A8 - Sunday, October 28, 1984 - North Shore News

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The great university rip-off incumbents

T'S DISCOURAGING to see a chap like Jim
Matkin swallowing the drivel being put out by

the university lobby
times.

Matkin is the head of the
BC. Employers Council, and
has expressed his *'deep con-
cern’’ over the restraint pro-
gram as it affects the univer-
siies Oh, he’s in
restraint, says he, and he
knows times are tough. Bus

But nothing. the univer-
sities are congenital wastrels
and spendthrifts. And so far
they haven't been harmed
that much. Nevertheless, the
clamor as such that you'd
think the campuses were
about to be turned into frutt

markets and the faculty
executed.
Let me tell you about

about its

favor of

lite and hard

word for it. Three honest
protessors (1 was beginning
to think there were none left)
have just given birth to a
book that gives you chapter
and verse. It’s called The
Great Brain Robbery , 1s
published by McClelland and
Stewart, and can be bought
in your local bookstore for
$12

Their verdict?

Our universities are an
ongoing disaster. Money ts
being wasted in great gobs,
taculty welfare comes betore
education, masses of the
students should never be
allowed to darken a univer-

UBC. When he was exposed,
he had to pay UBC $10,000.
But they didn’t fire him.
Fhe second case was fhat
of the infamous Julius Kane
He was doing the same as the

get this

suspension. Only after the
courts had found him guilty
of theft did UBC manage to
send him on his way.

Exceptions, yOu may say.
O.K. Or perhaps they were
the only ones that” were
caught. But what we're talk-
ing about 18 tenure
Academics wail they must
have uoif they are to have
academic freedom. But as
John Kenneth Galbraith said,
academic freedom can be a
great excuse for terminal
laziness.

No institunon outside of
government spreads more
bullmanure than academe. In
1976, | did a story showing
that some of the guys at UBC
were giving themselves raises
of $8,000 im one veur.

They couldn't direct/y give

spurn WVEA

WEST VANCOUVER
Alderman Don Griffiths,
running for a second term in
the November. 17 election,
wil] not-seck the blessing of
the West Vancouver Electors
Association at its endorsa-
tion meeting this Tuesday
Earlier, Mayor Derrick
Humphreys also announced
he would not woo. the
W VEA in his re-election bid.

“The West Van Electors
Association 15 obviously oul
of date.’ Griffiths said
Thursday “Their public
meeting is too early tor ail
candidates to attend. No
doubt, theirs membership, a

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academe, friends, for that 1s Uys door because they're themselves the money, ot small minority of West Van ©
a story your man has follow. too dumb, and a goodly course It had to be appro couver voters, has a sincere A\A
ed these many vears. And the share of the faculty ain't that ed But morey flowed like interest in West Vancouver,
truth is that for the past two great either water in those days and the but their endorsation process
decades or so there has been Consider tenure That's administration looked after is out ot step with the times
no more pampered, coddled, the system undey which Leon . ws own
cosseted and favored bunch. the talseoaa@me of academic Doug Collins When the facts came to
It ts high time that they taced freedom — a prof can’t be SET light, the shout was that biz “West Van voters don't
the cold breath of reality fired Not unless he rapes the increases Aad to be given if need to ask any group to
Your money has been president's wife and then cuts other bloke But stealing UBC was to keep up with help them make their deci
poured mto a bottomless, her throat. | know aboutthat grant money into the — other universities, otherwise ston,’’ he stressed **Televi-
privileged = pit Across.” the too because | did a couple of bargain It took UBC © six Bhe prots would all leave The sion lets them sit atl home to
country, post-secondary exposes on protessors One vears to get rid of him after other universities, mean view and hear the can
education is slurping up eight was the WD Liam Finn the story had broken. In the while, were saving the same didates Citvvens can torm
and a half bilhon bucks a case A brilhant chap Only meantime. he was tried by his thing Now thes’re repeating their own opsmon based on
year without even burping thing was, he was using precious peers and put on tull the story what they personally see
And sul! it cries for more university staff and universt- pay tor 18 months while they We've been ripped off. Then they express their
t know the story, all right ty equipment to run hi own wrinkled their brows over trends, and it’s time for a choice at the ballot box
But you needn’t take my happy little bustness out of him. Then he was given a change November 17 7"

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