Talksgo on a,s st,rike nears By MARCUS GEE “As yet we haven’t seen a dime,” “We have no clue what they will tract negotiations since AUCE months. It is like awaking from a

between the Association Of But Mackenzie said there is still asking for an across-theboard The 1,200-member union is Mackenzie said. Peggy Smith said the university

University and enough time to resolve monetary wage hike of $175 per month. It is monetary issues have been procedure but the union is pleased did not. change union plans -to disputes if the university makes also an increase in the virtually cbse the university with realistic. offers in negotiations base rate to the lowest paid union resolved.’’ with it and wants it retained in the a strike slated for midnight today with the mion. new contract. Tuesday. member to $902 from $633 per Mackenzie said he is pleased Mackenziesaid the main issue -

He said he could not predict month. with the speed of negotiations since aside from the monthly question - And Peggy union whether the university’s offers will The union and the university AUCE served strike notice. left in the contract dispute are

Organizer for campus library and satisfy the union and cause it to have already resolved most of the “In two days we have made vacations, union meetings, clerical workers, said she does not call off the strike. expect the university to accede to non-monetary issues in the con- more progress than in the last two working conditions, cause of’

Monday’s contract negotiations he said. come up with tomorrow.” served strike notice Thursday, long sleep.’’

“The greater bulk of non- to the grievance

1.

2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

PRO Employees say they will strike a t midnight tonightto back their wage demands. Other unions have promised support of strike.and students have option of crossing legal picket lines to attend classes and deny support.

1 I

I !

1 I

1

!

I

discharge and seniority. A core issue in the university-

union dispute is whether recently announced federal wage controls apply to AUCE, Smith said.

The university has said it cannot offer the union a wage in excess of the federal controls because it does not know if they apply to AUCE.

See page 2: OFFER But the union claims it does not I

Support AUCE If the Association of University and College Employees

strike Wednesday, students should honor the picket lines. Why? Because the people on strike, secretaries, library

assistants and clerical workers who help you every day, think they aren’t getting a decent contract settlement with the adm inistration.

They think their only alternative is strike action i f the university, after almost four months of negotiations, won‘t ’

reach a settlement with them. Going on strike is the only weapon a union has against i t s

employer to force a good and just settlement. By crossing picket lines students are undermining the only course of action open to AUCE and possibly contributing to a long and bitter dispute.

Don‘t cross picket lines.

Admin waffles on students’ situation

By MARK BUCKSHON UBC will remain open during the

first strike in its history, but how open is open to question.

Confusion reigns, mainly because the strike by library and clerical workers is scheduled to start only days before Christmas exams begin next Monday.

Administrati- spokesmen said early today that libraries will remain open if the Association of

University and College employees goes on strike.

But the status of students and profs who refuse to cross AUCE picket lines to use libraries and write exams is unclear. . .Registrar Jack Parnall said: “The university will remain‘open to enable students to complete their (Christmas) examinations.”

But administration -vice- president Chuck Connaghan in- dicated “other arrangements will be made” for students, who, “if for

Surmise! cannot write their exams.” any reason because of the strike,

I

This special issue of The vague Confusion was enhanced, by administration press

with resDect to the Dossible strike students know just what’s going on conference with reporters early Ubyssg is being published to let releases and an equally vague

by UBb clerical -an# library “GY‘ administration. spokesman workers. read an “official” statement over Association of University and College Employees workers, The ‘ ‘UBC is reaching a critical stage myssey will not publish Thursday in negotiations with AUCE local- 1. as Dlanned. The union membership has a p

In the event of a strike by the phone, saying:

today’s paper readers will find proved withdrawal Of Sewices stories dealing with AuCE, the should negotiations fail to reach a state of current negotiations and settlement. the effects a strike would have on “Should the mion decide on the operation of UBC. strike action during the month of

See page 2: CHRISTMAS

Bob Williams announces park for UEL By MARK BUCKSHON

Resources minister Bob Williams announced Monday that a 1,066-acre provincial park has been established in the University Endowment Lands south of Six- teenth Avenue.

In making the announcement, expected since the government backed away from a proposal to use the lands for housing shortly after taking office in 1972, Williams excluded about 600 acres of un- developed land west of Spanish Banks.

Williams also said he wants to see the UBC campus - separate from the endowment lands - reduced in s u e and used for

housing and commercial development.

The provincial park, named after Frank Buck, a UBC horticul- turist who designed much of the campus landscape in the 1920s and ’. O OS, will include a special 240-acre ecological reserve.

Calling the endowment lands “the greatest consolidated urban land mass in Canada,” Williams said the undeveloped land is worth at least $10,000an acre. So, he said, the park is worth at least $200 million.

It is slightly larger than Stanley Park, Williams told about 750 persons attending a noon-hour meeting in SUB.

He saidthe decision to establish

the park was made after detailed ecological studies were completed, but admitted announcement of the a

park was delayed to take ad- vantage of the current provincial election campaign.

In the speech when he announced the park, Williams emphasized he wants to see more development on the uniyersity’s own acreage.

“It’s my hope the campus itself can be humanized to a greater extent,” he said.

Williams noted that 47 per cent of UBC’s 1,100-acre campus is currently used for parking.

“It seems to me we should talk about how we can change the in- stitutional character of the campus itself,” he said.

“Can’t it become a humanized town centre?.

“I can’t help but think of a wider range of commercial things and wider housing opportunities (on the campus),” he said.

But Williams didn’t provide specific details about how the’ university land would be developed, how much money would be spent or what place the university administration would have in the new developments. *

The park, generally bounded by Camosun, the university campus, Marine Drive and Sixteenth, ex- cludes a few properties near Camosun (some already occupied

See page 2: PARK WILLIAMS. . . announces park

Page 2 T H E U B Y S S E Y Tuesday, December 2, 1975

AERIAL PHOTO . . . park, reserve illustrated

Park to be restricted From page 1

by homes) and sections along Sixteenth.

Williams said the areas included within the park were chosen because they are “most repre- sentative of the varied land forms and species in the endowment lands.”

“Being the largest area of relatively natural valley floor evergreen forest in the Lower Mainland west of Mission, it in- cludes Camosun bog, a heronry, major stands of prime second growth Douglas fir, aspen and a rich variety of associated plant, bird and insect life,” he said.

The special ecological reserve in the southwest corner of the park will be “restricted to observational use only as an outdoor classroom for use in conjunction with university zoology, forestry, soils, botany, metereology and hydrology programs,” Williams said.

Williams said the rest of the park’s use will be decided in conjunction with people living in Vancouver and the endowment lands. However, he said he favors, “a day camp area for children from the region” combined with a nature park.

“Two acres on the edge of the park on Sixteenth have been ex- cluded - possibly for related recreational, educational, social and cultural facilities ’ over the years,” he said.

Williams said use of this acreage - and the other land in the nor- thern part of the endowment lands -. will be decided after further research and people in the area have been consulted.

A parks co-ordination officer will work from the existing university endowment lands administration office, but Williams said he could not estimate how much money the government plans to spend to develop the park.

Christmas exams confused by strike

because of’ the strike, are prevented from writing their examinations, faculties will un- Offer dertake, when possible, to evaluate From page 1 student achievements by other come under the federal controls means or to arrange deferred unless the provincial government examinations.” passes legislation to enforce the

Pressed for explanations Con- controls on provincial institutions naghan indicated the ad- like universities. ministration would expect Smith said the union will cer- professors to seriously consider tainly strike if the university does requests of students who are not agree to change its stance on unable to-attend exams for reasons the wage and price controls and of conscience or because of a offers AUCE a “decent” offer. variety of other possible reasons. The university offered AUCE a

(The Amalgamated Transit 19 per cent pay hike. - which Union has indicated B.C. Hydro AUCE rejected - before the bus drivers will honor AUCE controls were announced. The picket lines.) administration later retracted the

Confusing matters further, offer soon after the federal Parnall said Monday afternoon he government announcement. doesn’t think exams would be “If they are sticking to that rescheduled if the strike ends assumption (no wage agreement in before exams start next Monday. excess of the federal controls) they

(AUCE has announced it will are forcing us out,” Smith said. hold a five-day strike ending “Either they make us a decent Sunday and would hold a mem- offer or they don’t.”

Season’s Greetings from the

ROYAL BANK the helpful bank

I UNIVERSITY.AREA BRANCH Charlie Mayne, Manager 1

Audrey Budlow, Senior Loans Officer Tina Verveda, Loans Officer

v

10th a t Sasamat 228-1 141

They seem to appear to everyone from high school kids to grand-parents. And our gift certificate lets the object of your affection have all the fun of picking his or her own.

m . * B e Roots. kind to feet They ournumber people IWO to one.”

Vancouver- 766 Robson Street (Across from Eaton’s) - ( 6 0 4 ) 689-9916 Victoria- 1202 Wharf Street (Across from Bastion Square)- ( 6 0 4 ) 383-4811

01975.DonMkb16 Edmonton- 10219 Jasper Avenue (Across from the Bay)- (403) 429-2044 Calgaly-806 1st Street S.W. (In the Alberta Hotel Bldg.) - (403) 264-7280

r

To predict future performance-

Check,the track record.

. British Columbia Social Credit STUDENT GROUPS

Tuesday, December 2 , 1975 T . H E U B Y S S E Y Page 3

i c

f

Bv HEATHER WALKER the fired profs, David Potter and A Canadian Association of.

University Teachers member involved in negotiations with Simon Fraser University to end CAUT’s boycott of the university resigned Monday, SFU president Pauline Jewett said.

Jim Stevens, president of CAUT’s academic freedom and tenure committee, resigned after CAUT rejected a proposal to end its five-year censure of the university.

Stevens could not be reached for comment Monday.

CAUT began its boycott of SFU five years ago after a bitter 1969 dispute which resulted in the firings of eight political science and anthropology professors.

Jewett said she was “very disappointed” a t CAUT’s decision not to lift the boycott.

She said the association’s full council rejected what has been called a compromise proposal by a vote of 22 to 27 at a weekend- meeting in Ottawa. A preliminary vote called for rejection of the proposal by 24 votes to 25, she added.

Under the proposal, worked out by Stevens’ committee and SFU’s administration, the university would have offered jobs to two of

Kathleen Aberle. Four profs were to be offered

research stipends, and one was to be considered fairly for a job at the university. One of the eight profs has died.

The SFU board of governors earlier .approved the proposal.

Jewett said she had no plans to continue trying to persuade CAUT to lift the boycott.

“I feel very strongly that we’ve gone as far as we can as a liberal democratic institution,” Jewett said.

“We do things by persuasion and agreement, and I think we’ve leaned over backwards to get fair agreements,” she said.

Jewett said she had disagreed with another motion put before the CAUT council - and which was rejected - that would have required SFU to offer jobs to all the professors within nine months.

Ian Ross, a UBC English professor who attended the CAUT meeting as president of the con- federation of university faculty associations of B.C., said the proposal approved by SFU had included a suggestion that the profs receiving research stipends “seek evaluations within two years and apply for jobs.”

“This is because their. (the PSA

SUB still open despite strike

If members of the Association of University and College Employees do strike at UBC, SUB will remain open anyway, at least until it gets too dirty.

The Alma Mater Society executive, which made the

I decision Monday, will also leave the decision of whether or not to cross picket lines up to individual students.

AMs president Jake van der Kamp said SUB management officials such as general manager Bern Grady, building manager Graeme Vance and Pit manager Tor Svanoe will be in the building as supervisors.

Van der Kamp said the Pit would stay open, but any workers in the building would not be penalized if they respected possible AUCE picket lines and didn’t show up for work.

And Pit workers who would show up for work, would not do any duties normally done by unionized workers; such as vacuuming or cleaning washrooms, he said. They would only do their normal jobs of - picking up bottles and cleaning tables .

“The reasoning behind this action is that the AMS is an in- dependent party that is caught in the middle,” van der Kamp said.

“Lots of students who a re , depending on their work in SUB

are nut tied in with unions and are not performing services essential to the running of the university. It (a strike) is going to be hard on these people.”

Van der Kamp said the AMS

ic

. In Friday’s Ubyssey we stated that the Association of University and College Employees, local 1, was seeking an increase in the base

- * rate to $9.02 per hour from $6.33 per hour.

Actually, the union is seeking a much lower increase.

They areasking for the base rate to be hiked to $902 per month from the current $633 per month.

The Ubyssey wishes to apologize for any embarrassment and dif- ficulty this may have caused members of the union.

business office would be closed. He said the Pit and other operations would be shut down when they became too dirty to meet health standards.

He added: “I personally will not cross the picket line.”

Res open, hospital grub closed

and

If the Association of University and College Employees does go on strike this week, student rsidences will remain open but the university hospital and food outlets will be shut down.

And though residences would be kept open, services will be cut to a minimum, said housing head Mike Davis Monday.

“If our employees refuse to cross AUCE picket lines, supervisory personnel will maintain some basic services (such as heat and light) in the residences,” Davis said.

He said students who have not paid for board as well as their residence rooms would be on their own for .food.

Food services director Robert Bailey said Monday that in the event of a strike, “meals will be supplied only to people who have contracted for board and to patients of the health sciences hospital.”

“The SUB cafeteria and all other cash outlets will be closed, and no new applications for board will be accepted,” he said.

Nursing supervisor Kathleen Boyle said Monday the university hospital will be closed because, “there is no point in trying to care for patients if you can’t feed them.”

She said all patients would be discharged to either their own homes or to other hospitals. Boyle said the hospital would maintain some emergency service during weekdays.

“But it is unlikely that we will be able to provide any service during the evenings or on weekends,” she said.

sevens’) careers have been disrupted by firing, and this shows recognition of the fact on SFU’s part,” said Ross,.

He added: “I think the best thing that could happen would be that their jobs be restored to them because the procedures in the firing were unjust and unfair.

“But I also feel that the agreement was honestly arrived at, and I regret that it couldn’t be worked out .” Ross said he hopes that SFU

would continue its efforts to end the “bad feelings.”

Mordecai Briemberg, one of the f i r e d profs, said he is pleased by CAUT’s decision.

“It indicates that the members of CAUT realize the proposal was a complete whitewash of a political purge and is consequently com- pletely unacceptable. “As we were fired for political

reasons, the only just recourse is to reinstate us,” he said.

Briemberg said he would accept

a job at SFU because it “isn’t just a symbolic battle.”

“I believe I have relevant things to say and teach, and I would like the opportunity to present my ideas within the university as well as outside it,” Briemberg said.

“My view is that CAUT and the administration are playing games with each other. SFU wants to .pretend there wasn’t a political purge, and CAUT won’t take a strong stand to force them to take the profs back,” he said.

ANCIENT DANCE, to counter al l of the modern dancers who are getting all the fiack these days, is ”peter cummings photo

performed by unidentified belly dancer in rehearsal for show to be given at 8 p.m. in SUB auditorium today and Wednesday. Even if there is a strike.

UBC closures threatened in past There has never been a strike at UBC administration did not meet

UBC. But labor disputes have its contract demands. threatened to close the university CUPE planned to picket all several times. university entrances - the same

strategy library and clerical physical plant workers served strike midnight Tuesday strike notice on the administration But the uBc exams. CUPE served strike notice and

The Canadian Union Of Public averted a university shutdown Employees, local. 116, said it would CUPE local 116 said was almost close down the university if the certain.

Last March, food services and workers will use if they go out on

just before the beginning Of settled with the union shortly after

Regular hours kept

But after that, books and bites will be open 8~30 a.m. to 4 p.m., a t the south end of the cafeteria

will be hard come by. Monday to Friday, Dec. 22 to Jan.

Most libraries will be open 8 a.m. 2 . ~ ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a c k

until Jan’ 5’ They be holdiays. Buchanan lounge snack

Boxing day’ Dee. 26’ and New Ponderosa will close a week later, Year’s Day. on Dec. 15. And the Barn and the

to 5:30 Monday to Friday, bar will close Monday for the

weekends> Christmas Day, Dee' 25, bar, the Old Auditorium, and

Cafeterias in Place Vanier, Bus Stop will close Dec. 22. ~ ~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~ ””

Totem Park and Gage Towers will Everything will be back to close Dec. 19 and reODen Jan. 4. normal Jan. 5 - includinp; classes.

The strike threat also worked for library and clerical workers - members of the Association of University and College Employees - during registration week in September, 1974.

Again, the administration came up with a last-minute settlement, narrowly averting a strike.

The AUCE. contract, settled during registration week last year, was under negotiation for nearly four months before the union and administration came to an agreement.

Negotiations for a new contract have been under way since August.

The third major campus union, the Office and Technical Em- ployees Union, came close to striking in October, 1973. But the administration settled with the union, which represents some campus office workers, after last- minute negotiations. All three strike threats were

ended when university negotiators made eleventh-hour concessions to reolve the contract disputes. The administration has consistently acted quickly whenever the spectre of a strike has appeared.

Vote NDP on Dee. 11

On Dec. 1 1 , B.C. voters will be faced with one of the most important electoral decisions in this province's history.

It will be a choice between innovative, dynamic, progressive government and the ill-founded, reactionary rantings of a power-hungry group of nabobs.

After i t s usual objective, in-depth looks at the issues, The Ubyssey has decided that the best hope for the province is "fat old Dave" and the NDP.

Since elected in 1972, the NDP has attempted through i t s programs to change the public's conception of government.

No longer is it simply seen as the upholder of the status quo. Decisions are now being made not with a business mentality but a social mentality -decisions which take society's best interests into consideration and not just those of a powerful elite.

Some people, such as the Socreds, allege that the NDP for this very reason is not competent to run the business affairs of a rich, industry-laden province such as B.C. They blame the world-wide economic slump's effect in B.C. solely on the NDP. That's the narrow mentality of a hardware merchant.

No one can dispute that there have been boo-boos in the NDP's bureaucracy when it comes to budgetary control. A big deal is made about the $100 million over-run in the human resources department.

True, any government has to keep within a budget because there. is only so much to go around and it should be distributed in an orderly manner.

Page 4 T H E U B Y S S E Y Tuesday, December 2, 1975

But for the biggest- attack on the NDP's management to be an over-run which it in fact had money to cover (and which went to a needy cause in any event) is a t best a forced attempt by the Socreds to discredit the government.

Weighed against what the Socreds have to offer, it just doesn't hold up. How could anyone vote a man into the premier's office who is afraid to debate his policies in public?

From this election campaign, where personalities unfortunately superceded policies, Bill Bennett has come across with as much innovation as a wet sponge.

The NDP has proven itself competent in business. It has moved into the private sector where big business couldn't, or wouldn't, operate. Government sawmill acquisitions are, if you believe the figures, making a profit and keeping alive small towns which would otherwise die.

In The Ubyssey's opinion, that's good business and it's the government's responsibility to step in when corporations ignore the damaging social implications of pure profit-motivated decisions.

Look a t the social programs the NDP has implemented - Mincome and Pharmacare. They've brought in a rent ceiling in B.C. which is only now being copied by other gwernments across Canada ("free enterprise" governments a t that). -.

The government has sought to control land development with Bill. 42 and the Land Commission, an innovative program which a t first shocked but was then applauded by the public.

The NDP looked a t auto insurance, smelled a rip-off then got into ICBC and now we have the lowest insurance rates in Canada according to the Toronto Star.

For the first time in B.C.'s history, a government has acted for all the people in a progressive manner.

A lot of people, however, don't seem to realize this. Why is it that two Eastern papers, the Star and the Montreal Gazette, have to be the ones who evaluate the NDP's performance and give it credit.

Vancouver newspapers and media are generally against the NDP and, combined with the frequent hysteria"of business, make adequate reporting on the government difficult.

Rarely does the B.C. media, for a larger social perspective, compare what the NDP has done to what exists elsewhere. Things such as low car insurance rates and benefits to the sick and elderly.

Rather than trying to form a rational, on-going analysis of the government the Province, for example, published a series of anti-NDP' editorials immediately after the election was called. It is now a t the point where cabinet ministers are laughing a t the paper's hysterical attitude (and ignoring it).

To get parochial for a moment, look what the Socreds have to offer as far as education goes. Nothing. I f it doesn't make a profit, they don't understand it.

And what little they do say ('more autonomy for local school boards') is something the NDP campaigned for and^ implemented during i t s first term. The Socreds catch on quick.

In short, B.C. voters must re-elect the NDP for a reaffirmation of the government's economic, social and political policies. The sick opportunism of many Socred MLAs should be repulsed just to maintain some semblance of athics in the political realm.

And if the Barrett government gets re-elected, it will be the perfect time to shift the cabinet, split the education department up and perhaps give Eileen Dailly a less demanding job.

6 - . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . * . * . . . . . I . * c , . r , . , , , , , , . . , , . . . . . . , .

AUCE history

The Association of University and College Employees was cer- tified as a legal trade union in December 1973. The union's members are the library and clerical workers on campus, 90 per cent of whom are women. We organized our own union out of a desire to maintain control our- selves after seeing that traditional unions would not allow this right.

Other unions we could have joined were almost completely male-dominated and the contracts they had signed, a t UBC and e l s e w h e r e , c o n s i s t e n t l y discriminated against women workers. We organized our own union to fight for our special needs, one of which was that as women we had traditionally received the lowest wages for skilled work.

We organized an independent union. We wrote a constitution that ensured a democratic organization at all times. It is run by and for the people who work as secretaries, clerks and library assistants. Because all positions within AUCE are subject to the recall and discipline of the membership, we need not answer to the demands of a highly paid elite of union executives.

AUCE can speak directly to 'the pewnal problems of every staff member. Our strength lies in our democratic structure and in our ability to give personal attention to everyone. We are all expers in knowing our own problems.

One of our main concerns in our last contract and this one has been to gain monetary recognition for our work. We are skilled workers. To get a job on campus the per-

_ _ _ . _ _ . a i , .5 ,.,.. ,.,,'. . f . . . . . . . " . . . . . . . . .

sonnel department requires high school graduation, business training and knowledge of office procedures gained from on-the-job experience. An average wage for a secretary is $4.88 an hour or $741 a month. A laborer on campus makes over $900 a month.

O u r work is neither acknowledged nor valued when it comes to the pay we take home. We will no longer carry on the tradition of being office wives - self sacrificing, always with "his" interests at heart. . We do essential work to the functioning of this campus. We will not wait ' any longer for the university to give us the recognition this work demands. Our experience with the university has been that they would like to achieve what is not in our best interests: themost amount of work for the least amount of pay.

This year's negotiations find us facing the same problems. We are trying to build a strong,

democratic union. We are fighting for a contract that will give us the recognition we work hard to achieve. The university would like to see a passive, weak union and fight every inch of the way against giving us a fair deal. We have found that our only alternative becomes using what power we

.,have, the power to not work. We are ready to take this step if need by.

We are asking students to sup- port us. We are asking you to not cross our picket lines. We feel the way to a quick settlement is to put pressure on the university to resolve the issues in dispute. If you are inconvenienced by a work stoppage, give your complaints to the university and ask them to settle.

We are not the culprits! We'd like to hear your support. If we do go out, we'd like you to join with us on the picket lines.

Peggy Smith AUCE organizer

THE U8YSSIEY TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2,1975

Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the AMS ' or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey's editorial offices are located in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301; Sports, 228-2305; Advertising, 228-3977.

Editor: Gary Coull

"But that's just because yoGre terribly confused sniggered Ralph Maurer. "I "This is all very confusing " said Marcus Gee. "I don't understand it at all."

mean anyone who can't tell the difference between a.m. and p.m. . . . ."Greg9 Thompson intervened, trying to end another fruitless dispute. And Doug Rushton said that everything was really all very simple - "this is the January maAthead because the De5ember masthead is coming y t in January."

posslble Impending strlie " said,poug Field. "And'we may not be able to put I, don't understand began Charlie Rendina It's all because of the

>ut another paper until Jdnuary addad Heather Walker. Marck Buckshon and 3qry Coull began to fight abqyt the editorlal. "But this is the January adltorial, not the December one said Chris Gainor, trying to garner a groan 3nd get a word in edgeyise, at {he same time even. "Make sure you put in a p o d word for my pa said Anne Wallace, while Peter Cummings watched. Rnd SueVohanka just hondered how In hell to get those$$s,ayp $ion.+

d

Tuesday, December 2, 1975 T H E U B Y S S E Y Page 5 . -

.BCSF: forum not leadership By LAKE SAGARIS

Nine months ago studen-ts from across the province, representatives of democratically elected student councils, formed the B.C. Students’ Federation. An interim executive b a s elected and over the summer the fun- ding for three staff people was obtained thru the Careers’ 75 program. BCSF is a student organization. It is student representative at BCSF conferences who form BCSF policy and tell the executive council what to do for the next three or four months until the next conference.

It is BCSF’s raponsibility to provide a forum to all students a t conferences, not to provide so-called ‘leadership’ by telling the students of this province what to do. If we cannot involve and hopefully politicize those people who appear at a conference with no previous experience, then how can we hope to make contact with the majority of students, many of whom have never been to a political meeting in their life. (rhetorical question?)

BCSF conceived - Over the last nine’months, a bunch of

students who had no idea of what they were supposed to do or how they were going to do it, foundthemselves sucked into all kinds of different jobs. The result was that an in- .credible amount of work got done; most of the executive (who did anything) flunked c‘ourses and/or dropped out; and many of that same executive (not to mention the one staff person) ended up the proud parents of a baby ulcer.

However, we learned very quickly just what had to be done, and a surprising amount of workhas been completed, enough to say that yes, students in B.C. really do have an organization working full time on their interests.

Ah! you say (if you’re like Jake van der Kamp), they’reso narrow. They’re fighting only for students.

backgrounds (although obviously some have more problems than others), single parents, mature women, housewives, factory workers - the list goes on and on. Many of these individuals cannot afford the time and the money to attend universities so they go to colleges. This is why one of our main work areas has been ensuring that the colleges get enough money to continue to operate for these people. .

Without a strong voice to represent your interests as students from any one of these groups, your problems as students will not be solved. As student representatives there is no reason why we cannot raise our voices against other areas of social injustice as well, but our main job is ensuring that you are able to get the education you want.

Priorities .set Our priorities, the things we’re supposed

to be doing, were set for the executive by the founding conference in March, but how to do them was discovered in a rather hazardous way. For example, one or two of us don’t qualify for financial aid under the Canada Student Loan plan (in spite of proveable need), so we wrote some letters to the government complaining. The answers to the questions we- asked in those letters only raised more questions, so we asked mor e.

We kept asking, and examining the form until at last a meeting was set up. We prepared a brief of all our comments and criticisms, ranging from lack of publicity of availability of financial aid to the fact that there is no support for single parents’ dependents while they go to school. This work, begun in a very ad hoc manner has so far resulted in:

( i ) two student reps. on the CSLP Appeal Committee;

(ii) student reps. on the upcoming Aid Advisory Committee and a committee on student services at the provincial level;

(iii) getting together with groups at other institutions who are facing the- same

But who are students? Senior Citizens, problems we are and trying t6 solve them; 2enagers from all races and ethnic ( iv) talking to individual students on

problems they’re having and how to get around them.

A couple of us were hired to work on listing services a t the universities. We got toget.her with students from all over the Lower Mainland and worked out a shared listing service; an effective media cam- paign for the kind of housing you want, not s h a r d rooms, or rooms with no cooking privileges; information on the Landlord’ Tenant Act and the Rent Increase Limit.

The Off Campus Housing Service in the north alcove ‘of SUB, which you probably used if you weren’t accepted into residence, would not have worked nearly as well if we hadn’t all got together. Now the information and experience we gained this summer is being shared with institutions in other parts of the province.

When the budgetary restrictions on the colleges were announced earlier this year, a couple of executive members from colleges where courses had tr be cut started gathering together infolmation and talking to students who were angry and wanted to do something.

Helped NPU When the student union at Notre Dame

University realized that the only university outside the coastal area was being wiped out, we were able to give them a lot of support and do some work for them.

When we realized that hardly any students we knew (including most of us) could get jobs this summer, we started checking unemployment statistics and lo and behold! quotes as high as 50 per cent unemployment from several sources, which later subsided to a conservative 25 per cent. This led to con@cting the department of labor and getting more jobs - 13 for the UBC AMS alone. Problems with government em- ployment programs began to appear and when we started discussing them with the people responsible we were listened to.

Changes in the program this year are frequently the result of these discussions.

by need as determined by the CSLP. Many students who need money don’t qualify for CSLP assistance; a need-by-CSLP program would often result in those students who most need a job being disqualified.

A lot of our work was the result of personal involvement in some part of the educational system. By coincidence (ha!) the 10 or 11 priorities set by the founding conference were the same.

That’s where BCSF came from. Where it is going was discussed at the

annual general meeting last week. Research and communication are vital to

both lobbying and organizing at the campus and provincial level. However, that is where the similarity between the two ends.

Lobbying requires relatively small numbers of people and consequently small sums of money for travel. Time and energy requirements are limited to (assuming one already has the information) phoning and setting up a local/regional/provincial meeting and attending the meeting, then doing necessary follow up.

Organizing, on the other hand, depends on a fairly wide base of students working on their campuses on what approaches a full time basis (or the equivalent of a full time basis). To expect a group of eight or nine people (the executive) to organize around a wide variety of issues on a large number of campuses is to invite failure (ulcers,.grey hair and a free trip to Riverview).

However, the short and long term success of both these methods of getting what we, as students, want and need must be examined closely before any decisions are made.

Lobbying longterm While initially lobbying may require very

little, lobbying is usually a longterm project, as the original people involved experience little success to begin with and must return time and time again to press their points. It is most successful when dealing with a sympathetic person. Few people who have to be lobbied for something are sym- pathetic.

Forexample, people were going to be hired ~ See page 7: GRASSROOTS

- .

Labour and management went back to their job.

Because Bayrett did his. Byitish Columbia has strong leadership.

-

, . , . . . . . .- . . . .

Page 6 T H E U B Y S S E Y Tuesday, December 2, 1975

Hot flashes S I N G L E . S T U D E N T RESIDENCES Big baffle The theme of the debate will be

the moral and ethical implications of this election.

Also included on the card is Clark Pinnock who will speak on Christian involvement in politics.

Spectators will be asked to contribute $1 a t the door. Rides can be arranged by phoning 261-1430.

Almanac The 1976 issue o f . Every

Woman's Almanac i s now

available in the women's office, SUB 230.

This issue is in handbook form, and includes an appointment calendar and articles of interest to women. The price is $2.95.

Easyspeak Lost? Confused? Befuddled?

Speakeasy exists to help you. For information about events,

phone 228-3777. I f you just want someone to talk to the number is

drones fonighf SPRING TERM A political battle royal is scheduled a t the PNE Agrodome tonight.

Dave Barrett will be representing the NDP, Bill Bennett the Socreds, Scott Wallace the Conservative party, and Gordon Gibson the Liberals. Federal senator Ray Perrauh will be the moderator.

ANY ROOMS AVAILABLE for the Spring Term will be offered to those on the Spring Term Waiting List on December 8 at 1:00 p.m. at the Housing Office. Those interested must be ready to pay the Spring Terms fees immediately. The room assignments will take effect January 4, 1975. November, 1975 Housing Administration Off ice

.

_ _ _ - -1 A man- main foyer.. Feel free to droo in.

DECORATE WITH P R M S TODAY SAIL ING CLUB LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT General meeting with films - last

Supper' and making Christmas meeting this term, noon, SUB party decorations, 6:30 p.m., Lutheran room. Campus Centre. A L M A M A T E R S O C I E T Y

Forum: how to fight wage controls, Students' general meeting. noon, First ever National Union of

7:30 wm.. board room. Fisherman's SUB 207.

INDEPENDENT SOCIALISTS

grin bin Hall, i38"Eas: Cordova:

Underwater slide show. Bring scuba

SUB 205. gear, or you'll drown. 7:30 p.m.,

AQUASOC

I N T E R V A R S I T Y CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

Christmas worship service, noon, St. Andrew's chapel.

WEDNESDAY , V A R S I T Y O U T D O O R S C L U B

General meeting and slide show, noon, Angus 104.

4:30 to 6:30 p.m., SUB party room Practice. new members welcome,

or ballroom.

K U N G FU CLUB

S T U D E N T S I N T E R N A T I O N A L M E D I C A T I O N S O C I E T Y

Transcendental meditation program free introductory lecture, 8 p.m. BU. 100.

THURSDAY E C K A N K A R

Discussion group, "Tiger's Fang," noon, SUB 213.

General meeting, free film and discussion of Xmas plans, noon, SUB 207.

AQUASOC

I N T E R V A R S I T Y CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

and sharing, noon , St. Andy's Christmas gathering, time of singing

CHINESE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Chapel.

"Trinity" by Mr . McLaren, noon, SUB 205.

SUNDAY MEDICAL SOCIETY

instruction, noon, SUB 207. Medical music and dance

3209 W. Broadway

738-231 1 [Opp. LiquorStoreand Super Valu)

Art Reproductions Art Nouveau

Largest Selection of Posters in B.C. Photo Blowups

from Negs & Prints Jokes - Gifts, etc.

I E C O RATE WITH POSTERS

I .

40 - M0-g-

DUE TO THE POSTAL STRIKE appli-

Aptitude Test are to be submitted cations for the Jan. 10, 1976 Dental

to Room 205, Student Services by Dec. 9, 1975. Further info. contact Lydia Prange 2284957.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADELE m e . lp. Best wishes & Idsees. 4.

5 - Coming Evontr -~ A SIX-WEEK DOWNHILL course is

being offered for S8a.50 which in-

transportation. Cost of cross country eludes all lessons, lift tickets and bus

course, $58.50. For lessons and bus transnortation. Both courses com- mence ~ Jan- 10th & 11th. For -further details contact C.Y.H.A., 1406 West Broadway, Van., B.C. Cl'el. 738-3l28). -~

' T H E WORLD IS ONE COUNTRY and Mankind its citizens" Baha'u'llah informal discussions on the Baha'i Faith every Tuesday night at 5808 President's Row, Phone aa4-7a57.

50 - Rentals 4. ATTRACTIVE SEMINAR ROOMS to rent - blackboards and screens. Free use

of projectors. a265011.

Vancouver Burrard has a strong team in Victoria ...

10 - For Sale - Commercial

GET HIGH WITH A KITE. 45' Mylar Dragons, $9.95. Chinese Insect kites, $5.25. Fine selection of fancy belt

hand-crafted mods. Macrame SUP- buckles, whistling Frisbees, fine

60 - Rid- WANT A RIDE to California? Leaving

Sat., Dec. 13; share gas. Call 732 o4W.

plies. (Juted1.75 lbs., 10-lb. roli). Stained glass lessons. Vancouver Crafts & Kites, 2936 W. 4th. 731-7821. 65 - Scandals

pep it Let's t at way.

"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUEY. Love the girls. (Go get 'em Tiger!) L

70 - Services

11 - For Sale - Private

THREE BEDROOM Townhouse. $59,000. Carpeted throughout, 1300 sq. ft.. underground parking. Close to UBC. One year old. 325-8103.

MEN'S 10-SPEED bike, Raleigh "Grand Prix". New, with lights and genera- tor. $150. 224-0262.

PENTAX SPll 11.8 5Smm W/angle, Soligor f2.8 28mm Zoom Tele., Solig- or f3.8 75-205mm. New. Phone 733- 9568 after 6 p.m. weekends.

CHEVROLET BISCAYNE V8, 1968 mod.- Snow tires, good oond., asking $700. Call Leon 732-9168.

-~

1965 AUSTIN CAMBRIDGE, $200 o.b.0. Automatic, winterized. Ask for Mark at 22C9897.

PERMANENT HAIR RIhOVAL by elec- trolysis. Kree Method in my home. Prices are reasonable. Phone 738-6980, Joan Calvin.

~ ~~

PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY - Xmas portraits done in your home. Call Kinzer Photo, 873-5959 afk 5 ' p.m.

WHY BUY MASS PRODUCED wedding bands and jewellery? Have Jan create your own design. 926-9015.

I I '

80 - Tutoring

EXPERIENCED MATH TUTOU wUI. ings. Individual instruction oh a coach 1st year. Calculus, etc. Even-

a.m. to 3 p.m. -. one-to-one basic. Phone: 733-36U 10

1970 V W Beetle Deluxe. New paint, radials, winter radials. gas heater, $1195. John 985.20m after 600.

~~~ ~~

15 - Found 85 - Typing

PROFESSIONAL TYPING, Kits ma.

$1.00 page. 7385816, 10 a.m.4 ~ . m . " Electric machine, carbon ribbon, 20 - Housing ~~ ~

LOOKING FOR mature student, large room with F.P. to rent, 8110. Female preferred. Dee. 1st. 228-W.

only, Please. FAST, EFFICIENT TYPING near Ust &

~.

Marine Dr. 1665055. EXPERT IBM SELECTRIC typist. Ex-

perienced thesis typing specialii in

Mrs. ~ . 3 1 1 - 3 8 3 a Formula and math. &asonable rates. 25 - Instruction

GUITAR LESSONS - Classic and folk finger picking. Good rates. Barry, 731-6076. Ex-UBC music student.

TAI CHI CHUAN instruction with em- phasis on forms, breathing and prac- tical application. W a n Cho, 874-4932.

~ ~ ~~

- 90 - Want4 ~

RENT, BORROW calculator Dec. 11, 15. Georgie. 874". Need for exams.

TAMBURA Cl'anpura, Tambur) - Ring Tuesdays or Fridays between 5 p.m.- 10 p.m. 885-WXl.

99 - Miscellamus \

YOUNG 27 year-old fellow looking for travel companion to Mexioo and 9r America in late 3anuary or Febru- ary. Phone Ken at 7383998

35 - k t

SR 50 CALCULATOR, last Wed. in Chem Lab. "ward. Bart, 224-9891.

BIG RED WOOLLY Enkimo-mitta, with white fox on each. Monday on bench butside SUB. Call 224-9103. Anne or return to Fine Arts Library please.

ONE JEAN JACKET, East Mall Annex lW, Nov. 28. Reward. Call 26877k Buchanan Tower 411

~~ ~

.~ . "

W

r

On December llth, re-elect ROSEMARY BROWN &

$300 TREMENDOUS LOSS and urgently needed. award . Darrell Halvermn, 224-9545. If not in, please leave men- sage.

HP25 CALCULATOR lost possibly at Bus Stop cafe or Sedewick Library or pool mom (WB). $50 rewardl Leave mesuage W-0133 (day). No questions asked

~

USE UBYSSEY

CLASSIFIED NORM LEV1 TO SELL - BUY

INFORM

LAST FRIDAY - brown wallet in back seat of car when hitchhiking to UBC. Phone 224-7754.

LOST - Gold pen in Biol. Hut 1W.

-value. Thurs. Greg. 263" Sentimental

Authorized by Vancouver-Burrard NDP Constituency Association

I ..".,. . . . l . " i . . . * , . . . . . .......................... . . - . . . . ..._....

A threatened strike at UBC by the Association of University and College Employees has the support of the six major unions also serving the university area, AUCE spokesman Russ Anton said Monday.

Anton said the six unions agreed to respect possible AUCE picket lines a t a meeting Monday con- vened by the B.C. Federation of Labor.

Andrew-could not -be"&ached for comment Monday night.

The move by the six unions would severely impede the normal operations of the university.

CUPE members work in physical plant, food services and the traffic and patrol departments.

BCGEU represents campus firemen.

The construction unions are currently employed in numerous

Tuesday, December 2, 1975

Unions offer AUCE strike support r T H E U € \ Y S S E Y Page 7

The unions are the Canadian Union of P u b l i c Employees (CUPE), the B.C. Government

. Employees Union (BCGEU), B.C; and Yukon Building Trades Council, Teamsters, the Office and Technical Employees Union (OTEU), and the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union.

construction- sites around the campus.

The Teamsters truck in every conceivable form of supply and equipment the university uses.

The OTEU provides varied services in most departments and faculties on the university campus, including office workers.

The bus drivers bring thousands Anton said CUPE local 116 of students to campusevery day.

~ president Ken Andrews Monday AUCE union organizer Peggy sent a letter to the university ad- Smith said earlier Monday the ministration stating his union's intention of the impending strike is intention of honoring AUCE'S to "shut the university down." picket lines. Some 15 picket lines would be set

Grassroots sumort must "_ "" - - - - -

to back BCSF lobbying - - - w - m - - ~

From page 5 A little pressure, an indication

that a large number of preferably ' voting people want something,

usually helps make government and administration officials more sympathetic. Which brings us back to organizing.

Without the support of individual students at the campus level to back up any lobbying demands, we aren't likely to achieve many of the goals we set ourselves a t con- ferences. When one or two in- dividuals s g r t making a fuss, they are often fobbed off with vague promises; when a student body or an institution or institutions across the province rises up as one solid group to protest, there is more reaction, particularly if the media covers it.

Or-ganizing can be an end in it- self. A well organized student union has the People necessary to work effectively on longterm projects, as well as deal with short term crises that occur. This type of organizing must be done on a longterm basis because of the rapid changeover of students at post secondary institutions, par- ticularly the vocational schools. Part of BCSF's function can be to aid i n , creating and maintaining organized student councils a.cross the province.

organizations located within the group to be organized. The arts undergraduate society at a university or the student society at a college, for example, would probably,shout us from here to hell if BCSF reps attempted to step in and do their,job for them. It is BCSF's role to provide the in- formation and, where possible, the experience to local student councils wanting to organize around an issue.

The National Union of Students does much the same kind of thing on a national level. As The Ubyssey has pointed out,

while attempting to turn BCSF into a controversy, UBC students will be asked to vote in a referendum on whether or not they should join BCSF next spring. This will include a fee of $1 per student per year which will go to hiring ex-students and part-time students to do some of the work that our beleaguered executive and staff are attempting to do now. Hopefully fieldworkers who can visit institutions and work with them on a regular basis will be a priority.

I hope this letter provides some of the information necessary to you to make your decision. If not, or if you want to know more (do more? 1 call us a t 228-6445; or come and see us 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. SUB 210.

Organizing on a grassroots level Sagaris is the BCSF executive is the responsibility of council chairwoman.

up blocking every access road leading into the university, Smith said.

She said information pickets would be erected at the UBC gates on University boulevard and Chancellor boulevard.

She said m on-canlpus buildings will be picketed except the ad- ministration building where "special pickets" will be placed.

Consideration will be given to "essential services''' such as the campus fire hall said Smith. She said passes will be issued to firemen reporting for duty to allow them to cross picket lines.

Don McRae, president of UBC's faculty association, said Monday an AUCE strike would not interfere with letures unless individual professors wished to respect picket lines.

The faculty association represents all UBC faculty members.

H.R. Nicholson, Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre manager,

said Monday an AUCE strike would shut down thesports facility.

He said if picket lines were thrown up, mechanical workers a t the centre, who are CUPE members, would refuse to cross the lines and closure of the centre would result.

Traffic and patrol workers would also beoff the job in the event of an AUCE strike, a spokesman for the traffic office said Monday.

The campus patrol, who are also represented by CUPE, could be called in as essential services, the spokesman added.

SUB poll People who have registered to

vote in next week's provincial election, and live in the Point Grey riding, will be able to vote in SUB.

Dave Theessen, Alma Mater Society internal affairs office, said Monday SUB 205 will be open to voters from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

THE CHARLES BOGLE PHOlOGRAPH DISPENSARY

n e w 8s used records 4430 W.10 t h 224.0232

UNDER THENDP GOVERNMENT YOU'VE SEEN 0 Student reps on the University Senate 0 Staff, faculty and students now on the University Board of Governors 0 A huge increase in campus bus service and student housing 0 The decentralization of higher education throughout B.C. with the creation of

the community colleges system

DON'T LET THEM TAKE IT AWAY "" - .

PENDAKUR,- Setty Authorized by Point Grey New Democrats

MEETING VANCOUVER=POINT GREY. RIDING

I Come meet and hear the candidates from this riding. Ask questions, know

who you are voting for.

Thurs., Dec. 4, 1975- 12r30 SUB BALLROOllA

Sponsored by fhe AMS .

Absentee Voting

Election

If you are away from home but still in BritishColumbia on Election Day,

there is away tovote. Absentee voting means that if you are

absent from your own electoral district o r polling division on Election Day, but still in British 'Columbia, you can vote. In certain greater Vancouver and greater Victoria electoral districts voters may not cast absentee ballots within their own electoral district,

O n Election Day, go to the nearest polling station and request a special Absentee Ballot. Remember, you must be on the Provincial voters list for your electoral district to be eligible to vote. You vote for the candidate^ of your choice in your eledtoral district.

To assist the local election officials, give them the name of the electoral district where

y o u dre registered, o r dsk for assistance to locate the name. The election officials will have a list of candidates for all electoral districts. Polling stations will be open throughout the province on Election Day, December 11, between 8:OO a.m. and 8:OO p.m., Pacific Standard Time. In areas on Mountain Standard Time, polling stations will be open 9:OO a.m. to 9:OO p.m. As an absentee voter you can vote anywhere in British Columbia. "In the Victoria electoral districts and the Vancouver electoral districts, two members are elected. Voters registered in these districts may vote for two candidates and will be advised at the poll.

ELECTION/75 BRITISH COLUMBIA K. L. Morton, Chief Electoral Officer, 2735 Cambie Street, Vancouver, B.C.