When Vern Dettwiler and JohnMacDonald met on the train toPrince Rupert as UBC under-graduates in the 1950's they didn'trealize they would eventually formone of UBC's pioneer spin-offcompanies. Their highly suc-cessful firm, MacDonal dDettwiler, has now beenjoined by 65 other spin-offcompanies which create aplethora of diverse productsincluding mushrooms, soft -ware for artificial limbs ,oceanographic instruments ,and even something called a"fluxgate magnetometer" .

UBC's spin-off corporations aregrowing up, but have left manypeople wondering where these am-bitious adolescents are headed .

Combined, UBC spin-off com-panies pumped over $250 millioninto the B .C. economy last year,more than half have developed in-ternational markets and many areseen as leaders in their fields.

The term "spin-off companies"refers to a rather loosely definedgroup of companies that havesprung up as a result of UBC re -search . They include all companie swhich exist as a direct result of tech -nology developed at UBC or becaus ethe company was formed by peopl ewho gained specific expertise whil estudying or teaching at UBC. Themajority come from research in en-gineering, general science, com-merce or medicine—in other words ,the practical UBC research disci-plines .

A typical spin-off might be cre-ated when a professor or graduatestudent with entrepreneuria lgumption invents something withcommercial potential . After thecompany is formed the inventormay maintain ties to the universit ythrough continued research, paten tagreements or even employment ofUBC graduate students .

" I used to work at the comput-ing centre and John was in electri-cal engineering," said Ver nDettwiler, explaining ho wMacDonald Dettwiler was forme din the days when computers werenot as common as they are today .

For their first assignment inthe communications industryMacDonald finally convinced Lun -kurt Electric that he was the right person t owrite their computer program.

Today with annual sales for 1987 of $65million, the company specializes in produc-ing technical systems for digital data proc-essing and supplying satellite ground sta-tion equipment .

"You know when you see pictures fromthose weather satellites doing cloud sys-tems? That's us," said Dettwiler.

As the company began to grow and th epartners were eventually able to hire thei rfirst employee, both were still working forthe university and moonlighting as busi-nessmen .

'The university administrationdoesn't research something forcommercial purposes .. peopledoing research are resented bypeople who have to teach "- Dr. B. Narod,Narod Geophysics Ltd.

At that time, in the late 1960's, it wa sthe exception to the rule for people associ-ated with the university to use UBC tech -

always just to find practical outlets for re -search . These academics cum businessme nare out to make money and there are profitsin spin-offs .

Barry Narod of Narod Geophysics Ltd . ,the producer of the fluxgate magne -tometer, a geophysical instrument ,says his business means that h edoesn't have to spend his tim eteaching, which "pays next to noth-ing" .

UBC itself also gains finan-cially from its association with th espin-offs .

Peter Larkin, vice-president ofresearch explains that a companymust give the university a royalty i fthey have a licensing agreement .

"UBC received $600,000 on alllicensing agreements last year andseveral of the licensing agreementsare with spin-off companies," saysLarkin, who noted that under theterms of the UBC agreements halfof the royalty goes to the inventorwhile the other half goes back toUBC.

If the spin-off company's asso-ciation with UBC does not involve alicensing agreement, no moneychanges hands, Larkin added. Inthe case of MacDonald Dettwiler,the founding members took theirknowledge out in their heads andthus don't pay a royalty .

No longer having any officialties to the university, MacDonaldDettmeierhas reached adulthood i nthe corperate world . "I have n ocomplaints" about the break fromUBC, says Dettwiler, but acknowl-edges that spin-offs have often bee nviewed quite negatively by the aca-demic community .

"English literature and ancien thistory don ' t have practical applica-tions but things like engineeringand computer science do," he says ,adding that he feels students bene-fit from the practical knowledgeprofessors gain from outside theuniversity .

Over the last five years, theprovincial government has encour-aged the growth of spin-offs by help -ing to create the Industry LiaisonOffice under the Economic Regula-tion Development Agreemen t(E RDA).

Spin-off job creation, 2,385 jobsin 1987, is especially appealing tothe people in Victoria says Fowler .

Larkin agrees, and added thatthe provincial and federal govern -ment programs help finance many

spin-offs ."The whole process is taking off. Peopl e

realized a lot of money was being spent onresearch and no one was picking it up forcomercial use," says Fowler .

But according to Narod, too little, nottoo much, has been done to encourage spin -off companies.

"They (the university administration )don't want you to research something forcommercial purposes . . . .People doing re -search are resented by people who have toteach," says Narod .

Narod would like to see Canada moveI fear for the nature of towards the more commercially oriente deducation: teaching stu- American universities and senses resis -

tence to change at UBC.dents to read, write and

"I tend to think the company spin-offthink.

happened in spite of UBC . It's a misguided

Marzari, MLAstrategy. A more pragmatic approach is

- needed," said Narod ."Every single example of (spin-off) suc-

cess has something to do with a Phd. whocan't work within UBC," he added.

Nonetheless Narod still maintain sclose connections to UBC, currently usin gthe help of the Liaison Office to negotiate acontract with the United Kingdom .

nology and research space for commercialpurposes. Academics masquerading a sbusinessmen are still uncommon enough toraise some eyebrows and there are somefears that emphasis on commercializationmay distort the university's academic pri-orities .

New Democrat MLA Darlene Marzari ,while stressing that it is "wonderful" tha tUBC is becoming more commercially ori-ented, has concerns about an over-empha-sis on business in the academic community .

"My concerns are that the balance ofbusiness oriented enterprise and broaden -ing students minds might become muddied .I fear for the nature of education : teachingstudents to read, write and think," sai dMarzari .

"Liberal arts are waning while com-puter science and applied science are bein gencouraged," she added .

Al Fowler, manager of patents and li -censing for the UBC Office of ResearchServices and Industry Liaison, admits thatsome people object to research for commer -cial purposes rather than mere pursuit ofknowledge .

"It depends on what you're trying to

achieve. On the one hand you do research t ogain knowledge but if the object is to learnfor the purpose of applying it . . .you needspin-off companies," says Fowler .

"In the old days it was 'publish or per-ish' ; the way you transformed technologywas by publishing . But a lot of big compa-nies don't want this because they don't ge tany protection," since the research has no tyet been applied or patented Fowler says ,explaining that you can't patent somethingthat has already been published.

Spin-off companies "may be crass bu tmay also be essential . Research is done bu toften nothing happens to it otherwise," say sFowler .

The motives behind spin-offs are no t

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cause it was found to be dis-criminatory solely on thebasis of age . In terms ofemployment standards it isequitable to the right not tobe discriminated againstbecause of gender, race,nationality, et al . One's age,like one's gender or one'splace of origin, does not,necessarily, determine one'scompetency. Therefore, it-cannot be used to deny orremove one from a job. Inother words, with respect tomandatory retirement, aperson does not lose theability to perform their jobthe day after their sixty-fifth birthday ; whereas, onthe previous day, they werefit for duty.

If mandatory retire-ment was meant to facilitatea safeguard against incom-petency, then we knowempirically that it fails ut-terly. Incompetency knowsno age! Nor does this policyalleviate the lack of posi-tions available to younggraduates and professors.The blame must be laid else-where: abysmal financingstructures, disproportion-ate enrollment within facul-ties, social stigmas. thereare other argument sagainst mandatory retire-ment but this should be suf-ficient .

Let it be said for therecord that a meritocracyalso has its demerits. Dis-covering valid criteria formeasuring merit objectivelyis a difficult proposition .

theory as well as practice

'Systems' swapsreason for

racismViolence does not justify racism . Nothing

does. Systems nightclub has a racist doorpolicy. It restricts access to groups of Asianpeople .

But Systems manager Dale McRitchie ha sa problem. He has an employee in the hospi-tal with a bullet scar on his face . Unfortu-nately, McRitchie, in trying to remedy theproblem of youth gang violence in his club ,has created another malady. His problem isviolence, not Asians. And steps to solve thi sdilemma should deal with violence, not race .

Members of Asian youth gangs, who maybe responsible for the Saturday night shoot-ing, are defined by three criteria - they areyoung, they are Asian and they are danger-ous. McRitchie has chosen the wrong crite-rion. He has chosen to rectify his very realmenace by limiting access to Asians. But justas all youths are not gang members, neithe rare all Asians.

Morally and legally, McRitchie cannotdiscriminate at the door on the basis of race .And, obviously he cannot discriminate on th ebasis of `youth'. His only recourse, then, is tolimit access on the basis of danger .

Today, there are methods of dealing wit hthe element of danger . Guns, knives and bras sknuckles can be discovered upon entry by ametal detector .

Systems could implement a comprehensivemembership policy mandatory for all System spatrons. Members would be subject to a polic echeck and club entry would be denied on thebasis of a criminal record .

Members should be made to sign in an dleave identification at the door . If violencebreaks out, the police know who was in th eclub on that particular night. They havesomewhere to start .

These steps towards ensuring the safety ofSystems patrons and staff are not meant toeliminate the problem of Asian youth gangs .They are meant to remedy an isolated symp-tom of the problem .

These solutions may sound idealistic an dcumbersome. But anything works better thanracism .

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Mandatory retirement fails inObliquely respondin g

to Mr . Willoughby's letter ofAugust 3 provides an oppor-tunity to set forth argu-ments against the admissi-bility of mandatory retire-ment . This I will proceed to,after afew cursory remarks.

My previous letter wasnot a formal rebuttal of Mr.Preinsperg's argument ssupporting mandatory re-tirement, none were given.Rather, I merely elucidated,primarily using his ownwords, the facile and shrill ,histrionic tenor of Kurt'stirade. Secondly, I statedmy disagreementwith someof his statements or conclu-sions .

I do not question self-interest as a prime factor inthe motivation for our be-havior. Nor can I disput ethat bureaucracy can be in-imical to and to a great ex-tent subverts the intentionsfor instituting tenure, aca-demic freedom and any sem-blance of meritocracy. Hav-ing admitted this, the mani-festly untenable practise ofmandatory retirement re-,mains .

Mandatory retirementis a social injustice based onarbitrariness an/or unjusti-fiable incrimination . Thecriteria upon which it i sbased are invalid; nor willsuch a practice accomplishthe ends for which it wasinstituted .

Mandatory retirementwas deemed impermissibleand unconstitutional be-

What would the standardsbe? And obviously, any com-mittee entrusted with de-termining advancement,reward or punishment i salways susceptible to arbi-trariness, politics and preju-dice.

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The Editor ,Ubeeshyee (Students paper )

Dear Ediotr ,

I have enjoyed being in UBC campus for abouta week and I think, that is one of the most beautifu lUniversity Campus in the whole whole . Added to th enatural beauty, the planners, who must b ecomplemented for sense of natural enironmen tpreservation, have very thoughtfully decorated th ecampus with additional beautiful gardens . Stil lmore, I was very much overwhelmed by friendly gestureof all canadians. Plese, accept my congratulationfor making the campus in particular and Vancouver ingeneral so beautiful .

May I use your esteemed paper to try tocommunicate with one of the student (I guess) who leftnever erasable impression on me . Please, put thefollowing passage with blanks on your paper for 3alternative issues (or as you please) earliestpossible . Whoever fills all of the blank correctly,will be the person I am looking for . Excuse me fo rnot writing my name but if this search is successful ,I will answer any question at that time .

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This issue is, indeed, aconundrum. I maintain,however, that mandatoryretirement will not amelio-rate the situation .

Tom Andrew sPhilosophy 4

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August 10, 1988

Arts & Entetainment

There is drama and motion in works like "Th e

Great Wave : Homage to Hokusai (1974)"; indeed, th esheer size of his paintings requires Ewen to come togrips with his materials in a very physical way, anexperience quite different from delicately stroking acanvas .

"The actual physical movements I make some -times actually feel analogous to the way things reallyhappen, " says Ewen.

This intensely physical experience is only thefinal part of a much longer process . "The way thingsreally happen" seeds an image in Ewen's mind whic hhe then has to "live with" until it will "emerge from myrotating head and be manifested in the plywood ."

The result of these processes is a fresh, energeti cbody of work (as if his career had really begun in th elate '60's) which is also the product of a fully-matured

artist .

One may only hope that the limitations of in-creasing age will be unable to quench PatersonEwen's glorious artistic rejuvenation .

The Great Wave: Homage to Hokusul, 197 4

The Pointsman is atrain worth catching

MANDEL NGAN PHOTO

T he Vancouver Art Gallery occupies a ridiculou sstructure . It squats incongruous amongst the

skyscrapers, its religious roof' propped up by hulkingneo-Roman pillars - a motley crew of ancient influence sdesigned toreflectthe dignity and importance of officialproceedings .Aside from art students, only the middle-aged ven-ture indoors to examine its contents . Bums sleep on itslawns and eat the flowers, and the young and restles suse it primarily as a theatrical prop .

Perhaps this is because young artists rarely getshown there . ..

Canadian artist Paterson Ewen was born in 1925 .He was an abstractionist painter until the late '60'swhen he "became bored with (his) own work" (Ewen' squotes are taken from the program notes) .

This boredom, together with an amateur en-thusiasm for natural phenomena, compelle dEwen to create a new style of art . "I call my works`phenomascapes' because they are images o f

By Martin Dawes

Paterson Ewen's plywood phenomenawhat is happening around us as individuals, rain,lightning, hail, wind. . .around our Universe, Galaxies,Solar Eruptions. They are sometimes inner phenom -ena. I observe, contemplate, and thenattack."

In fact, the only man-made objectsrepresented in this exhibition are amurky wrecked ship and the skyline ofa city cowering beneath chain light-ning.

A grade-school-science-fair kin dof feeling pervades the second floor of . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . .the gallery . Ewen has gouged into and painted mas-sive sheets of plywood, and foraged in hardware store sfor the rest of his materials .

He represents weather systems in an almost dia-grammatic way. Crude objects are carefully chosen to

signify natural phenomena: "a length of wire becomes

'aim> a piece of link fence becomes fog, and soon ..D

The moon, another favourite subject for Ewen,nspires some of his most striking colourizations . Just

as Van Gogh sometimes painted thehuman face using colours completelyunrelated to flesh-tones - and indoing so seemed to discover hiddenemotional expressions - Ewen'smooncolours are often unexpected andnon-literal, yet strangely affecting.

. . . . . . . .. . . "Solar Eruption " reveals a star-ling brilliance in its use of line . The edge of the sun andis eruption form a simple thick line against a dark..ckground, recalling the masterful beauty of Picasso's'Blue Nude", where a crouching woman is realized by a

de dark outline on a blue canvas .

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Northern Lights, 1973

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A barren stretch of land. Railroadtracks . A shack.

Five characters. Few words.Meet the sophisticate - beautiful

Stephane Excoffier . Unwittingly, she stepsoff a train into another world . The silentworld of the primitive . . .

FILMThe Pointsmanwith Jim Van Den Woude andStephane Excoffie rdirected by Jos Stelling, 198 8Dutch and French with subtitle sPlaying at .Royal Centre

Meet the primitive - dour Jim Van DenWoude . He is the pointsman. He controlsthe train tracks at this juncture . Hecontrols this world. . .

She speaks French - tries to introduceherself. No answer, he speaks only Dutch .Two worlds collide; languages create a bar-rier . Silence reigns.

She will wait. She stands beside th etracks. Darkness falls . No train . Cold .

Her numb hands knock on his door sand she enters. He sits, blank-faced,eating his gruel . She edges to the stove ,seeking its warmth. Tension . Another

futileattempt at communication . Silenceagain . But she stays .

Unlike most works in the medium,Dutch director (and co-writer) JosStelling's The Pointsman does not set outto solve a problem, make a point, o rprovide an `answer' . Some questions in liferemain unformulated. The answers t othese questions, for obvious reasons, elud eus. In the same way that an artist ex-presses an idea through abstract forms,the filmmaker can attempt to imply a nar-rative using only a bare minimum ofwords, and relying on expressions, actions ,and natural metaphors. Stelling has usedthese techniques and mediums to weave ariveting tale of destiny and character.

The train which deposits Excoffier inthe strange world of the pointsman isprobably meant to signify the vehicle oflife, the means of realizing motive (as i nloco-motive). The traintracks are almostcertainly a metaphor for life itself; extend-ing from the point of origin (the departure )to the point of termination (arrival).Excoffier's character gets off the train on asiding - we are not told from where shecomes, where she goes, or why. Hercharacter must define itself in oppositio nto the pointsman, without the benefit ofwords . We must read her character solel yfrom her actions . And the questions fore -

most in our mind are : Why doesn't sheleave when she gets the chance? Whatholds her in place?

Another matter is the character of th estrange pointsman. It is obvious he hasheld this job for a long time ; we know thisbecause he has piles ofmoney jammed in acloset . He speaks very little, even whenthe insipid postman (Jesse De Pauw), wh obrings his wage once every few months, orthe two railroad engineers appear . Again ,Stelling refuses to supply context to the

character; the viewer must infer everythin gabout the pointsman from the way in whichhe acts .

The Pointsman is far removed frommainstream film in that it demands com-plete attention to detail . The sparse land-scape in which Stelling has situated hi sstory acts as kind of a tabula rasa ; a blankcanvas on which to etch impressions . Atwitch of the lip, a bird on the roof, acontraction of the throat - these are sign swhich are meant to reveal something

crucial to the audience . The use of colorand texture is also carefully manipulate dand crucially important to the film .

The conservative use of speech as am"'lium of communication creates an at-mosphere of raw honesty . Speech - theword - is, in real life, often used to creat e

.se impressions and is therefore auto-matically suspect. Limiting the use ofspeech, and emphasizing expression as th emedium of telling the story removes adistorting veil from human interaction. It

also lends itself to creating moments ofgenuine comedy, and Stelling interject senough of them to keep a smile on th eviewer's face, albeit an occasionally per-plexed one .

Many labels could be slapped on thi sfilm - absurdist, minimalist, farce, to nam ea few. To describe The Pointsman interms of technical labels is to do it aoisservice ; it entertains, provokes thought ,and brings smiles . What more could youwant in a film?

By Martin Dawes

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tanding upon our fair campus, onl ySuperwoman could spit as far as th e

Vancouver East Cinema . But this sad factis easily overruled when one considerswhat it has to offer.

How about three different double fea-tures a week? How about $5 .00 for bothfilms, or $3.00 if you buy a $5 .00 member-ship? How about reasonably price dmunchies, including carrot cake, giantcookies and coffee, as well as popcorn?Best of all, how about the pick of th einternational film cache, including oldclassics like Metropolis?

Upcoming events include a pair of re -cent films from young Japanese directors.Tonight and tomorrow the VEC presentsTampopo by Juzo Itami, and Tokyo Popby Fran Rubel Kazui .

Tampopo is a helter-skelter series ofskits on a food theme, loosely connected b yrecurring characters . A truckdriver/cowboy tutors a young woman on thepreparation of the perfect noodle ; a pair oflovers eat their way to orgasm ; an rich ol dman chokes and has to undergo emergencyvacuuming, and so on . Pure fun .

Tokyo Pop is about a female Ameri-can rock singer who decides to seek

stardom in Tokyo. The film stars Carri eHamilton and the Japanese rock star YutakaTadokoro .

From Japan we fly directly to Czechoslo-vakia for the weekend . The UnbearableLightness of Being, set in Prague duringthe events of 1968, was justly hailed as adaring advancement of American film sensi-bilities. Europeans have long been accus-tomed to more sex and less violence - andhopefully, this film is a step in that direction .Daniel Day Lewis is very sexy indeed as awomanizing surgeon caught between the"lightness" of promiscuity and the seriousnessof commitment . Leno Olin steals the show a sDaniel's artistic mistress .

-Daisies, the other film on the bill, wa s

made in Czechoslovakia in 1966 and promptlybanned by the censors . No doubt the censors 'senses reeled at this mad dadaist film abou ttwo young girls having fun. Fun guides thei ractions and decides their fates . A philosophyof life is presented here, and its failure i smourned .

The science fiction genre is given aworkout the following Wednesday and Thurs-day (August 17-18) : certified lunatic DennisHopper stars in Riders of the Storm, an dfrom New Zealand comes The Quiet Earth ,a fascinating film about a man who is theonly human survivor of an experiment gonewrong, or so he thinks . . . .

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Potential developer breaks ground: Crowded UBC daycare awaits funding for newcentres, while graduate students gear up for a fight for their own infant care facility . DEANNE FISHER PHOTO

Bill 41 ruling pleasesUBC medical community

GSC daycareswaddled inred tape

By Katherine Mon k"It's a great day for myself and

all the young doctors who had puttheir life on hold," said Dr.PeterWilson following the B .0 court ofappeal's decision to strike dow nBill 41 .

Bill 41 restricted access tobilling numbers, preventingyoung graduating doctors to billfor their services and set up prac -ticesinareas of their choice in B .C.

"It's also a great day for themedical system and everyone whouses it, because now people can seethe doctor of their choice, and not

the government's choice," saidWilson.

Wilson, an ex-UBC medicalstudent, filed the test case againstthe government challenging thebill's constitutionality in the fall of1985, when the government re -fused to grant him a billing num-ber.

"The government finallyadmitted that the bill was notaimed at redistributing doctors inthe province, but limiting healthcare costs by limiting the numberofdoctors—which reallymakes nosense because health care costs

are already fixed for everyone,"said Wilson.

In the previous government,Bill 24, a similar legislation, wasalso struck down because it wasconsidered unconstitutional, sai dWilson . "What's what makes it sostupid, because they already triedthe same thing before—i t's redun -dant."

UBC dean of medicine, Dr .W.A. Webber, said the decisionwill help take young medical stu -dents out of a three year state ofsuspended animation, and addedhe was pleased a decision had fi -

By Jennifer LyallA proposal to develop a new

infant care facility in the graduatestudent centre is stumblin gthrough a simmering jurisdic-tional dispute between the univer -sity administration and theGraduate Student Society .

The GSS cannot implementthe proposed ground floor daycarebecause, while the GSS manage sthe grad centre, the universityowns the building and must en-dorse the plans .

Graduate student societypast president Phil Bennett, whodeveloped the daycare proposal inJanuary 1987, saiditis "unethical ,if not illegal" for the university,rather than graduate students, todecide how the grad centre will beoperated.

"I think we have jurisdictionover [the centre] and the univer-sity has no right leasing ourspace," Bennett said in an inter-view Monday.

He said the ground floor of thecentre is currently "really under-utilized." The basement house sthree offices, two of which arepresently vacant.

In 1987 the university leasedthe third office to - the KoernerFoundation, which has no plans tomove before the expiry of its fiv eyear lease .

Bennett did not suggest th eeviction of the Koerner Founda-tion from the basement, but sai dthere was space for them upstairs .

The university is reluctant toask the Koerner Foundation to

nally been made ."I can understand the

government's reasoning, but (Bill41) bore entirely on all recentgraduates," said Webber.

Webber noted that UBC wasinvolved all through the discus-sion, since the number of graduat -ing medical students was con-stantly under the provincialgovernment's scrutiny.

"The reasoning was that ifyouwant to reduce health care costs,

move, Bennett said. Neither theKoerner Foundation nor UBCvice-president student service sK.D. Srivastava could be reachedfor comment .

Bennett said the lack of infantcare facilities constitutes "th emost pressing single need" inUBC's daycare system, which ac-commodates only nine childre nbetween the ages of three and 18months . As of February 1988there were only 84 infant carespots in the province .

The GSS proposal is for par-ent-run co-operative caring fortwelve infants . It would offerdaycare on a full- or part-tim ebasis, providing the flexibilitystudents need in a child care serv-ice, said Bennett .

"The idea was to have fixedpart-time booking to accommo-date course schedules," he said.

Bennett said the grad centrewould be an ideal location for anew daycare facility because i twould be so convenient for nursingmothers and other students whowant to be with their childrenduring the day .

The GSS daycare proposalmeets or surpasses all govern-ment standards for child carecentres, providing a space Bennettdescribes as "quite palatial i ncomparison [with other infantcare facilities] . "

Because most student par -ents are in graduate studies, saidBennett, "I think it's a service weshould be providing."

reduce the number of graduatingdoctors," said Webber.

"But from our standpoint, weare producing two-thirds of thenational average of doctors, onlyin B.0 there are fewer places forthe doctors who are graduating."

Webber added that in spite ofBill 41, UBC continued to receivethe same number of qualifiedapplicants as they had in year sprior to the legislation .

Co-ed but not conjugal :welfare recipient winstribunal challenge

By Katherine Mon kThe provincial government

has hung itself, according to wel-fare recipient Fred Bernard .

Bernard challenged the gov-ernment because he and his fe-male roommate were receiving thelower welfare rates for marriedcouples though the two are notengaged in a conjugal relation-ship .

But a special tribunal whichincluded representatives for Ber-nardand the ministry of socialservices and housing agreed Ber -nard was not having sexual rela -tions with his female roommate,and that his common law statu sshould be dissolved immediately .

"The ministry was saying Iwas married, and I said I wasn't .But even the representative from

the ministry finally decided in myfavour," Bernard said after theAugust 2 proceeding.

Although Bernard originallysigned an agreement stating hewas living common law, he claimshe was unaware of the implica-tions . Bernard and his roommateare now entitled to receive ap-proximately two-hundred dollarsmore amonth between them.

"They asked a lot of very per-sonal questions, and made me sayI was sleeping on the couch. Whatbusiness is it of theirs if I sleep onthe couch?" said Bernard .

"One thing I've learned is thatnext time I'm going to get a twobedroom apartment, in fact I'malready looking for one," Bernardsaid.

But Bernard says the bigquestion now is whether or not

they receive the increase in pay-ment retroactively.

"At least now, if they don't payme, I can take them to small debtscourt. My biggest problem beforewas that I couldn't afford to filesuit against the government," sai dBernard.

Bernard said the governmentstill discriminates on the basis ofmarital status by maintainingthat two people can live cheaperthan one, and has lodged a com-plaint with the B.0 council ofhuman rights .

"I think I can prove beyond ashadow of a doubt that I don't eatless when I live with someoneelse ."

"I'm still trying to find someway to bring this in front of ajudge, because as long as the gov-ernment goes unchallenged, thi swill keep happening, " he said."Everyone deserves to be treatedas an individual. "

Wyn Gladman, who repre-sented the ministry in the hearing,declined comment on the decision,but said tribunals are only calledin "difficult" situations .

Wrecked Wreck trail repairedReconstruction of the

bottom of Wreck Beach Trai l4 will inhibit erosion of thecliff and improve the safetyof beach patrons, says thechair of the Wreck BeachPreservation Society.

The $18,500 reconstruc-tion project, completed bythe Parks Board in June ,used an experimental plant-ing of trees and grass to haltthe accelerated erosion ofthe cliff.

"It makes a big mattedground cover and secures thecliff face through its rootsystem," said WBPS chai rJudy Williams .

The WBPS has been lob-bying the Parks Board toupgrade the trail since 1983.The trail was originally builtin 1981 to keep people off thecrumbling cliff faces, but it

did not check the erosio nand eventually had to b eclosed to the public, saidWilliams.

"The whole bottom sec-tion was very, very danger-ous and had been for a num-ber of years," she said.

Vancouver's nude beachis not serviced by any roadsand is accessible only byfoot .

The WBPS hopes the re-construction of Trail 4, be-hind the Museum of Anthro-pology, will take some of thestrain off the better know nTrail 6.

The trails are absorbingextraordinarily heavy traf-fic this summer; on a peakday last month "the wholebeach easily had eleven ortwelve thousand people,"

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Demonstratorsrally in memoryof 1956 marchon PretoriaBy Mandel Nga n

"We are trying to over-throw a government anda system of apartheidthat is the shame of theworld," shouted Alder -man Libby Davies fro mthe steps of city hall .

Davies proclaimed August 9as "The day of support for th estruggle of women in South Afric aand Namibia" in her openingspeech for last Sunday's marchand rally organized by Th eWomen's Day Committee of theAnti-Apartheid Network . D e m -onstrators trekked from Vancou-ver city hall to the YWCA on Bur -rard Street to commemorate the1956 march into Pretoria by SouthAfrican women in a show of defi-ance against the pass laws, whichrequire blacks to carry identifica -tion at all times .

The question of effectivenessis often raised about demonstra-tions and rallies . Activist Rose-mary Brown acknowledged th eproblem .

"When we think of the beat-ings and the incarcerations an dtortures, and the various forms ofoppression which people in SouthAfrica, including women and chil -dren, are going through, marchin gfrom city hall to the YWCA an deven talking about it doesn't seemlike a great deal .

" In fact what we are doing i ssaying that we have not forgottenthe struggle, that we rememberthat there are people in South

Africa who still do not have th eright to be treated as huma nbeings . What we are also saying i sthat we are not going to relinquishfighting on their behalf, right herein this country, " she added .

Native speakers, such asMarie Wilson of the Gitksan tribalcouncil, made comparisons be-tween the treatment of blacks inSouth Africa and the treatment ofnative people in Canada - and ofthe hypocrisy of the Canadian gov-ernment in condemning the SouthAfrican government 's treatment

of blacks and yet continuing itsown mistreatment of Natives.

"The Canadian part of m erejoiced that the Honorable JoeClark is sponsoring efforts to dea lwith the world wide abuse of abo -riginal people .

"But the Gitksan part of m ewatched in astonishment and dis -belief that Canada can blatantl yexamine the molt in thei rbrother's eye, and yet Canadia nauthorities on behalf of the Cana-dian people refuse to acknowledg eand remove the molt from their

own social and political eye," sai dWilson .

Also present at the rally wasSusan Mnumzana of the AfricanNational Congress' observer mis-sion to the United Nations .

"Our people. ..aresaying that we areprepared to suffer ifonly to live as huma nbeings . "

"Give way Botha, give way," says one of the Vuisisizwe Players at the rally In support of South Africa's women . MANDEL NGAN PHOT O

On the subject of freeing Nel-son Mandela, Mnumzana said, " Ofcourse Nelson Mandela will re-main in jail on his 80th birthday aslong as the western governmen twon't intervene . "

Mnumzana recognized thatblack South Africans would behurt by economic sanctions, bu tpoints out that they are ready tosuffer if it will lead to the end o fapartheid . "Our people are noteven saying that it will all be milkand honey when sanctions areimposed. They are saying that weare prepared to suffer if only to live

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From standardize dgrading to Telereg, newregistrar RichardSpencer's most importantjob is curing students o fbureaucratic headaches .

Spencer, who took office Au -gust 1, said the grading systemwill undergo considerable change sas a result of an ad-hoc committe eon grades and grading pracitices .

"The old system is on the wayout," said Spencer . "I would agreethat [the present system of grad-ing] is not good . "

Spencer said in the future th e1's, 2's and P's will be replaced byA+'s, A's, A-'s and so on, thoughnot for another two years, an dtranscripts would include a per-centage rather than a mark out of150. The number of credits percourse will also double, in accor-dance with other universities .

This new grading methodcan't be incorporated into the pres-ent computer record system, sai dSpencer. "The present studentrecord system is pretty old an dclunky. It simply isn't worthtrying to upgrade it . "

"Telereg is the first part of anew system," said Spencer, add-ing that the next step before imple -

menting the new grades is a de -tailed plan .

Speaking of Telereg, Spencersaid he has received relatively fewcomplaints on the system .

"I think it's been generallygood," he said, noting occasionalbreakdowns, though none longerthan ten minutes .

Typical problems includepeople who don't have a touch ton ephone and rushes of calls when th ephonelines are opened up to a newblock of students, said Spencer.

Though some students havehad difficulty paying the required$100 deposit, which is non-defer-able, Spencer said "I expect we'regoing to have to live with the sys-tem."

The deposit is intended toensure students are not reservin gspaces in classes they are not seri -ous about attending, he said. Toalleviate problems for impover-ished students, Spencer said hewould look into "some way of lend -ing students the $100."

Because Telereg eliminate sin-person registration week, stu-dents may see longer Decemberexam schedules in years to come,said Spencer .

"We're going to use that tim eto ensure we have a Christmasexam period adequately long," hesaid, adding that the number of 1 .5

unit courses are increasing, whichmeans more Christmas exams .

Because Labour Day is latethis year however, no changes wil loccur .

Midterm Break

When asked about the possi-bility of a reading week in th esecond semester, Spencer said i twould be reasonalbe .

"I don't know why it hasn'tbeen done," he said, adding that i twould not be his decision, but tha tclasses would continue a weeklonger in April, as a result .

Science Meets Quota

Part of Spencer's duties als oinclude overseeing admissions .Last year, the Science facultyreached its quota in terms of enrol -ment and this year has been force dto raise the grade point average foradmission.

"This year, the minimum weadmitted was a 2 .6 GPA, though2.5 is published [in the calendar], "he said .

Arts reached its peak "acouple of years ago" and is now no tadmitting anyone with a GPAlower than 2 .72 .

Legally, the university ha sreserved the right to turn away

students due to an excess in appli-cations, as is published in the UB Ccalendar.

Conflict-Free Exams

Though many other univer-sities post exam schedules at thesame time as class schedules arereleased, Spencer said he prefersUBC's system .

"We guarantee an examschedule with no conflicts, [if astudent's lectures do not conflict],"he said .

He recognized that some stu-dents are faced with a tight sched-ule of consecutive exams but that"our system offers more flexiblityto students in choice of classes ."

Smiling Bureaucrac y

One of Spencer's pet projects willbe to improve "the way we handleindividual contacts with stu-dents . "

"The one area where I havere -ceived negative comments is thatstudents were dealt with in an im -personal way," he said.

Spencer said he wants to reor -ganize the set-up of the admini-stration building. "It doesn't con-vey that we are ready to help themif we can . The student services are

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not laid out the way we'd like themto be ."

A proposal has been put for -ward to expand Brock Hall to in-clude all functions of the registrar ,ie . Admissions, Financial Serv-ices, the Awards Office etc ."Whether that will occur, I don'tknow," said Spencer.

Spencer has been a professorof civil engineering at UBC, assis-tant dean, and member of thesenate .

"I really think that when myfive years are up, people will thinkof me as someone sympathetic tostudents," said Spencer.

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