Guelph Alumnus Magazine, July 1970

UNIVERSITY O F GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITYOF G U E L P H

July.1970.Vol.3.No.3

GUELPH ALUMNUS

INDEX ACADEM lC REORGANIZATION SEVEN COLLEGES APPOINTMENTS FINAL STRUCTURE POLLUTION -WHO

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NO LONELINESS

Credits

HELP / David Bates

Design: Cover, Jim Manley.

Photography: p. 6, 8, 9, 15, 17, 18, D. Bates;p. 13, 18, J. 8ates;p. 10, 11, K. Chamberlain; p. 12, J. Penner; p. 16, ODAF.

CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS ALUMNI NEWS

Championing creative change Who are the professors you best remember from those student days, more or less long ago?

Everyone has a favourite, and it seems everyone loves to reminisce about the man (or woman) who sparked some vital interest, guided one through a significant decision, or just plain delighted a roomful1 of ordinarily negligent students.

High on everyone's list is the kind of somewhat eccentric, quite irreverent, undoubtedly brilliant and just plain crotchety man that has always seemed t o enliven the faculties of colleges at Guelph.

Such a man was Dr. 0.M. McConkey.

His passing means the loss of yet another of that extraordinary group of "old-timers" who were, in many ways, the backbone of Canadian agriculture in the first half of this century.

And it was mostly because these men were both far-sighted and stubborn

enough to champion causes that were not always popular, to try to get things done in an atmosphere of complacency, to carry the gospel of something still only apparent t o themselves t o roomfulls of students who only in later years realized the full significance of what they had heard.

For most of us, particularly those of us who graduated from high school in the socalled "silent fifties", the first exhilarating Contact with purposeful irreverence for 'sacred cows' was in a classroom at Guelph. Does it seem that students are too quick to question accepted wisdom, too ready to condemn the status quo?

Excesses of violence and stupidity aside. that is what a university is for. More commonly, in fact, all of us as students were only too accepting and complacent, and it has always been up to professors like Dr. McConkey to provide the catalyst

for the incredibly difficult process of creative change - the process which it is surely the main function of a university to support.

That is what is meant by academic freedom: the freedom to question and probe, to say unpopular things, to ask why things are done the way they are, to try to improve the quality of life in society.

And as Dr. McConkey has passed away, we are at the same time welcoming to our campus a new champion of this view of the university. Dr. J. Percy Smith, a renowned Canadian scholar, is the new Vice-President Academic. As you will read in the next few pages, Dr. Smith has laboured well for the cause of creative freedom on university campuses in Canada.

It is the kind of atmosphere which always attracted and encouraged men like Dr. McConkey. And it is the kind of setting most of us remember at university.

As we remember Dr. McConkey, we welcome Dr. Smith to Guelph.

JEB

Guelph grows to seven colleges more than two years of study.

A FTER discussion and debate, the academic reorganization of the University of Guelph is complete. As of January 1, 1971, seven colleges will make up the University. It is on this day that the College of Biological Science will take its place along with the six other colleges which were already in existence after July 1, 1970.

The seven colleges are: Arts, Social Science, Family and Consumer Studies, Physical Science, Biological Science and the Ontario Agricultural College and Ontario Veterinary College.

The final organizational structure contains several noteworthy departures from the Report of the Special Committee of Senate, which was tabled in Senate in November, 1969. (A condensed version of this report appeared in the Guelph Alumnus Fall, 1969 issue. Most of the recommendations of the Senate committee were passed by Senate in January. 1970. It was decided then that Wellington College would be divided into three colleges (Arts, Social Science and Physical Science) and that OVC and Macdonald Institute would be restructured.

It was also decided that the former Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research be divided into a Faculty of Graduate Studies and an Office of Research, each to be headed by a dean.) But still to be decided was the formation of a College of Biological Science, and its relation with the Ontario Agricultural College.

A committee was established by Senate in January to specifically study the role and organization of biology at Guelph.

Coincidentally, an OAC Study Committee was at work studying programs of the Ontario Agricultural College. The Senate committee's report and an interim report of the OAC Study Committee were both tabled in Senate, May 12, 1970. (See elsewhere in this issue the interim OAC report).

It was evident from these two reports that a great deal of agreement had been

reached in the long-term discussions concerning a College of Biological Science and the departments which it might receive from OAC. Both reports recommended that the Departments of Botany, Microb~ologyand a new department of Entomology and Apiculture be a part of the OAC. The Senate committee recommended that the Department of Zoology move to the College of Biological Science, and the OAC Study Committee commented: "We recognize . . . that because of the large teaching programs in biology and zoology for B.Sc. students and because of the background and interest of many of the faculty, the Department of Zoology may move into another administrative unit."

Finally, at a special meeting of Senate on June 16, the final decisions were taken. Almost unanimously, Senate largely adopted the report of the Committee on the Role and Function of Biological Science. The College of Biological Science will be established on January 1, 1971, and will include initially the Department of Zoology (excluding Entomology), the Department of Nutrition, and the School of Physical Education. Senate agreed with the feeling of the Committee that the new College should be "open-ended", that is, other departments could join at a later date, if they wished.

One of the first to join may be the Department of Psychology, presently in the College of Social Science. The department, in consultation with the Dean of Social Science and the Vice-President, Academic, will report to Senate later this year on the possibility of its joining the College of Biological Science. Also, the Committee on Academic Priorities is considering the feasibility of establishing department(s) to include Genetics, Cell Biology and Ecology in the new College.

As for OAC, a Department of Entomology and Apiculture will be established to include the existing Department of Apiculture.

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S Guelph begins a new era; the era of

A seven colleges. a brilliantly qualified

man has been appointed Vice-President.

Academic. Dr. J. Percy Smith, has taken the office vacated by Dr. 6. C. Matthews, OAC '47,who is now the President of the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Smith, a well-known scholar in the humanities, has just completed a year's sabbatical in England on a Nuffield Travelling Fellowship. He has in progress two books: "Shaw and His Plays" and "Imaginary Forces and the Ways of Comedy." Dr. Smith's special field is the study of George Bernard Shaw and he has published many articles and an outstanding book: he Unrepentant Pilgrim: The Study of the Development of Bernard Shaw". Also, he has written papers on Shakespeare and other subjects in literature and has broadcast talks on a variety of subjects, ranging from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, to the British trial, which he attended, of Penguin Books for the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

But another area has occupied much of Dr. Smith's efforts over many years: the protection and extension of academic freedom and the liberalization of the governing processes of universities. As Executive Secretary of the Canadian Association of University Teachers from 1964 to 1969, he played a leading role in policies on academic freedom, equitable

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salary, tenure and dismissal procedures.

He became well-known over the last five years for his mediating role in cases of dispute at universities across Canada and for h ~ spenetrating reports on the issues involved. His publications on academic topics have included: "The University and Society" and "The University and Government."

Dr. Smith has sewed on the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (1959-69); the steering committees for the Duff-Berdahl Commission on Unithe versity Government (1964-66); Commission on Faculty Retirement Systems; and Commissions on Relations between University and Government.

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Graduate Studies and Research The splitting of the single office of graduate studies and research into two has resulted in the appointment of Dr. William Tossell, OAC '47, as Dean of the Office of Research. Dr. H. S. Armstrong remains as Dean of Graduate Studies.

Dr. Tossell, one of the best known crop scientists in North America, came to OAC's Crop Science Department in 1948, became its chairman in 1961,and was appointed Associate Dean of the Ontario Agricultural College in 1966. During his term as Associate Dean of OAC, Dr. Tossell has been the main liaison between the University and the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario, and was

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involved with the reorganization of the budgeting system for agricultural research in the Province. He played a leading role in the reorganization of agricultural research stations of Ontario and especially in the organization of the 1000 acre Elora Research Station which is being operated by the University.

The Deans of the Colleges The Deans of the four colleges before reorganization have remained to head four of the seven new colleges. Dr. Janet Wardlaw is the Dean of the College of Family and Consumers Studies, Dr. N. R. Richards, OAC '38, is the Dean of OAC, Dr. D. G. Howell is the Dean off OVC, and Dr. M. H. M. MacKinnon is the Dean of the new College of Arts.

The Associate Dean of the old Wellington College, Dr. E. B. MacNaughton, has been named Dean of the new College of Physical Science. Dr. MacNaughton, who holds a Ph.D. in molecular spectroscopy, joined the faculty of OAC in 1948 in the Department of Physics. He sewed as head of the Department of Physics and Mathematics from 1956 to 1966.He was greatly involved with the planning of the new Physical Sciences Building which was officially opened on Alumni Day. The other new appointment so far is that of Dr. J. B. Skinner, Chairman of the Department of Economics, as Dean of the new College of Social Science.

Dr. Skinner came to Guelph in 1965 from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he had been Chairman of the Economics Department. Dr. Skinner's work in the past few years has been concerned with the methodology of economics, with particular concern for the "construction of economic knowledge."

The Dean of the College of Biological Science, which will come into being on January 1, 1971,has yet to be announced.

OAC Study Committee presents interim report Because of the close relationship of environmental studies to agriculture, several departments associated with biology should be retained within the Ontario Agricultural College, the OAC Study Committee says in its interim report to Senate.

The OAC is committing itself to integrating environmental studies throughout its programs, the report says. In order to do this, it must retain the necessary scientists within its academic organization.

I t recommends that the Botany Department, which is closely concerned with many OAC studies should stay w~thinOAC. Similarly, at least the majority of the Microbiology Department's faculty members should remain with OAC. The report expresses the hope that the multidisciplinary programs it proposes will induce the Zoology Department t o stay with OAC. If not, however, it urges that cooperative programs between that department and OAC be continued and expanded.

It also urges that the entomology program, now administered under the Zoology Department be merged with OAC's Apiculture Department. (The

new college organization incorporates all of these recommendations, except for the retention of Zoology in OAC. Entomology, however, remains in OAC as a new department including Apiculture.)

The report suggests that, in accordance with its emphasis on both agriculture and the environment, the OAC be renamed the College of Agriculture and Environmental Studies. The final name for the college, however, should be decided by a new study group, recommended t o investigate OAC's administrative organization.

The OAC's interest in the study and control of man's environment is underlined in its proposal that the college develop an undergraduate major program in environmental studies. I t recommends that a study group be formed, to set up such a program.

Graduates of this program would be able to attack such problems as pollution and the development of parklands, with an understanding of all the issues involved. The report proposes that the program should require a minor specialization or some spec~ficaspect of the resources field as a basis for

post graduate study or professional employment.

Students are interested in this field and graduates in it are needed. "Rural landscape is giving way to patterns of urban and suburban sprawl," the report notes. "Lands that are intrinsically suitable for agriculture, fish and w~ldlife, and recreat~onare being lost in an unplanned way to residential~ndustrialdevelopment, highways, and other communication networks. Inadequate consideration is given t o the significance of these changes on the ultimate welfare of man. Thus, a new set of values and philosophy must be developed concerning the use of natural resources." The report also recommends a citizens' advisory board be established to review ongoing programs and suggest new ones.

The OAC helps make the University of Guelph a unique university because of its strength in both agriculture and b~ology,the report says. It can become a leader among Canadian universities in environmental studies, sending out graduates well prepared to meet the challenges in this important aspect of human life.

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION (effective July 1, 1970, except where noted otherwise)

Departments

Clinical Studies Biomedical Sciences Vet. Microbiology & immunology & Anthropology

In a d d ~ t ~ oton the structure $>own a t r~ght,the newly created oost of Dean of Research and the Dean 01 Graduate Stud~esw ~ lreport l to the V ~ c ePres~dent, Academ~c Two ol the three centres. Resources Develolxnent and Educat~onalD ~ s a b ~ l ~ twill ~ e sreport . to tlle Dear1 of Research The other centre - lnterna tlonal Programs will revor! d~rectlyto the Vtce Pres~dent Academ~c

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ud Nutritionwill h in OAC, nd th.School of Physical Educetionwill npon to th.V W r a i r b n t IAcamk).

Pollution: who pays?

During the winter semester of this year, a series of nine discussions entitled "Man and the Quality of his Environment" was held at the University of Guelph. Speakers from many departments of the University presented the latest facts and newest thinking on a wide range of problems associated with the despoilation of our environment.

One of the highlights of the series was a mock court hearing, with witnesses for both sides of the question: Who should pay for industrial pollution: the company or the public? The hearing was moderated by Dr. A. T. Cringan, Zoology. Dr. R. S. Rodd, Agricultural Economics, supported the position that the company should pay, and called as witnesses: Dr. W. van Vuuren, Agricultural Economics; Mary Standing, student in Geography; Dr. Philip Sweeney, Pathology; and M. J. Cathcart, Assistant to the General Manager of the Ontario Water Resources Commission. Taking the negative side of the question was Dr. J. Madden, Economics, who called as witnesses: Mr. Macpherson, Industrial Commissioner for the City of Guelph; Bertha Crone, student in Landscape Architecture; and Dr. Bernardo, Economics. Mr. John Harney, Secretary of the Ontario New Democratic Party and a former member of the Department of English at the University, acted as a representative of the people, and questioned witnesses from both sides.

On the following pages, we present excerpts from the debate. Space permits us to use only a small portion of the proceedings, in fact, a number of the witnesses are not represented. We apologize, because every participant had much to say of interest, but we have had to present an abbreviated and, hopefully, wellbalanced sample of both sides of the issue.

JEB

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CRlNGAN The question tonight is should the cost of reducing pollution be borne by the Company that has been doing the polluting, or to put it another way, should the cost of pollution abatement be borne by the economic production unit. By economic production unit we might mean a private company or perhaps a public one such as Ontario Hydro .

The situation against which our discussion is t o take place is assumed to be one in which the community at large has set a standard, that is, it has decided that i t wants some part of its environment to be of a certain quality, which means that pollution must stop rising, or in some cases even be reduced. For example, pollution of the rivers or of air will be limited t o some specific quantities and after some specific date when the troublesome pollutants have been identified. I t is assumed that the particular pollution problem has been created by economic production units rather than by such things as municipal sewage treatment or by automobiles. which represent different cases. The debate is not really concerned with measuring pollution or deciding whether a given condition constitutes pollution We shall simply define pollution as essentially a situation in which one activity causes effects for some other activity or person which are, on balance, considered to be undesirable.

Rather loosely, especially in tonight's context of economic production units, we are concerned with waste disposal: the discharge of wastes into water bodies or into the groundwater reserves or into the air, at a time and in a place where society has decided that enough is enough or that enough may be too much. The debate is largely a discussion among economists but it is also a fight among citizens. With no particular logic behind it. I, an ecologist, have been asked t o oversee the debate.

Tonight we have a hearing on this subject with both sides being represented to argue the proposition: resolved, that the cost of reducing pollution should be borne by the company that does the polluting. We have as advocate for the affirmative, Professor Stephen Rodd, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Guelph. We also have, in order to hear the evidence from both sides, Dr. Jack Madden, Department of Economics, University of Guelph t o take the negative side of the question.

In every question of this type there is a man w ~ t ha practical choice, a representative of political interests, and our man with the practical choice tonight is Mr. John Harney, Secretary of the Ontario New Democratic Party and a former member of the Department of English. University of Guelph.

Mr. Harney, can you tell us why you yourself are concerned to hear this debate? . .

HARNEY The only fair thing I can do is to begin by giving you some of the presuppositions, at least one of them, that I

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would be working under and it is this: that the costs of production do not cease when the product leaves the plant gate. To give you a very simple example, it is totally misleading to assume that the costs of producing automobiles, as General Motors reports t o us in dividend statements, are complete. We all know that. For example, in order t o have automobiles we must build highways for them, and this certainly brings a social cost and we must also take care o f the other indirect costs which are very serious. For example: the cost of pollution, pollution brought about by the automobile, which in some way or another we will have to pay for, probably through some kind of public taxation. So I take the view that the problem is a social one and have t o ask myself specifically whether the company, made up of management, investors, workers, etc., should pay, in which case prices will go up, (in which case we should have the cost levied by the company as a form of taxation without representation) or whether the public should pay. That is t o say: through its taxes, in which case we would have costs of pollution control, cost of production, in fact, carried generally by the public but then without the specific responsibility of any particular company .

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CRlNGAN Thank you Mr. Harney. Next, we shall call upon Professor Rodd t o present his argument in favor of the question.

RODD We cannot improve the quality of the environment without cost. Costs will have to be paid out one way or another, which is very clear as Mr. Harney has stated for us. It is very tmportant that these costs be put into the economy through the firm and these costs have a chance t o influence decisions by the firm . . With all of the alternatives open to the firm, surely the firm is the best judge of the cheapest way t o get the job done and keep it done. Currently, pollution is caused to a disproportionate degree by the relatively high income people of Canada. People with higher than average incomes consume more than half of the goods produced and it is in the production of goods that the waste is created.

Apparently, i t is in the lower income groups that suffer the most and have the least opportunity t o escape. Pollution reduction is not a matter of welfare however, it is one of how we are going to allocate resources of soil, land and water among different uses. The firms must pay to use the resources or pay the cost of disposing of their wastes in another way which will not pollute. The basic issue is then, as we see it, the amount of cost in the transition period to get down to the acceptable level of discharge of wastes, the amount of cost that we are going to pay in the long run, and lastly, who bears the costs I would like to call upon Mr. M. J. Cathcart, Assistant t o

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RODD So that in an area where a certain standard has been judged to be desirable and necessary for the quality of the water course, a firm may be asked gently, politely, firmly, to control its effluent and the cost of so doing will be done within the company in terms of adjusting its own internal operations?

CATHCART More than that, Mr. Rodd. We must insist upon this, and have been insisting upon this and have been emphasizing the industrial waste abatement program for five years.

RODD In other words you put the onus on the firm very much and do you indeed (and this is an unrehearsed question, I haven't had a chance to ask Mr. Cathcart so I don't know the answer) - does the O.W.R.C. ever give grants and subsidies to companies to help them reduce their effluents?

CATHCART The matter is before the cabinet at the present time under consideration, and I emphasize only that consideration is being given t o certain tax rebates or the equivalent thereof on pollution abatement equipment. Also being considered, according to Mr. Kerr, our Minister of Energy and Resources Management, is the possibility of loans being made to small industries which might suffer economic losses i f they have t o embark upon a one million dollar pollution abatement program. I don't know whether I am at liberty to disagree at this point with Dr. Madden, but I would very much question that the economic survival of any or very many industries in this province today is threatened by the necessity of installing pollution abatement measures. In our dealings with some 1,800 industries over the past 12 years that we have been in existence, I would be hard pressed to give you an example of an industry that finally closed its doors because it couldn't afford pollution abatement facilities.

MADDEN You have been involved for 12 years with 1,800 industries and yet the level of pollution has got consistently worse! It has now got to the stage where I am told it is a provincial disaster. This might be a reflection on somebody, I wouldn't care to say on whom it is. It's like anti-poverty programs, you know. We have had an anti-poverty program now for 20 years and we have more poverty than when we started.

CATHCART Dr. Madden, considering the fact that this province has exper~enceda most marked industrial development in the past 13 years and considering the fact that there has been both of which. of a quite remarkable population increase course, have contributed to the amount of effluent discharged I think it from industry or people as the case may be can still be said (and perhaps in contradiction t o what you have just said) that the water quality of this province has not . While I do not wish t o gloss gone from bad to worse over in any way the pollution situation in this province (and 1 would be the first to acknowledge that we have serious

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the General Manager of the Ontario Water Resources Commission.

Mr. Cathcart has been gracious enough t o come from Toronto to speak with us tonight and I must say that his position here is not necessarily that of spokesman for this side of the argument. Nor am I going to try to take unfair advantages of his position as a servant of the public, t o put it in the cliche. Mr. Cathcart has been with the O.W.R.C. since 1963, 1 believe, and hence is very knowledgeable about the current policies and practices of the O.W.R.C. Mr. Cathcart, could you please briefly describe the policies, in general, of the Commission with respect to this particular question. That is, what is being done?

CATHCART The attitude of the O.W.R.C. with regard t o the water quality of the water courses of this province is this: they (the courses) are entitled to live, to survive, t o contribute to the social and economic well being of this province and therefore i t is our objective to restore t h e m t o such a quality that will permit the diverse uses to which they are placed. We feel that we cannot emphasize pollution abatement in one section of our society and disregard the same pollution abatement on the part of another section of society. In other words we cannot hammer away at the individual or the municipality and say: you are polluting this water course, you must install pollution abatement measures and at the same time say to industry: Mr. Industry you are contributing a great deal to our economic well being, you go right on polluting the Spanish River and we will hammer away at the other problems. So, for this reason, we are moving forward in all areas of pollutional concern on the part of the individual, the role of the municipality, the role of the industrialist, the role of the farmer, the boater, the recreationist. Anyone who employs water, we feel, has a basic responsibility to play, a responsible role in ensuring that the water quality of this province is protected, not only for our own present economic well-being, but for the future as well.

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problems with which we must yet cope) I think that in fa~rness to the people of this province, they deserve the credit (not the O.W.R.C. who are merely spearheading this attack) but the people of this province who have been responsible for the provision of some two billion dollars worth of sewage and water equipment in the past 15 years. This has resulted in an improvement rather than a deterioration of the overall situation.

MADDEN So what you are saying then is that in essence you agree with the position that I stated when I begun my arguments that I didn't think pollution was a serious problem in Ontario.

CATHCART Relatively speaking.

CRINGAN Thanks Professor Rodd and thanks t o your witnesses. And now, Dr. Madden.

I think it is very clear that in our legal system, MADDEN i f you cause damage to somebody else and you can prove this in a court of law you should be entitled t o collect damages.

And it should be possible for any individual or any person or community who suffers harm to sue a particular corporation.

(You will note in the case of the oil pollution which is taking place in Nova Scotia, that in every likelihood, some government level will take suit against a company t o collect damages). It may well be that our legal system is very backward in that, as it stands today, individuals cannot sue large corporations.

This might then be an argument for legal aid for improving the legal system. But I think it should be recognized that where one is saying t o companies that YOU MUST take certain actions which reduce the profits of that company or alternately reduce wages in that company, that there is some responsibility to demonstrate that they are doing some damage. However, society very clearly has not accepted that order. They have gone on to accept the proposition that the mere fact that there is pollution in the atmosphere, the mere fact that fish don't appear in certain rlvers, the mere fact that a level of algae covers water. is in itself harmful t o society, and therefore certain actions should be undertaken to eliminate the causes of these events. Now. what action should be taken? Very clearly, you don't have to think about it for very long t o recognize that it is business corporations and that's what we are talking about tonight.

Business corporations are putting effluents up into the alr and effluents into the water supply, and very clearly if these are going to be reduced or eliminated nobody else but business corporations can do it, and that is not in dispute.

What is in dispute, however, is who should bear the costs of elim~natingthese effluents, because very clearly there are significant costs involved, as has been brought home to us already in this discussion. Now, what I want t o argue is this, and there are essentially two sides to my argument. First

of all, if you levy them on the company, there is no guarantee that they will be borne by that particular company and this of course was Professor Harney's point when we began t h ~ sdiscussion tonight. I hope to demonstrate to you that these costs can be shifted in a variety of ways with certain consequences for our society. The other side of this argument (and I do not have a witness to support this particular proposition but I am prepared to state myself) is that there are plenty of people in our society who wish a cleaner environment and who are willing to pay. There are lots of people who would be willing to pay through their taxes In order to be guaranteed clean rivers, places to fish, places t o swim and things like that. I think if we made an appeal t o the population and said to them, "Are you willing t o make a contribution so that business firms can eliminate this pollution?" I think that we would get a significant response. That in essence then is my argument.

Let me call upon my first witness: a person who is the Industrial Commissioner for the City of Guelph. Now Mr. MacPherson, you have a good deal of experience in dealing with busmess firms. Would you care to tell our audience what you think buslness {irms feel about the way these costs should be borne?

MACPHERSON Well John, I have t o go from the academic to the practical side of things tonight because industry, it must be admitted, is the life blood of this community. Everybody sitting on that platform up there in some way or other derives his livelihood from some payroll of some industry. This we must acknowledge. So, therefore, we must have commerce and industry In order that these people can go to college and feed and clothe their chrldren and so on. It's a well-known fact of life that, as an industry comlng into Guelph, we are interested in being a good corporate citizen, and we in no way want to pollute your water, your air or any other part of it, but we must produce our product, and it hasn't been defined what it is but nevertheless in some manner or means by

producing this product some effluent or some pollution is obviously bothering you people on the stage. Now, as an industrialist, and you come and you tell me that I am polluting the stream, the Speed River or something else, I want you t o prove that to me. I want your government, your municipal engineers to come and show me, as a business man, how my methods of production are polluting your rivers.

If you prove to me that they are, then sir would you give me a qualified engineer of any government, federal, municipal or provincial, who will come in and design a piece of equipment that will rectify that situation and I sir will put up the money and absolutely clarify the problem for you. But, I have never seen the government engineer who could come into my plant and tell me how t o meet my pollution problem.

MADDEN So what you are saying is that many industries, given their size, given their financial resources, are not in any position at all t o develop their own technology?

HARNEY It seems to me that what Mr. MacPherson is saying is that if it could be proved through some kind of engineering, funct~on, (I would challenge that it has t o be through some kind of engineering function) that his industry - I don't think he was representing any particular industry but the people of Guelph's desire for more industry -that his industry was polluting the waters and the atmosphere, that he would gladly undertake the cost of removing the pollution.

MACPHERSON Mr. Harney, if you can show me, and I have to play the devil's advocate tonight to create a little bit of controversy here, but I would say that as an industrialist as a shrewd businessman, Mr. Harney, I would say that I would like to see some form of tax rebate allowed my company to pursue research or to work with your municipal or your provincial engineers to rectify my pollution problem.

I don't want a government grant, I think there are far too many of these ruddy grants being thrown around right now.

HARNEY Mr. MacPherson, is it true that the biggest factor affecting the location of industries and their selection of towns is no longer the cheapness of the labour and other such factors, but the quality of the environment or the amenity provided by the urban community.

MACPHERSON That is quite correct.

HARNEY Thank you.

CRINGAN Professor Madden, your next witness please.

MADDEN Professor Bernardo do you think that business firms have the right t o pollute the atmosphere?

BERNARDO The answer t o that, Mr. Madden, is yes. Every. one, not just business firms but government agencies, consumers, absolutely everyone is recognized by the courts of law, by common law, by statutes, t o have the right t o harm

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others, and the justification for this is recognized by courts of law. External harm t o others is a necessary or incidental cost of producing valuable goods and consequently the justification here is that so long as the sum total of all benefits produced by the activity exceeds the sum of costs, including pollution. by business firms, the courts of law will uphold the right of anybody, be it a government agency, businessman or consumer. to pollute. Furthermore the courts of law hold the right t o declare when pollution has been excessive t o the point that its further continuance is absolutely intolerable. At that point they declare that it is a nuisance, and that is a legal term t o denote the excessiveness of the pollution.

MADDEN Well, Dr. Bernardo, why is it that people are arguing that the amount of smoke in the atmosphere or the amount of sludge in the water should be reduced? Why are they calling on governments t o carry out this particular program?

BERNARDO My feeling about this is, that in Guelph. at least, the level of pollution has not reached any critical levels, and we should not worry about it. The optimal strategy here is just t o ignore i t for the time being.

Although certain areas such as San Francisco have a Pollution Control Board because in that area, pollution has certainly reached a level where the community decided that it was a nuisance and decided t o do something about it.

MADDEN Well supposing that we now agree that there is some pollution and we are now prepared to admit that there does become a point where it is a nuisance. And supposing now that the costs of eliminating this pollution are levied on a corporation, what are the economic effects of a particular decision like this?

BERNARD0 It can be demonstrated quite easily that in many cases where you levy the cost of the harm on the person who produces the harm, i t can be shown that the sum total of damage to society will increase instead of come down. Let's just give you an example. Railroads are by statute and by court decisions exempt from the damage which they do to crops or even to forests when they emit sparks that cause brush fires. The reasoning of the courts here is that the sum total of benefits that the railroads have produced not only for themselves in private profits but external benefits to the society as a whole far exceeds the pollution or harm that they do. In that case, if you make the railroad liable for the harm that it does then society as a whole clearly suffers because it means having t o close that railroad line.

HARNEY Dr. Bernardo, I think it is the case that these laws exempting railroads from certain claims were passed in the days when there was not government ownership of the railroads but railroad ownership of the governments. Your

case is perhaps historically correct, but I would just like to ask you a few questions. You speak about the right of a producer to pollute. Would you care to define what you mean by "right"?

BERNARD0 I cited the case of the railroad company that in the past had been sued by farmers who have suffered damage from them and also household owners who had suffered damage from pollution. In those cases courts of law have said that these corporations that pollute have the right to cause this amount of pollution, because the private and external benefits that they contribute to society far outweigh the pollution.

HARNEY You are defining. 1 am asking you what you mean by "right".

BERNARW A right in the sense that you are not liable to pay for the damage you cause.

HARNEY In other words it's a legal right.

BERNARD0 I would say that it's also realistic, because the world is such that you can't do anything good, it seems, unless you have bad with it, and whether the act is justified should be viewed in toto.

MADDEN If we, as Canadians, levy costs on business firms and these business firms happen to be major exporters, and other major producers of the same commodities which we export do not levy these costs, what will be the consequence for the Canadian?

BERNARW Well, Canada would go out of business in the international buyers market.

CRlNGAN Professor Rodd, your rebuttal, your final witness and your summary.

RODD Thank you. I would like to call Dr. van Vuuren please for two questions.

Dr. van Vuuren, within the question we have before us, if costs have to be borne in any case within society does it make a difference to the economy as to whether we have higher taxes or higher prices on certain products? van VUUREN Yes, it does make a difference. If the production unit must pay, then it will certainly pass it on to the consumer, so this will amount to higher consumption prices.

I think our price system has an extremely important function in economic life. It gives a signal and it gives incentives. A higher price gives the exact signal to the consumer. Where the production costs are very high these consumer goods will go up very much in price so consumers are goirrg t o demand less of these products and this is exactly what we want. At the moment we are producing too much of certain products which cause a lot of pollution.

RODD If the firm is faced with technically reducing the dirtiness of its waste, and there are various ways it can do

this, who is the best judge of the cheapest way to do it for that particular producer? van VUUREN Well, certainly the firm, because the price has also to give an incentive to the producer, and at the moment if the producer doesn't have to pay for the reduction of pollution he is not going to bother about economizing on waste reduction. So as soon as we make him liable there is certainly an incentive for him to economize on waste reduction techniques. I think another important incentive of the price is to direct technological advance.

I think this is an extremely important function of the price mechanism and people are not going to do research on products which are cheap. They are only going to do research on scarce and expensive products.

MADDEN In other words there is a case on the efficiency side for using this device. What difference does it make with the distribution of incomes - t h e question of who ultimately is going to have to lose income? Will there be a difference in terms of who among all the individuals in the economy bears the final burden? van VUUREN Well, I think here again it is the one who is buying the products is going to bear the burden, which I think is an extremely important thing. Because if we finance our abatement cost by a tax system, what i t amounts to really is that we are going to subsidize those consumers who buy a lot of products, which cause a lot of pollution. Especially, rich people who are buying proportionally more products, (probably also the products which cause a lot of pollution), will gain from the subsidy. So what it really amounts t o is that we subsidize the rich via the tax system. On the other hand, if we just pay the normal prices I think everybody buys exactly what he wants.

CRlNGAN Now gentlemen, we will have summation, Professor Rodd, Professor Madden.

MADDEN I have nothing more to say.

RODD The cost of using the environment or not using the environment is like any other cost of producing. We are always getting changes in costs which may be a rise in the union wage or i t may be a rise in the rate of interest. The cost of adjusting to this new situation which the particular region has decided it wants to achieve for itself - we are not is a question imposing it on the Cape Breton coal mines of how efficiently we will adjust to the new circumstances. What kinds of costs are going to be involved, and who is going to bear the costs: whether the owner of capital or our tax system, or whether it will be borne through the efficient system of choice within firms and among consumers and the disposition of their disposable income.

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No loneliness. just pain, for a long -distance runner

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RANT McClaren, 21, late of a dairy farm in Drumbo. Ontario, winner of dozens of cross-country and middle distance intercollegiate races, holder of all University of Guelph records for distances from 800 metres upwards.

Canadian record holder and Commonwealth Games team member for Canada, and quite likely the best athlete in the history of this campus, is keeping his infected knee straight, the one with a deep three-inch gash acquired in a race in California in late June, and is discussing the theory and practice of steeplechase racing on the international level: "I try t o make sure that everybody else in the race is as beat as I am when we get to the end. Then we see who has a bit more."

This may be an oversimplified way of

looking at a fairly complex process, but the implications are sound. Because distance running hurts. And the man who hurts the most and keeps going, all other things being relatively equal, wins.

McClaren, long-time middle-distance and cross-country runner, is a relative newcomer t o that strange mixture of running race and obstacle course, the steeplechase. Seven times around a 410 meter lap, over a total of 28 hurdles and seven water jumps for an overall distance of 3,000 metres: this is a steeplechase.

The hurdles are three feet high, 12 feet long, and they are immovable, which accounts for Grant's infected knee. Although middle-distance running and crosscountry are still as important as ever to Grant, he took up the steeplechase partly

because his coaches felt he would do particularly well at the event, and partly because, as he says, "hardly anyone is doing it in Canada, so it's a chance to really clean up, i f I'm good enough."

He flew to California Friday, checked into a motel and went for a run. The race was set for Saturday night at 9:30, which is 12:30 in the morning EDST. This was not much of a handicap, Grant said. "It's tough when you go east. I ran in Scotland last year (the International Cross-Country Championships) at the equivalent of six in the morning. Your body isn't even awake yet."

After a day of spectating and some nervousness on Saturday, he suited up for the race, warmed up and was on the line.

After a fast start, ("The gun goes, and

I go uiip!") he found himself in second, but closely followed. And so it went, until three-quarters of the way through the race, approaching a hurdle placed on a turn, which has to be taken with the body leaning, he didn't get his trailing leg out and up enough, and the knee hit the sharp edge of that unforgiving hurdle.

Several strides more, numbness setting in. blood, a fall. "It was a good race, from where I was, in the infield, damn it all . ."

And now, back in Guelph, the knee is infected, and there are only three weeks until Edinburgh. "I've got to be running again in three days. If it's not ready by then, well, I refuse t o think about i t right now."

It is apparent that running races like this is a tough way to spend one's time, but the rigors of actual competition are almost the least of it. Grant, and most of the rest of Guelph's team of middledistance and cross-country runners train almost every day of the year, running between seven and ten miles a day. This amounts t o roughly 2,500 miles a year, and most of those miles should be somewhat painful, to be effective.

The cross-country team which last year won both the Ontario and Canadian university championships, operates on the principle of togetherness. "If you miss a practice, and there's no good reason," says Grant, "four or five guys will be on your back before the day's out, which is good, i t keeps you going." Daily selftorture for something as intangible as "being in shape" is something easily missed on a day when you're not feeling well, and the daily (or nightly) group-runs naturally turn into the good-natured insulting sessions that most athletes seem to enjoy. In winter, the team bundles up in track suits, towels, balaclavas for the head, and runs the snowy streets of Guelph. Breath freezes on face coverings, steam rises from track suits and passing motorists register everything from interest t o astonishment. "It really gets you sometimes," Grant says, "you're whipping yourself hard in one section, say, you're giving it everything you've got down a street, and some little kid yells, 'lookit the jogger!' " But winter training can make all the difference during the next season. When spring comes, a solid basis of conditioning is already there, and the faster track work can start. Grant's training schedule is fairly typical: days of long runs alternating with "interval" days, where the runner sticks to a schedule of hard sprints for

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two or three hundred yards, interspersed with jogs for the same distance. In winter, "running the hills" substitutes for the summer speed work on the track.

The team chooses a steep hill, and charges up ten or twelve times.

Architects for much of the training program are the team's coaches, Dr. Vic Matthews, Assistant Professor of Classics and Linguistics in the Department of Languages, and George Smith, Department of Animal Science.

Both men, voluntarily and for no payment, spend hundreds of hours a year, making arrangements for the team. planning the training, and going t o events around the province, (and in July, to Edinburgh). But more than that, both work out regularly with the team. Dr. Matthews, who came t o Canada from Belfast in 1964, is a serious distance runner who competes regularly in such events as the Boston Marathon. "Vic's like a computer," says Grant, "he can tell you the best times of runners all over the world, where and when the race was. He sometimes tells me the day before a race what my time will be, and he's never out by more than a second or two. It's incredible."

What's the secret of coaching long distance runners? To Matthews and Smith,

two things are important: conditioning and attitude.

"You have to be realistic about the man's own abilities. You have t o know what his attainable goal should be, and do everything you can to help him reach that goal," says George.

They are great believers in the team's group activities. Long, hard training sessions can be a difficult and lonely business if done alone, they say, and they encourage the team to train together and even eat their evening meal together.

But now, getting ready for this fall and winter, Smith and Matthews face an unwelcome problem: Grant McClaren is going to the University of Western Ontario to begin graduate work in zoology.

Western already has one good crosscountry man, and the addition of McClaren to Western's team will make them suddenly formidable opponents. Not that Guelph is out of the running. "We have a good solid team. With people like Paul Manley, Larry Snider, Grant Mustard, Pat Larry, Jack Galbraith, I'll be a little surprised i f we're beaten," says Vic Matthews.

"Of course," he says, "just to be safe, one good freshman would sure do the trick.': But then, Vic says that every fall.

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Grant McClaren takes a short breather with George Smith (left) and Dr. Vic Matthews (right).

HELP: "homework" a t the community level

By DAVID BATES

ELL the student volunteers of the University-based organization HELP that today's youth lack commitment and you're liable to get that proverbial poke in the eye.

For these "committed" volunteers spend up t o 200 man hours per week outside of the sheltered university environment. They find that trouble, despair and loneliness are a way of life for so many of the people with whom they come into contact.

The HELP volunteers participate in a series of weekly projects that run the gamut of society and community oriented activities; everything from card parties with senior citizens in nursing homes to counselling work with young boys and girls in security institutions.

Now almost three years old. HELP was organized by a founding group of seven people: University of Guelph Provost, Paul Gilmor. Sociology Professor, C. T. M. Hadwen, University Catholic Chaplain, Frank Whelan and four students.

The group was having a late evening coffee and plotting the still unnamed organization's future when the Beatles hit parade song "Help" was played on the coffee shop's juke box. The song's opening words, "Help, I need somebody" were to have a different impact than those English songwriters would have imagined.

With an idea and a name, the group turned its attention to recruiting the volunteers, which as it turned out, were eagerly awaiting such an opportunity. and more than willing t o spend a few hours a week on some project.

HELPS early days were not all smooth however.

Jim Mendonca, 31, the immediate past-chairman of HELP and a founding member recalls that HELP was "loosely organized" and got to the stage where it was "crumbling right into pieces."

The organizers regrouped, formed a a forerunner of steering committee the present Board of Directors - and

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established the position of Chairman in order t o achieve some centralized control of the various programs.

Since then, HELP has expanded t o the point where the present chairman, Paul Christian, expects some 150 volunteers t o sign up in the fall semester.

That number is surprisingly high when one considers the fact that active recruitment is virtually non-existent.

Volunteers man the registration line each semester and talk to interested students about HELP. One poster or descriptive pamphlet is circulated on campus about the same time. An occasional advertisement in one of the student campus publications rounds out the promotional aspects of what is probably the best organized and most popular student organization existing today at Guelph.

HELP Secretary, Anne Dietz, 19, a fourth semester Sociology student, estimates that better than 25 per cent of the volunteers join after hearing about the organization by word of mouth.

Patti Summers, 20, a second semester Drama major, is one such volunteer. "I joined because I heard about it, what people were doing and it appeared to be a good idea," she said. Miss Dietz herself joined because "I was fed up with doing nothing at University except attending lectures."

While the image one often associates with such a group is that of a coterie of dogooders magnanimously assisting the that is hardly the case downtrodden with HELP. The programs emphasize the student both as a member of the community and as a student. If students feel they can devote a few hours t o a project they are quickly put to work, but no student is asked to sacrifice his semester for the cause. In fact, the projects are planned so that they do not conflict with final exams.

In one respect, says Mr. Christian, being a student and a HELPER are identical situations, for both require

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"homework" - a little "creative and imaginative" thinking done outside of the project and the classroom.

He feels that involvement is the key t o HELP's success "the willingness of university students to become active in community affairs and t o show that they are responsible and involved." Sending in a dollar for a CARE package or saying "isn't that a shame" about something like Biafra isn't "really getting involved", he says.

As serious as the basic HELP philosophy is, enjoyment and fun are as much a part of the organization as is involvement.

The volunteers typically are "basically shy at first" according to Miss Dietz, but they soon warm up to the situations as they develop. Such as the group, complete with folksongs and guitars that went to a home for senior citizens only t o have the audience request several "golden goodies" from their own generation of hit songs. Allegedly, the audience sang loudly while the folksingers played close approximations of the tunes softly.

The elapsed time between a volunteer's joining HELP and finding himself, for example, on a makeshift stage picking at the notes of a Cole Porter tune, can be amazingly short.

As the volunteers sign up they are given their choice of projects. Unless a project involves work on a one-to-one basis, newcomers are soon pressed into service. Counselling work or projects dealing with emotionally disturbed individuals require an initial interview to determine if the volunteer is suited for that sort of project.

Co-ordinating all of the projects is the responsibility of HELP's Board of Directors, currently composed of ten students and seven resource personnel, the latter being drawn from the University and the community.

Glynne Gladstone, a Kitchener-Waterloo lawyer, presently is the only community representative on the Board. He defines

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HELPERS Paul Ruth (left) and Norma Taylor (right) join percussion section of weekly ragtime band program at a Guelph nursing home. his role as that of "a backup person for anyone who wants to seek advice".

He is deeply interested in young people and hopes that HELP might expand into working with an area of his concern referred cases from juvenile court on an individual basis.

He is also concerned with the lack of other community-based people on the Board.

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"You just can't find the people willing to devote the amount of time this requires," he says. "Being a resource person is not just a matter of attending one meeting a month."

Three of the original seven founders and current board members are still active with HELP: Father Whelan, Professor Hadwen and Mr. Mendonca. The Board's remaining resource members include the Provost's representative, Mr. George Harding; Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louise Colley; and Dr. E. M. Upton,

Department of Consumer Studies; and Mr. Gladstone.

During the spring semester, the Board oversaw six major projects which attracted 80 volunteers from the reduced summer student enrolment. The projects varied from the card parties at the Cambridge Lodge Nursing Home, t o tutoring high school students, to the highly successful program conducted at the Hillcrest Training School for Boys located near Guelph.

Ten volunteers go t o Hillcrest twice a week for baseball games, barbeques, dances and classes in fine art and sculpturing. Some of the boys are brought to the University t o swim in the Physical Education Building pool.

The Hillcrest School, established in 1958, is a maximum security training school operated by the Ontario Department of Correctional Services. Hillcrest Superintendent, Joseph Slaven told The Alumnus that the HELP project had been "nothing but satisfaction. They have

done a really good job here," he said.

The project has worked so well that it received mention in the Department's Annual Report. Mr. H. Garraway the Department's Training School Administrator said the program was "most successful" and that the Department feels the project is "a valuable part of the program at the school."

In addition to the many programs, HELP volunteers, with the assistance of a CBC film crew, found the time t o produce a film dealing with community programs that is now making the rounds of numerous high schools. They also hold an annual tag day to collect money for the meager $1,200 yearly budget which is augmented by occasional private donations.

A lack of money is one of HELP'S two shortcomings. The other is a scarcity of good cardplayers. From Fish to Bridge, those eye-shaded 80-year-olds across the table are tough to beat.

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Dr. Keith Ronald, far left, and migration study scientists: from left; Dr. R. J. Wensler, Dr. F. W. H. Beamish, Dr. R. C. Anderson, and Dr. J. C. George.

Below, the Elora Research Station.

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL AWARDS HALF-MILLION GRANT TO GUELPH'S ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT The University of Guelph has been awarded a $532,000 grant by the National Research Council of Canada to support research in the study of the physiological basis of animal migration. Research will be carried out in the Department of Zoology with Professor Keith Ronald as project leader.

The grant will be made over a five-year period. Subject to the availability of funds, the university will receive $217,000 in 1970-71. Subsequent annual payments will be $111,000, $88,000, $72,000 and $44,000 respectively. The funds will be made available under NRC's program of Negotiated Major Grants. This type of university assistance was initiated by the Council in 1967 t o assist universities to develop new or interdisciplinary research centres, particularly in fields relevant to the scientific, economic and resource development of Canada.

The University of Guelph's research program is expected t o shed new light on several aspects of the phenomenon of migration. The animals selected for investigation include parasitic nematodes, monarch butterfly, lamprey, harp seal and birds such as the red-winged blackbird and starling. These represent different taxonomic groups and, additionally, exhibit different patterns of migratory activity. In using these animals as models, it is hoped to obtain a better understanding of underlying unities in the general phenomenon of animal migration.

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ELORA RESEARCH STATION OPENS The opening of the Elora Research Station, June 22, adds greatly to the agricultural research facilities available to the University of Guelph. Officiating were the Honorable W. A. Stewart, Minister of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, and the Honorable J. R. Simonett, Minister of the Ontario Department of Public Works.

The 970 acre Station adds t o the facilities already in existence at the 600 acre Arkell Research Station and the 96 acre Preston Research Station. All three stations are owned by the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, and operated under contract by the University.

At the Elora Station, 845 acres of excellent soil and 125 acres of rough

pasture provide separate areas for research in Crops, Soils, Agrometerology, Roughland Management, Drainage, and the production of special field crops. The Dairy Cattle Centre, located on the farm, accommodates 300 dairy cattle, and the proposed Beef Cattle Centre will house both a cow herd and a feeding operation.

The headquarters building, now under construction, will provide facilities for crop and soil drying, crop threshing. servicing equipment, and storing equipment and supplies.

At the Arkell station, research is carried out on problems related to swine, poultry. agricultural engineering and apiculture.

At the Preston Station, studies are proceeding on fruit: vegetables: ornamentals; weed, insect and plant disease control; and agricultural engineering.

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SENATE RULES ON DISRUPTIONS The University Senate has approved the rewording of one of its bylaws to deal with disruptions from the Visitors' Gallery at Senate meetings. Meetings of the Senate are open to the public, with admission by ticket which must be obtained in advance from the Secretary of Senate.

The April 14 meeting of Senate had been disrupted by a group of students protesting events in the Sociology Department of the University.

The bylaw now reads: "If interference or disruption of Senate proceedings occurs by occupants of the Visitors' Gallery, the Chairman shall first call for order, and failing restoration, shall then order the visitor(s) causing the disruption to withdraw from the gallery; failing compliance with this order, the Chairman may cause the gallery to be cleared."

COMMITTEE TO STUDY DISPUTE In May the Senate established a special committee to investigate allegations of Improper conduct brought against the B.A. Board of Review by former Sociology Instructor, Miss L. E. Svans.

The charges, outlined in the May issue of the Guelph Alumnus, were reiterated

by Miss Evans after senators voted her permission to address Senate's May 12 meeting.

Miss Evans asked that the grading system be altered to ensure students receive grades faculty mean them to receive and that all grades she submitted last December be "recognized as valid and replaced on the record as the valid grades.','

"NOTES" AVAILABLE TO ALUMNI Notes on Agriculture, a periodical published by the Ontario Agricultural College, is available to all interested alumni. Write, giving full mailing address to: Co-ordinator of Agricultural Extension, Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph.

Nieuwenhuijze

Appointments Dr. A. Margaret Evans, associate professor, and a faculty member at the University of Guelph since 1965, has been appointed Chairman of the History Department.

Retiring as Chairman is Dr. W. Stanford Reid, who has held the position since 1965 and continues as a professor in the department.

Dr. Evans graduated in Honours English and History from the University of Western Ontario with first class honours, then took an M.A. in history, and a Ph.D. in history with a minor in English, at the University of Toronto. Besides receiving six different awards at Western, she attained such awards as the Alexander MacKenzie Fellowship in History, and a Canada Council pre-doctoral fe!lowship at the University of Toronto.

While professor of history and lecturer in English, at Waterloo University College from 1940 to 1945, she served concurrently as Dean of Women at the college.

She has also been an extension lecturer at Western and reference librarian in charge of organizing a collection of government documents at Waterloo from 1959 to 1963. In 1965 she was appointed to the University of Guelph's history department as assistant professor.

Dr. Christoffel A. 0. van Nieuwenhuijze of the Netherlands has been appointed Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He holds a D.Litt. degree from University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and since 1954 has been a professor of Sociology at the lnstitute of Social Studies, The Hague. He served as Director of Research at the lnstitute from 1960 - 1967. The new chairman has published a dozen books plus a two volume work, "The Sociology of the Middle East," currently in the press.

He served on the Mediterranean Social Sciences Research Council, becoming Director of Research in 1969. He was a consultant to the United Nations Arab States Conference on Social Aspects of Economic Development; and to a UNICEF Regional Seminar on Youth Problems held in Kuwait. He travelled to Rensselaerville, New York as a Strauss Fellow at the lnstitute of Man and Science.

Alumni enjoy picnic lunch during annual reunion day.

Alumni News Five hundred alumni and guests attended the official opening of the Physical Science Building on Alumni Day, June 20.

Dr. E. E. Stewart, Deputy Minister of University Affairs, opened the building, the seventh major building project t o be completed since the university was founded in 1964. Its comoletion ends the first phase of the growth of the University.

Construction of the $8 million building began late in 1967 and was completed for the 1969 fall semester. Throughout the planning stages, faculty members played an extensive role in determining the location, layouts and specifications of facilities. The Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and Statistics are housed in the building.

Elsewhere during Alumni Day, most years ending in "0" and "5" had reunions, and that annual highlight, the crockery auction, was its usual success under the voluble guidance of Gord Bennett, '43. A concert by the Guelph Concert Band, under the direction of John Randall, made things taste just a little better during the picnic lunch on the campus green near Mem Hall. The children's race competed for the attention of the kiddies with the psychedelic cannon in its paint of many colours.

A highlight of the O.A.C. Alumni Association annual meeting was the presentation to the University of the Cavouk portrait of Dr. 0. M. McConkey.

'17, by OAC Class '40. The portrait was accepted by Dr. W. C. Winegard. President of the University of Guelph.

M ~ l Greer, t '41, took over as President of the Association for the coming year

A t left, Dick Hilliard, president, OAC Class '40, presents portrait of Dr. McConkey to the University. Above, campus cannon attracts would-be buccaneers. from retiring President. Dr. W. H. Minshall, '33. The full slate of officers and directors for 1970-71 is as follows: Immediate Past President, W. H. Minshall, '33, London; Honorary President, Dean N. R. t Richards, '38, Guelph; F ~ r sVice-President, R. G. Bennett, '43, Islington; Second Vice-President, G. R. Greenlees, '62, Puslinch; Secretary-Treasurer, M. Freeman, '55, Guelph.

Directors: J. Alderman, '68, Port Credit; F. T. Cowan, '65, Toronto; J. Eccles, '40, Guelph; J. D. Fraser, '564, Streetsville; S. W. Holland, '63 ODH, Weston; G. W. Jackson, '49, Bradford; G. M. Johnston, '54, Brampton; J. Mayes, '69, Walkerton; H. G. MacLeod. '37. Weston; L. J. Ross, '54, Dresden; W. L. Teeple, '48,

Woodstock; W. D. Toombs, '68, St. George; C. Trivers, '67. Goderich; W. L. Whyte, '66A, Seaforth; R. Wilcox, '50, St. Catharines.

The presentation of a photographic portrait of Dr. McCready, by Yousuf Karsh, was the highlight of the annual meeting of the Macdonald Institute Alumnae Association. Mrs. Chris Hindson, PastPresident, presented the portrait to Dr. Wardlaw to be hung in the Institute.

A smaller photograph will be given to Dr. McCready when she returns from Ghana.

Miss Annette Yeager, '62, retiring President of the AssociatiAon welcomed alumnae to the campus. Miss Francis Larnpman, '54, is the new President of

the Association. Other officers and directors for 1970-71 are as follows: Honorary President. Dr. Janet Wardlaw; 1st Vice-President, Miss Rosemary Clark, '59, Guelph; 2nd Vice-President. Mrs. D. Hume (Jean Fuller), '64. Guelph; Secretary, Mrs. L. Macdougall (Grace Virtue), '35, Burlington; Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Lowry (Wanda Johnston), '55, Guel~h:members hi^ Convenor. ~ i s sJ:' Kingston, '68, ~ a k v i l l e ; Alumnae News Editors, Mrs. J. Snell (Leslie Good), '64, Guelph, and Mrs. G. Hedley (Margaret McKellar), '64, Guelph; and ex-officio directors: Mrs. G. Story (Anne Carney), '36, Burlington Branch President; and Mrs. T. Burnside.

'61, Guelph Branch President.

Dr. O.M. McConkey Dr. 0. M. McConkey, '17, one of the grand old men of the University. is dead. Dr. McConkey died on July 6, just 15 days after watching the presentation of his portrait to the University by Dick Hilliard, on behalf of the class of OAC '40.

Dr. McConkey retired from the Department of Field Husbandry in 1957 livein Fergus' McConkey is the former Louise Eleanor Hanna, Mac '27.

"His death is incredible to me," said Mr. Hilliard. "While it may not help much at the moment. I am thankful we were able to honor McCOnkey when we did. I know he was very happy that day."

Dean N. R. Richards, OAC, said "What I remember most, as a student, was Dr. McConkey's ability to stir the imagination in a classroom, he made you think. His work on pollution and resource use was years ahead of his time. He encouraged young people in agriculture to go on to graduate training at a time when very few were doing so. He can be regarded as one

of the real leaders in agriculture in the past quarter century."

McConkey was well-kn0wn for his work in forage crops. Just after

~",'~~16~~O:4 ,"~~~~F'~,";,"OStIY released by the Department Of Husbandry. They made a great impact on agriculture. Of his work in conservation and resources managemerit, Dr. ,-. E. Gamble, Head of the Department of Crop Science says: "Dr. McConkey was 25 to 30 years ahead of his time. Only now is there general recognition of the environmental dangers he warned us about a generation ago."

Dr. McConkey was born in 1891 in Cayley, Alberta. He entered OAC and was granted his B.S.A. in 1917. He fought in France during World War I in an artillery unit, spent a year as an agronomist at the Claresholm (Alberta) School of Agriculture, and he studied at the Univers~tyof Illinois, where he received h ~ sM.A. in 1922.

After five years with the Department of Field Husbandry at OAC, Dr. McConkey studied at Cambridge, England, received his Ph.D. in 1930, and returned to the Department of Field Husbandry until 1939. He served in England during World War II, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

After the war, Dr. McConkey went to China as a rehabilitation officer for the F,A.O., and returned to the Department of Field Husbandry in 1948, where he stayed until retirein 1957.

Dr. McConkey was recently awarded the Julian T. Crandall Conservation Award for ,.a valuable lifetime spent in research and teaching and creativity in the fields of plant breeding and conservation of natural resources."

Since 1966. Dr. McConkey has provided an annual scholarship of $200 to a deserving student of Crop Science.

Dr. McConkey was the Honorary President of Year '40, and a life member of the O.A.C. Alumni Association.

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ALUMNI ELECTED TO SENATE Three alumni have been elected to threeyear terms on Senate, beginning July 1, 1970. Mrs. D. M. (Marilyn Inglis) Robinson, Mac '55, Dr. W. D. Morrison, OAC '49, and Dr. George Fisher. OVC '44 were elected in a secret mail ballot, with ballots sent t o all alumni with the March issue of the Guelph Alumnus.

Mrs. Robinson is a homemaker and Vice-President of Summit Film Productions Ltd., Maplewood Farm, Hespeler. She was Co-Chairman of the Mac Alumnae Metro Toronto campaign for the Alumni Division of the Development Fund in 1966, and Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Alumnus for the past two years. A life member of the Macdonald lnstitute Alumnae Association, she is Class President of Mac '55 and a Class Agent for the Alma Mater Fund.

Dr. Morrison is Director of Nutrition and Research, Maple Leaf Mills Ltd.. Toronto.

He has been a member of the Agricultural Research lnstitute of Ontario since its inception, and has therefore been involved in a major portion of the agricultural research budget on campus since 1962. He is a charter member of the Ontario lnstitute of Agrologists and a life member of the O.A.C. Alumni Association.

He was a Vice-Chairman in the Toronto

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Division of the Development fund campaign.

Dr. Fisher is with the Regional Laboratory, Kernptville. He has worked in industry and as a Public Relations Officer with both the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and the Ontario Veterinary Association. He is a Past President of the C.V.M.A. and the P.E.I. Veterinary Association, an honorary member of the Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine and a member of five veterinary associations. A life member of the O.V.C. Alumni Association, he is the current editor of the OVC Alumni Bulletin. He was President of the O.V.C. Alumni Association for three years and a Charter Director of the University of Guelph Alumni Association.

ALMA MATER FUND PROVIDES NEW EQUIPMENT Guelph's fledgling arboretum has acquired a new 6-man "crew-cab" pickup truck and a used tractor with a front end loader with part of the funds it received from the 1969 Alma Mater Fund. This equipment is regarded as the bare essential t o begin work on the new arboretum.

Other Alma Mater Funds have been allocated t o various colleges for purchases

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of special equipment. OVC has acquired a Mcllvain Mechanical Tissue Chopper.

The tissue chopper will be used in the Department of Biomedical Sciences for use in pharmacology and other studies.

Macdonald lnstitute is using its funds t o equip a lecture room with visual aids.

This includes an "opascope", which projects pictures of opaque images, a daylight screen, a slide projector and blackout curtains.

Additional purchases will be reported as they occur.

VETERINARIAN APPOINTED TO BOARD OF GOVERNORS A North York veterinarian, Dr. John Wayne Smith OVC '62, of Thornhill Ontario has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the University, effective July 1, 1970.

Dr. Smith is a member of the University's Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council. He has been an active member of the Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine since he established his small animal practice in Willowdale in 1964.

Before that he practised in an animal hospital in Illinois for two years.

Dr. Smith is married and the father of four sons.

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

PRESIDENT: Mrs. W. A. (Dorothy Anderson) James, Mac '34.

SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT: P. W. Couse, OAC '46.

VICE-PRESIDENTS: Mrs. F. R. (Jean Keeler) Chapple, Mac '55; P. D. Ferguson, Well '68; P. M. Lrndley, OAC '57; Dr. V. C. R. Walker, OVC '47.

SECRETARY: Dr. M. D. Harlow, OVC '48.

TREASURER: J. J. Elmslie, Development Officer, University of Gueiph.

DIRECTORS: R. G. Bennett, OAC '43; Dr. Joan Budd, OVC '50; Mrs. B. W. (Eleanor Rose) Chambers. Mac '57: F. T. Cowan, OAC '65: T. R. Hrllrard. OAC '40; Mrs. M. S. (Lrnda Sully)

The Guelph Alumnus IS publrshed by the Department of Alumnr Affa~rsand Development, Unrversrty of Guelph.

The Edltorlal Committee is comprised of Editor---J. E. Bates, OAC '60, Alumnr Offrcer: Art Drrector-Prof.

K. E. Chamberlain: J. K. Babcock. OAC '54, Drrector of Alumnr Affalrs and Development; D. L. Waterston, Drrector of Informatron; D. W. Jose, OAC '49, Ass~stantDrrector of Informatron; Edltorral Assrstant-D. A. Bates. OAC '69, Assistant Alurnnl Offrcer.

Keith, Well '67; Mrs. D. J. (Jean Kellough) King, Mac '52; Dr. D. S. Macdonald, OVC '57; Helen M. McKercher. Mac '30; Julre A. Whelan, Well '68; Catherine G. M. Woodburn, Well '68.

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS: Dr. T. L. Jones, OVC '34, President, OVC Alumni Association; P. C. Matthews, Well '68, President.

Wellington College Alumni Association; Dr. W. H. Minshall, OAC '33, President, OAC Alumni Association; David Slnipson, President, University of Guelph Students' Union; Miss Annette Yeager, Mac '62, President, Macdonald lnstitute Alumnae Association; J. K. Babcock, OAC '54.

Director, Alumni Affairs and Development.

The Editorial Advlsory Board of the Universrty of Guelph Alumnr Assoctatton: Glenn Powell, OAC '62, Charrman; Dr. A. E. Austrn, Dept. of Englrsh; J. Ferrrs, Student: A. R. J. Marr, Well '68. Ex.Officro: J. K. Babcock, OAC '54 and Mrs. W. A. James. Mac '34.

Undelivered copies should be returned to Alumni House, Unrversrty of Guelph. Guelph, Ontarto, Canada.

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October 2

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October 17

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