University of British Columbia - Totem Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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, ' ' sl 31? yr W - - .... it WAD comprises a multitude of women's sports. Director of Intra- murals Carol McKinnon. a paid member. drew up schedules, saw that teams were placed on the field, and directed managers. Intra- murals Manager Clare Bowyer was responsible for publicity. In charge of faculty intramurals was Helen Bryan. Greatest blow to WAD plans was the scrapping of their whole pro- gram when the boys were unable to move from the old gym into the new one. Despite setbacks the year has been marked by improved gen- eral organization and increased ef- ficiency. The two basketball teams, the Thunderettes in the City B League, and the UBC Intermediate A team, have won most of their games and enjoyed a good chance of winning the provincial championships. At the Inter Collegiate Hockey Conference both UBC teams won all games over their rivals. Ornamental and speed swimming teams have been organized to com- pete locally. ak' 20.04. . fkeorganized by President Mimi Wright, WAD increased its intramural sports. Worked hand in hand with Ostrum to give students better athletic events. 32 Reorganization of the Women's Big Block Club as a club with a revised constitution has been one of the primary objectives of VVomen's Athletic President Mimi Wright. Last year the club was in the nature of an honorary society to which Big Block winners auto- matically belong. A series of functions ranging from the farcical fashion show following the Big Little Sister ban- quet to the more serious B.C. High School Conference were arranged ir i'Chaired by Sally Heard, Women's Under- graduate Society had one of the most successful years in history of campus. With WAD, they staged awards banquet in March. by a hard-working W.U.S. under Sally Heard. The Big Little Sister banquet, the women's equivalent to the frosh smoker, is annual party held for the freshettes. The Big Sisters each adopt a Little Sister from the frosh class, and escort her to the banquet, as well as provide her with a date for the Frosh Dance. After the banquet a mock fashion show was held in which the girls were made to wear outlandish costumes. Hi-links, the all girls' party held in the Brock in October, featured square dancing and skits produced by the different undergraduate societies. The Fashion Show, which clash- ed with the Engineers' March of Dimes, helped raise funds for the new women's residences. The fashions were supplied by Wood- wards, who erected a backdrop and chose coeds for modelling. Totem Queen Mary Taylor was crowned by Dr. MacKenzie at the WUS coed in Ianuary.

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, . ' i ' wa 'S Sf' Energetic staff of AMS office kept busy looking after student offices and business. Left to right: Barbara MacKenzie, receptionistp Doreen Scott, typistp Mavis Walton, bookkeeperp Betty Quick, who left staff in Decemberp and Norma Wiles, cashier. 04. Sfaff Cxecuferf cfeiaifa In order to leave council members free to formulate important policies and attend the occasional lecture, an extra staff must be taken on to carry out the large part of the routine office work. Apart from the publicized features of council activity such as the or- ganization of men's athletics, the drawing up of a budget and the control of clubs there are unglamorous de- wus, tails such as fil- ing, accounting. sales work, mak- ing out of cheques, bookkeeping and pacifying the H. B. MAUNSELL Business Manager public. In this respect the AMS office bears a similar- ity to downtown offices. There is the same thankless drudgery, the volumes of dull paper work. the petty annoyances, whining customers and anonymity. Students know treasurer lohn McKinnon from the Ubyssey editorials, they know Pedersen as the man who opposed the Ostrom Plan. they know lim Midwinter as the winner of B.C.'s Rhodes scholarship, but few are acquainted with the Council work horses. Central figure on the staff is Mr. H. B. Maunsell. the business manager. Genial and white-haired with a reassuring air of competence and friendliness his iob is to keep Council within the narrow confines of the budget drawn up by the AMS treasurer. Two years ago students staged a plebiscite to de- termine whether or not UBC needed a man to watch over its expenditures. Despite arguments of some of- ficials that he would be a hinderance to AMS autonomy stdents voted two to one in favor of employing him as manager. Mr. Maunsell soon found that student affairs were being handled well. Through his quiet, conscientious work he soon won the confidence of the council, and has received all possible co-operation in his work. Member of the staff who has been with the AMS longest is Mavis Waltciii. now in her fourth year as bookkeeper. As such she makes out cheques. looks after the accounts and student money. Cashier Norma 'Wiles works behind the wicket selling such oddments as pins. sweaters. dance tickets. pennants as well as acting as stenographer. Mrs. Doreen Scott of XVest Vancouver. formerly with MAD. is graduating this year to take a iob with VVestinghouse Electric. Her husband. Ray Scott, is graduating in Engineering. 31

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1.5.5. 'A'Continually being stormed by students and his committee, LSE President Ed Pederson, weathered storm with flying colors. Proved to be one of the most club conscious prexies LSE ever had. 'A' Violent opposition to the Ostroin Plan culminating in the UBC Times and finally ending in con- ciliation brought the LSE under Ed Pedersen a lion's share of Ubyssey publicity. The controversial Plan, drawn up by Men's Athletic Director Brock Ostrum, originally provided for 320,000 a year for four years, being directed towards men's athletics. In the face of opposition Ostrom lowered the amount to 318,000 a year with a 352,000 loan for the first year. Fearing crucifixion of clubs at the expense of athletics, Pedersen decid- ed to take action against the Plan. In the short time between the pub- lishing of the Plan and the next AMS meeting he mobilized a num- ber of students, and published the UBC Times, a sheet opposing the Plan, the attempt to rush it through and the financial difficul- ties involved. The Plan was tabled, and objec- tions to it eventually settled by an amendment of Pedersen's calling for a sliding scale grant to MAD, taking into account a possible drop in enrollment. This solution, Ped- ersen claimed, was the best deal possible for LSE clubs at the time. Biggest bugbear facing the much- criticized USC was Murray Martin- dale's ineffectual Discipline Com- mittee which, he claimed, might just as well not exist for all the good it does. Function of the Committee is to spot infractions of discipline in the Cat and the Brock. Technically the offender must be brought be- fore a court-martial and, if found guilty, may be fined as much as 555.00 However, the prohibitive cost of court-martials and the un- willingness of students to bring ac- tion against fellow students have made it impossible for the Commit- tee to enforce regulations. All they are able to do is to advise students on matters of conduct. The Committee is obligated to prevent drinking at AMS func- tions, but at large functions such as the Homecoming Ball, which over 3,000 attended, no effective measures were possible. Other activities coming under Cy McCuire's USC were the Blood Drive, which last year netted 2,500 pints, the investigation of cafeteria food prices with a resultant drop in prices, the organization of inter- faculty sports under Dick Penn, and a survey on the student cost of living carried out in cooperation with NFCUS. Constitutional change was recom- mended by USC who felt that the Council was representative of in- dividual fraternities and clubs rather than of students and faculties. 'A' 0 so 60 i'Although USC did not reach the heights that it had under Bill Haggert, USC success- fully organized Blood Drives, cost of living surveys, and cafeteria food prices. 33