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UBC hamstrung
by fund lack

Is the Social Credit government deliberately trying to hamstring

the University of British Columbia
necessary money for new buildings,
ing staff?

As the academic year opens, !
the Point Grev institution faces,
the makings of a crucial situation.
Enrolment is beginning to rise
again after a slump following a
postwar flood of veterans onto the
campus. University authorities
estimate that it will jump from its
present figure of under 6,000 to
10,000 in the next 10 years.

With a soaring enrolment in
prospect, the university faces the

need to replace much of its pre-
sent physical plant.

When ‘the veterans in their
thousands were knocking at the
University gates in 1945 and 1946,
UBC made a big effort to accomo-
date them. Several hundred ex-
army huts were moved the campus
and equipped as classroom, labor-
atories, offices and student resi-
dences. It was the idea of the
university heads that these build-
ings would tide them over until a
building program could make per-
manent structures available.

A start was made on the con-
struction—but many of the huts
are still in use and have seen 10
years’ service. They must be re-
placed before they fall down. In
addition, many of the so-called
semi-permanent buildings opened
in 1925 at the time of the move
from the Vancouver General out
to Point Grey, are nearing the
end of their usefulness.

But the building program has
ground to halt since the Socreds
were elected in 1952. Most
glaring example of broken prom- |
ises is the failure to go on with
the permanent Medical Sciences
building. Plans for it were al-
ready drawn in 1952 but not one
shovelful of earth has yet been

' turned for its foundation.

The Socreds have broken faith
with the university and the medi-
cal students. The previous admin-
istration made a commitment when
the- Medical Faculty started its
teaching that buildings would be
built as needed:

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The two-year delay has meant

by failing to provide it with the
more research and a bigger teach-

‘that medical students in their final

years are being taught in make-
shift quarters.

Position of university authorities
is made plain in the annual re- |
port of President. Norman Mac-
Kenzie. He states: ;

“We cannot ignore the criti-
cal situation which will develop
if we are unable to plan ahead
for these young people and if we
are unable to supply them with
the essential facilities they need
if they are to benefit from high-
er education.

“In large measure this is a finan-
cial problem and _ considerabl
sums of capital development musi
be made available to the univers
ity in the very near future.” 7

Obviously this kind of money
going to come only from the pry,
vincial government. And the
creds have not made one red ce
available for new capital develo:
ment at UBC since they took oft

‘Several of the backbenchers p
the Bennett government are ope”
ly hostile to the present education —
al system and to higher educatio?
in particular. If the universily
difficulties are any indication, the?
attitude is not without infiuencé
on the cabinet.

The vaunted pay-as-you-go pl?

of the Socreds works against UB;
too. Roads, bridges and public
institutions are all urgently need
ed-—and they’re vote-getters inl?
the bargain. “Frills,” as many
Premier Bennett’s followers a
fond of calling them, can wait. A
new buildings at the university
seem to be considered frills.

Another problem facing the
university is the fact that it *
not serving the rest of B.C. 4°
well as it serves the Greater Var~
couver area. Enrolment statis
tics show that Greater Vancou™
ver sends more than its share °
students to the Point Grey can®
pus. Many ‘out-of-town students
cannot meet the costs of boa!

ing for the session.
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Employment figures
reveal grim picture

OTTAWA

With only 60 percent of all workers in the civilian labor force
covered by the national employment Service, the figures relea

August 25 show a grim picture. The figures’ given must be taken 2

sizeable underestimation since they

omit from consideration two-fifths

: ° 1954
of the total labor force which was given as 5,556,000, as of July 2 Mie

The figures released jointly by
the federal department of labor
and the Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics, show unemployment as fol-
lows:

Atlantic region: 28,867 — an in-
crease of 6,575 over the same date
last year.

Quebec region: 83,750 — up 26,-
948.

Montreal region: 37,541 — an in-
crease of a thousand in the past
month and 17,259 more than the
same date last year.

Ontario region: 93,851 — an in-
crease of 47,209 over last year. In
June the figure had topped 100,-
000 as estimated at the time by the
Tribune.

Hamilton officially recorded 8-
777 applicants for jobs.

Toronto had 26,507 at July 22
— up 18,894 over last year.

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Windsor stands at 9,155, an in-

!erease of 6,355. .

The Lakehead reported 2,544 —

last year it. was 1,525.
Winnipeg showed 10,007 — 4?
CCR eee es pi
Edmonton had 5,231 — up 2,626.
Pacific region declared 27.3%
for #n increas of 5,985.

Vancouver’s figure was 15,657 —
or 4,159 over iast year.

The total for all Canada report

ed by NES at July 22, was 263,514

an increase of 97,630 over 1953 #
the same date.

But what happened among the

2,000,000 workers not covered 4
the Unemployment Insurance CO”

mission finds no estimate anywhere
in th NES figures.

The 263,000 seeking jobs reP”
resent 8.8 percent of the thr
million covered by NES. Taking
the same percentage for thos
not covered would add another
160,000 to the jobless total ae
which would put the figure ©
close to 450,000.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 10, 1954 — PAGE