THE WAY IT WAS IN HORSEFLY,. .B.C.

Five hundred students who his father to sign the petition. nett out of office, then I'll

In Vernon, every employe etook the petitions to the in- He finally did .

sign .terior over the weekend re-

• those who thought Mac is

Most people signed andturned to UBC Sunday with

most people were interesteda communist, and others wh o500 different stories to tell :

didn't sign because of the in the cause of higher educa-There was :

"atheistic professor ."

tion, said the students return-• a man who • signed the • the man who said : "All ing Sunday night .

petition in his bathtub ;

Newspapers all over the in-you have at UBC are booze teriorpeople „

and sex parties and all the

gave front page cover-and who thought Mac” re- girls get pregnant ;"

age to the campaign .ferred to a kind of apple ;

One paper had a picture of• the pensioner who said he

• the nuns at a school in the mayor and Miss PNE sign -couldn't back Mac because he Kamloops who pinned "Back ing the petition .was a Diefenbaker man .

Mac" cards on their habits.

Eight students went on a• a petitioner who sat up • the political expert who half-hour T.V. show in Kel-

from 1 to 4 a .m . trying to get said : "If it's going to get Ben- owna.

RYONE BACKED I~AC !

`By RICHARDSIMEO N.Petitioning ?It was like this:There was the bartender wh o

refused to serve one of his cus-tomers until he signed the BackMac petition .

And- the man who wouldn' tsign because "students alwaysthrow eggs at- Premier Bennet twhen he goes to the campus."

And, of course, the Okan-agan sign-painter who. got car-ried away and began makin gsigns reading "Vote Mac" in-stead of "Back Mac ."

of the Eatonns store was wear-ing a "Back- Mac" tag .

Radio stations all over theprovince devoted time to thecampaign with interviews ,spot announcements, and newsstories .

But the hardest workerswere students themselves .

Three students took an over-night train from Kamloops. to -McBride, where they got 600

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THEVol . XLV

VANCOUVER, B .C ., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1963

No. 69

Students collect200,000 names

B.C . backed Mac this weekend.Student action committee leaders said Sunday they expect

to have 200,000 signatures when all petitions from the provinceswide student campaign are tabulated .

The total at midnight was 120,000.Fifty-five thousand were col-

lected in the interior, 40,000 inVancouver and 25,000 in Vic-toria .

The remaining 80,000 are ex-pected to come from the Van-

couver house-to-house canvasand from a- block of signature spromised by - the- Internationa l

Association of Woodworkers .

HE CAN'T VOTE but he probably signed anyway . FreshetteMerene Ross was one of the thousands of students collectingsignatures over the weekend .

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Scott wants petition s•in to Brock soonestAll students who still have petitions -should- return

them to the Action Committee Room above the AMS offic e

in South Brock .

Malcolm Scott, co-chairman of the action committe esaid final results from the city must be tabulated by Wed-nesday .

"We want to act before the legislature prorogues," he -

said .

.

.Mac wititud~nts-official l

It' s official . Mac backs us.President Dr . John Macdon-

ald said Sunday he supports the'_student campaign for a fair deal

for higher education .Dr. Macdonald met student

_ ,petitioners in Brock Lounge asthey returned from the interio rSunday night .

"I'm tremendously please dwith the performance of the stu-dents, which has been most re-sponsible and a great service t othe province," he said .

"I am fully behind what thestudents have done . "

As each busload came in, hekept saying "that's wonderful 'as he was told of the results ofthe campaign.

"It is an amazing achieve-ment," he told one girl .

"This campaign has had grea teducational value for both thestudents and the public . "

"It is making a lot of peopledo a lot of thinking, and what-ever its results now it will havevalue for the future . "

Macdonald praised studentsfor their good behaviour duringthe campaign .

` "The students have provedthey can understand the dif-ference between education anddemonstrations . "

The president said that hisspeech at the general meetingThursday- had been misinterp-reted by the downtown press .

He said a Ubyssey editorial"hit the nail on the head" in it sinterpretation of the story.

The Ubyssey had said that thespeech implied support for thestudent action, but that Macdon-ald could do no more becauseof his position .

-Macdonald remained talkin g

informally with students for anhour and a half .

It was the first time most ofthe students had met the presi-dent .

Students , embarked on theSignature-gathering blitz Thurs-

day. Five hundred students can-vassed in the interior, 4,000worked in Vancouver and 1,000

on Vancouver Island. ' -

EVERYBODY CHEERE DSunday night, a cheer went

up. at a reception in BrockLounge.as each-of 11 buses fro moutlying areas returned to UBC .

The students, most of whomhadn't slept more than a fewhours since leaving UBC Thurs-day, were met by Dr . John Mac-donald .

Dr. Macdonald described th e.ampaign as an "amazing ach-evement . "

Largest interior support camefrom the Nelson-Trail-Kootenaylistriet . Students brought' back3,087 -signatures from the area .

Another busload of students ,'rom the Kelowna-Vernon areareturned with 7,268, and on e'rem the Cariboo brought bac k7,076 .

3,400 NAMESSeven students in a Volks -

wagen van which canvassed the

Sechelt-Powell River area gath-

ered 3,400 signatures .

Meanwhile, largest return in

the city was a block of 14,000

signatures. collected by Fort

Camp students in a blitz of

shopping centres.Acadia Camp students turned

in 3,000 collected at downtowntheatres .

Students . manned - every ma-jor corner in the downtown areaThursday- . afternoon to - Satur-day night .

Puck titleto Marl ins;Birds weep

By. MIKE HUNTE RUbyssey News Editor - -

KINGSTON—There wasn't awhisper for 10 long minutes .Sixteen University of B .C. hock-ey players sat there, glum .

Father David Bauer stood a tthe end of a splintery woode nbench, staring blankly at a nempty wall .

Nobody moved. A few cheersechoed from the other side ofKingston's Memorial - A r e n a .Somebody winced .

The Thunderbirds had jus tplayed 60 minutes of breath-

Ubyssey Editor-elect Mik eHunter spent the weekend inOntario covering the Cana-dian university hockey an dbasketball championships i nKingston and Windsor . Bas-ketball story is on page 4 . SeeAxemen.

sucking, board-bashing hocke yfor the Canadian Intercollegiat ehockey championship .

They had scored two goals,and played well . McMaster Uni-versity Marlins had scored threegoals, and played better.

Nothing much you can say .Goalie Ken Broderick, superla-tive in blocking 37 McMaste rshots, shed his fiberglass maskand buried his head in a towel .

Defenceman Barry MacKen-zie, who'd thrown his weigh taround like Mr . Bennett in Ke-lowna, wiped some blood off hisface and sniffled . Terry O'Mal-ley cried. The others gnashed `their -teeth, or scowled, or spit 'on the floor, or just stared at the 'ceiling .

Some guy in a green snap-

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signatures in one day : McBridehas a population of NO .

The petitioners enlisted th ehelp of parents, alumni, andhigh school students .

Few people were against th estudents. One student goin gdoor to door got 200 names i nseven hours and only three peo-ple refused to sign .

Some people thought th epetitioners were selling apples ,or magazines, or were expect-ed to pay something .

."How much do you want? "said one man digging into hi spocket after he had signed .

Several returning studentssaid they signed up peoplewho could only write thei rnames, and one had a petitionsigned with an "X" instead ofa name .

Powell River petitioners got200 names from workers a sthey came off shift at the pul pmill there .

Politics was part of the cam-paign. Several school boardsvetoed local schools helpin gthe , campaigners .

The television show in Kel-owna on which the student sappeared is . regularly hostedby the local vice-principal, buthe was not permitted to inter -view the UBC students .

So the students did the show' alone .

Several petitioners reported :

that local merchants and busi-nessmen were unwilling to"

sign because they did not wan tto antagonize the government .

But one judge got aroun dthe problem. When a petitioner called on him, he. refusedto sign . But he saw the peti-tioner again later and signed .He explained that as a judg ehe could not sign, and he ha dnot wanted his friends to seehim .

And community r i v airy 'reared its head . People in sev-eral communities were unwil-ling to sign because they -ob-jected to the placing of col-leges recommended in the Mac-donald Report .

"We gave up talking aboutthe Macdonald Report andjust talked about education i ngeneral," said one student .

In Vernon, extra identifica-tion cards had to be printed .Instead of saying "I BackMac" they said "I SupportHigher Education . "

Students ranged as far a sDawson Creek and Fort St .James in the province-wid edrive .

As they arrived back to cof-fee and doughnuts at UBC ,their cards were changed toread "I'm back Mac ."

Entrance toget 'tougher

fATHERaBAUER. . . tough loss

EDITORIAL: Thanks for the helpIt's not polite to laugh . So just heave a little sigh for UBC's facult y

and alumni and then forget about them.

They were truly pathetic bodies in the campaign for higher education .

Divided among themselves and for the most part religiously reaction-ary, alumni and faculty did little to aid the student campaign . .

They did on, paper, of course .

.Take the alumni . They sent out a directive to alumni members all ove rB.C. to give "reasonable " support to the students coming into their area .

They 'sent it out through the medium of The Ubyssey . More than 10,00 0extra copies of last Tuesday's paper were printed so each alumni could hav eone. And who paid for it ?

The students .

The alumni, although "backing" the student action, refused to spendany money pn the campaign . If the alums were to help, the students had t oprove they wanted help by paying for it .

In like manner, the Faculty Association gave its "support" to thecampaign.

Fully aware that much of the success of the student campaign—es-pecially in the interior—hinged on students being free from classes for a da yand a half,, the association passed the following motion :

"In particular, this association calls upon members of the faculty to doeverything possible to facilitate student participation in the scheme to securesignatures from people throughout the province to petition to be sent tothe legislature concerning the present crisis in higher education in thi sprovince ."

Meaning? You figure it out .

What it really said was that it was up to each individual professor wha the did . N4 : real recommendation to aid actively in the student campaign-sa yby 'cancelling classes .

And on trek day, how many faculty and alums were there? A dozen ?No. Half a dozen .

It would be wrong to generalize and say that every faculty memberand alum failed.

In the Alumni Association, Dr . William Gibson, Rod Macdonald, TimHollick-Kenyon and a handful of others led a valiant try to get more concret esupport . But it's hard to fight an establishment .

In the faculty association, .Reg Robson, Robert Rowan, Waiter . Hard- -wick, the few profs who made definite announcements in their classes tha tstudents should sup Port the campaign, and the gritty six who marched, wer ewith the students all the way .

But a majority in both groups clung tenaciously to the status quo,It was disappointing .It shoudn't have been a problem for students only,

UBC .entrance : requirement sare to be raised .

The UBC Senate approved th eplan which will require juniormatriculation students applyingto UBC to get a 60 per cen taverage in English 40 and threeother terminal courses .

The present requirement i s50 per cent .

Registrar John Parnall saidthe plan would be withhelduntil there are new facilities fo reducation beyond grade, twelvein B.C .

"It might be in by 1964," hesaid .

The move comes after a studyshowed most first year failure shad between 50 and 60 per centaverages in high school .

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they had scored again to mak e

brim hat came in and stood be- it 3-1 .

Somebody started to unlacehis skates. Then everybody be-gan to change, peeling soggy;gads into heaps on the concret efloor . Father Bauer turned an dwent outside to speak to t h epress .

"Got any old sticks, got anyo 1 d sticks?" chimed a trio oflocal rink rats .

"Well," said the coach, smil-ing, "our best just wasn't goo denough . "

Their . best was good enoug hto make Thunderbirds Canada' ssecond-best college ; hockey team ,and with a few breaks, it coul dhave been the best .

After breezing to a 6-2 victoryover the University of Sher-brooke in Friday's first game ,Birds were raring to go at afavored McMaster team whichhad beaten underdog St . Franci sXavier only 4-3 in overtime th enight before .

Birds scored first, Ralph Lee-tie tipping in Dave Chambers 'point shot four minutes into th egame. But McMaster tied it fiv eminutes later when star cente rBill Mahoney, named the tour-ney's most valuable player, scor-ed from behind the net off askate .

It stayed 1-1 until the middleof the second period, when UBCgot tangled up changing lines ,and was penalized for havingtoo many men on the ice . Sec- ! Spanish Dancers SUSANA Yends later, Marlins scored, and JOSE . Auditorium noon Tues-before UBC could get organized, day, 25c .

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side Father Bauer . "You guysplayed real good," he muttered ."You're a team the West can b eproud of ." Nobody stirred . The .guy in the green hat went bac kout, quickly .

Trainer Johnny Owen, who' sseen 'em win and lose for 30years, stood in a corner twid-dling a roll of white tape .

Birds scrapped harder thanever, and before the period end-ed, Pete Kelly slapped in a pas sfrom O'Malley to make it 3-2,but that's as far as they got .

The third period was furious .UBC narrowly missed on a tleast three good chances, whileBroderick performed larceny o na couple of McMaster players t okeep Birds in the game .

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Birds pressed, and 1VIeMaste riced the puck continually, bu tthe tying goal never came .

"We could have beaten them, "said captain O'Malley . "We jus tweren't sharp like we mighthave been if we'd had s o m etougher warmup games . They'reno tougher than Saskatchewan:"

Broderick a n d MacKenzi ewere named to the all-star teamalong with Hamada, Mahoney,and Sinclair (McMaster) an dSynishin (Xavier) .

Xavier won the consolationround with a 7-4 victory ove rSherbrooke .

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Students warm up for signature gathering` blitz with " class"' at courthouse Thursday.

Trek proves to B. G publicUBC isn't egghead sanctuary

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—Al Baronas phot o

The Back Mac campaign ha sclone a lasting service to UBC ,AMS president-elect MalcolmScott said Sunday.

"Not only will it serve th eimmediate purpose of obtain-ing more money for UBC," hesaid, "but it will also serv eto identify UBC with the peo-ple of this province . "

He said the campaign hadshown people that UBC isn' tan egghead sanctuary alooffrom the rest of the world o nthe tip of Point Grey .

*'People in the rural area s

have been given the oppor-tunity to speak of UBC as `ouruniversity' for the first time .

"They will continue to think

of UBCi as `our university 'long after the Back Mac cam-paign is history . "

And they will be watchingthe government closely to se ewhat action it plans to take o nthe petition, he said .

*"Every farmer, logger and

businessman who signed tha tpetition will be taking thi spersonally .

"If the government ignoresthe campaign, then these peo-ple will be thinking theirnames were ignored . "

The petition blitz began twoweeks ago, an idea in the headsof a few students who felt

there was a danger of inactionon the Macdonald Report an dan inadequate operating gran tfor the University .

On the basis of what the yknew — despite the refusal o fthe , Board of Governors andthe University administrationto release information — th egroup decided some action ,such as a strike or boycott, wa scalled for .

They then began to wor k

more closely with student gov-ernment officials, faculty as-sociation and alumni officials .

The boycott became a peti-tion blitz and the trek becamea_ reality .

—Don Hume phot o

Janitorsglumly face aftermath of Back Mac meeting .—Don Hume photo

Thousands- like this girl knocked on -doors

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THE UBYSSEY

Monday, - March . 18, 1963

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_ in national hoop fina lA$efliE1chop ltBC;. ." .

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Ety MIKE HUNTER

Ubyssey News Edito r

WINDSOR—Sparked by bigJohn Cook, Thunderbirds eas-ily defeated Loyola Colleg eWarriors 75-51 Saturday towin the consolation round ofthe Canadian Intercollegiat ebasketball championships .

Birds lost any chance tosnare the national title Frida y

Soccer Bird snearer to PC Lwith victory

By DANNY STOFFMANUBC Thunderbirds move d

one step closer to the Pacifi cCoast Soccer League Thursdaywith their second consecutive3-1 victory over Columbus Ita-lians .

Joe Johnson's Birds continuedtheir mastery over the PCL' sthird place team before a crowdof about 1,000 at Calister Park.

Coast League officials attend-ed the game and were impresse dwith the UBc squad .

That the Birds will receive aninvitation to join the senio rleague in 196364 is a near cer-tainty . It's now up to the . UB CAthletic Commission to okay theuse of the university stadium ,to agree to an extended socce rseason, and—most important o fall—to appoint a permanentsoccer coach.

Birds had two things overColumbus Thursday—skill anddesire . The hustling UBC teamforced the play throughout .

The only two goals of th efirst half were scored by cente rforward John Haar . Inside rightBob Johnstone added the third .

Birds wound up the regula rMainland league schedule Sat-urday with their second loss ofthe season. A UBC team com-prised mainly of substituteswent under 2-0 to Mount Pleas-

, ant Legion at Kensington Park .Birds continue the Province

Cup knock-out series Saturdaywhen they meet North ShoreUnited at Callister Park .

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night, cut down by the power-ful Acadia University Axemen55-36 .

All 10 players hit the score -sheet in Saturday night's ef-fort but it was Cook who ledthe way with 15 points .

Court Brousson, Gordie Bet-cher and Laurie Predinchuk-rounded out UBC's scorin gwith eight each .

After a shaky first period

George Heidebrecht with 2 1points and Marvin Johnson go t13, tops for the Chieftains .

Alberni finished second,Queen Elizabeth, the Cinderell asquad in the tourney, took thirdand Vancouver College place dfourth .

First all-star team for th etourney is Neil Williscroft, Van-couver College ; Ed Suderman,MEI; Jack Hik, Queen Eliza-beth; Marvin Johnson, Alberni :and John Drew, also of Alberni .

Hik won the' most valuableplayer award and Killarneywas named the most sportsman -like team .

the Birds took command of thegame and moved out of toma-hawk range of the Warriors .

The Warriors were Cooke dto death in the second half b ybig John as he repeatedlydrove through the weakenin gWarrior defence .

When it was all over the bi gman had earned himself a spo ton the all-star team, on t h estrength of his superb Saturdaynight game .

Friday night was a differentstory .

The giant Axemen fro mWolfville chopped the Birdsto size Friday .

Guard Ken Macdonald ledthe way for UBC but his iipoints weren't enough .

The big Axemen, boastingtwo six-foot five-inch forwardsand a six-foot 10-inch cente rcut the scoring punch of theBirds to practically nil by con-stantly blocking shots .

UBC managed only 25 pe rcent shooting average, scoring ,on 14 of 56 chances .

Acadia had a 40 per centaverage, hitting ,on 15 shots i n38 tries. Acadia counted 2 5points on foul shots .

The Birds one-and-one re -Cord left them in third plac ein the single knockout tourney .

Assumption Lancers, by vir-tue of a 103-44 win over Loy-ola and a Saturday victory ove rrunner-up Acadia, won the .title .

Rugby Brrds

sae cup

The UBC rugger team heldoff a fierce Vancouver Re psquad for a 3-3 deadlock in theMcKechnie Cup rugger .finalSaturday at UBC stadium .

The Reps controlled most ofthe ball handling but were un-able to break through UBC's de-fensive line .

Reps star John Newton open-ed the scoring midway throughthe first half when he scoote daround the Birds' defense fo rthe game's only try. BarryBurnam's convert was wide .

UBC evened the score just be-fore halftime on captain Do nSloan's penalty kick from 3 0yards out .

The second half was scoreles sbut the Reps kept the ball i nUBC's end of the field most ofthe time.

With minutes remaining Van-couver broke through for a tryonly to have it called back fora "knock-on ."

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Final period tell stale in prep finale

A last quarter splurge by the Mennonite Educational In-

stitute gave there a 58-40 victory over Alberni Chieftains and

top spot in the 18th annual B.C . high school championships .A record crowd of 5,078 paid

fans at UBC Saturday saw MEItake a 15-10 lead at quartertime .

Alberni held a slim 28-27half-time lead but in the thirdquarter MEI got the upper handand regained the lead at 36-35 .

Alberni's defence fell apartin the last quarter and MEImoved in to open their lead t o18 points at the end of the con -test .

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