Liz gains Literary Fame

Liz Young from the BTSD dept. has won the
1981 Creative Writing competition in the
UBC Alumni Chronicle & her story, ‘''Summer
of Discontent'' has just been published in
the Chronicle. As well as teaching BTSD
Liz is a part-time student. at UBC in Cre-

ative Writing. Congratulations, Liz, and
keep up the writing.

Royal couple gets. new home

Do you remember Prince Charles and Lady
Di? No, {! don't mean the ones in Britain—

| mean the ones fn the cage in the Biology
lab. Lady Di is the boa constrictor who
gave the North Van. fire department a bad
time this summer when they were called up
to campus to find her after she escaped
from her cage. But, she's not going to go
wandering again. The Biology people have
purchased a palatial snake cage in which
to house the two snakes, which is sturdily
built of wood and glass and has its own
custom made drapes for "royal privacy."
Lab Technician Barry Williamson is in
charge of the snakes and is helped by a
first year student who enjoys” handling,
feeding and maintaining them. Their diet
is mice of various colours which are ob-
tained from a breeding colony at UBC. Mice
make a good meal] because they won't attack
the snakes as rats will, and a meal of 4
mice every two weeks seems to keep the
snakes quite happy. When the Bi dept moves
to the new building next summer, the two
will be housed with a collection of live
animals in a room especially destgned for
that purpose. Other roommates will include
marine invertebrates, Miss Muffet (a tar-
antula) and additional animals which wil]
be purchased as funds become available.
The snakes, incidentally, are used in Ist
and 2nd year Bi classes, particularly in
the comparative anatomy course.

The advantage of doing one's
praising 40% onedsel{ is that one
can Lay it on so thick and
exactly in the right places.

~ Samuel Butler

Volume Ill No. 30

Are you suffering from STRESS ?

How are you handling the stress in your
life? if the answer is not too well, you
should take a look at the Stress Manage-
ment program that Cathy Zuest of Health
Services will be holding. A pilot project
this spring was met with enthusiasm, says
Cathy, and fulfilled a need of staff mem-
bers, so she will offer a four session
program using currently researched methods
in Stress Management. The program is ten-
tatively scheduled for Monday, 11:30 - 1pm
and Tuesday, 1:30-3 and will start as soon
as Cathy gets a group together. For more
information call 271 or drop into NC102.
This course will be free for staff, facul-
ty and students.

MOVIES THIS WEEK

Tuesday at noon there will be a showing of
the film ''Action'' in the Lounge. This js
a movie about the FLQ crisis. In a lighter
vein, the movie Harold and Maude will be
shown Thursday at 7:30 in the Lounge, and
the next Pub Night will be October 22.

Student Union hits Ottawa

for Student Union Execu-
tive are being kept open longer than ex-
pected because of an acute shortage of
candidates. Nominations close October 13
and Elections are scheduled for October 21
and 22. In the meantime, the Student Union
executive is off to a Canadian Federation

The nominations

of Students Conference in Ottawa this
week. Apart from conferencing, they will
be meeting with MPs to discuss cutbacks

and present petitions on the subject. The
Union is asking people on campus to sigr
the petitions which they will take witt
them Tuesday. Petitions are in the Student
Unton Office.