UBC students launch

(rive against high fees

By DON FLOOD

The anti-fee campaign at UBC
is the first step in an ambitious
student program designed to im-
plement the principle of univer-
sal accessibility of post-secon-
dary education, As the matter
stands, approximately five per-
cent of the nation’s population
provides about 75 percent of the
students,

This situation represents what
students consider to be an intol-
erable inequality of opportunity,
the ultimate rectification of which
is envisaged by the removal ofall
social and financial barriers to
post-secondary education,

UBC’s present campaign is
specifically the result of an av-
erage increase of $56.00
bringing fees in the Arts faculty
to $457 a year. Student surveys,
which are still being conducted,
have already indicated that the
average undergraduate can no
longer finance his own education
by working in the summer, The

result is that unless a student
comes from a well-to-do home,
on graduation he faces society
with not only a degree but also
an accumulated debt of up to
several thousand dollars,

Discontent on the campus has
built up rapidly in the last few
years — in 1963 manifesting
itself in the “Back Mac” cam-
paign — yet the situation has only
worsened and students regrett-
ably find themselves with no al-
ternative to active protest,

The first step in the cam-
paign, the witholding of second
term fees at registration, ser-
ved a threefold purpose: it pub-
licized the student plight; it de-
prived the administration ofnor-
mally available funds; and it
assured students of a strong
bargaining position, Students
followed this up with the for-
mation of an Education Action
Program committee to plan the
campaign,

Strategy is based on escala-

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“Let them eat cake”

‘Should negotiate China,
India dispute’—Endicott

“There is‘a real danger of a
serious clash between China and
India that could gravely endanger
world peace,” Dr, James G, Endi-
cott, chairman of the Canadian
Peace Congress, said last week,

“The - whole border question
ought to be negotiated,” continued:
Dr, Endicott, “Instead of getting
involved in charges and counter-
charges of aggression the coun-
tries involved should look at the
realities of the situation,

“Surely between these two
great powers, both of whom are
members of the Bandung confer-
ence, a conference could take
place and settle the matter with-
out further bloodshed.”

Peking claims that India is
still in occupation of Chinese-
owned territory, including
$5,000 square miles south of the
McMahon Line, In its border

settlement with Burma a few
years ago, China accepted the
McMahon line as a final boun-
dary; in negotiations with India,
Peking has taken a different
stand,

“Latest developments on the
India - Pakistan- China border
raises the whole question of the.
need for clear thinking on all
sides on the border question,”
said Dr. Endicott,

“It can be argued that the
Chinese way of dealing with the
border dispute in 1962 was ill-
timed and had other, ideological
conditions, But India cannot
make a justifiable claim that the
McMahon-Ladakh territory is
Indian territory by virtue of in-
ternational law, The British
Empire never succeeded in leg-
alizing what they took by force,
‘The whole border question ought
to be negotiated,”

tion; with various tactics ranging
from negotiation, through demon-
stration and boycott, to the ulti-
mate possibility of withholding
second term fees; rather than
immediate coercive mass action
which will be used as a weapon
only if necessary.

Shortly after the formation
of the Education Action Pro-,
gram committee, students pre-
sented their case to the public
in a mass rally, This was im-
mediately countered by Dr, Mac-
Donald, in. an unprecedented
address, cautioning students that
the time is inappropriate to fight
fees, The next student move will

apparently be a referendum to

determine how far the main stu-
dent body is willing to go in the
protest,

At the moment, the situation on
campus appears to be ina crit-
ical phase, From here moyement
may either continue building
greater steam until it becomes
irreversible or it may lose the
little momentum it has so far
generated and coast to a quiet
halt, The decisive factor will

undoubtedly be the main student ~

body,

The majority of students have
not yet committed themselves
and the side which wins their
support; whether the forces of
procrastination, led by Dr, Mac-
Donald, or of progress, led by the
EAP, will ultimately win the
battle,

PROF.

LINUS

PAULIN

‘TWICE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER)

CHEMISTRY - 1954

SUBJECT

PEACE 1963

“Why the War in Vietnam Must Be Stopped’ |

TIME:

8:00 p.m. — Friday, October 8th

PLACE:

P.N.E. Grounds — Garden Auditorium

Free Admission

The above poster advertising the big rally on Vietnam next Friday at the PNE Go"
den Auditorium is being widely distributed. In addition to addressing this meeting:
Dr. Pauling is also giving a paper at the University of B.C. earlier that day-
Pauling will address a Voice of Women luncheon at West Vancouver's Capi

Gardens at 12:30 p.m.

COMMITTEE TO END THE WAR IN VIETNAM

Lt.-Cmdr, W.S.E. Morrison, a
former vice-president of the
Canadian Legion in B,C., and a
first vice-president of the Far-
mers’ Institute of Vancouver Is-
land, was nominated last Friday
as Communist candidate in the
Victoria federal constituency, He
was the unanimous choice of the
meeting,

In a speech accepting his nom-
ination, Morrison said that it
was necessary for the Canadian
ship of state to alter course in
an entirely new direction,

Making a strong bid for poli-
cies of peace, Morrison said that
Canada could really help world
peace by getting out of NATO,
staying out of the OAS and re-
moving nuclear weapons from
Canada,

Urging Canadian control over
natural resources and develop-
ment, Morrison remarked: “At
Campbell River recently, I signed
two papers signifying that while
passing through the extensive
forest domains of two U.S, com-
panies, I would not hold them
responsible for my safety, This
is Canada today,” he said,
pointing to the take-over of Can-
ada by the U.S, ‘

He called for the building of a
large merchant marine which
would provide work for the Vic-
toria yards and which could carry

Morrison to wage strong |
peace fight in Victoria

_the Communist Party has alway>

Canadian exports to the far cor-
ners of the world and give jobs
to Canadian seamen, He also
urged that U.S, fishing boats be
kept out of Canada’s 12-mile
limit,

In an interview with the Pacific
Tribune, Morrison said one of
the main factors which led him
to join the Communist Party in
1945 was his concern for main-
taining world peace.

“The whole complexion of war
has changed drastically in the
last 20 years, With the annilia-
tion of the world threatening in
a thermonuclear war, we can only
view it with horror.” He said

W. S. E. MORRISON

re: aign,
October 1, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag

sought and worked for worl
peace,

Morrison told the PT he bie
also deeply concerned about
gradual sellout of Canada’s bi
sources to the U,S,, and ee:
attention to the long strugs™ —
waged by the Communist P
for Canadian control and develop” |
ment ofnatural resources in a
ada, “This is a highly patri
struggle.” he said,

Morrison was a village com
missioner at Parksville on ae
couver Islant, where he lived!
some years before moviné Bi
West Vancouver, where he no
resides, His close associat i
with Victoria problems goes 3°”
over many years during his
time service in the navy;
afterwards,

In 1953 Morrison ran 28 ® |
Labor Progressive (now come
munist) Party candidate in a
mox-Alberni and polled 8
votes,

The nomination of morristl
has generated considerable *
terest in Victoria where ay
ex-naval officers have ar
been nominated, The SH#0 7
campaign for peace and
adian independence, whic
be the central theme of
son’s campaign, is expecté
attract wide attention acro
country in the federal elech”
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