Guelph Alumnus Magazine, May 1971

The "old folks" at university .

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH MayJune 1971, Vol. 4, No. 3

GUELPHALUMNUS INDEX Can we afford our universities? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Mature students

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Graduate studies Toronto Plan

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Campus highlights

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AMF annual report

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Guelph scrapbook CREDITS

Design: cover, Ken Chamberlain; p. 11, A u d i o - V i s u a l Services, University of Guelph.

Photography: p. 2, Ted Carter, A u d i o Services; p. 12, 13 (left), A u d i o Services; cover, p. 10, 11, 13 (right), 16, 17,D. Bates.

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. W. C. W~negard.

PRESIDENT: P. W. COUSE, OAC '46.

SENIOR VICE.PRESIDENT: Dr. V. C. R. walk&, OVC '47.

VICE.PRESIDENTS: Mrs. J D. ( V ~ r g ~ nShortt) ~a Bandeen.

Mac '57; P. D. Ferguson. Well '68: T R. H~ll~ard.

OAC '40: Dr. D. S. Macdonald, OVC '57.

SECRETARY: Mrs. D. J. (Jean Kellough) K~ng.Mac '52.

TREASURER: J. J. Elmsl~e,Development Officer, University of Guelph.

DIRECTORS: Dr. C. R. Buck, OVC '46; Mrs. B. L. (Pat Lumley) Carswdl, Well '68;MISS Jean Dewar, Mac '28: Dr. G. R. Daidge, OVC '52: Mrs. G. M. (Joan Anderson) Jenk~nson,Mac '66; Mrs. M. S. (Linda Sully) Keith. Well '67; P. M. Lindley. OAC '57: Dr. D. S. Macdonald. OVC '57; D. W. McDonell. OAC '70; T. B. Radford, Well '67; C. G. Tr~vers. OAC '67.

EX.OFFICI0 DIRECTORS: R. D. Beveridge. Well '67, Resident, Arts and Sciences Alumni Assoelation: M. G. Greer, OAC '41. President, OAC Alumni Association; Dr. T. L. Jones, OVC '34. President. OVC Alumni Association; MISS Frances Lampman, Mac '54, President. Macdonald lnstltute Alumnae Association: J. K. Babcock, OAC '54, Director. Alumnl Affairs and Development

The Guelph Alumnus is publ~shedby the Department of Alumn~Affairs and Development, Un~versltyof Guelph.

The Ed~tor~al Comrn~tteeIS compr~sedof Ed~tor-D. A. Bates. OAC '69. Actlng Alumn~Offlcer; Art D~rectorProf. K. E. Chamberla~n.J. K. Babcock. OAC '54. D~rector of Alurnn~Affa~rsand Development; D. L. Waterston.

Drrector of Informat~on;D. W. Jose. OAC '49. Assstant Director of Informat~on.

The Ed~tor~al Advlsory Board of the Un~vers~ty of Glenn Powell. OAC '62.

Guelph Alumn~Assoc~at~on: Chalrrnan; Mrs. G. M. Jenklnson, Mac '66 and Mrs. J. M. (Kay Murdoch) Little, Mac '59, v~ce-cha~rmen, Dr. A. E. Austln, Dept. of English; and Mr. G. 6. Love. Well '69.

J. K. Babcock, OAC '54 and P. W. Couse, Ex Off~c~o: OAC '46. Corresponding members: D. R. Baron, OAC '49 and H. G. Dodds. OAC '58.

Undel~veredcopies should be returned to Alumn~ House. Uo~versltyof Guelph, Guelph, Ontarlo. Canada.

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Can w e afford our universities ?

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AN WE AFFORD our universities? Is the role of these institutions in society worth the cost to taxpayers?

It is essential to remember that the profits of universities, like those arising from public health services, do not appear in institutional balance sheets. Nevertheless, society profits in having universities because through their teaching and research they make a major contribution to productivity, however indirect it may be. The main benefit does not rest on the concept of productivity, however, but on the belief that knowledge itself is desirable. In much the same way, we support a system of public health services because we believe that a healthy society is desirable.

There is, of course, no question about the importance of knowing what universities cost society. My remarks deal primarily with Ontario but they apply to a very large extent to every province.

How are the universities financed? There are three major budget items.

Capital Account Items include buildings, walkways, roads, sewers, major renovations. Until two years ago, if a university wished a new building the President would go to the Committee on University Affairs and ask for the necessary funds tu build it. If he could make a good case, and the cost wasn't too exorbitant, he was given permission to proceed. The province paid approximately 85 per cent of the cost and the university raised 15 per cent through private sources. Two years ago, however, a major change came into being-a change that has saved and will continue to save the taxpayer an enormous amount of money.

The system works as follows.

A university is allowed a given number of square feet of building for each student enrolled. The allowance varies depending upon whether the student is in arts, science, engineering, or whatever. In other words, the number and kind of students enrolled determine the space that the taxpayer provides. There is an additional factor in the formula which concerns costs, namely that the space will be funded by the taxpayer at a cost of about $30 per gross square foot. Taking into consideration the complexity of most university buildings this is a tough requirement. We doubt that our cost can be kept t o that figure and we have to raise private funds to meet the deficit.

In capital budgeting alone, then, the province has already taken drastic steps t o keep the costs down for the whole university system, but very little has been said about this in public.

Perhaps both the government and the universities should be given some credit for these substantial savings.

When a new building is constructed it does not, contrary to popular opinion, sit vacant during evenings or summer months.

Guelph, as other universities, runs normal classes from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. five days a week. In addition, Guelph offers some degree program courses and continuing education courses from 6 to 10 p.m. each night, as well as providing space and facilities for hundreds of meetings each year for university and community organizations. Incidentally, there is more constructive good work being carried out by student clubs in universities today than at any time in history. We don't read of it in the newspapers; it is not news - only "sit-ins" are reported.

A whole generation of fine young men and women are being damned by the antics of a few. However, can we squeeze more use from the existing buildings? Yes, we can, but the cry of

"use them the year-round" must be put in the proper perspective.

What part of our buildings are we to use more extensively?

The research facilities, library, offices and administrative facilities are in use year-round even in those universities which do not operate on the three semester system. Only classrooms and undergraduate teaching laboratories are not employed year round. This represents 20 per cent of the total space of the university, excluding residences, and now this space is used during the summer in every university t o some extent for special classes, teacher training, seminars and conferences.

The residences are not standing idle either; we use them for conferences of all sorts, because we need the income to keep the student fees down.

For the sake of argument, let us suppose that the idle space approximates 20 per cent. I f we operate that space to capacity year-round can we save money on capital costs? Undoubtedly some savings could be made if the student load were evenly distributed throughout the year. The saving, however, is not as much as appears at first glance. Unless we insist that all professors teach 11 months of the year, rather than eight with three months for research, we'll need more professors. They will require offices, library space and research space. These added capital costs must be taken into account when looking at any possible savings on capital by lengthening the university year.

There is also a further cost to be reckoned with. There is no surer way to decrease the quality of teachers, and the quality of teaching in the university than to allow insufficient time for scholarship and research. Within 10 years, Canadian universities would be capable of recruiting only second-rate professors for second-rate students.

One last point on this subject. The year-round operation of all aspects of the University may have unfortunate results for some students. Our third semester is not as well attended as the other semesters since many students need a break.

If we are going to operate the University as a business and maximize savings, students will have to be in attendance for the full year with no option. Our experience at Guelph indicates that a significant percentage of the student body cannot cope with 11 months each year of the sustained challenge of university life. Unless we reduce the University to a babysitting agency, by lowering our work load, we may create a lot more work for psychiatrists and psychologists. These comments are not meant to be a condemnation of those seeking to have students in universities 11 months of the year. They are meant, however, to indicate some of the problems that must be looked at very carefully before we force every university on Canada on the cost-saving bandwagon. We may find that the wagon has no brakes.

Residence Account As you visit Canadian universities, you will see new residences going up on almost every campus. But they represent a very small demand on the taxpayer's dollars.

Residences are financed almost completely by student fees.

A student residence that costs two million dollars, will be funded by the provincial and federal governments, but each university through student fees, has to repay the capital and interest charges over a 50 year period. The only real subsidy to the student from the taxpayer is an interest rate which is slightly below the commercial rate.

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Operating Account From this account we pay salaries, shovel snow, run the computer, operate the library, buy books, supplies and equipment.

A few years ago, each university requested operating funds annually from the Committee on University Affairs. Three years ago, however, a very dramatic change came into being-the formula system. Now university income is based on student enrolment.

In Ontario, an arts student is considered as one basic income unit for the two-semester year; a science student two basic income units; a full-time PhD student six basic income units. The university keeps two sets of figures; the enrolment may be 7.000 students, but in effect, may be worth grants totalling 10,000 basic income units. If the basic income unit was $1,500 the grant would be $15 million. Between 4 0 and 50 per cent of this is provided by the federal government.

The Province has controlled the cost of education per student during the past three years by setting the value of the basic income unit. Since the formula system came into effect, the cost per student has increased by about six per cent per year.

Over the last 10 years, the cost of universities has increased substantially. But then, what other part of the economy hasn't? Unfortunately, we sometimes look at the total cost only and see a distorted picture. A large part of the increased cost of universities is related t o the dramatic increase in the number of students. In 10 years, the number of students attending Ontario universities has increased from under 30,000 t o over 100,000 and, of course, costs have increased proportionately.

As long as the Canadian public expects the universities t o take more and more students costs are going t o increase, even i f the cost per student is rigidly controlled as it has been for the past three years.

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NIVERSITY presidents are often asked if there are new teaching methods that will reduce costs. In my opinion the answer is NO; we are going t o be heavily involved in the use of educational technology but not at a significant decrease in cost. Using the new technology will produce better teaching, but there is no evidence that i t gives cheaper teaching. The students will want, and I think they should have, contact with the professors in small group sessions, and on a one-to-one basis where possible. If you ask your sons and daughters what disturbed them most about their university experience, they will unquestionably say that they wanted more time with their professors.

Please do not misunderstand what I am trying to say. The present situation at the University is not the best that we can have for learning. There is much that can be done, particularly by redistribution of faculty time between the senior years and the first year, t o give freshmen a more personal experience in university. This will not be a saving, but rather a change in distribution of existing resources.

That outlines the costs of universities. What is their function and what do they return for the investment?

Universities, of course, must teach. They are required t o educate psychologists, engineers, doctors, architects, lawyers, dentists, teachers of every subject for primary and secondary school, metallurgists, meteorologists, agrologists, home ecortomists, food scientists, musicologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians, social workers, veterinarians, and business

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administrators. Indeed, the universities carry the load for education in practically every profession. In addition, they educate young men and women in the liberal arts and sciences.

I often wonder i f even this fundamental role is understood by everyone in and out of the university.

The next function associated with the university is research and scholarship. Some would take much of that role away from the universities today and leave only "productive research". I have no doubt that some of our research is unproductive, the only problem is t o decide which is productive and which is not before research projects begin.

In addition t o these usual functions, universities have recently taken upon themselves an important role in continuing education. There are literally millions of citizens in Canada taking all kinds of courses in universities during the day, in the evening, on weekends and in the summer. At the same time, the universities have had t o undertake a consultative role for governments at all levels. They have done this willingly, and will continue t o do it, but it does, like continuing education, add t o our overall cost. It is not only the government in Canada that has benefited from the expertise provided by the universities; Canadian universities have provided considerable help t o other countries. Our role is becoming more international as befits a rich nation like Canada.

INALLY, one more thought about our universities of the future. They are going to be quite different institutions in 10 or 15 years t o what they are today. We think of universities as being institutions for the young, primarily between the ages of 18 to 25. In very recent years, a significant percentage of older people have enrolled not only for continuing education, but for degree programs. Mature students as they are called have done very well and have added significantly t o campus life. There is an entirely different discussion in the classroom when mature students are present. Professors are questioned more intensely and, as the life experience of the mature students is brought into play, education becomes related more t o real life.

I would predict that over the next few years more people of the age group 25 t o 65 are going t o take advantage of our universities to increase both their general knowledge and their enjoyment of life. People, who have paid taxes for years but have never had the opportunity t o enjoy the university experience, are beginning t o say t o themselves, "why not? . what is so important about youth that they are able to take advantage of this and yet we are not?" Hundreds and thousands of women and men are asking themselves a rather fundamental question: "If it's supposed to do something for the young, why not me?"

I cannot think of a more stimulating place t o be than in a university where 25 per cent of the student body was made up of people between the ages of 25 t o 65, or indeed, even older. What a thrill it would be t o have the life experience of these people brought t o bear upon the education of our youth. Would we then be so concerned about the cost?.

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Dr. Winegard is president and vice-chancellor of the University.

This article is based on a speech delivered in April to the annual meeting of the Canadian Public Health Association.

The Mature Students

By D. G. WEBSTER

They're older, somewhat more "experienced", and much more certain of why they are at university.

They're the mature students, 275 adults who represent a brave new breed in the academic community.

Stated simply, a mature student must be 21-years-old, have worked for at least two years before applying for mature student status, and show the ability to cope with university studies, either by possessing the published admission requirements or by writing the mature student entrance examination. Some are "drop-outs" who are dropping in. Some give up a reasonably comfortable life style for the frugal student existence. All have by-passed the relative ease of continuing education courses and night school classes for a demanding two or more years of full-time studies.

Why? It's an individual thing, and on the following pages, seven University of Guelph mature students share their thoughts with alumni.

Murray Cleland

the second semester was 66 per cent, the third 69, and the fourth 71-in spite of the fact that Murray took six courses instead of the regular five.

His remarkable success at Guelph could probably have been foretold by his experiences after leaving high school; the intervenlng 10 years had overtones of an Horatio Alger-style climb to success.

He began as an office boy for a Torontobased, construction industry newspaper, and eventually worked his way up to a staff writer. But then, he heeded the call of the cash, and took a job as a machine operator. I t was more remunerative but was also extremely tedious.

"Boring wasn't the word for that job," Murray recalls. "I was just standing there all day, doing the same routine things.

By the end of two years I felt that because of this work I was stagnating mentally."

In search of more interesting work, as well as a city smaller than Toronto t o live in, Murray discovered an opening at the Barrie Examiner and thus returned t o journalism. Within a short time he was appointed wire editor, and later, sports editor which turned out t o be his favourite.

A HIGH school dropout redeem CANhimself at university?

One hardly expects so. Experience tells us that he is likely to remain for life confined t o his own educational level.

Yet many people prove exceptions to this iron rule. Take the case of Murray Cleland, a 28-year-old married student who now plans t o become an elementary school teacher: For, though his high school education did not go beyond Grade 11. he is now in his fifth semester, thanks to the mature student provision under which he was admitted.

"Being accepted at university was really exciting," he says. "And I like it here much more than I had ever liked high school. Sometimes in the first semester, I'd wander around just exhilarated at the fact that I was h e r e u n t i l exam pressure snapped me out of that."

Examination results, in general, were equally exciting for someone who, a decade earlier, had missed Grade 12.

The first semester average was the worst -64 per cent with one course failed. But

"As sports editor, I wrote heads (headlines) and did the layout for the sports page," he says. "I also got to report on local sporting events, and to write columns expressing my own opinions."

One of his opinions concerns the importance of amateur, rather than professional sport.

"Kids and amateurs-that's what sport is really all about," he says. "A minorleague hockey game with a bunch of kids is just as exciting as a professional game.

Once pay and winning become allimportant, an unhealthiness creeps into sports. I've never seen so much violence as in Senior A hockey games. Players and spectators get downright vicious just because a player is on the other teamj u s t because of the colour of his sweater."

After three years in Barrie, Murray discovered that he'd be eligible to enroll at Guelph as a mature student. He came to Guelph with his wife, Rosalind, who worked at first as a registered nurse, but who has now joined him as a full-time student.

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Peter Ashworth student Peter Ashworth, IFa MATURE third semester psychology and sociology major, isn't in a classroom or at the library, one might find him at the campus fire station.

Peter, 28, works there part-time which helps defray the cost of university tuition, and keeps him up-to-date on fire-fighting, a long-time interest of his.

In coming t o Guelph, he has gone the full academic circle; student t o teacher and back to student again. He completed high school in Quebec and a one-year physical sciences study course at the University of New Brunswick. He then taught physics t o Grades 7 through 11 at Selwyn House School, a private boys' school in Montreal. While teaching he took several night school courses at Sir George Williams University. After obtaining a two-year leave of absence, he enrolled at Guelph because of the semester system which will permit him to complete his general BA program (six semesters) within the two years.

His return to full-time studies has not proven easy for him.

"I found it difficult t o get back into the study routine," he says. "Studying fulltime at university is much different from attending night school, or from preparing lessons as a teacher. Yet, at the same time, it has been much more rewarding than I expected."

An unexpected advantage of attending Guelph has been the job in the fire department.

"The University administration was kind in allowing me to work here," he says.

"What I earn pays for my tuition and most of my books."

Fire prevention has long been a matter of concern t o him. Prior to coming t o Guelph, he trained with the Dorval fire department, the Quebec Civil Protection Association, and the St. John Ambulance Society.

Grace Szarka As a member of the campus fire brigade he's on call pretty well around the clock.

"A special line has been connected t o my phone in the apartment, and when a call comes it's up t o me to make it to the scene of the fire as quickly as possible."

When not at home he carries a small receiver that emits a beep tone to signal a call.

"The first time it sounded I was working in the library, and people around me were startled to hear it. The thing must have beeped nine or 10 times. I was ready t o stamp on it before I found the button t o turn it off."

But despite the remunerative advantages of fire-fighting, not to mention the adventures, his main interest remains teaching and searching for better ways t o impart those immutable laws of physics to his students. Accordingly, he is currently working on a sociology of education project. He has sent questionnaires t o administrators, teachers, students, and parents throughout Ontario and Quebec, and the results are expected t o form a major report.

Since January, Peter has been a "big brother" to a Guelph youth.

"He drops over to my place some evenings and we discuss problems, or go out to some event such as a hockey game," he says. "Recently he was down here at the fire station and we fixed his bike."

Peter will be returning to teaching in 1972, and he would like to see more teachers obtain their degrees.

"To be able t o impart a rounded education," he notes, "teachers should aim for at least a bachelor's degree."u

NlVERSlTY is perhaps a main step

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personal tragedy to the mainstream of life.

Widowed three years ago, Grace, 34, has two sons, aged 14 and 9. With a family to care for the decision to take a two-year leave of absence from her teaching position and attend the University on a limited budget, was a difficult one.

Nonetheless, she enrolled last fall, and has completed her second semester, majoring in fine art. She plans t o return to teaching next year.

"I came t o university because I didn't want to withdraw from the world and 20 years from now find myself embittered and regretful." she says. "I wanted t o prove to myself that I could cope, and to set an example for my family. In addition, I felt a BA degree would help me when I returned to teaching.

"I picked Guelph due t o the fine arts courses I could take here," she says.

And instrumental in her selection was the University's proximity to her home; she lives in Elmira, 15 miles west of Guelph, and commutes daily.

She has been interested in teaching and art since her teenage years. She graduated from high school when only 16, and was teaching at 17. She attended the Ontario College of Art two years later.

However, after marrying Frank Szarka, a University of Toronto chemical engineering student, she turned to homemaking-including a stint, before her husband's graduation, as a student-wife in a Toronto basement apartment.

"I hated the big city atmosphere," she recalls. "It was impersonal, ugly, and

Chris Batty stifling. Life there became an endurance test. The only thing I liked was the amount of cultural life, for instance, the theatre and music."

From Toronto, the Szarkas moved to Sarnia, and later to Elmira, where Grace took up painting (some of her works were reproduced in the 1969 Bruce Trail calendar), drama (with the Elmira Little Theatre), and music.

But it was only after the death of her husband from illness that she began to look for employment outside the home.

"I had to decide what to do with the rest of my life," she recalls. "I didn't want to crawl into a corner and let the world pass me by."

I t was at this point that the artist's palette and teacher's pointer again intersected in her life. She began teaching art and history to students in Grades 6, 7, and &at first two days a week, then later full-time. "l've always been a malcontent in the sense that I've hated to be caught in a rut." she explains. "I wanted to keep changing and developing. This was perhaps my main reason for coming to university."

As busy as her studies keep her, she still makes time for her sons. Thus, during the summer semester, she's taking only two courses instead of the regular five.

She hopes to take her sons camping several times this summer, especially along the Bruce Trail, a family favourite.

"I owe the time to my family." she says.

"I am a mother first, a student second."n

of the university student TisHEoneIMAGE thing, the reality is often another.

The stereotyped Joe College, boozing it up at football games, and charming the young ladies has lost ground to the hippie with his long hair, love-beads and anticareer ethic.

Yet much more common, if less spectacular, is the hard-working, self-denying student, such as Chris Batty, 26, who understands the need to scrimp and save, and to labour at his studies in order to find a happier place in the world.

"My opinion of university life has changed a great deal since I came here," says Chris, a bachelor who, after 10 years of working, came to Guelph last fall, and has now completed his second semester in engineering.

"The mass media and people who don't come to university suggest that it's a breeze," he says. "But it's not so; you have to work hard to get through, and really hard if you want good marks. I've laboured more here than at any other job -not physically but mentally, and for long periods of time."

The goal of his self-denial is a better position in the working world. "l've decided to seek a university degree because when a chance for promotion comes along I'll need something to open the gates for me. Once that promotion is received i t will be up to me to prove myself."

As preparation for university, Chris enrolled at night school and took Grade 13 mathematics, physics, and chemistry simultaneously. Since he left school in his teens he found this a real baptism of fire.

His first semester at university was just as tough, he recalls, and the second was also difficult. And yet, he says, if one

studies and tries and the instructors realize this, they go out of their way to be helpful.

For the summer. Chris hopes t o land a rather unusual job--work on a lake freighter. The isolation of this job will make it easier to save for next year's academic costs, he says.

"My board and lodging are paid, and out there in the middle of a lake there's not much chance to spend money."

What is it that gives a person the stamina and perseverance that long years of studying and saving require. (He saved for two years in order to come to university.) Perhaps it springs from the aloneness one feels, and the self-dependence one develops as a young immigrant to a strange country.

Chris came to Canada six years ago and spent the next five years as a technician repairing cash registers and adding machines. He recalls rented rooms-with four walls closing in-so that one had to get out. He probably wanted to break out many times like most young people but was loath to spend the money he would eventually need at university.

After rooming houses he enjoys living in residence, perhaps as much for companionship as for convenience.

"Most of my chums here are younger than I am." he says. "And in mixing with younger people I have a sense of becoming younger myself."

Because of the pressure of his studies Chris has restricted the time he spends away from the books.

"I feel I'm here to learn," he says.

"Until I find the going somewhat easier I want t o refrain from sports and social activities."

David Minnes

Ian and Jeanne McKechnie

person who has returned A Nt oOLDER school-such as mature student

SON t o care for, a budget t o AYOUNG balance based on student loans, as

David Minnes, 27-seems t o enjoy obtaining a university degree a little more than most students.

"It's just great to be at university after working several years," he says. "The life is very enjoyable."

His view is perhaps singular in that he expressed it as a semester was ending when most students were sweating over assignments and final exams and generally wanting a break from university.

For Dave, however, university provides break from the working a break itself-* world. After 3% years of holding bank positions, it offers a chance to stand back and look at life, and t o find explanations and interpretations for it.

"I came back to university because of a feeling of frustration at not understanding the things going on around me," he says. "I wanted t o come t o an understanding of the matters that interest me.

Thus, I've been taking courses because of personal interest, and have spec~alized in psychology."

Now in his fourth semester, Dave, originally an Ottawa native, previously took some courses at the University of New Brunswick. Then, after several short-term jobs, he joined the Bank of Montreal, and worked at branches in Ottawa and in Toronto.

His future plans are, for the moment, indefinite.

"In an academic environment one tends to put off decisions about the future," he says. "I haven't yet gone far enough t o decide whether to apply for graduate work or t o seek a job. Once you've been out working, you know you can make it again in the working world, and you become less obsessed with what you'll do on graduation."O

well as studies t o keep up, make for a hectic life at university for mature students Ian and Jeanne McKechnie. It's easy t o imagine one or both of them settling into comfortable positions after obtaining their degrees, but they are aiming for something far more appealing.

Their hopes for the future focus not on career advancement but on self fulfilment; that was one of their main reasons for enrolling at the University. Ian, 24, is about t o complete his general BA degree and hopes t o continue his studies in a master's program while his wife Jeanne, 23, is leaning towards majoring in fine arts.

After graduation, they hope t o move to a farm were Ian wants t o concentrate on writing, a pastime which interests them both, as well as painting. Some of their favourite authors are young Canadian writers; Dave Godfrey, Robert Hunter, and Roch Carrier. (Carrier's books, Ian notes, are inordinately hard to find in most bookstores.)

Before coming to Guelph in the fall, 1969, the McKechnie's travelled extensively. Ian, the son of a former editor of the Toronto Telegram, completed Grade 11 at the University of Toronto Schools before setting out t o see the world, which included a stint with the merchant marine which took him from Detroit and Fort William t o Liverpool and Dublin.

Likewise, Jeanne travelled across Canada after finishing Grade 12 before settling in Toronto and working in the public library system.

D. G. Webster is an eighth semester English major and part-time staff writer with the Department of Information.

After their marriage, they journeyed across Canada again and then returned t o Toronto where Ian worked in the OMSlP offices.

Prominent in the McKechnie household is a large photograph of lan's late father. Slim and emanating a newspaperman's asceticism, the elder Mr. McKechnie appears pensive against the photo's dark background. It was he who kindled lan's interest in Canadian history as he gathered material for a book never published. The War of 1812 was fought and refought on the living room floor of the McKechnie home, and father and son went together to interview men with recollections of highpoints in Canadian history.

Similarly. their two-and-one-half-yearold son. Laurie, now accompanies his parents when they go t o see plays and films at the University, partly in order to save baby-sitting costs which student awards do not consider. Laurie is, according t o his parents (and parents never exaggerate) an excellent spectator. For instance, at a film festival held last semester, he was an avid fan of three hours of commercials, and fell asleep only after his mother did. But this early introduction t o the adult world has in no way gone t o young Laurie's head. When. in the course of the interview for this article his bedtime came, he, at his mother's urging, picked up his toys and quietly retired to his room..

Which way graduate studies:

Quality or quantity?

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NTARIO'S 14,000 graduate students will have t o tighten their belts next September as a result of a major curtailment in provincial support for graduate studies at Ontario universities. The reduced financial support will mean a direct hardship for many graduate students already enrolled.

This hardship, together with a restriction on additional graduate study programs at individual universities, will mean a lowering of graduate student enrolment projections over the next few years.

The measures, which will reduce provincial support t o graduate students are: -limiting to $1800. the annual income a graduate student can earn as a teaching assistant.

-cutting by one-third the number of Ontario graduate student fellowships awarded annually.

-raising to $485 the annual tuition fee of a graduate student.

These new regulations, which had been worked out by the Committee on University Affairs in consultation with the Committee of Presidents of the Universities of Ontario, were announced in March by the new Minister of University Affairs, the Hon. John White. They are among the series of measures being adopted to cut projected government financial support t o Ontario's 14 provincially supported universities.

These new restrictions are expected t o save the Province seven million dollars by lowering projected graduate student enrolment by about 740 for the coming year.

At the University of Guelph the actual number of graduate students will not decrease, but their numbers will not increase as fast as previously planned, says President W. C. Winegard.

The 1971-72 projected enrolment has been adjusted from 691 full-time graduate students t o 610. Presently, 573 graduate students are enrolled.

The limit of $1800 on the annual earnings of a student as a teaching assistant will hit hard on some graduate students.

In past years Guelph's graduate students could earn up to half as much again for teaching assistantships. The number of Ontario Graduate Fellowships, with a maximum value of $2250 each, allotted to Guelph will be reduced from 96 to 64 for the coming year, paralleling the province-wide cutback of one-third.

The Ontario Graduate Fellowships were originally established by provincial authorities to alleviate the shortage of academics needed to staff the universities. They are distributed according to the number of graduate students in each eligible discipline and the universities allocate them on their respective campuses.

In 1970-71, the province budgeted five million dollars for graduate fellowships; this sum has been cut by 3 0 per cent to $3.5 million for the coming academic year. Such a drastic cutback may reflect the decreased need for additional university teachers since most of the once-vacant academic posts have now been filled with recent graduates. The premise that graduate students are desperately needed is now being questioned.

While the cutbacks represent a severe blow t o all graduate students, the implications are particularly grim for those enrolled in the humanities and social sciences. The Ontario Graduate Fellowships are the major source of support for these students, says Dr. J. W. Skinner, dean of the College of Social Science. "Unless these students can obtain some other means of support the prospects are most unattractive, especially after spending $485 on tuition."

Graduate students in the physical and biological sciences depend less on both the graduate fellowships and teaching assistantships since they are eligible for several types of federal support. Some receive $3800 scholarships or $3200 bursaries from the National Research Council. Others may be supported as research assistants by faculty members who have been awarded grants which usually allow for graduate student assistance.

"The allocation of the decreased teaching assistantship budget will pose a serious problem," says Dr. H. S. Armstrong, dean of Graduate Studies. Each department on campus decides how to allocate its budget provided from the University's operating funds. Dr. Armstrong suggests that a department has two options: Part~allysupporting many graduate students, or fully supporting a few. If departments opt for the latter, Dean Armstrong predicts that graduate programs will improve because departments will concentrate on quality instead of quantity and only the best students would be supported.

Dean Armstrong isn't alone In bel~evingthat the new measures may improve the quality of graduate studies. Dr. E. B. MacNaughton, dean of the College of Physical Science. and Dr. Skinner both say that the best students in any field will still get the Ontario Graduate Fellowships, the dollar value of which has not decreased, and National Research Council scholarships. Students with second class marks who don't win scholarsh~pswill suffer the most.

Dean Skinner expresses concern that the cutbacks will harm new departments which are just deireloping graduate programs.

In most cases, increasing graduate enrolment is essential for the development of these programs.

In the physical sciences, the cutbacks could adversely affect faculty research. Dr. A. K. Colter, chairman of the Department of Chemistry, says that limiting the income from teaching assistantships forces the student without a scholarship t o derive part of his income from a faculty research grant.

Dr. Colter explains that the "insidious aspect of this policy is that a faculty member without an outside research grant will find it almost impossible to have a graduate student. It will be extremely difficult for him to do even the minimal amount of research so essential t o good teaching. He is locked in a vicious circle of not getting research grants because he doesn't publish and not publishing because he can't get a grant to support a research assistant."

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Torontonians relax at poolside in Nathan Phillips Square, while skyscrapers go up.

At right is the Four Seasons-Sheraton Hotel. Behind the hotel are the twin towers of the T-D Centre and beside them (left) is the partially completed Commerce Court.

Making room for people in downtown Toronto EARLY JUNE, Guelph's 2000 INToronto-area alumni will have a chance t o walk where pedestrians normally fear to tread -down the middle of Toronto's main drag, Yonge Street. As a result of Toronto City Council's decision last October t o turn Yonge, from Albert t o Adelaide Streets into a pedestrian mall for one week, shoppers and jaywalkers will have those few city blocks all t o themselves; for the first time since grandfather's day, there'll be no traffic to worry about.

When the mall proposal was announced last fall, the only misgiving of nine fourthyear students then taking Professor Richard Forster's urban design class concerned the experimental time limit of seven days. The students, enrolled in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program, thought the mall deserved more than a week for evaluation. And once the mall closed they reasoned, Yonge Street would revert to a clogged, congested thoroughfare totally inimical to pedestrians.

Were there then, any pedestrian retreats from the automobile deep within the city core that could be established as such without disrupting the core itself?

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west. This class project lasted the entire fall semester, and with the help of Professor Forester and sessional lecturer Dharam Malik, a Toronto architect and urban design consultant, they put together the final proposals for a new-look downtown Toronto. The basic elements of their plan are shown on page 11.

Among their findings: -the Yonge Street "strip", quite naturally, was the downtown core's drawing card; - a new area of pedestrian concentration was developing just west of Yonge, an area currently the centre of Toronto's building boom; -and that this area could easily be established for "pedestrians only" without any major inconvenience t o traffic.

This "mini-strip," the students discovered, extends from the new City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square, through the Four Seasons-Sheraton Hotel (destined to be 43 stories high) and the RichmondAdelaide Centre (the Esplanade), to the 50-plus storey towers of the Toronto Dominion Centre and the Commerce Court. When the Four Seasons-Sheraton Hotel and the Commerce Court are completed, this area will provide for pedestrians a virtually uninterrupted stretch (see page 11) of entertainment with open space, street-level plazas and underground shopping concourses.

But despite the area's modern design and conveniences, the students felt there were some drawbacks. The open plazas are mostly concrete and windswept. The skyscrapers produce a feeling of isolation, and eventually, an area gets the repution of being "cold."

To solve these problems, as well as t o enhance the appeal and effic~entuse of the area, the students made one major recommendation: Connect all the existing pedestrian concourses (as will be the case with the Four Seasons-Sheraton Hotel and the Esplanade) to form one large underground shopping-entertainment complex which would be appropriately connected t o the public transit system.

In good weather, pedestrians could emerge to enjoy the landscaped surface which might include some small shopping areas patterned perhaps, after the Lothian Mews, a closely-knit group of shops on Bloor Street, west of Bay. This entire pedestrian area would complement any future Yonge Street mall, which the students felt might be best located from Dundas t o Queen Streets in order t o facilitate traffic flow.

As shown on page 11, traffic could easily be re-rounted around the mall by making existing two-way streets one-way.

Traffic would travel southbound on Church Street, westbound on Front, and northbound on Bay. Once out of the immediate

The Guefph planners: From left; Ken McConnell, Steve Dewdney, Murray Haigh, Professor Forster, Cameron Stuart, Dheram Malik, Susan Towndrow, and Don Parsons. Absent; Rod MacDonald and Scott Burbidge.

mall area, traffic could follow any of the regular routes away from downtown. For east-west traffic, the students suggested making Queen Street one-way eastbound and King Street one-way westbound, complementing the existing one-way streets, Adelaide and Richmond.

Their last major recommendation concerned parking lots. They felt many people who drive downtown don't really have to; that these people could use public transit.

To discourage people from bringing their cars unnecessarily into the downtown core, the students suggested most parking lots be located in zones some distance from the main shopping areas.

These "major parking areas" would charge a reasonable hourly rate. A few "minor parking areas" would be available closer to the mall, but parking rates would be quite expensive.

Although these suggestions and several others in the students' plan were never intended as an official alternative to present-day downtown Toronto, they did receive some favourable comments from an official of the Toronto Planning Department and were featured on the CBC-TV program Weekday. Implementation is a bit much to ask perhaps, but if alumni find themselves driving one-way southbound on Church Street, at least they'll know why. W D.A.B.

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Campus Highlights Aggies focus on OAC's future at one-day "Look-in" seminar

AGENSLA, a one-day "look-in" held recently on campus, afforded students and faculty in the Ontario Agricultural College, alumni and professional agrologists a chance t o discuss the vital issues "where are we?" and "where are we going?"

Organized and sponsored by the Student Federation of OAC with financial help from both the OAC Alumni Association and Alumni Foundation, AGENSLA featured a keynote address by the assistant deputy minister, Economics Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture.

Dr. Rolland Poirier suggested that the basic structure of food production will not change, but new developments such as synthetic forms of animal feeds, could alter certain aspects of the basic framework.

Agricultural production in the future will be characterized by fewer people, larger production units, increased mechanization, more artificial environments for animals and certain plants, wider use of biological methods for disease and pest control, improved storage and conservation of food, improved transportation and increased food aid to underdeveloped countries, he said.

Emphasizing that these changes w ~ l l require experts in a variety of disciplines, Dr. Poirier stressed that agrologists should be familiar not only with the sciences but also with the arts and humanities.

The total agricultural industry of the future should be a functional unity between all individuals participating in the social function of feeding mankind," Dr. Poirier said.

The individuals in such a system would have a broadly based general background provided by a university and a professional degree in one specialized area, said Dr. Poirier.

He said he felt agricultural higher education in the future will be characterized by a broader horizon, encompassing the food system, renewable resources and ecology.

Also participating in the conference were four agricultural professionals representing communications, industry, research and government.

A radical change in the cornmunicat~on methods, predicted by Dr. R. F. Campbell of Ontario Educational Television, will

Dr. F. J. Milne (seated, far right) holds medal and citation as surgical team members look on. Standing, left to right; Dr. P. W. Pennock, Dr. K. A. Funk, Wendy Hardy, and Alex Nelson. Seated, from left: Dr. W. N. McDonell and Dr. P. B. Fretz.

Absent; Dr. F. D. Horney, Dr. J. M. Tack, and Dr D. B. Duncan.

OVC surgeons share German Gold Cross award An Ontario Veterinary College professor was recently awarded the Cross in Gold, the highest decoration of the German Equestrian Association.

Dr. F. J. Milne. Department of Clinical Studies, accepted the award emphasizing: "Although I have been singled out as the Canadian recipient of the award, I would like to think that I am accepting it, not for myself, but on behalf of the surgical team of which I am a member at the University of Guelph."

Other members of the team are: Dr. D. B. Duncan, OVC '63; Dr. P. B. Fretz, Dr. K. A. Funk, Wendy Hardy, Dr. F. D. Horney, OVC '51; Dr. W. N. McDonell, OVC '65; Dr. P. W. Pennock, OVC '58;

Alex Nelson and Dr. J. M. Tack.

The award was presented for the veterinarians' treatment of the German equestrian team's horse, "Tasso", which suffered a serious injury last year during competition at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

The OVC team operated on the horse at the campus hospital and declined any financial compensation for their efforts.

Unfortunately, the horse could not be saved because of the nature and severity of the injury.

"For all this good-will we are extremely grateful t o you and the gentlemen of your institute," reads a translation of the citation presented to Dr. Milne.

bring sources of information within reach of students, researchers and practitioners.

Instruction in agriculture, he said, should train the student to become his own problem solver- tapping the many sources of information available to him.

Dr. J. R. Weir, OAC '36, chairman, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, emphasized the need to establish an interrelationship between government and university research, bringing many scientific disciplines to bear on the solution of problems. An agricultural college should be a focal centre of thought on all rural problems, not just a place t o train students, he said.

Following the morning session, the conference broke into smaller groups in the afternoon to discuss more specific questions such as a discussion of environmental science, professionalism, the role of OAC in the international community, core requirements, and faculty evaluation.

Although AGENSLA didn't come t o any conclusions, it accomplished its task: To promote dialogue on OAC's role in the future of agriculture.

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Dr. J. H. Hare, OAC '43, president of a consulting agency in agri-business, warned that agricultural education, t o keep pace with rapid developments, will have to be more specialized, more scientific and more computer-oriented. He predicted that agriculture, which has been productlon-oriented, will become market-oriented, like other industries.

Agricultural research efforts, according to Dr. R. C. McGinnis, chairman, Department of Plant Science at the University of Manitoba, will become more interdisciplinary and will consider the entire area of resource management.

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The Board of Governors has approved the building program and brief to the architect for a new engineering building.

To be located between the Soil Sciences building and the South 'Complex B' Residence, the gross area of the new building will be some 60,000 square feet.

Of this area there will be 34,696 net assignable square feet, after exclusion of such spaces as corridors and janitors' closets. This area, approximately the space now used by the School of Engineering, will be available for classrooms, laboratories, offices and other facilities.

Cost of the project is expected to be about $2,400,000.

The new complex will contain facilities for instruction and research, as well as offices and space for extension personnel from the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food. It will also include shops to service laboratory equipment, plus storage space.

Conditional on approval by the Ontario Department of University Affairs. construction may begin as early as next February with completion by September, 1973.

The present Engineering building is a three-storey structure built in 1906, with an extension added in the 1940's. Also used for research projects is the Engineering Annex, built in 1891, which alumni may remember as the campus gymnasium. The annex swimming pool is now used for experiments in fluid mechanics. Both of these structures are t o be demolished when the new building is completed.

Science Policy Committee's report "startles": Spurgeon In a recent presentation on campus. Dr. David Spurgeon, science writer for the Globe and Mail and recent recipient of an honorary degree from Guelph, reviewed the salient points of the Lamontagne Report, "A Science Policy for Canada".

By challenging traditional viewpoints of science, this report of the Special Senate Committee on Science Policy has received wide news coverage and outspoken criticism from scientific and political circles.

In discussing the report, Dr. Spurgeon emphasized that it doesn't say anything revolutionary, but by presenting the information in an unconventional manner,

it has a tremendous "startle value" which should attract many readers and incite heated discussion.

According t o the report, science policy in Canada has thus far evolved from a series of accidental managerial decisions, lacks central decision making machinery, and has no national objective toward which research and development efforts can strive. Most people feel that an overall national science policy is essential because science and technology have become so costly, and because scientific and technological advances have brought about so many of society's ills.

The report describes a "second generation science policy" which devotes less effort t o the "development of basic science and market-oriented technology", and more effort to the solution of the social problems. An ideal overall science policy would permit us to "not only meet our economic objectives more effectively but also more realistically face our mounting social problems," the report says.

In criticizing the report, Dr. Spurgeon said it presents too critical an account of the history of science policy in Canada, using the wisdom of hindsight t o evaluate the policy decisions made. He expressed concern that this criticism could undermine the research and development effort

College Royal '71 This year's Royal attracted over 10,000 people, many of whom stopped by the Physical Education Building to watch livestock judging events as below where Mr. J. B. McCague, '56A, examines the Holstein showmen. At left, the College Royal Queen contestants, from left to right: Vicky Long, semester three, Arts; Janet MacDonald, semester six, Family and Consumer Studies; Susan Hudson, semester two, OAC; Janet Walters, semester four, OAC; and Heather Commodore, semester six, Family and Consumer Studies. Miss Hudson was chosen Queen.

in Canada. He said such a report could lead the public to expect immediate results from scientific research, particularly that devoted to the solution of social problems. He also criticized the report's conventional solution, lifted from the U.S. environment, because it doesn't necessarily reflect the situation in Canada.

Dr. Spurgeon emphasized that the report gives recommendations, not directives.lt is intended to spark a dialogue and meaningful discussion in the scientific community. If the reaction among Guelph Scientists at the lecture is any indication of a national reaction, the Lamontagne comm~tteemay get more "dialogue" than it bargained for.

Introductory classes ghettos says American psychologist The chairman of Michigan State University's Department of Psychology recently described introductory university courses as "ghettos" in academic communities.

At a public lecture on campus, Dr. Wilbert McKeachie said that large introductory classes are products of unrestrained growth, a feature common to many university campuses.

Defining a university as a community of learners. Dr. McKeachie said intro-

ductory courses should introduce students to this community, and that a university education should equip the student to continue learning throughout his lifetime.

Students, in his words, should "learn how to learn." Teachers in this type of system would not act as transmitters of information, but would be fellow learners who teach students how to go about learning.

Ideally, said Dr. McKeachie, an introductory course would motivate students to pursue further learning by providing a structure in which to fit future knowledge and teaching concepts instead of facts.

The ideal introductory course would also stress the basic skills associated with any subject: reading, writing, and evaluation techniques.

In describing some ideas now in practice at Michigan State. Dr. McKeachie said that the department continually tries new ideas in an attempt to keep the introductory course relevant, interesting, and an exciting first step toward the creation of a community of learners.

University grants first Canadian Textile Science PhD Dr. M. A. (Sam) Kasem has the distinction of being the first person to gain a PhD in Textile Science in Canada, and the

Gymnastics isn't all sweat and muscle strain as testified to by these three members of the Toronto-based Kalev-Estienne Gymnasts. A troupe from the 500-member club performed on campus in late March.

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University of Guelph has the distinction of granting the degree.

After completing his Bachelor's and Master's degrees and working in a research institute in Pakistan for two years, Mr. Kasem joined Macdonald Institute in 1966 and completed his M.Sc. in Textile Science in 1967.

He then started work towards a PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in Regina, but after one year, returned to Guelph's Department of Consumer Studies to work with Dr. H. R. Richards towards a PhD in Textile Science.

His thesis, "The Use and Function of Boron-Containing Compounds for Flameproofing Cellulose." has involved a study of many boron compounds to determine why some are the most efficient of the flameproofing agents for cotton and rayon fabrics.

Mr. Kasem plans to spend a year as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Technological University in Zurich, Switzerland and has been offered a position the following year at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

OAC Alumni talk money at annual seminar The keynote speaker at the OAC Alumni Seminar warned participants that the wording of a will is of vital importance in estate planning.

Jack Robertson, president of R. and S. Insurance Ltd., Hamilton, told 7 5 alumni: "The insertion of the wrong word or even the lack of one word in the right place can make a very real difference in the succession tax duty position of an estate."

Mr. Robertson told alumni that while planning the future disposition of an estate costs money. faulty planning or no planning at all will cost the heirs even more.

Also participating in April's "Financial Management" seminar were: Doug Eckel, G. H. Ward Partners; Gordon Gibson, manager, Investment Management Services, Mills, Spence and Company Ltd.; and John Eidt, OAC '65, financial analyst, Mills, Spence and Company Ltd. Following the keynote address, the opening remarks of the other resource personnel, and a buffet luncheon, alumni met in three workshop sessions-Estate Planning. Farm Income Tax, and Investments for Alumni-to discuss further the points raised in the opening sessions.

Tom Cowan, OAC '65, chaired the Seminar Committee which planned this year's event with assistance from George Jackson. OAC '49, Jim Fraser. OAC '56A. and Mike Jenkinson. OAC '63.

From left to right; Ronald, Couse, Hunter, Moles and Watson.

Appointments Professor Keith Ronald, chairman, Department of Zoology, will become the first dean of the College of Biological Science on July 12, 1971. This college is the only one of its kind in Canada.

Keenly interested in marine mammals, Professor Ronald is one of the world's foremost authorities on the harp seal and is presently involved in a number of projects on mammalian physiology using the harp seal as a research animal.

A native of Wales, Professor Ronald

Alumni News Paul W. Couse, OAC '46, has been appointed vice-president. Seed Division of Maple Leaf Mills Ltd. He was Ontario sales manager, Feed Division prior to being named general manager of the Seed Division in 1969. Active in alumni affairs, Mr. Couse is president of the University of Guelph Alumni Association and an alumni member of Senate. He is also a past-president of the O.A.C. Alumni Association and a past-chairman of the O.A.C. Alumni Foundation.

James D. Hunter, OAC '49, has been appointed general manager, Shur-Gain Division of Canada Packers Ltd. He has been assistant to the general manager since 1965. Mr. Hunter has held a numGrad studies

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earned his M.Sc. and PhD degrees from McGill University. He holds a Diploma of Radiation Biology from Argonne. He came to Guelph in 1958 as an assistant professor at the Ontario Agricultural College and has sewed as chairman of the Department of Zoology since 1964.

In connection with his research on marine mammals. Professor Ronald is a senior scientist with the Fisheries Research Board (FRB) of Canada. He is editor of Canadian Journal of Zaology. the journal of the FRB, and Science. He is currently president of the Canadian Society of Zoologists and the lnstitute of Environmental Ecology and is president ber of senior positions in the Ontario Shur-Gain Division and was named Ontario manager in 1963. He is a member of the Agricultural lnstitute of Canada, and a past-president of the Plant Food Council of Ontario. Mr. Hunter has been active in the Alma Mater Fund-Telefund Division and served as Metro Toronto Telefund chairman last year.

John E. Moles, OAC '36, has been named general manager of the Royal Agricultural W~nterFair succeeding W. P. (Bill) Watson, OAC '28. Mr. Moles was manager, Farm Sales Department, Ontario Hydro prior t o his appointment. He was assistant sales manager at Master Feeds before sewing as a naval lieutenant in World War Two. Before joining Ontario Hydro in 1959, he hosted the CBC Television program

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tary restraint of increasing their number of graduate students.

Actually, the University of Guelph cut back on its projected enrolment by more than 10 per cent. But the financing formula (through which the provincial government distributes operating grants) favors a large full-time graduate student enrolment.

Formula financing involves distribution of provincial funds to the universities on the basis of a weighted enrolment, determined by assigning different values (basic income units) to students in different degree programs. (The income units vary from one to six). The formula system reflects the cost of maintaining a student in that degree program.

An inherent danger in formula financing, with its year-byyear planning, is misjudging enrolment for the coming year.

I f fewer students (particularly the heavily weighted graduate students) enrol than anticipated, the university's revenue will fall drastically. Consequently the operating budget must be cut accordingly t o coincide with the new income figure.

"In the long run, raising standards is the only answer to restraining graduate student enrolment," says President Winegard. He explains that before all universities would agree to this, the formula financing policy would have to be revised to give graduate students less weight in the weighted enrolment figure. This would take the financial pressure off the universities to have a large graduate enrolment. Dr. Winegard

and chairman of the board o f directors of the Huntsman Marine Laboratory in New Brunswick.

With more than 3 0 publications to his credit, Professor Ronald has received nearly $750,000 in grants to carry out his research, the most recent one being a $500,000 National Research Council grant to study the physiological basis of animal migration.

When he's not in his office or laboratory, or on the Gulf of St. Lawrence ice floes observing or catching seals, Professor Ronald can be found pursuing his hobby, auto rallying.

"Country Calendar", a weekly radio program "Food Facts", and, on occasion, the noon farm broadcast. Mr. Moles is a member of several organizations which include the Agricultural lnstitute of Canada, the Ontario lnstitute of Professional Agrologists, and the Eastern Canada Farm Writers. He is president of the Canadian Council of 4-H Clubs and a past-president of the O.A.C. Alumni Association. Mr. Watson joined the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, Livestock Branch, immediately after graduation and was appointed livestock commissioner in 1952. He was appointed deputy minister of the Department in 1961, and was named general manager of the Royal Winter Fair in 1963. In 1968, he was made a Fellow of the Agricultural lnstitute of Canada in recognition of his contribution to agriculture.

predicts that within two years, the formula will be thoroughly reviewed, but adds that "except for a few details, the formula plan has worked well and universities generally agree that it i s the most efficient and equitable means of distributing funds to the 14 provincially supported universities."

A spokesman for the Graduate Student Association said 'that most graduate students recognize the need to limit graduate student enrolment, in view of the many degree holders who haven't been able to find suitable jobs. But, he said, the Association firmly rejects the present financial limitations on enrolment because it penalizes only those students without financial resources. Instead, the Graduate Students Association favors raising admission standards.

When the new policies become effective in September, all graduate students will feel the financial pinch, although those starting a degree program will be most directly affected. To obtain sufficient finances graduate students will probably have to apply for an Ontario Student Award loan or borrow from a bank, further straining their already limited credit.

Although the picture is not as encouraging as in recent years, graduate students will probably still rise t o the challenge. Those who don't win scholarships, and have to depend on loans and meagre assistantships, may have to ask themselves. "Is graduate school for me?" This is probably a good situation because only the most eager students will not be discouraged. B E.C.

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UELPH ALUMNI gave $73,490 to' the 1970 Alma Mater Fund, an increase of four per cent over the initial campaign total of $70,816 in 1969.

Herb Schneider, OAC '48, 1970 campaign chairman reported that this achievement was extremely encouraging considering that the campaign was conducted during a period when the economy was depressed.

"It was important," he said, "that the Fund maintain the momentum achieved in its first successful year of operation under the guidance of John Lindley, OAC '53. While some alumni, not realizing that it was an annual campaign, had given heavily in the first year, sufficient new gifts were received in 1970 to make new gains."

Mr. Schneider pointed out that succeeding years should show improvement as pledges to the Development Fund are completed.

"I would hope," he said, "that Development Fund donors who gave so generously to the capital building program will continue at a high level of giving when they consider their support of the Alma Mater

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t u r ~ d .Marly of these donors are alreadqsupporting the new Fund."

In an address to a recent meeting of the Campaign Committee, Dr. W. C. Winegard, president of the University, spoke quite frankly about university financing and the importance of the Alma Mater Fund.

"There is no doubt about it," he said, "the squeeze is on the education dollar and Guelph is no exception. This will mean a deferral or cancellation of many projects which would enhance the cultural and academic life on campus."

Dr. Winegard said that through annual alumni giving scholarships can be offered and plans for projects such as Alumni Stadium, Memorial Hall renovations and the arboretum can go forward instead of gathering dust in the planning department.

"Alumni who have supported the Development and Alma Mater Funds should be proud of the important role they are playing in furthering higher education at Guelph," Dr. Winegard stated.

Mr. Schneider told the Guelph Alumnus that he was particularly appreciative of the hard work put in by the members of the Campaign Committee. These people are

Alumni watch official opening of Alumni Stadium at Homecoming - 1970.

busy In t h e ~ rown right but still made time for the Alma Mater Fund program.

"My spec~althanks," he said, "go to Vice-Chairman 6111Christner, OAC '49, who will cha~rthls year's Fund drive; Class Agent Division Chairman Dr. Don Harlow.

OVC '48, who with the help of Prof. George Ra~thby,OAC '22, Dr. C. R. Buck, OVC '46, Mrs. L. Webber, Mac '40, Dr. W. S. Young, OAC '49 and Mr. Alex Ross, Well. '69, enlisted a total of 168 class agents and with their help and cooperation raised over $25,000; Clare Moxley, OAC '44, who spearheaded the Special G ~ f t sDivision, and working In cooperation with hls 3 4 canvassers, collected a record total of some $23,000."

Last year's Telefund Division directed

by George Best, OAC '48, was expanded into two new areas, London under Chairman E. D. McGugan. OAC '48, and Kitchener-Waterloo, organized by Dr. R. V. Hemsley, OVC '54, as well as Metro Toronto, directed by Jim Hunter, OAC '49.

Sincere appreciation was accorded them and their 51 telephone callers.

Campus Chairman Dr. Bob Liptrap, OVC '56 and Vicechairmen Dr. N. Fish, OVC '42 and Dr. Craig Alexander, OAC '49, together with 24 departmental volunteers canvassed alumni on,the faculty and professional staff of the University while Direct Mail Chairman, Mrs. Helen Huntley, Mac '39, was responsible for the initial general mailing, progress report and final appeal mail~ngs.Ken Graydon, OAC '56, and his Information Committee planned the Fund literature.

Mr. Schneider continued: "To the 300 alumni volunteers who were involved in the successful 1970 campaign, and t o the donors who through their participation made the 1970 campaign a success, a big THANK YOU."

Far left: A scene from AMF-sponsored play "Six Characters in search of an Author."

Left: Toronto Telefund Chairman Jim Hunter, OAC '49. Bottom: Mac Telefund callers from left; Annette Yeager '62; Lois Clipsham '27; Joan Caruso, '54; and Lynn Munkley '70. At immediate left: London caller Dr. George Boyce, OVC '42.

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WO YEARS ago, when the Alma MaL. Fund Advisory Council met for the first time, its terms of reference were brief and specific: Determine the needs of the University, establish project priorities, set the campaign goal, and subsequently allocate the proceeds.

One of the principles adopted at this meeting was to choose those projects that would be visible to alumni visiting the campus: Alumni Stadium, renovations to War Memorial Hall, art purchases, library acquisitions, Arboretum plantings and equipment. These now can be seen as examples of the Alma Mater Fund's success. However, one of the AMPS top priority items is not as visible. namely scholarships for deserving students.

Scholarships, bursaries, and awards received the largest amount of support from funds collected in 1970. A total of $25,905 was earmarked for these programs highlighted by the increase from 33 to 44 in the number of AMF Spring Semester Entrance awards of $150 each.

The O.A.C. Alumni Foundation received $8.000 to maintain its entrance scholarships and $1,170 towards awards in memory of Beth Duncan, OAC '54and Ted Marritt, OAC '49. The Macdonald Institute Alumnae Association was awarded $1,000 to sponsor its Dr. Margaret McCready Graduate Scholarship. The O.V.C. Alumni Association was allocated $1.235 to continue its Travelling Bursary program and for awards in memory of Dr. Frank Schofield. OVC '10. A total of $8,000 was donated by Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Stewart, OAC '33, and Mac '32, for entrance bursaries and in-course awards.

Among tangible AMF projects, the 4000seat Alumni Stadium received class gifts totalling $4,746 from OAC '45. '68, and '69, to help defray construction costs and the Council allocated additional funds to bring the total over the two years to $40,000.

In announcing the 1970 allocation of funds on behalf of the AMF Advisory Council, Chairman Dr. Mel LeGard. OVC '23, expressed his delight with the full house at the stadium's official opening at Homecoming '70. In addition the football Gryphons did their part with their second Homecoming win in a row, whipping the Waterloo Lutheran University Golden Hawks 22-0.

Alumni visiting Mem Hall will notice that new balcony seats and new drapes have been installed, made possible by funds from the initial campaign. Dr. LeGard announced that an additional

$10,000 has been made available to Physical Resources Director W. A. Brown for new floodlights and renovations to the stage and orchestra pit.

Another $10,000 has been presented to Arboretum Director, Dr. R. J. Hilton to develop Guelph's "Living Laboratory."

The Arboretum added a second-hand tractor, a used six-man "crewcab" truck and planted its major collection of maple trees with last year's allocation.

The University Art Acquisitions Cornmittee received $2,800 towards the purchase of traditional Canadian works of art.

The 1969 allotment of $1,500 went towards the purchase of "Fashion Plate". a graphic by Richard Hamilton, one of England's leading artists. The current allocation includes the OAC Class '40 gift to the University of a Cavouk portrait of the late Dr. 0. M. McConkey, OAC '17, and the OAC Class '54donation of $1,000 for art as part of its Beth Duncan Memorial Gift.

An amount of $2,200 was allocated for library and artifact acquisitions which includes the rare books and marine biology journals purchased by Wellington '69 in their Michael Gerrard Memorial gift and the Mac '61 gift of books for the CoUege of Family and Consumer Studies.

Last fall, the Alma Mater Fund also provided $1,000 for the student drama production "Six Characters in search of an Author".

About $2,000 was set aside in an account called the President's Fund to be allocated mainly for academic equipment in line with donor preference. Included in the purchases last year were such things as a transducer, opascope, slide projector, mechanical tissue chopper, library information carrels and a delicate balance to name a few.

DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS - 1970 ALMA MATER FUND (Thousands of Dollars)

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Stadium Mem Hall

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Academic & Research

Government curtails support

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RS. J. W. (Nancy Matthews) Raithby. class agent, Mac '53D, led all class agents in achieving a remarkable 58.3 per cent average in class particlpation in the 1970 Alma Mater Fund, Mr. Schneider announced. Ross Hay, OAC '45, was second with an excellent 52.1 per cent average.

Dr. D. A. Barnum, OVC '41, presently on six months study leave at the Food Research Institute, Norwich, England, topped the OVC classes with a 37.5 per cent average. Among the younger classes, Mrs. Y. W. (Sandy Gibbons) Anderson, Well. '68, achieved a very creditable particlpation of 17.4 per cent.

Honourable mention goes to John Eccles, OAC '40 (40.3 per cent), Mrs. D. B. (Joan Robertson) Pettit, Mac '68D (37.8 per cent), Mrs. A. M. (Marion Clark) Field.

Mac '55 (35.7 per cent). Dr. E. L. Dahl, OVC '66, A. A. Hunt, OAC '46 (both 33.9 per cent), and Dr. R. V. Westerberg, OVC '27 (33.3 per cent).

"It is with a great deal of pleasure and respect that we also honour the three senior class agents from the founding colleges; Mrs. W. G. (Jessie B. Murray) Carruthers, Mac '08, Dr. C. A. Mitchell, OVC '14, and Mr. Wm. Tawse, OAC '15.

The dedication and devotion shown by these graduates is an inspiration to all alumni," Mr. Schneider said.

The recent Ontario budget further accentuated the already tight controls on the University of Guelph and other universities in the province. Operating grants and capital grants will both be lower than had been indicated earlier.

Under the formula for grants to meet operating costs, the value of the basic income unit will increase from its 1971-72 value of $1730 to $1765 for the 1972-73 academic year, an increase of about two per cent. The Committee on University Affairs had recommended to the Government that the value for 1972-73 should be increased to $1790, a figure which would have more adequately provided for the costs of inflation.

Under the formula for capital grants, there will also be a reduction from the level of support anticipated earlier.

The basic formula for capital purposes imposes a space allowance of 96 square feet per basic student which will be provided through public funds, but it also carries a cost limitation of $55 per net assignable square foot. This figure must cover not only the cost of building but also such additional costs as equipment, fixtures, furnishings, and architectural and consulting fees.

For the coming year, however, all universities will get slightly less than the above mentioned figure t o support approved building projects. Since the calculated needs of all universities in the prov-

SUMMARY OF ALUMNI SUPPORT

- 1970

1970 Alma Mater Fund

% of

Development Fund

Amount Given (Dollars) 40,630 13,139 11,351 1,147 1,507

Amount Given (Dollars) 34,349 11,323 4,481 335 21,958

67,774 5,716

72,446

Other Credits 1970 AMF Proceeds

73,490

Allocated to AMF supported projects

O.A.C. O.V.C. Mac. Arts & Science Ex-Officio

No. of Gifts 1,134 398 655 151 43

Endowment Funds received in 1970 Development Fund Alumni pledge payments rece~vedin 1970 Total Alumni Support in 1970

Participation 17.2 20.1 21.1 10.7

1,000

To endow projects specified by alumni donor

72,446

For capital building projects

146,936

ince would have resulted in a total cost to the provincial treasury in excess of the $105 million budgeted for this purpose, each university will receive 96.6 per cent of its calculated allocation for capital purposes.

In spite of stringent restrictions on building costs, the University has not been able to build and equip new buildings t o meet the needs of the Guelph campus without exceeding $55 per square foot, says W. W. Bean, vice-president, administration. The balance of the cost of each building must be secured by the University from private sources.

Neither will public grants provide capital funds for financing such campus facilities as the stadium, renovations to Memorial Hall. the development of the Arboretum, or constructing a substantial part of the University Centre building. The University Centre will provide badly needed facilities which do not exist on campus or in the city for meeting the social and recreational needs of the students, states President Winegard.

The Arboretum certainly will make a major contribution to the educational and research activities of this campus and to the understanding of environmental problems.

Unfortunately, any formula which must meet the needs of such divergent institutions as the 14 provincially assisted uniuniversities in Ontario is likely to be less than ideal for some of them. The fact of some identifiable shortcomings of the formula in so far as the University of Guelph is concerned makes the financial support of alumni and other private supporters doubly important.

The heavy emphasis on research on the Guelph campus also imposes additional space demands. With such a large volume of research both in agriculture and other fields, the Univeristy needs a great deal of space for research laboratories and related facilities.

Guelph is a small city, compared with other university centres in the province.

The inevitable result is that a larger proportion of the student enrolment must be accommodated in campus residence halls, because the city does not possess the amount of living and recreational capacity that larger cities do. The unfortunate part of all this is that dining halls and recreational facilities on-campus must be provided from the total space allotment of 96 square feet per basic student. In addition while the three semester system permits efficient use of classroom and laboratory space, i t does impose additional space requirements for offices of the extra faculty members needed to carry the teaching load.

In Search of OM Pictures It seems that many Guelph Alumni are shutterbugs of some calibre. and we would like to thank those camera buffs who, in reply to our request for old pictures of the campus (Volume 4, No. I), have sent us over 200 campus snapshots.

Our contributors are: F. A. W. Boyd.

OAC '12; Mrs. N. (Gladys Forster) Foster, Mac '09; James Gibbard, OAC '23; Mrs. W. W. (Jean Hodgetts) Lindsay, Mac '39; Miss Naomi McDonald, Mac '22;Miss A. Enid Robertson, Mac '04; Professor J. R. Scott. OAC '35; and William Thompson, OAC '15.

This Guelph Scrapbook feature will appear from time to time as we receive more pictures.

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Coming Events June 18 - 20

OAC-Mac Alumni Weekend and annual meetings, picnic lunch, art exhibit and Year reunions

October 16

Homecoming Windsor vs Guelph