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

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49 W 4q,,,,,MM At the request of certain faculty members, President Late in March, Dr. Taylor promised to set up a Taylor called two Joint Faculty meetings where all committee of three faculty, to review the second term faculty could meet to discuss the affair. However many events and procedures used in firing. A report is faculty came away disillusioned because answers promised for early in the 1967-68 term. they had been Seeking were not provided' Despite the fact that often students were bluntly told, During the three months of appeals, meetings and in effect, to mind their own business, by many officials, speakeasies the offices of Dr. Taylor and other the press and even irate citizens on local hot-line radio administration figures were besieged by many students shows, many of the student body spent long hours who were sometimes emotionally upset by what had genuinely concerned about the meaning of education happened. and the future of UVic.

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Faithful to the motto, Rugby is a way of lifef' the eighty team members this year organized on a club basis. The UVic Rugby Football Club fielded the Vikings, the Norsemen and the Saxons teams in four leagues. The Senior club, the Vikings, Cleft and right bottom picturesj , played in both the Victoria first division and the Northwest Inter-Collegiate Con- ference. In the latter contest, their first time entered, the Vikings came away with a tie for third place. The Norsemen, senior seconds, played in the Victoria Second division, defending their 1965-66 championship. Unfortunately, the side finished out of the running- squeezed out of a tight race for fourth place. The Saxons, Qmiddle right picturej mainly first- and second-year students, were a new venture, playing in the just-formed BC. Junior Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association. The team, in its first year, placed second. During Twirp week, the teams combined for a bout against the girls from the Residences ftop picturej .