him and her that I shall direct this, my first,column .

By now your classes should have been set up and you aredeveloping the generally held opinion that the profs you haveare duds .

This is not true because the real duds are reserved for th eupperclasmen . It appears that after a certain number of years ona university staff there is a solidifying of teaching method .

These well practised scholars are able to deliver lectureswith a minimum of interest and therefore a maximum of effort .These individuals usually have a PhD after their name and assuch immediately fall into the classification of `Great Teachers' .

The university authorities are well aware of their capabil-ities, however,- . and assign them to senior classes where thestudents have developed the habit of doing the work themselves .It is for this reason that the seniors receive the benefit of thesenior staff members . .

_With all the hue and cry about what poor teachers th e

children in the public schools have it is a wonder no-one ha staken up arms for the university student.

You can consider yourself lucky that as a general rule you rinstructors are at least more enthusiastic about their teachin gand do not yet consider this a ,pleasant place to do research witha few interuptions for classes .

You may have .heard the one about the grad who came bac kand sat in on one of his professors lectures and not only were ,the notes the same but so were the jokes .

Are you athletically inclined? Well, UBC has a place for you ..Whether you want to play for a varsity team or an intramural .team there is a place in the athletic firmament for your sta r'though its light might be indeed dim .

Every faculty has sports representatives . There are men's andwomen's associations, and there are individuals, both . studentsand staff, who work arduous hours to present you with a -success-ful athletic program .

There is one catch. You have to go looking . These people are -usually to busy to go to you . This is not high school where some-one asks you to play. There , is room for you but you have to dothe asking .

Interested in photography, drama, dancing, -art, -diggin gditches? There is a place for you. Club day is an opportunity foryou to look at some of the activities . Others are repotted uponin this paper . Look around and look into some of these .

They welcome you but you have to make the first move.

The one who hasn't anything to do on this campus has onl yhimself or herself to blame . You can follow the examples of .,some of the bodies who inhabit the campus and be occupied al lthe time with things other than studies .

Oh, to be a freshman and know the things I know now!

S E Y

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