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

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withdrawal . . . of any student whose academic standing does not merit his return .... Early in lanuary with everyone present and accounted for. Lethargy had full control. Meanwhile. the athletes had heen calmed hy a vague piece of political machinery called the Ostrom Plan . hrainchild of MAD Boss lrirock Us ITUHI. The ilan called for S525 ier stu- l - l dent per year lor athletics and shunted responsihility for keeping the athletic hall rolling onto the shoulders of a new Director of Athletics who was to he aiwointed hy the Administration. l l . iaid hy them and res ionsihle to them. l . l LSE President Ed Pedersen hol- lered that the plan spelled death for Culture Un The Campus . hacked his holler with a S90 flyer called The CHC Times. For his pains. he got a hill for Silo and a rehellion from the LSE. Hut Pedersen wasn't heaten. Clsittle did he know that he was on the same side as the athletics in the struggle against Lethargyxl Sometime in lanu- ary he crept into Brock Hall in the dark of night and set the AMS mimeo- graph machines rolling off a manifesto threatening to hlackhall the Ostrom Plan unless AMS fees were iumped a dollar. An alert Lhyssey reporter seized a copy and rushed it into print. LSE rehelled again and Pedersen disowned the manifesto-to the great glee of Lethargy. Gym Pund Chairman hill Hag- gert hecame Campus Spirits next torch hearer. Haggert shocked the campus hy reneging on his previous stand that no direct contrihutions would he soli- cited from students. Said Haggert: All other plans have failed. All we can do now is call for a 53.43 pledge from each student. Students hollered hriefly. hecame intrigued hy the alliterating figures. and signed the pledge. Elections were in the wind hy late lanuary and forces of Campus Spirit hegan to write Lethargys ohituary. But still most of the spirit re- mained right where it had always heen -in the Georgia Tavern. 49

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,707 Lead a4!ma Jlftafefz, Sic. The year 1950-51 saw what students had hoped would be a struggle to the death between the two mythical giants, Campus Lethargy and Campus Spirit, whose ungainly duels have filled the columns of student newspapers and prompted pious utterances from stu- dent governors since the days of Fairview Shacks. Early in the term, would-be politicians, prompted by downtown newspapers with space on their hands. proclaimed victory for Campus Lethargy. The black-clad giant of gloom. they said, had left UBC so dispirited that even a challenge from Robin Hood Kin- dergarten would have to go unan- swered. Burly. unshaven athletes with long faces warned that the glory of UBC was a thing of the past. Football Coach Orville Burke fwho re- signed in favor of the lumber busi- ness shortly after! and Physical Ed- ucation Chief Bob Os- borne hinted that our contract with the Ever- green Conference might not be renewed. Administration sources and discourag- ed alums predicted that any endowments we might have expected Cnobody said where the endowments might have come from! would probably never materialize. Early in October, an enterprising downtown news- paper dumped thousands of papers bearing the head- line: Football May Go At UBC into the grandstand during a Thunderbirds-College of Puget Sound football game. From the student bleachers a cry of: We want gui Kickapoos help Bill Sparling and his committee stage antics during the campus spirit drive. Rabbit, above, ran around campus with members of club firing shot gun at it. football! We want Osborne! We want football! We want Osborne! filled the air. At the closing gun, 500 students stormed onto the field and carried the losing C42-75 'Birds trium- phantly off. Coach Burke dashed to the microphone and told the shouting crowd: Remember the motto of the university . . . it's up to you. If you want football . . . we'll give it to you. But still the crowd demanded Osborne. At length, soft- spoken six-foot Bob inched toward the mike. MAH I can say is that we're be- hind you . . . he told them. But that was enough. Within a week, pep meets, bon- fires, monster c a m p u s parades captured the imag- ination of Leth- argy's floating vote. It cost 15500. 'Hon- est Iohn MacKin- non winced and threatened to scream. The 15500 ballyhoo was supposed to reach a climax in a torchlight parade through the downtown streets . . . but busy fire marshalls, tipped off by a second downtown knewspaper, vetoed the stunt and the ballyhoo dipped and folded like a great blimp with a slow leak. , Quietly, efficiently, Lethargy gathered his scattered forces and by mid-November, aided and abetted by the Terrible Faculty Four Hundred and the chief Bogey Man, Christmas Exams , Lethargy was in full swing. fRegistrar Charlie Wood hinted sombrely: The University reserves the right . . . to request the 17 'J U 17 7 'U 'J c 0 4- c- c 0 0 4' -j .J J .J J ,J J J ual' U 48

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After wandering all over the glohe in past years. the Mardi Gras finally came home this year with a Totem Land theme. lioth gay and frowning totem poles disguised the posts in the Com- modore Caharet. creating a potlatch set- ting for the nights of january 18 and 19. as the Greelt Letter Societies pulled off another annual success. Charity came closer to home also as twoethirds of the proceeds were turned over to the War Memorial Gymnasium. The remaining third was given to the Community Chest, the chief recipient in the last four years. The committee of 18 Greeks, headed hy Io lean Iohnston and Iohnny Graham, was faced with an increase in costs and a decrease in student spending. Ticket chairman Frank Moore reported a turn- out of more than 1,700 students and THE MARDI GRAS friends in all to see the show and to dance until the wee small hours. Queen candidates from each of the nine sororities drew cheers and whistles. in what was claimed to he the hest selection of campus pulchritude in many years. Red-haired Ian McColl of Gamma Phi Beta won the title of Queen in a balloting that was close all the way. Crowning ceremonies were performed by UBC Presi- dent Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie, who also had the pleas- ure of the victory waltz that followed. Playing opposite her as King of the Mardi Gras was Phi Delta Theta's Pete Wtillqer, voted in at an ar' i'Winners of the best decorated table was Sigma Chi. Top: Queen of the two-day Greek Letter affair, Jan McCall, being escorted across the stage at the Commodore. Top of page 51 is Di Cox, choregrapher and soloist, and below, two braves fight it out. The all-men's chorus, which provided many a laugh and antic, are in the bottom picture. 50