University of Victoria - Tower Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

Page 21 text:

3 Campus Life was talking about sex Qthe New Moralityj , plays QWaiting for Godotj and movies QA Man For All Seasons or Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?j . It was discussing comic strips QPeanuts, The Wizard of Ia' and Li!! Abnefs treatment of Joan Baezj. It was girls with long hair and high boots. It was , juuuu .' Q 1 his - if OPLE N 4 'Y' Av-N . 5-ES2'A3'R U . . . grafitti, opposite-sex watching, social justice and student politicians boys with long hair and high boots. It was meditating on the ramifications for lack of ramificationsj of Twiggy, the bosomless, bottomless model who was sweeping America. Campus Life was the Tijuana Brass which poured out endlessly from UVic Radio fit was the only record they hadj . Campus Life was calling somebody Ubabyw or being called ubabyw yourself, in imitation of the radical movement in the U.S. QAS Adam Clayton Powell put it, '4Keep the faith, babyu In the same vein, Campus Life was talking about Hbeautifuli' men - meaning, of course, their souls. Campus Life was wondering whether the sign on the bulletin board: HTake a trip to Green Mountainw was advertising a ski outing or an LSD-pot party. Campus Life was looking at Playboy and using Playboy nudes to dress up dance notices on bulletin boards. 'LSounds like the decline of the Roman Empire? you say out there in Posterity-Land. Well, maybe. But don't judge too harshly, Posterity. Remember, the people you're judging are your mummsies and your daddsies. ,i ' rfsncotuwari .tgggam ,-, -N snzmg ' ifiwCiUN1CTI0N .. Q 'sl H 1 i ' ' ' ' iv , ..:, ,.., 1 TH L K Cixiizr' UI ll 0: P 'Y' '

Page 20 text:

Campus life was using Playboy nudes to dress up dance notices. . among the Apathists and lratists began to carry black umbrellas to shield them on the long, long walk from parking facilities to buildings and to mark them as college menf' Yetchers, on the other hand, refused to carry umbrellas for that very reason. Rather than be identihed with Apathists and lratists, they preferred to be soaked. This, too, was the era of grahtti or wall writing. Perhaps the best appeared on a SUB bulletin board during the dismissal hassle: GOD IS NOT DEAD - the Dean just didnt renew his contract? XVhic.h brings to mind the nuns. There were a lot of them. Or there seemed to be, anyway. Perhaps it was the black habit that made them stand out in any crowd. At any rate, even the rugby team could see them coming and adjust its language accordingly. The nuns were a good influence. Of course, some people didn't like to ask them what denomination they were, but once you got over the hurdle of asking them, things were all right. lf the nuns stood out the most, those who stood out the least were the Science People. They were there all right. The Registrar had their numbers to prove it. But nobody was ever really sure when he'd seen one. They came out in force, however, at Open House, and thats when all doubts about the existence of Science is-.. ..i Jin il1.ii?'e t 112252 People were disspelled. Perhaps to prove their reality, they set up multitudes of exhibits - including a gyrating nude to shock Little Old Ladies. Open House was an interesting experience for students as well as Little Old Ladies. The townspeople came to see what their taxes were being spent on, and many were appalled when they saw students putting their feet on taxpayer-paid-for tables. So what else was Campus Life?,' you ask out there in Posterity-Land. WVell, it was drinking beer and looking at comely young women for comely young men, if you happened to be a comely young woman yourself J. The favourite hangout of affluent students was The Snug in Oak Bay where the cheapest beer wm 50 cents a bottle, but for that 50 cents you got oodles of atmosphere Qphoney, of course, but atmosphere nonethelessj. For the less fortunate, Ingie-burgers were a frequent lunch or dinner substitute. And occasionally the SUB got a liquor licence, and you could combine drinking and opposite-sex-watching. lf you were a girl, living in residence might be part of Campus Life, and if it was, you started to identify with Audrey Hepburn in The Nunfs Story Qwhich was an old movie even in 1967 You also might have come to regard the inevitable, proliferating commissionaires as protectors of your virtue. Everybody else regarded them as a political force, slightly to the right of Adolf Hitler.

Page 22 text:

Nl:- ,T -6- 5-if 3 f -N'-' . Z L fnxxgss ' -' i. 'u 1, J W 'a The Non-Renewal Crisis Termination of the contracts of three professors who brought a different approach to education to the University of Victoria, rekindled a controversy during the second term which had repercussions all the way to Ottawa. Dr. Charles Tarlton, assistant professor in the Depart- ment of Political Science, and joseph S. Schwartz and Alan Mar kenxie, both of the English Department, all had their contracts terminated this year. All three were unorthodox lecturers who, according to many were among the best at the university. None were told the reasons for the non-renewal of their contracts. Hr. Tarlton appealed to the Canadian Association of I 'iiiw-rsity Vlifilf hers so that his professional reputation ffailil he 1 lf arf-d. The CLXUT could exert no pressure In have the df-f isions r'c-vwsecl as the university has a legal right to dismiss professors, but it could comment on the procedures. Mr. Schwartz appealed to the Presidential Appeal Committee, which was set up to handle grievances in such matters. Three other professors resigned in protest of the dismissals. Richard Gravil and Dr. Leighton G. Steele, both of the English Department and Jack Bush of the Philosophy Department, resigned publicly in order to disassociate themselves from the university. Dr. Malcolm G. Taylor refused to give any reasons for the non-renewals. He stressed that the reasons had nothing to do with Umoral turpitudeu or membership of some of the professors on the board of directors of the defunct Social Education Centre. He said evaluation is done on the basis of three categories: teaching, scholarship and other contributions to the university and community.