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ONE OF SEVERAL options open to students who can‘t afford around campus were doing Thursday. Ubyssey reporter discovered, “ m a t t king photo

ICBC insurance for the coming year is to sel l your car as several however, most students will pay the new rates. (See story below.)

Most students. trying to pay ICBC,

only 25 per cent of the cars in student parking lots had 1976 decals on their licence plates. But very few cars bearing for sale signs were in sight.

In a series of interviews Thur- sday, almost all students said that they are either getting their parents to help them pay for their insurance or that they are not taking out full coverage,

New auto insurance rates, which come into effect March 1, have increased by 150 to 300 per cent over last year, with male drivers

. under 25 years of age being hit with the highest premiums.

absolutely no &son why I should have to pay these rates.”

And Ross Barlow, commerce 3, said his car is not worth the in- surance he has to pay on it. He said that while his 1964 Volkswagen has an estimated worth of $400 he pays $475 to the Insurance Corporation of B.C. for liability coverage only.

Perry Keller, arts 1, said he had to pursuade his father to help him pay over $600 for comprehensive insurance on his 1971 Toyota. “I have never had a ticket in my life” said Keller .

Only three students interviewed

Conventioneers will be paying more to use UBC’s student residences this summer.

Room rates will be up about 10.5 to 15per cent over last year, Totem ~

Park Convention Centre manager Michael Bowes said Thursday.

The convention centre provides accommodation for groups and individuals at the university’s three residences during the summer.

Student residence fees will rise by between 15 and 17 per cent next year, but the increases include the price of food, which has, risen .faster than the price of room.

BOW= said adult rates for Gage residence would be $10.50 a day, up one dollar from last year. Rateifor Gage lowrise suites are also up one ’

dollar this year a t $21 a day for adults.

Totem Park and Place Vanier single room rates for adults are up $1.25 from last year to $9.75 a day.

~ Bowes said the rates for food services are $7 a day.

Last summer UBC lost money on conventions because fewer people than expected attended con- ventions held at UBC. Last sum- mer’s major convention was the thirteenth Pacific Science Congress, which drew little more than half the expected number of delegates.

The Ubyssey learned Monday that students would pay between 15.5 and 17 per cent more this year to stay in residence. Last year student residence fees were in- creased by 10.6 per cent after the provincial gov6rnment ruled that the residences were covered under the rent ceiling.

The board of governors asked last year for an exemption from the ceiling but was overruled. This year, however, the rent review commission ruled that the revenues are not covered under the ceiling.

Residence fees a t Simon Fraser University will rise between 16 and 25 per cent as a result of a decision by- that university’s board.

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‘Rent proposals steep’ 1. By MARCUS GEE

Some UBC residence students can’t afford the 15 to 17 per cent rent increases housing director Michael Davis wants them to pay next year, a Ubyssey survey discovered Wednesday.

And most of those who think they can afford the increases say they could only by lowering their standard of living. -.

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Students denounced the in- creases as “unjust,” “sick” and “pretty bad.” Most said the university should not force students to pay 15 to 17 per cent because off-campus rent increases are limited to 10.6 per cent.

But Gerald Algier, Gage residence liaison committee head, had nothing to say about the proposed rent increases. “I really

couldn’t say anything right now. We are still looking at the budget.”

Algier told The Ubyssey Feb. 11 he would oppose any rent increase above 10.6per cent, but Wednesday he refused to comment.

But many students appeared angered at the proposed increases. Bruce Ross, forestry 2, was highly critical.

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Increases ‘out of line’ From page 1 . “I am not pleased. I wish there “It’s like car insurance. Most

“Students can’t afford that was something we could do about people complain but they can pay. much, especially With high ICBC it. Jobs and accommodation are I know few students who have rates.” hard to get.” honest financial problems.”

Ross said the university should subsidize student residence dwellers by keeping the rent in- creases below the 10.6 per cent provincial rent ceilings and. run- ning at a deficit. He said the provinqial government should absorb the loss so students can afford to attend university.

“The government is already subsidizing 88 per cent of our

BlomkGist said the government should amend the Landlord and Tenant Act to cover residences.

Joan Wasylik, arts 3, also said the university should keep rent increases under the 10.6 per cent ceiling.

“I think residences should be subsidized. I don’t think it’s fair they should be exempted (from the

Waddell said it would be unfair to subsidize student housing because that would give students a special privilege above other tenants.

“It’s not fair to subsidize residence housing. If you do that you are being put under different regulations than other people.”

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Bargaining review nixed

Belshaw mo By HEATHER WALKER

Senate decided at its last meeting it does not have the power to review collective bargaining agreements at the university.

Anthropology prof Cyril Belshaw proposed at senate’s Feb. 18 meeting that all collective agreements be reviewed by senate’s budget committee before signing, so the committee could advise the administration on possible academic implications of the settlements.

However, senate did not pass the

Pool fund delayed by contusion

A campaign to raise money for the $4.7 million UBC Aquatic Centre is in danger^ of getting its expense account mixed up with its list of donations received.

Doug Aldridge, the $17,000-a- . year head fund raiser for the pool

said Thursday a $6,000 fund appeal to Vancouver residents has been delayed, necessitating ads in two local newspapers, at a cost of $400.

Nearly 350 students began canvassing residents of Vancouver in late January, who live west of

. Granville, after each resident was mailed a circular asking for financial support for the pool.

The campaign has raised $48,085 so far, and the goal for the cam- paign is $1.3 million. Students, the federal and provincial govern- ments and the UBC administration are providing the other $3.4 million for the pool, -which currently is under construction.

“Fifty grand is not bad for one month’s effort,” Aldridge said, “but we must increase the level of intake in the next few months.”

Each student canvasser is covering two or three sections of the west side of Vancouver, which was divided into 750 sections.

Aldridge said the students didn’t actually ask for money but simply provided a gentle reminder to back up the mailed appeals.

Included in the mailed appeals which cost 6,000, was a com- plimentary pass to the un- completed pool, but many people did not receive the circulars because of delays in the mails.

This delay means that Aldridge will take out half-page ads in the West Side Courier and the Wester News, two local newspapers.

The ads will cost a total of $400.

lti 0 motion, ruling that collective bargaining agreements were “.beyond the purview” jurisdiction of senate, as they were primarily financial matters. Senate is responsible for academic decisions, and the board of governors makes financial decisions.

Belshaw said Thursday he has no immediate plans to bring the motion or another motion which also failed to get senate approval up at senate again.

“But its a perennial issue and it won’t die a natural death. The debate will continue until. it’s resolved,” Belshaw said.

In his other motion Belshaw proposed that the senate budget committee report to senate an- nually, and tell senate how much money the board has allocated for academic programs approved by senate. .

Belshaw said he was concerned that semte did not have enough financial information to make the best possible decisions.

For example, when we recom- mend a new program to the board of governors, we don’t always have all the information about the cost of the program,” he said.

“You can’t compare the validity of an academic program strictly on its merits.

“You may have a number of programs, and you can’t always tell which proposal should have priority.

ns fail “For example, one faculty may

have a proposal which merely involves a chance in what they’re doing, but they can do it with existing staff.

“Another program might cost a million dollars. Or you may have two programs which are going to cost money, but one of them is .more urgent than the next, and then the more urgent one should have priority.”

Belshaw said all this information was not always available to senate, particularly information related to costs of programs.

He said the senate’s curriculum committee might be given some financial information on proposed new programs, but did not per- sonally know if thi.s was the case.

Curriculum committee chair- man Ron Shearer said the com- mittee does rece:ive information about the probable costs of com- mittees, but does not use the in- formation in evaluating the programs. I

“Weevaluate these programs on WHAT IS THIS OBJECT? First person to come to Ubyssey offices, “mat t king photo

their academic merits,” he said. SUB 241K, with correct answer wins a special prize. Contest should Shearer said the cost estimates, be of particular appeal to psychology major as the sculpture has a

were given to the senate’s budget -Freudian appeal. Physical plant employees may not enter. committee, which “looks at the costs when it works out what it will propose to the president on the university’s The budget budget.” committee was Plebs to view UBC established jast spring under the By LEN MacKAVE Universities Act to advise the This year, as happens once administration pr’esident on the every three years, those massive preparation of the university iron gates on Blanca will slowly budget. creak open to let the outside world

partially see how this half lives.

Senator speaks out Open House ’76, slated for March‘ 5-6, is entirely the work of the students and facultv of UBC.

Gabriel Gedak, student senator representing the dentistry faculty, says he is unhappy that successfuk instructors who aren’t so good at research are penalized by the university.

He says he wants to use his term in senate to help students and in- structors hurt by the current tenure and promotiqn system.

But in an interview Thursday, Gedak said he doesn’t want to make any fundamental changes at UBC .

Such changes would include student membership on tenure committees.

“If you give students complete power - there’s a lot of radicals around - if they have complete control, it (the university) will go to pot,” he said.

Gedak mentioned improved teaching evaluation questionnaires and student meetings with deans and senior administrators as

possible solutions, and then pointed out their pitfalls in Larger faculties.

He said quentionnaires and meetings work in dentistry, one of the smallest faculties, but he said the teaching evaluations don’t “have any real influence” in faculties such as science.

And when he was in science, Gedak said, on one occasion when he wanted to see the dean he was quickly shunted to an assistant. “I didn’t know who the dean was,” he ‘ said.

But his orientation is to become a dentist (dentists make an average salary of $35,000 a year, he said) and he looks with disdain on the fate of arts and science students who he said get a degree and nothing else.

“You go for years in arts,” he said. “What can you do with it? It doesn’t lead you anywhere.”

But Gedak admitted “I really have no idea” of how to solve the tenure and promotion problem, the one he says is the most serious for UBC students.

According to organizek the event offers the public, alumni and future students a chance to see some of UBC’s activities, including a variety of various clubs on campus and, of course, academic activities.

“We’ve really .got something for everyone this year,” says Doug Malyuk, head of public relations for Open House ’76.

“Open House ‘76 isn’t the ad- ministration’s way of justifying the public’s taxes. The event is held so that the general community may see exactly what we’re doing out here.”

Malyuk said people will be able to find out things they never knew happened out here. . I t will also increase awareness among students and faculty currently attending UBC, he said.

“For example, a first-year student in the arts faculty may have no idea in which direction he’s heading in his academic life. Open House ’76 will have something for that person.”

Among ‘the many formal ac-

AFTER .READING favorite paper, The Ubyssey, student pores through boring Vancouver morning paper completely by‘ 11 volunteer field photo relations and ither w0rk iS done

during relaxing moment in Sedgewick library. Reminder t o al l students that The Ubvssev Dublishes for students. one more month so get your articles, notices and opinions in now.

, , . In addition to printed in-

formation produced by the Open House ’76 committee, various shopping centres and display signs in ,Vancouver will soon carry in- formation about the event.

UBC students trained in first-aid will be stationed at various first- aid posts around campus to back up to health services.

A babysitting service will be provided by Phrateres, a women’s social club and the Gears are in charge of organizing the parking and traffic. Free tour buses will be taking people to and from the recently-opened TRIUMF (Tri- University Meson Facility) project.

Generally, a co-operative effort is being exhibited by students, faculty and all people involved with ODen House ’76. CBC Radio will b e on hand for the event to broadcast some of the more in- teresting events from a campus location. ,Students fmm high schools from all over B.C. are going to be bused in to see the goings-on.

All over UBC, the wheels are starting to turn in earnest in preparation for Open House ‘76.

And the line-ups haven’t even started yet . . .

Rec UBC . to survive cuts The Recreation UBC program

next year will not suffer any major changes or program cutbacks, despite the abolition of the $5 fee, program co-ordinator Ed Gautschi said Thursday.

The administration whl take over the payment of the program funding which was derived from the student recreation fees. Last year about $14,000 was paid by about 3,000 student members.

The decision to absorb the part of the funding paid by student was made in a board of governors qeeting in September.

Board member. Rick Mcrray said Thursday that the reason behind this change was a motion brought forward in the meeting stating that because stildents contribute to the construction cost of most of the sport centres cn campus, they should not have to pay to use them.

Gautschi said the program wiifi cost more next year than at present. Faculty and staff will continue to pay a $10 f e e to join the program, he said.

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Adieu NDU Pat McGeer has been so preoccupied with running, the

Insurance Corporation of B.C. into the ground that he hasn't spent much time on his other - and much more important - portfolio, that of education minister. Consequently, it is impossible to examine any Social Credit education policies.

Unless, of cwrse- you want to criticize, a lack of education policy. That vacuum may be killing Notre Dame University in Nelson.

Unl ike o ther B.C. universities, NDU was a privately-operated campus, until it was taken over by the NDP because i ts former operators could no longer maintain it. It was the NDP's original intention to make NDU a public university, like the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and UBC.

Last year, apart from i t s grant to the three public universities, the government gave NDU an outright grant of $1.8 million dollars - 73 per cent of NDU's budget - to allow it to continue operating until the end of this year.

This year, NDU is supposed to come under the jurisdiction of the Universities Council, the co-ordinating council which allocates funds from the universities grant to the public universities.

But council chairman William Armstrong has said he doesn't expect very much money for the universities this year. "So far I haven't heard any encouraging noises about university funding generally," he said.

What that seems to indicate is that unless UVic, SFU and UBC take budget cuts, NDU is left out. That is not a very probable course of events. NDU is being threatened with closure.

That. is a big deal. NDU has only about 500 students, and about 150 employees, so it might'not sound big. But putting 150 people out of work is going to depress the economy of the whole Nelson area.

The students are either going to have to come out to the .coast - which they m,ay not be able, or wish, to do, or they will not receive a university education.

For NDU-bound students to get a university education on the coast would be expensive, both in terms of money and social upheaval.

Whenever a university or college opens anywhere, the government trumpets the news for all i t s worth. But they are threatening a 25-year-old institution with closure, and aren't saying a word.

It's time the Socreds let the people of Nelson, and B.C., know what their intentions are.

T H E U B Y S S E Y Friday, February 27, 1976

"Well gee . . . I see no reason to keep a university in the boondocks. I mean, look a t our premier . . . he's a grade 10 dropout!" t

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I might add, though, only one distributor has written to me of- fering his services to meet the demand of canners registering their requirements. I have passed on all those that were made known to me, and respecffully suggest that those readers who are in- terested in canning lids for the coming season make their needs known to?

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Prisoners Our chapter of the Jaycees is

located behind the walls of the state penitentiary and the mem- bership is composed entirely d men incarcerated a t this facility.

We recently initiated a new project called A Brighter Day, which we would like you to help us make a success.

There are a great number of men here who do not have friends or relatives on the outside with whom they may correspond. Our program is designed to fill a void in their lives and brighten their day each day a t mail call.

Below are several names of men

who would appreciate someone to write to and correspond with.

Larry Dry, 90836, age 24 Rocky Brand, 91353, age 28 Kenneth Harwell, 90962, age 22 Ben Tullis, 88238, age 33 Albert Clayton, 83376, age 25 Gerald Conaway, 91085, age 27 P.O. Box 97, McAlester, Oklahoma. Thank you for helping us help

someone here have a brighter day. George Smith

project chairman, 85633

Woodlands The ' recent statements by

Gunnar Dybwad regarding con- ditions at Woodlands school raise some disturbing questions that must be answered. The defence of Woodlands also raises some doubts and supports the obvious need for an independent public in- vestigation to be undertaken to determine the real truth.

Both parents and the community have the right to know what Dybwad was looking at that caused him to make the remarks.

Dybwad made mention of the Berger Commission and its recommendations. If the rights of children are to have any meaning for those who must live a t Woodlands, then we must know what the conditions are and ensure that they meet thesame standards for any child in the community.

No government has the right to exempt itself from the respon- sibility of protecting these citizens simply because they are helpless.

We were pleased to note human resources minister Bill ~ Vander Zalm's interest in fenovating Woodlands, however, we hope he is aware that physical reconstruction is not enough.

The root of the issue we wish to address is the quality of life for persons living within the walls of the institution. We would propose toward achieving this end that ' smaller facilities be created within the community in order to provide a more humane environment.

Needless to say, while Woodlands stands we support the upgrading of the quality of life in the institution.

student association school of social work

Thanks We a t t he Kinsmen

Rehabilitation Foundation would like to thank publicly the following university groups for their work in

making the 1976 Mothers' March successful.

Campus fraternities: Alpha Delta Phi Delta Kappa Epsilon Psi Upsilon Sigma %hi Beta Theta Phi Latter Day Saints Association Lutheran Student Movement Panhellenic House Phratares rehab med undergrad society

Sigma Phi engineering frater- nity

It is through their efforts that we can continue to provide services for the physically disabled of B.C.

Carol Ann Rule area supervisor

Kinsmen foundation

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1978 Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary a d review. The Ubyssey's editorial offices are located in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301; Sports, 228-2305; Advertising, 228-3977.

Editor: Gary Coull "Let's put out a newspaper," yelled Gary Coull. "Qr else." added

Doug Rushton. Sue Vohanka and Ralph Maurer told the two autocrats to drop dead. "Where's Chris Gainor and Heather Walker?" asked Nancy Southam. "I know." giggled Marcus Gee. Meanwhile, Bill Tieleman, Gregg Thompsoh.' Mark "Crestfallen" Buckshon, Susan Alexander and Len MacKave grabbed telephones and started asking nasty questions as Paisley Woodward, Dave Morton, Ian Morton, Merri lee Robson. Susan Borys and Bruce Baugh attacked typewriters. Dave Wilkinson expertly inked a cartoon while Doug Field, Peter "Bible Thumper" Cumrnings and Matt King ran about town in search of page one art. In the back offices, Bob Diotte. Jean Randall, John lnce and Greg Strong were stabbed in the back by Mark Lepitre and Bob Rayfield. Who wil l lead this smoothly functioning newsgathering organization next year? Only t h e shadows kflow.

Hellyer This is to announce my can-

didacy for editor of The Ubyssey. I feel I am qualified for several reasons.

1) I have a lot of experience dealing with people.

2) Since I am quite mobile I could keep tabs on what is hap- pening, news wise, over a wide area.

3) I have friends in high places. I hope the Ubyssey staff will

support me in my bid for the editorship. If they do not the consequences could be hellish.

Thank you. Paul Hellyer

journalist

After the deluge of letters earlier in the sear, we are now getting low ,again.- Remember, you-only have one.month left to clearly enunciate your views to the campus com- munity before The Ubyssey ceases another glorious year of publication.

The Ubyssey welcomes letters from all readers.

Letters should be signed and typed.

Pen names will be used when the writer's real name is also included for our information in the letter or when valid reasons for anonymity are given.

Although an effort is made to publish all letters received, The Ubyssey reserves the right tcr edit letters for reasons of brevity, legality, grammar or taste.

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Georgia Straight turns to eonsumer By GREG STRONG

The Georgia Straight is ad- vertised as the last “underground newspaper in Canada,” but it has become a consumer product.

“The whole term underground is obsolete and doesn’t have any meaning said Straight editor John Cuff in an interview Friday.

He said the Straight is trying to broaden its scope and get away from the “negative associations of an underground press.”

The Georgia Straight is a Van- couver weekly newspaper first published on May 5, 1967. The founders had hoped to provide an alternative voice to the Vancouver Sun establishment line. The first issue cost $150 to print and all the 15 cent copies were sold in the streets.

The paper’s publisher Dan McLeod, said the first issue came out when “the whole Hippie thing started happening, the so-called hippie .movement or psychedelic trip.”

McLeod said the paper had tried to offer an alternative to the mass market media. The poets and writers involved in the original DaDer were Dolitical activists.

seized copies as soon as they were printed. The paper was being sold by street vendors who received a nickel from every 15 cent copy and in desperation about police harassment, they gave most of the 6 0 , O O O copies away.

This marked the beginnihg of a long series of legal battles between the Straight and the Vancouver courts. Brought against the paper were several thousand dollars worth of obscenity charges for nudity in cartoons and the use of obscene nighties, $1,500 for criminal liability and a $2,000 fine for counselling people to cultivate marijuana.

But the management at the ,Georgia Straight are now de- emphasizing the controversial nature of the paper, preferring to call it an alternative newspaper. Cuff said the paper is changing with the times and abandoning the old “dogmatic, rhetorical, narrative and a narrow-minded political stance.”

What is this alternative view promoted by the Georgia Straight?

Cuff claimed that part of the alternative view was to provide a

forum to promote new ideas. Actually, the management of the

Straight has remained relatively unchanged during the eight years it has been in operation. The publisher Dan McLeod, for example, has stayed in the position that he took when the paper was founded.

It also remains to be seen how much they are open to new ideas. In 1971, the Georgia Straight’s offices were temporarily taken over by a women’s group. When a split developed among the Straight’s s ta f f in 1972, regarding the .direction of the paper, the office was once more occupied, this time by a “marxist” group.

Both times, control of the paper returned to the same founding group which weathered these changes as they had so many others.

McLeod said the Straight was the only Vancouver paper that took gay advertisements, this being part of a social change toward sex role definitions.

However, the stories in the Georgia Straight are often sen-

heivily c o n c k e d with the anti: Vietnam war movement, fighting higher food pricesand interested in an alternative to the Sun’s leisure magazine.

The organizers of the newspaper knew nothing about the operation. of a publication or of journalism. The oidy professional advice they got was from then Ubyssey editor John Kelsey , who took a small role in the development of the Georgia Straight.

green and it showed, but as we went along people who dropped out of the Sun joined us,” said McLeod. We were determined to publish.”

The sixth issue of the Georgia Straight was banned in September by mayor Tom Campbell creating the most critical period in the paper’s history. The newspaper became illegal after Campbell revoked its license and police

“At the beginning, we were .

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sational, with descriptive accounts of murderers or interviews with male strippers. These stories don’t provide a social direction McLeod claims the paper provides.

Feature Stories often lack unity of focus. The January issue with its feature stories on Cajun cock- fighting, the CRTC hearings and the old Carnegie library is just one issue where stories seem to have been chosen at random, then ap- proached from a personal per- spec tive .

The Straight places heavy emphasis on music reviews and is advertised as the “most com- prehensive and colorful en- tertainment, this side of a certain famous bi-weekly.” Is the Straight then claiming to be a Canadian version of the Rolling Stone and is

that their alternative view and social direction?

Cuff denied the Straight is an imitation of the Rolling Stone. “No, I don’t think that’s our direction and it’s not a valid comparison.”

If one goes beyond the ab- straction of a e so-called “alter- nate view” and social directions, the Georgia Straight is a small operation tightly controlled by its editor and publisher.

Their stories are often sen- sational and geared fer the youth market in much the same manner as the Rolling Stone caters to a certain special audience.

The Georgia Straight may have been started as a dissension against the established newspaper combines, but is now a product groomed for a distinctive market.

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Frothy's shorted

By JOHN INCE This interview with Allan Fotheringham

was conducted before he was axed as senior editor of the Sun. Fotheringham's present status at the Sun is unclear. He has been offered the job of associate editor, but no one is sure what this job entails.

There is great speculation as to why western Canada's most controversial, and most celebrated media-man has been "re- classified." It seems clear that Frothy has alienated his boss Stuart Keate, the Sun's publisher. There are differing views on the causes of that alienation.

Some say that there was a personality conflict between the two, with Keate an- noyed at the amount of public attention Fotheringham. has been receiving on election night television, on the banquet circuit, on hot-line talk shows. Keate's cherished role as the official spokesman of the Sun is threatened by ,Fotheringham's popularity. (Thatecho of public opinion, The Ubyssey, sought out Frothy for an in-. terview, not Stuart Keate.)

Others say that the real reason for Fotheringham's fall from grace is that he is pointing the Sun in new directions. As the following interview shows, Fotheringham thinks the traditional approach to news reporting needs substantial change. He believes there must be more interpretation of the news, more analysis of background facts, less reliance on "official" news

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sources. This challenges the traditionalists concept of objectivity and threatens their position in maintaining the status quo of society.

And, finally, some argue that Frothy's troubles with the Sun stem simply from the fact that he is a progressive reformist in a nest of Liberal WASPs. His recent attacks on the Liberal god, Pierre Trudeau, his favourable treatment of Dave Barrett, and his sharp jabs at the ruling elite, must have produced some fidgetting and nervousness in the boardrooms of the Sun. ,

In spite of Fotheringham's relationship with the chieftains of the Sun, Fotheringham has a very secure position in Canada's media. His column in the Sun is the most popular feature in the paper. He regularly contributes to Maclean's and writes for a variety of other publications. He has been offered jobs in other- important newspapers, such as the Toronto Star.

Why is Fotheringham so popular? There are a variety of reasons.

First, Frothy has a brilliant literary style. At times he is almost poetic. His language is rich in metaphor and simile, concise, and free of academic pedantry. For these reasons the column is entertaining.

Secondly, Frothy concentrates on per- sonality. He takes pot-shots a t the powerful, and devastates them in a sentence. To the average Joethisis great fun. The bombastic politicians, conspiring business leaders and mindless union hacks, all pay for their prominence.

Fotheringham realizes (as do the publishers bf People magazine) that the public feeds on personality. This is the decade of the spectator. And the substance of what we watch is becoming unimportant, we are just interested in the players. Fotheringham is cashing in on this.

Frothy's columns rarely discuss a real issue. The issue is only relevant if it is clothed in personality. Only on very rare occasions will he tackle a particular issue, and make a point which is divorced from a personality. Thus even though his columns are entertaining and fun to read, they are essentially superficial. The reader is left with nothing tangible. And outside of at- tacking or praising particular individuals, Frothy never really ha2 to take a stand on mything. In this way he can operate as the star columnist of an establishment

Friday, February 27, 1976

.the press in L C .

Often what occurs behind the scenes at Pacific Press is more interesting (or, to some more discouraging) than what ap- pears in the papers produced a t 2250 Granville.

Take, for example, what happened Monday morning, Feb. 16.

A printer, armed with a knife, cut a four inch by three inch piece of the Sun’s page four out and replaced it with a new piece. It happened between the time the early edition of the Sun appeared (about 11 a.m.) and the time the home edition appeared (about 2 p.m.).

It was the masthead, that small area of page four that claims the paper ~ is

~ “politically independent” and lists the senior personnel of the paper.

One-name, Allan Fotheringham’s, was missing after the change.

One position, senior editor, was also missing. Fotheringham and David Ablett had been listed as senior editors, but now, with a deft flick of the wrist, the printer’s work revealed that Ablett had become editor of the editorial pages and Fotheringham a . . . what?

Any reader who tried to find an ex- planation of the change in the newspaper of that day, or any following days, would have searched in vain.

Sun publisher Stuart Keate, however, did let the staff in on the secret, but, as usual, in the language of a man who can do prac- tically whatever he wants with .the paper, and knows it.

A memo to the Sun’s staff appeared on the bulletin board late the same morning. It immediately attracted a massive audience, but the reviews were not good.

Keate reiterated what the masthead change spelled out, and said Fotheringham, in Ottawa to cover the Conservative party canvention, had been offered “reclassification” as associate editor and was “considering other options in the media.”

No reasons, no explanation. A typical Keate memo. .)

Fotheringham was in shit, of course, but how deep and why, nobody knew for sure. (Except, perhaps, Fotheringham and Keate.) that, however, did not prevent the staff members from immediately forming groups to speculate on the “an- nouncement,” which saddened and disgusted many and bored the few who have long since given up caring about anything but quitting time and pay cheques.

Why saddened? Because wnen Fotheringham was appointed senior editor last May, many hoped that western Canada’s bastion of Liberal adoration and

mostly dull and uninspired news coverage would change.

Shortly after^ his appointment, Fotheringham said: “A hole will appear in the ceiling, light will shine through and birds will sing.” A typical wry Foth observation then, a sick joke now. He would not say publicly then what power he had, what plans he had or what changes, if .any, he was contemplating. He was simply an “advisor to the publisher,” he said.

Privately, however, he admitted he was really not too sure of the implications of his appointment, but promised observers would note achange in the Sun within a year at the earliest, two years at the latest.

He was wrong - it took less than a year. What happened? What had one of

Canada’s best columnists and political observers done wrong?

Two possible reasons.have surfaced from the long and fervent discussions that have taken place since Feb. 16. One is that Fotheringham, writing in a Liberal newspaper, had shat upon that party and its leader just once too often in his column of Feb. 7. In that column, Fotheringham tried unsuccessfully to conceal his rancor that prime minister Pierre Trudeau had refused, during a week long public relations tour of B.C., to be interviewed by Foth.

Theotherreason, related to the column, is that the Sun’s higher-ups, including Keate and R. S. Malone, head of FP Publications, which owns the Sun, did not think Fotheringham, as senior editor had any right to expect an interview with the prime minister or to complain about the denial of that alleged right.

There is one other possibility. In true Sun style, Fotheringham’s original promotion to senior editor had never-been explained to Sun staffers. His duties were never detailed, neither was his power or what he could do with it (if indeed it existed).

The only concrete action that can be directly attributed to Fotheringham was the rehiring of John Sawatsky to work in the Sun’s Ottawa bureau.

Sawatsky is a young reporter who joined the Sun a few years ago and quickly en- deared himself to Foth and Sun management types. He singlehandedly established the Sun’s energy beat, becoming, through his own initiative and harcf work,’ the reporter who covered and wrote most, if not all, of the Sun’s stories on energy. He established extensive and im- portant contacts in the energy field then, a year and a half ago, quit the paper to work for one of them as a public relations person.

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was never offered to other Sun staffers, many of whom could and would have taken it.

Aside from that, all Foth did was cut back the frequency of his column - not sur- prising, since he had been complaining that he thought he was “burned out” as a columnist and needed a rest.

And what did he do with all that spare time? For one thing, he recently started to write a regular column in the fortnightly Maclean’s magazine.. (Job offers from Macleiiin’s and the Toronto Star are two of the prominent “other options” Fotheringham is mulling over.)

So maybe the corporate heavies who run the Sun were miffed because their new senior editor wasn’t doing much of anything for the paper and wanted to give their star a slap on the wrist. It’s more likely, however, that Foth wasn’t up to much within the Sun because Keate and his cronies were not a t all prepared to let Fotheringham do anything drastic with the comfortable money-making machine the Sun happens to be. That Trudeau’s visit to B.C. this month was

nothing more than a blatant attempt to flog the Liberal party is undeniable. That’s okay, unless it is painted as such in a newspaper whose publisher is so ga ga about the Liberal establishment he invited Trudeau to lunch during the 1974 federal campaign, then rushed down to his 250,000 circulation printing press and detailed what Mrs. Keate tempted the prime minister’s palate with. Just what the readers were dying to know, right?

Fotheringham’s Feb. 7 column spoke of the “dishonest nature of the prime ministerial tour” and the “media fake game.” For the Sun, that’s removing the glove - Fotheringham might as well have categorized that tour as “a fucking disgrace.”

The scenario of Keate reading that and shitting his expensive pants is quite credible. Although Keate rarely interferes in the day-to-day operation of his newspaper, his presence constantly looms. He is never mentioned by name when he does make specific requests - it is always “the publisher wants this story written” or, “the publisher wants this article presented in such and such a manner.”

Sometimes, Keate doesn’t have tQ come through with specific requests - his un- derlings just know how to handle the situation. The newspaper business isn’t all that different from other businesses - there are certain employees who make it their business to do things they know the publisher would like.)

And Fotheringham has not been spared from the scrutiny of “the publisher.” In the summer of 1974, Keate “killed” an entire

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Well, W s really not quife like fhaf By DOUG RUSHTON

Some people call them the morning and evening editions of Pacific Press.

That’s because, depending on the time of day, one can go to that company at 2250 Granville in Vancauver and buy copies of two different newspapers. One is usually a lot bigger and not quite as right wing as the other, but they cost the same.

They are the Vancouver Sun and the Province, Vancouver’s leading, and only, daily newspapers.

“What’s going on?” you say. “How come I can get two different newspapers a t the same point of publication?”

You wouldn’t be the first to ask that question. Thegovernment of Canada, acting on your behalf, heard about it back in 1957. And so, under the provisions of the Com- bines Investigation Act, a restrictive trade practices commission took a look at Pacific Press Ltd., which owns and operates the Sun and the Province.

That commission completed its in- vestigation Aug. 16, 1960. Almost 16 years later, the situation remains essentially the same - the Sun and the Province were the only daily newspapers published in Van- couver then and they still are now.

Why? The date is June 15, 1957. The Herald,

Vancouver’s morning newspaper since 1933, produces its last issue. Two days later, a Monday morning, the Province, formerly an evening paper, appears on the doorsteps of those who used to receive the Herald or the Province in the evening.

The other evening newspaper, the Sun, now has unopposed control of the evening newspaper field. Its former competitor, the Province, now has unopposed control of the morning newspaper field.

Both papers are now printed on the same. presses.

To explain the arrangement, still in effect today, it is necessary to go back to 1946. In the beginning of that year, the three above- mentioned newspapers were being published in Vancouver. Each was in- dependently owned and operated. .

The Province was by far the biggest, and richest, paper. The Sun was a struggling second and the Herald a pathetic third. Then, on June 6,1946, the Province was shut down by a strike. The strike did not end until November, 1949, although the paper ceased publication foronly eight weeks. It managed to survive by assembling scab labor from across Canada. The scabsditerally lived in the Province’s plant for 1-1/2 years, producing the paper.

The strike had disastrous effects for the Province - 35,000 subscribers shifted to the Sun, making the latter the largest cir- culation paper. The position has never been, and probably will never be reversed.

The shift in respective number of sub- scribers is not the most important economic consideration, for it is advertising revenue that makes or breaks’ a newspaper, as the commission’s report pointed out:

“A very large proportion of its (a newspaper’s) revenue is derived from advertising and the amount of advertising which will be placed in it depends to a great extent not on its circulation considered by itself, but onits circulation relative to that of other newspapers in the same area. Even if a n.ewspaper is able to maintain a relatively constant circulation, if a competing newspaper is able to secure a larger cir- culation, it will tend to attract advertising revenue to itself a t the expense of the first newspaper. If the disparity in circulation becomes great enough, the first newspaper is likely to be forced out of the field.

“. . .the point is that the circulation of a particular newspaper cannot be considered in isolation - the important thing is how that circulation compares with the cir- culation of competing newspapers in the same area.”

The figures reveal the dismal truth: Circulation, March, 1946 June, 1957

Sun 98,304 198,048 Province 124,443 122,721

Sun $ 757,538 $2,452;578 Province $1,054,714 $1,528,448

The Herald, the poor old Herald, mean- while, was little more than a joke, so much

Revenue, 1945 Revenue, 1956

so that the Sun bought it in April, 1951 solely to use its newsprint, which was in short supply at the time, and sold it in February, 1952, when the newsprint supply increased. Begun as a co-operative of newspaper people in the dirty thirties, it was in the hands of the Thompson Company as it dwindled into insignificance in the mid 50s.

The Province actually lost money in seven of the years between 1945 and 1956. (Even today, losing money is by no means an unfamiliar event for the Province.)

It was tough on the Province, dropping from first to second place, for the anti-labor reputation it acquired and the tendency of advertisers to greatly favor the paper with larger and increasing circulation were starting to do it in.

011 top of that, the Sun began to expand in a big way, buying newer and better presses and increasing its capacity. But the Province, was not completely on its own. It was part of the Southam chain of newspapers, even today, one of the largest in Canada.

Evidence was given at the commission’s hearings that in those years - the early to mid ’50s- Southam was expanding its other newspaper operations across Canada - new presses, bigger presses, presses capable of printing color (so important for advertising revenue). But the Province? Nothing, nothing, that is, except the purchase. of a plot of land in 1956.

Why didn’t Southam expand its Province operation? Southam representatives testified that they didn’t think it would be reasonable given the Province’s revenue- producing record. But they also admitted they knew that if they didn’t do anything, the Province would go under.

However, the Province was not about to give up -easily after the drastic losses that resulted from the strike of 1946. The two papers became heavily involved in what capitalists call competition, the backbone of the capitalist system, right?

A. W. Moscarella, publisher of the Province a t the time, put it this way: “We were at one another’s throats all day long. . . .”

Both papers began extensive and ex- pensive campaigns to ,win (or keep) sub- scribers: contests, promotions, giveaways, even (in the Province’s .case) reduced ad- vertising rates. In terms of cost per thousand circulation, the Province was spending about 50 per cent more than the Sun.

It didn’t work. The Province’s circulation did increase somewhat, but not by as much as the Sun’s. During the time of this intense competition for subscribers, the Sun could afford to, and used, bigger and better promotional gimmicks. (Can you remember the last time either paper tried the big hype? )

This expenditure disturbed the publishers of both papers somewhat, because it was costing a lot of money to compete. So Moscarella sat down with Sun publisher Don Cromie to talk about it.

Moscarella: “The first discussion I had with Mr. Cromie must have been a t least I would say about around 1953 or 1954. At that time we were both engaged in a very ex- pensive promotional activity, and each of us was cancelling out what the other fellow was trying to do.”

They both knew, of course, that ’the morning paper, the Herald, would soon be non-existent. Cromie suggested that the Province become the morning paper and the Sun stay the evening paper.

Moscarella: “I said that sounds alright providing we reverse the situation, that we go into the evening field and he (Cromie) go into the morning field. Of course, he laughed that off, nothing doing, his was the largest paper and he should have the choice of the field .in which he should publish.”

End of discussion. Remember that at this time both papers

were competing like crazy for the biggest piece of the evening paper pie. But com- petition, the alleged mainstay of the capitalist system, just wasn’t getting them anywhere.

The Cromie-Moscarella conversation indicates the seriousness with which they regarded competition. The idea of remaining as completely independent

competitors, with the Province going into the morning field, was more or less casually rejected. This competition stuff was ob- viously a pain in the neck.

Something else had to be dreamed up. The perfect solution, of course, was amalgamation, where each could, on the surface, continue to be competitors, with none of the pitfalls that nasty old com- petition seems to inject into the system, especially when both parties aren’t too keen on the pure competition idea in the first place.

Southam bought the Herald June 15, 1957 (for $260,000) and immediately sold it to Pacific Press. The agreement, of course, I

was negotiated long before that. At the commission’s hearings, Southam’s St. Clair Balfour admitted that before Southam bought the Herald it had been arranged that Pacific Press would in turn buy the assets of the Herald.

The Pacific Press agreement was entered into May 24, 1957. Southam and the Sun both agreed to sell their plant and equipment to Pacific Press and each bought exactly half of Pacific Press.

The Province, on which Southam was not prepared to spend money to upgrade its plant equipment when it was a completely independent newspaper, paid $3,850,000. (Southam estimated it would have had to spend $4.5 million on an independent Province to obtain a plant with the capacity of the Sun’s.)

Everybody that works for the Sun, Province or mechanical departments that produce both papers are actually employees of Pacific Press. Southam, which owns the Province, owns half of Pacific Press, and gets half its profits. FP Publications, which owns the Sun, also owns half of Pacific Press, and gets the other half of the profits.

The .preamble of the Pacific Press agreement states, among other things, that the arrangement was made as a means “to maintain the existing quality, character and personality of each of the said newspapers and independence, freedom and autonomy in the publishing thereof respectively. . . .”

Shortly before the amalgamation actually ‘took place, the Sun’s Cromie had the gall to publish this statement in his newspaper:

“I believe that our alternative (amalgamation) is as practical and con- scientious as we can devise. It ensures a healthy measure of competition. It escapes an impending, wasteful struggle whose goal would have been the elimination of com- petition.”

Earlier in the same statement, Cromie said: “. . . this struggle would involve two new plants costing about $18 million fighting for a market that should sustain only half that much capital and attendant operating costs .”

.So what he was saying is that there was a need for two newspapers in Vancouver, but as two completely independent operations, because that cost too much.

Now the question comes up: why did the Sun, profitable, expanding and with a bright future, enter into this agreement, whereby the profits of a successful growing newspaper would be combined with the probable losses of a not-so-successful paper and divided between the two?

The commission asked Cromie this and he, with a straight face, replied: “. . . we did not like to take the gamble that we would be the ones forced out by some cir- cumstances.” When asked if he thought it would be a profitable venture, Cromie an- swered: “I think in time it will be.”

Well, he’s right in a way. Both parties are making money out of it. The only problem is that it is the Sun that is producing most of the money.

And what happened after the amalgamation in June 1957? -In the period between that date and December, 1960 the Province lost money 25 of the 30 months. In the same period, the Province’s circulation dropped from 122,721 to 106,435. The Sun’s went from 198,045 to 211,930.

Mr. Cromie, to say the least, was an op- timist.

The commission concluded that “failing an arrangement to underwrite the Province, sooner or later the conditions of the

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News By MARCUS GEE

Nobody can say that corporate chains a re always bad. Look a t all the good McDonald’s has done for the world.

But when chains dominate something as influential as newspapers, as they do in B.C.,.we had better start worrying.

At this writing there is only one independent daily newspaper left in B.C., the New Westminster Columbian. All- the others are owned by one of four powerful

. chains: Southam, FP, Thomson and Sterling.

FP and Southam own all four big metropolitan dailies in the province - the power they exert is examined elsewhere in this issue.

Thomson and Sterling dominate “ a completely different market:

small town dailies. Thomson B.C. Newspapers, part of the in- ternational newspaper empire run by Lord Thomsdn of Fleet, owns five B.C. dailies. Sterling Fpblications, child of David Radler and two partners, owns six.

Together they hold a virtual monopoly on the dissemination of printed news in B.C.’s interior.

That the ownership of this most persuasive media lies in the hands of so few is, in itself, frightening.’ The potential is always present for a small group to mold the opinions of many.

Yet there is no evidence either Thomson or Sterling forces its papers to push a certain editorial line. In fact .most interior rags enjoy a ~ f a i r amount of autonomy from their owners.

Then why are B.C.’s interior papers so uniformly dull and uninspired? Why do they rely on wire st?rvices for 90 per cent of their editorial copy? Why do they so rarely investigate local issues beyond a ‘superficial level? . Part of the answer can be found in the subtle effects of chain owfiership.

While the rare independent publisher tries to make his or her

the community, the owners of Thomson and Sterling don’t really give a damn as long a s their papers make money.

Roy Thomson once said, “I am in the business of making money and I buy more newspapers in order to make more money to buy more newspapers to makemore money to buy more newspapers. . . .”

Sterling vice-president John Quell also said the chain buys newspapers to make money.

But Quell said in an interview Sterling’s main objectives are to supply employment for the newspaper industry and to provide a service to the communities where Sterling papers publish.

Quell said Sterling provides a service to the community because local papers “grow” after the chain buys them.

“To make the business grow is the objective. It can’t help but grow if it is doing its job.

“We usually try to make the paper more efficient. We want a return on our money.”

But when asked if Sterling was committed to improving the quality of its papers Quell was equivocal. He said it is good for the

grows in circulation under Sterling’s guidance but the content of the paper is the local publisher’s business.

In theory, chains have a great ability to improve the editorial content of their papers because of

Profits could be ploughed back into use to hire extra staff for an un- derstaffed paper or used to hire extra reporters while others do investigative pieces.

Unfortunately profits are more often ,used to. build circulation or buy more papers. A special senate committee, set up in 1969 under

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chains dominate B.C. press Thomson group was not doing Gay told The Ubyssey that he enough to improve its newspapers. frequently discusses the content of

“We believe the evidence is the paper with Sterling executives. overwhelming, for instance that “This keeps a pretty close monitor the Thomson chain is doing an on the quality of the newspaper,” inadequate job for its readers in he said. terms of the profits it earns.” But Gay hastened to add that

The committee also found the Sterling does not dictate what Thomson papers exhibited appears in the paper. “numbing journalistic con- Iris Christison, publisher of the formity.” Prince Rupert .Times, said she

The attitude of the Thomson discusses the editorial opinions of chain is crystalized by a remark the Times with Sterling proprietor Roy Thomson made to journalist David Radler. Douglas Fisher when Fisher asked “We discuss the general quality him why he did not run an Ottawa of the paper. He wants good news. columnist in the Port Arthur News- He does discuss our editorial Chronicle, given the high interest opinions but each paper has its own about federal politics in the area. opinions.”

“Frankly,” Thomson replied, That’s the publishers’ side, but a “what would be the point of it. I reporter for the Cranbrook Daily wouldn’t sell one more paper in the Townsman had another story. The market area.” reporter said Gterling has a much

This tightfisted, hardware store greater influence than the mentality is bound to affect the publishers were letting on. quality of Thomson’s B.C. papers, “Sterling’s presence is known. whether or not the head office in There a re certain things they Toronto meddles directly with its would like the paper to do . . . papers’ editorial policies. certain things as far as editorial

its papers complete editorial in- The reporter said the Townsman dependence. His claim that all its is never commanded to write papers a re editorially independent specific stories or editorials. In- becomes dubious when one takes stead the paper receives into account that every local “suggestions” from Sterling publisher is appointed by the management. chain. “We are never forced into it. You

Thomson publishers and may get a letter saying why don’t newspaper staff are told that if you do a story on this .or an they are good they will be moved editorial on that.” up the corporateladder. “Thomson Thomson executives never newspapers benefit from the discuss the quality of its ability of the Thomson Group to newspaper with the Kamloops provide attractive career Sentinel, publisher Dick Laidlaw prospects to promising editorial told The Ubyssey. and business talent for promotion Publishers of Thomson papers within the Thomson Group,” a all said the chain has no effect on Thomson prospectus states. their newspaper’s content.

This means if publishers scrimp Kamloops Sentinel publisher and save - inevitably at the ex- Dick Laidlaw said he never pense of editorial quality - and discusses the quality of the paper turn a neat profit for the chain they with Thomson executives. But he will be rewarded by a promotion. said the Thomson chain is con-

Some independence. cerned “daily” with the quality of Sterling, based in North Van- its newspapers.

cower, apparently monitors what He called the Thomson Group appears in its papers much more one of the best chains in North closely than does Thomson. America.

Penticton Herald editor Harvey Laidlaw said the Davey com-

Though Thomson claims to give policy.”

mittee’s conclusions about the Thomson chain are wrong. He called the committee’s statement that the Thomson papers are characterized by “numbing journalistic conformity,” untrue.

But the chain newspapers in B.C. do conform in at least one way: none of them want to rock the boat.

The role of the press in any community has always been to provide critical coverage of local i syes and to act as a watchdog of

paper tries to reflect what happens in the community. He said the paper makes no attempt to. in- stigate change in the community.

“There are lots of things you could eomplain about but in respect for the community leaders we can’t jump on their backs. Especially when the federal government is, trying to legislate more socialism.”

Vernon News publisher Bruce Rowland has similar oDinions-r

governments.

fulfills this roleadequately. In fact to what is happening in most are ‘Ontent to act as spec- Vernon. We are not simply here to tators to the news, neglecting their and shake things.,, The duty to investigate the impact Of Vernon News, like the Sentinel, is a events and decisions. The majority Thornson paper. fill their papers with cheerleader stories about local events and That these two publishers should

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about his paper’s role. None of the B.C. Interior papers “1 think our real function here is

projects. This is partly the fault of the

chains for not encouraging more in-depth reporting. but it is also the fault of the local publishers and editors who let the news slide by unexamined.

Laidlaw typifies this passive attitude to the news. He compared the Sentinel to a mirror, saying the

have such similar views about the press is probably more a reflection of their backgrounds in the small town press than their allegiance to the same chain. Eht their per- spectives and those of their papers are anachronistic and they reflect how little the chains have done to bring in modern, or even com- petent journalism to the Interior.

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Victoria p r e s s By NANCY SOUTHAM

Both Victoria newspapers - The Daily Colonist and The Daily Times - are struggling to survive in the aftermath of a six-month strike that closed down their press in the winter of 1973.

If they fail the papers’ owner, FP Publications, will probably merge them into a single daily paper, eliminating the competition vital to a healthy press.

The merger would have a drastic effect on Victoria readers, used to having a choice of editorial viewpoints and news coverage.

The strike, which lasted from December 1 until the end of May, 1974, was the result of a walkout by 21 members of the printing pressmen’s union. The dispute between the union and management was over job security in the face of technological change. Three hundred and twenty em- ployees of both papers were af- fected by the walkout.

Both newspapers are published by Victoria Press which is owned by the FP (Free Press) newspaper chain, FP also owns or controls eight other dailies in Canada. It is a private company and is the largest of all the Canadian newspaper groups in terms of circulation. It has owned Victoria Press since 1959.

During the strike the union staff of Victoria Press published a tri- weekly edition, The Victoria Ex- press, with a circulation of 40,000. For 15 cents a copy, the Victoria residents kept in touch with local issues. .

Needless to say, both the Van- couver dailies, the Sun and the Province, enjoyed a wider cir- culation in the Victoria area during the strike.

In order to remain afloat, Vic- toria Press had to decide. between laying off employees or closing down one paper. In the e n 4 a 34 per cent wage increase over two years was agreed upon. It was the highest negotiated rate for reporters anywhere in Canada.

To balance the increase, the price of the Saturday i s p e of the Times and the Sunday issue of the Colonist were increased-from 20 cents to 30 cents, and 45 employees were laid off. Some employees went. into early retirement while many of the younger people went to other papers.

Since January 1, a ‘trial agreement’ is in effect a t both papers to see if they can continue to publish despite the increases. The agteement runs until the end of June.

Times general manager Jack Melville said the m.ain purpose of

the agreement is to “preserve the two newspapers, and to remain on sound financial footing.”

Asked what will happen after the trial period is over, Melville said, “The end of June remains to be seen. I cannot speculate, because only one month has passed since the agreement went into effect. But we are doing this because neither the union nor the employees wanted to see the two papers merge.”

The working arrangement between FP and Victoria Press seems to be fairly loose. Each paper is a ‘subsidiary’ of FP; but editorial content and policy is left to the discretion of the editors.

The difference in opinion bet- ween the two papers was clearly evident during the last provincial election ?hen the Times sup- ported the NDP, while the Colonist backed the Socreds.

In their .preelection editorial titled “A Mandate for David Barrett,” the Times said their “reluctant decision” to support the NDP was based on “the political future of this province, not next month or next year, but a decade from hence.”

The Times is known to be a “small ‘1’ ” liberal newspaper, with strong leanings towards the Liberal and Conservative parties.

Ad &axes -hit mags . By JEAN RANDALL

The House of Commons has passed new legislation under the Income Tax Act which will have a marked effect on the magazine industry in Canada.

Bill c-58 will remove the privilege of tax exemptions from the cost of advertising that has been available to American owned magazines in Canada.

Time Canada is the magazine which will be the hardest hit by this new bill. This magazine has a Canadian circulation of about 650,000, and was more popular with national advertisers than its competing Canadian magazines.

Don Ladkin, the Western Ad- vertising Representative for Macleans magazine said that the reason why national advertisers sold their ads to American owned

..publications was that their cheaper editorial costs resulted in lower prices.

The format of Time Canada is the same as the American edition.

~ The magazine, with its well established circulation in the U S . was able to amass a large enough profit so that it could afford to reproduce the same materia1 in Canada at a cheaper rate.

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not speak to the Rotary Club, who have no public relations officers. This must change. The Reporter’s View column in the newspaper is an example of a new approach to newspaper reporting. PF: What do you think of jour- nalism schools? F: I suppose you cannot be har- med by a journalism school, but I really don’t think that is the way to .go about it. I think the way to go about it is to go to university and get a good general background: economics, political science, law. You have to have technical knowledge but this can be acquired by working for a newspaper, learning the nuts and bolts. People come out of journalist schools who are technically proficient but they don’t have a broad enough background and they don’t seem to have flair.

Time Incorporated had a large capital base to boost Canadian circulation, and make the magazine more appealing to ad- vertisers.

Time Canada president Stephen LaRue announced after the bill’s passage that the current issue of Time Canada will be the last, and the U.S. edition will be sold here starting next week.

Time had put up a vigorous battle against Bill C-58, and also against the Cullen Rule announced by National Revenue Minister J.S.G. Cullen last October.

One condition of Bill C-58 is that any magazine printed in Canada cannot be “substantially the same as” a foreign periodical and the additional Cullen rule interprets this to mean “more than 80 per -cent different.”

Time Canada has put a vigorous fight against the passage of this bill and in a recent editorial, said “no government should have the power to decide what may be published in any newspaper or magazine.” They also claim that “the cost of first-class foreign, coverage on the scale of Time is beyond the resources of any publication the Canadian market can support.”

..Ladkin feels that this legjslation. will be of great benefit to Canadians. Maclean’s has already invested $2,000,000 to set up bureaus around the world, staffed with Canadian reporters, so that when Maclean’s evolves into more of an international n.ews magazine, the pews will have a Canadian slant, rather than the familiar American slant evident in Time Canada.

Another Canadian magazine that will benefit by the !.egislation will be the new B.C. publication “Westworld,” coming out this year. It will be a weekend sup- plement to the smaller newspapers around B.C. and Ladkin .claims that the new magazine would not have a market if Canadian ad- vertisers were still able to do business with Time Canada.

The obvious purpose of this legislation is to protect and en- courage Canadian culture, and though we might expect Canadian magazines in the U.S. to lose their right of tax exemptions for ad- vertising, ‘this prospect is of. little importance compared to the growth , potential afforded Canadian magazines in our country.

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struggZes But realizing that neither of those parties would form the next government, they chose the NDP over the “conglomeration of turncoats and greedy op- portunists’’ - Socreds. Out of the four major dailies, (Sun, Province, Colonist, and Times), it was the only one which supported the Barrett regime.

The Colonist’s support, on the other hand, was predictable. Although they classify themselves as an ‘Independent’ paper with no political ties, they are known to lean to the right.

Even the publisher and editor, Richard Bower, admits that. In an interview with The Ubyssey Bower was asked if the Colonist was really an independent newspaper. “Saying we are independent just means we are free to support anyone we want. At the moment we are disillusioned with the present federal Liberal party, and we are looking with favor on the Progressive Conservative national party. We also support the Socreds. But basically we leave ourselves open.”

What is interesting to note here, is the fact that most readers think newspapers have no right to voice a political opinion. But that is the primary function of the editorial page - to state an opinion on any given issue ,or personality.

This fallacy was revealed when readers wrote to both editors, complaining of the newspaper’s stands.. George Oake, editor of the Times ’ was ,asked about the response he received after the pro- NDP editorial appeared.

“We had lots of letters . . . the response was about half and half,

both for and against our stand. But we had more static from people who thought we had no right to support any party, or voice any opinion.”

The Times also suffered a loss in subscriptions and advertising, from irate customers.

Apart from their editorial contents; the two Victoria newspapers exist .on common ground. They both work in the same building on Douglas Street, and use the same presses. They have the same reading public, being the only two papers in Vic- toria. And they both lost money in 1974 and 1975.

The Colonist, a morning paper, publishes Tuesday through Sun- day. Their five-day circulation is 38,878, with the Sunday edition circulation reaching 44,572. Established in 1858, it is the oldest paper in B.C.

The Times appears in the evening from Monday to Saturday. It has a slightly lower five-day readership of 30,116, and its Saturday edition is also lower, at 32,518.

Both papers have to compete ‘with the Province and the Sun who have customers through counter - and street sales as well as sub- scriptions. The Province sends 1,400 copies to Victoria, while the Sun sends 1,201 copies of its three star edition that comes out at noon.

Both Bower and Oake are op- timistic that the two dailies will survive. Although no one will know the fate of the papers until the summer, the two editors are working their butts off to break even this year . . . and to save their jobs.

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Foth column. The offending material was a transcript of an hilarious provincial court trial in which the defendent candidly described himself a s a “cocksucker” and which ended with the judge indirectly suggesting the defendant go fuck himself,

It wasn’t long before Fotheripgham stormed into the Sun newsroom’and demanded air fare to, of all places, Zambia. The money was eventually scraped together and Foth promptly departed for Africa, where he sulked for a while before filing another column. That’s class.

This time, however, Fotheringham won’t be off to Zambia. He has continued to write his column. But was it coincidence that, when writing of the Con- servative party leadership can- didates, Foth ‘wrote: “One Finds who one’s friends are when the pressure is on. It is a simple, amusing fact one discovers when life’s prism closes in.” That a p peared Feb. 19, three short days .’after the position of senior editor officially disappeared.

Well, Foth is discovering who his .friends are- aSun editorial writer penned a letter (signed by 29 newsroom staffers) to Keate ex- pressing concern over the effect the shift would have on Fotheringham, the paper and the future of the concerned staffers. The letter said the writer did not want to “infringe on the prerogative of the publisher to run the paper as he sees fit.”

It certainly didn’t - Keate replied politely, thanking .the staffers for their obvious concern, but declining to comment on the situation until he had heard from Fotheringham.

One staff reporter, believing the letter too wishywashy, wrote his own letter to Keate. It was not wishy washy :

Dear Mr. Keate: While Allan Fotheringham’s

* duties as senior editor of The Sun were never cIear1.y defined, it was widely believed that his appointment heralded an attempt to make the paper more responsive to its readers and more relevant to the world in which it exists, and to en- courage staff members to develop and contribute to the best of their ability.

Your memo of Feb. 16, in which Fotherjngham is offered “reclassification,” can only be taken as an expression of no confidence in his performance. Staff members whose work goes into the paper each day are surely entitled to know the significance of this action. With Fotheringham’s sudden and unexplained demotion, the question of where‘ The Sun is heading becomes a pressing one.

Also disturbing is the suspicion afoot that the action has something to do with Fotheringham’s well-known anti-Trudeau, anti-Liberal views. Given this newspaper’s long, nearly unbroken record of support for the federal and provincial Liberal parties, it is

I alarming to see suggestions of this nature go unchallenged. A s you are aware, a democratic society cannot tolerate the silencing of un- popular voices.

In general, the advent of a. ,more open style of internal ,

overdue. Consultation with ‘employees on important matters affecting our working lives and the content and direction of the paper is a necessity if it is to make the

d kind of advances which are possible. As a start, I urge you to make a full disclosure of the

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circumstances surrounding your disagreement with Fotheringham, preferably at a meeting to which all staff are invited.

Keate’s memo said he expects a reply from Fotheringham by the end of this month. Maybe, . . just

maybe. Sun staffers and the rest of the public will find out what’s going on. Sort of.

Shortly after Fotheringham was appointed senior editor, a local magazine article was headlined “Will Allan Fotheringham make the Sun shine?”

The answer seems to be: No.

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newspaper publishing business in Vancouver would have resulted in only one daily paper being published in that city.”

Inother words, the Province was doomed. But the key statement is “failing an arrangement to un- derwrite the Province.” Someone, i.e., the owners, would have had to be prepared to inject a large amount of capital into the Province in order for it to continue to survive and compete with the Sun. A most distasteful prospect .for the Southams, for there was no guarantee profits would result from the investment. The Pacific Press deal, on the other hand, was a lead pipe cinch in the profit department.

The commission went along with both sides’ argument that it was economically justifiable for the Pacific Press deal to have been made. It did not censure or criticize the Southam group for failing to try and make a serious go

5 of competing as wholly -in- dependent new8papers. It did, however, say: “It is obvious that- the nature of the competition between the two papers under joint management of such a character cannot be the same a s when the newspapers a re separately owned.

“At the same time it must be said that the continued publication of separate newspapers, par- ticularly when tlie individual papers are linked in a traditional way with separate publishing intprests, does not immediately rQresent as serious a danger to the public interest . . . as a newspaper monopoly in the hands of a- single owner. “As long as the dominant per-

sonnel in charge of the operation of each paper are zealous in main- taining an independent character for‘; the newspaper, they direct, it m%be argued. ha.. %substantial de@ee of competitive vigor will continue.

“It is evident that there would have to be a constant striving for independence in editorial direction to offset the effect of unified ownership which would tend to erode the sense of separate identity in the two newspapers. The end -result might be an appearance of rivalry without serious conviction, such as the rivalry of two articles under different brands produced by the same manufacturer.

“It is clear that as long as the . arrangements regarding the

continued existence of the Province and the Sun are matters of private agreement, there is no safeguard that the public interest in a variety of independent newspapers may not be further affected to its disadvantage.”

Consequently, the commission recommended the contract signed by the two papers’ publishers shall be ironclad. The money-making Sun was stuck with the money- losing Province, much to Southam’s delight. What would have happened if the deal had never been made and the Province

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press in, 6.C.- put up a fight and won or lost is anybody’s guess.

But don’t get the impression that the Sun is in such a bad position. Some say the deal is just plain dumb, from the Sun’s point of view. Again the question is asked: why hook up with a loser? The Sun continues to make enormous profits while the Province con- tinues to barely scrape by. But Pacific Press continues to make healthy profits for both parties.

That’s why the deal continues to be a good one. It’s comfortable. Never again will either paper be faced with the prospect of com- petition from another source resulting in a decrease in either’s profits. For the Sun and Province have a virtual stranglehold on the daily newspaper publishing business in Vancouver. The Vancouver Times tried to break it and its owners took a bath.

It’s really beautiful. The big Vancouver advertising market is s’wn up. It would take someone or

some corporation .with financial assets of some of Canada’s richest people to try and establish a third daily newspaper in Vancouver. But Canada’s millionaires are, of course, already millionaires. Why take a chance? And besides, why should the people of ’Vancouver (or the writer of this article) expect some millionaire to go up against one of the most comfortable newspaper publishing establish- ments in North America?

Oh yes, the people of Vancouver . . . specifically, those who read (or would like to read) newspapers. Well, newspaper readers of Vancouver, if you don’t like the Sun or the Province, tough luck. The parties to the ‘Pacific Press deal fixed it so that, barring the advent of a very zealous and well heeled newcomer, the situation will never change. And the government of Canada, through the restrictive trade practices commission, made it official.

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I BEDROOM furnished, self-conhind suite UBC gates, $160, female pre- ferred. 224-3882.

ROOM & BOARD, Kerrisdale home. Mature responsible student, male preferred, references, $150.00. Avail- able March 1. Evenings 261-0158.

80 - Tutoring

BOGGLED MINDS e WlSDUM HEADS: Call the Tutorial Center, ZB-4557 anytime or see Ian d Speak--, 12:30-2:30 p.m. $1 to register (refund: able). EXECUTIVE POSITIONS:

STUDENT TO SHARE four-bedroom house with three others. Mar 13th

March lrt. & Cambie. 879-0305. Occupancy

FOR RENT: Sl-pinB room, Snack fad- " ~ . _ ~

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thesis, manuscripts. a665053. lities, private e n e c e and bathroom. Non-smoker, male preferred. Near UBC gates. Tel. 2249319 after 6 p.m.

Letters of application for appointment to managerial positions will be received between March 3 and March 26. Submit applications to Room 208, War Memorial Gym.

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FRATERITY HOUSE on campus, $60.00 per month. Kitchen privileges, room only. Phone 224-9679 evenings, m a - ger.

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.Wrestlers in Winnipeg . The Thunderbird wrestling team

will be represented by six wrestlers in the Canadian National Intercollegiate meet on Saturday.

Jose Machial (118 pounds), Eric Kolsrud (134), Mike Richey (167), . Clark Davis (177), Dave Lim (190) and Kyle Raymond (heavyweight) will make up the UBC contingent for the Canada West team.

A big loss for the 'Birds will be George Richey who will not be able to attend because he is competing in the World Cup meet this

The World Cup has been held in the last four years in Toledo, Ohio. Teams from the US., Japan and Bulgaria can be expected to provide some tough competition.

The 'Birds have the potential and 1 the experience to win some vic-

tories in .the nationals. "The nationals will be tough because all the best teams will be sending their

' weekend.

best wrestlers to compete. Our team is young and will be com- peting in some tough weight classes," says coach Bob Laycoe.

Ontario is the best team com- peting and arefavored to win. UBC hopes to win three four matches.

Meanwhile, the Thunderbird basketball team travelled to the University of Calgary this weekend to face the Dinosaurs in the battle for supremacy in the Canada West conference.

The 'Birds play the Dinosaurs in a best of three playoff series.

UBC, who has handed Calgary its only defeat in league play this year are hoping to beat them a second and third time to win the conference title. -

The 'Birds are in the same position as they were last year. Finishing in second place they travelled to Victoria for the playoffs in which they won.

The games can be heard on CITR

Rugby 'Birds split games The rugby 'Birds split their two

games in California last Saturday and Monday, breezing by. the University of California at Santa Barbara 51-10 then dropping a 14-3 decision to Long Beach State.

, The victory over UCSB gave the Skds their fourth straight World cup.

Thunderbird coach Donn Spence said he felt the 'Birds came up with

Meanwhile the Thunderette gymnastic team will be sending two representatives to Lava1 University to compete in the National Intercollegiate meet today and tomorrow.

Jennifer Diachun and Lenka Svatek will go to Quebec City as part of a six-member contingent that makes UD the Canada West

their best game of the year against Santa Barbara. team.

"Experience, Knowledge and Wisdom"

Fri., Feb. 27th .Buch 102 3:30 Prof. Herman Carr-Physicist

7:30 Prof. Langdon G. Ikey-Theologian Sat. Feb. 28

Carr & G. lkey in dialogue Buchanan Penthouse 9:30 a.m.

Science and Religion Consultation

radio Friday and Saturday night starting at 6 p.m.

The Thunderbird volleyball team is in Winnipeg taking part in the Canadian Intercollegiates (CIAU) which began Wednesday.

The 'Birds should do well in the Intercollegiates. UBC coach Lorne Sawula says, "I think the team has the ability to win the In- tercollegiates. If we play well during the tournament we can come first. A lot will depend on conditioning because I don't expect any of the matches to be easy.

The Thunderettes are also in Winnipeg for the Intercollegiates. They have an excellent team and should be oneof the stronger teams in the tournament. The Thun- derettes have the ability to win the Intercollegiates and everything depends on how well they put things together for the tournament.

The Thunderettes have been the CIAU champs two of the last three years, losing out to Saskatchewan in Canada West play last season.

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